special coverage: information society & WSIS

03.06.2003 In contrast to the media attention that UN conferences on water, racism and sustainable development receive in the US, the mention of the two-part World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) receives blank stares and confused looks.

03.06.2003 Two Colombian NGOs, Colnodo and Transparencia por Colombia (Transparency for Colombia), are working with municipal governments of four cities to produce Websites that will help fight corruption and increase the public's access to government information.

02.06.2003 APC and the APC Women's Programme (WNSP) have criticised the draft documents prepared for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) for, among other things, their reluctance to explicitly confront the fact that fundamental political, social and economic inequalities shape today's world. "There are critical issues [that] are not addressed sufficiently, if at all," they say.