>Subject: Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP PT FR [November 1st 2005]
>Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:19:44 -0000
>From: "Myriam Horngren" <mh@wacc.org.uk>
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>NEWSROOM
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>Telesur Plans Live Programming
>Associated Press
>Venezuela's Telesur Plans Live Programming
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/998
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>Countries Question U.S. Control of Internet
>Online Wall Street Journal October 25, 2005
>By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS
>A growing number of countries, including China,
>Brazil, India and Cuba -- as well as the
>European Union -- are questioning U.S. control over the Internet.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/997
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>
>NEWSROOM/UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY
>
>La Diversidad Cultural tiene su Convención
>Sally Burch
>ALAI-AMLATINA 26/10/2005, Quito.- El pasado 20
>de octubre, la Conferencia General de la UNESCO
>adoptó, en forma casi unánime, la Convención
>para la Protección de la Diversidad de
>Contenidos Culturales y Expresiones Artísticas,
>luego de cerca de tres años de negociaciones. (...)
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/996
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>UNESCO - Convenção de Diversidade Cultural: Comunicado CRIS
>A campanha para Direitos de Comunicação na
>Sociedade da Informação a aprovação quase
>unânime na UNESCO da Convenção de Proteção e
>Promoção de Conteúdo Cultural e Expressão Artística. (...)
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/991
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>AND MORE ON UNESCO COVERAGE ON: www.mediatradmonitor.org and
>
>NEWSROOM/WSIS
>New 'i-Witness' Website Boosts Journalists'
>Ability to Report on Information Society
>Journalists looking for free, up-to-date
>resources, news and debate on the information
>society can get all this and more on a new website, i-Witness.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/999
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>Summitry and strategies: Karen Banks (APC) on WSIS...
>In November 2005, the United Nations World
>Summit on the Information Society will meet for
>the last time in Tunis. In its five year
>history, the WSIS has failed to succeed in
>redressing the North-South "digital divide".
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/994
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>DHAKA DECLARATION:Building an Information Society : Road 2 Tunis
>We, the ICT stakeholders representing
>Governments, Private Sector, Academicia and the
>Civil Society, having come from six continents
>of the world, assembled in Dhaka, Bangladesh
>from 23 to 25 October 2005 in an International
>Workshop entitled "Building an Information
>Society : Road 2 Tunis", organized under the
>auspices of the Ministry of Science and
>Information & Communication Technology,
>Government of Bangladesh in collaboration with
>UNDP Bangladesh and in association with World Summit Award (WSA), Austria.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/993
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>
>NEWSROOM/WSIS [TUNISIA AND COMMUNICATION RIGHTS]
>
>Hunger Strike in Tunisia
>FIDH - OMCT
>21st October 2005
>(...)
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/995
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>Kofi Annan' s response to Civil Society's concerns
>Kofi Annan sent on 27th October a letter to
>AMARC President and CRIS Campaign Executive
>Secretariat member a response to an earlier
>communication to the Secretary General on behalf
>of many groups and individuals concern about the
>human rights situation in Tunisia on the eve of
>the World Summit on the Information Society.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/992
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>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/97/
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>Myriam Horngren
>WACC/CRIS Network and Advocacy Coordinator
Nearby Tue Nov 1 16:02:22 2005