Civil society 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…

— David Souter

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…

— David Souter

I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year process, not…

— David Souter

The benefits of globalisation and economic growth are being unevenly distributed and people are acutely aware of their own relative disadvantage.

— Wes Streeting

When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic…

— Malcolm Gladwell

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be…

— Narendra Modi

The impact of digital and technology without a shared success mindset can be very detrimental to communities around the world.

— Julie Sweet

The internet has huge advantages but its downside is the easy access to resources.

— Horace Panter

Absent the net, we certainly couldn't have organized in 190 countries around the world. It's no substitution for face to face interaction - that's…

— Bill McKibben

If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.

— Vladimir Putin

Ensuring that the benefits of globalisation are shared widely remains a challenge.

— Sushma Swaraj

There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really…

— Rashida Jones