Title: Some Comments on ICT4Development and Internet Governance
Author: Michael Gurstein
Source: Gurstein's Community Informatics
Date (published): 15/06/2010
Date (accessed): 16/06/2010
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
My comments on the panel came at the end of a series of very interesting and stimulating presentations by colleagues from primarily Hong Kong and Singapore on their State level responses to the Digial Divide in their jurisdictions which in fact were attempting to find strategies for engaging the final 20% or so of their populations who were not currently making effective use of the Internet.

In my comments I attempted to link the issues presented earlier in the panel discussion with the broader issues of going beyond the matter of “simple access” to achieve effective use of ICTs as a support for broader economic and social development in countries where the level of current Internet access/use is a small fraction of that achieved in HK and Singapore–this was following a quite moving presentation earlier in the day by a senior Bangladeshi politician on his country where current Internet access/use is in the low single digits.