opinions

02.12.2005 This session provided an opportunity to have a dialogue around
how the youth paragraph in the WSIS Phase 1 Declaration
translates into action.

14.11.2005 Next week's World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis is about more than domain names, argues technology commentator Bill Thompson.

13.10.2005 As the controversy over the different positions held by two erstwhile, the US and the EU on the administration of the Internet continues,the controversy surrounding the governance of the Internet has been a long-standing one, and it does not appear a if there is any immediate solution to resolving the problem.

13.09.2005 Karen Banks, The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has recently issued a statement for stakeholders to sign a petetion protesting deterioration of human rights in Tunisia, with the Summit just 2 months away. The statement calls on all governments to "fully recognize the sovereignty of the situation and to bring pressure to bear on the Tunisian authorities to respect their international obligations".

30.08.2005 As there is no definitive structure of implementing the information society Plan of Action (PoA) in place, IT for Change has started advocating for creating an implementing mechanism in PrepCom III.

03.08.2005 If Ethiopia is to develop, it must make room for the independent voices of the press and media, argues crusading Ethiopian journalist Amare Aregawi.

03.08.2005 Inventions of the mind – ideas – are very special. All culture and society is built upon innumerable layers of accumulated past knowledge and ideas. In the arts, medicine, education, agriculture, and industry – in almost all areas of human endeavour – knowledge and ideas lie at the base of the flowering of human life and its passions.

03.08.2005 Is the term ‘The Information Society’ (or the related ‘Knowledge Society’) useful for civil society? Does it adequately describe the changes in global social structures and processes that are currently taking place? Is there really a new form of society emerging? And if so, a society for whom, and how can it be harnessed to enhance human rights and fulfil pressing human needs?