MULTIMEDIA TRAINING KIT
Additional resources: ICTs for Development (ICT4D)
Developed by: APC
Online resources
The Association for Progressive Communication (APC) – Internet and ICTs for Social Justice
and Development
http://www.apc.org/
APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor: http://africa.rights.apc.org/
APC Internet Rights Charter: http://rights.apc.org/charter.shtml
APC LAC ICT Policy Monitor: http://lac.derechos.apc.org/
APC-WNSP Policy Guide for Gender and ICTs:
http://www.apcwomen.org/policy/resources/wnsp_policyguide.htm
Bridges.org – Spanning the International Digital Divide
http://www.bridges.org/
What is the digital divide? http://www.bridges.org/digitaldivide/index.html
Policy and the digital divide: http://www.bridges.org/digitaldivide/policy.html
CRIS Campaign – Communication Rights in the Information Society
http://www.crisinfo.org/
Digital Access in the Developing World
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/itic_publications/it_dev.page
Harvard Forum – A Dialogue on ICTs and Poverty
http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-46261-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies
http://regulateonline.org/
ICTs and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
United Nations Statistics Division – Millennium Indicators
http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mi/mi.asp
Stories and Publications about Information and Communication Technologies
Latin America http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-47596-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Asia http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-47595-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Africa http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-47594-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Online indicator resources
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
http://www.itu.int/
Regulators and Telecom Ministries: http://www.itu.int/GlobalDirectory/
Indicators definition: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/
Indicators online: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/
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Measuring the Information Society website (UNCTAD)
http://measuring-ict.unctad.org/
Research ICT Africa
http://www.researchictafrica.net/
World Bank Data and Statistics (ICT at a glance tables, by country)
http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html
Books and articles
Accuosto, Pablo and Johnson, Niki (2004). “Financing the Information Society in the South: A
Global Public Goods Perspective,” APC Briefing Paper. Montevideo: Instituto del Tercer
Mundo. http://rights.apc.org/documents/financing.pdf
Annan, Kofi A. (2000). We the Peoples. The Role of the United Nations in the Century 21st.
New York: United Nations. http://www.un.org/millennium/sg/report/ch0.pdf
Association for Progressive Communication (APC) (2003). ICT Policy: A Beginners
Handbook. Part 3. http://www.apc.org/books
Carron, Joelle (n.d.) “The Funding of Universal Access”. Choike Briefing No 4. Montevideo:
Instituto del Tercer Mundo (IteM).
http://wsispapers.choike.org/financiamiento_acceso_universal.pdf
Daly, John (2004). “The Institutional Divide: Is The Digital Divide a Symptom or a Cause?”
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/filedownload.do~itemId=1026042
Economist (2005). “Behind the digital divide,” The Economist Technology Quarterly. March
12, pp.22-23. http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3714058
Fink, Carsten and Kenny, Charles J. (2003). “W(h)ither the Digital Divide?,”. Info,
volume 5, number 6 (January).
http://www.comminit.com/trends/ctrends2004/trends-38.html
Gerster, Richard and Zimmermann, Sonja (2003). ICTs for Poverty Reduction. Lessons for
donors. Gerster Consulting. http://www.comminit.com/st2003/sld-9038.html
Hewitt de Alcántara, Cynthia (2001). “The Development Divide in a Digital Age”. Geneva:
Union Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). http://www.unrisd.org/
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (2002). World Telecommunication Development
Report 2002. Geneva: ITU. http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/wtdr_02/ (only Executive
Summary available for free download)
Lessig, Lawrence (1999). Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books.
http://codebook.jot.com/Book
Maclean, D., Souter, D; Deane, J. and Sarah Lilley (2002). Louder Voices: Strengthening
Developing Country Participation in International ICT Decision-Making. A study by the
Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation and Panos London.
http://www.cto.int/frame.php?dir=06&sd=11&id=23
Mansell, Robin and Wehn, Uta (eds.) (1998). Knowledge Societies: Information Technology
for Sustainable Development. New York: United Nations and Oxford University Press.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/spru/ink/knowledge.html
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) (1999). Falling Through
the Net: Defining the Digital Divide. Washington DC: Department of Commerce.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/digitaldivide/
Prahalad, C.K and Hammond, Allen (2002). “Serving the World’s Poor, Profitably,” Harvard
Business Review. September.
http://www.markle.org/downloadable_assets/servepoorprofitably.pdf
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Sciadas, George (ed.) (2003). Monitoring the Digital Divide…and Beyond. Montreal: Orbicom.
http://www.orbicom.uqam.ca/projects/ddi2002/
Spence, Randy (2003). Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Poverty
Reduction: When, Where and How? http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-53023-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Surman, Mark and Reilly, Katherine (2003). Appropriating the Internet for Social Change:
Towards the Strategic Use of Networked Technologies by Transitional Civil Society
Organizations. A publication of the Social Science Research Council.
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/civ_soc_report/
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2005). “A Practical Plan to Achieve the
Millenium Development Goals”, New York: UNDP.
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/fullreport.htm
World Bank (2003) .World Development Report 2003. Washington DC: The World Bank.
http://econ.worldbank.org/
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