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Adding bookmarks
conferences are entered under "C" with dates yyyy/mm/dd, summits under World, all else autom. sorted alphabetically
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thomruddy
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Calendar
Month by month or downloadable
http://www.opendemocracy.net/other_content/world_calendar_may03.jsp |
thomruddy
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Calendar of NGO conferences
NPO /NGO Media and Technology
http://amcgee.freeshell.org/mtcalendar.html |
thomruddy
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Chronology of global digital divide events
Emphasis on G-8, UN ICT Task Force, World Summit
http://www.hsw.fhso.ch/ruddy/chrono.htm |
thomruddy
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Civicus
"A growing alliance of citizens and organisations from all over the world who believe that locally and globally active citizenship will and should determine our future"
http://www.civicus.org/ |
thomruddy
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Civil @ SemantiCat
SemantiCat = Internet Catalog based on Associative Semantic Net
http://semanticat.com/c/civil.htm |
a_semanticat...
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Civil Society Democracy Project (CivSoc)
CivSoc is a project of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and links to ICANN, ACLU, and EPIC; see also Conference, 2002/05/16-19 and Privaterra
http://www.cpsr.org/internetdemocracy/ |
thomruddy
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Civil Society Plenary listserv
Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space, claiming to be sole legitimate representation
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary |
thomruddy
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Civil Society Secretariat, center for channelling input to WSIS
located in ITU's Varembé Building, visible as No.2 on http://www.itu.int/aboutitu/reachitu.html; see also http://www.hsw.fhso.ch/ruddy/nonanglo.htm
http://www.geneva2003.org |
thomruddy
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Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation
see also ICT Development Agenda and Markle
http://www.cto.int/ |
thomruddy
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Communication Initiative
Canadian portal with Events Calendar|Training|University Degrees|Awards, etc.
http://www.comminit.com/ |
thomruddy
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Communication Rights in the Information Society CRIS
Is the 'Information Society' a useful concept for Civil Society?
http://www.comunica.org/cris/documents/issues/infosoc.rtf |
thomruddy
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Communication Rights in the Information Society CRIS
Public-service broadcasters' mailing list on the WSIS, see also Voices 21 + Development + World Dialog on Regulation + World Social Forum
http://www.comunica.org/cris/ |
thomruddy
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Comunica
Workshop organizer on radio at Conference GlobalCN2001, see also Voices 21 + Development NGOs
http://comunica.org/ |
thomruddy
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Conference Scholarship Fund for grants through conference organizers
InfoDev, including the World Bank
http://www.infodev.org/icsf/ |
thomruddy
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Conference of NGOs in consultative relationship with the United Nations
plays a leading facilitator role in the WSIS prep. process
http://www.ngocongo.org/ |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2001/09/25-26, Vienna
The Digital Divide, http://www.global-society-dialogue.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalsocietydialogue |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2001/10/12, Zurich
Getting Beyond the Global Digital Divide
http://www.hsw.fhso.ch/ruddy/Workshop_2.htm |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2001/10/27-29, Alexandria, Virginia
Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
http://www.tprc.org/TPRC01/program01.htm |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2001/11/12-16, Midrand, near Johannesburg, South Africa
ITU Telecom Africa: "Bridging the Digital Divide"
http://www.itu.int/AFRICA2001/exhibition/ |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2001/11/19-20, Geneva
Communication as a human right in the info society: Issues for the WSIS. A Seminar for Public Service Media and Civil Society, s.a. Platform
http://www.wacc.org.uk/resources/action_archive/action239/platform_wsis.html |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2001/12/5-7, Buenos Aires, Argentina
II World Congress of Citizens Networks, see also Global CN
http://www.globalcn2001.org/ |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/02/08, Paris
Infostructure in developing countries
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ict_ngo/ngos.shtml |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/02/11, Paris
Cultural diversity, public domain and fair use
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ict_ngo/ngos.shtml |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/02/18, Paris
Freedom of expression in the Information Society
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ict_ngo/ngos.shtml |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/02/22, Paris
Education in and for the Information Society
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ict_ngo/ngos.shtml |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/03/10-14, Accra, Ghana
ICANN Public Forum, DNSO general assembly, Names Council meeting, etc.
