Bart Staes
Foreword: Towards a New Democratic Lingua Franca
Jan Servaes & Nico Carpentier: Introduction
Steps to Achieve a Sustainable Information Society 5
Bart Cammaerts & Nico Carpentier
1: The Unbearable Lightness of Full Participation in a Global Context: WSIS and Civil Society Participation
Claudia Padovani & Arjuna Tuzzi
2: Communication Governance and the Role of Civil Society. Reflections on Participation and the Changing Scope of Political Action
Divina Frau Meigs
3: Civil Society’s Involvement in the WSIS Process. Drafting the Alteragenda
Ned Rossiter
4: WSIS and Organised Networks as New Civil Society Movements
Stefano Martelli
5: How Civil Society Can Help Civil Society
Miyase Christensen
6: What Price the Information Society? A Candidate Country Perspective within the Context of the EU’s Information Society Policies
Michel Bauwens
7: Peer-to-peer: From Technology to Politics
Paul Verschueren
8: From Virtual to Everyday Life
Claudio Feijóo González, José Luis Gómez Barroso, Ana González Laguía, Sergio Ramos Villaverde, David Rojo Alonso
9: Shifting from Equity to Efficiency Rationales: Global Benefits Resulting from a Digital Solidarity Fund
Barbara Thomass
10: PSB as an Instrument of Implementing WSIS Aims
Afterword
Peter Johnston
Towards a Knowledge Society and Sustainable Development. Deconstructing the WSIS in the European Policy Context
ECCR
Recommendations on the Subject of Research and Education in the Area of the Information Society
Notes on Contributors