[Africa-ir-public] [APCNews] WSIS II: APC paper on 'e-strategies'

[Karen Higgs]

Discussion papers on the sticky issues at WSIS (continued)

The issues that were most contentious during the first stage of the 
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) included plans for using 
ICTs in national development, so-called 'e-strategies'. Another new 
paper commissioned by APC critiques the 'e-strategies' approach 
recommended by WSIS. - APCNews


The Centrality of E-strategies in the World Summit on the Information 
Society (WSIS) Plan of Action
By Willie Currie, May 2004

The term ‘e-strategies’ has gained widespread use over the last few 
years in the debates on the role of information and communications 
technologies (ICTs) for development, following the United Nations 
Millennium Declaration in 2000. E-strategies have been defined as “plans 
based on the selection of scenarios and options for applying ICTs to 
national development” . A similar definition sees “an e-strategy as a 
shorthand for policies and strategies intended to exploit ICTs to 
promote national development. Other terms used to capture the phenomenon 
include ICT policy and IT policy”. APC gratefully acknowledges the 
funding support of CIDA.

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http://rights.apc.org/documents/estrategies.pdf

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