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 EASSy declaration signed by Africa ministers 
12/06/2006 (Chris Kabwato - HANA) --
It is all back on track for the East Africa Submarine System Project known as EASSy. Government ministers have now signed a joint declaration, commiting themselves to the project. And Kenya has pointed a finger at the media, which it feels stirred up trouble ahead of the meeting.
International | Access
Undersea cable project kicks off next month
11/07/2006 (The Standard) --
After almost four years of bickering, work on the $230-million Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System project, popularly known as EASSy, begins next month.
International | Access, Bandwidth and Infrastructure
Bandwidth pricing should be transparent
01/08/2006 (Russell Southwood - Balancing Act) --
Over 30 policy-makers, regulators and operators met in Johannesburg recently to discuss what will happen when the self-awarded monopolies of Africa’s SAT3 consortium members comes to an end in June 2007. This is the first time policy-makers and regulators have come together to address issues that affect more than one country, writes Russel Southwood.
International | Bandwidth and Infrastructure, Telecommunications
Collaboration the key to policy advocacy
12/08/2006 (APC) --
A recent APC ICT policy workshop ended in London with a call for increased collaboration and networking to ensure the long-term sustainability of policy advocacy efforts. The workshop, attended by 18 participants from different countries across the globe, provided a unique opportunity for national, regional and global portal managers to learn from each other and share
their experiences.
International | ICT4D
UN agencies to push WSIS outcomes
27/08/2006 (Choike) --
Implementation of the outcomes of the recently concluded World Summit on the Information Society gathered momentum with the launch of the United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS). High level representatives of twenty-two UN agencies met recently in Geneva to facilitate the process.
International | ICT4D, WSIS
Business takes on regulators over satellite
10/09/2006 (Balancing Act) --
The Global VSAT Forum (GVF) has launched a campaign that it says is aimed to prevent a "significant technical threat to...business" in Africa. Russell Southwood looks at how the GVF’s campaign highlights some of the simmering challenges between business and regulators on the continent.
International | Bandwidth and Infrastructure
Africa's software independence struggle
20/09/2006 (FOSSFA) --
The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa has spelled out how African governments can benefit directly from supporting the open source movement on the continent. In a media release marking Software Freedom Day it said open source means better security, developing local capacity, innovation and creativity, economic independence and sovereignity.
International | National ICT Strategies, Software
NGOs call for WIPO reform
21/09/2006 (IPJustice) --
Non-governmental organisations from across the globe have signed a statement urging the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to adopt a development agenda. WIPO is an international treaty-making body within the United Nations that aims to stardardize intellectual property laws across the globe. Led by Brazil and Argentina, the NGOs say WIPO is too focused on maximizing intellectual property rights.
International | Communication Rights, Content and Language, Freedom of Expression, Intellectual Property, Laws and Regulation
'Africa needs free software'
21/09/2006 (Tectonic) --
Patents and copyright laws are major stumbling blocks to breaking the market dominance of expensive, proprietary software, Meraka Institute's Bob Joliffe told Highway Africa delegates recently.
International | Software
Lack of consensus threatens EASSy cable
29/09/2006 (Tectonic) --
The 31 telecommunications companies involved in developing and implementing the East African fibre optic cable system (EASSy) have said that the 23-nation protocol to build the under-sea cable is unacceptable to them and could lead to them abandoning the project.
International | Access
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The importance of convergence in ICT policy
28/11/2006 --
This paper looks at the meaning and importance of convergence and considers some of the challenges to implementing it, along with strategies for overcoming them. It also provides a global perspective on regulating convergence and broadband from the International Telecommuncations Union, and then it looks at experiences in North America and Europe as well as regional and country approaches in Africa.
International | ICT4D, Laws and Regulation, National ICT Strategies
Way forward for WCCD
28/11/2006 --
The first ever international Congress on Communication for Development held in Rome in October presented some interesting critiques of communications for development paradigms. Scott Robinson from the Metropolitan University in Mexico City offers a few indications on how he thinks the WCCD should be rethought.
International | Communication Rights, ICT4D
WSIS: Whose information society?
28/10/2006 --
This paper summarises a study of developing country and civil society participation and influence in WSIS. As well as analysing participation, the study looks at the impact of WSIS on international ICT decision-making in general and makes recommendations to all main actors about how future decision-making might become more inclusive of developing countries, and non-governmental actors and their concerns.
International | ICT4D, WSIS
Information Society or Knowledge Societies? Unesco in the Smart State
18/10/2005 --
The chapters in this volume canvasses the dialogue emerging from discussions about the WSIS Statement of Principles and Plan of Action in the context of local, national and international communication policies. It also offers some insights to WSIS participants, which may be helpful when it comes to evaluating the process in Tunis and beyond. The various authors discuss the WSIS Statement of Principles and Plan of Action from multiple perspectives, offering insights into the key challenges facing the process and offering alternative frameworks for the management of communication rights.
International | Communication Rights, WSIS
New book: How to Build Open Information Societies: A collection of best practices and know-how
26/05/2005 --
(Edited by Amy Mahan & Yuri Misnikov) presents a collection of knowledge-based best practices accumulated by UNDP in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Case studies and examples from 19 countries illustrate different e-governance programmes and applications – from a diverse range of initiatives including support for policy formulation, customs reform, youth sexual education, rural deployment of ICTs and training, country database building, and others.
