[CS Bureau] CS Nom Com for the Global Alliance Strategy Council - Call for volunteers and nominees

[CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam]

Thanks. I was up to contact you in this regard, remembering you had a talk
about that with Renate. Anyway, it was a pleasure to meet Torsten when he
made it in Geneva.

See you soon and all the best,

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
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Fax: +41 22 301 2000
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De : bureau-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:bureau-admin at wsis-cs.org] De la part
de Wolfgang Kleinwächter
Envoyé : lundi, 8. mai 2006 14:30
À : bureau at wsis-cs.org
Objet : AW: [CS Bureau] CS Nom Com for the Global Alliance Strategy Council
- Call for volunteers and nominees

In addition, we have received pretty few nominations for the Strategy
Council itself. 
 
In such a case a volunteer to be a candidate for the Strategy Council.
 
Wolfgang Kleinwaechter

 

Name: Wolfgang Kleinwaechter

CS Affiliation(s): International Associatioon for Media and Communicaiton
research (IAMCR)

Country: Germany/Denmark

Gender:Male

Age: 58

Biographical Statement: see attachedf file

Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:

As a representative of the academic community, teaching issues related to
the information society since 20 years at various universities in Europe and
the US - inter alia American Univereity Washington, University of Tampere,
University of Leipzig, University of Halle, University of Aarhus - I would
argue as a member of the GASC first of all in favour of the interests of
civil society and here in particular for projects supporting Human Rights
and Freedoms - like the right to freedom of expression, right to access to
information, right to knowledge, right to communicate, right to eduction,
right to privacy, right to share information, user and consumer rights - and
bridiging the digital divide.  I would also argue in favour of a deeper
understanding and a more efficient implementation of the principle of
multistakeholderism, which was one of the political innovations of the WSIS
process and which needs collaborative actions towards a qualitative new
relationship among all mein stakeholder groups in achieving the WSIS goals
until 2015. Another issue for my activities in the council would be to link
closer the MDG objectives with the WSIS objectives and to link the GA
process related to ICT for development with the IGF process related to
internet governce.