15/12/2003   'Communication at War, Communication for Peace'.

At a conference in the World Forum on Communication Rights, a parallel forum to the
official World Summit on the Information Society, speakers from the United
States, Colombia, and a Kenyan technologist working in Rwanda took up this theme.

 11/12/2003   Jinbonet launches online guide for Human Rights in the Information Society.

Korean Progressive Network 'Jinbonet' launched an online Guide to Human rights in the Information society on December 10th, 2003, the 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

 10/12/2003   Civil Society Summit Declaration Published.
10/12/2003   The APC WNSP is celebrating its 10th Anniversary at WSIS.
10/12/2003   Reporters Without Borders launches pirate radio in protest.

Reporters Without Borders will broadcast from Geneva on the 9-10 December to coincide with the start of the World Summit on the Information Society, which it has been banned from attending.

 05/12/2003   The final (resumed) WSIS prepcom begins this morning, Dec 5th.

Governments will continue to try to reach concensus on 5 main issues owhich remain contentious and unresolved, between now and the beginning of the Summit, Dec 10th. Read the opening plenary statement from Civil Society here.
05/12/2003   Women Journalists Cover the WSIS
05/12/2003   The call for the defence of all the gender equality is imperative.
05/12/2003   The Rastafarian poet Benjamin Zephaniah will not accept an OBE from the Queen.

He talks about his reasons in The Guardian , which, by doing so, is going against the convention that if one doesn't accept, one does so privately.