[WSIS CS-Plenary] [Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP – September 16, 2004]

Thu Sep 16 06:25:15 BST 2004

[Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP – September 16, 2004]

EUROPEAN FORUM OF COMMUNICATION RIGHTS (EFCR)
This event will take place the day before the start of
the European Social Forum to be held in London, UK,
14-17 October 2004, and tackles one of the most
important questions: how to bring together those
working at different levels on communication rights -
from grass roots activists working on practical
projects and street level campaigns, to those engaged
in lobbying and advocacy, to researchers and
academics. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/414/

¡LOS MEDIOS LIBRES LO NECESITAN!
¿Quiere apoyar la libertad de expresión, así como
también una libre y sana atmósfera en los medios? Si
es así, ¡ahora puede participar! 
La tailandesa Supinya Klangnarong, Secretaria General
d ela Campaña por una Reforma de los Medios Populares
(CPMR), fue demandada por casi 10 millones de dólares,
lo equivalente a 2500 años de su modesto salario, por
Shin Corporation, el gigante monopolio de
telecomunicaciones perteneciente a la familia del
Primer Ministro de ese país, Thaksin Shinawatra. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/411/

FREE MEDIA NEEDS YOU!
Do you want to support freedom of speech as well as a
free and healthy media sphere? Well now you can get
involved! 
Supinya Klangnarong, the General Secretary of the
Campaign for Popular Media Reform (CPMR) a Thai media
advocate was sued for nearly $10 m or the equivalent
of 2500 years of her modest salary, Shin Corporation,
the telecommunications giant owned by the family of
Prime Minister of that country, Thaksin Shinawatra. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/409/ 

REPORTING ON RESISTANCE TO EU COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE
[By Zoltan Varady] There's been a demonstration
against the European Software Patents legislation that
they're discussing in the EU Parliament. It was the
first "geeky", free-software related demonstration in
Hungary. Many organisations joined, like the Hungarian
Linux Users Group, the BSD User's Group, the Hungarian
Free Software Foundation, Green Spider and several
others.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/407  

LIBRO: DERECHOS A LA COMUNICACIÓN Y ACCESO AL
CONOCIMIENTO
"Diritto a comunicare e accesso ai saperi. La nuova
frontiera dei diritti nella società della conoscenza"
es el título original en italiano de este libro
editado por Jason Nardi y Claudia Padovani (ambos
miembros de la Campaña de CRIS): “Derechos a la
Comunicación y Acceso al Conocimiento. La nueva
frontera de derechos en la sociedad del conocimiento”.

http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/404/' 

BOOK: COMMUNICATION RIGHTS AND ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE
"Diritto a comunicare e accesso ai saperi. La nuova
frontiera dei diritti nella società della conoscenza"
is the original Italian title of this book edited by
Jason Nardi and Claudia Padovani (both CRIS Campaign
members): "Communication Rights and Access to
Knowledge: The new frontier of rights in the knowledge
society". Including a Preface by Roberto Savio, this
volume is a compendium of contributions on different
themes that are central to fostering a broad public
debate on communication and information issues in
today's knowledge society. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/403/ 

OPEN CONTENT SHOULD BE KING: COPYRIGHT & DIGITAL
JUSTICE
 [By Ralf Peter Reimann] Content is king, says the
slogan, and content - texts, pictures, audio files and
video streams -is the hot commodity of the information
society. 
In the early days of the net, content was free, but
this is changing. What should we do about it?
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/405/

FREE SPEECH IN THAILAND: WACC SCHOLAR TAKES ON MEDIA
GIANT AND PRIME MINISTER IN FREEDOM OF SPEECH CASE
[By Sean Hawkey] Thaksin Shinawatra, in Thailand, has
a lot in common with Silvio Berlusconi in Italy. Both
are dominant media and telecommunications tycoons,
both are 
Prime Minister of their country, both are
billionaires, each is reputed to be the wealthiest man
in their country, and both stand accused of serious
conflict of interest between their political post and
their massive media business interests. Supinya
Klangnarong, a WACC scholar, is locked in a legal
battle with Thaksin Shinawatra’s Shin Corp in what is
becoming a landmark case on freedom of speech.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/402/

GET A LIFE: TURN OFF YOUR TV
 [By Tom Cowin] An estimated five million people took
part in TV Turn-Off Week 
organized recently by the International Turn Off TV
campaign in the US and the International Campaign
Against Television, White Dot. The campaign is
supported by groups such as the American Federation of
Teachers, the American Medical Association and the
Association of Library Services to Children.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/406

¿QUIERE PARTICIPAR? FIRME LA CARTA DE CRIS
Nuestra visión de la Sociedad de la Información se
fundamenta en el Derecho a Comunicar como un medio de
acrecentar los derechos humanos y fortalecer la vida
social, económica y cultural de las personas y las
comunidades. Para lograrlo, resulta fundamental que
las organizaciones de la sociedad civil se unan para
cooperar en la construcción de una sociedad de la
información basada en principios de transparencia,
diversidad, participación, justicia social y
económica, e inspiradas por la equidad de género y las
perspectivas culturales y regionales. Lo invitamos a
conocer más sobre la Campaña de CRIS y a participar
firmando la Carta de CRIS: 
http://scripts.planetgrey.org/cris/sign_charter_form.html
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/97/ 

LA CHARTE DE CRIS
Notre vision de la «société de l’information» est
basée sur le droit de communiquer qui est considéré
comme un moyen pour étendre les droits de l’homme et
améliorer la vie sociale, économique et culturelle des
personnes et des communautés. Pour cela, il est
essentiel que les organisations de la société civile
se réunissent afin d’aider à la construction d’une
société de l’information basée sur les principes de
transparence, de diversité, de participation et de
justice économique et sociale et inspirée par une
approche équitable du rapport des sexes, de la culture
et des aspects régionaux.
http://scripts.planetgrey.org/cris/sign_charter_form.html
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/95/

WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET INVOLVED? ENDORSE THE CRIS
CHARTER
Our vision of the 'Information Society' is grounded in
the Right to Communicate, as a means to enhance human
rights and to strengthen the social, economic and
cultural lives of people and communities. Crucial to
this is that civil society organisations come together
to help build an information society based on
principles of transparency, diversity, participation
and social and economic justice, and inspired by
equitable gender, cultural and regional perspectives.
We invite you to read more about CRIS Campaign and get
involved endorsing the CRIS Chapter:
http://scripts.planetgrey.org/cris/sign_charter_form.html
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/98/ 

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