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-21jan02.htm |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/03/25-27, Heerlen / Maastricht, the Netherlands
Global E-Quality: Rethinking ICTs in Africa, Asia and Latin America
http://www.infonomics.nl/globalequality/index.htm |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/04/07-09, Dakar, Senegal
Gouvernance et partenariats dans la société de l'information
http://www.osiris.sn |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/04/14-20, Beijing, China
Euro-China Co-operation Forum on the Information Society
http://www.eurochina2002.com/default.htm |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/04/15-17, Paris
Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ifap/meetings.shtml#0402 |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/04/22, Paris
New Round for NGO Consultation on the World Summit on the Information Society
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/news/2002/020326_wsis.shtml |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/04/29, Geneva
Launch of UN ICT TF European Regional network, s.a. UN ICT
http://www.unece.org/etrades/ict/ictright.htm |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/05/16-19, Seattle WA, USA
"Shaping the Network Society", see also CivSoc
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02 |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/05/25-30, Bamako, Mali
Préparation africaine du Sommet mondial sur la société de l'information
http://www.geneva2003.org/bamako2002 |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/06/17-18, New York
UN General Assembly meets on ICT
http://www.unicttaskforce.org/news/assembly.asp |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/06/18-21, Washington,DC
Internet Society INET 2002
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/02/ |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/06/24-28, Bucharest, Romania
ICANN considers how best to reorganize.
http://www.icann.org/meetings/ |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/06/26-27, Kananaskis, Canada
G-8 Summit with DOT Force
http://www.g8.gc.ca/ |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/06/27-29, Mainz, Germany - by invitation only
UNESCO, German Section, Bonn / ZDF Television, Mainz/ the German Foreign Office, Berlin: "Information Cultures and Information Interests" (ICII) , see also Nethics
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=1742&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1020758333 |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/07/01-05, Geneva
First PrepCom to World Summit
http://www.geneva2003.org |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/07/08-26, London
Global Civil Society Summer School Course
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/Summer.htm |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/07/10-12, Geneva
UNCTAD Expert Meeting on e-Strategies, Electronic Commerce Strategies for Development
http://www.unctad.org/ecommerce/ecommerce_en/events_en.htm#jul02 |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/07/14-19, Geneva
World Civil Society Forum, see also World Civil Society below
http://www.worldcivilsociety.org/en/wg_infosoc.htm |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/10/07-13, Montreal, Canada
Third Global Congress on Community Networking in the Digital Era, see also Global Community Networking
http://www.globalcn.org/montreal2002/en/home_en.html |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/10/08-11, Montreux, Switzerland
3rd World Summit on Internet and Multimedia
http://www.internetworldsummit.org/ |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/10/13-16, Montreal
Civil Society and the Democratization of Global Governance
http://www.fimcivilsociety.org/g02/english/index.html |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2002/11/07-09 , Bucharest, Romania
European regional preparatory conference on the WSIS
http://www.wsis-romania.ro/ |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2003/02/18-25, Geneva
Visions of the Information Society 2003
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/visions/Conference/index.html |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2003/03/10-11, Paris
International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science
http://www.codata.org/03march-intlsymp.htm |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2003/03/24-2003/04/04, Geneva
Second PrepCom to World Summit
http://www.geneva2003.org |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2003/04/01-04, New York
13th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy
http://www.cfp2003.org/ |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2003/05/21, in Bonn, Germany
May 21, 2003, Germany, ICT Development Forum, "attendence by invitation only", speakers include a former President of Bolivia and James Wolfensohn.
