>Subject: Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP PT FR [July 18th 2005]
>Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:22:30 +0100
>From: "Myriam Horngren" <mh@wacc.org.uk>
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>NEWSROOM
>
>Gender and ICT Issues at Women's World Congress
>By Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
>Gender and ICT advocates from all world regions
>joined some 2,000 other women activists at the
>Women's Worlds Congress 2005, -the 9TH
>International Interdisciplinary Congress on
>Women-, held at Ewha University in Seoul, Korea, June 19-24.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/896
>
>
>NEWSROOM/WSIS
>
>WGIG Internet Governance report released
>The United Nations Secretary-General today
>transmitted the Report of the Working Group on
>Internet Governance to the President of the
>Preparatory Committee of the World Summit on the
>Information Society, Ambassador Janis Karklins,
>and the WSIS Secretary-General, Mr Yoshio Utsumi
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/893
>
>
>UK Civil Society Consultation Communiqué
>The UK Civl Society Communiqué to the Foreign
>Commonwealth Office (in charge of UK and EU
>representation at the WSIS) is now online.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/892
>
>WSIS follow-up: Role of civil society contested,
>activists locked out of next meetings
>Discussions on how to proceed after the second
>WSIS summit in November are getting more urgent.
>There is a danger of this question to be lost
>due to the dominance of financing and internet
>governance negotiations in the second phase of
>WSIS. A recent meeting of the "Group of the
>Friends of the Chair" (GFC) in Geneva tried to
>bring some clarity, but a consensus is still far
>away. Meanwhile, civil society groups are
>lamenting the fact that they will be locked out of the next GFC meetings.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/891
>
>
>NEWSROMM/WSIS & TUNISIA
>
>Mon clavier est rebelle (REMIX)
>Les activistes internautes s'expriment déjà sur
>la deuxième phase du SMSI et laissent le clavier
>prendre le control et se rebeller. Une animation
>frappante sur fond de musique iranienne autour
>du thème du SMSI en Tunisie... ça change des communiqués officiels.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/890
>
>International Free Speech Groups Urge Tunisia to End Internet Censorship
>Tunisia Monitoring Group
>July 14, 2005
>International free expression groups today
>launched a new website detailing the state of
>free expression in Tunisia and challenged the
>government to end Internet blocking in the
>lead-up to the November 2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/895
>
>GET INVOLVED/TAKE ACTION
>
>Eurozone: Take action on TV without Frontiers
>(...) The main issue on the agenda is to
>complete the revision of the EC's most important
>legislation on broadcasting -- the Television
>Without Frontiers Directive -- by December. This
>directive helps legitimise public service
>broadcasting provision; allows member states to
>determine their own broadcasting policies;
>protects cultural diversity, eg through quotas
>for original indigenous production; and helps
>keep broadcasting out of free trade agreements
>such as GATS (the WTO services agreement).
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/897
>
>Request for support for reform at WIPO
>Below is a statement published by IP Justice for
>publication at next week's WIPO Development
>Agenda Meeting. Civil society groups are invited
>to sign-on to the statement to show support for
>reform at WIPO, and specifically, support for
>the Friends of Development proposal.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/894
>
>
>CRIS CHARTER
>La Carta de CRIS
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/97/
>
>
>Myriam Horngren
>WACC/CRIS Network and Advocacy Coordinator
Nearby Mon Jul 18 16:40:50 2005