KEY DOCUMENTS ON ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), with meetings in 2003 and 2005, is already the subject of a number of preparatory conferences and will be expected to generate a major set of findings.
http://www.itu.int/wsis/

The last few years have already seen a number of important policy documents relating to ICT for Development. Here are links to some:

The United Nations General Assembly Meeting on Information and Communication Technology for Development (June 2002)
http://www.unicttaskforce.org/news/assembly.asp

Report of the Secretary General of the UN on ICT Activities to ECOSOC's Annual Meeting 2001
http://ods-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N01/422/58/PDF/N0142258.pdf?OpenElement

The role of the United Nations in promoting development, particularly with respect to access to and transfer of knowledge and technology, especially information and
communication technologies, inter alia, through partnerships with relevant stakeholders, including the private sector: Report of the Secretary-General (2001)
http://ods-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N01/359/80/PDF/N0135980.pdf?OpenElement

Report of the ICT Advisory Committee to the UN
http://ods-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N01/260/47/PDF/N0126047.pdf?OpenElement

The reports from the UN ICT Task Force:
http://www.unicttaskforce.org/index.asp

The World Bank ICT Sector Strategy Paper
http://info.worldbank.org/ict/ICT_ssp.html

Report of the Digital Opportunities Task Force (DOT Force) May, 2001
http://www.dotforce.org/reports/DOT_Force_Report_V_5.0h.html

COMMUNIQUÉ of the G8 Meeting in Genoa, July 2001.
http://www.g8italia.it/_en/docs/XGKPT170.htm

G8 COMMUNIQUÉ OKINAWA 2000
http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/g7/summit/2000okinawa/finalcom.htm

The World Economic Forum Proposal on the Digital Divide to the Okinawa G* Summit
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/DigitalDivide/Official_G8_Statement.pdf

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Report for 2001 (including other materials, 7MB plus)
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/AnnualMeeting/AMreport2001.pdf

REPORT OF THE AD-HOC INTER-AGENCY WORKING GROUP ON THE CO-ORDINATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
IN THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM (July 2000)
http://accsubs.unsystem.org/iscc-intranet/work/documents/pdf/IAG-ICT-5.pdf

Digital Bridge to Africa Final Report (from a meeting held in the UN Complex in New York, July 2002)
http://www.ddn-africa.org/new_final_report.html