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Enhanced Cooperation in Internet policy making - statement at CSTD meeting in Geneva

Submitted by Jeremy Malcolm on Fri, 18/05/2012 - 03:53
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14 UN logoMy name is Romain Houéhou, from the African ICT Consumer Network, and also representing Consumers International today. Consumers International is the worldwide federation of consumer groups with 220 members in 115 countries.

Consumers in the Information Society: Access, Fairness and Representation

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Front coverThe opportunities and challenges that face consumers in today's online digital environment raise a range of new issues for the global consumer movement.  For example, products that were once sold as goods, are now packaged as digital services, lacking many of the incidents of ownership that consumers expect.  They are often delivered over broadband networks for which there are no uniform consumer protection standards.  Many of t

Access to Knowledge at the Internet Governance Forum

Submitted by Jeremy Malcolm on Sun, 22/11/2009 - 05:14
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Consumers International and the African Copyright and A2K Project (ACA2K) this week held a successful workshop looking at the Global State of Copyright and Access to Knowledge at the 2009 meeting of the multi-stakeholder United Nations Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. The session was moderated by Dr Bassem Awad from ACA2K, who is also Chief Judge at the Egyptian Ministry of Justice.