:: AISI Briefing Papers

The AISI briefing papers focus on issues related to promoting ICTs for development and aim at sensitizing African policy makers about ICT trends and developments in the continent.

The first issue of the AISI briefing papers series was made possible with funding from the Africa Region of the World Bank.

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AISI Briefing Paper, No. 1, January 2003. Towards an Information Society in Africa: The Case for National Policies

Document d’Information de l’AISI, No. 1 janvier 2003. Vers une société de l’information en Afrique: la question des politiques nationales

AISI Briefing Paper, No. 2, October 2004. Government with an e - The potential of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in the African Public Sector

AISI Policy Briefs (Nov 2005)

• The Information Society and the role of Academia
• Building an Information Society - the case of Rwanda
• Democratizing Access - Initiatives in Ethiopia
• e-Commerce challenges in Africa: issues, constraints, opportunities
• e-Government - the case of The Gambia
• The case for e-Strategies in Africa
• Libraries and the Information Society in Africa
• e-Strategies for Poverty Reduction and the Millennium Development Goals
• Measuring the Information Society for Development: SCAN ICT
• Using Geoinformation for Policy Formulation