policy initiatives in ICT

26.05.2005 The second Latin American and the Caribbean Conference on Free and Open Source Software Development and Usage will be held from 28 September to 1st October 2005 Recife and Olinda, Brazil.

25.05.2005 The Rwandan government has mainstreamed ICT in the Vision 2020 through ICT-led Socio-Economic Development Policy and Plan for Rwanda.

25.05.2005 Alice Wanjira Munyua discusses how multi-stakeholder partnership (MSP) processes practised through KICTANet have helped gearing up of the ICT policy process as well as lobbying for legitimisation of genuine stakeholder participation in policy process.

20.05.2005 The fourth meeting of WGIG will be held in Geneva on 15-17 June 2005, preceded by consultations open to all stakeholders.

17.05.2005 The New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) has withdrawn support for the forthcoming Information and Communication Technology conference to be held in Nairobi.

17.05.2005 Telecom investments, especially cellular phone ventures, seem to emerge quickly in most post-conflict countries.

11.05.2005 Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) is a leading MIT Press journal that focuses on the intersection of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with international development. ITID invites submissions for a special issue titled “Information Technology, Higher Education, and Sustainable Development: The Role of Universities in Building Knowledge Societies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.”

06.05.2005 The World Summit on the Information Society seeks to ensure that the benefits of the digital revolution in information and communication technologies are accessible to all while promoting specific advantages in areas such as e-strategies, e-commerce, e-governance, e-health, education, literacy, cultural diversity, gender equality, sustainable development and environmental protection.

04.05.2005 After some welcoming remarks, Chairman Yuri G. Grin briefly presented the role of the ITU Council WG on WSIS, mandated to make proposals to the Plenipotentiary Conference on the ITU inputs to the WSIS process. He also asserted that the work of the ITU is strongly rooted in a spirit of multi-stakeholder partnership, gathering 189 member states, but also private companies, academic institutions and some NGOs. Reports Conference of NGOs (CONGO).

04.05.2005 “Informal Consultations on the WSIS Implementation Mechanism” will take place just ahead of the 8th meeting of the ITU Council Working Group on the World Summit on the Information Society (WG-WSIS) on 3-4 May, the outcomes of the discussion will be reported directly to the ITU WG-WSIS.