The unbearable lightness of full participation in a global context: WSIS and civil society participation

Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Deconstructing WSIS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 17-49

  Cammaerts, Bart ^a   Carpentier, Nico ^b,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b Katholieke Universiteit Brussel   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

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