From wolfgang at imv.au.dk  Thu Apr  1 07:59:26 2004
From: wolfgang at imv.au.dk (wolfgang@imv.au.dk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:37 2007
Subject: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] BNA article on UNICT
Message-ID: <E1B8wAg-00076d-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>

This is my article, 

http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/17088/1.html

unfortunately in German, about the Forum. An english version for the list will follow soon.

Best

w


-- Original Nachricht--
Von: Milton Mueller <Mueller@syr.edu>
An: wdrake@ictsd.ch,governance@lists.cpsr.org
Senden: 03:23 AM
Betreff: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] BNA article on UNICT

Bill:
Rather than serving as a forwarding service
why don't you report to the caucus on your own
perspective on the New York event, and also on
what positions /processes and strategies this
caucus might be looking at? 

--MM

>>> "William Drake" <wdrake@ictsd.ch>
03/31/04 04:15AM >>>
Different tone to this piece from the "UN seeks to take over the
Internet" meme...



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From thomas at thomasruddy.org  Thu Apr  1 10:51:14 2004
From: thomas at thomasruddy.org (Thomas Ruddy)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:37 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] "Telecom expo will move to Hong Kong"
Message-ID: <20040401095114.57470.qmail@web41503.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear all,
Yesterday the City of Geneva was shocked to hear from
the ITU that the big fair called "Telecom expo will
move to Hong Kong",
http://www.iht.com/articles/512830.html

Thomas Ruddy, Switzerland

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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Thu Apr  1 11:40:35 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:37 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Tunisia forming a civil society bureau
In-Reply-To: <20040329165833.17951.qmail@web10907.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040401104035.17614.qmail@web60708.mail.yahoo.com>

Nnenna,
Tu penses bien que si quelqu'un avait les bonnes
réponses et proposait le mode d'emploi, il serait déjà
prix nobel ou plus encore, tant la situation est
tragique sur le continent.
On peut sensibiliser sur les groupes de discussion à
sensibilité africaine, tiersmondiste ou
développementaliste les militants africains en Afrique
ou expatriés pour aider à ce que la représentation de
l'Afrique à Tunis soit plus active.
Cela passe par les moyens à mobiliser pour que la
représentation soit en fonction de la capacité
d'expression autonome de ces représentants plutôt que
de leur statut social, langue de travail, facilités à
voyager ou à jouer les faire valoir et les serviteurs
de la pensée unique.
C'est un peu les débats que j'essaie de suivre sur les
listes de discussion telles africa.net ou
internet-niger.
As-tu remarquer la difficulté à communiquer en
Français sur cette liste à commencer par nos amis qui
maîtrise cette langue mais qui n'ont pas le temps de
faire l'effort de tra  
--- Nnenna <nne75@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Djilali
>  
> Ces sont les réponses que j'entends chaque jour.  Si
> tout le monde disais comme ça, où crois-tu qu'on
> allait arriver?  Quel est cette "pas grande chose"
> que tu peut faire?  C'est de ça que je te demande.
>  
> Merci de répondre avec précisions.
>  
> Bien à toi
>  
> Nnenna
> 
> 
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From wdrake at ictsd.ch  Thu Apr  1 13:14:18 2004
From: wdrake at ictsd.ch (William Drake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:37 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [governance] BNA article on UNICT
In-Reply-To: <s06a90e8.096@gwia201.syr.edu>
Message-ID: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOAEKFDBAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>

Hi Milton, et al,

My bottom line was more or less reflected in the article.  I guess I'd say
it went rather well, especially when you consider the structural constraints
of an event like this and the many ways it could have been worse.  Like the
ITU workshop, the Global Forum was not a decision making body.  The UNICT
Task Force plays a facilitative role on development initiatives and
international dialogues, but it does not have a mandate to formally do
anything with respect to WSIS, which is a separate activity.  Hence, while I
understand Vittorio's complaint the other day, it did not have the authority
to issue strong recommendations to or even discuss the formulation of SG
Anan's forthcoming working group.  Instead, the forum was intended to be
just that, a forum---an opportunity for diverse stakeholders to come
together and share their views, network, etc.  It served that purpose pretty
well, although I hear that some CS folks who wanted to didn't get a chance
to speak (true of the private sector as well---very big room with lots of
people with their hands up makes it difficult to make sure everyone gets a
turn).  Even so, a number of us did manage to and emphasized the importance
of CS having not just a voice but influence in Internet governance decision
making.

