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The evolution of Internet governance - beyond Internet freedom

Submitted by Jeremy Malcolm on Mon, 18/02/2013 - 08:56
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32 AnonymousLast year's ITU WCIT conference inflamed the community's fears of the extension of intergovernmental control over the Internet. Whilst this fear was legitimate, an over-emphasis on the ITU can obscure the fact that the Internet is already controlled in undemocratic ways - often by governments, through both national and global processes, but also by corporate interests. It also obscures the fact that government action is sometimes necessary to uphold the rights of Internet users, just as government inaction can sometimes support their freedoms.

Renforcement de la coopération dans l'élaboration des politiques Internet - déclaration à la réunion CSTD à Genève

Submitted by Jeremy Malcolm on Fri, 18/05/2012 - 03:49
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14 UN logoMon nom est Romain Houéhou, du réseau africain de consommation TIC et également représentant de Consumers International aujourd'hui. Consumers International est la Fédération mondiale des associations de consommateurs avec 220 membres dans 115 pays.

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.