[eccr] QuickLinks 239 - 30 June 2002

QuickLinks 239 - 30 June 2002

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Legal and regulatory issues

   Audiovisual
1. DE - Jugendschützer nehmen MTV aufs Korn

   Computer crime
2. IT - Defekter Computer lässt Kinderporno-Ring auffliegen
3. IT - Démantèlement d'un vaste réseau de pornographie enfantine en
Italie
4. UK - Tough sex laws to tackle internet paedophiles

   Consumer protection
5. US - VeriSign backs down over phony alerts

   Content regulation
6. Vietnam seeks to monitor customers at Internet cafes

   Data Protection (privacy)
7. EU - Data Protection: Commission seeks views on privacy legislation
8. UK - Privacy debacle set to be repeated
9. US - Your PC's enemy within

   Domain names
10. ICANN - Internet Governance Group Approves Massive Reform Plan
11. ICANN - In Fights Over .Com Names, Trademark Owners Usually Win
12. ICANN - The end of the revolution
13. ICANN pledges to fight cybersquatters

   e-Government
14. DE - Stasi im Netz: Wie Datenschützer gegen Stasi-Aufklärer
vorgehen
15. UK - Poor technology 'lets down' courts

   Electronic commerce
16. EU - Council adopts Directive on distance marketing of financial
services

   Employment and social issues
17. UK - Online banks called to account

   Junk mail (spam)
18. Hitting spam below the belt

   Liability, jurisdiction and applicable law
19. FR - Des forums de médecins attaqués pour injures publiques
20. US - NPR Retreats, Link Stink Lingers

   Mobile and wireless
21. UK - Government clears way for public Wi-Fi hot spots

   Protection of minors
22. ES - Los peligros que acechan en el chat a los jóvenes
23. UK - Porn mix-up on Commonwealth Games site
24. US - Kids Targeted by Internet Gambling Ads - FTC

   Racism and xenophobia
25. DE - Bewährungsstrafe wegen Neonazi-Liedern aus dem Internet
26. DE - Filter als Lösung gegen Gewalt und Nazihetze im Internet?

   Rating and filtering
27. US - Net giants label their content to protect kids

   Safer Internet awareness
28. DE - Weniger als die Hälfte aller Eltern kennt Internet-
Kindersicherung
29. EU - Los Quince prolongan hasta 2004 el programa contra los
contenidos ilícitos en Internet

   Self-regulation / codes of conduct
30. DE - 0190-Verein will Lizenz zum Bestrafen

Market & Technology

   Internet access and use
31. JN - Tend@ance: NTT veut relancer la téléphonie fixe par le L-mode
32. KPNQwest -  Risques de perturbations sur le net après la
faillite d'un important opérateur

   Market
33. US - WorldCom - The scandal that nobody saw coming
34. Video games set for record sales

   Mobile and wireless
35. 3G: Don't believe the hype

   Statistics
36. Egyptians Flock to New Net Plan
37. US - Survey: Broadband increases Internet use

   Technology
38. Net 'brain' has all the answers

Forthcoming events

39. 2002-07-01 CH, Geneva - PrepCom 1
40. 2002-09-17 US, Seattle - ILPF Conference 2002 - Security v Privacy
41. 2002-09-23 ES, Madrid - Second World Congress of Computer Law
42. 2002-09-27  UK, Oxford - Casting a Wider Net
43. 2002-10-02 CA, Montréal - Fourth International Conference on Law
via the Internet
44. 2002-11-08 CH, Montreux - World Summit on Internet and
Multimedia 2002
45. 2002-12-04 DK,  Copenhagen - IST 2002: Partnerships for the Future
46. 2003-13-10 CH, Geneva, Switzerland - World Summit on the
Information Society

1. DE - Jugendschützer nehmen MTV aufs Korn (DigiTV.de)
Die Medienwächter haben bei mehrere Folgen der MTV-Kultsendungen
"Jackass" und "Freak Show" schwere Verstöße gegen die
Jugendschutzbestimmungen des Rundfunkstaatsvertrags ausgemacht.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14079.htm

