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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:15:12 +0100 From: cii.webmaster@unesco.org To: list-webworld@unesco.org Subject: UNESCO WebWorld News No 51 - September 17, 1999

------------------------------------------------- WebWorld News Digest - No 51 - September 17, 1999 -------------------------------------------------

This week's news on WebWorld, the website of UNESCO's Communication, Information and Informatics Sector at: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/

------------------ News ------------------- 'Localization' Major New Trend in 21st Century - September 17, 1999 Localization-the growing economic and political power of cities, provinces, and other sub-national entities-will be one of the most important new trends in the 21st century, according to a new World Bank report released today. Together with accelerating globalization of the world economy, localization could revolutionize prospects for human development or it could lead to chaos and increased human suffering, the report says. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/highlights/worldbank_170999.html

------------------ News ------------------- Kosovo public service television begins broadcasts - September 16, 1999 The new Kosovo public service television will broadcast from the capital, Pristina, on Sunday, for the first time since the end of NATO bombing in June, the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) said today. Radio-Television Kosovo (RTK), operated by both Serbs and Albanians, will start by broadcasting, via satellite, two hours of programming every evening, between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/highlights/kosovo_160999.html

------------------ News ------------------- Brazil Scientific Electronic Journals online - September 16, 1999 The Brazilian project (SciELO) now provides worldwide online access to the full text of over 30 scientific journals in a variety of subjects. In a first venture of this magnitude in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Foundation for the Promotion of Science of the State of Sao Paulo (FAPESP), the Latin American and the Caribbean Centre on Health Sciences Information (BIREME), a UNESCO partner, and scientific editors have joined forces to advance the electronic dissemination of scientific literature. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/highlights/scielo_160999.html

------------------ News ------------------- New UN civil society website launched - September 16, 1999 We know that peace and prosperity cannot be achieved without partnerships involving governments, international organizations, the business community and civil society" says UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in his statement on the newly launched Civil Society website on the UN Home Page. The objective of the new service is to offer a highly informative site with easily accessible data on 40 major issues facing the United Nations. The new site provides issue-based information on the work of the United Nations, its agencies, funds and programmes. http://www.un.org/partners/civil_society/home.htm

------------------ News ------------------- TecMovel : a Cyberbus for information access - September 15, 1999 How to provide technological information to small and medium enterprises in remote areas in Brazil's Rio Grande do Norte province? A UNESCO project now tests the use of a "TecMovel", a car transporting a mobile information unit, to bring the required technological information to the enterprises. Project Coordinator Marcos Jose de Santos Guerra says "Surveys on user needs have shown that the main information needs are in the area of textile, natural gas, food and environment". http://www.unesco.org/webworld/highlights/techmovel_150999.html

------------------ News ------------------- WIPO Conference on electronic commerce opened - September 14, 1999 In Geneva opened today the Conference on electronic commerce and intellectual property organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized UN agency. Electronic commerce has quickly become a subject of major economic and policy importance as the Internet continues its remarkable worldwide expansion. According to the Conference organizers, Intellectual property rights are of central importance in maintaining a stable and positive environment for the continuing development of electronic commerce. The Conference runs until Thursday, 16 September. http://ecommerce.wipo.int/conferences/index.html

------------------ News ------------------- Nominations for the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize - September 14, 1999 The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize honours, each year, a person, organization or institution that has made a notable contribution to the defence and promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world. Member States, international and regional professional and non-governmental organizations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression may nominate candidates for the Prize, which will next be awarded on 3 May 2000, on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day. Names of candidates can be submitted on-line before 31 October 1999. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/com_media/wpfd/cano_prize.html

------------------ News ------------------- UNESCO helps in producing TV programmes in the South Pacific - September 13, 1999 Students in the University of the South Pacific Journalism Programme will test their new skills next month, producing a series of regional television items for release in the year 2000. The second-year television production students will produce 15 items about sustainability issues in the region. Funded by an UNESCO media grant, the short items will illustrate the concept of sustainable development in several Pacific Island countries. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/highlights/pacific_130999.html

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Free Software and Beyond - by Richard Stallman Digital information technology contributes to the world by making it easier to copy and modify information. Computers promise to make this easier for all of us. Not everyone wants it to be easier. The system of copyright gives software programs ``owners'', most of whom aim to withhold software's potential benefit from the rest of the public. They would like to be the only ones who can copy and modify the software that we use. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/infoethics_2/eng/summaries.htm

Les logiciels "libres" : plus de democratie ou d'argent dans la societe de l'information ? - par Teresa Fuentes Camacho et Bruno de Padirac Une nouvelle categorie de logiciels declenche des polemiques dans le monde de l'informatique et du cyberespace, les logiciels libres. Leurs partisans les parent de toutes les qualites : performance, gratuite, libre copie. Selon eux, grace a ces logiciels, la societe de l'information en emergence deviendrait plus democratique. Mais la realite est-elle aussi idyllique car libre ne veut pas necessairement dire desinteresse et hors du champ de la loi ? http://www.unesco.org/webworld/points_of_views/fuentes_padirac_1.html

------------------ Special Event ------------------- UNESCO < > netaid - Join us in raising global consciousness on poverty in English: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/netaid/index.html in French : http://www.unesco.org/webworld/netaid/fr_index.html

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