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Sommet Mondial sur la Société de l'Information (SMSI) - Genève du 10 au 12 décembre 2003

: Paraguayan Radio Station Buses Internet to the Barrios
Natalia Ruiz Díaz *
ASUNCIÓN, Feb 7 (IPS) - "I want my own computer so that I can talk to my cousins who live in Italy," says eight-year-old Camila Ojeda, sitting in front of a computer monitor on a bus that acts as a mobile cybercafé in the Paraguayan capital.
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: India Weighs Social Media Curbs
Sujoy Dhar
NEW DELHI, Feb 2 (IPS) - After India's agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was slapped by a young Sikh man at a function in New Delhi, to record his protest against corruption in high places, social media sites went viral with musical spoofs and caricatured images of the incident.
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: Kenyan Chief Tweets His Way to Reducing Crime
Daniel Sitole
NAKURU, Kenya, Feb 2 (IPS) - Using 140 characters or less, Chief Francis Kariuki in Kenya, has tweeted his way to reducing crime in his and surrounding villages.
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: Radio Static for Ghana’s Community Stations
Sandra Ferrari*
ACCRA , Feb 1 (IPS) - There is a tension resonating through Ghana’s airwaves, an electric current fueled by rivaling interests between community radio advocates and Ghana’s National Communications Authority.
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BRAZIL: Community Radio Flourishes Online
Fabíola Ortiz*
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 26 (IPS) - Community radio stations in Brazil are finding the internet and user-friendly information technologies to be valuable allies for their broadcasts, which focus on citizenship, social equity and human rights.
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TURKEY: Filtering Out Internet Freedom
Analysis by Jacques N. Couvas
ANKARA, Jan 19 (IPS) - Fifteen respected academics from different Turkish universities signed a declaration in Ankara last week protesting recent state regulations restricting access to a variety of websites on ‘moral’ and ‘national integrity’ grounds.
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: Websites Black Out over "SOPA Censorship"
Chris Arsenault
DOHA, Qatar, Jan 18 (IPS/Al Jazeera) - The number one rule young journalists are taught when starting radio broadcasting is simple: No dead air. Cough into the microphone if you must, but don't allow silence to creep in.
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BURMA: Political Prisoners Freed - Conditionally
Preethi Nallu
CHIANG MAI, Thailand, Jan 18 (IPS) - The release of 651 prisoners, a process which started this month, is being seen as a victory for activists and families who have had to contend with Burma’s notorious prison system.
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U.S.: "Arab Spring" Dominated TV Foreign News in 2011
Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (IPS) - The so-called "Arab Spring" led U.S. network television evening news coverage during 2011, comprising a total of about 10 percent of all the news coverage provided by the three major commercial networks during 2011, according to the latest annual review by the authoritative Tyndall Report.
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OP-ED: This Spring Breeze Did Not Arise in the West
Emad Mekay*
PALO ALTO, California, U.S. , Dec 23 (IPS) - So here I am, an Arab journalist in Silicon Valley, where four out of every four people I meet believe Facebook invented the Arab Spring. Three more weeks here and I may start to hallucinate that Mark Zuckerberg was a Cairo-slums native named Hassouna El-Fatatri, who rotted in a Mubarak prison for advocating personal privacy rights.
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: Jailed Journalists Reflect Greater Struggle for Internet Freedom
Rosemary D'Amour
WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (IPS) - The number of journalists in prison worldwide has spiked to its highest level in 15 years. Of them, nearly half worked online, raising larger questions about Internet freedom for more than just reporters, but average citizens as well.
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Association for Progressive Communication travaille en faveur d'un internet et des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) au service de la justice sociale et du développement. L'association se concentre actuellement sur le SMSI.
 
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