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WSIS Civil Society Statement DRAFT V3.1
last change: TIME \30/11/2005 18:52 CET
I. Introduction – Our perspective after the WSIS process
The WSIS was an opportunity for a wide range of actors to work together to develop principles and prioritise actions that would lead to democratic, inclusive, participatory and development-oriented information societies; societies in which the ability to access, share and communicate information and knowledge is treated as a public good and takes place in a ways that strengthens the rich cultural diversity of our world.

Welcome to Witness 2 Wsis 2, a panCanadian civil society site.
The Witness to Wsis 2 (W2W2) team endorsed the Citizens Summit on November 11, 2005:
See < http://www.citizens-summit.org >
Human rights solidarity action by international civil society organisations:
In the light of events that occurred in Tunis just prior to the Summit, numerous international civil society organisations cancelled their side events at the WSIS on November 15 2005. This action was not planned in advance and was a direct response to the abnormal circumstances in which the Tunis Summit took place.

Deutsche Welle
Germany | 29.11.2005
Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia.de Has Copyright Issues
Wikipedia.de is warning users that some entries have been corrupted
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1796407,00.html?maca=en-bulletin-433-html
The German version of free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has hit a glitch. Hundreds of entries are thought to have been lifted from East German reference books, reducing their value to users.

Geneva, November 22, 2005
WIPO MEMBER STATES CONSIDER HOW TO FACILITATE ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=9289
Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) examined on Monday, the impact of the copyright system on the use of protected works for educational purposes in both the analog and digital environments, particularly in developing countries. The meeting took place at the beginning of deliberations by the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) which is being held in Geneva from November 21 to 23, 2005.

Microsoft, the "Vienna Conclusions," and the UN World Summit
[ english translation of
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/66530 -- now online at
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/66619 ]
The Vienna Conclusions drawn up for the UN's World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) were presented in an edited version in
Tunis: Digital Rights Management was inserted where "free software"

November 23, 2005
An Assessment of the WSIS-2/Tunis ‘05 Outcomes
Hans Klein, INternet and Public Policy Project
http://www.ip3.gatech.edu/
The outcomes of the Tunis World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) are significant -- and rather surprising. ICANN emerges from the summit both unchanged and significantly different. After WSIS it has a stronger claim to legitimacy.

ICANN emerged unchanged, in that its institutional structures – most notably its mechanisms for political oversight – were not amended. ICANN continues to operate under the formal authority of a single government, the US. Such a unilateral globalization model is a novel arrangement, quite unlike what is used in other global sectors (e.g. telephony or communication satellites.) The US continues to exercise a kind of unipolar authority it does not have in physical space.

ICANN still rules the Internet roost
John McCormick, TechRepublic
November 23, 2005
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020457,39237486,00.htm
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a last-minute reprieve at the World Summit on the Information Society, when the Bush administration agreed to the creation of a new UN-based discussion group. Meanwhile, SonyBMG continues to try to weather the fallout from its surreptitious copy-restriction rootkit, as conditions grow more stormy with the emergence of a Trojan horse that uses that rootkit to take over PCs.