Internet Governance
Issues, Actors and Divides
Published by: Diplo Foundation and Global Knowledge Partnership
Authors: Jovan Kurbalija and Ed Gelbstein
Pages : 144
ISBN 99932-53-13-8

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in Geneva in December 2003, officially placed the question of Internet Governance of diplomatic agenda. The declaration of principles and action plan adopted at WSIS proposed a number of actions in the field of Internet Governance. Observing the complexity of the subject, that deals with a major symbol of the digital world, the ‘Internet Governance’ book tries to bring a simple but practical understanding of the background studies.

Without analyzing the complexities of definitive statements on Internet Governance issues, the book aims to propose a practical framework for the analysis, discussion and resolution of the key problems in this field.

The booklet provides an introduction to the Internet Governance debate. It covers more than 40 issues, which are divided into five baskets: 1. infrastructure and standardisation; 2. legal; 3. economic; 4. development; and 5. socio-cultural. The main issues in the field of Internet Governance are well illustrated.


Expanding access to HIV treatment through community-based organizations
UNAIDS Best Practice collection
A joint publication of Sidaction, UNAIDS and WHO
ISBN 92 9 173421 7

The lack of HIV treatment in low- and middle-income countries remains a global public health emergency. The vast majority of people in need cannot obtain care and treatment in time to prolong their lives. Therefore, community-based organizations have been compelled to do for treatment what they did for prevention.

This Best Practice document describes a ground-breaking survey by Sidaction, a Paris-based treatment rights group which supports community responses to AIDS in low- and middle-income countries.

For the first time, Sidaction has mapped treatment and care efforts by community-based organizations in Africa. The survey confirmed that community efforts to provide treatment represent an important opportunity to enroll more people in antiretroviral therapy. The document brings out the realisation that community efforts need support.

Overall, this Best Practice publication provides strategic information on some of the needs, challenges and opportunities that are specific to community-based organizations in scaling up access to care and treatment. It demonstrates the current and potential value of their work and suggests ways forward to assess, support, and enlarge the scope and impact of that work.

The publication is intended as a resource for civil society, people living with HIV, national pragram managers, policy makers and donors to support the concept of involving community based organisations in national plans for providing HIV care.


IConnect Collected 2005
Published by : IICD
Pages: 60

This new publication gathers experiences in ICT for education, livelihoods and governance in six African countries through different articles written by different Journalists.

The articles gathered in iConnect Collected were written by journalists in six African countries as part of the iConnect Series. The articles document ICT4D experiences in three sectors- education, livelihoods, and governance.

In 2005, as part of an effort to get more ‘southern voices’ into the current global discourse on ICT for development, iConnect, the initiative of IICD formed a team of six coordinators in Africa who regularly commission articles by local journalists on the impact and the use of ICTs for development. The articles, written from a southern perspective, appear regularly on the iConnect website in English, French and Spanish. The articles published in this booklet were written by journalists in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

This publication aims to make the wealth of knowledge gained through iConnect available to a wider audience. Collectively the articles endeavour to demonstrate actual results experienced from a local perspective. These stories and reports will certainly contribute to the evidence base regarding the real benefits of ICT for Development (ICT4D) and the ways in which new technologies are changing the African communication landscape.