Summits [World Summit on the Information Society] are meant to help governments reach a global consensus on major issues which has proved elusive in ….

The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, W….

It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process..

Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less good at deali….

Kofi Annan described World Summit on the Information Society as the first summit to deal primarily with an opportunity. The range of issues and poten….

It does seem to me, though, that the countries that gained most from World Summit on the Information Society are those that saw it as an opportunity ….

The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing c….

I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year process, not a three ….

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it..

The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be aff….