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General information

Global Information Infrastructure Commission - part of Center for Strategic & International Studies initiative

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - A public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society

UNESCO's Observatory on the Information Society

The Premise and the Promise of a Global Information Infrastructure by Christine L. Borgman in First Monday

Harvard Information Infrastructure Project

Global Internet Project: Internet Policy Architecture

Alliance for the Information Society: Co-operation Programme between Latin America and the European Union

Member Country Focus

Argentina - Efficient Pricing in Data Transmission Networks: The Argentine Experience by Mauricio Drelichman

Brazil - Information Society Program - Ministry of Science and Technology. Also see listing of other sites and resources.

Colombia - Política Regulatoria para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información Colombiana This presentation is provided by the Comisión de Regulación de Telecomunicaciones and is in Spanish. The whole presentation (Adobe Acrobat format) is 57 Mb and may take several hours to download if you do not have a high-speed connection. Addition assitance came from CybeRegulation and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Peru - Providing Content and Facilitating Social Change: Electronic Media in Rural Development Based on Case Material from Peru by by Robin van Koert in First Monday

USA - The Global Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Cooperation - Department of Commerce

Other Experiences

South Africa: Overcoming Regulatory and Technological Challenges To Bring Internet Access To a Sparsely Populated, Remote Area: A Case Study by Ronel Smith

Creating Virtual Learning Communities in Africa: Challenges and Prospects by by Osei Darkwa and Fikile Mazibuko in First Monday

Role of Multipurpose Community Telecentres in Accelerating National Development in Ghana by Wilfred Owen, Jr. and Osei Darkwa

Global Information Infrastructure: The Rural Challenge by Heather Hudson