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MISTICA: Extracts from UNESCO and UNDP Observatories on Information Society

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 09:43:29 AST

>From: [email protected]
>Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:46:47 +0100
>Subject: UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society newsletter, 14 June
>2002
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>UNESCO OBSERVATORY ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
>http://www.unesco.org/webworld/observatory
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>[EUR, TRA - 14.06.2002] European Digital Rights launches. (The Register)
>Ten European Net privacy and freedom groups have banded together to form
>an international civil rights group. Called European Digital Rights
>(EDRi), the new organisation will be based in Brussels, where it will
>"focus its activities towards developments in the European Union and the
>Council of Europe". This is necessary, because rulings on privacy and
>interception are coming more and at an EU, and the introduction of new
>civil rights-threatening regulation is coming at an increasing pace, the
>group says. Continuer
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25712.html
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>[ECO - 14.06.2002] Spammers feel a chill. (Guardian Unlimited)
>The European Parliament has been debating how to legislate for the
>internet for a long time. Several important decisions were made last week
>under the privacy and electronic communications and data privacy
>directive, seeking to define acceptable email marketing activity. One was
>that it will become illegal for EU companies to send unsolicited emails to
>prospective customers unless they have previously agreed to receive them.
>Continuer
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,736200,00.html
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>[EQU - 10.06.2002] New Website to Promote Women's Issues. (Allafrica)
>Women from the horn of Africa, yesterday launched a website to enhance
>access and sharing of information. The Horn of Africa Region Women's
>Knowledge Network (Hawknet) will serve as a channel for information
>exchange in business, health, development and gender issues, in relation
>to women. The launch was the climax of a five-day conference on women and
>information communication technologies, (ICTs), held in Nairobi. It
>brought together participants from Eritrea, Malawi, Somali, Sudan,
>Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Continuer
>http://allafrica.com/stories/200206070694.html

>From: SDNP Newsmaster <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: NITNews for 14 June 2002
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>---- Open Source for NGOs Survey
>Members of the international NGO and Non-profit community with an interest
>in web-communication are invited to complete the following short survey,
>organised by a group of Open Source developers of Free Software License
>Website Content Management Systems (CMS). Its purpose is to investigate
>the demand for Free Software License CMS within the NGO and Non-profit
>community, and to strengthen funding proposals for the development of
>appropriate software for NGOs.
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=4368&do=gpage
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>---- Microsoft vs. open source gets political
>Germany and Taiwan are only the latest countries to take sides in a
>software battle in which Microsoft and developers of commercial, or
>proprietary programs, are increasingly facing off with proponents of
>open-source software.
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=4356&do=gpage
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>---- Senators Weigh ICANN's Future
>Testimony centered on the question of whether ICANN, in its four years of
>operation, has taken on too powerful a role in setting domain-related
>policy. Panelists also considered what, if anything, should be done to
>rein it in.
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=4363&do=gpage
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