"We have tools that can
propel us toward the Millennium Development Goals,
instruments with which to advance the cause of freedom and
democracy,
vehicles with which to propagate knowledge and mutual
understanding.
We have all of this potential. The challenge before this Summit is
what to do with it". |
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Kofi Annan, United Nations
Secretary-general
Address to the World Summit on the Information Society during the
Opening Ceremony,
Geneva, 10 December 2003 |
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Foresight of the Internet
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In line with its mission, the Information Unit of the
Destree Institute also participates in the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS), whose innovating concept relies on the
participation of multi-stakeholders in sessions organized by the United
Nations (UN). With regard to Internet governance, the WSIS acts as a
catalyst for a process that should be achieved, at international level,
during the second phase which will take place in Tunis in November 2005,
on the basis of the Declaration of Principles and the Plan of Action
adopted in Geneva in December 2003.
Together with its partners, the Information
Unit of the Destree Institute is holding an international conference on
the "Foresight of the Internet", in the Castle of Namur (Wallonia), on
Friday, March 4th, 2005
(simultaneous interpretation in English and
in French will be provided). The common goal is to mobilize the
stakeholders (States, companies, civil society) and, by applying the
tools of foresight to Internet governance, to generate ideas. It is
important to propose innovative solutions for the governance of
tomorrow's Internet, in order to bridge the divides, to build an
inclusive information society based on the sharing of knowledge, in
respect of the principles of the Humans Rights and of the Charter of
Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

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Digital
networks as structuring tools for the Knowledge Regions
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The conference "Foresight of the Internet" is structured in
three key issues : 1 - Technologies for the information society; 2 -
Human resources towards the Knowledge-based Society; 3 - Transversal
issues of the Internet governance. The open expertise-sharing