It’s pretty vague and unformed so far, but here’s the Big Idea I came away with from the World Summit on the Information Society.
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Maria from Geneva
Later on today, the magnificent Gus Hosein, will be logging in to CT and giving us his impressions of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
Gus is a key figure in a global community of privacy activists – the people who say “huh? you mean what?!” to the proliferation of government initiatives that “seek to balance” the “dynamic equilibrium” between privacy and security in this post 9/11 world.
I know Gus from my time at LSE. Henry knows Gus from a book project in internet governance being organised by Ernest Wilson. I know Ernest Wilson from a conference organised by the 21st Century Trust. Eszter knows Gus too. How, we don’t know yet. Did somebody say something about networks?
Anyway, welcome to Gus. He’ll be blogging here over the next day or so with his thoughts on the WSIS.
First off, excuse the strange author name – an essential for a blogger whwo can’t be trusted to remember her own login while on the road.
As CT tries hard to keep its faithful readers up to date on all the news that’s new and improved, I am blogging from the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva. I’m here for work, so in the interests of keeping my job, I won’t be blogging about the really juicy political bits. But at an event like this, there’s so much going on that at least I can give a flavour of what it’s like.
apologies in advance – this is on the hoof!