Is the author optimistic about the prospects for WSIS:Tunis

Optimistic

Federico Carlos Baradello, US-Based Latino Youth: The Engine of Empowerment for Latin-American Youth?

William P. Benac Jr., Improving WSIS Success by Increasing Business Participation

Nicolas Cauchy, Short Editorial on WSIS

Stephanie Dupuy, Cultural Diversity at WSIS

Effat El-Shooky, WSIS: Tunis 2005 and Beyond

Tim Fewkes, Promotion of Real Understanding About the Internet Is not a Minor Achievement

Divina Frau-Meigs, On Research, the Role of NGOs, and the WSIS Process

Sarah Granger, Merchandising American-style: A WSIS Opportunity Missed

Nancy J. Hafkin, Gender Issues at the World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva

Ibrahim A. Ibrahim, WSIS: Reflections

Lachman Khubchandani, Globalization and Local Content: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Exploring a New Communication Order

Sarah McCue, Towards Tunis: Suggested Next Steps

Daniel Menchik, Educational Equality Through Technology? The World Summit on the Information Society and Schooling in Development.

Tiroyamodimo Mogotlhwane, Personal Observation

V.K. Samaranayake, A Central Role for Universities in the Information Society

Daniel R. Schaubacher, EBBF and the ICT Roadmap at the UN World Summit on the Information Society, Dec.10-12, Geneva

Amali De Silva-Mitchell, Reflections on WSIS - An opinion piece submitted for the special edition of the ITID Forum

Hamadoun I. Touré, WSIS - A Global Development Challenge

Paula Uimonen, Action Speaks Louder than Words-Some Reflections on the ICT4D Platform

Pessimistic

Kenneth Neil Cukier, The World vs. The Web: The UN’s Politicization of the Information Society Report on the World Summit on the Information Society; Geneva, December 2003

Stephen Hicks, Time to Discuss Core Values of the Information Society?

Sharon Hom, The Map is not the Landscape: Reflections on WSIS 2003

Rikke Frank Joergensen, A Human Rights Assessment of the World Summit on the Information Society

Alain Kiyindou, The Millions Without a Voice in the Worldwide Information Society

Meryem Marzouki, A Human Rights Assessment of the World Summit on the Information Society

Phillip Schmidt, New Model, Old Barriers: Remaining Challenges to African Civil Society Participation

Audrey Selian, The World vs. The Web: The UN’s Politicization of the Information Society Report on the World Summit on the Information Society; Geneva, December 2003

Richard Stallman, At WSIS, in a climate of suppression of dissent, the score is 0-0

Amy Tai, The Map is not the Landscape: Reflections on WSIS 2003