This Guidebook is the result of a GKP Regional Partnership Programme project - Youth Leaders for Community Development through Internet Governance - supported by GKP and implemented by GKP members CMB Training Center and DiploFoundation; and project partners APTI Romania, RWCT International Consortium, Romania; Universities Dunarea de Jos, Galati; AEGEE Beograd, Serbia and the Better World JL Institute, LA, USA. It contains best practices and lessons learned on launching capacity building programmes in the area of Internet Governance and Community Development and acts as a guide for organisations interested in promoting capacity building programmes for multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary teams through development of workshops, and other capacity building activities, in which an experiential model of learning is employed.

The goals of this Guidebook are:

• To provide a resource to organizations and their trainers for the development of training programs in the area of Internet Governance and Community Development;
• To introduce a number of techniques which assist in the analysis and interpretation of research findings;
• To serve as a guide for the development of workshops, and other capacity building activities, in which an experiential model of learning is employed.

South Asia is one of the most active grounds of ICT4D initiatives. In many instances, South Asia is the pioneer in creative ideas and their successful realisation on the ground. The instances of successes and failures are often discussed in various seminars, workshops and other forums organised in different parts of the world, and some times power point presentations and short write-ups are also available. However, there is a severe dearth of detailed information and insights about the initiatives. Such a situation leads practitioners replication or picking certain elements of initiatives, fail to get adequate information about them; repeat same mistakes in implementing similar kind of initiatives, which were already tested elsewhere; and try to re-invent wheel due to lack of information. The publication of this handbook is a step to meet the deficit and to share selected ICT4D initiatives of South Asia among practitioners, policy makers, development partners, academicians and students. Read more

Published in February 2008

Declining costs of information and communication technology, globalization and changing conditions for innovation and entrepreneurship are bringing new opportunities as well as challenges for countries and business alike around the world. In this rapidly evolving playing field, the role of large and small firms is changing. Large firms are downsizing, outsourcing and off-shoring while raising productivity around a narrowing core business. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), on the other hand, account for a growing share of the work force in most countries. In parallel, they are becoming more important for economic growth, exports, local development and innovation. SMEs do not only constitute of enterprises, however, but are clearly led and strongly influenced by people, and most of all by the entrepreneurs behind them. Read more


Published in September 2007

Multi-stakeholder partnerships are a powerful tool to further development projects. They have become particularly critical to initiatives that promote the fruitful use of digital technologies to improve people’s quality of life and development perspectives. Multi-stakeholder partnerships contribute to coalesce different types of knowledge, experience and resources that come together around common interests and goals. Read more

Published in 2007

Introduction


In advance of the 10th United Nations Inter-Agency Round Table on Communication for Development Roundtable, a limited consultation exercise was undertaken to obtain practitioner, civil society and other external perspectives on the issues highlighted in the Round Table agenda. The consultation was carried out by Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) and was extended to other network organisations involved in the C4D arena over a period of 17 days.

The Communication for Social Change Consortium was asked to amalgamate the conclusions of the consultation. These summary results are to be presented at the Round Table taking place on 12-14 February 2007 in Addis Ababa by Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Executive Director of the Global Knowledge Partnership Secretariat.

Published in January 2007

The premise of Beyond Tunis is simple enough: take a snapshot of the state of ICT4D community after the WSIS process and try to look ahead to what might happen in the short, medium and longer-term. Do it in a series of publications that will lead into the next GKP global event.

Presenting Beyond Tunis 1.0: Flightplan, released May 2006; and Beyond Tunis 1.5: Flightplan, released November 2006.

Beyond Tunis 2.0: Horizon, released October 2007, is the companion publication to GKP's Event on the Future, Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3).

Read BT online @ Here

• Access, Empowerment & Governance Read more

• Making the Difference - ICT as key enablers for equitable and sustainable development
  Read more (Available in English, French and Spanish)

• Media & the Information Society Read more

• Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Read more

• ICT for Development Success Stories Read more

• ICT for Poverty Reduction in Asia Read more

Internet Governance is not a simple subject. Although it deals with a major symbol of the DIGITAL world, it cannot be handled with a digital - binary logic of true/false and good/bad. Instead, the subject’s many subtleties and shades of meaning and perception require an ANALOG approach, covering a continuum of options and compromises.

Therefore, this booklet will not attempt to provide definitive statements on Internet Governance issues. Rather, its aim is to propose a practical framework for the analysis, discussion, and resolution of the key problems in this field.

GKP Recommendations on Issues of Bridging the Digital Divide
ISBN 983-2588-00-06


This publication is an edited and amended version of the GKP Recommendations to the G8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (G8-DOT Force). February 2002, edited by the GKP Secretariat, 48 pages.

Institute of the Information Society (Russia) and GKP have prepared the Russian edition of the proceedings of the International Conference "Partnership Networks as Tools to Enhance Information Society Development and Knowledge Economy" that was conducted in late 2002 in Moscow as part of the Global Knowledge Russia Initiative.

The conference was organized within the activities of the Russian e-Development Partnership (PRIOR) and UN ICT TF Europe and Central Asia Regional Network (UN ICT TF EuCAS) in the context of the elaboration of the National Strategy "Russia in the Information Age" and the preparation for the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).

The Conference is organized by the Institute of the Information Society in coordination with the GKP Secretariat and in cooperation with the Ministry of RF for Communications and Informatization, World Bank, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and Global Internet Policy Initiative with support by Global Knowledge Partnership (Official Sponsor), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and other Russian and foreign organizations.

If you read Russian and are interested in obtaining this publication, please contact Institute of the Information Society at info@iis.ru and order a copy. You will not have to pay for the publication, only delivery costs have to be compensated to IIS.