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["Mary A. Axford" <mary.axford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from Politics Online:


INTERNATIONAL NEWS



ACTIVISTS PRAISE OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE AT GLOBAL CONFAB

(USA Today) Activists at a leftist gathering where Microsoft is viewed as a 
corporate predator urged developing nations Saturday to leap into the 
information age with free open-source software.

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AFRICAN LEADERS HOPE TO BRIDGE DIGITAL DIVIDE

(IOL) African leaders in Ghana for the opening day of a major regional 
conference on information and communications technology on Wednesday called 
for the "digital divide" between developing and developed nations to be 
bridged.

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CYBER WARRIORS

(The Age) With a website for almost every cause, the internet could well be 
the world's largest rally - except protesters don't have to march or hoist 
a placard.

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KYRGYZSTAN: PHONY E-MAIL MESSAGES SENT TO DISCREDIT OPPOSITION

(RSF) Reporters Without Borders today called on the head of the State 
Agency for Communications, Andrei Titov, to investigate a disinformation 
campaign in which messages designed to discredit a number of opposition 
figures were somehow sent on around 8 January from e-mail addresses 
belonging to the opposition websites Gazeta.kg and Centrasia.ru without the 
knowledge of those in charge.

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UK LABOUR DITCHES CONTROVERSIAL ADS

(DeHavilland)The Labour party has removed controversial posters attacking 
Conservative party economic policy from its website. Some critics said the 
posters of leader Michael Howard and shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin, both 
of Jewish descent, were anti-Semitic.

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