papers & documents

This book provides a global overview of how information and communication technologies (ICTs) relate to education. Published by Unesco and the Academy for Educational Development, the entire book is available for downloading.

Published by the Greenwood Publishing Group in the USA, this book provides examples of best practice, case studies, and principles for transforming communities and regional economies using information technology.

Based on a conference co-hosted by the Benton Foundation and Germany's Stiftung Digitale Chancen (Digital Opportunities Foundation) in November 2002, this report examines strategies to engage underserved youth populations to help them develop 21st century skills.

The Platform for Community Networks (WFCN) is publishing in three languages (French, Spanish and English) summaries of what is being discussed on a number of civil society lists dealing with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process. The first and current issue covers the WSIS Intersessional meeting recently held in Paris.

This document analyses ICT for development strategies (objectives, guiding principles, institutional arrangements) and programmes designed to implement these strategies. It focuses on bilateral and multilateral development agencies.

This paper addresses the issue of the increasing confluence between ICT and conflict transformation. It argues that while NGOs have been quicker to adopt IT-savvy advocacy principles, governments in South Asia are also increasingly aware of the potential of ICTs to buttress interventions, on an official level and grassroots level, to transform ethno-political conflict.

This paper highlights the perils of India's strategy to profit from the growth of ICT through export-oriented growth and underlines the need to focus on development through ICT.

This paper highlights the perils of India's strategy to profit from the growth of ICT through export-oriented growth and underlines the need to focus on development through ICT.

This Bridges.org report provides a survey of what is known and what is being done about international and domestic digital divides, highlights trends, and draws some conclusions about what more is needed to tackle the range of problems.

Even within industrialised OECD countries, the digital divide may be said to be growing, as the access gap between those with the highest and lowest levels of ICT access is increasing.