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Citizens’ Participation And Political Rejuvenation In India
It seems the efforts of people like Mr.Praveen Dalal are finally appreciated and have
Best Legal Information And Cyber Law Portals Of India
Legal information is a very important for almost all the segments of a society. However, there is a dearth of Law portals and web sites in India.
Corporate complicity with the Great Firewall
- Dmitri VItaliev
Vaulting the great firewall
In a commentary published on the Guardian on August 5 2008, NGO-in-a-Box’s Russian editor and project manager for information security says: “Civil society has answers to the problems posed by the imp
Europe votes on anti-piracy laws
Europeans suspected of putting movies and music on file-sharing networks could be thrown off the web under proposals before Brussels.
Interview from the Big Brother and Empowered Sisters conference
Listen to interview with Anriette Esterhuysen, speaker at the Big Brother and Empowered Sisters conference that took place in Stockholm, Sweden in April 2008.
Search warrant at Montreal ISP's offices
On Tuesday March 18 2008, the Internet Service Provider Koumbit Network of Montreal, Canada was visited by two inspectors of the arson investigation department accompanied by
Internet governance and global privacy at the IGF
Here is an interesting post from Jose Murilo Junior on the Global Voices website, written prior to the start of this year's IGF, that previews the issues of internet governance and global privacy: "The global debate on Internet governance will once again gather people from all over the world at UN's IGF, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The process was started last year in Athens, when more than 1,200 participants focused on discussion of the overarching issues tied to the future of information and communications technologies, including control over the Internet architecture and numbering and naming system, security, intellectual property, openness, connectivity, cost and multilingualism."
Rio forum to shine torch on the dark side of the Internet
In one of the first articles published about the Internet Governance Forum starting on November 12 2007, the AFP news agency says that "The darker corners of the Internet are to be
exposed under the bright light of Brazil's sun next week when a UN
conference on how the web is run gets underway. Rio de Janeiro
will from Monday host the UN Internet Governance Forum, in which 2,000
participants from 100 countries will examine ways to tackle pedophilia
and cybercrime. It will also discuss the implications of more
than 80 percent of the world's population not having access to the
worldwide network, mainly those in developing countries. Read the full piece here.
