We have very serious concerns that the Japanese government decided not to invite North Korea to the Asian Regional Conference for World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and we hope Japanese Government as a host of this regional meeting should make a sincere effort to invite all Asian countries including North Korea to this meeting.
Beginning with the issues raised and seeking to positively contribute to the Asian Regional Conference and to the WSIS process at the global level, the 33 participants have come to a consensus on the following vision, principles and plan of action.
This is a joint statement of national, regional and international NGOs participating at the Asian Civil Society Forum of the Conference of Non-governmental Organizations in Consultative Relations with the United Nations (CONGO).
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일본 정부는 ‘정보사회 세계정상회의 (World Summit on the Information Society)를 위한 아시아 지역회의’에 북한을 초청해야 한다!
2003년 1월 13일부터 15일까지, 일본 동경에서는 ‘정보사회 세계정상회의를 위한 아시아 지역회의’가 개최된다. 이 회의에 일본 정부는 북한을 초청국에서 제외했다고 한다. 우리는 북한에 대한 일본 정부의 부당한 행태에 대해 비판하여, 즉시 북한을 초청할 것을 일본정부에 요구한다.
정보사회 세계정상회의는 2003년 말, UN 주최로 개최되는 정보사회에 대해 논의하는 중요한 자리이다. 정보사회는 경제, 정치, 사회, 교육, 미디어, 인권 및 개발 등 전 세계적으로 우리들의 삶에 많은 변화를 줄 것이다. 따라서, 이 회의는 정부, 기업, NGO들을 포함한 모든 이해당사자들이 어떠한 조건 없이 참여할 수 있는 공간이어야 하며, 이는 이미 UN에 의해 선언된 바 있다. UN은 정보사회 세계정상회의를 소개하는 문서에서 “정보사회세
On August 28th, an open conference on the role of digital libraries was held at the hall of the National Human Rights Commission in Seoul, South Korea
The National Health Insurance System Board held talks on September 6 to try decide the retail price of Gleevec, a cancer drug used for treating leukemia, only to end by delaying the talks even further. One year has passed since the problem of Gleevec first arose.
Korean civil society organizations (CSOs) held an open discussion regarding the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) at 3 p.m., September 25th, at the conference hall of the National Human Rights Commission of South Korea.
Police arrested Kim Kang-pil, a member of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) in South Korea on July 25th. Kim uploaded several materials related to North Korea onto the bulletin board of DLP website. Prosecution claimed his actions violated the National Security Law, Article 7, Clause 1 (an act advantageous to the enemy) and Clause 5 (bringing the materials of profit to the enemy); in this clause enemy means North Korea.
Only by this kind of public support was Novartis able to recollect all invested capital within eight months of global marketing of Gleevec. But now, Novartis has twenty years of intellectual property rights.
On July 9th, the Suwon District Court made preliminary decision against Soribada (http://www.soribada.com), a Peer to Peer (P2P) program for MP3 file sharing, should be suspended. This is the first judgement regarding this type of case since the Korean recording industry accused the Soribada managers of infringement of copyrights last January and the prosecution indicted them last August. Though the final decision for the prosecution indictment has not been decided, we are seriously worried about this judgement.
