[Sigiii-l] FW: Levelling the international ICT playing field

[Ian Johnson (absimj)]

-----Original Message-----
From: id21News at lyris.ids.ac.uk [mailto:id21News at lyris.ids.ac.uk] 
Sent: 11 August 2003 16:54
To: id21NewsAdmin at lyris.ids.ac.uk
Subject: id21News Number 103, August 2003 


Welcome to id21News - the Newsletter of the id21 Development Research
reporting service, bringing you the latest and best UK-based
international development research.  id21 is enabled by the UK
Department for International Development and hosted by the Institute of
Development Studies at the University of Sussex. 

*****

Levelling the international ICT playing field

Developing countries have next to no say in the evolution of information
and communication technologies (ICTs). At its Genoa Summit in 2001, the
G8's Digital Opportunities Task (DOT) Force called for greater southern
involvement in ICT decision-making. What are the prospects for bridging
the digital divide? What principles should govern ICT relations between
north and south?

http://www.id21.org/society/s4bdm1g1.html

Email request: GET http://www.id21.org/getweb/s4bdm1g1.html

Further Information:
David Souter, The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation,
Clareville 
House, 27-27 Oxendon Street, London SW1Y 4EL, UK
Tel: +44 (0)207 930 5511  Fax: +44 (0)207 930 4248  Email:
d.souter at cto.int 
or info at cto.int

James Deane, Panos Institute, 9 White Lion Street, London  N1 9PD, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7278 1111  Fax: +44 (0)20 7278 0345  Email: 
jamesd at panoslondon.org.uk

********

The id21 online collection contains hundreds of policy-relevant research

digests on critical global development issues, drawn from leading
UK-based 
economics and social studies departments and think-tanks, together with
a 
wide range of NGO research departments and consultants. This Newsletter 
brings you regular updates of the latest additions to the collection. To

see the whole collection visit our Web-site at: http://www.id21.org/

If your Internet access is slow or if you simply prefer using email
rather 
than the Web, you may find it easier to access the material on the id21 
site by using any of our four regular id21 email news services:

*	id21News - economic & social research
*	id21HealthNews - health research
*	id21Education - education research
*	id21UrbanNews - urban poverty research

To subscribe to id21News send an email to lyris at lyris.ids.ac.uk with the

message ''subscribe id21News Firstname Lastname" e.g. "subscribe
id21News 
Emily Smith". For other news bulletins, substitute id21News with the
name 
of the list.

********

Views expressed in this newsletter are not necessarily those of id21,
IDS 
or other contributing institutions. Unless stated otherwise articles may
be 
copied or quoted without restriction, provided id21 and originating 
author(s) and institution(s) are acknowledged. 

******