[WSIS CS-Plenary] Upcoming event: Africa Electronic Privacy and Public Voice Symposium

[Frannie Wellings]

Upcoming event:


The Africa Electronic Privacy and Public Voice Symposium
December 6, 2004
Cape Town, South Africa

The purpose of this Symposium is to bring together African NGOs, 
technical experts and policy makers to discuss privacy and freedom of 
expression, the World Summit on the Information Society and Internet 
policy development. It is an opportunity for the public voice to be 
heard on issues such as safeguarding electronic privacy and 
protecting online speech, as well as African perspectives on Internet 
governance and the World Summit on the Information Society. The 
Symposium will be held in Cape Town, South Africa at the Nelson 
Mandela Gateway to Robben Island, on December 6, 2004 following the 
ICANN meeting. The event will be split into three sessions. 
Participants are encouraged to submit papers on African perspectives 
on global Internet Governance, African Internet Governance, or data 
protection or free expression online in Africa.

Program
Session 1: Freedom of Expression and Data Protection Online in Africa
Session 2: Internet Policy in Africa
Session 3: African Perspectives on Global Internet Governance


More Information:
http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/capetown04/
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Frannie Wellings
Policy Fellow, Electronic Privacy Information Center   ~    http://www.epic.org
Director, The Public Voice    ~   http://www.thepublicvoice.org

1718 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 200
Washington, D.C.  20009
USA

wellings at epic.org

+1 202 483 1140 x 107 (telephone)
+1 202 483 1248 (fax)

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