last is ict is a very positive thing. it's taken too long for the president and the government to move forward on liberalizing the ict industry sector. that means they're going to have a spectrum allocation for 4g, finally. it should have been happened two years ago and there's been a lot of resistance to it. he did announce an open access policy which got put up on the website finally last month or so. you'll see now big investments coming in and telecom sector which early on with the help of the u.s. department of defense which helped build that infrastructure, that was a driver of a lot of sector growth early on and it's now shifting to a private sector growth without any u.s. involvement in it. >> thank you and jeff, i won't repeat the accomplishments that you've cited and let me say, yes, the u.s. government was the main donor during that time but it was also, if you will consortium of donors from all over the world contributing to the foundational investments, if you will, in afghanistan at an early stage. most peop

on the ict sector i want to remind everyone cell phone penetration in afghanistan over 92%. a large portion of women have cell phones. what that means operationally on the ground, a rural village, can get the call from the midwife coming into do vaccinations and health checkups and have her children fair to get on a horse or a ride in a bus and go to get health care. that has changed. ict has helped that, not just that they have cell phones but opening a door for women in afghanistan to who have access to other services and i hope we continue our support longer-term. >> a quick word on women, before i give a compressed version of reconciliation, the end condition is respect for the afghan constitution including its provision on minorities. .. i think the gains of the past 16 years have to be preserved. that heads us into what the outlines of the formula and what is the deal that could be worked. look, this is speculative and i don't think it's possible to say until the negotiations actually begin but it seems to me that i would break the sets of issues down into three bucket

i say to the president and the republicans, last time you tried to eliminate state and local deduct ict, -- deductibility, you had tea limb nate that. same thing will happen now. lots of republican congressmen in states like new york and california come from districts elimination of state and local deductibility hurts their core constituency. even with doubling the standard deduction. so leader mcconnell and speaker ryan argue this is a boon to wealthy taxpayers in blue states. it's not true. it's just not true. elimination here's another amazing thing. we don't know where this came from. they raised the bottom rate from 10% to 12%. the lowest rate on the poorest and working class americans t so what the plan does is the top rate on the wealthiest comes down and the bottom rate on working class families goes up. what kind of plan is this? republicans will argue that the -- they double the standard deduction so it covers the raise in the lower rate. bunk. by repealing the personal exemption, republicans are once again raising taxes on middle class and working americans. a family of two o

the tax increases that ana was talking about in the colonial imposed at ict is the local level, so the state about 70% sources, for public education in local chool districts and there is about seven or eight percent from the federal government, ofin, an important component education funding and then the rest from local taxes and district, which has one f the lower tax rates in the local level in newcastle county, saw the need to support increase l service to that local rate. e do have significant preferences and tax rebates for senior citizens, something that put in place when i was working for then governor carper of finance. we have a program where senior off of can get 50% school property tax, local$500, which delaware school property taxes are among as it turns out, the lowest in nation. so senior citizens that take advantage of that tax rebate are paying probably the lowest property taxes as anybody in the country. we hear the concerns ana to essed often and we try address it through our overall system. host: william call nothing from louisiana, on the democrats line. william, ple

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he was minister of information and communication technologies through the ict of columbia, during his tenure, not only infrastructure, but services, applications and users. fiberoptics, even those in the middle of the amazon. education, health, banking and government services were transformed. >> i'm very privileged to have these two panelists with us, i'm going to start off with an initial question that i'll direct to camille and then i'll have a question for you, diego. camille, as mentioned a moment ago, you are the director of the race, prosperity and inclusion initiative. can you explain why financial inclusion matters, including low income individuals and communities of color? >> sure, thanks for the question. i'm really happy to be here discussing financial inclusion, not only globally, but domestically, a lot of people are aware of the fact that we have 10 million people who are unbanked and another 25 million who are underbanked. meaning they don't have access to the full suite of financial services and products. what that means here is a couple 24i7ks, just generally, not ha

diego, given your expertise and experience in ict, can you share some examples of ways that you have seen or expect to see digital technology transforming the financial services sector in columbia? >> thank you so much for the invite today. you know, as camille was saying, we have many, many, many challenges in terms of financial inclusion everywhere in the world. one of the main ones is infrastructure. how do you get banks to everybody? and through technology, that's the solution. that's what is happening. i'm sure that most of you guys know as the example in africa, many technology operators around the world moving in that direction. but having access to technology is not enough. i mean, we are proving that in most countries. for example, in latin america, just around 50% of the people are internet users. although more than 85% of people are already covered by networks. why? because there is no application for them. when you ask them why you don't use internet? the answer is it is useless for me. it doesn't change my life. basically we have to work not only in the infrastructure bu

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of putting into law the agreement and principle that was reached by president trump and the democrat ict leaders in the -- democratic leaders in the house and the senate to provide protections for the dreamers. as we all know, the president lit the six-month fuse on these young people who were brought here through no fault of their own, and it is incumbent on all of us to make sure that these young people who have grown up knowing only america as their country, who grew up pledging aplebeians to the flag not -- allegiance to the flag not face the threat of deportation six months from now. but that's what they're facing after this moment. so the senate should act quickly to pass the bipartisan dream act. mr. president, i hope we'll also move forward on a bipartisan way on the important issue of tax reform because i think all of us agree that our tax code could be simplified. there is a lot of junk in our tax code. it's been put there by powerful special interests who were able to hire high-priced lobbyists to exempt themselves from certain tax provisions that all other americans have to p

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agriculture, infrastructure, ict's, and ndp. the industrialization and transformation to which africa aspires depends on access to energy. it depends on the continent's economic integration through the implementation of the continental free trade area. africans you're in for prosperity. this yearning is embraced by our and is beingion tackled head on by african leaders. designatedecided to to7 to use in the african -- youth in the african continent. the african union has undertaken to find lasting solutions to the challenges confronting young people. society which represents 70% of the population the driving force of development, it is this which guarantees stability, security, peace, and the harmonious the belmont of our planet -- harmonious development of our planet. 2 million health care community urge the- i would international community to support this initiative which , preventte decent jobs pandemics, and ensure population's well-being. mr. president, africa has decided to take responsibility for itself and to speak hence

he was minister of information and communications technologies through the ackerman ict of colombia. from 2010 to 2015. and during his sten yoour colombia expanded all the elements of the digital ecosystem, not only infrastructure but also services, applications and users. internet coverage extended to rural areas. fiberon the sxikz high-speed networks expanded to all municipalities, even those in the middle of the amazon. everywhere community with one more than 100 -- transformed with ict increasing their availability, reach and efficiency. so we're very privileged to have these two panelists with us. i'm going to start off with an initial question that i'll direct to camille and then i'll have a question for you, diego, and follow with some more. so for camille, as mentioned a moment ago, you are the director of the race, prosperity and inclusion initiative here at brookings. could you briefly explain why financial inclusion matters for traditionally marginalized communities including lowin come individuals and communities of color? >> sure. thanks for the question. and i'm really,