Our Advocacy Statements

Political economy of the information society – A Southern view

2008
Parminder Jeet Singh, Anita Gurumurthy

The authors discuss the process of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process and its positive outcomes in terms of Internet governance, and negative outcomes regarding the failure to establish a financing mechanism for Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD).

They also…

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IT for Change at World Summit on the Information Society - Phase II

2005
IT for Change
IT for Change was closely associated with the drafting of the Civil Society Statement for the second phase of WSIS held in Tunis (Tunisia) in 2005. The broad mandate for WSIS was to address the long-standing issues in economic and social development from the newly emerging perspectives of the opportunities and risks posed by the revolution in…
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IT: An opportunity for developing countries?

2005
Anita Gurumurthy

Anita Gurumurthy wrote about the promise of ICTs for developing countries in World economy and Development In Brief. In this articles, she states that even though the IT revolution did open up new job avenues

, and IT-enabled outsourcing seemed to finally hark in the promise of a level playing field of a globalised…

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