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22.10.2007 Center for Global Development -nimisen aivoriihen tutkimuksen mukaan Ranska on innokkaimmin tukemassa informaatioteknologiaa kehitysyhteistyössä. Maiden sijoitukseen vaikutti myös asenne immateriaalioikeuksista luopumiseen, mikä sijoitti Yhdysvallat vasta sijalle 14.

02.12.2005 12 young television producers from Francophone Africa met on 22-27 November 2005 in Bordeaux, France to edit and finalise their short TV documentaries depicting views and opinion about HIV and AIDS from their respective countries of origin.

22.11.2005 A two-week workshop on HIV/AIDS for young television producers was concluded in Accra on Friday,18 November, with a call to combat stigma and discrimination against people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.

27.10.2005 This theme shall serve as an objective for a seminar uniting a group of experts of the two rivers of the Mediterranean, through French Commission for UNESCO, which is to be held on 27 and 28 October 2005 in Paris.

24.10.2005 Unanimous support to UNESCO’s active involvement in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and its focus on knowledge societies was given by the Organisation's General Conference at its 33rd Session yesterday in Paris.

11.10.2005 UNESCO’s Member States will be discussing the organisation’s future activities related to communication and information including UNESCO’s contribution to the World Summit on the Information Society.

19.09.2005 UNESCO will support the organisation of the second World Electronic Media Forum that will be held in Tunis from 15 to 16 November 2005, in connection with the second phase of World Summit on the Information Society.

16.09.2005 A one-day debate on Infoethics takes place today at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris as part of the 9th session of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council for UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP).

15.09.2005 Applications can now be submitted for online courses on “Creative Thinking / Writing and Design”, the first part of a “Masters Module on Art, Design and Technology in the Arab States”, offered by UNESCO with several partners in the Arab Region.

14.09.2005 A three-day Colloquium on Language Technologies starts on 14 September 2005 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

12.09.2005 UNESCO invites Member States and regional and international organizations professional and non-governmental organisations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression to nominate candidates for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

12.09.2005 As the Software Freedom Day is celebrated on 10 September, UNESCO continues its efforts to develop free tools for processing information and to provide access to resources on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) through its portal.

01.09.2005 An international workshop on “Creating the Information Commons for e-Science: Towards Institutional Policies and Guidelines for Action” that is organised by Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) opens today at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

06.07.2005 A one-day day debate was held at UNESCO on the subject of “Islam, media and public opinion”. The event was organized by the Islam and Laicism Commission in France, the French League for Human Rights in cooperation with UNESCO and the French National Commission for UNESCO.

06.05.2005 Eighteen French municipalities will use e-voting machines during the referendum of 29 May 2005. The referendum will provide municipalities with the possibility of testing one or more e-voting systems. Some of the e-voting experiments will be legally binding (e.g. in the city of Antibes Juan-les-Pins), while others will not have any legal value. More.

16.06.2004 The European Commission (EU) has charged France with failing to reform its national legislation which hinders French cable operators from expanding their business.

16.06.2003 While Egypt organises the Pan-Arab Regional Conference on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) this week in Cairo, a formal open-ended intergovernmental drafting group is being convened from 15 to 18 July 2003 at Unesco headquarters in Paris.

30.05.2003 Various groups in China have made an appeal to the US and France to pressurize President Hu Jintao to release the 42 cyber dissidents languishing in prisons across the country. The Chinese premiere is set to attend the G-8 summit beginning June 1 in France.