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/ 11 December 2003
Two innovative African projects that have set the pace in Information Communication Technology (ICT) content development were recognised by the inaugural World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Awards last night.
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/ 11 December 2003
Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has accused “the rich imperialist northern countries” of using Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) as tools of espionage and propaganda.
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/ 11 December 2003
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked world leaders assembled in Geneva for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to devise ways of closing the digital divide, which he referred to as one of the biggest non-tariff barriers to world trade.
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/ 11 December 2003
A Chinese human rights organisation has claimed that the Chinese government used its influence to ensure that it did not participate in the World Summit on the Information Society, but could not prevent the organisation from attending.
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/ 11 December 2003
The UN Conference on Trade and Development, the World Tourism Organisation and other agencies are helping some African states to increase their access to and use of information technologies in developing their tourism sectors.
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/ 11 December 2003
The Highway Africa News Agency’s roving reporter, Rui Correia, took to the streets of Geneva to find out how much the locals had heard about the World Summit on the Information Society.
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/ 11 December 2003
The head of a large media group in Latin America yesterday accused global media companies of acting in a “predatory” way in distributing cultural content to small national and regional media organisations in the developing countries.
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/ 11 December 2003
Funding for information technologies (IT) in the least developed countries has proved to be the most difficult obstacle to overcome in the negotiations leading up to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
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/ 11 December 2003
Anti-Mugabe MP3s for download, DIY circumcision, a different point of view on Iraq and getting a leg wax in Shirley, Great Britain. Ian Fraser browses through the Net and comes across some weird and wonderful sights on the world wide web. For instance see what happens when swords, Flash animation and Bill Gates collide in <i>Kill Bill Gates</i>.
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/ 11 December 2003
The names of the Bafana Bafana men or boys chosen to represent the country in Tunisia next year were finally announced by national coach Ephraim ”Shakes” Mashaba on Thursday. The team may raise a few eyebrows and tempers among the soccer-loving supporters, including those armchair critics, but caution should be taken.