Human choice and ICT policy: Introduction to the HCC8 Conference proceedings -- Human choice and ICT policy: Introduction to the HCC8 Conference proceedings -- Communication, information, and ICT policy: Enabling research frameworks -- The shaping of national and international ICT policies and their effects -- The argumentative structure of spatial data infrastructure initiatives in America and Africa -- ICT policy as a governance domain: The case of Greece and the European Commission -- National variations of the information society: Evidence from the Greek case -- Technology, globalisation, and governance: Research perspectives and prospects -- Globalisation and national security issues for the state: Implications for national ICT policies -- Next generation ICT policy in South Africa: Towards a human development-based ICT policy -- Challenges of ICT policy for rural communities: A case study from South Africa -- Harnessing the empowering capacity and ICT -- Digital divides and the role of policy and regulation: a qualitative study -- Empowerment through ICT: A critical discourse analysis of the Egyptian ICT policy -- Egyptian women artisans: ICTs are not the entry to modern markets -- Institutional strategies towards improving health information systems (HIS) in Sub-Saharan Africa -- A human environmentalist approach to diffusion in ICT policies -- ICT and socio-economic development: A university's engagement in a rural community in Yola, Nigeria -- Lessons from a dropped ICT curriculum design project: A retrospective view -- The shaping of the institutions of the information society -- 15 years of ways of Internet governance: Towards a new agenda for action -- Governmental policies for ICT diffusion and leadership legitimacy in grassroots movements -- Examining trust in mobile banking transactions: The case of M-PESA in Kenya -- Social networks within filtered ICT networks: A case study of the growth of internet usage within Iran -- A no-IPR model as solution to reuse and understanding of information systems -- Measuring information societies: A critical study of the Infostate framework -- Open access barriers: An action research -- Panels -- Free and Open Source Software in low-income countries: Emergent properties? -- Evaluating "Connecting for Health": Policy implications of a UK mega-programme -- Gender research in Africa into ICTs for empowerment (GRACE).