A plan of action that emerged includes the development of standards with regulators in the region and a country-by-country audit of compliance with the documents. C2.Right to Communicate Campaign One debate in the context of the WSIS centers around the right to communicate. It is widely agreed that Article 19 of the Universal Charter on Human Rights grants every human this right, but that article was penned in 1948, before the advent of the information age that gives new practical meaning to communications. While it is acknowledged that the WSIS is an opportunity to expand on Article 19 and bring it to life in the present, it is also agreed that many nations and regions have failed to adequately implement Article 19 and that it must be re-asserted as fundamental to human and global societal development. At MISA level a billboard and poster campaign aimed at developing awareness that citizens have a right to communicate has been implemented in Swaziland, Mozambique and Zimbabwe and the public response in all these countries have been encouraging. More Chapters are poised to take up this campaign. Campaign for Broadcast Diversity MISA took an increased role in global advocacy. The environment that MISA is advocating in is increasingly impacted upon by globalisation and a transition to an information society. Africa has the opportunity to leapfrog into the information age using ICT’s in all their forms – which include the traditional media such as broadcasting and new technology such as wireless networks that overcome the costs of physical infrastructure - as tools in the acceleration of appropriate development. MISA’s international advocacy is aimed at voicing the disadvantages for Africa that are a result of patterns of globalisation where already developed economics leave little room for new entrants to global markets. World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) International advocacy work has primarily taken place in the process and context of the WSIS that will culminate in global meetings in Geneva in December 2003 and Tunis 2005. MISA played an integral role in two key WSIS civil society caucus’s (Africa and Media Caucus) and the co-ordination of an intervention by partners Article 19, SACOD, AMARC and Association for Progressive Communicators . This intervention – the ‘Speaking for Ourselves’ project has a number of aspects including building a platform for people outside the information society to have a say and the development of African policy positions and capacity to advocate for these. A publication, ‘Our Side of the Divide’ was produced for the second preparatory WSIS meeting in February 2003 and is 22