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INDEX 207
General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs
(GATT), 25, 35, 65--6, 104, 164
and Uruguay Rounds, 34, 72, 104
Geneva WSIS, 138, 145, 151--5, 162; see
also WSIS
Germany, 134
Ghana, 30, 67, 81, 134
Global Business Dialogue, 125--6
global governance, 7, 24, 26, 29, 34, 40,
54, 71, 73, 79, 87--8, 146
civil society participation in, 151
institutions of, 38--9, 87, 151, 159
neo-liberal mandate for, 148
Global Information Infrastructure,
114--15, 120
Global Information Society (GIS),
123--4, 152, 165
and WTO, 132
see also Information Society
globalization, 8, 10, 21, 40
pressures of, 24
protest against, 87
glocalization, 55--6
Gore, Al, 12, 115, 121
Graham, Stephen, 15--16, 26--7, 37, 52,
56, 62--3, 120
Gramsci, Antonio, 11, 85, 147
Greece, 102, 134
Gupta, Akhil, 32
Gurumurthy, Anita, 53, 158, 162, 163
Habermas, Jürgen, 40
Hamelink, Cees, 18, 59, 63--4, 139,
150--2
Held, David, 7, 40
Hewlett Packard, 154--5
Hollywood, 85, 89, 99, 103--4
Hong Kong, 68
human rights, 21, 32, 41--2, 147, 153--4,
160, 164, 177
at WSIS, 139, 153, 155
Privacy and Human Rights Report,
7--8
violations of, 154, 156
see also CRIS
IBM, 119, 120
Immigration, policies of, 43; see also
xenophobia
immigrant labour, 36, 39, 175, 177
communities of, 165
rights of, 147
Incommunicado Project, 156
India, 69, 70, 73, 77, 78, 128, 130, 164
and civil society organizations, 76
and development communication, 29
National Telecommunications Policy,
75
telecom liberalization in, 75--6
Telecommunications Regulatory
Authority of India, 76
India–Brazil–South Africa (IBSA)
trilateral initiative, 173
Indonesia, 30, 33
Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs), 19, 37, 122,
129, 137, 160--1, 175
access to, 130, 154, 170
and development, 128, 158
and education, 120
and state, 127
commercial potential of, 130
creation of markets for, 139
importance of, 127
perceived neutrality of, 54
positive effects of, 122
Information Society, 12--14, 20, 22, 113,
115--17, 122, 127, 132, 145, 174
and EU, 115, 121, 123, 176
and gender, 118, 130, 161
and myths, 13
and policies, 115--16
and private sector, 139
and role of state, 126
and US, 120--1, 176
citizen participation in, 169
decentralized nature of, 118
designing of, 138
digital education, 169
future of, 140, 147
impact of, 130
inequities of, 41
info-ethics, 169
living and working in, 113, 122, 130
vision of, 114--21, 140
intellectual property rights, 7, 15, 41, 74,
126, 152, 165
and open-source, 75, 149, 173
and Trade Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights
(TRIPs), 35, 149, 164
see also WIPO; WSIS
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 25,
27, 33--7, 65, 135, 146
and developing economies, 17
International Telecommunications Union
(ITU), 26, 34, 55, 59, 64--6, 69, 81,
136, 138, 146
African Green Paper, 135
and Gender Taskforce, 159