I hope this message finds you all well. As you
might have seen, we have started the GISW 2018 process with the
call for proposal for country chapters. This year, GISW will
focus on community networks.
We have extended the deadline to Monday, March 26. I would like to
invite you to consider responding to this call. We believe GISW
2018 will substantively contribute to shed some light to better
understood and support bottom-up locally owned/managed networks.
Please find the call below and a document attached with more
details for developing the proposals for GISW 2018.
Best regards,
Kathleen
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The Association of Progressive Communications
would cordially invite you to submit a
short 1 page country level proposal for the 2018
Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch). Read the
attachment for more detailed information.
The GISWatch is like a “rough-guide” to the
information society from a civil society perspective – but one
written by those living in the country they are talking about,
and who get to see the impact of technology on their lives and
in their countries first-hand.
GISWatch is a tool and a process for the
collaborative monitoring of the implementation of national and
international commitments made by governments towards the
creation of an inclusive, open and sustainable information
society. For a look at the previous 11 GIS Watch editions,
please see
www.giswatch.org.
If you have an innovative experience to share
and the wealth of knowledge you could bring towards the 2018 theme of Community Networks, we
ask you to submit a short proposal. The
short 1 page proposal submission would describe your idea for a
2300 word book chapter on the innovative experiences of a
Community Network and the country context which has enabled this
Community Network.
Specifically, the 1 page proposal criteria
includes:
- name, organisation, country
- brief information on Community Network
solution
- duration of Community Network operations
- half a page about the experience or
innovation within a Community Network you plan to describe in
the book chapter and your involvement with this Community
Network.
Please make note of the short deadline.
Submissions must be sent to GIS Watch coordinator, Ms Kathleen
Diga (
kathleen@apc.org) by
MARCH
26, 2018.
We look forward to your response and thank you
in advance for your consideration.
Regards,
Kathleen Diga
Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch 2018) coordinator
Association for Progressive Communications (APC)