[LINK] Fwd: UN hosts conference on safeguarding freedom of expression on the internet

[marghanita at ramin.com.au]

Hi All,

Some more on the UN activities.
> The first phase of World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) agreed to pursue the dialogue on Internet Governance in the Declaration of Principles and Action Plan adopted on 12 December 2003, with a view to preparing the ground for a decision at the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis in November 2005. In this regard, the first phase of the Summit requested the United Nations Secretary-General to establish a Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). The WGIG has been asked to present the result of its work in a report "for consideration and appropriate action for the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis 2005.
http://www.wgig.org/

I thought Australia was represented on the working group but could not
find them at http://www.wgig.org/members.html

The UNDP-APDIP is running a  Survey on Internet Policy Issues in the 
Asia-Pacific Region see
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/

The survey is worth checking out, if only to see how many of the scripts
work in your browser. On my Mozilla Debian Package 1.4-2 - Japanese,
Chinese, Korean, Lao, Mongolian, Pashto (not sure where this is), Farsi
(Persian), Thai and Vietnamese work OK - but ofcourse I can't read them.

However, Khmer came up with squares and Indonesian is ofcourse written
in the Roman Script.

Marghanita
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