Cybersurf

This summit is set to take place in Tunis in November this year. Leaders from around the world will converge on the Tunisian capital to sign agreements aimed at improving worldwide access to infomration and communications technologies.

There has been considerable debate about whether the media should simply cover the event as it happens, or is the media a special part of the information society.

PANOS – a UK based non-governmental organisation that uses communications for development, has set up a special web site aimed at getting jounralists to be part of the debate and to help de-mystify such issues.

I spoke to Murali Shanmugavelan, of Panos London and asked him why should jounralists be involved in the WSISI process:

IN: For two reasons . . . .

OUT: . . . . they want to.”

DUR: 2’13”

Murali Shanmugavelan, of Panos London – if you would like to check out their site – go along to www.panos.org.uk – that is panos P.A.N.O.S dot org dot uk.

(T) Now for a radical change of tack with a quick note about a virtual catastrophe – thousands of characters are dying of the plague in the world’s ffmost popular online game – World of Warcraft. Its makers say more than four million people worldwide play this game – and now the characters are dropping like virtual flies.

And so we come to the end of this week’s edition of Cybersurf – thanks for listening and be sure to join me again next Monday for more on the best of the web.

// posted by Steven Lang @ 3:18 am