http://www.devforum.org/main |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2003/06/22-26, Montreal,Canada
ICANN June 2003 meeting
http://www.icann.org/montreal/ |
thomruddy
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Conference, 2003/10/05-16, Tunis
World Engineering Congress
http://www.wfeo-cic.org/ |
thomruddy
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Conferences 2003 per official ITU Calendar
http://www.itu.int/wsis/preparatory/events_calendar.asp?year=2003&month=0 |
thomruddy
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Creative Radio
see also Media Action International
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/creative-radio |
thomruddy
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Democratic Internet, Germany
initiative of the Bertelsmann Foundation
http://www.democratic-internet.de/pages/english/main.html |
thomruddy
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Development NGOs and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
MacBride Roundtable, 1999 doc. en français/ en español, s.a. Voices 21
http://www.comunica.org/itu_ngo/ |
thomruddy
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Dieoff Brain Food
energy economics newsletter to http://dieoff.org/page1.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dieoff |
thomruddy
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Digital Europe project
"Two of the most powerful drivers of change with European economies are the explosion of digital technologies and the shift towards sustainable development."
http://www.digitalfutures.org.uk/ |
thomruddy
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Digital Governance
another discussion group on Yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalgovernance/ |
thomruddy
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Digital Opportunity
News channel jointly operated by OneWorld.net and Digital Divide Network
http://www.digitalopportunity.org/ |
thomruddy
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Digital Partners
"Second Baramati Initiative on ICT for Development"
http://www.digitalpartners.org |
thomruddy
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Digital divide recommendations
being debated at WSIS, DOT Force, GBDe and UNESCO
http://www.hsw.fhso.ch/ruddy/themestable.htm |
thomruddy
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E-voting project in Geneva
Exposés de M. Robert Hensler, Chancelier d'Etat de la République et canton de Genève,
http://http://www.geneve.ch/chancellerie/E-Government/e-voting.html |
wcsf_vanhove
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Environment and ICT Caucus to World Summit WSIS
Coordination of NGOs working on this thematic combination
http://www.wsis.ethz.ch |
thomruddy
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Equitable Spread of Technologies (IT)
another discussion group here on Yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/espots/ |
thomruddy
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Fondation du Devenir
channelling input esp. from Francophone countries, see also "World Summit on the Info.Soc." below
http://www.fdd.org |
thomruddy
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Geneva Briefing Book
Support for NGOs
http://www.genevabriefingbook.com/chapters/ngosupport.html |
thomruddy
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Geneva International Conference Centre
Centre International de Conferences Geneve CICG
http://www.cicg.ch/ |
thomruddy
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Ghana Computer Literacy & Distance Education
another discussion group here on Yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ghaclad-discussion |
thomruddy
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Global Civil Society Yearbook
with a section on The Internet and Global Civil Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/Yearbook |
thomruddy
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Global Community Networking
see also Global Community Networks, Conference, 2001/12/5-7, Buenos Aires, and Conference, 2002/10/07-13, Montreal
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Globalcn2000/ |
thomruddy
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Global Community Networks Partnership
s.a. Global Community Networking
http://www.globalcn.org/ |
thomruddy
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Global Internet Liberty Campaign
GILC's links to member organizations
http://www.gilc.org/about/members.html |
thomruddy
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Global Knowledge Partnership
GKP and its very active listserv GKDevelopment
http://www.globalknowledge.org |
thomruddy
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Green-ecommerce.com
Environment mailing list
http://www.green-ecommerce.com/linktank.html |
thomruddy
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Helvetas
channelling input especially from Deutschschweiz, see also "World Summit on the Info.Soc." below
http://www.interportal.ch |
thomruddy
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Humanities Library Project
Ongoing project headed by a subscriber to this list
http://www.humaninfo.org/ |
thomruddy
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ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
http://www.icannatlarge.com |
thomruddy
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ICT Development Agenda
summary and paper copies of Roadmap study, see also download at Markle and CTO
http://www.ictdevagenda.org/frame.php?dir=07&sd=10&sid=2&id=231 |
thomruddy
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ICT for Development
An official parallel event to WSIS by the Swiss Agency for Development and cooperation (SDC) and the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
http://www.ict-4d.org/Marketplace/en/default.htm |
thomruddy
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ICT for Development Digital Library
"one-click" access to bulky documents for users on low bandwidth connections
http://www.ictdevlibrary.org |
thomruddy
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ICTs for Development, online course
another Yahoo Group, by Barbara Fillip
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ICTs/ |
thomruddy
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Information Ecology
another discussion group here on Yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/information-ecology/ |
thomruddy
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Linux Society Documents and Links:
Proposals for the WSIS drafts
http://thinman.dyndns.org/wsis/wsis_linux_society.html |
thomruddy
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Markle Foundation
Partnership for Global Policy Participation Roadmap Report (50p.)
