World information society report 2007 : beyond WSIS ITU/UNCTAD [electronic resource] /

English

2nd ed.

Geneva : International Telecommunication Union, 2007

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The second edition of the World Information Society Report: Beyond WSIS, published by ITU and UNCTAD, looks beyond WSIS to the creation of an inclusive, people-centred and development-oriented Information Society, open to all. The opening chapter looks at the challenges of measuring the ICT sector while chapter two examines progress in bridging the digital divide. Chapter three focuses on emerging trends in the information society worldwide and chapter four looks at national ICT strategies. Chapter five considers the threats to cybersecurity, while chapter six provides an update on WSIS implementation and presents a number of ICT success stories across the world. The report is accompanied by a series of tables providing the latest statistics on the development of ICTs worldwide.

This is an 3rd online version , published in June 2007. It does not include Data tables 4-12, which are available in the priced version of the report.

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