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International organizations, governments, academia, industry, and the
media have all begun to grapple with the information society as a global policy
issue. The first United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held
in December 2003, recognized the connections between information technology and
human rights with a Declaration of Principles--in effect, the first "constitution"
for cyberspace--that called for the development of the information society to
conform to recognized standards of human rights. Critical issues in the policy
debates around WSIS have been the so-called digital divide, which reflects a
knowledge divide, a social divide, and an economic divide; and the need for a
nondiscriminatory information society to provide universal access to information
technology in local languages throughout the developing world. Other crucial issues
include the regulatory frameworks for information access and ownership and such
basic freedoms as the right to privacy. The contributors to this timely volume
examine the links between information technology and human rights from a range of
disciplinary perspectives. Scholars, human rights activists, and practitioners
discuss such topics as freedom of expression, access to information, privacy,
discrimination, gender equality, intellectual property, political participation, and
freedom of assembly in the context of the revolution in information and
communication technology, exploring the ways in which the information society can
either advance human rights around the world or threaten them. An afterword reports
on the November 2005 WSIS, held in Tunis, and its reaffirmation of the fundamental
role of human rights in the global information society.Contributors:David Banisar,
William Drake, Ran Greenstein, Anriette Esterhuysen, Robin Gross, Gus Hosein, Heike
Jensen, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Hans Klein, Charley Lewis, Meryem Marzouki, Birgitte
Kofod Olsen, Kay Raseroka, Adama Samassékou, Mandana Zarrehparvar
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media have all begun to grapple with the information society as a global policy
issue. The first United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held
in December 2003, recognized the connections between information technology and
human rights with a Declaration of Principles--in effect, the first "constitution"
for cyberspace--that called for the development of the information society to
conform to recognized standards of human rights. Critical issues in the policy
debates around WSIS have been the so-called digital divide, which reflects a
knowledge divide, a social divide, and an economic divide; and the need for a
nondiscriminatory information society to provide universal access to information
technology in local languages throughout the developing world. Other crucial issues
include the regulatory frameworks for information access and ownership and such
basic freedoms as the right to privacy. The contributors to this timely volume
examine the links between information technology and human rights from a range of
disciplinary perspectives. Scholars, human rights activists, and practitioners
discuss such topics as freedom of expression, access to information, privacy,
discrimination, gender equality, intellectual property, political participation, and
freedom of assembly in the context of the revolution in information and
communication technology, exploring the ways in which the information society can
either advance human rights around the world or threaten them. An afterword reports
on the November 2005 WSIS, held in Tunis, and its reaffirmation of the fundamental
role of human rights in the global information society.Contributors:David Banisar,
William Drake, Ran Greenstein, Anriette Esterhuysen, Robin Gross, Gus Hosein, Heike
Jensen, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Hans Klein, Charley Lewis, Meryem Marzouki, Birgitte
Kofod Olsen, Kay Raseroka, Adama Samassékou, Mandana Zarrehparvar
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