FC: Paris event: Reporters Without Borders and CyberFreedom Report

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "Doug Ireland" <direland () nyc rr com>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: CyberFreedom Report and Prize (Reporters Without Borders)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:57:39 -0400

Declan,
I thought you'd like to be aware of this event, the report that will be
issued at it, and the prize that will be awarded there, if it hasn't already
come to your attention.
Regards,
Doug Ireland
2003 Cyber-Freedom Prize Reporters Without Borders - GlobeNet


2003 Internet Report
The Internet under surveillance : Obstacles to the free flow of information
online


Erick Aubourg, Director, GlobeNet
&
Robert Ménard, Secretary-General, Reporters Without Borders

INVITE YOU TO THE PRESENTATION OF THE FIRST CYBER-FREEDOM PRIZE


at a breakfast on 19 June 2003 at 9 a.m.


De La Ville Café
36 bd Bonne Nouvelle
75010 PARIS
Metro: Bonne Nouvelle

At least 49 cyber-dissidents are currently in jail for just trying to
exercise their right to free expression.
Imprisonment means getting rid of witnesses and threatening everyone's right
to information, so Reporters Without Borders has decided to recognise a
cyber-dissident who has been prevented from informing us via the Internet.
Reporters Without Borders and GlobeNet will award the first Cyber-Freedom
Prize to an Internet user who has demonstrated a strong commitment to
freedom of information online through their work or the views they have
expressed.


Présentation of the report 2003
THE INTERNET UNDER SURVEILLANCE : OBSTACLES TO THE FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION
ONLINE


At the same time as it announces the Cyber-Freedom Prize, Reporters Without
Borders will also unveil its second Internet Report (Thursday 19 June 2003
at 9 a.m.)
This report details the obstacles to the free flow of information online in
60 countries between spring 2001 and spring 2003 (164 pages, 10 euros).
Produced with the support of the French foreign ministry, the Hachette
Foundation and the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, the report covers
both authoritarian countries that try to censor the Internet completely, and
western democracies trying out different legislative frameworks for the
Internet so that it doesn't get out of their control.

>From 20 June, the entire report will be:
- posted on the Reporters Without Borders website (www.rsf.org)
- available in booklet form (10 euros + postage)
- downloadable in PDF format


PLEASE CONFIRM ATTENDANCE BY 16 JUNE 2003


Christine Poumarède
Press and sponsoring
International secretary
5, rue Geoffroy-Marie
75 009 Paris
France
presse () rsf org
Tél : 01 44 83 84 72
Fax : 01 45 23 11 51
http://www.rsf.org/


Don't wait to be deprived of news to stand up and fight for it.


Reporters Without Borders defends imprisoned journalists and press freedom
throughout the world, as well as the right to inform the public and to be
informed, in accordance with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. Reporters Without Borders has nine national sections (in
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and
the United Kingdom), representatives in Abidjan, Bangkok, Buenos Aires,
Istanbul, Montreal, Moscow, Nairobi, New York, Tokyo and Washington and more
than a hundred correspondents worldwide.



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Invitación


Jueves 19 de junio de 2003 a las 9 horas


PREMIO CIBERLIBERTAD Reporteros sin Fronteras - Globenet 2003


Informe 2003
INTERNET VIGILADO : LAS TRABAS A LA LIBERTAD DE CIRCULACIÓN DE LA
INFORMACION EN LA RED

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Erick Aubourg, Director de Globenet
&
Robert Ménard, Secretario general de Reporteros sin fronteras


TIENEN EL PLACER DE INVITARLE A LA ENTREGA DEL PRIMER PREMIO CIBERLIBERTAD


Al menos 49 ciberdisidentes




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