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The United States, Backed By The
European Union, Japan And Canada, Has
Turned Back A Bid By Developing Nations
To Place The Internet Under The Control
Of The United Nations Or Its Member
Governments
The United States, Backed By The
European Union, Japan And Canada, Has
Turned Back A Bid By Developing Nations
To Place The Internet Under The Control
Of The United Nations Or Its Member
Governments
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The Internet in Developing Nations:
Grand Challenges
The Internet in Developing Nations:
Grand Challenges
04/11/2004 06:42 AMThe Internet in Developing Nations: Grand Challenges by Larry
Presshttp://firstmonda
y.org/issues/issue9_4/press/Abstract by
Author:This is a call for a "Grand Challenge" project
for achieving truly global connectivity. For over a decade, we have
hypothesized that the Internet could raise the quality of life in
developing nations. We have conducted hundreds of studies of the state
of the Internet and "e–readiness," done extensive training of
technicians and policy makers, run pilot studies, and held local,
regional and global conferences and workshops. After all of this
activity, Internet connectivity is nearly non–existent in rural
areas of developing nations, and far below that of developed nations
in the urban areas of developing nations. This is not to say the
activity of the past decade has been a waste. We have demonstrated the
value of the Internet and raised awareness. The United Nations and the
administrations of nearly all nations have acknowledged the potential
of the Internet. The way has been paved, and it is time to act on what
we have learned.
After outlining the work of the last
decade, we explore one possible Grand Challenge: Connecting every
village in the rural developing world to the Internet using a strategy
similar to that used in building the NSFNet. We speculate on wireless
technologies that might play a role in working toward that goal:
Terrestrial, high–altitude platform, and satellite. We conclude with
a brief discussion of alternative Grand Challenges and a call for
action. The time is ripe for an audacious project. What could we
achieve with US$15 billion and ten years time?
United Nations Votes to Study
Administration of the Internet
United Nations Votes to Study
Administration of the Internet
12/16/2003 12:35 PMUnited Nations Votes to Study Administration of the
Internethttp://partners.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/technology/15divide.htmlThe delegates at a U.N. conference on the Internet have
decided that a "working group" should be set up to consider
introducing more international oversight of the Internet and its
administrative bodies (such as ICANN, the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers, a company that has a U.S. Commerce
Department contract to coordinates Internet addresses and some other
technical issues). At the conference, delegates from the developing
countries were unsuccessful in getting the U.N. to take full
administrative control of the Internet, although they did get a
promise that ways will be explored to close the "digital divide"
between richer and poorer nations. Eli M. Noam, who heads the
Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University, notes: "Even if
it is not true, there is a perception that the U.S. government is
running the Internet."
Experts Study Developing Internet Attack
(AP)
Experts Study Developing Internet Attack
(AP)
06/24/2004 09:39 PMAP - Government and industry experts warned late Thursday of a
mysterious, large-scale Internet attack against thousands of popular
Web sites. The virus-like infection tries to implant hacker software
onto the computers of all Web site visitors.
Experts Study Developing Internet Attack
Experts Study Developing Internet Attack
06/24/2004 09:25 PMForbes Jun 25 2004 1:27AM GMT
Update 2: Experts Study Developing
Internet Attack
Update 2: Experts Study Developing
Internet Attack
06/25/2004 12:40 AMForbes Jun 25 2004 4:31AM GMT
Update 3: Experts Study Developing
Internet Attack
Update 3: Experts Study Developing
Internet Attack
06/25/2004 08:50 AMForbes Jun 25 2004 1:18PM GMT
Update 4: Experts Study Developing
Internet Attack
Update 4: Experts Study Developing
Internet Attack
06/25/2004 08:50 AMForbes Jun 25 2004 1:16PM GMT
Trade unionists fight for workers'
rights via the internet
Trade unionists fight for workers'
rights via the internet
04/13/2004 01:58 AMBBC Apr 13 2004 6:38AM GMT
Developing Nations license launched
Developing Nations license launched
09/13/2004 06:39 PMToday the Creative Commons launched a new standalone
license, dubbed Developing Nations. The
deed lays it out simply: it's an attribution-only license that
applies within developing nations. The le
gal code defines developing nations as "any nation that is not
classified as a 'high-income economy' by the World Bank." which
according to the World Bank's
site means it does not apply in these countries.
This license can be used in a few ways. It can be combined with
something currently licensed under a more restrictive license, so that
your photographs could be protected from commercial use in the United
States, but if it also carried a Developing Nations license, those
same photos could be used commerically in say, Brazil. You might also
be a musician or photographer that wants to maintain full copyright in
North America and Western Europe, but welcome use by others in the
countries of Southeast Asia. More information can be found in today's
press release.
