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The concept of Beyond Tunis is simple enough, take a snapshot of the state of ICT4D community after WSIS and try to look ahead to what might happen in the short, medium and long term.
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| BT 1.0 & 1.5: FLIGHTPLAN. Within we have articles on Internet topology; the self-actualization 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 – amongst several others, a list so diverse that it could not have been contrived by a single 'expert' Googling 'the state of ICT4D today'. This is certainly not to suggest that the articles are in any way exhaustive of what is happening out there – but it is a fair flavour of some of the thoughts percolating.
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| BT 2.0: HORIZON. This episode will herd and channel the various inputs to flesh out the Big Ideas, the Promises and the Visions. Are there thematic or regional links? What about common goals; shared communities; knowledge-matching for inputs and outputs – stringing value chains in information and experiences? We think that we can probably take these chains to link individuals, businesses, civil society and governments to add new dimensions to what each of those groups might otherwise be doing in isolation. We hope to test the impact of these connections, report, and codify them in a way that will help us on our trek toward the next marketplace for ideas.
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| BT 3.0: TRANSIT. We will touch-down to take stock of how far we have travelled. What reality has ICT4D delivered? How and where have the ideas we netted, and those we missed, brought change and progress? Public service delivery over SMS……. social inclusion with web- networks……. self-regulating E-Governance! Would we see such an evolution of ideas? Of course, we cannot know today the path that Knowledge will light from what was to what will be. But we shall see.
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