Media
/Information and Communication Technologies
- Mon Apr 02 2007
ISW: A Southern lens on the information society
The Information Society Watch (ISW) is an online resource that tracks and analyses issues pertaining to the effect of ICTs on institutions and societies from the viewpoint of the South. ISW is an integral component of the Information Society for the South Project (ISSP), which interprets IS changes in light of development needs of the South and seeks to develop research and advocacy capacities in the South with regard to the IS discourse.
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Information and Communication Technologies
- Fri Mar 23 2007
Important policy issues at ICANN's meeting
One of the most hotly contested issues at ICANN's 28th International Public Meeting (26-30 March 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a draft proposal regarding the introduction of new generic top-level domains and its impact on free expression and national sovereignty.
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Information and Communication Technologies
- Thu Mar 08 2007
Governments could ban controversial Internet domain names
Unless reformed, a new policy proposed at ICANN will prevent the use of controversial words in new generic top-level domains (as .com or .org) if a single government objects to their use.
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Media
/Information and Communication Technologies
- Wed Mar 07 2007
Bloggers against torture
While the capacity of digital technologies to jump-start democracy has often been exaggerated, recent events in Egypt demonstrate blogs' enormous potential as an advocacy tool and, more broadly, as an alternative source of news.
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Information and Communication Technologies
- Wed Feb 28 2007
ICT plays key role in fostering development, Ban Ki-moon says
Information and communications technologies (ICT) are crucial in spurring “development, dignity and peace,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a video message at the opening of the Steering Committee’s meeting of the Global Alliance for Information and Communications Technologies and Development (GAID), taking place in February 2007 in Santa Clara, California.
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Human Rights
/Information and Communication Technologies
- Fri Feb 23 2007
Egypt: Blogger’s imprisonment sets chilling precedent
The Egyptian government for the first time sentenced a blogger to prison for his writings, threatening a window of free speech that has emerged on the Internet.
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Human Rights
/Information and Communication Technologies
- Wed Feb 07 2007
New UN Chief urged to call attention on censorship in Tunisia
In a letter to the UN Secretary-General the Tunisia Monitoring Group says that the state of free expression in Tunisia is as poor, if not poorer, in January 2007 than it was when the WSIS was held in November 2005.
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Information and Communication Technologies
- Wed Feb 07 2007
IGF Consultation Meeting
A stock-taking session open to all stakeholders will be held on 13 February 2007 at the Palais des Nations, United Nations Office in Geneva. The aim of the meeting is the preparation of the second IGF meeting in Rio de Janeiro.
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Information and Communication Technologies
- Wed Feb 07 2007
Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID). Strategy Council Meeting
The second meeting of the GAID council will take place on 27-28 February 2007 in Santa Clara (CA /USA).
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Media
/Information and Communication Technologies
- Thu Jan 18 2007
AMARC at the WSF
The World Association of the Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) will take an active part in the 7th edition of the WSF with the organisation of five workshops and a radiobraodcast that will be aired on the internet.
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