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A Guideline for NGOs for active participation in the WSIS 2005 in Tunis

01/17/2005
4 January 2005. The diploma thesis available here studies the impact of civil society on the World Summit on the Information Society. Based on an analysis of the Youth Caucus’ work it describes which practical steps are necessary to feed NGO interests into global summit processes.

The thesis is divided into three parts: The first part critically describes the state of scientific research on themes like information society, civil society and information and communication technologies (ICTs) and strategies. Besides recent theoretical models of the information society, it analyzes the research on civil society, which then is put into a larger framework focusing on national and international ICT strategies. A special focus is placed on the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

The thesis’ second part is a case study on the international youth organization TakingITGlobal. TakingITGlobal acted as the representative of the youth in the WSIS process, which with very successful lobbying managed to get a special “youth” paragraph into the official summit declaration.

In the third part, the thesis describes a roadmap for successful participation in UN summits. Developed solely for non-governmental organizations, it describes and explains the important steps for making your interests heard in a global forum.

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