I also was surprised that the developing countries that have been
challenging the status quo in the WSIS context didn't show up in greater
numbers. I doubt that the overlap with the CTO meeting in Nairobi fully
explains this, but either way, the views we heard in the prepcoms, and
especially in the IG working group, were in a pronounced minority in NYC,
which affected the sense of the meeting most people came away with.  For
example, in the break out session I moderated, we had a couple of developing
country people criticizing ICANN and a larger group from the North saying
this is just a misunderstanding, everything's on track and getting better
all the time.  (When, in the plenary the next day, I reported on the
conversation and gave equal time to both views, someone came up afterwards
to complain that I should only have concentrated on the majority view---not
the only conversation I had like this, alas).  Bottom line, there was a bit
of a disjuncture between the UNICT discussion and the WSIS discussion, and
it's hard to see how the former added momentum for the developing country
coalition's agenda.  Regardless of where one stands on the issues, it seems
fair to say that they missed an opportunity to push it, if they are still
intent on doing that beyond in ITU (which is not clear).

As to CS strategies, who knows, things seem pretty fragmentary these days.
The IG caucus hasn't attempted to agree a text or shared position since
before the summit, and accordingly also missed an opportunity to weigh in as
an organized constituency, not only in New York but also at the ITU
workshop.  Nor has there been much effort to develop a caucus/plenary
interface to help facilitate input by the larger coalition in these forums.
I agree with Vittorio that it could make sense to write to the secretariat
of the Anan group and ask them to consider reserving a slot or two for
constituency representation, but only if we actually get it together to
function as a constituency.  The reality is that we're not really on the
radars of governments and international organizations all that much and
we're not organized in a manner they know how to deal with (recall the
discussions prior to the ITU workshop on this point).  Compare our situation
to the Internet Society, which has global rock stars like Vint, letterhead,
a budget, two offices, big conferences, and nominally 15,000 or so members
around the world.    It might help if we did something noteworthy first to
make us look like a semi-organized and important network, i.e. releasing a
compelling joint analysis or whatever with lots of endorsements.  But that'd
take a lot of work and coordination, people would have to step forward and
take a lead, and we're running on volunteer labor.

Hopefully we can keep together what's been built and leverage it elsewhere,
especially if they cancel on substantially downsize the Tunis summit (a real
possibility).

Best,

Bill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milton Mueller [mailto:Mueller@syr.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:35 PM
> To: wdrake@ictsd.ch; governance@lists.cpsr.org
> Cc: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] BNA article on UNICT
>
>
> Bill:
> Rather than serving as a forwarding service
> why don't you report to the caucus on your own
> perspective on the New York event, and also on
> what positions /processes and strategies this
> caucus might be looking at?
>
> --MM
>
> >>> "William Drake" <wdrake@ictsd.ch> 03/31/04 04:15AM >>>
> Different tone to this piece from the "UN seeks to take over the
> Internet" meme...
>
>
>
>



From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Thu Apr  1 16:59:10 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:37 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [governance] BNA article on UNICT
In-Reply-To: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOAEKFDBAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>
Message-ID: <20040401155910.77967.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>

