[n_america] Fwd: [WSIS-CT] >>>Vision section of CS Declaration - draft<<<

[Amali De Silva]

Comments to the NA list please - Amali

Sally Burch - ALAI <sburch at alainet.org> wrote:From: "Sally Burch - ALAI" 
To: ct at wsis-cs.org, plenary at wsis-cs.org
Subject: [WSIS-CT] >>>Vision section of CS Declaration - draft<<<
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:58:57 -0500

All,

Here is a draft of the vision section for the civil society declaration. 
Please send any comments by early Sunday to the CT list 
(ct at wsis-cs.org), under this same message subject.

Other sections will follow shortly.

Sally Burch

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1. A VISIONARY SOCIETY 

Our vision of information and communication societies is based on 
human rights, social justice and sustainable human development. 

We are committed to building people-centred, inclusive and 
equitable information and communication societies, where 
everyone can freely create, access, utilize, share and disseminate 
information and knowledge, thus empowering individuals, 
communities and peoples to improve their quality of life and 
achieve their full potential. 

The developments that shape such societies should be based on 
principles of social, political and economic justice, and 
peoples' participation and empowerment. They must pursue the 
objectives of sustainable development, democracy, and gender 
equality, for the attainment of a more peaceful, just and 
egalitarian world, premised on the principles enshrined in the 
Charter of the United Nations and in the Universal Declaration of 
Human Rights. 

We reaffirm that communication is a fundamental social process, a 
basic human need and the foundation of all social organization. 
Everyone everywhere should have the opportunity to participate in 
and benefit from communication processes. Communication 
rights, including freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to 
seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media 
and regardless of frontiers, to access public information and the 
public domain of knowledge, and to employ ICTs for producing 
information and communicating, must be actively guaranteed for 
all. 

We support the development of societies where human knowledge, 
creativity, cooperation and solidarity are considered core 
elements; societies where not only individual creativity, but 
also collective innovation, based on cooperative work are 
promoted. Societies where knowledge, information and 
communication resources are recognized and protected as the 
common heritage of humankind; societies that foster cultural and 
linguistic diversity and intercultural dialogue, in environments 
that are free from discrimination, violence and hatred.

Building people-centred and inclusive information and 
communication societies implies involving individuals in their 
capacity as citizens, their organizations and communities, as 
participants and decision makers in shaping frameworks, policies 
and governing mechanisms. This means creating an enabling 
environment for the engagement and commitment of all 
generations, both women and men, and ensuring the involvement 
of diverse social and linguistic groups, cultures and peoples, 
without exclusion.

We aspire to build information and communication societies where 
development is focused on fundamental human needs and shared 
social, cultural, economic, and environmental goals; where 
priority is given to a more equitable distribution of resources, 
leading to the elimination of poverty and other gross 
inequalities, in a way that is environmentally sustainable. We 
are convinced that with the political will to mobilize the wealth 
of human knowledge towards this end, humanity could not only 
achieve the goals of the Millennium Declaration, but far surpass 
them.


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Amali De Silva-Mitchell MSc.

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