Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet

Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet is a non-governmental organization founded in 1998 in South Korea. ‘Jinbo’ means ‘progressive’ in Korean.
Jinbonet aims to support the growth of civil activity and communication by providing network services such as web hosting, community, e-mail, blog, progressive meta blog, mailinglist, etc to civil society organizations, trade unions, individuals and progressive projects.

To communicate the voices of the marginalized from mainstream medias and to build progressive/alternative policies, Jinbonet had operated alternative internet-based media, ‘Chamseasang’ which means ‘true world’, which seperated from jinbonet in 2005.

Jinbonet is also an advocate for the human rights in information society, especially the right to communication, free speech, privacy through various activities responding to the threat of the government or market powers, such as resident registration system in Korea, content regulation in internet, surveillance using ICT like CCTV, bio databases, and location tracing. In addtion, jinbonet has been involved in intellectual property policies, media convergence and open access/open content movement to promote access to knowlege(A2K) and media democracy.

APC member since 1997

Topic areas of expertise:

• Acesso à informação,
• Software livre,
• Liberdade de expressão,
• Gênero e TICs,
• Direitos humanos e TICs,
• Políticas de TICs,
• Governança da internet,
• Mídia e TICs,
• Acesso aberto,
• Segurança e privacidade,
• Uso estratégico da internet