sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
Civil society speaks out, condemns attempts to regulate Internet
PUBLISHED ON WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 2011.
Civil society representatives gave an unofficial news conference this morning in one of the conference rooms of the ?e-G8? forum on Internet issues in Paris, voicing their opposition to attempts to regulate the Internet and criticizing the lack of representativeness of most of those who were invited by the French government to take part in the forum.
Participants in the news conference ? improvised at the last minute and not part of the forum?s official programme ? included Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-Fran?ois Julliard, J?r?mie Zimmerman of the French NGO Quadrature du Net, former ICANN board member Susan Crawford, US journalist Jeff Jarvis and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, a specialist in copyright.
more....
http://en.rsf.org/joint-appeal-to-e-g8-participants-25-05-2011,40347.html
PUBLISHED ON WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 2011.
Civil society representatives gave an unofficial news conference this morning in one of the conference rooms of the ?e-G8? forum on Internet issues in Paris, voicing their opposition to attempts to regulate the Internet and criticizing the lack of representativeness of most of those who were invited by the French government to take part in the forum.
Participants in the news conference ? improvised at the last minute and not part of the forum?s official programme ? included Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-Fran?ois Julliard, J?r?mie Zimmerman of the French NGO Quadrature du Net, former ICANN board member Susan Crawford, US journalist Jeff Jarvis and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, a specialist in copyright.
more....
http://en.rsf.org/joint-appeal-to-e-g8-participants-25-05-2011,40347.html