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Greening Internet Governance
22.11.2006
Among hundreds of other issues, environment protection made its way to the discussion in the first Internet Governance Forum. The event was called by UN’s Secretary General in November to guide the development of Internet, following upon the World Summit on the Information Society (2003 – 2005).
EDRI: IGF-UN innovation or just another conference?
15.11.2006
Looking at the IGF meeting from the perspective of European Digital Rights, the interesting point is to which extent the IGF may advance the protection and promotion of human rights such as privacy, freedom of expression, access to information etc. in the digital world.
WSIS: Whose information society? Developing country and civil society voices in the World Summit on the Information
27.10.2006
Discussion paper by David Souter
Whose “information society”?
14.04.2004
Was WSIS worth it? The general verdict on the recent United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in December 2003 was a thumbs-down. The Summit outcomes were limited after an arduous and expensive process. However, argues Anriette Esterhuysen, APC's executive director, from the perspective of many civil society organisations that participated actively, the WSIS has created a new opportunity for solidarity across ideological, sectoral and geographical divides.
