Involving Civil Society in ICT Policy: The World Summit on the Information Society

This book reflects the ongoing work in building ICT policy awareness and the active participation in the WSIS process of both APC (The Association for Progressive Communications) and CRIS (Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society). It draws on work by APC's global and regional Communications and Information Policy and Women's networking Support Programmes, and it refers to APC and the CRIS campaign's efforts at global, regional and national levels to ensure that human and communication rights are central to the WSIS process.

The book is aimed primarily at civil society organisations that access and use ICTs to promote peace, development and human rights, and want to advocate for more enabling policy environments. It is designed to build civil society organisation awareness of and capacity to engage in the WSIS, and other policy-making spaces at international, regional and national levels. It highlights issues most relevant to civil society and suggest ways to get involved.