Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) 2020
Annual Report
Call for proposals
Terms of reference (TOR) for country reports
The purpose of this review was to look back over the past decade of country reports published in Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) and attempt to identify trends in civil society perspectives on what needed to be done to create a people-centred information society. The period for analysis was, more accurately, just over a decade: 2007-2017, during which a GISWatch report was produced each year – a total of 11 reports.
Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) has reached its 10th edition, providing the international community with yearly reports on the state of the information society from the perspective of local civil society organisations and experts from all around the world.
APC staff is taking part in the Rio+20 People’s Summit and the UN conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to report on the inclusion of sustainability and ICTs in both formal and informal discussions, among civil society, the private sector and governments.
The concept of sustainable development has been elaborated and refined in the years since the Brundtland Report on environment and development, which defined sustainable development as “development that meets needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”1 Although there is no single definition of sustainable development, there is general agreement on certain fundamental principles: