The Information Society Archives

COMMUNICATION: Uruguayan Journalist, New Director-General of IPS

Uruguayan reporter Mario Lubetkin was named director-general of the IPS international news agency, the central office in the Italian capital announced this week.

COMMUNICATION: Uruguayan Journalist, New Director-General of IPS

By IPS Correspondents

Uruguayan reporter Mario Lubetkin was named director-general of the IPS international news agency, the central office in the Italian capital announced this week.

RIGHTS-ASIA: Media On Alert vs Threats to Freedom

By IPS Correspondents

Journalists in Southeast Asian nations with a history of oppressive rule are casting a wary eye at attempts to clamp down on their new-found freedom.

RIGHTS-ASIA: Media On Alert vs Threats to Freedom

By IPS Correspondents

û Journalists in Southeast Asian nations with a history of oppressive rule are casting a wary eye at attempts to clamp down on their new-found freedom.

COMMUNICATION: Internet Use Growing, But Still Lags, in Africa

By Thalif Deen

Slow to plug into the 'wired world', the African continent is now making "relatively rapid" progress in using information and communication technologies (ICT), says a U.N. study released Monday.

MEDIA-CARIBBEAN: Talk Radio Accused of Reinforcing Racial Divide

By IPS Correspondents

Authorities are listening intently to radio talk show hosts they say are pushing the limit of free speech concerning politics and race in this ethnically-divided land.

MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Journalists Cry Foul over New Press Laws

By IPS Correspondents

Pakistan's military government says that a set of new press laws it approved this week would reform the media and make it more objective, but journalists say they will undercut press freedom in this South Asian country.

COMMUNICATION: Sep 11 Made Internet an Enemy, says Report

By Julio Godoy

Most countries have used perceived terrorist threats after the September 11 attacks to step up censorship on the Internet, a leading journalists group says.

MEDIA-ZIMBABWE: Private Radio Building Bombed, Property Reduced to Ashes

By IPS Correspondents

Faith Ndebele is still trying to come to terms with a huge explosion that has destroyed the offices of a private radio station in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare.

TECHNOLOGY-AFRICA: A Long Way to Bridge the Digital Divide

By James Hall

As Non-government organisations (NGOs) become more reliant on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), two emphases are being taken to computer use.

MEDIA-MIDEAST: Al Jazeera TV Rubs Arab Govts the Wrong Way

By IPS Correspondents

It is the "CNN of the Arab world" for many people in the Middle East, but governments in the region are beginning to feel that the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television channel is a "chronic headache".

TECHNOLOGY-MEXICO: Bringing Internet to the Poor

By IPS Correspondents

Efforts by the Mexican government to bring poor communities around the country into the digital age have drawn criticism from those who say there are more urgent priorities to address among the poor, and from others who complain that the initiative will be under the Microsoft yoke.

PAKISTAN: Gov’t Scrambles to Launch Satellite, Eyes Bigger Plans

By IPS Correspondents

Pakistan's concern about permanently losing its slot in geo stationary space has led it to put a leased communications satellite by yearend, while keeping an eye on the bigger aim of developing its own satellite presence.

MEDIA-HAITI: Journalists say Government Not Protecting Them

By IPS Correspondents

Following Monday's kidnapping of a radio journalist, media workers here say they doubt the government is serious about protecting them.

MEDIA-HAITI: Journalists say Government Not Protecting Them

By IPS Correspondents

Following Monday's kidnapping of a radio journalist, media workers here say they doubt the government is serious about protecting them.

COMMUNICATION-EGYPT: And Now a Silicon Oasis

By Cam McGrath

Egypt's dream of establishing itself as a regional hub for information technology moved a step closer to reality when 12 investors joined the ambitious 'Smart Village' project Monday.

MEDIA-IRAQ: A Little Internet At Last

By IPS Correspondents

Cut off from the rest of the world for more than a decade, Iraqis are returning to the world scene at least virtually, and at least a little.

MEDIA: Post-Sep. 11 Reportage Adds to Divisions, Stereotypes

By IPS Correspondents

The media's failure to provide more perspectives to news consumers and ask critical questions, after the Sep. 11 attacks and Washington's subsequent declaration of its war against terrorism, is fuelling a culture of fear and blame around the world, experts meeting here say.