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DIDX VoIP Phone Number Marketplace Nominated for UN WSIS StocktakingDIDX, a wholesale Internet communications direct inward dialing phone number marketplace and industry conference media partner, has achieved a position on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in the United Nations (UN) summit stocktaking category of E-business. The sustainable development goals that DIDX was nominated for were goals 8 and 10: promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all and reduce inequality within and among countries. The overall mission of the World Summit on the Information Society is to create an evolving multi- stakeholder platform aimed at addressing the issues raised by information and communication technologies (ICTs) through a structured and inclusive approach at the national, regional and international levels. "When we read the goals of the WSIS program of 'people-centric, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information,' our DIDX team felt that it was reviewing its own corporate social responsibility mission. We immediately sent an invite to all DIDX IP communications customers and vendors as well as the world of people we are connected with about the WSIS program via Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to register any of their services and projects that fit the criteria. We noticed that not only had someone nominated DIDX in the E-business category, but others nominated their projects that build inclusiveness with opportunities for economic growth for developing areas of the world," Suzanne Bowen, VP of DIDX shares. Rehan Allahwala, inventor of DIDX concept, adds, "We believe that every human is a stakeholder in the future. DIDX has achieved results and has impacted the growth of new business for persons in developed but especially those in developing and emerging nations. Before 1999, the tradition of phone number provision was only to those who had a physical residential or business address that matched the country, area and NXX codes associated with the number. With the advent of DIDX, wholesale communications businesses in wireless, telephony and Internet industries are able to buy phone numbers of any of 64 nations and resell them to their residential and business customers no matter where the customers' actual residential or business addresses are. For example, entrepreneurs in Kenya, Malaysia, Poland, or any other nation can buy and own a USA phone number, giving them more opportunities to gain customers, revenue, world respect and reputation and thereby, collectively improve the economy of their homelands. This is DIDX B+ (be positive)!" The WSIS contest is organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and is set up in five phases in which the first is to to submit an application. Each project nominated should include a description that clearly demonstrates results achieved and impact generated, community empowerment, ability of the model to be replicated, sustainability of project, partnerships development and promotion of WSIS values. DIDX has enabled over 25,000 entities in more than 100 countries to have access to buy phone numbers of 64 nations and resell to their customers no matter where they are geographically in physical reality and in turn, to resell those phone numbers to their corporate and residential users. The model is replicated repeatedly every day. The DIDX and its B+ program have been sustainable non-stop for 11 years and its prototype and testing solution Virtual Phone Line for 16 years, and both are still in progress. It has achieved over 25,000 partnerships. It promotes the WSIS values of freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, and shared responsibility: freedom to have a virtual presence via direct inward dialing phone numbers for business or social reasons in a different locality that one is geographically, the increased equality that this freedom provides, and the solidarity and shared responsibility of 25,000 DIDX members' opportunity to collaborate. All nominated projects will be part of the WSIS World Summit on the Information Society Stocktaking Report 2016. Projects are listed in the 2015 - 2016 database at http://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktakingp/en. Visit www.didx.net for more information about increasing opportunities for all telecom, wireless, Internet and other types of operators, carriers and service providers that include communications whether headquartered in first, second or developing nations. As a community-building service, TMCnet allows user submitted content which is not always proofed by TMCnet editors. If you feel this entry is of inferior quality or wish to report it for some reason, please forward the URL to "webedit [AT] tmcnet [DOT] com" with your comments. |