Excerpted from Asia Times Online:
As China once again moves to tighten regulation of the Internet, a new force is forming in the West to address challenges to free expression and privacy faced by technology and communications companies doing business internationally.
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The members of the group are: Amnesty International, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, Boston Common Asset Management, Business for Social Responsibility (facilitator), Calvert Group, Center for Democracy and Technology (facilitator), Committee to Protect Journalists, Domini Social Investments LLC, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Enterprise Privacy Group, F&C Asset Management, Google Inc, Human Rights First, Human Rights in China, Human Rights Watch, International Business Leaders Forum, International Council on Human Rights Policy, Microsoft, Reporters Without Borders, Trillium Asset Management, the United Nations Special Representative to the Secretary General on Business and Human Rights (observer status), the University of California-Berkeley School of Law-Boalt Hall, Vodafone, and Yahoo Inc.
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For more information on this issue:
- CDT/BSR Press Release:
HRIC joins Companies, Human Rights Groups, Investors, Academics and Technology Leaders to Address International Free Expression and Privacy Challenges - China Rights Forum, No.2 2006:
Technology and Human Rights - Articles, interviews, HRIC issue briefs, resource list and more focusing on the issue of technology and human rights. - China Rights Forum, No.2, 2006:
"A Conversation with Citizen Lab" - Sharon Hom interviews Ron Deibert and Nart Villeneuve on their work battling Internet censorship. - China Rights Forum, No.2, 2006:
"The Hijacked Potential of China's Internet" - He Qinglian details the ways in which government controls have forced China to miss out on the full benefits of the Internet revolution. - Written testimony submitted to U.S. Congressional Hearing:
"The Internet in China: A Tool for Freedom or Suppression?" - China Rights Forum, No.3, 2005:
"Logging on in China's Internet Cafes: An HRIC Field Survey" - China Rights Forum, No.4, 2004:
"Media Control in China" - HRIC Case Study:
"Human Rights and Spam: A China Case Study" - China Rights Forum, No.3, 2003:
"The Rise of the Internet and Advancing Human Rights"
