Introduction
"The Ministerial Round of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is normally the highest decision making body of the WTO. Since its formation in 1995, it has already met twice.(in Singapore in 1996, Geneva, 1998). Many global social activists in the South argue that these rounds are often used by powerful Northern industrialised countries to impose a new agenda and highly technical policy issues of which many developing world nations don't have the capacity to respond. Some of the really major issues up for discussion in this Milleneum round were issues on : Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's), Sanitary and phytosanitary .Agreements (Food Health) , Electronic Commerce and Government Procurements. This time however, it was not to be 'business as usual', as a global co-alition of organised global activists from the North and South descended on downtown Seattle. A showdown was looming."

Labour and Environmental groups
Hence it is not surprising that labour and environment groups developed co-alitions at WTO in Seattle in an effort to senstiitse the world. The agenda of this round and its effects will have major implications for developing world, but for labour unions and the environment the implications were graver

Universal Access as barrier to participation
"For developing world activists to fully participate in 'Global Online activism' such as Seattle's WTO and prevent a situation whereby only fellow 'connected' activists in the North articulate and effect these campaigns, 'Universal Access' to these technologies becomes a pre-requisite."

AISI
"The African Information Society Intiative (AISI) is an official programme of the United Nation's Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and was endorsed by the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) in 1995. It has been consistently and generously supported by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC)."