New policy issue paper: The importance of convergence in the ICT policy environment

By Kate Wild Johannesburg,

This paper, by Kate Wild, was commissioned by the APC as part of the Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa (CATIA) initiative. It looks at the meaning and importance of convergence and considers some of the challenges to implementing it, along with strategies for overcoming them. It also provides a global perspective on regulating convergence and broadband from ITU and then looks at experiences in North America and Europe as well as regional and country approaches in Africa (PDF format).

http://rights.apc.org/documents/convergence_EN.pdf



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