Some members of the Global Digital Justice Forum—IT for Change, APC, Global Partners Digital, Derechos Digitales, and Media Monitoring Africa—collectively prepared a submission in response to a UN survey to identify the terms of reference and modalities for the establishment and functioning of the Independent International Scientific Panel on…
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The Just Net Coalition (JNC) made a submission with comments and text suggestions to the Zero Draft of the Doha Programme of Action for Least Developed Countries. The Zero Draft was released by the co-chairs of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), Bangladesh and Canada, on July 12, 2021.
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Anita Gurumurthy was invited to speak at the international multistakeholder conference CONNECTing the Dots: Options for Future Action organised by UNESCO in Paris. The conference was held to discuss the first draft of the Comprehensive Study on Internet-related issues. The meeting proposed recommendations for responses to Internet-related…
This paper was presented at the Femme Globale (Berlin, 2005). It briefly traces the development of the information society from the Beijing Conference in 1995 to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2003 and 2005, and women’s situated roles in this development. The engagements at WSIS point to the ground reality of the changing…