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The World Summit on the Information Society
The international community is organizing a World Summit on the Information Society. It will take place in two phases: in Geneva, December 2003, to be followed up in Tunis two years later.
UNESCO - Communication and Information Sector
Communication and Information in the Knowledge Society: an International Gateway provided by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
 
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GL is committed with media, governance and gender justice. Working with partners at local, national, regional and international level to promote gender equality in and through the media and effective campaigns for ending gender violence, HIV and AIDS.
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.
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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Selected news
Human Rights - Tue Sep 23 2008
Rich countries negotiate secret treaty on intellectual property enforcement
Rich countries are coordinating actions to approve the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a secret intellectual property enforcement treaty being negotiated behind closed doors with serious implications for civil liberties and privacy rights.
Source: EFF

Information and Communication Technologies - Wed Aug 27 2008
Communication experts endorse alternative media
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.
Source: Haayo-MediaTic

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Intellectual Property Rights 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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