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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.

Publications

  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: A Beginner's Handbook" - browse the online version (HTML)
"ICT Policy: A Beginner's Handbook" - download in pdf
"ICT Policy: A Beginner's Handbook" in Spanish
"ICT Policy: A Beginner's Handbook" - buy it online ($10.00USD plus postage and packing)
 

Training materials

 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

You can download the complete curriculum or modules covering different topics (HTML)