Throughout the course of the World Summit on the Information Society, it was fairly common to have a dozen or more major side events going on at the same time, not even counting the activities occurring over at the ICT for Development Platform. Here's just a sampling of them.

	Delegates crowd around the WSIS cybercafe.		Adama Sassekou of Mali addresses attendees on the first day of the UNESCO Forum.
	Adama Sassekou with the Director of UNESCO.		The president of Latvia, right.
	President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria speaking at the UNESCO forum.		For some reason the conference organizers placed a huge display of anthuriums and birds of paradise in front of the panelists.
	Obasanjo continues his talk, with moderator Stephen Cole of the BBC off to the right.		John Gage of Sun Microsystems responds to President Obasanjo.
	Gage and Obasanjo talking, with Stephen Cole quietly caught in the middle.		Lawrence Lessig of Stanford talking about -- you guessed it -- copyright.
	Today's copyright laws are wildly out of tune for the times, Lessig explains.		The opening ceremony of the World Electronic Media Forum, with Riz Khan of CNN and his French co-host.
	WEMF had snazzy multimedia backdrops throughout the event.		Kofi Annan addressing WEMF delegates.
	Annan's pretty grainy since I was so far back in the audience...		...as you can see from this picture.
	Civil Society representatives announce the release of the Civil Society Declaration.		The presidents of Botswana and Senegal, with the prime minister of Swaziland, announcing the proclamation of World Digital Solidarity Day for Dec. 12, 2004.
	The head of the ITU, along with President Couchepin of Switzerland and Nitin Desai of the UN, at the summit's closing press conference.

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