The Global Information Society Watch is a joint initiative of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and the Third World Institute (ITeM). The project monitors the implementation and follow-up of key international agreements about ICT policies and their relationship to development, including WSIS and other information and communication policy processes at international, regional and national level.
Global Information Society Watch aims at promoting the development of a healthy “institutional ecology” in the information and communication sector (i.e. effective regulators, good policy processes, the participation of consumer groups, civil society , media, research institutions, etc), pursuing the following interrelated goals:
- Survey the state of the field of ICT policy at the local and global levels;
- Encourage critical debate
- Strengthen networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society.