Louder Voices and the International Debate on Developing Country Participation in ICT Decision Making
Louder Voices and the International Debate on Developing Country Participation in ICT Decision Making
In 2000, the Group of Eight (G8) created a multistakeholder group called the Digital Opportunity Task Force to address international questions on information and communications technology (ICT) from a variety of perspectives on the development spectrum. Two years later, it released a report entitled Louder Voices, which examined why developing countries have little participation in international ICT decision making. This chapter examines the main findings of the Louder Voices report and relevance in the light of the World Summit on the Information Society. In particular, it analyzes the domestic and international institutional issues that can limit the effectiveness of developing countries’ participation. It highlights domestic constraints and capacity building as the most pressing problems, and calls for sophisticated leadership to enable developing countries to participate and defend their interests effectively in international negotiations.
Keywords: information and communications technology, development, developing countries, Louder Voices, Group of Eight, Digital Opportunity Task Force, decision making, World Summit on the Information Society, capacity building
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