WSIS and Latin America

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This paper examines how Latin America has experienced the infusion of Western mass media and telecommunications. It looks at how the WSIS, World Summit on the Information Society, has recently concluded the first half of the conference on mass media and telecommunications and how the goal of the conference is to formulate a vision of the information society amongst all stakeholders and then to devise a workable plan by consensus. It argues that substantial roadblocks exist to realising the WSIS action plan and how objective #23 is essential to the development of an information society based on the dialogue among cultures and regional and international cooperation.

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"The power of the WTO grew as corporations lobbied to expand their markets and to have the freedom to gain further access to markets where there were lower costs for labor and materials (Siochru, Girard, and Mahan 68). The WTO in 1996 formulated regulating principles, which expanded foreign investments into every aspect of telecommunications. The rules were clearly established, and there could be no transgressions from what countries outlined as their implementation plan without possible consequences. For the less developed countries, the promised, positive outcome was expansion of networks and access due to increased investments and the negative effect was that multinational companies focused on profit, which neglected the developmental needs. (Siochru, Girard, and Mahan 58). The less industrialised countries met the regulating terms, though, because of fear of what non-compliance might entail for their country."

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