Communication/Information and Communication Technologies
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E-strategies
Accordint to the Graz University of Technology research, Google as search engine is dominating and that on its own is dangerous, "but could possibly be accepted as 'there is no real wayout', although this is not true, either. However, in conjunction with the fact that Google is operating many other services, and probably silently cooperating with still further players, this is unacceptable".
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The right to communicate
Gangs and corrupt officials in Latin America. Tyrants in the Middle East and Asia. Wars in Africa. Death threats and court cases in Europe and Central Asia. These are the most serious threats to free expression, says the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) in its half-year press freedom review. The report is a grim picture of the attacks, imprisonment and violence faced by journalists in many countries.
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World Summit on the Information Society - WSIS
The Beyond Tunis publication series was launched by Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) to highlight efforts to advance the use and application of Knowledge and ICT for Development after the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis in 2005. Its first two editions, popularly known as 'Flightplan 1.0' and 'Flightplan 1.5', collated inputs from more than 40 authors - practitioners and thinkers from across the globe. The latest issue, Beyond Tunis 2.0: Horizon, was published as a companion to the GKP-organized Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3), held in Kuala Lumpur in December 2007.
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ICTD within the framework of the MDGs
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) Information economy report 2007-2008 analyses the contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) to growth and development. It argues that the remarkable rise in the use of mobile phones could act as a "digital bridge" that would help many countries reduce the connectivity gap. In Africa, a continent where the increase in the number of subscribers and in the market penetration rate for mobile telephony has been the biggest, this technology can improve the populations's economy as a whole.
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Telecentres
The Telecentre Online Database is a result of the United Nations Development Account project entitled 'Knowledge networks through ICT access points for disadvantaged communities', which is being implemented jointly by the five United Nations Regional Commissions. The project aims to empower the poor and disadvantaged communities, women in particular, through transforming selected existing ICT access points into knowledge hubs of global knowledge network to provide, develop, organize, share and disseminate knowledge pertinent to these communities.
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Access to knowledge
In 2007 the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted a set of 45 ground-breaking proposals on how WIPO should reorient its operations to foster economic and social development within its 182 Member States. The Development Agenda proposals are intended to require WIPO to take a broader approach to promoting creativity and innovation, instead of focusing exclusively on maximizing intellectual property rights. Several ngos have submitted proposals to WIPO in the framework of a series of meetings on intellectual property rights.
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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.
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Media
/Information and Communication Technologies
- Wed Jun 04 2008
China's all-seeing eye
Naomi Klein explores China's booming surveillance and security industry, its appeal to Chinese authorities and its significance to the growing culture of surveillance around the world.
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Rolling Stone
Education
/Information and Communication Technologies
- Fri May 02 2008
Copyright and education in Africa: Launch of the ACA2K network
As the global community marks World Intellectual Property Day 2008 (26 April), an eight-country African research network is being launched with a mandate to investigate the relationship between copyright and education in African countries.
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APC
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