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E-Government ‘key to Qatar’s digital future’

Doha: Qatar’ e-Government Strategy 2020 would make it impossible to envision Qatar’s digital future without embracing technology, to create a more efficient, effective, accessible and transparent government that meets the needs of individuals and businesses. 

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Historically, Cambodia has been fairly lax in enacting legislation that stifles freedom of expression online—unlike its neighbors of Vietnam and Thailand— but with more Cambodian citizens gaining access to the Internet, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) has attempted to control dissenting views and "immoral actions" online through the drafting of a cybercrime law. A leaked copy of the legislation, which was initially drafted in 2012, revealed some serious threats to fundamental freedoms by making certain speech and other actions online punishable by fine and prison time.  

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Haras Rafiq: Censoring the internet is a poor way of countering online Islamist extremism

Haras Rafiq is a former Director of CENTRI, an organisation that specialises in countering extremism.

It has been just over a year since Lee Rigby was brutally murdered by Islamist terrorists near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich. Thankfully, justice has been done and his two murderers have been sentenced to life imprisonment. Of course, that will not bring Lee Rigby back - my heart goes out to his family and friends.

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2014.05.27

EU project to explore media freedom and pluralism

By Alice Kirkland

Free speech has always been a concern to the EU, with flaws in the world of press freedom and pluralism in Europe still apparent today. In an attempt to raise awareness to these problems, both on an institutional scale and publicly, DG Connect, tasked with undertaking the EU’s Digital Agenda, launched a call for proposal for funding for a new project to allow NGOs and civil society platforms to research and develop tools to tackle this problem.

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Austrian web freedom group opposes media storage regulation

The Austrian Initiative for Internet Freedom has written an open letter concerning copyright laws. Lobby groups are pushing for regulation of hard disk or storage media, says the letter, but in fact, the creation of private copies of media content are prevented by write-protection measures or DRM (digital rights management) measures, or are paid for through business models such as iTunes. The initiative argues that this means that private copies barely exist in the legal sense , so they cannot be reimbursed. The letter was sent to the ministers of arts and culture and of justice, copyright societies Austro - Mechana and Literar - Mechana ,The Chamber of Labour and the Chamber of Commerce.

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Haras Rafiq is a former Director of CENTRI, an organisation that specialises in countering extremism.

It has been just over a year since Lee Rigby was brutally murdered by Islamist terrorists near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich. Thankfully, justice has been done and his two murderers have been sentenced to life imprisonment. Of course, that will not bring Lee Rigby back - my heart goes out to his family and friends.

By Alice Kirkland

Free speech has always been a concern to the EU, with flaws in the world of press freedom and pluralism in Europe still apparent today. In an attempt to raise awareness to these problems, both on an institutional scale and publicly, DG Connect, tasked with undertaking the EU’s Digital Agenda, launched a call for proposal for funding for a new project to allow NGOs and civil society platforms to research and develop tools to tackle this problem.

The Austrian Initiative for Internet Freedom has written an open letter concerning copyright laws. Lobby groups are pushing for regulation of hard disk or storage media, says the letter, but in fact, the creation of private copies of media content are prevented by write-protection measures or DRM (digital rights management) measures, or are paid for through business models such as iTunes. The initiative argues that this means that private copies barely exist in the legal sense , so they cannot be reimbursed. The letter was sent to the ministers of arts and culture and of justice, copyright societies Austro - Mechana and Literar - Mechana ,The Chamber of Labour and the Chamber of Commerce.

Source: http://www.telecompaper.com/news/austrian-web-freedom-group-opposes-media-storage-regulation--1015913

Cambodia's Draft Law Turns Free Speech into Cybercrime

Historically, Cambodia has been fairly lax in enacting legislation that stifles freedom of expression online—unlike its neighbors of Vietnam and Thailand— but with more Cambodian citizens gaining access to the Internet, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) has attempted to control dissenting views and "immoral actions" online through the drafting of a cybercrime law. A leaked copy of the legislation, which was initially drafted in 2012, revealed some serious threats to fundamental freedoms by making certain speech and other actions online punishable by fine and prison time.  

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Haras Rafiq: Censoring the internet is a poor way of countering online Islamist extremism

Haras Rafiq is a former Director of CENTRI, an organisation that specialises in countering extremism.

