The WSIS (What Strange Is Strange ?), What is this ? Genesis, The firt UN meeting where Civil Society is really involved. Civil Society Structure Working Groups themes : Civil Society Working Group on Patents & Copyrights Civil Society Working Group on Scientific Information) What is Open Access ? Relationship between Open Access and Free Software. Expectations and what we could get : Declaration of Principles Plan of Action The Opposition ( not that important, except from the US delegation ) Many states and not only emergent ones will be happy to receive reports and advices Serious obstacles within the Civil Society adoption of Free Software for internal use, is relatively infrequent. unwilligness to recognize software issues as a main topic of the WSIS : anti-"technologist" bias A Half-Success for Free Sofware. ( Free Sofware & Open Source recognized as two distinct paradigms ) After Geneva, the Tunis phase The World Tour of the Information Society, the WTIS ? Multistakeholders partnerships : Partnerships for a New World