World Communcations Days in the Media City Leipzig
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Organized by:
www.medienstadt-leipzig.org |
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Welcome! UNESCO has declared the 23th of April as the World Book Day and the 3rd of May as the World Press Freedom Day. WIPO has declared the 26th of April as the World Intellectual Property Day and the ITU the 17th of May as the World Telecommunication Day. All these days should raise global awareness on issues, which played a central role during the recent World Summitt on the Information Society (WSIS), which took place in December 2003 in Geneva. WSIS adopted a "Declaration of Principles" and a "Action Plan". A second summit will follow in November 2005 in Tunis. The City of Leipzig has a long tradition in all the areas, covered by the four World Days. Leipzig was already in the 18th and 19th century one of the publishing centers in Europe and remained up to our times a "Book City". The call for "Press Freedom " was in the center of the so-called "Monday Demonstrations" in 1989, which paved the way for the opening of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. After the unification of Germany, Leipzig has developed also a new information economy sector and is now one of of the leading "eCities". In the last years, Leipzig became more and more internationalized and is now the German candidate city for hosting the Olympic Summer Games in the year 2012. The Media City Leipzig e.V., a non-for-profit organisation, organizes since 1995 an annual "Leipzig Round Table on the World Press Freedom Day". In 2003, the Medie City Leipzig e.V. organized also for the first time the "Leipzig Lecture on the World Telecommunication Day". By adding events to the World Book Day and the World Intellectual Property Day, the Media City Leipzig e.V. wants to raise awareness for critical issues of the global information society and to make a concrete contribution to the implementation of the WSIS Action Plan. The Leipzig series of World Day events is supported by the Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig, Wolfgang Tiefensee, |
