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"The big relief is that the debate around the information society no longer needs to be tied to the WSIS process," said communications expert David Souter at Panos London's final briefing in Tunis. Very true, writes Murali Shanmugavelan in this article on the Panos iWitness web page. The information society is broader than the agenda of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) could ever have hoped to cover. And the resulting non-binding Tunis Declaration has produced little in concrete terms for developing countries.