Education

The Information Society

Human Security and Peace

Cross Cutting Issues

Action Tools

Resources

Programme Leaflet [PDF version Oct. 2004] Programme Leaflet [WORD version] Oct 2004

• World Summit on the Information Society: Information about current and upcoming events and reports supporting WSIS. Documents available from the Prepcom meetings held December 2003 in the 6 official languages Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, and Russian.
  http://www.itu.int/wsis/
   
• The Association for Progressive Communication (Internet and ICTs for Social Justice and Development): Good source of basic information and understanding from a local and global perspective. A good outline of 7 key issues: access, censorship, gender and ICTs, governance, intellectual property, privacy and security, and free and open source software. Spanish and English, with some French. http://www.apc.org/
   
• DevMedia: Media for Development and Democracy: DevMedia is a service of the TeleCommons Development Group in collaboration with the Don Snowden Program for Development Communication. DevMedia helps people exchange information and news about how communication tools can promote development and democracy. DevMedia's focus is on media that are in the hands of people and communities. It draws attention to ways of improving peoples' access to media to encourage the sharing of ideas, voices and knowledge: locally and globally. DevMedia users generally include people interested in participatory and community uses of radio, video, TV, telecommunication tools, and the Internet. English only. http://www.devmedia.org/
   
• Institute for Global Communications: IGC has been around since 1987 and continues to provide access to peacenet, econet, womensnet and antiracism net. Provides reasonably priced web hosting to grass roots organizations. Section on Advocacy Tips. English only.
  http://www.igc.org/
   
• Womenspace: A Canadian web site which focuses on on-line activism and civic participation. Check out the Fact Sheets and the public policy tool kit. English and French.
  http://www.womenspace.ca/
   
• Development Gateway Foundation: The Development Gateway Foundation is an enabler of development. The focus is to help improve people’s lives in developing countries by building partnerships and information systems that provide access to knowledge for development.
  The Development Gateway is an independent not-for-profit organization. It was conceived by World Bank President James Wolfensohn and initially developed in the World Bank. Can browse by country. Language versions are under development. http://www.developmentgateway.org/
   
• The Centre for Women and Information Technology: Features “the best resource on women and technology on the web”, hosted by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Good listing of resources including print. English only. http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/index.html