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"Cybercrime" and human rights
In assessing cyber crime legislation, policy makers and gender and development advocates must carefully consider the implications for privacy and information security. As ICT blur the lines between personal and public, the nature of the internet and cyber crime - including how they affect human rights and social justice - must be questioned.
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Intellectual Property Rights
A new global standard for intellectual property rights enforcement called the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (ACTA) is being promoted by the United States, the European Community, Switzerland and Japan at the G8 summit. The treaty poses threats to consumers' privacy and civil liberties, innovation, free flow of information on the Internet and developing countries' ability to choose their own policies.
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E-strategies
According 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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