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La session plénière de haut niveau de l'Assemblée générale, " Le Sommet du Millénaire +5 ", New York, 14-16 septembre 2005


La 6ème Conférence ministérielle de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce, Hong Kong, du 13 au 18 décembre, 2005

Le Forum social mondial (FSM)

31.08.2005 RSF exprime son indignation après la mort à Bagdad d'un preneur de son de l'agence Reuters, Waleed Khaled, tué par des tirs de soldats américains lors d'un incident au cours duquel le cameraman qui travaillait avec lui, Haider Kadhem, a été blessé puis arrêté.

30.08.2005 The government of Guatemala charges radio stations $28,000 for bandwidth, an inordinate sum for community radio stations that are operated by volunteers and typically have a two-to-five mile broadcast range. Consequently, bandwidth is rapidly being bought up by commercial radio stations that broadcast only in Spanish and do not address themes of concern to the Maya population. The remaining bandwidth is often usurped by wealthy evangelical interest groups.

30.08.2005 The biggest thetha SANGONeT information communication technology (ICT) discussion forum with Civil Society Organisations of South Africa have started in Cape Town with an opportunity for the general public to learn about the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).

29.08.2005 Udruga LET provodi istraživanje o potrebi organiziranja edukacija udruga/zaklada o odnosima s javnošću, predstavljanju organizacija i njihovih projekata/programa široj javnosti.

26.08.2005 OneWorld South Asia and Panos International are organising a one-day dialogue bringing together key national level communications policymakers and other influential actors with senior editors and journalists, to dialogue and build the media’s interest, increase their stake in building an inclusive information society. The seminar is on September 2 at Chennai.

26.08.2005 Transparency International Croatia greeted and commended the decision of the Administrative Court which accepted the arguments of the private lawsuit started by Jelena Berkovic, a journalist, against Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, on charges of violation of the right to access to information.

25.08.2005 Fondacioni Metamorphosis nga Shkupi ka publikuar, në faqen e saj të internetit, Udhëzuesin mbi Teknologjitë Komunikative dhe Informative (TKI-të), i pari në vargun e dokumenteve të dedikuara për TKI.

25.08.2005 Indian grassroots filmmakers and non governmental organisations (NGOs) plan to form a Grassroots Broadcasters Network to spread awareness on developmental and social issues confronting rural India using videos and films.

25.08.2005 Internet traffic on the African continent will soon be travelling shorter — and, therefore, cheaper — routes. Transtel, one of the largest private telecommunication network operators in the southern hemisphere and a division of Transnet Limited was a successful bidder. The other was a joint bid from Africa Online, a pan-African ISP, and Sky Vision, a leading provider of international Internet services over satellite and terrestrial fibre optic systems.

24.08.2005 United Nations special envoy Anna Tibaijuka’s report on Zimbabwe's Operation Murambatsvina has continued to attract heavy media attention. But while the private media in the country have carried fairly investigative and balanced reports on the topic, the government-controlled media’s coverage is rigid, characterised by shrill defence of government’s implementation of Murambatsvina while simultaneously parading the clampdown’s mop-up successor, Operation Garikai, as a worthy programme.

24.08.2005 Europska komisija i Ministarstvo pravosuđa EU planiraju uvođenje noćne more za privatnost: svi podaci o protoku podataka morat će biti pohranjeni kako bi se ustanovilo tko je kome upućivao telefonske pozive i e-mailove, koje web stranice je tko posjećivao i gdje su se nalazili vlasnici mobilnih telefona.

23.08.2005 Mobile telephony has completed ten eventful years in India, during which mobile connections overtook landline connections. These ten years have seen prices tumble down, addition of new features and increasing competition between cell phone makers as well as telephony providers.

23.08.2005 Quand, dès l'âge de la maternelle, des enfants s’assoient pour la première fois devant un ordinateur équipé d’un logiciel en kiché, leur langue maternelle maya, les leçons dépassent de loin la maîtrise de connaissances élémentaires en informatique. Les élèves apprennent que leur langue et leur culture autochtones occupent une place essentielle dans leur société.

23.08.2005 Le contrôle qu'exerce le gouvernement russe sur la télévision nationale et son recours à une réglementation répressive, au harcèlement et à des attaques contre les journalistes qui couvrent le conflit en Tchétchénie privent le public russe d'informations sur les atrocités qui y sont commises, selon les constatations du Comité pour la protection des journalistes (CPJ), au terme d'une enquête qui aura duré un an.

23.08.2005 Le plus grand syndicat du Canada accorde son appui aux travailleurs de la SRC en lock-out dans leur lutte contre le recours accru aux sous-traitants et demande à la direction de la SRC de revenir à la table pour négocier de bonne foi.

19.08.2005 Indian telecom expert Sam Pitroda feels that technology can build bridges between the masses and knowledge systems. Broadband, Internet portals, satellites, and so on could help revamp education and thereby allow India to be truly a part of the globalisation sweepstake that is sweeping the world.

18.08.2005 The Indian apex court has issued notices to the government of India, the Press Council of India (PCI), news agencies and major newspapers on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking classification of newspapers on the basis of their content to denote whether these were fit to be read universally or by adults only.

18.08.2005 Five journalists have gone to Africa to build the capacity of local media to report on human rights issues through the Young Professionals International (YPI) program of Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). Through this program, the young Canadians will be in Nigeria, Uganda and Sierra Leone, and Ghana until March 15, 2006. On the ground, the participants will work for a media company or local media NGO for eight months. Their main task will be to develop and implement activities to train local journalists to report more effectively on human rights issues.

18.08.2005 India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore, has been chosen as the India headquarters for the United Nations “Global e-school and Communities Initiative” (Gesci), a special campaign to promote the use of technology in education.