Bread for All (BFA) is a Swiss Protestant organization involved in raising money for overseas development and missionary work. They have a series of publications dealing with global development. This January 2005 publication responds to the report on the Task Force on Financing Mechanisms (TFFM) for the Digital Solidarity Fund which was set up at the end of the first WSIS conference in Geneva. The person usually associated with this fund is President Wade of Senegal, and it drew very little support from wealthy nations or the few companies present at WSIS. The task force was charged with looking at existing methods--mainly market-based--of financing the action plan of WSIS. Their report came out in December 2004.
The publication clearly supports alternative methods of raising money (global taxes on domain name registration and public resources such as spectrum) and on more decentralized ways of building and managing infrastructure: community networks and coops, for example.
The essays include:
Financing Paradigms in the WSIS Process
Telecommunications Regulation
From the Omnipotent State to the Market Model
Official Development Aid: Illusions about Existing Resources and
Opportunities Provided by Global Taxation
Multilateral Funds. World Digital Solidarity Fund: Between Great Ambitions and Niche Strategies
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