Entries tagged with “#consumerprotection” from thepublicvoice.org

BEUC, the European Consumers' Organisation, is organising this first multi-stakeholder forum that aims to bring together all stakeholders with an interest in online marketing and consumer privacy. This event will offer a unique opportunity to debate and reflect with all interested parties on future policies on online marketing and privacy and to feed into the European policy approach in these fields. The full program is available online.

On June 16, 2008, more than 150 participants from 15 countries gathered in Seoul, South Korea, for the Civil Society - Labor Forum "Making the Future of the Internet Economy Work for Citizens, Consumers, and Workers. The event was organized by the Public Voice coalition, the Trade Union Advisory Committee, and the OECD Civil Society Reference group, which includes the Association for Progressive Communications, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public interest Clinic, Consumers Korea, the European Digital Rights Initiative, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Internet Governance Project, and the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue.

On January 15, 2001, the public voice coalition organized the event: The Public Voice in Emerging Market Economies" in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in conjunction with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development conference on Electronic Commerce. More information is available online.

The Public Interest Registry (PIR) has announced a new international public awareness campaign aimed at protecting .ORG domain name holders from the potentially damaging consequences of allowing their .ORG domain names to expire. The campaign, called "protectyour.ORG: Preserving the Value of Your .ORG Domain", seeks to educate registrants about the value of .ORG domains˜, even those that are not currently being used as Web sites. It offers steps for locating, managing, consolidating, and securing domain names in order to reduce the potential for problems that may occur when domain names lapse either intentionally or because the registrant was unaware that a name had expired. More information»