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The international community is organizing a World Summit on the Information Society. It will take place in two phases: in Geneva, December 2003, to be followed up in Tunis two years later. Like all major UN events, there will be a Preparatory Process. This event in July 2002, is the first of three meetings.
The goals of Prepcom 1 are:
Election of President of preparatory process;
Selection of themes to be discussed at the Summit;
Adoption of rules of procedure for the participation of civil society and other partners.
The Information Society is at the heart of the political, social, cultural and economic questions confronting us in the beginning of the 21st century. The focus of the Information Society Summit is not technology but the human being - we must keep in mind that it is not enough to be connected to resolve the fundamental problems that exist in the world.
What values do we embrace to ensure that the Information Society becomes a vehicle for democracy, justice, equality, the respect for individuals and peoples, their personal and social development? What is the role of communication in shaping the future of the society we want to build?
Information travels at an increasingly faster rate. How does it affect people of different cultures and stages of development? How do we respect each other |
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International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
Over the last 135 years, the Union's mandate has expanded to cover the invention of voice telephony, the development of radiocommunications, the launch of the first communications satellites, and, most recently, the technological convergence that heralds the dawn of a new,...
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