Policy briefs

Project development for expanding women's digital opportunities: some reflections

IT for Change presented a paper titled 'Project development for expanding women's digital opportunities: some reflections' at the Policy and Strategy for Digital Opportunities from the Gender Perspectives organised by the Asian Pacific Women's Information Network Center (APWINC) in Seoul (South Korea) in July 2006. In this paper, Anita Gurumurthy analyses the necessary link between project definition and policy making, arguing that policies need to serve project objectives, as much as they determine them.

Mapping an ignored agenda: Internet governance at the WSIS

In this article, Anita Gurumurthy and Parminder Jeet Singh analyse the way in which the emphasis on Internet governance and its high visibility in the WSIS process tended to take focus away from the important issue of exploring how the Internet can address long-standing development issues.

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

ICTs - Reaching beyond the educated

This paper argues for a public goods approach to ICTs, education and sustainable development. The author discusses the inadequacies of the current engagement of ICTs in education. Shifts from classroom-based learning to pupil-centered learning have occurred, but by and large the manner in which the ICT opportunity has been employed in the education sector has failed to breach mental barriers and the boundaries of the traditional education system.