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An information policy handbook for Southern Africa

06/15/2005
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

The second chapter provides a brief overview of the status of information policy initiatives in the 14 countries that are members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It summarises ICT-policy related initiatives that have taken place; identifies common elements relating to policy formulation and development, institutional mechanisms, and policy implementation; and concludes with some perspectives on the lessons that have been learnt from ongoing policy processes and their implementation.

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* the history of ICT development
* issues and experience around ICTs in education
* ecommerce and how to enable it in Southern Africa
* the final chapter summarises key lessons learned
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