IT for Change has launched a beta version of Information Society Watch, a resource portal providing a Southern perspective on information society (IS) issues. IS Watch attempts to address the imperative of catalysing new perspectives, frameworks and concepts rooted in the development experience of the global South. It is a response to the need for building a Southern discourse on the information society phenomenon, which so far has mostly been interpreted by Northern actors.The Drum Beat’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) National Policies & Case Studies.
The Global Knowledge Partnership
International Development Resource Centre (Ottawa)
How do the poor use their phones
United Nations Development Program ICT for Development
UNDP Human Development Report 2001
Universal Access: The Next Killer App. A Discussion Paper for Defining and Maintaining Universal Access to Basic Network Services: Canadian Directions in an International Context. Invitational Workshop Sponsored by Industry Canada and the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. Toronto: 14-16 March, 1996.
Resources on World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) at Area 808 - note many of these links may be defunct; there is a lively academic body of work on WSIS. But you can take some of the defunct links and plug into the Way Back Machine…