2. IT - Defekter Computer lässt Kinderporno-Ring auffliegen (Heise)
Ein defekter Computer hat in Italien einen Kinderporno-Ring mit mehr
als tausend Kunden auffliegen lassen. Der entscheidende Hinweis sei
bereits vor mehr als einem Jahr von einem Computergeschäft in der
norditalienischen Stadt Verona gekommen. Bei der Reparatur eines
defekten Gerätes habe ein Angestellter auf der Festplatte Fotos von
sexuell missbrauchten Kindern gefunden. Daraufhin habe er die Polizei
eingeschaltet,
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14087.htm

3. IT - Démantèlement d'un vaste réseau de pornographie enfantine en
Italie (AP)
La police italienne a annoncé avoir démantelé un réseau de
pornographie enfantine sur Internet, après un an d'enquête. Quelque
1.146 personnes sont impliquées, dont des policiers, des militaires
et des hommes d'affaires. Aucune arrestation n'a eu lieu en attendant
la suite des investigations, mais les perquisitions effectuées dans
80 villes du pays ont permis la saisie de 280 ordinateurs, plus de
5.000 disquettes, environ 4.000 images et plus de 4.000 cassettes
vidéo.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14094.htm

4. UK - Tough sex laws to tackle internet paedophiles (Times)
Sweeping proposals to modernise sex laws and toughen sentences for
child sex abuse and indecent exposure are to be published by the
Government in the autumn. David Blunkett said that the long-awaited
legislation would tackle "horrendous" sex abusers such as internet
paedophiles. The reform will be based on a Home Office paper which
proposed a new specific offence of child abuse, relaxing laws on gay
sex, a new definition of consent in rape cases and replacing incest
with family sex abuse to include adoptive and foster parents.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14089.htm

5. US - VeriSign backs down over phony alerts (CNET News.com)
VeriSign has agreed to stop sending false notices that tell
customers of rival registrars their domain names will soon expire.
The company, which is the leading registrar of domain names, signed a
federal court order saying it will not send bogus messages warning
customers that their domain names were about to expire and offering
to sign up the Web addresses with VeriSign. The company also agreed
not to send other official-looking notices that appear to be from the
current registrar in an attempt to convince people to switch to
VeriSign.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14085.htm

6. Vietnam seeks to monitor customers at Internet cafes (AP)
Communist Vietnam plans to monitor customers at Internet cafes to
prevent them from accessing politically and morally objectionable Web
sites. Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has ordered local authorities to
inspect and assess all Internet cafes and report back to the
government by July 7. Last week, Khai issued a directive prohibiting
all citizens, except for top Communist Party and government officials
and a few others, from watching international satellite TV.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14059.htm

7. EU - Data Protection: Commission seeks views on privacy
legislation (Europa)
Should bosses be able to read the e-mails employees send and receive
at work? Are customers who want to buy on-line confident that the
personal data they give will not be used in ways they have not agreed
to? Are businesses over-burdened by enquiries from people wanting
access to the personal details companies hold about them?  The
European Commission would like to give you the opportunity to
participate in this open exchange of views about the implementation
of the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14076.htm

8. UK - Privacy debacle set to be repeated (Guardian)
by Simon Davies. The most entertaining aspect of the government's U-
turn last week on its data-snooping proposals was the home
secretary's "we got it wrong" interview on the BBC. But it was not
the most surprising element in the saga. The most remarkable aspect
was that the proposals got as far as they did. see also The fax
machine uprising (BBC).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14058.htm

9. US - Your PC's enemy within (CNET News.com)
The Wild West days of cyberspace are over--and, like it or not, it's
time for government to change its laissez-faire attitude toward the
Internet and create laws that clearly prevent unscrupulous businesses
from preying on unsuspecting consumers and seizing control of
computers.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14056.htm

10. ICANN - Internet Governance Group Approves Massive Reform Plan
(Washington Post)
The body that manages the Internet's addressing system will scrap
its existing governance structure and replace it with an entirely new
regime. Meeting in Bucharest, Romania, the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board voted 18-0 to approve a
reform plan unveiled earlier. The board made no changes to its
internally developed proposal. see ICANN: A Blueprint for Reform This
Blueprint summarizes the recommendations of the Evolution and Reform
Committee (ERC) to the ICANN Board of Directors.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14061.htm

