Full coverage: Information & media

30.11.2004 Kansainvälinen journalistiliitto vaatii YK:n tietoyhteiskuntahuippukokousta keskittymään tekniikan sijaan köyhien maiden tiedonvälityksen ja työntekijöiden oikeuksien parantamiseen. Jos painopiste ei muutu, kokouksesta on tulossa kaikkein epäonnistunein YK:n järjestämistä maailmanlaajuisista tapahtumista viime vuosina, järjestö varoittaa.

30.11.2004 Svaki građanin Republike Hrvatske ima pravo dobiti odgovore i informacije od tijela javnih vlasti koja se financiraju iz poreza građana.

27.11.2004 (RSF/IFEX) - RSF est préoccupée par la sanction qui pourrait être infligée à Ken Peters, reporter du "Hamilton Spectator", reconnu coupable d'outrage à la cour, le 16 novembre 2004, pour protéger ses sources. Le verdict est attendu le 25 novembre.

26.11.2004 The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), planned for Tunis late next year, could turn out to be the most disappointing of all United Nations global events in recent years, warned the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) this week. Governments must stop backsliding on their promises to help out poorer nations and must defend fundamental rights, the IFJ told delegates to a major media conference in Marrakech, Morocco.

25.11.2004 OneWorld South Asia has launched the Open Knowledge Network initiative to empower villages in north India through information and communication technologies. OWSA partners with Datamation Foundation, Development Alternatives, Drishtee and TERI apart from tying-up with UNESCO and National Informatics Centre (NIC) for the OKN project.

24.11.2004 Con l'insediamento della nuova Commissione europea riprende la mobilitazione perchè non dia via libera alla brevettabilità del software. Sottoposto a forti pressioni da parte dei colossi informatici americani, l'Ufficio europeo dei brevetti (Epo) ha già espresso parere favorevole, nonostante la contrarietà dell'Europarlamento e delle piccole e medie aziende continentali. Continua intanto la battaglia della Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) per evitare che, dopo gli accordo della Microsoft con Sun ed ora con la Novell e Ccia, la multinazionale metta a tacere le cause antitrust nei suoi riguardi. E sempre la FSFE esprime dure critiche all'intervento di Bill Gates al Futurshow 3004.

24.11.2004 The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has awarded its 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom to Sudanese journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Salah, calling him a "pioneer and hero for the independent press." The announcement comes amidst a news blackout that is preventing the world from seeing the true story about human rights atrocities in Sudan.

23.11.2004 In the next month, the Youth Information Agency plans to open the first youth information desk fully compliant with the European standards. The first desk will be opened in Zenica, to be followed by seven more desks in other cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Youth Info Desks will be opened in cooperation with the local governments of the eight cities.

23.11.2004 Chobi Mela III, the Festival of Photography in Asia, is being organized by Drik Picture Library Ltd. in association with a number of organisations worldwide where fine artists, documentary photographers and photographers will display their works.

23.11.2004 China will launch a satellite exclusively for broadcasting services in the first half of 2006 heralding a major policy change, which will allow people to receive satellite television signals in their homes for the first time.

22.11.2004 The MISTICA virtual community has sent an open letter asking UNESCO to divulge the terms of its agreement with Microsoft whick seeks to bridge the digital divide in developing countries.

22.11.2004 Though the ministry of science and technology has agreed to allow digital maps in the public domain, the ministry of defence wants certain errors to be introduced in the maps.

19.11.2004 Con el fin de garantizar el principio democrático de publicidad de los actos del Estado, el Comité por la Libre Expresión (C-Libre) logró introducir al Congreso Nacional de Honduras un Proyecto de Ley de Acceso a la Información Pública.

17.11.2004 The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, commonly referred to as AIPPA, was passed by the Parliament of Zimbabwe on 31 January 2002 and signed into law by President Mugabe on 15 March 2002. It may accurately be described as the leading weapon of the government and the ruling ZANU PF party in their ongoing campaign to stifle independent media reporting in Zimbabwe.

17.11.2004 "Colpirne cento per educarne uno": è questa la nuova filosofia del diritto in rete praticata dalle istituzioni che chiudono un occhio sulle transazioni elettroniche dei paradisi fiscali, sul commercio online di armi e munizioni, sulla pornografia elettronica che arricchisce le compagnie telefoniche ma si dimostrano al tempo stesso severissime e rigorose verso i siti di "movimento" e i network internazionali di controinformazione. Giovedi' 7 Ottobre 2004, alle 18 circa, agenti dell'FBI si sono presentati presso la sede americana di Rackspace, presso la cui sede inglese risiedono i server che ospitano molti siti locali di indymedia per sequestrare due computer e due dischi, con una operazione che ha portato all'oscuramento dell'edizione italiana e di molti altri siti del network Indymedia.
di Carlo Gubitosa
da Reporter Associati

16.11.2004 Treći deo kursa Osnove radio-novinarstva za novinare romskih medija u Srbiji kao i za novinare programa na srpskom iz Preševa i programa na albanskom iz Medveđe, pod pokroviteljstvom OSCE, održan je u organizaciji Medija centra iz Niša od 7. do 11.novembra 2004.

12.11.2004 Business opposition to red tape and regulations is damaging society and the wider environment, according to a new report launched today (Monday 8th November) by CORE, a coalition of NGOs, trade unions and academic institutions who are calling for greater corporate responsibility.

12.11.2004 Jeudi le 18 novembre à 18 h 00 Alternatives, 3720, avenue du Parc, 2e étage

En octobre, une délégation d’une trentaine d’enseignantEs et de militantEs du Québec, coordonnée par la Fédération des enseignantEs et enseignantes du Québec (FNEEQ) et Alternatives, a participé à un colloque international sur l’éducation à Ramallah, dans le cadre de la journée mondiale de l’éducation. Présentation d’une expérience de solidarité hors du commun et de leur rencontre avec Yasser Arafat.

12.11.2004 Četvorodnevnu radionicu "Osnove novinarstva i antidiskriminacije u medijima" za mlade romske novinare, od 12 – 15. novembra 2004. realizovaće Media centar Niš

12.11.2004 The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia has expressed its dissappointment with the government of Zimbabwe for tightening the obnoxious Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), by stiffening the punishment for anyone found practising journalism without a license in Zimbabwe.