Mois : juin 2005

World summit on the information society

Prior to the Geneva 2003 Summit, the Center for International Legal Studies (CILS) organized a team of 23 lawyers from Asia, Europe, and the United States to prepare briefs on legal issues facing the information society. These reports are now
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CIVICUS – World Alliance for Citizen Participation

CIVICUS – the World Alliance for Citizen Participation, is an international alliance of over 1000 members from 105 countries that has worked for over a decade to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens’ freedom of association are threatened. CIVICUS has a vision of a global community of active, engaged citizens committed to the creation of a more just and equitable world. This is premised on the belief that the health of societies exists in direct proportion to the degree of balance between the state, the private sector and civil society. CIVICUS provides a focal point for knowledge-sharing, common interest representation, global institution-building and engagement among these disparate sectors. It acts as an advocate for citizen participation as an essential component of governance and democracy worldwide. CIVICUS seeks to amplify the voices and opinions of ordinary people and it gives expression to the enormous creative energy of the burgeoning sector of civil society.

Ensuring not just more – but better – development aid, by Finn Heinrich

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