11. ICANN - In Fights Over .Com Names, Trademark Owners Usually Win
(New York Times)
Researchers analyzing an arbitration system set up to resolve
disputes over Internet addresses have found that decisions made
through the system have substantially broadened the rights of
trademark holders in cyberspace. The study represents one of the
first attempts to examine the circumstances and outcome of more than
3,800 disputes handled by online arbitration procedures established
in 1999 by the private corporation that manages the Internet's
address system. See ICANN - The UDRP Tracking Project (Syracuse
University's Convergence Center and the University of Massachusetts'
Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14070.htm

12. ICANN - The end of the revolution (Salon)
"Ruling the Root" documents the sorry tale of how the Internet was
brought to heel. In the annals of the Internet, few topics seem as
boring, arcane and inscrutable as the domain name system. Yet, in
Milton L. Mueller's hands, the story of how the Net came to be
administered is riveting, illuminating, depressing and enraging. In
effortless, lucid prose Mueller documents and explains precisely how
"Internet governance" has evolved from the enlightened despotism of a
technological elite into a tool of special interests intent on
protecting and expanding the control of intellectual property online.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14072.htm

13. ICANN pledges to fight cybersquatters (Reuters)
ICANN, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,
said at its quarterly meeting that it was close to adopting a new
system to give owners of domain names extra time to renew their
contracts and to establish a waiting list for coveted domains that
become newly available to the public.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14064.htm

14. DE - Stasi im Netz: Wie Datenschützer gegen Stasi-Aufklärer
vorgehen (Spiegel)
Private DDR-Aufklärer stellen immer wieder Stasi-Dokumente ins
Internet, zum Missfallen der Datenschutzbeauftragten. Nun jagen die
beamteten Datenschützer die Aufklärer - und erwägen dabei
zweifelhafte Methoden, die ihrerseits an die Stasi-Zeit erinnern.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14084.htm

15. UK - Poor technology 'lets down' courts (BBC)
A senior judge has blamed poor technology systems for miscarriages
of justice and delays in the British judicial system. Lord Justice
Brooke warned that the justice system is in danger of disintegrating
if an investment of at least £500m is not made. "Information
technology systems have been lousy, leading to serious delays and in
some cases serious miscarriages of justice," he told the technology
news magazine Computing.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14082.htm

16. EU - Council adopts Directive on distance marketing of financial
services (EurActiv.com)
The Health Council on 26 June adopted the Directive on distance
marketing of financial services. The adoption of the Directive for
the distance marketing to consumers of financial services by the
Council follows the adoption by the Parliament in second reading (see
EurActiv 14 May 2002). The Directive lays down common rules on
selling contracts for credit cards, investment funds, pension plans,
etc. to consumers by phone, fax or internet. The Directive is said to
fill the 'legal gap' in existing consumer protection legislation,
left by the exclusion of financial services from the Directive on
distance selling of 1997. The Directive's main features are:
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14062.htm

17. UK - Online banks called to account (Guardian)
Banks are under pressure to provide access to their higher interest
internet and telephone accounts to customers who, because they are no
longer able to manage their own financial affairs, have set up an
Enduring Power of Attorney enabling someone else to do so.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14069.htm

18. Hitting spam below the belt (CNET News.com)
Spam, conventionally known as unsolicited commercial e-mail, is the
No. 1 privacy-related complaint that consumers make to seal and
certification program Truste. Nearly half, or 48 percent, of all
complaints filed with us are spam-related.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14065.htm

19. FR - Des forums de médecins attaqués pour injures publiques
(Yahoo!)
Claude Frémont, le président de la Caisse primaire d'assurance
maladie (CPAM) de Loire-Atlantique, à Nantes, a assigné en référé un
médecin-webmaster pour des propos injurieux et diffamatoires, tenus
sur deux forums en ligne. Le tribunal d'instance de Nantes a ordonné
la suppression immédiate des propos, qui a causé la fermeture du
site, et assigné à comparaître le 27 juin prochain le docteur Rémy
Louvet, webmaster du site 20et30.fr.st. Dans la foulée, Claude
Frémont attaque également l'hébergeur du site et le prestataire
fournissant les forums, c'est-à-dire respectivement la SARL Nfrance
Conseil, ainsi que la société Lhébergeur.net-Twidi (prestataire sous
la marque Les-forums.com).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14093.htm

