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The Age of Digital Interdependence
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UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation (2018), 47 pp.

"After an introduction which highlights the urgency of improved digital cooperation and invites readers to commit to a Declaration of Digital Interdependence, our report focuses on three broad sets of interlocking issues, each of which is discussed in one subsequent chapter. As a panel, we strove fo ... r consensus, but we did not always agree. We have noted areas where our views differed and tried to give a balanced summary of our debates and perspectives. While there was not unanimity of opinion among the Panel members regarding all of the recommendations, the Panel does endorse the full report in the spirit of promoting digital cooperation. Chapter 2, Leaving No One Behind, argues that digital technologies will only help progress towards the full sweep of the SDGs if we think more broadly than the important issue of access to the internet and digital technologies. Access is a necessary, but insufficient, step forward. To capture the power of digital technologies we need to cooperate on the broader ecosystems that enable digital technologies to be used in an inclusive manner. This will require policy frameworks that directly support economic and social inclusion, special efforts to bring traditionally marginalised groups to the fore, important investments in both human capital and infrastructure, smart regulatory environments, and significant efforts to assist workers facing disruption from technology’s impact on their livelihoods. This chapter also addresses financial inclusion – including mobile money, digital identification and e-commerce –, affordable and meaningful access to the internet, digital public goods, the future of education, and the need for regional and global economic policy cooperation. Chapter 3, Individuals, Societies and Digital Technologies, underscores the fact that universal human rights apply equally online as offline, but that there is an urgent need to examine how time-honoured human rights frameworks and conventions should guide digital cooperation and digital technology. We need society-wide conversations about the boundaries, norms and shared aspirations for the uses of digital technologies, including complicated issues like privacy, human agency and security in order to achieve inclusive and equitable outcomes. This chapter also discusses the right to privacy, the need for clear human accountability for autonomous systems, and calls for strengthening efforts to develop and implement global norms on cybersecurity." more

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Reaping Digital Dividends: Leveraging the Internet for Development in Europe and Central Asia

Tim Kelly, Aleksandra Liaplina, Shawn W. Tan, Hernan Winkler

Washington, DC: World Bank (2017), xxii, 229 pp.

"Unfortunately, the Internet has fallen short of its promises in some other aspects, as its benefits have not fully reached people in the bottom of the income distribution. For example, skilled workers are better able to leverage the Internet to increase their earnings, whereas unskilled workers fac ... more

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Exploring Social Media’s Role in Development: A Learning Resource on ICT for Development for Institutions of Higher Education

Emmanuel C. Lallana

Incheon: Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT-ESCAP) (2015), 99 pp.

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The Internet and Development: A Critical Perspective

Tim Unwin

In: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

William H. Dutton (ed.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 531-554

"This chapter extends a critical perspective on the economic impact of the Internet to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for development, concentrating on the effects of the Internet on the lives of some of the poorest people and most marginalized communities. The disti ... more

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Global Internet Report 2014: Open and Sustainable Access for All

Geneva: Internet Society (2014), 144 pp.

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The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World

Cyrus Farivar

New Brunswick, New Jers.: Rutgers University Press (2011), xiii, 239 pp.

"Cyrus Farivar explores the Internet's history and effects in four distinct and, to some, surprising societies—Iran, Estonia, South Korea, and Senegal. He profiles Web pioneers in these countries and, at the same time, surveys the environments in which they each work [...] Skype was invented in Es ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006: Leveraging ICT for Development

Soumitra Dutta, Augusto Lopez-Claros, Irene Mia (eds.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2006), xv, 350 pp.

"Produced by The World Economic Forum and INSEAD, the fifth edition of the annual Global Information Technology Report is a comprehensive tool for measuring the progress made in the adoption of the latest information and communication technologies and identifying the obstacles to ICT development in ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2003-2004: Towards an Equitable Information Society

Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin, Fiona Paua (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2004), xiii, 308 pp.

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Internet: Une chance pour l'Afrique

Jacques Bonjawo

Paris: Karthala (2002), 208 pp.

"Nous vivons une période de l'histoire du monde particulièrement mouvementée. Socialement, politiquement, scientifiquement, techniquement, tout évolue rapidement, et la communication instantanée et globale de toute information renforce l'agitation permanente de nos existences. Décidément, le ... more

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Asien und das Internet

Günter Schucher (ed.)

Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde (2002), 254 pp.

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Training of Trainers: Computer and Internet Use for Development. Facilitator Guide and Reference Manual

Washington, DC: Peace Corps (2002), iv, 127 pp.

"This Facilitator Guide and Reference Manual is to be used when training Volunteers and others who will serve as trainers in information and communication technology (ICT) during Volunteers’ Pre-Service Training (PST) or In-Service Training (IST). It outlines the format, materials, objectives, tim ... more

The Age of Digital Interdependence Key Guidance

The Age of Digital Interdependence
Key Guidance