Désolé, pas de traduction en français, cela ne mérite
pas tant le mépris est est grand !
Dear William and other friends,
As long as nobody try to understand that 99% of
african population have not access to Internet or at
impossible conditions regarding their revenus, as long
as nobody seems to take into consideration the need of
translation of messages in other languages than only
English as in this list and manu others aiming an
univesal dialogue, there will be a world of those who
have, the master of the world and those who have not
the real sleave of the world.
You and me are in the first class and we continue to
give no consideration for the second class....
It is hopeless to see that we as the so called civile
society are not aware !
All the best
Djilali
--- William Drake <wdrake@ictsd.ch> wrote:
> Hi Milton, et al,
> 
> My bottom line was more or less reflected in the
> article.  I guess I'd say
> it went rather well, especially when you consider
> the structural constraints
> of an event like this and the many ways it could
> have been worse.  Like the
> ITU workshop, the Global Forum was not a decision
> making body.  The UNICT
> Task Force plays a facilitative role on development
> initiatives and
> international dialogues, but it does not have a
> mandate to formally do
> anything with respect to WSIS, which is a separate
> activity.  Hence, while I
> understand Vittorio's complaint the other day, it
> did not have the authority
> to issue strong recommendations to or even discuss
> the formulation of SG
> Anan's forthcoming working group.  Instead, the
> forum was intended to be
> just that, a forum---an opportunity for diverse
> stakeholders to come
> together and share their views, network, etc.  It
> served that purpose pretty
> well, although I hear that some CS folks who wanted
> to didn't get a chance
> to speak (true of the private sector as well---very
> big room with lots of
> people with their hands up makes it difficult to
> make sure everyone gets a
> turn).  Even so, a number of us did manage to and
> emphasized the importance
> of CS having not just a voice but influence in
> Internet governance decision
> making.
> 
> I also was surprised that the developing countries
> that have been
> challenging the status quo in the WSIS context
> didn't show up in greater
> numbers. I doubt that the overlap with the CTO
> meeting in Nairobi fully
> explains this, but either way, the views we heard in
> the prepcoms, and
> especially in the IG working group, were in a
> pronounced minority in NYC,
> which affected the sense of the meeting most people
> came away with.  For
> example, in the break out session I moderated, we
> had a couple of developing
> country people criticizing ICANN and a larger group
> from the North saying
> this is just a misunderstanding, everything's on
> track and getting better
> all the time.  (When, in the plenary the next day, I
> reported on the
> conversation and gave equal time to both views,
> someone came up afterwards
> to complain that I should only have concentrated on
> the majority view---not
> the only conversation I had like this, alas). 
> Bottom line, there was a bit
> of a disjuncture between the UNICT discussion and
> the WSIS discussion, and
> it's hard to see how the former added momentum for
> the developing country
> coalition's agenda.  Regardless of where one stands
> on the issues, it seems
> fair to say that they missed an opportunity to push
> it, if they are still
> intent on doing that beyond in ITU (which is not
> clear).
> 
> As to CS strategies, who knows, things seem pretty
> fragmentary these days.
> The IG caucus hasn't attempted to agree a text or
> shared position since
> before the summit, and accordingly also missed an
> opportunity to weigh in as
> an organized constituency, not only in New York but
> also at the ITU
> workshop.  Nor has there been much effort to develop
> a caucus/plenary
> interface to help facilitate input by the larger
> coalition in these forums.
> I agree with Vittorio that it could make sense to
> write to the secretariat
> of the Anan group and ask them to consider reserving
> a slot or two for
> constituency representation, but only if we actually
> get it together to
> function as a constituency.  The reality is that
> we're not really on the
> radars of governments and international
> organizations all that much and
> we're not organized in a manner they know how to
> deal with (recall the
> discussions prior to the ITU workshop on this
> point).  Compare our situation
> to the Internet Society, which has global rock stars
> like Vint, letterhead,
> a budget, two offices, big conferences, and
> nominally 15,000 or so members
> around the world.    It might help if we did
> something noteworthy first to
> make us look like a semi-organized and important
> network, i.e. releasing a
> compelling joint analysis or whatever with lots of
> endorsements.  But that'd
> take a lot of work and coordination, people would
> have to step forward and
> take a lead, and we're running on volunteer labor.
> 
> Hopefully we can keep together what's been built and
> leverage it elsewhere,
> especially if they cancel on substantially downsize
> the Tunis summit (a real
> possibility).
> 
> Best,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Milton Mueller [mailto:Mueller@syr.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:35 PM
> > To: wdrake@ictsd.ch; governance@lists.cpsr.org
> > Cc: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> > Subject: Re: [governance] BNA article on UNICT
> >
> >
> > Bill:
> > Rather than serving as a forwarding service
> > why don't you report to the caucus on your own
> > perspective on the New York event, and also on
> > what positions /processes and strategies this
> > caucus might be looking at?
> >
> > --MM
> >
> > >>> "William Drake" <wdrake@ictsd.ch> 03/31/04
> 04:15AM >>>
> > Different tone to this piece from the "UN seeks to
> take over the
> > Internet" meme...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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From markus at nnm-ev.de  Thu Apr  1 17:07:53 2004
From: markus at nnm-ev.de (Markus Beckedahl)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:37 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WIZARDS OF OS 3 - The Future of the Digital Commons
In-Reply-To: <20040401155910.77967.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOAEKFDBAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>
        <20040401155910.77967.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>
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WIZARDS OF OS 3 - The Future of the Digital Commons

International Conference
June 10-12, 2004
Berlin Congress Center

Digital networks are the fertile soil on which commons-goods like free
software grow. Since a few years, groups all over the world enabled by new
wireless technologies are beginning to turn the network itself into a
commons: it grows collaboratively, and in free agreement among equals. New
technologies remove the bottleneck of distribution of cultural goods. Free
access to networks and to information comes within reach of all.

The conference "Wizards of Operating Systems 3" (WOS 3) has its
foundations in the grand liberation movements in the realm of knowledge:
free software, free networks, and open archives are among the topics of
this year's conference. The WOS is not about problems but about solutions.

Wikipedia is such a success story. The freely accessible and editable by
all online encyclopaedia, thanks to the co-operation of hundreds of
thousands all over the world has in only four years brought forth half a
million articles. It is therefore not only the largest encyclopaedia of
all, also in quality it measures up to the commercial competition.

The movement for free access to scientific publications brings back a
fundamental principle of science: collaborative scrutiny of and building
upon a common wealth of knowledge.

Just like free software, free content needs a license that expresses and
protects this freedom. We are therefore very happy that the Creative
Commons will launch the German versions of their licenses at WOS 3.

"The principle of Western science, the principle of free software, and the
principle of non-exclusion are the path of development for the
twenty-first century," writes New York law professor Eben Moglen, who will
be giving the opening keynote at WOS 3. Other speakers at WOS 3 include
Lawrence Lessig, law professor at Stanford University and founder of the
Creative Commons project, Jimmy Wales, founder of the free online
encyclopaedia Wikipedia, and Armin Medosch, author of a book on free WLAN
networks.

