Parallel to Wsis 2 in Tunisia, November 16 - 18:
The Citizens Summit is starting to take shape, in Tunis and here in Canada.
Here is the web space: www.citizens-summit.org
"...This citizen's summit on the information society will take place outside of the official Summit venue and
spaces, in the town of Tunis. The exact place is not known yet, but it will be
posted to the plenary during next week. Why? Because, the first venue has been

6/05/2005
Tunisie
Mission internationale d’enquête : le Sommet mondial de la société de l’information et la Tunisie
http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=2405
Trois ONG internationales de défense des droits de l’Homme publient un rapport sur la société de l’information en Tunisie et les conditions opérationnelles de la préparation du Sommet mondial de la société de l’information à Tunis en novembre 2005.

Deutsche Welle
Germany | 29.11.2005
Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia.de Has Copyright Issues
Wikipedia.de is warning users that some entries have been corrupted
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1796407,00.html?maca=en-bulletin-433-html
The German version of free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has hit a glitch. Hundreds of entries are thought to have been lifted from East German reference books, reducing their value to users.

Geneva, November 22, 2005
WIPO MEMBER STATES CONSIDER HOW TO FACILITATE ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=9289
Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) examined on Monday, the impact of the copyright system on the use of protected works for educational purposes in both the analog and digital environments, particularly in developing countries. The meeting took place at the beginning of deliberations by the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) which is being held in Geneva from November 21 to 23, 2005.

Microsoft, the "Vienna Conclusions," and the UN World Summit
[ english translation of
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/66530 -- now online at
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/66619 ]

The Vienna Conclusions drawn up for the UN's World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) were presented in an edited version in
Tunis: Digital Rights Management was inserted where "free software"

This is what a government-filtered internet looks like
http://www.rikomatic.com/blogomatic/archive/2005/11/22/this-is-what-a-government-filtered-internet-looks-like
It apparently looks like a 404 "Site Not Found" Error.
404 site not found
The Register IT news site did a story yesterday on how the Tunisian authorities are surreptitiously blocking access to content on the internet deemed offensive to the regime by throwing up fake 404 "site not found" errors.

ICANN still rules the Internet roost
John McCormick, TechRepublic
November 23, 2005
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020457,39237486,00.htm
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a last-minute reprieve at the World Summit on the Information Society, when the Bush administration agreed to the creation of a new UN-based discussion group. Meanwhile, SonyBMG continues to try to weather the fallout from its surreptitious copy-restriction rootkit, as conditions grow more stormy with the emergence of a Trojan horse that uses that rootkit to take over PCs.

The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/21/utsumi_rejection/
ITU refuses to accept net governance agreement
Head claims ITU will be in charge in five years
By Kieren McCarthy in Tunis
Published Monday 21st November 2005
The ITU has refused to accept the internet governance consensus reached after torrid negotiations during its own summit process, further damaging its credibility in eyes of the net community.