We recognize that during this period, the igf must show progress on outcomes, working modalities, and participation of relevant stakeholders from developing countries. The tunis commitment was a consensus statement of the world summit on the information society, adopted on november 18, 2005 in tunis, tunisia. Tunis agenda for the information society blogs, comments and archive news on. The summit aimed to reduce the digital divide by increasing awareness of the benefits of the information society, with a view to providing mechanisms to help developing countries move towards the information society. The report begins by providing an overview of the history of internet governance, ranging from the 1969 birth of arpanet up to the present day. The tunis agenda for the information society belongs in the realm of the few, but very important documents, that promote human reason, human rights and international law. Aug 22, 20 in other words, the tunis agenda seeks to exclude business and civil society from a direct role in the formulation of transnational internet public policy. The first phase, held in geneva 1012 december 2003, resulted in the geneva declaration of principles and the geneva plan of action.
Information society, digital divide, and egovernance in developing countries. Human rights in the information society danube tech. We extend the igf mandate for another 10 years with its current mandate as set out in paragraphs 72 to 77 of the tunis agenda for the information society. Tunis, tunis agenda for the information society, wsis05tunis. International cooperation in building the global information. The tunis phase, held 1618 november 2005, produced the tunis commitment and the tunis agenda for the information society. Wsis outcome documents 2005 cybersecurity capacity portal. Tunis agenda for the information society latest breaking news, pictures, videos, and special reports from the economic times. The tunis commitment and the tunis agenda both explicitly refer to the udhr and provide statements about the concrete application of human rights to the information. Tunis agenda for the information society wikipedia. In 2016, tunisia adopted one of the worlds strongest laws regarding access to information. Pdf on jan 1, 2005, anita gurumurthy and others published tracking the development agenda at wsis find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. It called for the creation of the internet governance forum and a novel, lightweight, multistakeholder governance structure for the internet. Tunis agenda for the information society wsis digital watch.
This situation has a negative impact on issues related to national igf themes such as data protection, privacy, online freedoms, censorship, surveillance, e. The new order plan was textually formulated by tunisias information minister. But the outcome itself is a qualified success at best. We reaffirm the commitments made in geneva and build on them in tunis by focusing on financial mechanisms for bridging the digital divide, on internet governance and related issues, as well as on implementation and followup of the geneva and tunis decisions. Download limit exceeded you have exceeded your daily download allowance. Itu ilibrary tunis agenda for the information society. The process of preparing and holding the world summit on the information society wsis and its final acts adopted by consensus declaration of principles and action plan adopted at the geneva wsis stage in december 2003, as well as the tunis commitment and the tunis agenda for the information society adopted at the tunis wsis stage on november. Roles of ict in the information society springerlink. World summit on information society wsis the centre for. We are now five months into the postwsis implementation phase. May 30, 2014 new world information order or the new international information order mass media concerns began with the meeting of non aligned nations in algiers, 1973. It asserts a classical, preinternet view of policy making that reserves it exclusively to sovereign.
On this basis, the working group agreed to make the following recommendations with regard to specific areas, namely the shaping of the outcomes of igf meetings, the working modalities of the igf, including open consultations, the multistakeholder. While the group failed to come up with a formal definition, it did produce a working definition that was included in the final report of the wsis, the tunis agenda for the information society. Developing key performance indicators for stps in the mena region 2526 may, 2015 elgazala technopark, tunis, tunisia. World summit on the information society geneva 2003. We recognize that it is now time to move from principles to action, considering the work already being done in implementing the geneva plan of action and identifying those areas where progress has been made, is being made, or has not taken place. The tunis agenda is one of the two final documents adopted at the conclusion of the second phase of wsis. At the moment, the government does not put the internet governance agenda at the centre of its policy discussions. Tunisia and the world summit on information society. Two key documents emerged from the first phase, the geneva declaration of principles. External pressure, coupled with growing interest from civil society and legislators, helped keep transparency reforms on the cabinet office agenda despite frequent changes in top leadership.
We recognize that it is now time to move from principles to action, considering the work already being done in implementing the geneva plan of action and identifying those areas where progress has been made, is being made, or has not taken place 2. We call upon the international community to promote the transfer of technology on mutuallyagreed terms, including icts, to adopt policies and programmes with a view to assisting developing. Implementing world summit on the information society outcomes. The world summit on the information society held in geneva from 10 to 12 december 2003 brought together over 11,000 delegates representing 176 countries. We reaffirm the principles enunciated in the geneva phase of the wsis, in december 2003, that the internet has evolved into a global facility available to the public and its governance should constitute a core issue of the information society agenda. Tunis agenda for the information society wsis digital. Time to retire the tunis agenda internet governance project. President of the prepcom of the tunis phase world summit on the information society 15 november 2005. An overview of followup karen banks, willie currie and anriette esterhuysen1 the world summit on the information society wsis process culminated in the tunis summit in november 2005. The threeday summit was the first multistakeholder global effort to develop a shared vision of an information society that empowers and benefits all people. The tunis agenda for the information society was a consensus statement of the world summit on the information society, adopted on november 18, 2005 in tunis, tunisia.
The conclusion of the high level meeting with an agreed outcome document means the negotiations were completed successfully. Reviewing the impact of wsis and looking beyond 2015. Thus, the tunis agenda reflects a very backwardlooking approach to policy development. Respect mandates given by tunis agenda and respect for the multistakeholder principles. The tunis phase, held 1618 november 2005, produced the tunis commitment and tunis agenda for the information society. The tunis summit resulted in the agreement on the tunis commitment, tunis agenda for the information society and the birth of the internet governance forum. Taking into account the multifaceted nature of building the information society, effective cooperation among governments, private sector, civil society and the united nations and other international organizations, according to their different roles and responsibilities and leveraging on. Human rights concepts may be identified within the document as a social achievement of progression toward a common good. The tunis agenda and tunis commitment were the consensus statements at the tunis phase of wsis whereas the internet governance forum was created as a multistakeholder platform for policy. This summit represents a milestone, not only for the united nations and the international telecommunication union, which played the leading managerial role in the summit, but for all stakeholders involved. On the occasion of the first phase of the world summit on the information society wsis, several independent tunisian human rights ngos requested the international centre for human rights and democratic development ichrdd rights and democracy, the international federation for human rights fidh and the world organisation against torture omct, with the support of the human. Tunis agenda for the information society 2 wsis05 tunis doc6 rev. Following a united nations general assembly resolution adopted in december 2001 resolution 56183, a world summit on the information society wsis was launched, with the aim to contribute to the development of a unitary global vision on an inclusive and developmentoriented information society.
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