http://www.markle.org/globalpolicy/ |
thomruddy
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Media Action International, Geneva
see also Creative Radio
http://www.mediaaction.org/ |
thomruddy
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NGO Manager Magazine
Management tools and research for nonprofits worldwide
http://www.ngomanager.org/ |
thomruddy
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National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Quality Standards Task Group (QSTG)
"to enable voluntary organisations to find ways of improving their effectiveness"
http://www.askncvo.org.uk/asp/search/microsites/main.aspx?siteID=3&sID=29 |
thomruddy
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Nethics, a German site
see also conference, 2002/06/27-29, Mainz
http://www.nethics.net |
thomruddy
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OneWorld
Daily news syndication on human rights, social justice and sustainable development
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/oneworld/?u |
thomruddy
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Platform for the Democratisation of Communication
s.a. Voices 21 and Development NGOs + Conference, 2001/11/19
http://www.wacc.org.uk/resources/action_archive/action232/itu_advocacy.html |
thomruddy
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PrepCom WSIS, 2002/07/01-05, Geneva
see also World Summit
http://www.geneva2003.org/home/events/events01.html |
thomruddy
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PrepCom WSIS, 2003/02/17-28, Geneva
see also World Summit
http://www.geneva2003.org |
thomruddy
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PrepCom, WSIS, 2002/07/01-05, Geneva
WSIS PrepCom mailing list
https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/wsis-prep1 |
thomruddy
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PrepCom, WSIS, 2003/02/17-28, Geneva
short links to current info.
http://www.prepcom.net/ |
thomruddy
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PrepCom, WSIS, 2003/02/17-28, Geneva
Sponsored by the Boell Foundation, partly in German
http://www.worldsummit2003.de/ |
thomruddy
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PrepCom, WSIS, 2003/02/17-28, Geneva
To join: send a message to alt.wsis-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
http://alt.wsis@lists.riseup.net. |
thomruddy
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Privaterra
specialising in issues concerning privacy initiatives to help NGOs both preserve and protect their data.
http://www.privaterra.org |
wcsf_vanhove
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Privaterra "helps protect human rights workers by providing privacy and security technology"
see also the Civil Society Democracy Project (CivSoc) of CPSR
http://privaterra.cpsr.org |
thomruddy
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Quick Links on the Information Society
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quicklinks/ |
thomruddy
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Quick Links on the Information Society
Legal and regulatory aspects, market and technology
http://www.qlinks.net/ |
thomruddy
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Red Rock Eater list
another list on Yahoo.com, this one a classic on "the social and political aspects of computing and networking"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagre/ |
thomruddy
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Semantic cloud: HISTORY
http://semantic-clouds.blogspot.com/2006/12/semantic-cloud-history-0.html |
a_semanticat...
