VIENNA, 26 July 2007 – Implications of Internet regulation on media freedom in the OSCE region are the focus of a report presented by Miklós Haraszti, the Organization’s Representative on Freedom of the Media, in Vienna today. The publication offers case studies from different parts of the OSCE region on how governments, civil society and [...]
In Geneva today the last round of Open Consultations before the November 2007 IGF in Rio is held. Discussions on the schedule of the Rio IGF, a presentation by the host country of the logistical arrangements, questions around the rotation among the members of the Advisory group and the review of the desirability of the [...]
Kathleen Parker has an interesting Washington Post column today (“When do rules for the common good cross the line?”), revealing the difference in worldviews between conservatives and liberals. It is also a telling lesson for how we regulate – or not – the Internet. Using her recent move to NYC, she muses about all the regulations [...]
AN ITEM that popped up today on Croz Walsh’s Fiji blog taking the mickey out of a “profound shame” article by a former Fiji Times editor-in-chief, Rory Gibson, in the Brisbane Courier-Mail. It ran under this heading:Don’t give me that nonsense about the media freedom in the Mickey Mouse pressQ. What does the Fiji Times, [...]
DALLAS SWINSTEAD, Motibhai’s new broom as publisher of the 141-year-old Fiji Times, didn’t waste any time setting the benchmark this week at his old paper. He has returned to Fiji with an open mind. He says he remains committed to good journalism and wants to rebuild the newspaper into the fine publication it has been. [...]
IP Justice is providing a nice wrap up of the November 2007 UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro with pictures, videos, texts… Dynamic Coalition on Freedom of Expression and Freedom of the Media on the Internet
TOMORROW is International Blog Day – and already an innovative venture by Reporters Sans Frontières is more than two months old. While Café Pacific’s publisher was in Paris visiting RSF, the media freedom organisation was launching a new tool to protect the identities of bloggers exposing truths unpalatable to some regimes.The world’s first “anti-censorship shelter” [...]
‘Case studies on Internet censorship: Future challenges to freeexpression online and the role and possibilities of the FOEonlinecoalition within the IGF process.’ Monday, 12 November 17:30 – 19:00 Room Imperial Introductory presentations by: Bob Boorstin Policy Communications Director, Google Nicholas Dearden Campaigns Manager, Amnesty International UK Robert Faris Open Net Initiative Julien Pein World Press [...]
By Michael HartsellThe four-year battle between the Fiji Times and Fiji’s military backed government will soon come to a head as new media laws will force the sale of the 141-year-old paper that is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited.The Media Industry Development Decree, passed in late June, stipulates that 90 percent of ownership of [...]
SO the word is out after the smokescreen for the past few days has finally lifted: Motibhai is buying out the Fiji Times group.This is an astute business coup by Mahendra Motibhai Patel, who heads the Motibhai and Company Ltd group. It will give him a powerful weapon to fight arch rival C. J. Patel, [...]