Internet governance and development: Another digital divide?

Issue title: Internet Governance

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Souter, David^a

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

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.

Keywords: WSIS, WGIG, ICT, Internet, governance

DOI: 10.3233/IP-2007-0111

Journal: Information Polity, vol. 12, no. 1-2, pp. 29-38, 2007