[Media Caucus] Tunis committment - sections that include media & Freedom of Expression

[Tracey Naughton]

Dear All

While there are numerous references in the Tunis Commitment, to the  
broader dimensions of media and information flow, here are the  
specific references to media and freedom of expression.

Full document available:

Tunis Commitment [Summit document: WSIS-05/TUNIS/DOC/7-E]
http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=2266|0

4. We reaffirm paragraphs 4, 5 and 55 of the Geneva Declaration of  
Principles. We recognise that the freedom of expression and the free  
flow of information, ideas, and knowledge, are essential for the  
information society and beneficial to development.

9. We reaffirm our resolution in the quest to ensure that everyone  
can benefit from the opportunities that ICTs can offer, by recalling  
that governments, as well as private sector, civil society and the  
United Nations and other international organisations, should work  
together to: improve access to information and communication  
infrastructure and technologies as well as to information and  
knowledge; build capacity; increase confidence and security in the  
use of ICTs; create an enabling environment at all levels; develop  
and widen ICT applications; foster and respect cultural diversity;  
recognise the role of the media; address the ethical dimensions of  
the Information Society; and encourage international and regional  
cooperation. We confirm that these are the key principles for  
building an inclusive Information Society, the elaboration of which  
is found in the Geneva Declaration of Principles.

regards and viva!

Tracey



Tracey Naughton
NYAKA
Communication for Development Consultant
201 Somerset Hall
239 Oxford Road
Illovo     2196
Johannesburg
South Africa

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