Beyond Tunis #1: Flightplan

This 3-volume series aims to take a snapshot of the state of the information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) community after the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and attempts to look ahead to what might happen in the short, medium and longer term. This first volume highlights global youth, gender, and poverty programmes that use information and communication technologies in the following categories: health, education, use of mass media, and environment.

Within Flightplan are articles on internet topology; the self-actualisation of the public sector or how to 'incentivise' governments about knowledge; the disparity of e-commerce expectations and reality between the digital 'haves' and 'have-nots'; rapid skills development in Mauritius; and the potential for public-private-citizen partnerships in India, and many others.

Beyond Tunis is considered by the publishers to be a series that will lead into the next Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) global event (end-2007).

Contents include:

• Introduction
• WSIS Geneva-Tunis: A road to hamlet, by Nikhil Agarwal
• Klaus, flying ICT4D in first class, or What can we do so that we don't forget how to build a plane?, by Klauss Stoll
• Innovation for e-Inclusion: The case of Asian Encounter, by Roger W. Harris
• Social innovation through web networks, by Oliver Zielke
• Weaving real connections through WSIS, by Michael Chertok
• Democracy and collaborative web content, by Edward Crompton
• The impact of WSIS on Tanzania's ICT4D landscape, by Paula Uimonen & Simbo Ntiro
• Media in the making of an inclusive information society: Where to go from here?, by Atanu Garai
• Using network logic to bring ICT skills to developing countries, by Adam Kasenally & Adam Tolnay
• The hurdle track from ICT to Human Development, by Daniel Pimienta & Álvaro Blanco
• A digital polity: Closing disparity through political will, by Ralph D. Berenger
• A community IT development byte, by Laszlo Z. Karvalics
• Creating pro-poor media in Africa: The challenges, by Chris Kabwato
• Greenfields & Brownfields: The global landscape of e-governance, by Puvan J. Selvanathan
• For profit rural kiosk in India: Achievements and challenges, by Karishma Kiri & Deepak Menon
• ICT4D: My Professional Illusion, by Nazrul Islam
• The "take-off" of e-commerce, by Christopher Roessner
• Beyond WSIS: Dreams and reality, by Jennifer Corriero & Nick Moraitis
• Making ICT accessible the mobile way, by Krishna Mohan Durbha
• Development - do you feel yours?, by Kund Florian