links for 2008-05-23

• Cisco Leak: 'Great Firewall' of China Was a Chance to Sell More Routers | Threat Level from Wired.com
  On the eve of a Senate hearing, a Cisco internal presentation from 2002 is leaked. It outlines business opportunities presented by China's Golden Shield project for surveillance, censorship, and police communication.
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch cisco humanrights freespeech censorship surveillance police)
• Business & Human Rights : [PDF] Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business and Human Rights
  "this report presents a conceptual and policy framework to anchor the business and human rights debate, and to help guide all relevant actors."
  (tags: business humanrights csr)
• Q&A with Isaac Mao on tech blogging in China: Censorship, and opportunity » VentureBeat
  Isaac's final sentence: "There will be new opportunities in the next few years for Chinese people to adopt free thinking and universal values by harnessing the power of vast social media tools."
  (tags: china internet freespeech censorship web2.0 bloggers blogging chineseinternetresearch)
• www.digistan.org: Hague Declaration
  The Signers call on all governments to: 1. Procure only information technology that implements free and open standards; 2. Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open standards; 3. Use only free and open digital standards in their o
  (tags: openstandards opensource cretivecommons openaccess government law copyright IP cchk freeculture)