While WOS 1 (1999) focussed on free software, WOS 2 (2001) asked how this
success model can be applied to other forms of knowledge. WOS 3 picks
these threats up and goes beyond them, providing a forum for a powerful
movement for the establishment and protection of a digital knowledge
commons. Free software was only the beginning of the path to a wealth of
knowledge for all.

WOS 3 is funded by the Federal Culture Foundation, Germany.

More information at: http://www.wizards-of-os.org

--
Netzwerk Neue Medien e.V.
http://www.nnm-ev.de



From bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de  Thu Apr  1 23:59:09 2004
From: bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Ralf Bendrath)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:37 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WIZARDS OF OS 3 - The Future of the Digital 
 Commons
References: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOAEKFDBAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>
	        <20040401155910.77967.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com> <3351.62.80.42.113.1080835673.squirrel@www.werk21system.de>
Message-ID: <406C9EBD.1F251FEA@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

What Markus forgot to mention: We are currently planning an
international WSIS-NGO meeting on the day after this conference (Sunday,
13 June). Berlin is definitely worth a visit in summer! :-)

More details to come soon.

Ralf



From wolfgang at imv.au.dk  Fri Apr  2 09:36:58 2004
From: wolfgang at imv.au.dk (wolfgang@imv.au.dk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:37 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: RE: Report from Breakout Groups at Internet Governance Forum, 26 March
Message-ID: <E1B9KAc-0006C6-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>

Dear List,

Here is my brief evaluation from the UN ICT TF Forum in New York, March 2004, and some proposals for next steps.

1. It was clear from the beginning, that the Forum was not a "negotiating body". The interesting point here is, that in the absence of a negotiating body, a bottom up policy development process (PDP) has started (already with the ITU Workshop) in which a rough consensus is emerging and essential principles are defined. A forthcoming negotiating body will have difficulties to ignore these principles. Already in Geneva during the final stage of WSIS, there was a discussion whether the group should be organized as a "formal (small) group" or as an "open process" with a small secretariat as a ?facilitator? and "collector" of positions. Probably we see now a combination of both. The secretariat will develop certainly a life of its own. It is one possibility that the secretariat becomes the stimulator and moderator of "the process", while "the group" will have no other option than to build on what has been already expressed in the process und to communicate the results to ?the top?
 , that is Kofi Annan and the Intergovernmental WSIS Bureau. The idea of a "multi tiered group", with a small number of "Gurus" in the center and a broader mixture of "representatives" of the different stakeholders around them would further stimulate, that the "process" is more important than formal groupings and negotiations. And BTW, the Kofi Annan Group has no mandate "to negotiate". Its task is to make recommendations to the next phase of the summit. Formal Negotiations, if any and needed, will start, at the earliest, after November 2005.   


2. Vint Cerfs Leitmotivs, "if it is not broken, do not fix it" and "make no harm" did certainly impress a majority of governments. The statement by the Brazilian representative, where he differentiated "government" from "governance" and raised only key issues related to sovereignty like the national ccTLD and its relationship to the Root Server, indicated, that the WSIS rhetoric of some governments comes down to earth. On the other hand I have no idea, how impressed the Chinese government was. In the official list of participants, among 285 people listed, was only one rep from China: a Vice Minister. But she remained silent the whole two days. Adam mentioned a statement of a Chinese rep in the Saturday meeting of the UNICTTF. Could Adam be a little bit more specific? Who was it? What he/she said it?. 


3. On the other hand, Karl Auerbachs criticism against the "if it is not broken do not fix it" impressed as many other stakeholders. The need for more experimentation and the option to go beyond existing structures was taken as a very serious challenge which would open the door for new, still unknown developments and achievements. It was interesting to see, how the two ?fathers of the Internet?, 30 years after the invention of TCP/IP, presented themselves. While Vint Cerf had a more conservative approach, Bob Kahn was more future oriented. I do not know whether it was by chance that Vint Cerf opened the meeting and Bob Kahn had the last word. But is was interesting to note, that Figueiras linked the ?Internet 1.02? to Vint while he linked the ?Internet 1.07 or 1.08? to Bob. This is indeed a challenge and the CS IG Caucus should think about this. This is supported also by the brilliant speech of Kofi Annan. One of his key sentences was: "In managing, promoting and protecting i
 ts (the Internet) presence in our lives, we need to be no less creative than those who invented it. Clearly, there is a need for governance, but that does not necessarily mean that it has to be done in the traditional way, for something that is so very different."

