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Word Summit on the Information Society

21. Nov. 2005

The Centre for Social Innovation was participating civil society entity at the “World Summit on the Information Society” (16.-18. November 2005) which closed after intense discussions and presentations in 308 parallel events and several plenary sessions.
The event attracted around 19.000 participants from more than 800 entities including UN agencies, private sector companies and civil society organizations. The Summit was convened in Tunis to discuss the “digital divide” and the potential of information and communication technologies to drive development.
Elke Dall represented the ZSI during the event and supported the presentation of the "European Centre for Media Literacy" www.ecml-eu.org at the exhibition stand of Finland (as the University of Tampere is a project partner in ecml).

Further information on the event can be found at: http://www.itu.int/wsis/