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This project is
about citizen-inspired change in a globalized society.
It focuses on one of the newest and most
internationalized areas of public policy and
institutional change: “communication-information policy”
or CIP for short. CIP encompasses the policies, laws,
standards, and international agreements governing the
electronic mass media, Internet and telecommunications.
It involves issues of free expression, privacy, trade, cultural
diversity, intellectual property, economic
regulation and development.
Our research
seeks to understand the potential of public interest
advocacy and social movement activism to shape
international institutions in ways that develop better
and more just policies.
Phase 1 of this
project concentrated on public interest advocacy around
CIP in the United States. Phase 2 concentrates on
transnational activity, particularly the role of the
WSIS process in converging issue networks into a single
movement.
Program of the October 28
2005 convening to review and discuss the research
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