Hi Andy and All
Andy, www.wsisblogs.org, the aggregator of blogs written by civil
society participants in WSIS which you set up, was an invaluable
resource during WSIS. It remains so afterwards, offering a follow-up on
topics that were or should have been treated during the Summit: thank you.
Below, the Feedblitz e-mail alert for yesterday's posts by
"wsisbloggers". It's worth also trying the posts at Netzblitz, even for
those of you who don't know German, because the links often lead to
pages in English
cheers
Claude
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** There are 10 new entries in "WSISBlogs.org" -
http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/KMGBDLD4GD.html
* “E je ki a maa so oro naa…” -
http://www.gbengasesan.com/blog/?p=55
I grew up listening to the local radio and TV stations, but when I
inched closer to the age when you got curious about news and happenings
beyond your borders, my elder brother introduced me to VOA. Then BBC
crept into my life, CNN followed — and in the wake of my
Arabic interest, Al-jazeera reared its sharp head. The major worry I kep
having was the need to understand why news about Nigeria or Africa had
to come from outside our shores before it could be regarded as
authentic. I know that almost all newsrooms in Nigera monitor the
“big few”, and that explains why you see major
headlines of national dailies follow after the earlier reports of CNN,
BBC, AFP and others.
In fairness to African broadcasting, one must however note the role that
the likes of NTA, SABC and others play. But how objective are the items
on these networks (but is there really any objective news?) The height
of this was when some airline disasters happened late last year. Most
Nigerians trusted the foreign networks for reliable news, while the
incidents wee actually a few miles away from such homes. When will
Africa start reporting Africa? In the battle between the hunter and the
hunted, the one who lives to tell the story is the
“owner” of history. Part of the reason why many
Africans assume the role of “inferiors” is because
of the lack of our historical pedigree! Civilisation has its roots in
Africa, and iur sons and daughters keep feeding the world with
innovative creations in times of need.
In the next few hours, I hope I can lay my hands on one of those
articles that make your head “swell” (as it is often
said here) when you read them. Till then, let me share some great news
with you. Received from Chifu through the Black Data Processing
Associates (BDPA-Africa) mailing list, this article says that Africa
will start telling her own story by March 2007. You can get the entire
story by following this link, but let me share some few inspiring lines
with you:
- “African will within a year be having a television network
reporting on the continent for the world. Leading business people,
broadcasters and journalists have modelled the new network along the
lines of Arabic satellite network, Al Jazeera. Salim Amin who is the
head of the group said the aim is to tell the African story through
Africans. African Television is to raise an initial capital of 35
million US dollars. The network aims to go on air from March in
2007.”
- “We want to show the success stories as well as the
failures, and show there is more to us than famines and wars,”
he (Salim Amin) said. “We need to remind ourselves, as well as
others, that there are people here who are contented with their lives.
My father always talked about how important it was for Africans to
receive news from other Africans.”
- “Driven by this vision of Africans reporting on Africa for
the world, a group of professio
* ICTs a need for women's movements -
http://blog.apc.org/en/index.shtml?x=3718946
The Bamako Polycentric World Social Forum (WSF) has an overwhelming 70
percent of particpants who are being women from all walks of life in
Africa and the World over.
* Feminist dialogue urges women to embrace ICTs -
http://blog.apc.org/en/index.shtml?x=3718944
The womens movement meeting at the third Feminist dialogue have
recognised access to technologies as one of the strategies which they
need to use to advance themselves as a movement.
* Bamako WSF march spells out Another Africa was possible -
http://blog.apc.org/en/index.shtml?x=3718546
Traffic came to a stand still in Mali during the kick off of the
Polycentric World Social Forum (WSF) as about 6000 people marched in
Bamakos Independence Statue through to the stadium called Stade Omini
Sports Modibo Keita carrying banners with different solidarity messages
saying Another Africa was possible.
* Inquirer: DRM ist eine grosse Lüge -
http://www.netzpolitik.org/2006/inquirer-drm-ist-eine-grosse-luge/
Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp verweist auf einen lesenswerten
Kommentar im Inquirer zum Thema “Digital Restriction
Management”: DRM is a complete lie.
Basically, you and I are the innocent bystanders in this drive by
shooting called DRM. The big companies are at war, and we are the
casualties. So, they have to send their flying monkeys to sue single
moms, 12 year olds and octogenarians to make it appear that they are
doing what they say. Bull, they are lying. The sad part is that the
public, and worse yet, the governments are listening to them.
The misinformation campaign seems to have sunk in, people
don’t even question that DRM is about protecting content any
more, even though it has never done so. It hurts the users, and hurts
the companies making it, but they have their eyes on the big prize. DRM
infections are the only way to keep their rivals at bay, lobbing a few
bullets at the users is a low price to pay for that.
Kristian Köhntopp kommentiert den Artikel abschliessend treffend:
Der Inquirer sieht DRM hier also lediglich als ein Kriegsinstrument der
großen Medienplayer untereinander, mit dem sie sich gegenseitig aus dem
Markt drängen wollen. Darum die Schüsse von Microsoft gegen Apple, von
Blu Ray gegen HD DVD, und all das andere Maneuvrieren der Parteien
untereinander, und der Fehlschlag mit dem gemeinsamen Download-Service
aller Rechteinhaber. Der Inquirer bezeichnet die Situation für den
Kunden ziemlich bezeichnend als “that drive-by shooting that
is DRM”.
