[WSIS CS-Plenary] Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP PT FR [November 1st 2005]

[Myriam Horngren]

NEWSROOM

Telesur Plans Live Programming
Associated Press
Venezuela's Telesur Plans Live Programming
The president of Telesur announced on Saturday the television station promising to be a Latin alternative to large U.S.-based media outlets will begin broadcasting live news reports on cable networks within two weeks.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/998

Countries Question U.S. Control of Internet
Online Wall Street Journal October 25, 2005
By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS
A growing number of countries, including China, Brazil, India and Cuba -- as well as the European Union -- are questioning U.S. control over the Internet.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/997


NEWSROOM/UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY

La Diversidad Cultural tiene su Convención
Sally Burch
ALAI-AMLATINA 26/10/2005, Quito.- El pasado 20 de octubre, la Conferencia General de la UNESCO adoptó, en forma casi unánime, la Convención para la Protección de la Diversidad de Contenidos Culturales y Expresiones Artísticas, luego de cerca de tres años de negociaciones. El propósito central de la Convención es el reconocimiento de que los bienes culturales producidos en todo el mundo son expresiones de una rica y diversa identidad cultural, y por lo tanto no pueden ser tratados como simples mercancías ni regidos por las normas del libre comercio.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/996

UNESCO - Convenção de Diversidade Cultural: Comunicado CRIS
A campanha para Direitos de Comunicação na Sociedade da Informação a aprovação quase unânime na UNESCO da Convenção de Proteção e Promoção de Conteúdo Cultural e Expressão Artística. A Convenção é uma clara demosntração que os governos reconhecem que a cultura não pode ser reduzida à mero commodity. Endossando a Conevção os governos tem mostrado que estão preparados para dar passos positivos de apoio à diversidade cultural na idade da indústria de cultura global.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/991

AND MORE ON UNESCO COVERAGE ON: www.mediatradmonitor.org and 

NEWSROOM/WSIS
New 'i-Witness' Website Boosts Journalists' Ability to Report on Information Society
Journalists looking for free, up-to-date resources, news and debate on the information society can get all this and more on a new website, i-Witness.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/999

Summitry and strategies: Karen Banks (APC) on WSIS...
In November 2005, the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society will meet for the last time in Tunis. In its five year history, the WSIS has failed to succeed in redressing the North-South "digital divide".
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/994

DHAKA DECLARATION:Building an Information Society : Road 2 Tunis
We, the ICT stakeholders representing Governments, Private Sector, Academicia and the Civil Society, having come from six continents of the world, assembled in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 23 to 25 October 2005 in an International Workshop entitled "Building an Information Society : Road 2 Tunis", organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology, Government of Bangladesh in collaboration with UNDP Bangladesh and in association with World Summit Award (WSA), Austria.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/993


NEWSROOM/WSIS [TUNISIA AND COMMUNICATION RIGHTS]

Hunger Strike in Tunisia
FIDH - OMCT
21st October 2005
Press Release
Tunisia has been living for years a deterioration of its political, social and cultural situation. Freedoms reached, lately, an intolerable level of deprivation.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/995

Kofi Annan' s response to Civil Society's concerns
Kofi Annan sent on 27th October a letter to AMARC President and CRIS Campaign Executive Secretariat member a response to an earlier communication to the Secretary General on behalf of many groups and individuals concern about the human rights situation in Tunisia on the eve of the World Summit on the Information Society.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/992


GET INVOLVED/TAKE ACTION

SIGN UP TO THE CRIS CHARTER/FIRMAR LA CARTA/SIGNER LA CHARTE

CRIS CHARTER
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 la perspectivas culturales y regionales.
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://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/95

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.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/98


Myriam Horngren
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