20. US - NPR Retreats, Link Stink Lingers (Wired)
In response to furious criticism of its online linking policy,
National Public Radio will no longer require webmasters to ask
permission to link to NPR.org. But there are still limits on linking
to the nonprofit radio network's site. Links to NPR's site "should
not (a) suggest that NPR promotes or endorses any third party's
causes, ideas, websites, products or services, or (b) use NPR content
for inappropriate commercial purposes," according to a new policy.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14057.htm

21. UK - Government clears way for public Wi-Fi hot spots (ZDNet UK)
Changes to wireless regulations mean that Internet service providers
can now offer wireless Web surfing in airports and coffee shops.  see
also UK set for public Wi-Fi boom. BT has ambitious plans to create a
commercial network of at least 400 high-speed wireless hot spots by
next summer.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14077.htm

22. ES - Los peligros que acechan en el chat a los jóvenes
(Delitosinformaticos.com)
El defensor del menor, Pedro Núñez Morgados, ha dado a conocer que
el 30 por ciento de los menores que «chatean» reciben después algún
tipo de provocación o captación por una secta. En el Informe Anual
2001 de esta institución y que fue presentado en el Pleno de la
Asamblea de Madrid se propuso la creación de una Comisión o una Mesa
encargada de analizar la influencia de internet sobre los menores.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14091.htm

23. UK - Porn mix-up on Commonwealth Games site (BBC)
Organisers of the Commonwealth Games have apologised for
pornographic material that was accessible via their website. For an
unspecified time, pornographic images, downloadable to mobile phones,
could be accessed via the children's section of the official
Manchester 2002 website. The logos were provided by official
Commonwealth Games licensee Jippii, a company which specialises in
providing mobile phone logos and ring tones. The search has now been
adapted to provide suitable-only images for children.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14060.htm

24. US - Kids Targeted by Internet Gambling Ads - FTC (Washington
Post)
About 20 percent of children-oriented online game sites sport
Internet gambling advertisements, according to a survey by the
Federal Trade Commission. see Press Release.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14063.htm

25. DE - Bewährungsstrafe wegen Neonazi-Liedern aus dem Internet
(Heise)
Ein Elektroniker ist wegen Verbreitens von Neonazi-Liedern über eine
Internet-Musiktauschbörse am Donnerstag vom Berliner Landgericht zu
einem Jahr Haft mit Bewährung verurteilt worden. Dem Mann waren
Volksverhetzung, Verbreiten von Nazi-Propaganda und Gewaltdarstellung
vorgeworfen worden. Er hatte über eine Tauschbörse fast 1700
rechtsradikale Titel einschlägiger Gruppen heruntergeladen und damit
gleichzeitig zahllosen Computernutzern zugänglich gemacht.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14066.htm

26. DE - Filter als Lösung gegen Gewalt und Nazihetze im Internet?
(de.internet.com)
"Keine einfachen Antworten" gäbe es auf den Amoklauf von Erfurt,
betonte Bundesinnenminister Otto Schily in seiner Keynote-Speech
gestern auf dem Medienforum in Köln . Weder die Medien alleine trügen
die Verantwortung für die Gewalttaten von jungen Menschen, noch die
Eltern, die Schule oder die Politik. Es gelte hier die
Gesamtzusammenhänge zu sehen
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14081.htm

27. US - Net giants label their content to protect kids (IDG)
Internet powerhouses America Online, Microsoft's Microsoft Network
(MSN) and Yahoo have labelled a majority of the content on their
sites as part of a new Internet filtering initiative meant to protect
children online. The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) said
that the major portals have labelled approximately 93 percent of
their sites' content. see also a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44061-
2002Jun25.html">Critics Take Aim at New Filtering Service (Washington
Post). The nonprofit, industry-backed Internet Content Rating
Association (ICRA) released ICRAfilter, a free software product that
works in conjunction with electronic "meta-tags" installed by Web
site operators.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14075.htm

