The World Summit on the Information Society, as a political highly symbolic event, has developed around a number of catchwords, amongst which connectivity, development and digital divide. “Convergence” should be added as an underlying conceptual nexus: convergence in technology, in strands of debate but also in actors’ orientations and discourse as well as in policy-making practices. WSIS has offered a window of opportunity to collectively re-define the communication agenda for the 21st century: a process-aware agenda in which the idea of multi-stakeholder conduct of political processes emerged as a symbolic nexus, both in discourse and in praxis. I will briefly discuss what WSIS has shown in terms of the strengths and weaknesses of the multi-stakeholder approach, as a contribution to the development of participatory practices in ICT and communication policies in the future.
Wsis and multi-stakeholderism
PADOVANI, CLAUDIA
2005
Abstract
The World Summit on the Information Society, as a political highly symbolic event, has developed around a number of catchwords, amongst which connectivity, development and digital divide. “Convergence” should be added as an underlying conceptual nexus: convergence in technology, in strands of debate but also in actors’ orientations and discourse as well as in policy-making practices. WSIS has offered a window of opportunity to collectively re-define the communication agenda for the 21st century: a process-aware agenda in which the idea of multi-stakeholder conduct of political processes emerged as a symbolic nexus, both in discourse and in praxis. I will briefly discuss what WSIS has shown in terms of the strengths and weaknesses of the multi-stakeholder approach, as a contribution to the development of participatory practices in ICT and communication policies in the future.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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