[governance] GNI

[Rui Correia]

Hi Wolfgang

As the CPJ correspondent for Southern Africa + Lusophone Africa, herewith
the official CPJ text on the GNI:

" Protecting journalists in cyberspace

When Chinese journalist Shi Tao was sentenced in 2004 to 10 years in prison
for sending pro-democracy information using his personal Yahoo! e-mail
account, CPJ became concerned, along with other human rights
organizations, about the responsibilities of communications and information
companies. Shi's case became the catalyst for human rights groups,
academics, socially responsible investors, and the communications and
information industries to work together to establish a set of guidelines to
protect and advance the rights of freedom of expression and privacy
worldwide.

To that end, CPJ was proud to be a part of the Global Network
Initiativelaunched last month. CPJ joined a coalition of Internet
companies, including
Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Google, as well as academics, investors, and other
human rights groups, to draw up a set of principles, or guidelines to
protect privacy and free expression. Companies in the communication and
information industries that sign on commit to following these guidelines
when doing business in countries that monitor or censor the press.

Robert Mahoney discusses CPJ's participation in the Global Network
Initiative on the CPJ
Blog<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001aPTHdW_LbJ_rojLqt3HILh6ed75d700zmQRWKENYpS5xC38-ZuvxHFpnQowxtbM30nE_gmVL4WyzBj6x2jvFcIJIl0OptcRcB4nZAxb-eJHX4uJMFdUY_A6FekY_ViiyelGoYnrSDGjtctSDkhrAXHTrhufFKwrx8gtCC0FzrhgjccFM5CccDzp2WyICCfS1>
."

Regards,

Rui

On 24/11/2008, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang <
wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:
>
> Does somebody know this project called "Global Network Initiative"? What is
> behind this? Is it linked to IGF/ICANN issues?
>
> http://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org/index.php
>
> Wolfgang
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