Six recent blog posts on A2Knetwork.org

In case you don't often visit http://A2Knetwork.org or subscribe to
its feed, here are eight interesting and/or important posts from its
front page that you may have missed:

1. Consumers
   International at the sixth Internet Governance Forum
   CI will be represented at no fewer than nine meetings or
   workshops at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum at the end
   of this month, including a workshop to launch our "Consumer
   Representation in the Information Society" campaign. Even if you
   can't be in Nairobi, you can attend most of these events
   remotely.
   
2. Final version of A2K revisions to UN Guidelines
   settled after public comments
   The public comment period for our A2K amendments to the UN
   Guidelines for Consumer Protection closed last week. This post
   describes the changes that were made to the amendments based on
   the comments received, and outlines what lies ahead.
   
3. Consumer-ownable Downloads
   When you buy a digital book, movie or album, you expect to own
   it - but you don't. Consumers International is supporting the
   development of a new IEEE standard for technology that would
   enable you to "own" digital content, so that it can be
   anonymously shared, resold and more. Read this post to find out
   more about this important proposal.
   
4. #Consumo,
   #Piratería y #CiudadaníaDigital
   Only visible on the Spanish language version of our website
   is this report of a recent event hosted by our Spanish member
   Colectivo Ecologista Jalisco at which CI was invited to speak.
   
5. Global
   Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
   The Spanish event followed on from a major world congress of
   public interest IP activists and academics, resulting in the
   signature of a Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property
   and the Public Interest.  Follow the link to that declaration in
   this blog post, and add your own signature.
   
6. Campaign
   for removal of customs duty on imported newsprint in Zambia
   This blog post describes the campaign that the Zambian Consumer
   Association will be undertaking to improve the affordability of
   printed materials in Zambia, as the successful recipient of one
   of our 2011 grants to support campaigns against public policies
   that negatively affect A2K.
   
7. Access
   to knowledge for community development in public libraries
   Here our partners eIFL (Electronic Information for
   Libraries) describe their workshop to be held on day 2 of the
   IGF in Nairobi, which is one of the few workshops to be held
   this year with an access to knowledge theme.
   
8. Campaign to
   promote Open Source Software to consumers
   Finally our Malaysian member FOMCA describes its upcoming
   campaign on open source software, as the other successful
   recipient of one of our 2011 grants to members for national
   campaigning work.
   

I hope that you will take the time to read through some of the above
posts in full if you haven't already done so.  Please also remember
that as a member of our network, you too are free to post entries to
our site!  Simply log in to our website A2Knetwork.org, then click
"Create content", then "Blog entry".

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Dr
Jeremy Malcolm
Project Coordinator
Consumers
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