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Child Protection, Sexuality and Safety Online: Opposing camps Sharm El-Sheikh 26 November 2009 By Indira Maya Ganesh for GenderIT.org

Research coming out of the UK shows that British children are blasé about putting sexy images of themselves online. But some adults in governments and industry are intent on seeing children as victims where sexuality and the internet is concerned. Why on earth aren’t the powers-that-be actually l...

16-day campaign starts: To Take Back the Tech! to end violence against women Cuernavaca 25 November 2009 By APC WNSP for APC

From 25 November to 10 December, get ready to click your mouse, flex your SMS fingers and engage full energy to take control of technology to end violence against women. APC calls on all of us who use radio, television, internet, emails and mobile phones to Take Back the Tech!

APC - The IGF should continue beyond 2010
APC - The IGF should continue beyond 2010 17 November 2009 By APC for APC

Willie Currie expressed APC’s support for the world’s only existing global debate space on the future of the internet which could come to an end once its five year mandate is over next year saying “The IGF is an innovation in multi-stakeholder internet governance, it works, it is evolving and ...

Anti-censorship and surveillance group censored at the Internet forum in Egypt
Anti-censorship and surveillance group censored at the Internet forum in Egypt FMA 15 November 2009 By FMA for FMA

A poster promoting a new book called "Access Controlled" was removed by the IGF's organisers who claimed a sentence in the poster violated UN policy. The sentence in question reads "The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's fa...

Creating a code of good practice in internet governance
Creating a code of good practice in internet governance 15 November 2009 By APC for APC

Since the inception of the IGF, the Council of Europe, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and APC have been working on a joint initiative on public participation in internet governance. Now a draft code of good practice on transparency, information and participation in interne...

Do you have a right to online knowledge?  Report shows open internet in danger
Do you have a right to online knowledge? Report shows open internet in danger 15 November 2009 By APC for APC/Hivos

A new report that reveals how vulnerable the internet as we know it is, has just been published by two global civil society organisations. The annual report, called Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch), was released today by APC and Dutch funder Hivos. GISWatch 2009 is entitled “Access...

A brief from APC on the Fourth Internet Governance Forum
A brief from APC on the Fourth Internet Governance Forum 10 November 2009 By APC for APC

The Internet Governance Forum is the only space of its kind in the world – it acts as a “pressure relief valve” for some of the most important and controversial issues related to the global internet. The IGF is in its fourth year of existence and next year could be its last. APC brings you qui...

APC at the Fourth Internet Governance Forum
APC at the Fourth Internet Governance Forum 05 November 2009 By APC

APC staff and members will be in Sharm El-Sheikh, in the fourth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum. We'll be running two workshops and launching two publications. Here's a quick review of our activities. We'll be providing on-site coverage for those of you following the IGF remotely.

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