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- The Official Summit
Source: Choike
Although during the opening ceremony statements were made in which concepts widely vindicated by civil society were included such as giving priority to human rights in all their expressions, it was clear from the official standpoint that at the centre of the Summit are issues related to information and communication technologies linked to the development of Internet.
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- Governments adopt Declaration and Plan of Action
On Friday 12 governments formally and unanimously adopted the WSIS Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action in their final plenary, after hearing a final set of interventions from multi-stakeholder parallel events, and receiving the Civil Society Declaration.
- Human Rights Caucus assesses WSIS outcome
Source: Human Rights Caucus
The civil society Human Rights Caucus of the World Summit on the Information Society is relieved that a major setback in the international consensus on human rights has been avoided in the final declaration of Principles.
- Speech for Intergovernmental Plenary by the CRIS Campaign
According to this article, in some respects civil society has been the main beneficiary of this event.It is the first time that CSOs have come together in such diversity and is such numbers from all over, to work together on information and communication issues.
- Communication at War, Communication for peace: a session at the World Forum on Communication Rights
Source: APCNews
The first victim of war is the truth, so goes the old proverb. At a conference yesterday in the World Forum on Communication Rights, a parallel forum to the official World Summit on the Information Society, speakers from the United States, Colombia, and a Kenyan technologist working in Rwanda took up the theme of how war situations deny communities the right to communicate and how citizens can and are responding to break the silence.
- World Forum Communication Rights
Programme: Who owns information and knowledge? Who controls the production process? Who rules the circulation of knowledge, and in whose interests? Who is able to use it, and for what ends? Thursday 11th December 2003.
- Threat for the privacy of the participants on WSIS
An international group of independent researchers attending the Word Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has revealed important technical and legal flaws, relating to data protection and privacy, in the security system used to control access to the UN Summit. The system not only fails to guarantee the promised high levels of security but also introduces the very real possibility of constant surveillance of the representatives of the civil society.
- Acces for all
Community media demand real “access for all”. The “access for all” slogan rings hollow for community and alternative media groups at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Together with other civil society organisations, gathering in Geneva, they will reject the official Declaration and Action Plan to be negotiated at the United Nations sponsored summit.
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IPS news agency, with the support of HIVOS, is offering coverage of the WSIS from a multi-cultural, multi-lingual team of reporters in Geneva, with a news focus on the South and on civil society perspectives.
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- Lack of data major barrier to understanding 'digital divide'
Source: SUNS
Kanaga Raja
A lack of timely and comparable data on access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) is a major barrier to understanding the depth and causes of the digital divide or a gap in ICT access within and between richer and poorer countries, according to a report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
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