4. I think it is unavoidable that some intergovenmentsal treaty arragements will emerge in the years ahead. I see here two directions: 

4a. One is on the application layer, that are issues like Spam, Cybercrime, eCommerce, Content and Culture etc. This has nothing to do with "Internet Governance" in a narrow defintiion, but these are pressing issues for governments, which governments relate themselves (correctly or incorrectly) to their understanding of "Internet Governance". It will be important to single out these issues as soon as possible and to find relevant negotiating body for these subjects. (Council of Europe for Cybercrime? OECD for Spam? WTO for eCommerce? UNESCO for Content and Culture?). My impression is, that nobody challenges here the leading role of governments. Even the private sector indicated clearly, that they expect that governments will do something to clean the Information Highways from Criminals and Spammers and offered "technical support". Here it would be important, that the Caucus is developing the key issues and interests, important for users. And it has to ask for more openness an
 d transparency in these intergovernmental bodies as well as for a "multistakeholder approach" with substantial access and participation in the negotiations. 

4b. The other issue is the Root Server question. This is related to the governmental understanding of "Sovereignty" and has a lot of symbolic meaning in it. To substitute the existing "trust system" by a "treaty system" will be another key issues for the years ahead. But the issue is complicated, both politically and legally. Politically the issue is primarily not the DoC but the US Congress, which will have in the end to ratify a contractual arrangement. Do you remember the GAO report from August 2000, where the GAO asked the question, whether the DoC was justified to hand over some responsibilities to ICANN and raised the point, whether there is "american property", because the research and development which has led to the Internet, was financed by US taxpayers money? So even if the DoC would agree to share the responsibility for this simple "checking function" of zone files and the power to authorize publications in the root, it will be doubtful, if the Congress would agre
 e. But also legally it is not easy to start a process. Should it be done via a UN codification conference? Then you need a mandate from the UN General Assembly.  It could be started within the GAC (probably only by a limited number of interested governments). Or the USG/DoC could invite interested governments to informal multilateral "consultations". It would be also useful to think about another "legal option", below a treaty under "international law", a MoU or something like this which would avoid ratification procedures. Because the issue is more symbolic, a flexible solution could be found, if the political will is there. The decisive date here is not Tunis 2005 but October 2006, when the MoU between ICANN and the DoC is terminating. 

5. From the discussion so far I see the emergence of at least three principles, where a "rough consensus" is growing:

5a: There will be no single organisation with an overall responsibility for the Internet, but a network of different bodies and mechanisms, governmental and non-governmental.

5b: The Multistakeholder approach is more or less accepted as a basic principle. The open question here is, how to distribute functions and "power" among the stakeholders.

5c: There will be no "big bang". It will be and will remain a "process" with some landmarks, a never ending story of searching for a global mechanism for Internet Governance.  


6. What does this mean for the CS IG Caucus? I repeat what I already proposed to the list, replying to Vittorio:

6a: We should bring our knowledge and expertise to the table and write clear and well founded innovative papers on relevant issues

6b: We should, where possible, organize a series of thematic workshops and conferences, inviting other stakeholders. 

6c: We should develop a short "Internet Governance Position Paper", similar to the ICC Paper. 

6d: We should closely collaborate with the Secretariat in Geneva, asking to link our papers and conferences to the "process" and insist into a representative representation in the Working Group. 

Best regards

Wolfgang





From L.Bialy at unesco.org  Fri Apr  2 11:39:42 2004
From: L.Bialy at unesco.org (Bialy, Leszek)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Mondialogo Engineering Award
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Due to the considerable interest demonstrated in the "Mondialogo Engineering
Award", Mondialogo is extending the application deadline until 30 April
2004. http://www.mondialogo.org/mo/site/?key=3.1.3


The "Mondialogo Engineering Award" is a partnership initiative of UNESCO and
DaimlerChrysler designed to promote international cooperation and the
sharing of ideas between young engineers in developing and developed
countries - to enhance intercultural dialogue and help bridge intercultural
divides ("Mondialogo" is from "mondial" and "dialog"). The "Mondialogo
Engineering Award" programme is organised by UNESCO and DaimlerChrysler, in
conjunction with the International Association of Universities and World
Federation of Engineering Organisations. For further information, see:
<http://www.mondialogo.org/award>. 

There will be 15 awards of $20,000 each, presented for project proposals
jointly developed by student/young engineers in developing and developed
countries for engineering and technology applications addressing poverty and
sustainable development in developing countries. The proposals will be
judged on grounds of the quality of each proposal and demonstration of
international cooperation in the development of the proposal. Indications of
intent to submit a proposal should be submitted by 28 February, and the
proposals should be submitted by 31 December 2004. The proposals will be
adjudicated by a Jury, with the Award ceremony taking place in March 2005. 
 
I would be most grateful if you please forward to all your young engineers
and university contacts in your region and other people and organisations
you think may be interested. There has already been a WFEO ands IAU mail-out
to universities, but it is always useful to follow-up. 
 


