Social Science Research Council

The Information Technology and International Cooperation program held a policy workshop on Global Governance of Electronic Networks in Budapest, Hungary on November 15–16, 2002. The workshop was organized by Drs. William J. Drake and Ernest J. Wilson of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland with the generous support of the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute. The workshop was the second in a series of meetings bringing together policy practitioners and scholars to examine the complex relationships among the information revolution, scholarship and policy practice. The objective of the series is to generate policy-relevant knowledge informed by sustained dialogue between practitioners and social scientists. Discussion topics included multilateral and regional policymaking, private sector self-governance, developing country and civil society participation, and reform with respect to information technology governance. The workshop was attended by 35 participants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and North America.