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29.09.2003 The debate about governing the Internet is intensifying. Does the new medium need new forms of representation, or simply an application of “real world” norms? If the former, how can the public interest be best secured? A representative of the Markle Foundation sets out the principles he, and other independent experts, believe should guide the Net’s governing body ICANN.

16.09.2003 According to a new study from the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University, many U.S. government websites are written at a reading level exceeding the abilities of the majority of the American public, and are often inaccesible to the blind.

05.09.2003 Campaigners have used almost every technique the Internet offers to raise awareness of the injustices that the present global trade regime perpetuates and to organize action to resist corporate globalization that places profit before people. Glen Tarman of the Trade Justice Movement traces the growth of online activism around trade issues.

04.09.2003 The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has already attracted the attention of the critical media community. In this paper, Alan Toner of Autonomedia and New YorkÂ’s Information Law Institute examines what is at stake at the summit and how its agenda reflects changes in the post-industrial location of power.