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Introduction
Part
1. What are ICT and internet
policies and why
should
we care about them?
1. Information and communication
technologies
2. What is ICT Policy?
3. Involvement in ICT
Policy
Part 2. The internet, markets and access
2. Internet
Basics
3. Internet economics:
what things cost (in different countries) and who pays
4. Market structure, monopolies and multinationals
5. Network interconnections and exchanges
6. Regional differences: Africa, Asia, Europe, USA
7. Technical infrastructure of the internet and how that
shapes governance
8. Market models for extending access
9. Access and infrastructure- social models for extending
the reach of the internet
Part
3. National ICT and internet policy and regulation
10. A short history of telecommunications reform
11. ICT policy, legislation
and regulation: tools for national
development
12. Involving key players at a national level
13. The actors in international and regional internet
and ICT policy
14. Guiding and governing the internet
15. Telecommunications regulation
16. Policy and regulatory issues
17. Decision-making processes
Part 4. Specific issues in internet policy and regulation
18. Gender
19. Intellectual property: free software and indigenous
knowledge
20. Freedom of expression and censorship
21. Privacy and Security
22. Cybercrime, anti-terrorism legislation
23. Surveillance and data retention
24. Right to communicate
Part 5. Appendices
25. Organisations active in ICT policy (including CSOs)
26. Glossary
27. Bibliography
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