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In 2005, a group of scholars and activists, mostly from the global South, created the Copy/South Research Group to analyse, criticise, and confront the oppressive nature of current global copyright regimes, such as those defended by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and similar ones around the globe.
A network of over 150 civil society organizations in Nigeria comprising of civil rights, grassroots, and community-based Non-Governmental Organizations campaigning for the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill and eventual implementation when it becomes law in Nigeria.
Fatema Mernissi web-site about new information technology's (IT) impact, focused on local research on the strategic information-fueled rise of civil society in the Moslem world. Morocco.
International NGO dedicated to the dissemination of New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) in developing countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean.
International Internet Community for Environment, Human Rights, Development and Peace. APC is a major CSO worldwide network in advocating for and facilitating the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) by civil society.
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Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
WOUGNET is a non-governmental organisation initiated in May 2000 by several women's organisations in Uganda to develop the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively.
Worldview International Foundation - WIF
Development organization with hands-on experience and knowledge to cover the gamut of communication and media activities for development.
Yam Pukri
The objective of the association is to popularize the new technologies to young people. Burkina Faso.
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APC perspective on the future of the Internet Governance Forum
Thu Nov 19 2009 - Source: GenderIT
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is of the view that the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has fulfilled its core mandate in terms of paragraph 72 of the Tunis Agenda on the Information Society to constitute a space for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue on internet governance.
WSIS Forum 2009, 18-22 May, Geneva, Switzerland
Fri May 08 2009 - Source: WSIS
The Forum will offer participants a series of highest level panels addressing critical issues to the WSIS implementation and follow-up in multi-stakeholder set-ups.
Communication experts endorse alternative media
Wed Aug 27 2008 - Source: Haayo-MediaTic
About 120 communication experts, meeting in Accra, have endorsed a blend of modern information and communication technologies with traditional and other alternative media forms to disseminate information for development in the globalised world.

 
Access to knowledge - Tue Jun 30 2009
  Piracy and the digital revolution

Fuente: Transnational Institute

Internet governance E-strategies Telecentres ICTD within the framework of the MDGs
Rural access to ICTs Universal Access Funds The challenge of developing ICTs in Africa "Cybercrime" and human rights
WTO trade agreements and ICTs Access to knowledge UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity The right to communicate
Software: Patents and copyrights Media diversity under threat World Summit on the Information Society - WSIS  

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