Day one of the African school on internet governance  Author's
name:   Thirty-five people from all over Africa are gathered in
Durban for three days to study internet governance and why they
need to be involved in it. Sometimes interrupted by the sound of
loud hadedah ibises, students participated actively in
discussions that covered basic aspects of internet governance
without shunning the complexities at stake (such as why wording
choices in international agreements might have long lasting
consequences intergovernmental agreement).  One of the first
sessions focused on the Tunis Agenda for the Information
Society, one of the most influential outcomes of the UN-
sponsored World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS). Some
of the school faculty were present in Tunis in 2005 when
governments reached this agreement by consensus, literally
behind the door. But despite civil society representatives not
being allowed in the room when governments were drafting and
negotiating the final document, it was during WSI