Dear Friends, Greetings from South Asia. We now have a new topic up for discussion in our forum 'Information Society: Voices from the South' on Digital Opportunity Channel. Your contributions to the discussions on the first topic of 'Knowledge Societies' had been immensely useful and have been added to our report too. Please see the report at http://www.digitalopportunity.org/fulltext/IS_summary1_knowledgesociety.htm The new topic is: "Issues of Rights, Freedom, Laws and Ethics: How to address these for the development of Information Society in the South?" We've split the topic into the following sub-topic so that we can proceed in a systematic way and can bring in some fruitful outcomes... 1. Freedom of expression, censorship: How do these affect the Information Society? 2. Communication rights at Individual and Country level: examples, case studies and experiences 3. Privacy issues, data protection, and surveillance: How these can be preserved? 4. Intellectual Property Rights issues, Global Information Commons: Do developing countries need to take these seriously? 5. Free/Open Source Software: Can these be alternative to development? We request your valuable inputs to the forum where we trying to configure the issues, challenges and opportunities related to rights, freedom, laws and ethics that vary from country to country in the South. You are best placed in putting in these ideas based on your diverse nature of geographical representation. Please bring in examples, views, notes, and opinions with regard to these issues and take part in the debate and discussion. Based on the inputs that you provide, we can design campaign ideas and advocacy with relevant groups so that such issues are brought into the light of pressure groups and decision makers. Even if you think, the topic isn't that important for us, please express that too and explain why you think so. If you are already in the forum, post your messages to IS@dgroups.org If you have not joined the forum yet, please sign up at http://www.digitalopportunity.org/discussion/signup Or, simply send a blank mail to join-IS@dgroups.org Hope to see you participate in the discussions in the forum at http://www.dgroups.org/groups/IS Best regards and please feel free to contact us if you need any clarification. Kanti Kumar Editor, Digital Opportunity Channel www.digitalopportunity.org OneWorld South Asia Partha Pratim Sarker Moderator, IS Discussion Forum Co-Editor, Bytes for All partha@bytesforall.org ========== HURIDOCS-Tech listserv ========== Send mail intended for the list to <huridocs-tech@hrea.org>. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/huridocs-tech/markup/maillist.php To subscribe to the list, send a message to <majordomo@hrea.org>, with the following text in the message: subscribe huridocs-tech To unsubscribe from the list, send a message to <majordomo@hrea.org>, with the following text in the message: unsubscribe huridocs-tech If you have problems (un)subscribing, contact <owner-huridocs-tech@hrea.org>.
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