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[Mary Axford <mary.axford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from Politics Online:

International News

Impact Of Online Voting Could Make 5.5 Million Non-Voters Vote Says Survey
(PublicTechnology.net) Sixty-six percent of British citizens that did 
not vote in the 2005 election would have been more likely to have voted 
if online voting was available, according to YouGov research released by 
Cisco Systems.
http: //www.publictechnology.net/modules.php? 
op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3314

Trying to Tame the Internet Wild West
(All Africa) Exactly a decade after the Internet came to Namibia in 
September 1995, parliament is expected to approve the country's first 
cyber law, or "e-law", this year.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200507140052.html

UN At Odds Over Internet's Future
(BBC) A UN group charged with deciding how the net should be run has 
failed to reach a decision.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/469274 3.stm

In Canada: Cache A Page, Go To Jail?
(CNet News) A bill before Canada's Parliament could make it illegal for 
search engines to cache Web pages, critics say, opening the door to 
unwarranted lawsuits and potentially hindering public access to information.
http://news.com.com/In Canada Cache a page%2C go to 
jail/2100-1028_3-5793659.html? tag=cd.lede

Blogs Taking Off in Cambodia
(Wired) Like many young Cambodians just now getting used to the idea of 
surfing the web, Mean Lux only recently heard about blogs. But his work 
traveling this country's back roads may soon bring a rush of Cambodians 
to the blogosphere.
http://www.wired.co m/news/culture/0,1284,68224,00.html? 
tw=newsletter_topstories_html

		
	HotSite Of The Week

News From Iraq (Literally)
“Voices of Iraq” http://www.aswa taliraq.info

This week, Reuters announced plans to change a website into Iraq’s first 
independent commercial news service.

“Voices of Iraq” (www.aswataliraq.info) was formerly a grassroots news 
site in a media where “the standards of Iraqi journalists, were, in 
general, pathetic”, said Assem Abdel-Mohsen, an Egyptian and veteran 
Reuters correspondent who now edits Aswat al-Iraq from Cairo. Since 
March, Reuters has been maintaining the site and formally training Iraqi 
journalsists. Now, with $800,000 from the U.N. the Iraqi news staff will 
soon operate the site independently of Reuters.

When the service goes live in a few months, it will feed breaking news 
to both Iraqi and foreign news outlets and Iraqi reporters will be 
posted in every Iraq providence.

For more:
http://www.nytimes.com 
/2005/07/18/business/worldbusiness/18reuters.html? 
adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1121973354-arJEQlb sawIUWyQoC5FVA


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