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Article: Civil society IT groups condemn Japanese government for excluding North Korea at ARC. (Isis on WSIS).(information technology, Asian Regional Conference)
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- January 1, 2003
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Participants to the Communication Rights Workshop (CRW) held in conjunction with the recently concluded Asian Regional Conference (ARC) for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) criticised the Japanese government for not inviting delegates from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) to this Tokyo meeting.
The participants were led by JCA-Net, a Tokyo-based organisation providing IT support to Japanese NGOs and other members of civil society; and Jinbonet, a South Korean network advocating the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for social transformation.
The participants demanded the Japanese Ministry of ...