http://www.choike.org a portal on Southern civil societies http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/703.html 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. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/2313.html 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. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1109.html April Howard and Benjamin Dangl investigate the Paraguayan city Ciudad del Este, known in the American press as a "Jungle Hub for World's Outlaws", and a "hotbed""teeming with Islamic extremists and their sympathizers". Despite a lack of evidence, Washington and the media are asserting links to terrorism in the Tri-Border Area to advance their agenda in a region that is increasingly shifting to the left. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1215.html According to the latest annual report by Reporters Without Borders, more and more journalists are being killed and last year's figure was the highest since 1994. Harsh punishment was also meted out by some regimes, with several journalists sentenced to death or facing the possibility. Two journalists died in prison for lack of medical treatment and others were given heavy prison sentences without being able to defend themselves. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/3292.html The internet is often described as the last frontier for free speech and expression, an anarchic and chaotic space for irrepressible political, sexual and personal expression. However, the last decade has seen an increase in the confidence of States to govern the internet, and simultaneously the crackdown on spaces on the internet. What are the processes by which people will participate in deciding how the internet will be governed? How participatory are these processes and do they give adequate representation to all voices? and in the context of content regulation specifically, who decides what is "harmful content" – the State, international bodies, the law or people/end-users? http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/3195.html eLAC2007 is the 2005-2007 Regional Plan of Action on the Information Society for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It is an agenda regionally arranged around the importance of the Technologies of Information and Communication (TIC) for the social and economic development of the region. The plan includes 30 thematic areas and 70 short-term activities. It is designed to foster long-range implementation of the Plan of Action of the World Summit on the Information Society (2003-2005), which was formulated in the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).