Coordination Tops Issues At WIPO Development Agenda Meeting

By Kaitlin Mara

Deciding on a mechanism to ensure the effective implementation of the World Intellectual Property Organization Development Agenda will be the biggest area of discussion at this week’s WIPO meeting on IP and development, sources have said. But discussion also will focus on specific implementation projects.

Brazil Issues Retaliation List Of US Products; IP-Protected Items In Next Round

By Claudia Jurberg

Brazil has announced the list of 222 American products that could suffer retaliation with tariff rates of more than 100 percent of the value when imported to Brazil. The list could be followed by another including potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in non-tariff items related to intellectual property rights such as lower-priced patented pharmaceuticals.

UN Demands Removal of China Poster at Net Event

By Tarek El-Tablawy
The Associated Press

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — United Nations officials forced free-speech advocates to take down a poster over its reference to China's Web restrictions at an Internet conference focused on freedom, saying Monday that it violated a ban on posters at events organized by the world body.

IGF 2009 Event Rattled By UN Security Office

By Rabia Garib

KARACHI, 15 NOVEMBER 2009 - An anti-censorship group holding an event Sunday at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, was disrupted by UN officials who demanded removal of a poster that mentioned Internet firewalls in China.

Censorship at IGF in Sharm el Sheikh

By Jehan Ara

Something quite horrific and surprising happened at the OpenNet Iniative (ONI) Asia reception at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm el Sheikh yesterday. ONI is an organisation that promotes and encourages online Freedom of Expression as well as Internet openness.

Anti-Internet Censorship Conference Is Censored - UN Orders Posters Taken Down

By Ed Berridge

THE UN has revealed itself to be in favour of censorship, at least when China is involved.
The United Nations sponsored an Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. As part of the conference an anti-Internet censorship group was disrupted by a gang of UN officials who demanded removal of a poster that mentioned Internet firewalls in China.

FAQ: What Happened at the Internet Governance Forum?

By OpenNet Initiative Principal Investigator Ron Deibert

On November 15, at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt), OpenNet Initiative (ONI) partners were set to hold a reception for the as-yet-unreleased volume Access Controlled, in a room which ONI had been given permission to use for the event.

New Google Book Pact Unlikely to End Flap

By Jessica E. Vascellaro and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg

Google Inc. and two author and publisher groups submitted a modified version of a controversial settlement over digital books, but it appears likely the fight over the agreement will continue.

أول نطاق عربي للإنترنت بمصر

المصدر: يو بي آي

أعلنت مصر الأحد إطلاق أول نطاق عربي لمواقع الإنترنت تحت اسم "دوت مصر". وجاء هذا الإعلان من وزير الاتصالات وتكنولوجيا المعلومات المصري طارق كامل في منتدى حوكمة الإنترنت في مدينة شرم الشيخ

Library Of Alexandria A Symbol Of Egypt’s Efforts To Lead On Knowledge Access

By William New

ALEXANDRIA - Dining on fresh fish beneath a golden sunset overlooking the Mediterranean beneath which lie the remains of the ancient Library of Alexandria, the conversation turns to the invention of written language.