From wdrake at ictsd.ch  Fri Apr  2 14:06:30 2004
From: wdrake at ictsd.ch (William Drake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
Message-ID: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOOELKDBAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>

Hi,

I just read a news report saying that the US State Department's David Gross and Phillip Bond, the Commerce undersecretary for technology, traveled two weeks ago to Senegal to promote the U.S. view that no new financing mechanisms are needed.  Senegal of course led the effort at WSIS to establish a new fund, but was also the first state selected for a Bush administration initiative to get the private sector to invest in developing countries' tech industries.  The report said that Gross and Bond met with the Senegalese president and others, and later told a State Department advisory group that he is "cautiously optimistic" that Senegal will accept the U.S. view that no new multilateral fund is needed.  So I guess we'll see if their money was well spent....

Cheers,

Bill

******************************************
William J. Drake
Geneva, Switzerland
wdrake@ictsd.ch 
http://www.citi.columbia.edu/affiliates/wdrake.htm 
Director, Project on the Information Revolution 
  and Global Governance
Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade
and Sustainable Development www.ictsd.org  
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From ACarvin at edc.org  Fri Apr  2 14:45:45 2004
From: ACarvin at edc.org (Andy Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
In-Reply-To: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOOELKDBAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>
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Hi Bill,

Is this news report publicly available, online or otherwise?

thanks,
ac 
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"William Drake" <wdrake@ictsd.ch>
Sent by: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
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Please respond to plenary
 
        To:     "Plenary" <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
        cc: 
        Subject:        [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund


Hi,
 
I just read a news report saying that the US State Department's David 
Gross and Phillip Bond, the Commerce undersecretary for technology, 
traveled two weeks ago to Senegal to promote the U.S. view that no new 
financing mechanisms are needed.  Senegal of course led the effort at WSIS 
to establish a new fund, but was also the first state selected for a Bush 
administration initiative to get the private sector to invest in 
developing countries' tech industries.  The report said that Gross and 
Bond met with the Senegalese president and others, and later told a State 
Department advisory group that he is "cautiously optimistic" that Senegal 
will accept the U.S. view that no new multilateral fund is needed.  So I 
guess we'll see if their money was well spent....
 
Cheers,
 
Bill
 
******************************************
William J. Drake
Geneva, Switzerland
wdrake@ictsd.ch 
http://www.citi.columbia.edu/affiliates/wdrake.htm 
Director, Project on the Information Revolution 
  and Global Governance
Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade
and Sustainable Development www.ictsd.org 
******************************************
 


From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Fri Apr  2 14:52:59 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
In-Reply-To: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOOELKDBAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>
Message-ID: <20040402135259.6245.qmail@web60705.mail.yahoo.com>

Without any translation because of nobody take care...
Dear William,
It's a long time that everybody know that Senegal play
the role of "tete de pont" of the USA in Africa....
Senegalaises do it very well and it is probably
profitable for their country and their population...
We also know that more and more senegalaises young and
enterprenners leave Senegal not for France as in the
past but for the USA where they try to do their best
to get the best place in the Liberal paradise...
Perhaps they will win and they will open the window
for other africans... a new deal for a new slave
approach ????
Let's be optinmistic and beleive in the
ultraliberalism, in the world market, the the need of
Noth/South domination and let's give the time to the
time !
All the best
Djilali
--- William Drake <wdrake@ictsd.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just read a news report saying that the US State
> Department's David Gross and Phillip Bond, the
> Commerce undersecretary for technology, traveled two
> weeks ago to Senegal to promote the U.S. view that
> no new financing mechanisms are needed.  Senegal of
> course led the effort at WSIS to establish a new
> fund, but was also the first state selected for a
> Bush administration initiative to get the private
> sector to invest in developing countries' tech
> industries.  The report said that Gross and Bond met
> with the Senegalese president and others, and later
> told a State Department advisory group that he is
> "cautiously optimistic" that Senegal will accept the
> U.S. view that no new multilateral fund is needed. 
> So I guess we'll see if their money was well
> spent....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bill
> 
> ******************************************
> William J. Drake
> Geneva, Switzerland
> wdrake@ictsd.ch 
> http://www.citi.columbia.edu/affiliates/wdrake.htm 
> Director, Project on the Information Revolution 
>   and Global Governance
> Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade
> and Sustainable Development www.ictsd.org  
> ******************************************
> 


=====
Djilali Benamrane : dbenamrane@yahoo.com
Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
Page web sur l'Afrique et la globalisation : http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/
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From dmercorios at yahoo.com  Fri Apr  2 19:40:31 2004
From: dmercorios at yahoo.com (Diana Mercorios)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: Fwd: Re: Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
Message-ID: <20040402184031.49733.qmail@web13012.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear William,
As you can see from the message below it would seem that there have been a few 'misunderstandings'. Would it be possible for you to forward the source of the information to us. 
Thank you.

