Items tagged "Civil Society"
Public Knowledge Joins Civil Society Groups to Defend Digital and Cultural Rights
April 7, 2016 Civil Society , Digital Rights , Human Rights , InternationalToday, Public Knowledge joins the Association for Progressive Communications and Article 19 in defending digital and cultural rights and the internet in the Americas at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights during public hearings.
Read MoreReview of PK/OAS Roundtable on Civil Society and Cybersecurity in the Americas
October 12, 2017 Civil Society , Cybersecurity , International , Internet Governance , The AmericasLast week, Public Knowledge and the Organization of American States (OAS) organized a joint roundtable on “Cybersecurity and Civil Society in the Americas,” which took place at the OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C. Thanks to the support of Open Society Foundations, the roundtable included civil society organizations from all over the Americans: Derechos Digitales, Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor (IDEC), ADC Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC), Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), Karisma, TEDIC, Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D), CodingRights, InternetLab, Datos Protegidos, Ipandetec, Hiperderecho, Access Now, New America, and more. It also included the active participation of high-ranking members of the Canadian, American, Colombian, and Guatemalan governments, the Brazilian Armed Forces, and private organizations.
Read MoreITU-WRC Process Should Be Participatory and Inclusive of All Stakeholders
November 6, 2015 Civil Society , ITU , Transparency , WRC , WSISThe 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15), which Public Knowledge has been closely monitoring, officially commenced this week in Geneva, Switzerland. Throughout the month of November, the decisions to govern our communications via airwaves – such as mobile broadband and public disaster radio communications – will be written into an international treaty called the Radio Regulations (RRs).
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