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

[Hiroshi Kawamura]

Dear Karen:

Thank you very much for your invitation.
Dipendra Manocha, DAISY Consortium Indian Office, is representing the DAISY
Consortium at IGF in Egypt.
I forward your invitation to Dipendra.

Best

Hiroshi 

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From: karen banks [mailto:karenb at gn.apc.org] 
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:09 PM
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Subject: [governance] Invitation: Launch of GISW 2009 on online access to
information and knowledge - Mon Nov 16 1830

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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