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WSIS: a human rights assesment
"The challenge we are facing in developing the information society is not only to reaffirm existing international human rights treaties, but to use information and communication technology to enhance effective implementation of human rights standards at the national level." stated the Human Rights Caucus. March 2005.
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ICTs: funding, development and democracy
Funding for information and communication technologies - ICTs- and development, and democracy issues in global Internet governance, are the two central themes that the UN will be addressing in phase two of the World Summit on the Information Society, to take place in Tunisia next November 16-18. Beyond the technical aspects, both issues, that were debated during the second Preparatory Committee (Prepcom), in Geneva on February 17-25, have wide political and social implications, that several actors in the process have been trying to bring into the debate.
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PrepCom-2 in the balance: civil society perspective
The WSIS process has demonstrated innovative approaches in the participation of civil society as a key stakeholder, but there is still a need for systemic reform to embed civil society participation in international organizations concerned with the Information Society such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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