Monday, August 13, 2018

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China releases 3-year action plan for information technology consumption
Technode, August 13, 2018
https://technode.com/2018/08/13/china-it-3-year-action-plan/

Related:
《扩大和升级信息消费三年行动计划(2018-2020年)》解读 (How to read the 3-year Action Plan for Expanding and Upgrading Information Consumption (2018-2020))
Ministry of Information and Information Technology, August 10, 2018
http://www.miit.gov.cn/n1146295/n1652858/n1653018/c6309226/content.html

研究人权 德国留学生被迫离开中国 (German student at Tsinghua University is forced to leave for research on human rights)
Radio France Internationale, August 12, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20180812-研究人权-德国留学生被迫离开中国

A former Google China exec says the company’s plan to build a censored search engine in the country is likely a violation of human rights
Business Insider, August 10, 2018
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-china-exec-human-rights-2018-8

Related:
谷歌前高管批谷歌重返中国是“愚蠢”的决定 (Former Google exec criticizes Google’s decision to return to China as “stupid”)
Voice of America , August 11, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/Google-China-Censorship-20180811/4524182.html

How Google is developing its censored search engine
China Digital Times, August 11, 2018
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/08/how-google-is-developing-its-censored-search-engine/