WIPO: Online Forum on Intellectual Property in the Information Society
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will host an Online Forum on Intellectual Property in the Information Society from June 1 to 15, 2005.The WIPO Online Forum is designed to enable and...
View ArticleWorlds apart: Global summits highlight digital policy divide
This article by Michael Geist in the Citizen includes:Despite Prime Minister Paul Martin's repeated commitments to the developing world, Canada has quietly backed the United States on both the Internet...
View ArticleGeist: Facing The Facts on Internet Governance
Michael Geist's Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, Freely available version) focuses on the Internet governance issues that will take center stage at this week's World Summit on the Information...
View ArticleOpen source on presidential agenda at WSIS
This tectonic article by Jason Norwood-Young includes:While the Internet debacle grabbed headlines at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference in Tunis, Tunisia yesterday, it was...
View ArticleBill Thompson at WSIS: Preserving the essence of the net
This BBC article by Bill Thompson includes:The final statement of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society is as much a framework for control of the ways the net is used as it is a call for "the...
View ArticleWSIS - Open source from the vending machine - FreedomToaster in South Africa
This ComputerWorld article by John Blau includes:The bright orange, refrigerator-size vending machine is equipped with a computer inside that burns CDs, a process also known as "toasting" in the open...
View ArticleWSIS: Microsoft failed to remove free software reference
This article by John Blau, IDG News Service, includes:Microsoft Corp. tried to have references to free software removed from a document approved at the United Nations-sponsored Internet summit in Tunis...
View ArticleWSIS Past, Present And Future
This Zimbabwe Standard article by Millie Phiri includes:However the WSIS is not without historical roots. It comes after the rise and fall of the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICCO)...
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