[governance] Invitation: Launch of GISW 2009 on online access to information and knowledge - Mon Nov 16 1830

[karen banks]

Dear colleagues attending the IGF

APC would like to invite you to the launch of our latest edition of
Global Information Society Watch - this year focussing on access to
online information and knowledge.

The launch will take place at 6.30pm on Monday at the
Lobby next to the SIC Restaurant, Sharm El-Sheikh International Congress 
Centre.

Copies of the publication will be available at the launch, and light 
refreshments will be available.

We do hope some of you can come along and join us.

Regards

Karen Banks
APC

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INVITATION
LAUNCH OF GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY WATCH 2009
Access to online information and knowledge
- advancing human rights and democracy

Monday November 16 6.30pm

Lobby next to the SIC Restaurant
Sharm El-Sheikh International Congress Centre
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and the Humanist
Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos) invite you
to the launch of the third edition of GISWatch.

The report unpacks the key issues impacting on access to online
information and knowledge, including discussions on intellectual
property rights, knowledge rights, open standards and access to
educational materials and libraries.

The report also offers an institutional overview and a reflection on
indicators that track access to information and knowledge.  48 country
reports –-ten more than last year-- analyse the status of access to
online information and knowledge in countries as diverse as the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Mexico, Switzerland and Kazakhstan,
while regional overviews offer a bird’s eye perspective on trends in
North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East,
South Asia and Europe.

For the first time there is an innovate section that visually maps
global rights as seen through the lens of Google searches, as well as a
visual analysis of Twitter messages sent out during the recent Iranian
political crisis.

Print copies will be distributed at the launch.

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“GISWatch has taken up the difficult and incredibly important task of
understanding the converging issues of freedom of expression, access to
knowledge and information and digital rights in a global, comparative
context. Many of these issues have come to the fore in policy
conversations in the past decade, but researchers, advocates and
policy-makers have lacked a framework for mapping and comparing them
globally. Now they have one.” – Joe Karaganis, Social Science Research
Council

“I particularly liked the measuring section. The knowledge economy needs
indices that are both qualitative and quantitative. Keeping human rights
     and human development  central in the indicators gives ‘soul’ to the
measurement. This in my view is one of  most balanced access to
information publications in the post-WSIS period.” – Dr Buhle
Mbambo-Thata, Executive Director, University of South Africa (UNISA)
Library Services

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Global Information Society Watch 2009
will be available online from November 16 at
www.GISWatch.org

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