Dear all,
I have already submitted a side event for NGOs at UNU in WSIS TOKYO.
Draft agenda of the event organized by JCA-NET/JCAFE is as follows. I
hope you are interested in this event and join our meeting and also if
you want to talk about related topics, your presentations are welcome.
Our event has three sessions. First session is regarding
communication and human security, second session is regarding civil
liberty issues and the final session is film show.
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Date: January 12, afternoon to evening.
Organizer: JCA-NET
Co-organizer: JCAFE
Contact person: Toshi Ogura
ogr@nsknet.or.jp
070-5553-5495
Session 1
Keynote speech
Kinhide Mushakoji (Professor of Chubu Univ. Former vice president of
UNU)
*Communication circumstances of migrant workers in Japan: Kimiko
Ogasawara (National Netowrk in Solidarity with Migrant Workers)
*Communication rights of workers and the unemployed: Akinobu Itoh or
Makoto Kawazoe (Labor Net Nippon)
*Experiences of support movement for East Timor: Kiyokazu Koshida,
(Pacific Asia Resource Center)
*Experiences of Japan-Korean solidarity movements and possibility of
the Internet: Yukihiro Yasuda (Labor Net/JCA-NET)
*Public Access and media literacy: Tadahisa Hamada(JCAFE)
Session 2: Privacy and Civil liberty
*ID card and the Resident Registration Network: Bunmei Sato (writer)
*gender identity and the Resident Registration Network: Izumi Yonezawa
*Violation of civil liberty by the Convention of Cyber Crime: Yukio Yamashita (lawyer)
*Problems of Rating and filtering: Nobuo Sakiyama (CPSR/Japan)
*Communication surveillance after Sept.11: Toshi Ogura (JCA-NET)
Session 3
Video show: "Rip It Up", documentary of Korean movement against ID
card.
Short speech by Ryuta Itagaki
Following topics are expected to be discussed;
*English domination and exclusion from decision making
*Experiences of support movement for people in North Korea.
*Data gathering and privacy by private company
*Technology and politics of the Internet
*Intellectual property rights and communication rights
*The Internet in social movements
*The Internet and freedom of press
*The Internet is really open to Asia?
and more.
You are welcome to join our meeting as a speaker.
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toshimaru ogura
ogr@nsknet.or.jp
toshi@jca.apc.org
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