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A Development Agenda for Internet Governance

‘Development agendas’ in WTO and WIPO mark a new era in global policy spaces, whereby the rights of the global south are being asserted. However, the governance of new ICTs, chiefly the Internet, remains a nebulous zone, with practically no global policy frameworks. IT for Change submitted the following paper to Internet Governance Forum as an input for its first meeting in Athens in October 2006.

As the ICTs reconstitute reality around us in so many different ways, of which we keep discovering more every passing day, their governance is an important area. As they say, in ICTs ‘architecture is policy’ and ‘code is law’. And, more and more of it is being written every passing day, perhaps irrevocably, deciding the contours of an emerging world for us, but without our participation in these decisions.

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Political Economy of the Information Society: A Southern View

Working actively for new global political systems that are adequate to the needs of an emerging information society is an important and urgent task. It is important therefore that powerful South-South alliances are built for evolving a new paradigm of a development - oriented information society for the South.

Gender in the Information Society : Emerging issues

This publication showcases perspectives that critique the engagement with new technologies in various development sectors such as the media, work and economy and governance.

An Empowerment Approach to Gender Equality in the Information Society (Forthcoming)

This book brings together the findings of an Asia Pacific regional research project on gender in the information society through an analytical framework that maps issues of identity, control and ownership over technology, collective action and institutional transformation.

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