Diana Mercorios
Diana Mercorios RPM (Europe)
ABANTU for Development
dmercorios@yahoo.com/diana@abantu.org
I want to sing like birds sing Not worrying who hears or what they think 






















Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla@sentoo.sn> wrote:
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:18:38 +0000
From: Fatimata Seye Sylla 
To: Diana Mercorios 
Subject: Re: Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund

Hello,

I was one of the leaders of the US delegation visit in Senegal and I don't remember hearing these statements.  Can William give me the exact source of this information ?  
Thanks and best regards,
Fatimata

Diana Mercorios a écrit:
Dear All,
Here is an intresting bit of information. It would be nice ot hear from our Senegalese colleagues, or the African Group if this is indeed correct.

Regards,

Diana

William Drake <wdrake@ictsd.ch> wrote:
From: "William Drake" 
To: "Plenary" 

Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:06:30 +0200


Hi,
 
I just read a news report saying that the US State Department's David Gross and Phillip Bond, the Commerce undersecretary for technology, traveled two weeks ago to Senegal to promote the U.S. view that no new financing mechanisms are needed.  Senegal of course led the effort at WSIS to establish a new fund, but was also the first state selected for a Bush administration initiative to get the private sector to invest in developing countries' tech industries.  The report said that Gross and Bond met with the Senegalese president and others, and later told a State Department advisory group that he is "cautiously optimistic" that Senegal will accept the U.S. view that no new multilateral fund is needed.  So I guess we'll see if their money was well spent....
 
Cheers,
 
Bill
 
******************************************
William J. Drake
Geneva, Switzerland
wdrake@ictsd.ch 
http://www.citi.columbia.edu/affiliates/wdrake.htm 
Director, Project on the Information Revolution 
  and Global Governance
Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade
and Sustainable Development www.ictsd.org  
******************************************
 
-- 
Fatimata Seye Sylla
Program Director of DFI - Senegal
Tel : 221 8206079   Fax : 221 8206078
Email : fsylla@dfi.sn  or   fsylla@sentoo.sn























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From wdrake at ictsd.ch  Fri Apr  2 19:49:57 2004
From: wdrake at ictsd.ch (William Drake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
In-Reply-To: <20040402184031.49733.qmail@web13012.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOOEMCDBAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>

Hi,


It was reported in Technology Daily, March 24, 2004, in an article by William New called, "International Roundup: Net Governance, Airline Security On U.N. Stage," available by subscription at http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/techdaily/.  As I said, the report stated that Gross' comments about the possibility of Senegal accepting the U.S. view were made at a subsequent State Dept. advisory committee meeting, which is why Fatimata would not have heard them on her trip.

Best,

Bill Drake
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Diana Mercorios [mailto:dmercorios@yahoo.com]
  Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:41 PM
  To: wdrake@ictsd.ch; CSPlenary
  Subject: Fwd: Re: Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund


  Dear William,
  As you can see from the message below it would seem that there have been a few 'misunderstandings'. Would it be possible for you to forward the source of the information to us. 
  Thank you.
  Diana Mercorios

  Diana Mercorios RPM (Europe)
  ABANTU for Development
  dmercorios@yahoo.com/diana@abantu.org
  I want to sing like birds sing Not worrying who hears or what they think 


  Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla@sentoo.sn> wrote:
    Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:18:38 +0000
    From: Fatimata Seye Sylla 
    To: Diana Mercorios 
    Subject: Re: Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund

    Hello,

    I was one of the leaders of the US delegation visit in Senegal and I don't remember hearing these statements.  Can William give me the exact source of this information ?  
    Thanks and best regards,
    Fatimata

    Diana Mercorios a icrit:

      Dear All,
      Here is an intresting bit of information. It would be nice ot hear from our Senegalese colleagues, or the African Group if this is indeed correct.
      Regards,

      Diana


      William Drake <wdrake@ictsd.ch> wrote:
        From: "William Drake" 
        To: "Plenary" 
        Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
        Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:06:30 +0200


        Hi,

        I just read a news report saying that the US State Department's David Gross and Phillip Bond, the Commerce undersecretary for technology, traveled two weeks ago to Senegal to promote the U.S. view that no new financing mechanisms are needed.  Senegal of course led the effort at WSIS to establish a new fund, but was also the first state selected for a Bush administration initiative to get the private sector to invest in developing countries' tech industries.  The report said that Gross and Bond met with the Senegalese president and others, and later told a State Department advisory group that he is "cautiously optimistic" that Senegal will accept the U.S. view that no new multilateral fund is needed.  So I guess we'll see if their money was well spent....

