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- COMMUNICATIONS: Internet - Ruled by the Many, or by Special Interests?
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 12 (IPS) - The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) being held in Rio de Janeiro Monday through Thursday, with more than 1,500 people attending, is discussing issues that are not yet a concern for the majority of users, but are already having a major impact on their lives. - DEVELOPMENT: A Little Aid, A Big Favour
GLASGOW, May 26 (IPS) - When, came the question from a Ugandan delegate at a Civicus world assembly meeting in Glasgow, will the West ever stop giving aid on unequal terms? "We are unequal by the fact that, speaking as a donor, we are providing the funds," said Jan-Petter Holtedahl from the civil society department at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. - TECHNOLOGY-AFRICA: A Rural-Urban Digital Divide Challenges Women
NAIROBI, Feb 14 (IPS) - Janet Malika owes her success to the little gadget that is her cell phone. Formerly a struggling food hawker in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, she has become a cafeteria owner since acquiring the device about five years ago, and using it to conduct business. - COMMUNICATIONS: Developing Countries Set the Standards
GENEVA, Jan. 3 (IPS) - Developing countries led by India, China, Brazil are now taking the lead in setting global standards in the rapidly transforming telecommunications sector due to convergence of hitherto separate communications and entertainment services, says Hamadoun Toure, the new secretary general of the Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union. - WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: US Activists Study Bolivarian Revolution
NEW YORK, Jan 12 (IPS) - U.S. activists are heading to the Sixth World Social Forum (WSF) with a renewed sense of optimism and international solidarity, despite Washington's animosity toward the hemisphere's growing slate of leftist governments. - WSIS: This Cranked Up Computer Could Close a Gap
TUNIS, Nov 19 (TerraViva/IPS) - This little green computer runs without electricity or batteries, and it costs 100 dollars. And it could do more than all thhe speeches made at the World Summit on the Information Society to help narrow that 'digital divide'. - WSIS: Internet Can Create, Not Crush, Culture
TUNIS, Nov 19 (IPS) - You cannot resist the Internet, so you might as well bathe in its tidal wave-like wash over the world's cultures, says the director of the centuries old Alexandria Library in Egypt. - COMMUNICATION: Internet Boosts Reach of Alternative Radio
TUNIS, Nov 18 (IPS) - While the transnational corporations showed off the latest in information and communication technologies (ICTs) at the world summit that ended Friday in Tunis, reporters from alternative radio stations remained loyal to their old tape recorders and microphones. - WSIS: Civil Society in Worried Celebration
TUNIS, Nov 18 (TerraVivaIPS) - Despite failing to get its alternative citizens summit off the ground, and in the face of disappointment over some decisions at the World Summit on the Information Society, and repression by the Tunisian government, civil society groups joined officials and businessmen Friday in celebrating the outcome of the meeting. - WSIS: Private Sector Advances In Public Space
TUNIS, Nov 18 (TerraVivaIPS) - The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) concluded Friday night with claims of success by the United Nations, governments and the private sector, but civil society refused to wholeheartedly embrace its outcome. - WSIS: Civil Society in Worried Celebration
TUNIS, Nov 18 (TerraViva/IPS) - Despite failing to get its alternative citizens summit off the ground, and in the face of disappointment over some decisions at the World Summit on the Information Society, and repression by the Tunisian government, civil society groups joined officials and businessmen Friday in celebrating the outcome of the meeting. - WSIS: Private Sector Advances In Public Space
TUNIS, Nov 18 (TerraViva/IPS) - The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) concluded Friday night with claims of success by the United Nations, governments and the private sector, but civil society refused to wholeheartedly embrace its outcome. - PARAGUAY: Internet Access? What About Just a Telephone?
ASUNCIÓN, Nov 18 (IPS) - When Emilio Contrera, a small farmer in Paraguay who is nearly 80 years old, wants to phone his daughter in the capital, he must first overcome a number of hurdles. - WSIS: Wiring Women Won't Close the Gap
TUNIS, Nov 18 (IPS) - "People say, 'what are you talking about: it's just a computer, it's just a telephone -- how can there be gender issues over technology?' There's still no understanding of how things like computers get into institutions and are incorporated into existing male-dominated power structures," says an Indian woman delegate here for a global meeting on making the so-called Information Age benefit all people. - WSIS: Criticism Was Conviction, Say Swiss
TUNIS, Nov 18 (IPS) - The Swiss government has been at the centre of controversy here over host government Tunisia's treatment of journalists and human rights activists prior to the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
