World Year of Communications
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 1983 the World Year of Communications. This decision is linked to the Decade of Transport and Communications in Africa (1978-1988).
The United Nations system wanted, in fact, to focus on a sector which is sometimes seen as a poor relation, in the sense that it does not always benefit from the priority that its importance justifies, the contribution of communications to development still often being unknown or neglected.
Communications infrastructures generate, on the one hand, development and accelerate it by offering the communications services now necessary to conduct the activities of our modern world and, on the other hand, support development efforts through the improvement and expansion of these services which the growth they have thus favored makes inevitable.
Thus, communications and development are inseparable. Without an adequate communications infrastructure, it would be utopian to evoke the notion of national or collective autonomy of developing nations and the chances of success of any development strategy would be limited.
Building communications infrastructure around the world is the fundamental goal of the World Year of Communications. Distances are gradually being abolished in today's world thanks to the continued expansion of communication networks in many countries.
Algeria, for its part, through its policy of regional balance and having regard to the extent of its territory and the means to be implemented, attaches particular importance to investments intended to give all citizens a quality of life based on a coherent development of means of communication.
Due to its multiple Arab, African and Mediterranean dimensions, Algeria has always constituted, and today more than ever, a privileged space for exchanges and communications. This natural role has further guided the nation to accelerate the establishment of a communications system geared towards the demands of modern life and its openness to the international community.
The United Nations system wanted, in fact, to focus on a sector which is sometimes seen as a poor relation, in the sense that it does not always benefit from the priority that its importance justifies, the contribution of communications to development still often being unknown or neglected.
Communications infrastructures generate, on the one hand, development and accelerate it by offering the communications services now necessary to conduct the activities of our modern world and, on the other hand, support development efforts through the improvement and expansion of these services which the growth they have thus favored makes inevitable.
Thus, communications and development are inseparable. Without an adequate communications infrastructure, it would be utopian to evoke the notion of national or collective autonomy of developing nations and the chances of success of any development strategy would be limited.
Building communications infrastructure around the world is the fundamental goal of the World Year of Communications. Distances are gradually being abolished in today's world thanks to the continued expansion of communication networks in many countries.
Algeria, for its part, through its policy of regional balance and having regard to the extent of its territory and the means to be implemented, attaches particular importance to investments intended to give all citizens a quality of life based on a coherent development of means of communication.
Due to its multiple Arab, African and Mediterranean dimensions, Algeria has always constituted, and today more than ever, a privileged space for exchanges and communications. This natural role has further guided the nation to accelerate the establishment of a communications system geared towards the demands of modern life and its openness to the international community.