International | E-Governance
New ICT Book Launched: “ICT4D – Connecting People for a Better World”
14/01/2005 --
No doubt, information and communication technologies (ICT) have dramatically changed the way individuals, organisations and enterprises interact. But are they a priority for development cooperation, empowerment and poverty reduction? In a new book, jointly published by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP), key innovators, government leaders, development experts, grass-roots practitioners and leading CEOs offer new and often unexpected answers to this and other questions. In addition, readers of “ICT4D – Connecting People for a Better World” will find a wealth of information related to concrete implementation of ICT for development projects.
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"Digital Dangers: Information and Communication Technologies and Trafficking in Women"
21/10/2005 --
It seems unlikely that whoever coined the term 'information superhighway' anticipated that the traffic on the internet would be in people, as well as information. How, and how much, the internet and other ICTs are implicated in trafficking is the subject of this issue paper by The Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) produced in cooperation with The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID).
International | Gender
Africa Civil Society Prepcom Briefing
24/08/2005 --
The WSIS PrepCom III of Phase II of the WSIS – will take place from September 19-30 and will be the last meeting for negotiation of the final Tunis documents. The following document outlines briefly the documents that will be negotiated, how they will be negotiated, and different opportunities for lobbying and the timetable for negotiations for PrepCom III.
International | WSIS
Incorporating Gender Issues in ICT Policy-Making
15/06/2005 --
This paper takes a broad overview of the issues of gender and ICT from a policy-making perspective. The specific objective of this paper is to provide a systematic framework for incorporating gender issues in ICT policy documents. This framework is designed to serve as a toolkit that can be used by policy-makers, researchers and advocates to evaluate the “gender-sensitivity” of ICT policy documents. T
International | Gender , National ICT Strategies
ICT policy training materials
05/05/2006 --
APC has developed ICT policy training materials as part of its ItrainOnline initiative. The ICT Policy for Civil Society training materials build the capacity of civil society organisations to understand policy and regulation related to ICTs so that they can begin to engage and influence policy processes affecting ICT adoption and implementation at national, regional and global levels.
International | National ICT Strategies
Free/Open Source Software Localization Primer Published
15/06/2005 --
This primer provides a broad perspective on the localization of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) for the benefit of policy- and decision-makers in developing countries. It highlights the benefits and strategies of FOSS localization, along with case studies from various countries that are on the road to software freedom.
International | Software
Primers on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)
21/01/2005 --
This primer introduces Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), its philosophy, history and benefits/disadvantages of FOSS, including developing-country specific issues. It also contains a brief survey of FOSS initiatives in various governments around the world, legislative or otherwise. Other topics such as localization, licensing and Linux are briefly covered. It is meant as a basic introductory document that can be handed to a person when asked, "what is Free/Open Source?"
International | Software
WSIS is over, but the debate has just begun
01/12/2005 --
This WSIS wrap up piece looks at what lies ahead of WSIS. The author argues that building an inclusive information society will need civil society to hold governments to account – and that the media has a crucial role to play in ensuring this happens.
International | WSIS
From Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to Public-Private Ones
29/06/2005 --
The WSIS Thematic Meeting announced on the ITU web site as "Government of Germany - International Policy Dialogue: 'Mainstreaming ICT for Development: the Key Role of the Private Sector'," drew about 50 participants on 21 and 22 June. It departed decisively from the WSIS framework of multi-stakeholderism and focused on public-private partnerships (PPPs). Civil society participants were allowed to attend, but their interest in this two-day event seemed next to non-existent. They did not miss much, except good food and very interesting conversations during the breaks.
International | WSIS
Discussions on Implementation and Follow-Up After WSIS
27/06/2005 --
Discussions on how to proceed after the second WSIS summit in November are getting more urgent. There is a danger of this question to be lost due to the dominance of financing and internet governance negotiations in the second phase of WSIS. A recent meeting of the “Group of the Friends of the Chair” (GFC) in Geneva tried to bring some clarity, but a consensus is still far away. Meanwhile, civil society groups are lamenting the fact that they will be locked out of the next GFC meetings.
International | WSIS
Africa Statistics Day!
28/11/2006 --
Africa recently celebrate Africa Statistics Day. According to the African Union, the 2006 celebration was devoted to raising awareness about the importance of developing national strategies that create new benchmarks in quality statistical data.
International | ICT4D, National ICT Strategies
Human rights in the global information society
01/08/2006 --
International organizations, governments, academia, industry, and the media have all begun to grapple with the information society as a global policy issue. The contributors to this timely volume examine the links between information technology and human rights from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
International | Communication Rights
Community ownership of ICTs: New possibilities for poor communities
19/02/2005 --
This paper examines a solution that combines a centuries old institutional form with the latest technological innovations. A combination of community-owned ICT enterprises and the new wave of wireless and related technologies together may offer significant potential to extend networks and offer new services to poor communities in rural areas.
International | WSIS
African ICT reporting comes of age
05/09/2006 --
Interviews with African ICT journalists and a content analysis of ICT coverage in the media paint a picture that is far more positive than two years ago, argues a new report from Rhodes University's Journalism Department. The study is an update of a 2004 CATIA-sponsored study of the DRC, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya and Senegal.
International | Media
"A Comparative Analysis of Spam Laws: the Quest for Model Law"
28/06/2005 --
This paper focuses on the potential nature of the legal regulation of spam, specifically the importance of harmonizing regulations in the form of a model spam law. The authors recognize that the law is only one means towards this end and urge regulators to incorporate other modes of control into their efforts, including technical methods, market-based means, and norm-based modalities.
International | Security and Privacy
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