Creative Commons Developing Nations
license
Creative Commons Developing Nations
license
09/14/2004 08:19 PM
Creative Commons
Develop
ing Nations license launched
Today the Creative Commons launched a new standalone
license, dubbed Developing Nations. The
deed lays it out simply: it's an attribution-only license that
applies within developing nations. The le
gal code defines developing nations as "any nation that is not
classified as a 'high-income economy' by the World Bank." which
according to the World Bank's
site means it does not apply in these countries.
This license can be used in a few ways. It can be combined with
something currently licensed under a more restrictive license, so that
your photographs could be protected from commercial use in the United
States, but if it also carried a Developing Nations license, those
same photos could be used commerically in say, Brazil. You might also
be a musician or photographer that wants to maintain full copyright in
North America and Western Europe, but welcome use by others in the
countries of Southeast Asia. More information can be found in today's
press release.
This is a very important development.
People have been asking for this. Many people choose non-commercial
use because they worry about NBC or CBS ripping off their work. This
provides the ability for countries with less Internet penetration to
allow local entrepreneurs to print and distribute things that would
not reach many of these people otherwise.
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China to train developing nations in
solar technologies
China to train developing nations in
solar technologies
08/27/2004 01:51 PM
China is positioning itself to
profit from the response to
global
warming and the eventual shift away from
foss
il fuels.
[Via WorldChanging.] Microsoft to give tech training for
developing nations
Microsoft to give tech training for
developing nations
01/24/2004 05:00 PMDeccan Herald Jan 24 2004 9:35PM GMT
Developing nations shouldn't respect US
copyright unless farm subsidies end
Developing nations shouldn't respect US
copyright unless farm subsidies end
01/16/2004 11:35 AMLessig points out that the US spent a hundred years ripping off
everyone else's copyrights and now expects that no one else will ever
do the same: moreover, we're demanding onerous IP regimes from
developing nations in the name of "free trade" even as we engage in
unfair trade subsidies ourselves.
The dirty little secret, however, is that we don't respect the free
trade rules that we impose on others. While the US sings the virtues
of free trade to defend maximalist intellectual property regulation,
we poison the free trade that developing nations care about most -
agriculture - by subsidizing farming in the industrialized world to
the tune of $300 billion annually. Rhetoric about family farmers
aside, most of that money passes quickly to agribusiness. This is not
Adam Smith; it is corporate welfare par excellence...
A block of powerful developing nations should first take a page from
the US Copyright Act of 1790 and enact national laws that explicitly
protect their own rights only. It would not protect foreigners.
Second, these nations should add a provision that would relax this
exemption to the extent that developed nations really opened their
borders. If we reduce, for example, the subsidy to agribusiness by 10
percent, then they would permit 10 percent of our copyrights to be
enforced (say, copyrights from the period 1923 to 1931). Reduce the
subsidy by another 10 percent, then another 10 percent could be
enforced. And so on.
LinkSun Alters Its Pricing Strategy for
Sales to Developing Nations
Sun Alters Its Pricing Strategy for
Sales to Developing Nations
06/01/2004 01:05 AMNew York Times Jun 1 2004 5:19AM GMT
U.S. lags beef exporter nations in
developing cattle ID system
U.S. lags beef exporter nations in
developing cattle ID system
12/30/2003 05:21 PMThe U.S. lags behind other major beef-exporting nations in the
development and operation of national electronic livestock ID systems
key to ensure safe beef exports.
UNDP and Microsoft Announce Technology
Partnership To Combat Poverty in
Developing Nations
UNDP and Microsoft Announce Technology
Partnership To Combat Poverty in
Developing Nations
01/23/2004 04:14 PMThe United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Microsoft Corp.
today announced a technology partnership to create and implement
information and communications technology projects that will help
developing countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Cheney: Nations Must Join in Terror
Fight (AP)
Cheney: Nations Must Join in Terror
Fight (AP)
01/24/2004 04:53 AMAP - Democratic nations must join together to fight terrorism and the
spread of the world's most dangerous weapons, but if diplomacy fails,
they must be prepared to use force, Vice President Dick Cheney said
Saturday.
Cheney Urges Nations to Join in Fight
Against Terror
Cheney Urges Nations to Join in Fight
Against Terror
01/24/2004 07:23 AMDemocratic nations must fight terrorism, but if diplomacy fails, they
must be prepared to use force, Vice President Dick Cheney told the
World Economic Forum today.
Abortion-Rights Marchers Vow to Fight
Another Bush Term
Abortion-Rights Marchers Vow to Fight
Another Bush Term
04/25/2004 10:13 PMHundreds of thousands of abortion rights supporters protested Bush
administration policies in the nation's capital.
