{"id":13,"date":"2005-11-16T09:13:48","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T09:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2005-11-16T09:13:48","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T09:13:48","slug":"wsis_raises_awa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2005\/wsis_raises_awa\/","title":{"rendered":"WSIS raises awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WSIS has started and it&#8217;s everywhere. Most major news related web sites have stories about some aspect of the digital divide issue and ICTs for development. Imagine if it were always this way&#8230;<br \/>\nLuckily, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4441544.stm\">Internet Governance issue was resolved (for now)<\/a> before the summit started. The US retains its control. Whew! Don&#8217;t want to lose that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4435352.stm\">stability<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/internet\/11\/16\/internet.summit.ap\/index.html\">innovation<\/a>! I fail to see the logic in these arguments, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/POLLSERVER\/results\/21408.exclude.html\">as do others apparently<\/a>. Nevertheless, I&#8217;m glad they got it out of the way because I do think that there are more pressing issues that need to be addressed and this could have overshadowed the whole summit.<br \/>\nI assume the press coverage will continue over the next few days and I&#8217;ll be following it closely. After that&#8230; Back to obscurity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WSIS has started and it&#8217;s everywhere. Most major news related web sites have stories about some aspect of the digital divide issue and ICTs for development. Imagine if it were always this way&#8230; Luckily, the Internet Governance issue was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2005\/wsis_raises_awa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22Btc-d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}