28. DE - Weniger als die Hälfte aller Eltern kennt Internet-
Kindersicherung (Heise)
Nur 45 Prozent aller Eltern wissen, wie sie ihre Kinder technisch
vor gefährlichen Inhalten im Internet schützen können. Das hat eine
repräsentative Umfrage des Emnid-Institutes unter Kindern von 6 bis
14 Jahren und ihren Eltern -- zusammen 500 Befragte -- ergeben.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14068.htm

29. EU - Los Quince prolongan hasta 2004 el programa contra los
contenidos ilícitos en Internet (Europa Press)
El Consejo de Telecomunicaciones de la Unión Europea acordó en
Luxemburgo la fijación de una dotación financiera adicional de 13,3
millones de euros para que el programa contra los contenidos ilícitos
y nocivos en Internet (lucha contra la pornografía infantil, el
racismo y la violencia) se prorrogue hasta el año 2004, dos años más
de lo previsto inicialmente. ver tambien UE prolonga hasta 2004
programa contra contenidos ilícitos online (IBLNews) y La Unión
Europea prolongará hasta el 2004 el programa contra los contenidos
ilícitos en Internet (Delitosinformaticos.com).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14088.htm

30. DE - 0190-Verein will Lizenz zum Bestrafen (Heise)
Der Verein "Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Telefonmehrwertdienste"
(FST) will beim Bundeskartellamt die kartellrechtliche Anerkennung
beantragen. Damit würde der vom FST aufgestellte Verhaltenskodex für
alle so genannten Anbieter von Service-Telefonnummern (etwa 0190,
0180, 0800 oder 118xx) bindend.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14080.htm

31. JN - Tend@ance: NTT veut relancer la téléphonie fixe par le L-
mode (Reuters)
Depuis un an, le plus important opérateur japonais de
télécommunications, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, propose des
combinés pour ligne fixe dits "L-mode" permettant d'accéder à
internet sans ordinateur.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14090.htm

32. KPNQwest -  Risques de perturbations sur le net après la
faillite d'un important opérateur (AFP)
La fermeture annoncée du réseau de l'opérateur KPNQwest, véritable
charpente du trafic internet en Europe, devrait entraîner à brève
échéance des perturbations sur la toile dont il est encore difficile
d'en évaluer l'ampleur. Dans une brève déclaration les
administrateurs judiciaires de la compagnie américano-néerlandaise en
faillite ont indiqué qu'ils avaient ordonné l'arrêt de la maintenance
du réseau.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14092.htm

33. US - WorldCom - The scandal that nobody saw coming (FT)
It took a routine internal audit to uncover one of the biggest
suspected corporate frauds ever perpetrated. But just why billions of
dollars of suspect costs had gone unnoticed before is something that
will hang over WorldCom, its auditors Arthur Andersen, and some of
Wall Street's most prominent banks for a long time to come. The
scandal that could sink one of the world's biggest telecommunications
companies came to a head last weekend, after an internal auditor
employed by WorldCom had discovered something strange, according to
the company.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14067.htm

34. Video games set for record sales (Reuters)
The video games industry is on track for a record year in 2002, with
global sales projected to increase by 12 percent to $31bn (£20bn),
according to a new report by research firm Informa Media Group.
Meanwhile, sales in the nascent categories of online, mobile phone
and interactive television games is expected to double this year and
are expected to rise to 54 percent by 2010, the group added.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14078.htm

35. 3G: Don't believe the hype (From Knowledge@Wharton)
Advertisements hyping the future of the wireless lifestyle are
ubiquitous these days. But whether this dream will become reality is
largely unclear, say many experts at Wharton and elsewhere. While
some think that so-called third-generation, or 3G, wireless networks
will be viable and necessary, others believe 3G is a largely a waste
of money for governments, carrier companies, consumers and
applications developers alike.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14086.htm

36. Egyptians Flock to New Net Plan (Wired)
Egyptians are spending more time on the Internet since the Internet
became free -- free of subscription fees that is, because users are
still paying the nominal cost of 20 cents per hour for their Internet
calls. That's good news for the ISPs, which collect 70 percent of the
call revenues from the phone company.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14074.htm

