There is a dream, dream of a tribal boy sitting on the PC and applying online for admission to the top universities in the world. WSIS Tunis is the forward step in realizing this dream read more

What struck me at the beginning of the ICT's was not so much the technology itself, but the potential of the new technologies, basically what could be with it. Boundaries of communication that seemed as durable as the Chinese Wall suddenly disappeared into nothing read more

If you ask the average Asian farmer if she would like to have a computer and access to the internet, as I have done in many Asian countries, you will probably be answered with a blank stare or a polite but bewildered smile. If you then ask if she would like to have better education read more

web.net is a social enterprise and Internet pioneer that has supported communities with online tools for twenty years. Accomplishments include “Attavik.net”, a platform supporting Inuktitut computing for indigenous Inuit peoples read more

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Modern Internet publishing techniques enable users to collaborate openly on content. Rich and valuable information resources can now be produced by large numbers of people who may have never met or communicated with each other directly. Concepts such as ‘wikis’ read more

In Tanzania, WSIS has served as a global lens through which to appreciate, and hopefully transform, the local ICT4D landscape. The ICT4All exhibition at WSIS Tunis offered a unique opportunity to showcase Tanzania’s ICT4D activities read more

Four knowledge workers who participated in the Tunis phase of WSIS in November 2005, were very vocal about their rights and responsibilities in the making of an inclusive information society. One of the knowledge workers, Latha Gauri works as a news reader in Manna TV, a local channel in Hyderabad read more

Rather than crying over spilled milk or inquiring over the causes of failure, this short piece seeks to ask the question of how traditional bureaucratic approaches and state structures may be bypassed in an effort to provide skills to young people in developing countries rapidly and effectively. The read more

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Middle East governance has seen nothing like it. The information and communications revolution has caught governments in the gap between what they can readily provide in the way of information policies, while securing their sovereignty and security, and their citizens’ hunger for more information read more

When dealing with under development, poverty reduction, rural communities or modernization issues, the dominant government (and local government) narrative is to “give” something to help, as a humanitarian mission, or as an “investment” to maintain the social peace read more

Chris KabwatoIn December 2003 with generous donor funds (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Netherlands Institute of Southern Africa), w... read more

These examples depict situations based on the speed of information; how trained personnel handle it; and how inputs, outputs and processes are codified as knowledge for the future. These are the basic deliverables of any integrated information management system

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This paper is based on a study conducted over a period of one year (September 2005 – October 2005) at 300 rural kiosks across India, talking to over 3000 customers. For the purposes of this study, we have defined a rural kiosk read more

In mid 1990’s in Bangladesh, the Grameen Bank’s Village Phone Programme was a breakthrough in the history of development and has been recognized as a milestone in promoting technology for economic development read more

The outcomes of the WSIS in Tunis are describing the aspects, streams and future task of the Information society in a very ‘public’ way. ‘Public’ means hereby that governmental issues have a read more

Six months later the dream is less vivid, and it’s important to remind ourselves of all that was achieved through the WSIS - for our part, at TakingITGlobal, playing a leading role in the establishment and read more

In a vast country like India, the digital divide is both a result of socio-economic and language barriers. Huge populations with below secondary level read more

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