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A Developing Connection: Bridging the Policy Gap between the Information Society and Sustainable Development.

» Terri Willard, Maja Andjelkovic, Steve Vosloo, Wainaina Mungai, Margarita Salas, Anusha Lall, Atanu Garai, Diogo André de Assumpção, Amira Sobeih, IISD, 2005. Book, 220 pages, copyright: IISD, ISBN 1-895536-77-4

In "A Developing Connection," seven young researchers from six countries look at the emerging relationship between sustainable development and the information society. The potential of information and communications technology to contribute to a more sustainable world is limitless. The challenge is to bring the policy communities together and help them understand the links. In this volume, some important challenges are outlined—and some important examples of success are highlighted.


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Published as part of the same project, but not appearing in A Developing Connection, is Mobile Telephony as an Enabler of Environmental Action in the Philippines (PDF - 306 kb) by Dolma T. Dongtotsang and Robert A. Sagun. The authors give an overview of SMS-based environmental initiatives aimed at advancing environmental action and involving concerned citizens to report on environmental threats like smoke-emitting vehicles, mismanagement of water resources, illegal logging, and industrial water and air pollution.