On 31 January 2006, the Seoul Government and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) signed an agreement to open a technology training centre in the Republic of Korea.

The new training centre, the “Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development” (APCICT), will be established in Incheon City, a technology hub located around 50 kilometres west of Seoul. It is expected that the centre will open later this year.

The centre will provide training programmes in the use of ICT for people from countries in the Asia-Pacific region. UNESCAP expects that the APCICT will play a leading role in its ICT work, and contribute towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 8, Target 18, which is “to make available the benefits of new technologies, especially ICTs, in cooperation with the private sector”.

The Government of the Republic of Korea will provide financial and in-kind contributions totalling $10 million, including premises, for the centre’s first five years of operation.

Signing on behalf of the two parties were H.E. Yoon Jee-joon, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Thailand, and Kim Hak-Su, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and UNESCAP Executive Secretary.

Sources:
http://www.unescap.org/unis/press/2006/jan/g02.asp

http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=142654&src=0

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