Paper: The Centrality of E-strategies in the WSIS
Editor 2004-06-26
The Centrality of E-strategies in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Plan of Action
By Willie Currie, May 2004
The term ‘e-strategies’ has gained widespread use over the last few years in the debates on the role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for development, following the United Nations Millennium Declaration in 2000.
E-strategies have been defined as “plans based on the selection of scenarios and options for applying ICTs to national development” . A similar definition sees “an e-strategy as a shorthand for policies and strategies intended to exploit ICTs to promote national development. Other terms used to capture the phenomenon include ICT policy and IT policy”.
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