Was the World Summit in the Information Society important for social movements?
The summit process has been very important for movements and organisations working on communications issues in creating the connection that help to create movements. The CRIS campaign is the obvious example: it was built around the summit but looking beyond the summit and has a focus beyond the summit. World conferences since the 90s have been an opportunity for civil society organisations, especially on new issues, to meet at the global level, and those opportunities do not always come up in other contexts. Those interconnections often move on to other spaces and to other struggles and issues that make it possible to move the agenda forward. Those same interconnections are fundamental to making sure there is real follow-up from governments for the commitments they make. Q: And what about the WSIS Tunisian phase? A: In the WSIS second phase it has been harder. Those interconnections happened more in the first phase on the general level. The 2nd phase has been more of a focus on specifi
