Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Deconstructing WSIS

This book aims to evaluate the potentialities of both the Information Society, and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), in supporting and constructing more democratic, just and developed societies. It explores the ideal of a sustainable information society, drawing from ideas put forward by the WSIS. It is the second book to emerge from field-work by the European Consortium for Communications Research members.

Contents include:

• The Unbearable Lightness of Full Participation in a Global Context: WSIS and Civil Society Participation
• Communication Governance and the Role of Civil Society. Reflections on Participation and the Changing Scope of Political Action
• Civil Society's Involvement in the WSIS Process. Drafting the Alter-agenda
• WSIS and Organised Networks as New Civil Society Movements
• How Civil Society Can Help Civil Society
• What Price Has the Information Society? A Candidate Country Perspective within the Context of the European Union's Information Society Policies
• Peer-to-peer: from Technology to Politics
• From Virtual to Everyday Life
• Shifting from Equity to Efficiency Rationales: Global Benefits Resulting from a Digital Solidarity Fund
• Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) as an Instrument of Implementing WSIS Aims