Digital rights market to boom, study
says
Digital rights market to boom, study
says
07/01/2004 03:21 PMCompanies are ready to buy tools that will protect digital documents,
according to a recent survey of 800 IT workers.
Q Television Network Documentary
Chronicles Struggle for Gay Marriage
Rights; Network Committed to Developing
Programs That Reflect the Concerns of
the Gay and Lesbian Community
Q Television Network Documentary
Chronicles Struggle for Gay Marriage
Rights; Network Committed to Developing
Programs That Reflect the Concerns of
the Gay and Lesbian Community
06/11/2004 08:47 PM [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]
Study uses video games to fight obesity
Study uses video games to fight obesity
04/04/2005 06:46 AMUSA Today Apr 4 2005 10:54AM GMT
United Nations take over the Internet
United Nations take over the Internet
12/06/2003 05:05 AMU.N. Summit To Focus On Internet .. Please no .. response: ..
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Nations wrestle with internet age
Nations wrestle with internet age
12/15/2003 05:59 AMBBC Dec 15 2003 5:38AM ET
Check ears before you pick a fight-study
(Reuters)
Check ears before you pick a fight-study
(Reuters)
08/23/2004 02:49 PMReuters - It may be wise to check out a stranger's ears before picking
a fight, U.S. researchers
have advised.
Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over
Internet
Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over
Internet
12/08/2003 02:22 PMNew York Times Dec 8 2003 1:44PM ET
Nations to Search Internet for
Pedophiles
Nations to Search Internet for
Pedophiles
06/09/2004 12:41 PMAP via Baltimore Sun Jun 9 2004 4:05PM GMT
Nations chafe at U.S. influence over the
Internet
Nations chafe at U.S. influence over the
Internet
12/09/2003 07:21 AMtry to wrest more control .. coming to pass .. NY Times ..
reports
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Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over the
Internet
Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over the
Internet
12/08/2003 12:07 AMNew York Times Dec 7 2003 11:08PM ET
Nations narrow Internet differences
Nations narrow Internet differences
12/07/2003 06:30 PMglobetechnology.com Dec 7 2003 5:20PM ET
"Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over
the Internet"
"Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over
the Internet"
12/10/2003 10:15 PMUnited Nations Tech Summit Ends With
Internet Expansion Plans
United Nations Tech Summit Ends With
Internet Expansion Plans
12/13/2003 01:50 PMRed Nova Dec 13 2003 12:31PM ET
Developing Africa's infrastructure for
transport and internet acces
Developing Africa's infrastructure for
transport and internet acces
04/24/2004 03:36 AMWelcomeurope.com Apr 24 2004 7:28AM GMT
MOLAccess poised to be main Internet
portal for developing countries
MOLAccess poised to be main Internet
portal for developing countries
12/28/2003 05:29 PMUtusan Online Dec 28 2003 4:35PM ET
Experts Studying Developing Internet
Attack; Thousands of Sites Affected
Experts Studying Developing Internet
Attack; Thousands of Sites Affected
06/25/2004 02:04 AMXposed Jun 25 2004 5:38AM GMT
Powell Opposes Internet Phone
Regulation: Government Interference
Could Stifle Developing Technology, FCC
Chie
Powell Opposes Internet Phone
Regulation: Government Interference
Could Stifle Developing Technology, FCC
Chie
12/02/2003 03:01 AMWashington Post Dec 2 2003 2:53AM ET
FCC Chairman's astounding statement of
Internet Rights
FCC Chairman's astounding statement of
Internet Rights
02/18/2004 12:00 PMFCC Chairman Michael Powell recently gave a talk called "The Digital
Broadband Migration: Toward a Regulatory Regime for the Internet Age"
at the University of Colorado School of Law. Powell sets out some
"Internet Freedoms" that he believes Americans are entitled to: these
are astonishingly radical ideas to hear coming out of the mouth of
the Chairman of the FCC.
- Freedom to Access Content. First, consumers should have access to
their choice of legal content.
- Freedom to Use Applications. Second, consumers should be able to
run applications of their choice.
- Freedom to Attach Personal Devices. Third, consumers should be
permitted to attach any devices they choose to the connection in their
homes.
- Freedom to Obtain Service Plan Information. Fourth, consumers
should receive meaningful information regarding their service plans.
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CIS Amicus Brief Asks for Legal Rights
for Internet Journalists
CIS Amicus Brief Asks for Legal Rights
for Internet Journalists
04/12/2005 03:58 AM
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society filed an amicus brief
today which I signed together with a number of others. Go
CIS!
Amic
us Brief Asks for Legal Rights for Internet Journalists
CIS filed an amicus brief today on behalf of The First Amendment
Project, Internet journalists and bloggers and others asking the court
in the Apple v.
Does case to treat online publishers the same rights as their
colleagues who publish in more traditional formats. Downl
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