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National ICT Strategies
Source: APC
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Information and communication
technologies (ICT) policy decisions affect anyone
who wants to take advantage of the opportunities that
new technologies can offer. Will the national policy
favour technology that is state-of-the art but not
affordable in rural areas? Will your government provide
service subsidies to poor or disabled people? Will
your government encourage the development of software
that illiterate people can use? All of these are pressing
questions whose answers depend on the ICT policy choices
made by governments and other official decision-makers.
The APC Monitor has collected
resources that help civil society organisations and
others understand policy and regulation related to
ICT so that you can begin to engage and influence
policy processes affecting ICT adoption and implementation
at national, regional and global levels. Many of the
resources are also produced by APC.
 Toolkit: Communicating with policymakers 
This toolkit is specifically geared towards the needs of researchers and practitioners in civil society organisations, including development NGOs, research institutes, think tanks, universities and networks. The toolkit addresses the questions of how researchers and CSOs can best "communicate evidence" in order to inform or influence policy, to achieve their own stated development objectives, or simply to make their own knowledge accessible and understandable to a wider audience. [File type:.pdf download / 466kb]
Produced by: Ingie Hovland, ODI
User Guide to "Good Practice Paper on ICTs for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction"
This page provides users with information on how to better understand the report "Good Practice Paper on ICTs for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction", as well as how to further explore its key issues.
ICT Policy in Bangladesh
ICT Policy in Bangladesh has been formulated and adopted by the Govt. of Bangladesh.
IT Policy in Nepal (2000)
Regional Action Plan and other documents of Asia Pacific WSIS Conference in Tehran, Iran
High Level Asia-Pacific Conference for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) formulated and adopted a regional action plan and an action plan. Civil society organizations (CSOs) reacted vehemently over this action plan that did not include the views and participation of CSOs in its development processes. This regional action plan along with civil society responses are kept here.
An information policy handbook for Southern Africa
This handbook focuses on experience and lessons learned with ICT, ICTs in education and e-Commerce policy in Southern Africa. It provides examples of projects to dates and explores their successes and failures. It begins with an overview of information technology policy generally. A selected number of priority areas for information policy development are presented and key global and regional structures of importance to ICT policy are discussed
ICT Policy: A Beginner's Handbook
This book by APC lays out the issues and dispenses with the jargon to encourage more people to get involved in ICT policy processes. It is for people who feel that ICT policy is important but don't know much about it, e.g. a government official worried about a gap in her technical knowledge of how the internet works, a human-rights worker concerned that his need to send secure email is being challenged by national government policy, a citizen fed up with paying exorbitant rates for dial-up internet access and ready to organise…
Produced by: APC/Ed. Chris Nicol
ICT Policy for Civil Society Training Curriculum
The ICT Policy for Civil Society training course builds the capacity of civil society organisations to understand policy and regulation related to information and communication technologies (ICT) so that they can begin to engage and influence policy processes affecting ICT adoption and implementation at national, regional and global levels. This is a five day course with each session planned to last approximately 1.5 hours. The modules can be used stand-alone as training on a particular topic or used together as part of a longer course. Modules are in English with some in Spanish.
Produced by: APC
ICT4D - Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Published online by Knowledge for Development, the goal of this "self-paced" course is to familiarise participants with "key concepts and issues related to the potential and real impacts of information and communication technologies [ICTs] on the social, economic and political development of the less developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America."
Produced by: Barbara Fillip
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