Resources
Making the Internet Count
A Manual for African Policy Makers. UNECA. A manual to help individuals and organisations to connect to the internet to
send and receive information in a way that furthers rganisational goals and objectives.
Source: UNECA [2020]
http://www1.oecd.org/dac/ictcd/docs/matrixdocs/UNECA_paper2.pdf
Involving Civil Society in ICT Policy
This book is aimed at people who want to advocate for
more just and enabling policy environments and is designed to build awareness of and capacity to engage in ICT policy-making spaces at international, regional and national levels, including the WSIS.
Source: APC [2020]
policy_wsis.pdf
Broadband Driving Growth; Policy Responses
Broadband connectivity is a key component in ICT development, adoption and use and is strategically important because of its ability to accelerate the contribution of ICTs to
economic growth in all sectors.
Source: epol-net.org [2020]
Broadband_statement.pdf
Global Policymaking for Information and Communications Technologies
Enabling Meaningful Participation by Developing-Nation Stakeholders.
Source: markle.org [2020]
roadmap_report.pdf
ICT Policy: A Beginner's Handbook
APC's new book lays out the issues and dispenses with the jargon to encourage more people to get involved in ICT policy processes. This book 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. [2020]
http://www.apc.org/books
Bringing the benefits of ICT to Africa
In choosing its priority programmes, NEPAD focused on the importance of information and communication technologies(ICT) both in helping to extend and raise the quality of
education at all levels in African education systems and also in imparting ICT skills to the African population in the workforce and in the communities at large. [2020]
Bringing_the_benefits_of_ICT_to_Africa.pdf
E-EDUCATION WHITE PAPER: CALL FOR WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS
The Department of Education invites stakeholder bodies and members of the public with an interest in Information and Communication Technologies in Education and Training to comment on the attached draft e-Education White
Paper. [986]
eEducation_White_paper.pdf
An Information Policy Handbook for Southern Africa
A Knowledge Base for Decision-Makers [771]
http://www.apc.org/books/ictpolsa/index.html
Louder Voices
Strengthening Developing Country Participation in International ICT Decision-Making. [757]
Louder_Voices.pdf
Regulation and Internet Use in Developing Countries
Policymakers are simultaneously concerned about the consequences of a worsening digital divide between rich and poor countries and hopeful that information and computing technologies could increase economic growth in developing countries. But very little research has explored the reasons for the digital divide beyond noting that it is strongly correlated with standard development indicators, and no empirical research has explored the role of regulation.
[539]
policymaking_and_internet.pdf