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WSIS: SUMMIT OF SOLUTIONS
On Internet governance
1 The views expressed in this article are personal and should not be attributed
to any organization.
2 Paragraph 48 of the Declaration of Principles, WSIS, Geneva.
3 Paragraph 49 of the Declaration of Principles, WSIS, Geneva.
4 Paragraph 13(b) of the Plan of Action, WSIS, Geneva.
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CREATING DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES
Building knowledge societies
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Fostering digital inclusion
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4 Contacts:
Guinea: Pr. Abdoulaye Diakité,
Angola: Bernard Rosselot,
Democratic Republic of the Congo:
Nicolas Boissez, ;
Didier Kassolé,
Project coordinators: Pierre Bonis, ; Nicolas
Péjout,
Citizens and local authorities in the knowledge age: promoting ICT for local
sustainable development
1 UNRISD (2004). Social Development and the Information Revolution:
Lessons from Research in Senegal, UNRISD Research and Policy Brief 2,
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2. Rose, Meithya, ‘Democratizing information and communication by
implementing e-government in Indonesian regional government,’ The
International Information and Library Review (2004) 36: 219–226.
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4 Government of South Africa, Access to Information Act (2000).
5 Sealy, Wendy Unette, ‘Empowering Development Through E-Governance:
Creating Smart Communities in Small Island States,’ The International
Information and Library Review (2003) 35: 335-358.
6 UN-HABITAT Tools to Promote Transparency in Local Governance, Urban
Governance Toolkit Series HS/702/04E ISBN: 92-1-131694-4.
7 UN-HABITAT Best Practices Database. Submission from Naga for the Dubai
International Award for Best Practises 2004 on
8 For further information on Naga City see
9 See
10 For further information on Curitiba see,
11 See
12 See
13 UN-HABITAT/UNEP, Building an Environmental Management Information
System (EMIS), HS/606/00 (2000) ISBN: 92-1-131463-1.
14 Tuts, Raf, E-governance in Developing Countries, UN-HABITAT Initiating
Brief (2001).
Further references:
- Allen, Barbara Ann, Luc Juillet; Gilles Paquet and Jeffrey Roy, ‘E-Governance
& government on-line in Canada: Partnership, people & prospects’ Government
- Information Quarterly 18 (2001) 93–104.
- Carlitz, Robert D. and Rosemary W. Gunn, ‘Online rulemaking: a step toward
E-Governance,’ Government Information Quarterly 19 (2002) 389–405.
- Government of South Africa, Access to Information Act (2000).
- Murray, S, ‘Online opportunity to transform administrations and services at
all levels,’ Financial Times Review 8 (20 June 2001) viii.
- ‘Observatório regional base indicadores de sustentabilidada metropolitano de
Curitiba,’ ORBIS MC Millennium Indicators in the Metropolitan Area of
Curitiba (2004).
- OECD Policy Brief, The E-government imperative: Main Findings (March 2003).
- Sealy, Wendy Unette, ‘Empowering Development Through E-Governance:
Creating Smart Communities in Small Island States,’ The International
Information and Library Review 35 (2003) 335-358.
- Shivanthi Weerasinghe, ‘Revolution within the revolution: the Sri Lankan
attempt to bridge the digital divide through e-governance,’ The International
Information and Library Review 36 (2004) 319–327.
- Torres, Lourdes ; Pina, Vicente ; Acerete, Basilio (2005). E-government
developments on delivering public services among EU cities. In Government
Information Quarterly 22 (2005) 217–238.
- Tuts, Raf E-governance in Developing Countries: UN-HABITAT Initiating Brief 2001.
- UN-HABITAT Best Practises Database, Submissions from Naga for the Dubai
International Award for Best Practises 2004:
- UN-HABITAT/UNEP, Building an Environmental Management Information
System. (EMIS), HS/606/00 (2000) ISBN: 92-1-131463-1.
- UN-HABITAT/UNEP, (2004) Environmentally Sustainable Urbanisation.
Developing Environmental Planning and Management Capacities for Poverty
Reductio. ALEX 2003. Meeting Report of the 2003 Global Meeting of the
Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP) and the Localizing Agenda 21
Programme (LA21) Alexandria 29 September – 2 October 2003.
- UN-HABITAT (2004) Tools to Promote Transparency in Local Governance Urban
Governance Toolkit Series HS/702/04E (2004) ISBN: 92-1-131694-4.
- United Nations Economic and Social Council, Third annual report of the
Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, E/2005/71 (June 2005).
- United Nations/American Society for Public Administration (UN/ASPA).
Benchmarking e-government: A global perspective. UN/ASPA: New York (2002).
Bridging the rural digital divide
1 For more information on the FAO’s activities in bridging the rural digital
divide, contact: ;
From digital divide to use-divide
1 Fink, Carsten and Kenny, Charles J. W(h)ither the Digital Divide? (2003):
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Cullen, Rowena, ‘Addressing the Digital Divide’, Online Information Review
Vol.25, Issue. 5 (2001) 311:
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2 World Summit on the Information Society: www.itu.int/wsis/
3 Spanning the Digital Divide: Understanding and Tackling the Issues: Executive
Summary,
4 Spanning the Digital Divide: Understanding and Tackling the Issues: Annex 4:
‘On the Ground Initiatives in the Developing World’:
5 Buelva, Alma J. ‘Digital divide getting wider’, Computerworld Philippines
(2001):
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6 Buelva, Alma J. ‘Philippines: Bridging the Digital Divide: A growing effort’,
Computerworld Philippines (2000):
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7 Spanning the Digital Divide: Understanding and Tackling the Issues:
Conclusions”:
8 UNCTAD, E-Commerce and Development Report 2004, 31:
9 UNCTAD, E-Commerce and Development Report 2004, 31, 35, 37:
10 The E-Trade Bridge Paradigm:
11 The Business Management System, International Trade Centre (ITC)
UNCTAD/WTO, Geneva 2003.
12 Marchand, Donald A. Reaping the business value of IT: Focus on usage, not just
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