[WSIS CS-Plenary] China filtering

[Milton Mueller]

Amir:
You should get in touch with Professor Ron Deibert of the University of
Toronto's "Citizen Lab." They have done the most systematic set of
country studies regarding which companies, etc. are involved and what
specific countries are doing. 

Professor Ronald J. Deibert
Associate Professor of Political Science
Director, The Citizen Lab
Munk Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3K7 Canada
Tel: (416) 946-8916 Fax: (416) 946-8915
email: r.deibert at utoronto.ca 


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Dear Colleagues,

Hi after a long time. We are looking for some reports on internet
filtering 
in China and wish to find out what software's they are using and who is

selling it to them (Govt) for this reason. It seems the same company is

start selling its software to middle east countries, I have 
information on 
prices of about $ 50 mln! I need some proper information on filtering
status 
in China.

Could anyone help me in this regard?

Best

Amir

Middle East focal point


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It seemed like a very worthwhile meeting and I'm sorry I couldn't stay
too long.  If we are to keep development and capacity building as
central themes of IGF we must work well with G77+

Thanks for arranging things.

Adam




On 5/24/06, William Drake <drake at hei.unige.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a quick note to say that we had a productive meeting today with
some 
> of
> the G77 & China governments and agreed to actively explore
maintaining an
> ongoing dialogue, most notably with respect to the development
dimensions 
> of
> Internet governance.  We will probably try to organize follow-up F2F
> meetings, perhaps in the summer and fall, and could create a joint
> electronic space to advance more inclusive discussion.  There was
also 
> some
> interest in the possibility of collaborating on the monitoring and 
> analysis
> of governance trends from a development perspective, although the 
> modalities
> would have to be worked out. Finally, they were keen to see more 
> analytical
> work on IG and development from academics and other CS researchers,
which
> could aid their own efforts.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
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