Controversy blights UN net summit

Sharing Information in Cyberspace

According to Jo Twist (2005) in her article, “Controversy blights UN net summit”, it is important to share information in cyberspace. In Tunis, an UN summit on expanding net access around the world took place. This summit demonstrated a necessity of narrowing technology gap between rich and poor countries. In Tunis, many people protested about human rights. In a global information society, civil groups sought action to balance the rights of all digital citizens to freedom of expression. To create information societies, societies need to share of information. It is important for everyone to have the ability to create and share information.

Poor countries do have some problems on cyberspace because of censorship, technologies and knowledge, and human rights.

First, in poor countries, censorship is a problem. Everyone can not know information equally because of censorship. Censorship gives only specific people information. Because of censorship, people can not share information. That is to say, as long as there is censorship, information societies will not come out. So, who oversee the internet is a serious problem.

Second are about technologies and knowledge. In poor countries, technologies and knowledge are not developed. Because of the lack of these, they do not know how to cope with problems. There is a big gap or digital divide between rich and poor counties. So, those countries need help from developing countries. However, in fact, funds from developing countries were not enough, and agreement was also not filled. So, the fact is problem, too.

Finally, human rights are also problems. In poor countries, people do not have the equal rights. Societies do not protect people’s rights, strongly. People should have the same equal human rights, and share information as citizens. So, poor countries need to grow the human rights than now.

In conclusion, poor countries face some problems on cyberspace because of censorship, technologies and knowledge, human rights. Everybody ought to have the same human rights even though people are poor. Only free sharing information makes an information society.

Reference
Twist, Jo. (2005, November 18). Controversy blights UN net summit. BBC news. Retrieved March 24, 2008 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4450474.stm