[WSIS CS-Plenary] JINBONET LAUNCHED AN ONLINE GUIDE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

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JINBONET LAUNCHED AN ONLINE GUIDE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE INFORMATION 
SOCIETY


Korean Progressive Network 'Jinbonet' launched an online Guide to Human 
rights in the Information society on December 10th, 2003, the 55th 
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Jinbonet said in its introduction page that "In the Information Society, 
human rights should be protected."

The human rights is threatened in the information society. The government 
seeking more efficient administration and the business pursuing greater 
profits have tried to develop and introduce advanced information 
technology to the society time and again. But they do not seem to be 
concerned about additional measures necessary to help remove unexpected 
challenges coming up in transition to the Information Society against 
protection of human rights. As a result, these days we can see many cases 
in which free use of information is limited and people' right to privacy 
is infringed.   

Recently Freedom of expression, Right to privacy, Right to share 
information and Right to access information are at issue. Since they are 
closely related to communication and flow of information, these rights 
came under threat stemming from the state and market driven push for the 
Information Society as well as became especially important in the 
Information Society. 

The Information Society is not a separate world from what we live in now. 
That is a society that we are building. "Human Rights in the Information 
Society" means the human rights described in the Universal Declaration of 
Human Rights and in the related international laws should still be 
protected. Not only does HRIS serve the last safeguard to guarantee people 
the fundamental freedoms and rights which seem to be easily threatened in 
transition to this new form of society, the Information Society, but it 
means our ongoing effort to make sure democracy and human rights are still 
respected and pursued in the middle of and even after the Information 
Society. 

This homepage is made to help understand the concept of Information Human 
rights and protect and exercise humanrights for oneself. It is composed of 
four sections - Freedom of Expression, Public Domain, Right to Privacy, 
and Access to Information.

This site is sponsored by Daum Foundation. 


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
http://rights.jinbo.net/english


ABOUT Jinbonet and Daum Foundation 

Jinbonet : Korean Progressive Network 'Jinbonet' is a social movement 
organization in South Korea, which was established in 1998. It aims to 
provide internet services for social movement groups, and to enhance the 
solidarity and communication among them as well as to expand and improve 
the protection of basic human rights in the information society.
Jinbonet is a member of Association for Progressive Communications.
- Address : 3F, Shin-sung Bd, Kalwol-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul 140-801, 
South Korea
- Tel : +82-2-7744-551
- Fax : +82-2-7744-553
- Contact : della at jinbo.net / patcha at patcha.jinbo.net   
- http://www.jinbo.net, http://englisth.jinbo.net, http://base21.org

Daum Foundation : Daum Foundation is a non-profit foundation which was 
established in September 2001. It was established to serve the public with 
the mission "to create a future generation of creative individuals that 
lead different forms of life through the wise use of the media and 
communication" in the areas of "Youth Development", "Media & 
Communication", and "Network." 
Daum Foundation was created through the donations from the employees of 
Daum Communications, Corp.-the nation's No.1 Internet Portal 
(www.daum.net) with the largest and strongest customer contacts-with the 
objective of creating a future that creative individuals are networked in 
variety of shapes. 
It nurtures dream and hope to our youth, the leaders of the next 
generation, by actively supporting the clever and creative use of new 
media and communications.
- http://daumfoundation.org/english