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Roadmap Toward Enabling Meaningful Participation by Developing Country Stakeholders in Global ICT Policy Processes.
The Roadmap attempts to capture the work of the group thus far and lay a foundation on which action can be developed.
Besides outlining the concept of universal participation and its importance for developing and developed countries, the
roadmap shares an overall vision for inclusive global ICT policy making its role as an important element toward achieving
global digital inclusion. In addition, it details and maps the issues and venues in which meaningful participation needs
to be assured, and takes stock of the lessons learned in other global policy forums. Finally, it suggests a framework
for short-term and long-term actions. This product is intended to inform the ongoing work of the UN ICT Task Force and
to attract others' participation in these efforts as well.
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Louder Voices: Strengthening Developing Country Participation in Internation ICT Decision-Making.
A Study by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation and Panos London
Commissioned by the UK, DFID, this study examines the nature of the challenges facing developing country participants
in international ICT decision making, the constraints facing delegates representing developing countries, research and
analytical capacities that already exist in the ICTs and telecommunications of least developed countries, the role and
effectiveness of regional forums, and examples of countries that have successfully exposed their decision and policy
making to broader public and policy debate, as well as those that have not. In addition the study examines the merit
of some specific ideas and initiatives already being discussed, such as creating regional centers of expertise in ICT
policy within existing academic/research institutions; establishing an electronic newsletter to report on international
ICT forums; and building on current DFID programs aimed at creating opportunities; as well as new initiatives within
developing countries to stimulate more informed and more inclusive public debate on ICT-related issues, with an emphasis
on perspectives from the poor and marginalized.
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Broadening and Enhancing the Capacity of Developing Countries to Effectively Participate in the Global ICT Policy Fora and the ICT for Development Process.
This concept paper written by Professor Clement Dzidonu and Dr. Nii Narku Quaynor, examines the key issues relating to
the question of how to facilitate the process of engaging developing countries in a meaningful way at global policy
making institutions. The authors conclude that all efforts should be judged on the basis of the footprints they have
made on the development landscape and explain why.
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