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Communicating in the Information Society research associate in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford. He has written and edited 15 books and more than 100 journal articles or book chapters, as well as research reports for national and international, public- and private-sector organizations including UNESCO, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), the European Broadcasting Union, the Government of Canada and the Quebec Ministry for Culture and Communication. His current research focuses on issues and sites of communication policy making in the context of globalization. Silvio Waisbord is a senior programme officer at the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, DC. He was associate professor at Rutgers University between 1995 and 2003. He has written and coedited several books and articles on media policy in Latin America, development communication, media globalization and journalism. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at San Diego. vi
Foreword The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) has been supporting research on the interaction between societies and informational developments since it held the Information Technologies and Social Development Conference in Geneva in 1998. This has resulted in a range of publications on many aspects of information-related change. However eclectic their subject or origin, a number of common themes have emerged. One is recognition of the multiple interplays between societies, and the adoption, appropriation and development of informational technologies: interplays that refute any simplistic notion of technological determinism. Another, conesquently, is the necessity for critical thinking, debate and the transparent and accountable making of choices if appropriate informational strategies are to be adopted in any society. It therefore seemed fitting, on the occasion of the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)—which is also the first UN-sponsored world summit to specifically seek the formal participation of civil society—for UNRISD to emphasize the importance of societal perspectives on information society debates. It invited Bruce Girard and Seán Ó Siochrú of Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS), a civil society organization active in the WSIS process, to select and edit a collection of essays on what they saw as core issues. I am very pleased to present the result, along with an introduction from the editors, which makes clear both the rationale for the selection of individual contributions and the questions they, as a collection, pose for the ongoing debate. And the debate is ongoing. WSIS 2003 in Geneva will lead to WSIS 2005 in Tunis, and who knows what beyond. In the meantime, individual nations and agencies will be developing their information-related strategies and making large investments accordingly. If few now argue that information and communication technologies (ICTs) alone will solve their problems, not many articulate a clear vision of what ICTs can contribute to internal social and economic development, as distinct from their role in enabling globalization. Three decades ago, in the 1970s, UNRISD research brought to light the social and developmental inadequacies of an earlier revolution that was led by technology: the Green Revolution. This time I would hope that the ongoing debate will be enriched by sufficient disinterested research on informational developments within societies so as to avoid such disappointing discoveries in the future. I would like to thank the government of the Netherlands for its particular interest in and support for UNRISD’s work on the social vii
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