It has been just over a year since Lee Rigby was brutally murdered by Islamist terrorists near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich. Thankfully, justice has been done and his two murderers have been sentenced to life imprisonment. Of course, that will not bring Lee Rigby back - my heart goes out to his family and friends.

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2014.05.27

EU project to explore media freedom and pluralism

By Alice Kirkland

Free speech has always been a concern to the EU, with flaws in the world of press freedom and pluralism in Europe still apparent today. In an attempt to raise awareness to these problems, both on an institutional scale and publicly, DG Connect, tasked with undertaking the EU’s Digital Agenda, launched a call for proposal for funding for a new project to allow NGOs and civil society platforms to research and develop tools to tackle this problem.

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Austrian web freedom group opposes media storage regulation

The Austrian Initiative for Internet Freedom has written an open letter concerning copyright laws. Lobby groups are pushing for regulation of hard disk or storage media, says the letter, but in fact, the creation of private copies of media content are prevented by write-protection measures or DRM (digital rights management) measures, or are paid for through business models such as iTunes. The initiative argues that this means that private copies barely exist in the legal sense , so they cannot be reimbursed. The letter was sent to the ministers of arts and culture and of justice, copyright societies Austro - Mechana and Literar - Mechana ,The Chamber of Labour and the Chamber of Commerce.

Source: http://www.telecompaper.com/news/austrian-web-freedom-group-opposes-media-storage-regulation--1015913

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Haras Rafiq is a former Director of CENTRI, an organisation that specialises in countering extremism.

It has been just over a year since Lee Rigby was brutally murdered by Islamist terrorists near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich. Thankfully, justice has been done and his two murderers have been sentenced to life imprisonment. Of course, that will not bring Lee Rigby back - my heart goes out to his family and friends.

By Alice Kirkland

Free speech has always been a concern to the EU, with flaws in the world of press freedom and pluralism in Europe still apparent today. In an attempt to raise awareness to these problems, both on an institutional scale and publicly, DG Connect, tasked with undertaking the EU’s Digital Agenda, launched a call for proposal for funding for a new project to allow NGOs and civil society platforms to research and develop tools to tackle this problem.

The Austrian Initiative for Internet Freedom has written an open letter concerning copyright laws. Lobby groups are pushing for regulation of hard disk or storage media, says the letter, but in fact, the creation of private copies of media content are prevented by write-protection measures or DRM (digital rights management) measures, or are paid for through business models such as iTunes. The initiative argues that this means that private copies barely exist in the legal sense , so they cannot be reimbursed. The letter was sent to the ministers of arts and culture and of justice, copyright societies Austro - Mechana and Literar - Mechana ,The Chamber of Labour and the Chamber of Commerce.

Source: http://www.telecompaper.com/news/austrian-web-freedom-group-opposes-media-storage-regulation--1015913

Haras Rafiq: Censoring the internet is a poor way of countering online Islamist extremism

Haras Rafiq is a former Director of CENTRI, an organisation that specialises in countering extremism.

It has been just over a year since Lee Rigby was brutally murdered by Islamist terrorists near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich. Thankfully, justice has been done and his two murderers have been sentenced to life imprisonment. Of course, that will not bring Lee Rigby back - my heart goes out to his family and friends.

EU project to explore media freedom and pluralism

By Alice Kirkland

Free speech has always been a concern to the EU, with flaws in the world of press freedom and pluralism in Europe still apparent today. In an attempt to raise awareness to these problems, both on an institutional scale and publicly, DG Connect, tasked with undertaking the EU’s Digital Agenda, launched a call for proposal for funding for a new project to allow NGOs and civil society platforms to research and develop tools to tackle this problem.

Austrian web freedom group opposes media storage regulation

The Austrian Initiative for Internet Freedom has written an open letter concerning copyright laws. Lobby groups are pushing for regulation of hard disk or storage media, says the letter, but in fact, the creation of private copies of media content are prevented by write-protection measures or DRM (digital rights management) measures, or are paid for through business models such as iTunes. The initiative argues that this means that private copies barely exist in the legal sense , so they cannot be reimbursed. The letter was sent to the ministers of arts and culture and of justice, copyright societies Austro - Mechana and Literar - Mechana ,The Chamber of Labour and the Chamber of Commerce.

Source: http://www.telecompaper.com/news/austrian-web-freedom-group-opposes-media-storage-regulation--1015913