Internet governance and development: Another digital divide?

  • Authors:

  • David Souter

  • Affiliations:

  • Managing Director, ICT Development Associates Ltd, and Visiting Professor in Communications Management, University of Strathclyde. E-mail: david.souter@Runbox.com

  • Venue:
  • Information Polity - Internet Governance
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper gives an insight to WSIS and discusses some reasons why in the WSIS process a very strong focus was given to Internet governance issues. It comments on the underlying paradigm gap between ICT/Internet and development professionals which the WSIS failed to resolve; it reports recent evidence on the relationship between Internet and other information and communication media in low-income communities; and it suggests some consequences for the future course of international discourse on the relationship between ICTs/Internet and development.