The Legacy of WSIS

AudioBerkman brings you inside the World Summit on the Information Society – the enormous UN-sponsored convention held in December 2003.  WSIS brought together a staggering number of international diplomats, scholars, activists, and government officials for discussions about the future of information and communications technologies (ICTs).  How do you make sense of a milestone this big?  The scholarly journal, Information Technologies and International Development, asked exactly this question in January by issuing a call for papers for an issue devoted to making sense of WSIS.  AudioBerkman follows Colin Maclay, a Berkman Center fellow and contributor to the journal, as he and ITID editors sift submissions and try to evaluate the legacy of WSIS.  Stream the piece (9 min) or visit the AudioBerkman WSIS page.