37. US - Survey: Broadband increases Internet use (Reuters)
Broadband Internet users say their high-speed connections have
prompted them to spend more time online and less in traffic, at the
mall, or on the sofa watching television, according to The Broadband
Difference, a study by Pew Internet and American Life Project. see
also The Pew Internet and American Life Project (Christian Science
Monitor).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14073.htm

38. Net 'brain' has all the answers (BBC)
An internet "brain" that could replace human interaction has been
invented by two Cambridge University researchers. The system, dubbed
Metafaq, can answer e-mailed questions and also guide surfers through
websites. It may have artificial intelligence but it can answer
questions as well as any human, claims inventor Doctor Davin Yap.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14083.htm

39. 2002-07-01 CH, Geneva - PrepCom 1 (Executive Secretariat - Civil
Society Division)
Civil Society platform Preparation for World Summit on the
Information Society
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14055.htm

40. 2002-09-17 US, Seattle - ILPF Conference 2002 - Security v
Privacy (ILPF)
17 - 20 September 2002.  Security v. Privacy takes place one year
after terrorism and technology converged with global repercussions.
International corporations and governments have new mandates
concerning heightened security even as they must balance those with
increased demands for privacy in data collection and transactions. If
your company is engaged in cross-border e-commerce and global
marketplaces, financial services, IT infrastructure, management
consulting, privacy or security policy or standard-setting in these
vital business and technology arenas, you need to attend Security v.
Privacy.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14054.htm

41. 2002-09-23 ES, Madrid - Second World Congress of Computer Law
(Alfa-Redi)
23 - 27 September 2002.   Held in the Law School of the Complutense
University of Madrid. In the Organizing Comittee are the
International Center of Law and Informatics, The Alfa-Redi Community
and the Law and Informatics Master.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14053.htm

42. 2002-09-27  UK, Oxford - Casting a Wider Net (OII)
Integrating research and policy on the social impacts of the
Internet. The Oxford Internet Institute is holding a conference to
serve as a neutral forum for academics, policymakers, corporate
parties and citizens/consumers to discuss the current state of
Internet research and policy. There will also be a choice of four
parallel panels discussing different topics. These will include
subjects such as 'The State of Broadband' and 'Education and the Net.'
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14052.htm

43. 2002-10-02 CA, Montréal - Fourth International Conference on Law
via the Internet (LexUM and CanLII)
2 - 3 October 2002. The 4th International Conference on Law via the
Internet aims to bring together the diverse contributors and
partakers in the process of publishing and consulting legal
information on the Web. Communications must be related to the general
subject of Internet based legal resources. Papers related to new
practices and standards for law on the Internet will be particularly
welcomed. Papers must be submitted by June 15th 2002.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14051.htm

44. 2002-11-08 CH, Montreux - World Summit on Internet and
Multimedia 2002 (SwissMedia, Association Suisse du Multimédia)
8 - 11 October 2002 . The theme of the summit is Bridging the
Digital Divide.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14050.htm

45. 2002-12-04 DK,  Copenhagen - IST 2002: Partnerships for the
Future (European Commission)
4 - 6 November 2002.  The main purpose of IST 2002 is to help build
the European Research Area for the Information Society within the
EU's Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP6),
which is to be launched at the end of 2002. Held in Copenhagen on 4-6
November, IST 2002 will broaden its scope to everyone with a
strategic interest in Information Society research, whether at
European, national or regional level - or even entirely within the
private sector. The general theme is 'Partnerships' - your
partnerships. The aim is to help Europe's researchers and
industrialists build networks for collaborative IST research, at a
time when the IST priority within the EU's 6th Framework Programme
for research and technological development is getting underway
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14049.htm

46. 2003-13-10 CH, Geneva, Switzerland - World Summit on the
Information Society (ITU)
10 - 12 December 2003 .  The international community is organizing a
World Summit on the Information Society. It will take place in two
phases: in Geneva, December 2003, to be followed up in Tunis two
years later. The Information Society is at the heart of the
political, social, cultural and economic questions confronting us in
the beginning of the 21st century. The focus of the Information
Society Summit is not technology but the human being - we must keep
in mind that it is not enough to be connected to resolve the
fundamental problems that exist in the world. The idea of a World
Summit on the Information Society took root at the ITU
Plenipotentiary Conference in Minneapolis in 1998.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14048.htm

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