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Sustainable Development and Technology
another Yahoo Group, this one at U.CA at Berkeley
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TaSED/ |
thomruddy
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Sustainable Digital Economy (e3digital)
Workshop speaker Nevin Cohen's discussion group
http://www.topica.com/lists/e3digital/ |
thomruddy
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Technology for the Nonprofit/Philanthropic Sector
Deborah's blog
http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/ |
deborah909
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The Linux Society / ThinMan Projects
Global IN-Reach: Village cultures reaching OUT to the world w/their own ICTs
http://www.thinman.com |
john_van_v
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Think Tank Focal Point
Part of WSIS Civil Society Bureau, see also http://www.funglode.org/wsis/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/think-tank-wsis-csb/ |
thomruddy
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UNESCO's Information for All Programme
emphasises ethics, multilingualism and universal access
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ifap/ |
thomruddy
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United Nations
Key Documents for NGOs
http://www.un.org/partners/civil_society/docs/key_ngo.htm |
thomruddy
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United Nations "Go between" Newsletter for NGOs
http://www.unsystem.org/ngls/documents/publications.en/go.between/index.htm |
thomruddy
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United Nations ICT Task Force
http://www.unicttaskforce.org |
thomruddy
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United Nations ICT Task Force Europe
another discussion group, see also Conference, 2002/04/29
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/un-ict-tf-eucas/ |
thomruddy
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United Nations ICT Task Force Europe and Central Asia
http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/135519/ |
thomruddy
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United Nations Training
promoting education
http://www.unitar.org |
thomruddy
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Voices 21
"A Global Movement for People's Voices in Media and Communication in the 21st Century", s.a. Development NGOs + Platform
http://www.comunica.org/v21/statement.htm |
thomruddy
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World Bank Gateway on Digital Divide
results of search
http://developmentgateway.org/content/search?searchtext=divide&page_id=3719 |
thomruddy
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World Bank Knowledge for Development
Framework and distance-learning course for CS leaders involved in advising, developing, and implementing strategies for the effective creation, dissemination, and use of knowledge in their countries.
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/wbikp/knowledge.html |
thomruddy
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World Civil Society Forum 2002/07/14-19, Geneva
NEW - all the reports of the different sessions online
http://www.worldcivilsociety.org |
wcsf_vanhove
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World Civil Society Forum WCSF-Coordinators
closed group for conference organization
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WCSF-Coordinators |
thomruddy
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World Civil Society Forum follow-up
database of NGOs
http://www.ngo-info.org |
thomruddy
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World Congress on Information Technology, 2002/02/27-03/01, Adelaide, Australia
by the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA)
http://www.worldcongress2002.org/ |
thomruddy
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World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies
Generates and Disseminates New Knowledge on Regulation and Governance for Network Economies, see also Communication Rights
http://www.regulateonline.org/ |
thomruddy
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World Social Forum 2002/01/31-02/05, Porto Alegre, Brazil
see also Communication Rights
http://www.worldsocialforum.org/ |
thomruddy
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World Summit on Internet and Multimedia, 2002/10/08-11, Montreux , Switzerland
see also Conference, 2002/10/08-11
http://www.internetworldsummit.org |
thomruddy
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World Summit on Sustainable Development "Rio +10", 2002, Johannesburg, South Africa
UNEP, September 2-11, 2002
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/ |
thomruddy
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World Summit on the Information Society
Background documents
http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/background.asp?lang=en&c_type=dg |
thomruddy
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World Summit on the Information Society
Views from Non-Anglo-Saxon Cultures
http://www.hsw.fhso.ch/ruddy/nonanglo.htm |
thomruddy
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World Summit on the Information Society 2003, Geneva
International Telecommunication Union ITU, Dec.10-12, 2003; see also PrepCom WSIS
http://www.itu.int/wsis/ |
thomruddy
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World Summit on the Information Society 2003, Geneva
official Website of Switzerland, host country
http://www.wsisgeneva2003.org/ |
thomruddy
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World Summit on the Information Society 2005, Tunis
http://www.unic-tunis.intl.tn/sommetinfo.htm |
thomruddy
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World Telecom 2003
ITU Telecom World trade fair, Oct.12-18, 2003
http://www.itu.int/WORLD2003/ |
thomruddy
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World Telecom 2003, Geneva
Accommodations
http://www.welcome-telecom03.com/ |
thomruddy
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World Telecom 2003, Geneva
Plans for expansion of facilities in Geneva
http://www.geneve.ch/halle6/plaquette.htm |
thomruddy
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