<DIV>Comments to the NA list please - Amali<BR><BR><B><I>Sally Burch - ALAI <sburch@alainet.org></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">From: "Sally Burch - ALAI" <SBURCH@ALAINET.ORG><BR>To: ct@wsis-cs.org, plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR>Subject: [WSIS-CT] >>>Vision section of CS Declaration - draft<<<<BR>Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:58:57 -0500<BR><BR>All,<BR><BR>Here is a draft of the vision section for the civil society declaration. <BR>Please send any comments by early Sunday to the CT list <BR>(ct@wsis-cs.org), under this same message subject.<BR><BR>Other sections will follow shortly.<BR><BR>Sally Burch<BR><BR>_________________________<BR>1. A VISIONARY SOCIETY <BR><BR>Our vision of information and communication societies is based on <BR>human rights, social justice and sustainable human development. <BR><BR>We are committed to building people-centred, inclusive and <BR>equitable information and communication societies, where <BR>everyone can freely create, access, utilize, share and disseminate
<BR>information and knowledge, thus empowering individuals, <BR>communities and peoples to improve their quality of life and <BR>achieve their full potential. <BR><BR>The developments that shape such societies should be based on <BR>principles of social, political and economic justice, and <BR>peoples' participation and empowerment. They must pursue the <BR>objectives of sustainable development, democracy, and gender <BR>equality, for the attainment of a more peaceful, just and <BR>egalitarian world, premised on the principles enshrined in the <BR>Charter of the United Nations and in the Universal Declaration of <BR>Human Rights. <BR><BR>We reaffirm that communication is a fundamental social process, a <BR>basic human need and the foundation of all social organization. <BR>Everyone everywhere should have the opportunity to participate in <BR>and benefit from communication processes. Communication <BR>rights, including freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to <BR>s
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receive and impart information and ideas through any media <BR>and regardless of frontiers, to access public information and the <BR>public domain of knowledge, and to employ ICTs for producing <BR>information and communicating, must be actively guaranteed for <BR>all. <BR><BR>We support the development of societies where human knowledge, <BR>creativity, cooperation and solidarity are considered core <BR>elements; societies where not only individual creativity, but <BR>also collective innovation, based on cooperative work are <BR>promoted. Societies where knowledge, information and <BR>communication resources are recognized and protected as the <BR>common heritage of humankind; societies that foster cultural and <BR>linguistic diversity and intercultural dialogue, in environments <BR>that are free from discrimination, violence and hatred.<BR><BR>Building people-centred and inclusive information and <BR>communication societies implies involving individuals in their <BR>capaci
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citizens, their organizations and communities, as <BR>participants and decision makers in shaping frameworks, policies <BR>and governing mechanisms. This means creating an enabling <BR>environment for the engagement and commitment of all <BR>generations, both women and men, and ensuring the involvement <BR>of diverse social and linguistic groups, cultures and peoples, <BR>without exclusion.<BR><BR>We aspire to build information and communication societies where <BR>development is focused on fundamental human needs and shared <BR>social, cultural, economic, and environmental goals; where <BR>priority is given to a more equitable distribution of resources, <BR>leading to the elimination of poverty and other gross <BR>inequalities, in a way that is environmentally sustainable. We <BR>are convinced that with the political will to mobilize the wealth <BR>of human knowledge towards this end, humanity could not only <BR>achieve the goals of the Millennium Declaration, but far surpa
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<BR>them.<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ct mailing list<BR>Ct@wsis-cs.org<BR>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ct<BR>Civil Society Plenary: http://www.wsis-cs.org/<BR>Content & Themes Documents: <BR>http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/pub/bscw.cgi/0/42953798</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR><DIV>
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<P><STRONG>Amali De Silva-Mitchell MSc.</STRONG></P>
<P>Tel: 604-736-9012 & Email: <A href="mailto:amalidesilva@yahoo.com">amalidesilva@yahoo.com</A></P>
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