"Status of Research on the Information Society"

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Edited by Kwame Boafo, UNESCO Publications for the World Summit on the Information Society, UNESCO, 2003.

The report is divided into five sections:

* "Information Communication Technologies ICTs) and Gender"

* "Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Media and Information Networks"

* "Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression in the Information Society: Selected Studies and Projects"

* "Information and Communication Technologies and Persons with Disabilities" and

* "Info-ethics and Universal Access to Information and Knowledge."

Each of these was chosen as a keyy issue which UNESCO believes it is necessary to address in order to build a information society which is just and universal.