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Welcome! To this discussion forum, which focusses on issues surrounding the emerging information society, and the process of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

The current topic of discussion is: Issue of Access: What are the socio-political, economic and technical dimensions to it?

'There is a whole extra set of problems raised by endemic and epidemic graft, corruption and other criminal behaviour by elites that may be unmasked by wider access to the technology of information and communication,’ says Earl Mardle of Australia.

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Summaries of recent discussions:
Theme 1: Knowledge Societies.
Theme 2: Freedom, rights, laws, ethics.

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Theme 3: Issue of Access and Barriers		08/16/2005
e-Governance through e-Administration		06/24/2004
How the Rest Can Catch Up With the West		12/03/2003
A Just Information Society: Cognitive Justice and the WSIS		12/01/2003
Summary of discussions on the topic: Freedom, rights, laws and ethics		08/19/2003