Democracy Forum 2001
Document Archive

International IDEA's Democracy Forum 2001:
Democracy and the Information Revolution

Below you will find selected documents prepared for and outcomes of Democracy Forum 2001. Documents may also be accessed via their relevant topic areas on the site.

Documents from the Forum (click for detailed list)

• Initial Policy Recommendations (Acrobat format)

• Policy Questionnaire
  

• Forum Film (RealMedia - fast connection | RealMedia - slow connection | Quicktime)
  

• Opening Ceremony

• Plenary speeches and PowerPoint presentations
  

• Workshop Notes, Speeches and Presentations

• Background paper

• Complete Participant List (HTML | Acrobat format)

Documents from the Media Round Table (click for detailed list)

• Media round table report Are the New Media Good for Democracy?

• Notes, speeches and presentations

Forum News Reports

• Feature Articles

  • DEVELOPMENT: Information technology for whom? (English | French | Spanish)

  • DEVELOPMENT: Nurturing information technology as a tool for democracy (English | French | Spanish)
    

• Forum News and Views

  • Day One
  • Day Two
    
  • Day Three
    

Press Material

• Press release

• Press backgrounder

Documents from the Preparatory Policy Seminar in Helsinki, April 2001

• Discussion Paper

• Comments Building from the Discussion Paper (Acrobat format | Word format)
  

• Participants List

• Agenda

Documents from the Forum - Detailed listing

• Policy Recommendations

  • Initial Policy Recommendations (Acrobat format)

  • Presentation of Policy Recommendations (video - RealMedia | Quicktime)

  • Presentation of Policy Recommendations - Q & A Session (video - RealMedia)
    

• Forum film (RealMedia - fast connection | RealMedia - slow connection | Quicktime)
  
  

• Opening ceremony - Wednesday, June 27

  • International IDEA Secretary-General Bengt Säve-Söderbergh (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime)

  • Lord Mayor of Stockholm Axel Wennerholm (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime | Stockholm website)

  • International IDEA Board Chair Thorvald Stoltenberg (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime)

  • Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden Lena Hjelm-Wallén (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime | Swedish government website)

  • UNDP Chef de Cabinet Anne Birgitte Albrectson (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime | UNDP website)

  • President of Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime | Grameen bank website)

  • President of Finland Tarja Halonen (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime | website)

  • Choir performance (video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime)

• Plenary speeches and PowerPoint presentations

  • Plenary 1 - Thursday, June 28, 9:00

    • General Co-ordinator of the Information
      Society Programme, Brazil, Eduardo Tadao
      Takahashi (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime | website)

    • World Bank Vice President, Mats Karlsson (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime | World Bank website)

    • Chair of ASP Industry Consortium and Vice
      President of Citrix Corporation, Traver
      Gruen-Kennedy (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime | ASP website | All about ASP)

    • Harvard University Professor Pippa Norris (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime | Powerpoint presentation | website)

  • Plenary 2 - Thursday, June 28, 11:00

    • Eastern and Southern African
      Universities Research Programme (ESAURP)
      Executive Director, Ted Luta Maliyamkono (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime)

    • European Parliament Spokeswoman, Lone
      Dybkjaer (text | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime | website)

    • The United Nations University, World Institute
      for Development Economics Research
      (UNU/WIDER), Matti Pohjola (text | video - RealMedia | Powerpoint presentation | video - Quicktime | website)

  • Plenary 3 - Friday, June 29, 11:45

    • EU-Commissioner, Erkki Liikanen (text | Powerpoint presentation | video - RealMedia | video - Quicktime | EU website)

    • International IDEA Secretary General, Bengt
      Säve-Söderbergh (text | video - RealMedia )
      

• Workshop notes, speeches and presentations

  • CoVision report on Workshop 3 discussions (Word format | Acrobat format)

• Background paper

• Complete participant list (HTML | Acrobat format)

Documents from the Media Round Table (click for detailed list)

• Advance text of the media round table report Are the New Media Good for Democracy? here

• Notes, speeches and presentations

  • Peter Ferdinand, Director, Centre for Studies in Democratisation, Warwick University: background paper to the Media Round Table (HTML | Acrobat format)
    

  • Nerun Yakub Assistant Editor, Bangladesh Observer (HTML | Acrobat format)
    

  • Danny Schechter, Executive Editor, Mediachannel.org: keynote presentation (HTML | Acrobat format)
    

  • James Ledbetter, Editor-in-Chief, Industry Standard Europe (HTML | Acrobat format)
    

  • David Manasian, Editor, Global Agenda, The Economist (HTML | Acrobat format)
    

  • Sam Mbure - Programme Director, Network for the Defence of Independent Media in Africa (NDIMA) (HTML | Acrobat format)
    

• Media Round Table Film (video)

Jimm Lerch, Forum Co-ordinator
International IDEA, Strömsborg, 103 34 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone +46-8-698 37 41/00, Fax: +46-8-20 24 22
E-mail: j.lerch@idea.int
Website: http://archive.idea.int