Compromise Quote by David Souter

“Kofi Annan described World Summit on the Information Society as the first summit to deal primarily with an opportunity. The range of issues and potential opportunities that might be included in the Information Society is enormous. Compromise texts are very poor at addressing these in any meaningful way, and many governments see little point in trying.”

David Souter

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The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World Summit on…

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The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and…

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Summits [World Summit on the Information Society] are meant to help governments reach a global consensus on major issues which has proved elusive in…

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It does seem to me, though, that the countries that gained most from World Summit on the Information Society are those that saw it…

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It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.

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