* Neues zum Urheberrecht -
http://www.netzpolitik.org/2006/neues-zum-urheberrecht/
Im aktuellen Spiegel gibt es einen längeren Artikel zur
Urheberrechtsreform, der auch online verfügbar ist: Fluch der
Silberlinge. Und Heise berichtet über die Kritik des Aktionsbündnis
“Urheberrecht für Bildung und Wissenschaft” am
aktuellen Entwurf zum “2, Korb”:
“Rückwärts gerichtete Schutzinteressen” bei der
Urheberrechtsreform beklagt.
Donnerstag ist die Anhörung der Bundesregierung zum 2. Korb. Bei der
Einladung durch das Bundesjustizministerium wurden Privatkopie.net und
das Netzwerk Neue Medien irgendwie vergessen. Wir mussten uns selbst
einladen und haben jetzt endlich die Erlaubnis bekommen, dort
Verbraucherinteressen zu vertreten. Ich bin mal gespannt, bei der
letzten Anhörung vor einem Jahr war die Unterhaltungslobby zahlenmässig
allen anderen Interessenverbänden weit überlegen. Was es nicht alles an
Lobbygruppen der Film- und Musikindustrie gibt…
* China rekrutiert Jugendiche als Internet-Spitzel -
http://www.netzpolitik.org/2006/china-rekrutiert-jugendiche-als-internet-spitzel/
Der Copyright-War macht auch in China nicht Halt. China möchte das
Problem von Urheberrechtsverletzungen mittels einer grossen
Spitzel-Armee in den Griff bekommen. Dabei sollen 200.000 Jugendliche
aufgefordert werden, die Zollbehörde zu unterstützen. Zu den Zielgruppen
gehören Pfadfinder und andere Mitglieder von organisierten Gruppen. Als
Mitglieder der so genannten «Jugendliga für die Verfolgung von
Internet-Piraterie» sollen sie eine schwarze Liste von Websites überwachen.
* Vatican goes Copyright -
http://www.netzpolitik.org/2006/vatican-goes-copyright/
Das Copyright-Wettrüsten möchte auch der Vatikan-Konzern nicht
verpassen. Alle päpstlichen Worte der letzten 50 Jahre, darunter
verschiedene Enzyklien, wurden nun mittels einer Bestimmung unter das
Urheberrecht des Konzern-eigenen Verlages “Libreria Editrice
Vaticana” gestellt. Für die Nutzung der Worte von Gottes
Stellvertretern sollen jetzt Lizenzgebühren genommen werden. Zwischen 3%
und 5% der Verkaufspreise von Büchern, die das Wort Gottes enthalten,
sollen als Lizenzgebühren an den Vatikan abgetreten werden. Dies ist
natürlich umstritten, da viele wohl der Meinung sind, Gottes Worte
sollten möglichst alle erreichen und dementsprechend kostenlos zu nutzen
sein. Mehr dazu gibt es bei der Times und bei Gulli.
* Neues Image für Microsoft -
http://www.netzpolitik.org/2006/neues-image-fur-microsoft/
Microsoft will dieses Jahr 120 Millionen Dollar in eine globale
Imagekampagne investieren. Dabei sind 32 Länder ausgewählt worden, in
den Genuss der Werbebotschaften zu kommen. Ziel der Kampagne ist ein
anderes Bild von Microsoft, damit sie nicht mehr als “die
riesige amerikansiche Firma” dastehen. Der Werbe-Manager von
Microsoft erklärt die Ziele nochmal genauer:
“We wanted to be very specific about what we are doing in each
country in education, innovation, economic opportunity and
security,”
Explizit werden in dem Zeitungsartikel Frankreich und Taiwan genannt.
Dies zeigt, dass sich die Kampagne vermutlich gezielt auf die Länder
richtet, die mit Linux und Freier Software sympathisieren. Und wenn ich
mir die Ziele anschaue, ist Deutschland sicherlich mit dabei. Die
Argumentation ist ja hier nicht neu.
* links for 2006-01-23 -
http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogs/RConversation?m=265
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Ah Q! Performance Project
(tags: china chineseinternetresearch)
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Joho the Blog: The end of coverage
(tags: webcred citizenmedia journalism blog blogs)
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Joho the Blog: [Berkman] Dan Gillmor
(tags: citizenmedia berkman webcred journalism blog blogs)
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fixtheworld: Response to The Financial Times
Rony Abovitz reflects on his role in the Davos Easongate one year later
(tags: Easongate davos WEF webcred blog blogs)
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Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » I'm pushing for more transparency,
here's why
"Note to Microsoft employees: if you aren't transparent about when you
deal with governments you will hand your competitors a huge advantage."
(tags: microsoft search surveillance freespeech trust doj privacy)
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» MSN Search On DOJ Demands I
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