special coverage: information society & WSIS

21.11.2005 "Some inventions are ahead of their time. Others are perfectly of their time. Still others seem so obvious and natural that once people hear about them, they wonder why it took so long for them to come into being. It is a rare invention indeed that manages to be all those things at once," remarked Kofi Annan while lauding MIT's One Laptop Per Child initative at WSIS.

18.11.2005 Digital Opportunity Channel familiarisation and community engagement programme was hosted at the BCO Souk in the WSIS II, Tunis reports Atanu Garai from Tunis.

18.11.2005 Latha Gauri, a video reporter from Kothlapur village, Andhra Pradesh India, was the second grassroots knowledge worker to take the voices and concerns of the grassroots communities across the world, to the international policy platform at WSIS II at Tunis on November 17, 2005.

17.11.2005 The UN secretary general, Kofi Annan has called on the world to do more to narrow the technology gap between rich and poor.

16.11.2005 A programme was organised at WSIS on 15th November 2006 at Hamamet hall from 5 to 6 p.m. amplyfying the needs of the grassroots communities at the policy level.

16.11.2005 UNESCO will host a series of events to promote the use of information and communication technology to build inclusive and empowering “knowledge societies” during the World Summit on the Information Society.