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Our man in Geneva | 11-12-2003 19:31 | Technology | Sheffield | World

DeeDee Halleck of Deep Dish TV ( http://deepdish.igc.org/) has prepared the following statement on Indymedia for inclusion in the Community Media press pack to be given out at tomorrow's (12.12.03) Community Media Forum at the World Summit on the Information Society ( http://www.wsis.org) in Geneva.

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Police raid 'We Seize!' Polimedia Lab

fakelondongenius | 09-12-2003 12:02 | WSIS 2003 | Technology | Sheffield | World

Early reports from this week's World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva suggest that local police have raided the Polimedia Lab which is part of the counter-Summit activities collectively known as 'We Seize!'.

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WSIS Polymedia Lab Closed by Riot Police

Chris | 09-12-2003 11:57 | WSIS 2003 | Repression | Technology | Sheffield | World

Computers
The WE SEIZE! Polimedia Lab which was planned as a temporary media and communications laboratory in Geneva was closed by police this morning.

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Free Wifi Hotspot Access

Bone_Idol | 07-12-2003 11:14 | Indymedia | Technology | Sheffield

As BT offers a free weeks trial WiFi internet access, another AP on Burngreave Road goes live.

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!!! we seize mutant ninja direct action !!!

fakelondongenius | 05-12-2003 14:54 | WSIS 2003 | Indymedia | Technology | Sheffield | World

'we seize!' logo on the town hall
Yesterday evening a crack team of mutant ninja media subversives stormed Sheffield City Centre to highlight next week's United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and, in particular, the counter-summit actions collectively known as 'We Seize!'.

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Auntie goes WSIS...

fakelondongenius | 04-12-2003 00:17 | WSIS 2003 | Technology | Sheffield | World

The bloated and swollen BBC machine has lumbered into action as things start to heat up for next week's first ever World Summit on the Information Society held at the United Nations in Geneva.

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WSIS Strategic Conference

chip_scooter | 02-12-2003 12:42 | WSIS 2003 | Technology | Sheffield | World

Part of the "WSIS? WE SEIZE!" events and actions taking place around the World Summit on Information Society , S-CONF is two days of open discussions involving local Genevans, WSIS delegates, NGO members, info-activists and diverse net participants. The conference is intended to allow exploration of the key issues involved in information
politics - including those excluded or removed from the official WSIS agenda.

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Pressure from DFES to rewrite history

Bone_Idol | 28-11-2003 14:24 | Culture | Indymedia | Technology | Sheffield

The DFES is pressuring me to remove historical information from the web

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Is Capital taking over Linux?

Chris | 04-11-2003 22:35 | WSIS 2003 | Technology | Sheffield

The latest version of Red Hat Linux will be out this week and it will be called Fedora 1 not Red Hat 10, also SuSE Linux has just been bought by Novell and this has been bankrolled by IBM. What is happening here and what does it mean for the world's most popular versions of the free GNU/Linux computer operating system?

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Action against software patents

Gringo | 25-10-2003 11:44 | WSIS 2003 | Globalisation | Repression | Technology | London | Sheffield

The dangers of software patents are highlighted tomorrow by the president of the free software foundation ( http://www.fsf.org) tommorrow, in London.

Talk in Sheffield going as this post is typed.
A must for anyone interested in technology and want to take action. There is lot to be done.

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Sheffield Public Meeting: Free as in Freedom

Chris | 07-10-2003 14:49 | WSIS 2003 | Technology | Sheffield

On Saturday the 25th of October at 12 p.m. Richard Stallman will give a lecture about Software Patents in the Stoddart Building at Sheffield Hallam University.

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Arms firm waged dirty war on protesters

Chip Scooter | 28-09-2003 18:48 | Indymedia | Repression | Technology | London | Sheffield

The defence giant BAE Systems has been linked to a private intelligence-gathering operation that secretly infiltrated anti-arms trade groups.

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200 demonstrators detained

!!! No DESi !!! | 09-09-2003 15:58 | DSEi 2003 | Anti-militarism | Indymedia | Technology | London | Sheffield

A small breakaway group of protestors earlier outwitted slow-footed cops and attempted to storm the eastern entrance to the Excel Centre hosting the arms fair DSEi 2003.

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protesters detained on Connaught Overpass

r7 | 09-09-2003 14:28 | DSEi 2003 | Anti-militarism | Technology | London | Sheffield

Report phoned in from Sheffield anti-DSEI protestors currently on Connaught Overpass [west of Exel Centre].

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Fluent anti-DSEi action in Sheffield

Sheff IMC | 02-09-2003 19:50 | DSEi 2003 | Anti-militarism | Technology | Sheffield

Fluent deal in Death
Around twenty people took action against Fluent Ltd, a computer modelling software company on an industrial estate next to Sheffield airport today.

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EU Software Patent Plans Shelved Amid Massive Demonstrations

chip scooter | 02-09-2003 09:39 | Globalisation | Technology | London | Sheffield

On Aug 28th, the European Parliament postponed its vote on the proposed EU Software Patent Directive. The day before, approximately 500 persons had gathered for a rally beside the Parliament in Brussels, accompanied by an online demonstration involving more than 2000 websites. The events in and near the Parliament were reported extensively covered in the media, including tv and radio, all over Europe and beyond. Within a few days, the petition calling the European Parliament to reject software patentability accumulated 50,000 new signatures.

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al-jazeera website relaunches - but for how long???

haroun al-rashid | 01-09-2003 23:10 | Culture | Repression | Technology | London | Sheffield

The Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera launched an English-language Web site yesterday, five months after hackers brought down a temporary site at the height of the Iraq war but how long will it stay up for?

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GM Food and Crops: What Next?

steve | 01-09-2003 21:56 | Bio-technology | Ecology | Health | Technology | Sheffield

This briefing is an update on what has been happening on genetically modified (GM) food and crops and what is coming up in the near future. This autumn will see a number of key dates, including a report on the Government's public debate, GM Nation, a report on the Farm Scale Evaluations and the next steps in the GM Trade War between the US and Europe.

The decisions made over the next few months could have widespread repercussions for our food, farming and environment. Chief amongst these will whether the Government will allow GM crops to be commercially grown in the UK. If they do, the first could be grown as early as spring 2004.

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Accessibility Matters

Chris | 20-07-2003 12:34 | Technology | Sheffield

The people doing the Indymedia web site _do_ care about accessibility and the site will be improved.

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revolution OS

boneidol | 18-06-2003 18:31 | Technology | Sheffield

"REVOLUTION OS": the inside story of the computer hackers who rebelled
against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux
and the Open Source movement.

This interesting film is to being shown at "the Showroom" Paternoster Row  Sheffield  S1 2BX
The screening will be on Saturday 26 July at 4.00pm (replacing Nicholas Nickleby).


 http://www.showroom.org.uk/

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