United Nations Research institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Updated October 2003
 

Guiding Principles/Objectives

Programmes

The project on Information Technologies and Social Development is designed to explore the institutional and policy environment affecting the likelihood that new ICTs can be used to improve the lives of large numbers people in developing countries.

Thematic studies on prominent global trends - including patterns of concentration within the global IT industry and the changing nature of international regulatory policy in this field - constitute one area of work within the project.

At the same time, UNRISD is sponsoring new research by Third World scholars, businessmen and activists on the specific uses of information  technologies in developing countries. The first of these country studies has been carried out in Senegal.

UNRISD is in the process of preparing a series of Briefing Papers for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).