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Article

7 Dec 2003

Author:
Claude Robinson, Jamaica Observer

World Information Summit faces huge challenges to bridge digital divide

One of the main concerns of the critics is that the agenda that has emerged is concerned mainly with telecommunication and Internet related issues, viewed from a technical perspective and a narrowly construed development agenda. Broader communication and media issues, an essential feature of any information society, and human and communication rights that must animate its core, have been largely sidelined.