NGOs and the “Information Society”: Grassroots Advocacy at the UN—A Cautionary Tale.
This article looks at the United Nations-brokered World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in light of nongovernmental organization participation as a full partner in consultations and decisions. Combining participation-observation fieldwork, interviews, and eye-witness accounts with a selecti...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 309 - 331 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
July 2007
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