For the past several years, The Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC)
has been working closely with various business organizations committed to promoting
policies that encourage the private sector ICT investment necessary to spread the use
of ICTs and the Internet around the world.
The mission of the GIIC is to provide private sector leadership to bring about the
conditions needed to foster investments in information infrastructure, and ICT and
Internet capabilities in both d more...

Le réseau de la société civile africaine pour la société de l’information (ACSIS) suit
avec attention les travaux préparatoires à la réunion annuelle du Forum sur la
Gouvernance de l’Internet qui se tiendra en Inde en décembre prochain.
Il voudrait par ce biais contribuer au document de programme provisoire de la
rencontre, dans le cadre des consultations publiques devant avoir lieu le 15
septembre 2008 en Suisse, et en profiter pour faire quelques commentaires
généraux à more...

The United States takes the opportunity afforded by the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Secretariat to make suggestions with regard to the preparation of the third meeting in Hyderabad, India in December 2008. We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the IGF Secretariat in its efforts to ensure that the IGF process continues to be open and transparent.

We recall that the establishment of the IGF was one of the key outputs of the World Summit on t more...

The global trend of evolution consists in development and wide application
of info-communication technologies in the social and economic sphere and
government administration.
The issue of sustained, secure and uninterrupted functioning of the Internet,
including its Russian segment is of paramount importance for Russia. We are
interested in managing the use of the Internet inter alia in order to:
• avert or at least minimize the risk of a break-up of the Internet into
several independen more...

E-Courts in India is an enabling initiative that aims at reducing the paper based public court dealing and streamlining the courts procedures. However, from September, 2002 to the present time, i.e. 25th October, 2008, the initiatives already undertaken are grossly inadequate to bring any change whatsoever. Perry4Law has provided its suggestions and recommendations to the Department of Information Technology (DIT/MIT) and other stake holders in the recently concluded Skoch Summit, 2008. This wor more...

This report by Japan's Council for Science and Technology Policy focuses on “S&T diplomacy”. It treats the links between S&T and foreign
policy which may achieve their mutual development. It introduces a new basic policy for Japan of promoting S&T diplomacy and provides examples of possible challenges and efforts for Japan's S&T diplomacy program. The policy depends on Japan's advanced scientific and technological capabilities, and projects their application to the solution of global proble more...

Students at the University of Michigan have produced this website which deals with many appropriate technologies for developing nations. Each student presentation includes links to many useful resources. The topic covered are grouped into the following categories:
* Forestry and Agriculture
* Women and Development
* Water and Sanitation / Engineering
* Household / Income Generation
* Environmental Concerns

The World Wide Web Foundation seeks to advance One Web that is free and open, to expand the Web's capability and robustness, and to extend the Web's benefits to all people on the planet. The Web Foundation brings together business leaders, technology innovators, academia, government, NGOs, and experts in many fields to tackle challenges that, like the Web, are global in scale.

The resources on this website encompass a range of issues, including authorship, use of research animals, peer review, data sharing and collaboration, protection of human subjects, conflict of interest, and responsible conduct education. The resources have been divided into seven sections: A) Upcoming Events; B) Recent Literature; C) AAAS and National Academies Resources; D) Web and Media Resources; E) Policies, Codes, and Guidelines; F) Past Conferences; and G) International Resources with eac more...

This is a facet of the United Nations website. It has sections on environmental management and on science and technology for development (the latter with subsections on Biotechnology, Gender, science and technology, Information and communication technologies, Millennium development goals and Technology transfer.