“The ambition of universal access is to create, by 2015, an information society in which half the people of the world, an estimated 4 billion, will have access to tools and services that help them interact more, know more and achieve more,” said Jorma Ollila, Chairman and CEO of Nokia, in a speech for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, Switzerland. Ollila said that achieving this Universal Access must be a mutual goal and responsibility of the private sector, the public sectors and civil society as a whole. Nokia estimates that only 1.2 billion people worldwide have access to data, voice and personal communications.
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