AIDS groups in Zimbabwe this week condemned a "political" decision by the government to transfer control over money from a national AIDS fund to ruling party-run district
councils, activists told IRIN.

In order to preserve the right to anonymous communication, and for many, secure communication, services like Safeweb and Anonymizer sprang up all over the World Wide Web. Several of these services are now defunct in the wake of the New York terrorist attacks and economic pressures.

An article by Lawrence Lessig examines legal and corporate trends that threaten to undermine the open, freely accessible nature of this "engine of innovation". Lessig argues that walling off portions of cyberspace with code and infrastructure strictures will limit it's use as a machinery for democracy and change. Long and worth the read.

The Digital Divide Network (DDN) is a national coalition of non-profit institutions and IT companies working together to help bridge the digital divide. DDN is currently seeking articles around a number of issues in this field. Read on for details.

Whilst the world's attention is directed towards Afghanistan and the wider fall-out of the events of 11 September in the United States of America, Amnesty International today urged the international community not to ignore Burundi, where the short period since the commencement of a government of transition on 1 November has been marked by massacres of civilians by government forces and the abduction of hundreds of children by an armed political group.