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Contributor [1]
Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 02:00
Categories: 
Internet & technology [2]
Issue Number: 
136 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Political wrangling is threatening to derail the first United Nations summit aimed at bridging the digital divide. The aim of the World Summit on the Information Society is to come up with a global plan to ensure everyone has access to information and communications technologies. Groups representing some of the world's poorest people fear that the talks will result in a bland declaration with no real political or funding commitments.

Category: 
ICT, Media & Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/internet/18946 [5]

Source URL: https://www.pambazuka.org/node/19873

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