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WSIS blog aggregation
FYI: there is a blog aggregation project online at http://www.wsisblogs.org. You will find more details on people in hunger strike, on repression and on the internet governance issues, as well as side-events that are taking place here. And I just … Continue reading
Business as usual: secret service, rfid, repression
The Tunisian government is deadly afraid of Civil Society. There is no other explanation for what is going on here in Tunis. And since I assume that most of you have never had first-hand experience of this kind, let me … Continue reading
Off to Tunis
I am aware that I am likely to get the "luxury version" of Tunis, and unlike Tunisian people won’t have anything to fear from speaking my mind — also because that is what "THE FAQ" says. I still have to … Continue reading
It’s official: Going to Tunis
As many of you may know, the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is taking place 16. to 18. November in Tunis. To this point, Free Software Foundation Europe has been very active in the WSIS so … Continue reading
Tagged Conference, Travel, UN, WSIS
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Problems with e-waste? Send it to Africa!
The Basel Action Network (BAN) published an interesting report, titled "The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa" in which they analyse the effects of many "ship your old computer to Africa" activities. Studying Nigeria as a role model … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, Idiocies, Microsoft, UN, WSIS
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Will Microsoft support the development agenda at WIPO?
Jonathan Murray, Microsoft’s CTO for the EMEA region felt compelled to comment on our recent announcement of the GPLv3 revision process for 2006. Naturally, I was interested to see what he had to say. Unfortunately he only seemed to go … Continue reading
Short stop in Hamburg
As you may have read in Karsten’s blog, the WIPO meetings in Geneva were indeed very exciting. It seems there is a realistic chance that WIPO will change fundamentally if the Friends of Development group keeps up the pressure and … Continue reading
Tagged Fellowship, Travel, UN, WIPO
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Catching up…
Alright, just trying to catch up a little bit on what happened during the past weeks. As you may have seen in the FSFE newsletter, just after our first Freedom Party, I have been visiting Boston, seizing the chance to … Continue reading
Tagged Church of IPR, Fellowship, Free Software, FSF, Politics, Travel, UN, WIPO
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