Publication

2005

This book summarizes the main issues discussed at the World Summit on the Information Society held in Geneva in 2003. It addresses the challenges in overcoming the digital and knowledge divide as well as enabling access to information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly in developing countries. The authors also examine the potential of ICTs in shaping the global society, addressing issues such as internet governance, regulation, and political participation. (Note: To access individual chapter pdfs, please click on the links below)

Download	English (PDF, 372 pages, 1.0 MB) english (PDF, The Millennium Development Goals, WSIS and the United Nations, 7 pages, 99 KB) English (PDF, WSIS and UNESCO, 5 pages, 84.6 KB) English (PDF, The Social Dimension of Technological Development, 4 pages, 80.2 KB) English (PDF, The World Summit on the Information Society and the World Intellectual Property Organization, 3 pages, 75.8 KB) English (PDF, WSIS and the WTO: Trade in the Information Age, 3 pages, 73.8 KB) English (PDF, Towards an Inclusive and Development-Rich Information Society, 8 pages, 117 KB) English (PDF, WSIS and the United Nations ICT Task Force, 3 pages, 79.2 KB) English (PDF, Global Diplomacy and Information Society, 6 pages, 104 KB) English (PDF, Serving Citizens: e-Government for Everybody, 2 pages, 82.3 KB) English (PDF, Strengthening Cooperation, Promoting Development and Moving Towards the Information Society, 3 pages, 85.7 KB) English (PDF, Building Dynamic Partnerships among Stakeholders, 6 pages, 115 KB) English (PDF, Searching for Consensus, 7 pages, 88.2 KB) English (PDF, Last Minute Diplomacy: The WSIS in Geneva 2003, 8 pages, 110 KB) English (PDF, A Tribute to Those Who Made It Happen, 9 pages, 116 KB) English (PDF, Politics and Diplomacy: Business Experience with WSIS from Geneva to Tunis, 2 pages, 71.9 KB) English (PDF, Information and Communication Technology for Development, 4 pages, 95 KB) English (PDF, Multi-Stakeholderism and Civil Society, 5 pages, 92 KB) English (PDF, Civil Society in the WSIS – A Rite of Passage, 6 pages, 106 KB) English (PDF, A New Diplomacy for the 21st Century?, 4 pages, 85.4 KB) English (PDF, The Forgotten History of Global Communication Negotiations at the League of Nations, 6 pages, 83.8 KB) English (PDF, WSIS: Can the International Community Learn from History?, 6 pages, 106 KB) English (PDF, Globalization and Information Society, 4 pages, 83.9) English (PDF, Collective Learning in the World Summit on the Information Society, 12 pages, 123 KB) English (PDF, WSIS and Multi-Stakeholderism, 9 pages, 113 KB) English (PDF, The WSIS Wars: An Analysis of the Politicization of the Internet, 7 pages, 107 KB) English (PDF, Human Capacity-Building: The ICT for Development Platform at WSIS 2003, 6 pages, 115 KB) English (PDF, The Financing Question at WSIS and the Task Force on Financing Mechanisms for ICTD, 4 pages, 104 KB) English (PDF, Private Sector and Multi-Stakeholderism in the WSIS Process, 3 pages, 90.7 KB) English (PDF, Innovative Financial Mechanisms, Digital Solidarity and the “Geneva Principle”, 5 pages, 87.5 KB) English (PDF, WSIS: Challenges and Policy Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean, 4 pages, 96.2 KB) English (PDF, Cities and Regional Governments in the WSIS: From the Lyon Summit 2003 to Bilbao 2005, 4 pages, 100 KB) English (PDF, Volunteers: An Essential Building Block for a Society of Shared Knowledge, 7 pages, 117 KB) English (PDF, Media Freedoms and Article 19, 4 pages, 85.7 KB) English (PDF, WSIS, Media and the Right to Freedom of Expression, 7 pages, 111 KB) English (PDF, Media Pluralism and Cultural Diversity, 6 pages, 112 KB) English (PDF, Community Media and the Communication Divide, 7 pages, 108 KB) English (PDF, Security and Privacy in Cyberspace, 5 pages, 104 KB) English (PDF, The Software Challenge, 5 pages, 92.6 KB) English (PDF, Teaching the Information Society, 4 pages, 79.6 KB) English (PDF, Agree to Disagree: The Birth of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), 4 pages, 80.5) English (PDF, ICANN and “Internet Governance”, 7 pages, 85.6 KB) English (PDF, Co-Regulation for Internet Governance?, 5 pages, 86.9 KB) English (PDF, Internet Governance: Legitimacy, Efficiency and Digital Divide, 3 pages, 72.4 KB) English (PDF, Evolving Internet Governance – A Key Requirement for Bridging the Digital Divide, 6 pages, 102 KB) English (PDF, Multilingualism and IDNs in the Internet Age, 4 pages, 95 KB) English (PDF, WSIS: The First Summit of the Internet Age?, 8 pages, 114 KB) English (PDF, Why Internet Governance Should Be Everyone’s Concern, 3 pages, 73.4 KB) English (PDF, Road to WSIS II, 4 pages, 89.5 KB) English (PDF, For an Information Society Accessible to All, 2 pages, 69.9 KB)
Author	Editors - Daniel Stauffacher and Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Authors - Kofi Annan, Yoshio Utsumi, Daniel Stauffacher, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Shashi Tharoor, Abdul Waheed Khan, Juan Somavia, Kamil Idris, Supachai Panitchpakdi, Radhika Lal, Sarbuland Khan, David A Gross, Erkki Liikanen, Wang Xudong, Adama Samassékou, Asko Numminen, Marc Furrer, Maria Livanos Cattaui, Rainer Händel, Renate Bloem, Karen Banks, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Cees J Hamelink, Marc Raboy, William J Drake, Claudia Padovani, Kenneth Neil Cukier, Walter Fust, Shoji Nishimoto, Ayesha Hassan, Alain Clerc, Carlos M Jarque, Louise Lassonde, Viola Krebs, Ronald Koven, Alain Modoux, Robin Mansell, Steve Buckley, Rikke Frank Joergensen, Georg Greve, Divina Frau-Meigs, Heike Jensen, Markus Kummer, Vinton G Cerf, Marc Holitscher, Philipp Grabensee, Abdullah Al Darrab, Qiheng Hu
Series	ICT4Peace Publications
Publisher	United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force ICT4Peace
Copyright	© 2005 United Nations ICT Task Force