[Kictanet] Fw: [APC Forum] Fw: Panos London launches new information society website

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> New 'i-Witness' website boosts journalists' ability to report on the
> information society
>
> Journalists looking for free, up-to-date resources, news and debate on
> the information society can get all this and more on a new website,
> i-Witness: www.panos.org.uk/iwitness.
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> The i-Witness website is being launched ahead of the final stage of the
> World Summit on the Information Society (Tunisia, 16-18 November 2005),
> and aims to help journalists worldwide get to grips with many
> controversial but often under-reported information society topics - from
> bridging the digital divide to controlling the internet.
>
> Journalists will be able to access a series of topic briefing papers, an
> online experts database and researched links to essential background
> information. Journalists can also contribute their own views and
> experiences of reporting on this often highly technical and difficult
> subject via an online discussion forum.
>
> Developed by leading international media NGO, Panos London, i-Witness is
> one of several activities to help journalists, particularly those in
> developing countries, report on a subject that is having a growing
> economic and cultural impact, but one that many people in developing
> countries are in danger of being left out of completely.
>
> According to Panos London's Murali Shanmugavelan, journalists have a
> crucial role to play in not only reporting on the information society
> but also in actually shaping it.
>
> "If the information society is all about exchange and flow of
> information," says Shanmugavelan, "then the media is best placed to
> invoke this debate given that this is what their business is about. The
> media needs to question key aspects of the information society such as
> who controls information, who has rights to information and how profit
> influences the agenda."
>
> Panos London will be taking a team of developing-country journalists to
> the Summit, where they will file stories for their own national
> newspapers, and give more personal insights on the i-Witness blog.
>
> www.panos.org.uk/iwitness | journalists shaping the information society
>
> <http://www.panos.org.uk/>
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