WSIS Blog

18.11.2005 Now that water has been poured over the 'burning issue' of who controls the internet - with yesterday's agreement to set up a new Internet Governance Forum, the focus in Tunis has switched to tackling poverty.

17.11.2005 His Majesty King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal has said that Nepal needs to focus on how the global information revolution could be made a development enabler in the real sense by contributing significantly to reducing poverty and promoting all round development in the world.

16.11.2005 "This Summit must be a summit of solutions", said Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations in his speech today at the Opening Plenary Session.

16.11.2005 The resumed PC III which started on 13 November 2005, at 12.00 hours, in Kram Palexpo, continued for a three-day session till yesterday. It ended in the night at 11. The meeting was reconvened to take decisions on Plenary meeting.

15.11.2005 M S Swaminathan, the chief architect of the world’s largest telecentre upsacling programme, spoke at length here in the ITU’s Connect the World Launch Pad. As expected, ITU’s Connect the World Launch Pad becomes the centre stage of attention as world information society leaders representating the governments, private sectors and civil society organisations are going to forge innovative partnerships to bring the ICTs to the underprivileged sections of the society.