Human rights in the global information society
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Human rights in the global information society
(The information revolution and global politics / William J. Drake and Ernest J. Wilson III, editors)
MIT Press, c2006
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  Iwate
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Papers originally presented at the World Summit on the Information Society, November 2005
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The right to express oneself and to seek information / Rikke Frank Jørgensen
- The right to information in the age of information / David Banisar
- Access to information and knowledge / Kay Raseroka
- Intellectual property rights and the information commons / Robin Gross
- Privacy as freedom / Gus Hosein
- The right of assembly and freedom of association in the information age / Charley Lewis
- The right to political participation and the information society / Hans Klein
- The "guarantee rights" for realizing the rule of law / Meryem Marzouki
- A nondiscriminatory information society / Mandana Zarrehparvar
- Women's human rights in the information society / Heike Jensen
- Ensuring minority rights in a pluralistic and "liquid" information society / Birgitte Kofod Olsen
- The right to development in the information society / Ran Greenstein and Anriette Esterhuysen
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 Jorgensen, Hans Klein, Charley Lewis, Meryem Marzouki, Birgitte Kofod Olsen, Kay Raseroka, Adama Samassekou, Mandana Zarrehparvar
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