Abstract
Abstract
The World Summit on the Information Society has highlighted a range of questions about issues and process that characterize communication governance at the start of the 21st century. Without having resolved them, it indicates a new paradigm for global governance generally, in which information and communication issues are central, and in which new actors, particularly global civil society, will have to be involved.
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