Jan Servaes & Nico Carpentier 
Towards a Sustainable Information Society 
Deconstructing WSIS

1 Bart Staes:

   Foreword: Towards a New Democratic Lingua Franca 

5 Jan Servaes and Nico Carpentier:

   Introduction:

   Steps to Achieve a Sustainable Information Society

17 Bart Cammaerts & Nico Carpentier:

     1: The Unbearable Lightness of Full Participation in a Global Context: WSIS and Civil Society 

         Participation

51 Claudia Padovani & Arjuna Tuzzi:

     2: Communication Governance and the Role of Civil Society. Reflections on Participation and the 

         Changing Scope of Political Action 

81 Divina Frau Meigs:

     3: Civil Society’s Involvement in the WSIS Process. Drafting the Alter-agenda

97 Ned Rossiter:

     4: WSIS and Organized Networks as New Civil Society Movements 

117 Stefano Martelli:

       5: How Civil Society Can Help Civil Society 

129 Miyase Christensen:

       6: What Price the Information Society? A Candidate Country Perspective within the Context of

            the EU’s Information Society Policies

151 Michel Bauwens:

       7: Peer-to-Peer: From Technology to Politics 

169 Paul Verschueren:

       8: From Virtual to Everyday Life

185 Claudio Antonio Feijóo González,  José Luis Gómez Barroso,  Ana Laguía González, Sergio Ramos Villaverde, David Rojo Alonso: 

       9: Shifting from Equity to Efficiency Rationales: Global Benefits Resulting from a Digital

           Solidarity Fund

195 Barbara Thomass:

       10: PSB as an Instrument of Implementing WSIS Aims

203 Afterword

       Peter Johnston

       Towards a Knowledge Society and Sustainable Development.

       Deconstructing the WSIS in the European Policy Context

207 ECCR:

       Recommendations on the Subject of Research and Education in the Area of the Information 

       Society

211 Notes on Contributors