        Cheers,

        Bill

        ******************************************
        William J. Drake
        Geneva, Switzerland
        wdrake@ictsd.ch 
        http://www.citi.columbia.edu/affiliates/wdrake.htm 
        Director, Project on the Information Revolution 
          and Global Governance
        Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade
        and Sustainable Development www.ictsd.org  
        ******************************************

      -- 
      Fatimata Seye Sylla
      Program Director of DFI - Senegal
      Tel : 221 8206079   Fax : 221 8206078
      Email : fsylla@dfi.sn  or   fsylla@sentoo.sn





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From wellings at epic.org  Fri Apr  2 22:01:29 2004
From: wellings at epic.org (Frannie Wellings)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
In-Reply-To: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOOEMCDBAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>
References: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOOEMCDBAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>
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Hi everyone - Here's the piece from Technology Daily that Bill was 
speaking about.  I've sent an e-mail to someone at the State 
Department to try and get more information about that meeting. I'll 
let you know if I hear anything. - Frannie


International Roundup: March 24, 2004
Net Governance, Airline Security On U.N. Stage
by William New
      Separate U.N. events this week will tackle two of the most 
intractable issues in the technology world: how to govern the global 
Internet and how to improve airline travel security using technology 
that does not trample passenger rights.
      The U.N. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Task 
Force is holding an Internet governance forum Thursday and Friday in 
New York. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was asked by officials at 
the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in December 
to form a working group on governance and report back in 2005.
      This week's forum is the preliminary phase of an "open, 
inclusive and transparent process worldwide," said Sarbulan Khan, 
executive coordinator for the ICT Task Force.
      The forum will be followed on Saturday by a closed meeting of 
the 18-member task force, whose mission is to be a multi-stakeholder 
group promoting applications of ICT for development. On Saturday, the 
task force will review results of the forum, as well as the task 
force's business plan. Several tracks such as regulatory reform and 
online education will be pursued, Khan said.
      Other groups -- including the International Telecommunication 
Union, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), 
and International Chamber of Commerce -- have held meetings or issued 
papers on governance since the December WSIS meeting. "We are hoping 
this will widen the net" of people involved in the process, Khan said 
in an interview. The task force expects about 250 people, including 
key Internet leaders and officials from developing countries.
      The task force is "opening up the platform" and has "no preset 
agenda" for the event, Khan said. "There are no preconceived notions 
about where this is headed." Most important is that all the key 
stakeholders be brought together for the "first phase" of the 
process, which will end with the second WSIS meeting in November 2005.
      The aim is to help the secretary-general get the most views, he 
said, and the event is open to anyone. It will look at the roles of 
Internet stakeholders, try to identify the issues relating to 
governance and how are they being handled, and then formulate a plan 
for work.
      The task force will organize regional meetings between this week 
and June, after which the secretary-general will decide on a small 
working group, Khan said. A meeting is planned for Shanghai, China, 
in May, and meetings are being developed for Latin America and Africa.
      Several participants at the recent ICANN meeting said they 
intend to visit New York in part to be part of the 
secretary-general's working group. Asked whether attending the 
meeting would help get on the working group, Khan said, "I can assure 
you it will not be a criterion."
      The other meeting this week is of the U.N. International Civil 
Aviation Organization (ICAO), a 180-nation body that has worked to 
develop standards, technologies and rules for air travel. At that 
meeting in Cairo, Egypt, more than 100 papers have been filed and 
made public. Many of the papers address biometric technology like 
iris scans and transfers of passenger information.

Trips Focus On 'Outsourcing,' Telecom Markets
      Another working group being formed by the U.N. secretary-general 
deals with financing for the use of ICT in development. The State 
Department's David Gross, U.S. coordinator for international 
telecommunications policy, and Phillip Bond, the Commerce 
undersecretary for technology, traveled two weeks ago to Senegal to 
promote the U.S. view that no new financing mechanisms are needed.
      Senegal led the effort at WSIS to establish a new fund. It also 
is the first site chosen for a Bush administration initiative to get 
the private sector to invest in developing countries' tech 
industries. Gross and Bond met with the Senegalese president and 
others. Gross told a State Department advisory group last week that 
he is "cautiously optimistic" that Senegal will accept the U.S. view.
      Gross also traveled recently to India with Michael Gallagher, 
head of the National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration. Gross spoke at an international telecom conference 
about the "outsourcing" of U.S. jobs abroad and other issues. His 
message was that India should continue to open its markets and change 
regulations limiting foreign ownership of businesses in India.
      The Business Standard in India reported this week that U.S. 
firms are looking to lease more than 300 million square feet of space 
over the next 10 years because of outsourcing, much from the United 
States. But the Financial Express, another Indian paper, reported 
last week that India is exploring technology alliances with France as 
a way to dilute its dependence on the United States, where 
outsourcing is politically unpopular.
      On a third recent trip, Gross went to Korea, where he discussed 
problems with wireless access and non-tariff barriers in standards 
and other areas. He also traveled to Vietnam and discussed state 
ownership issues and the need for telecom reform. Gross was in Jordan 
this week for an Arab regulators conference and work with a new group 
of information technology associations.

U.N. Makes Progress On E-Commerce Treaty
      The e-commerce working group of the U.N. Commission on 
International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on Friday adopted a draft text for 
an international e-commerce treaty. The text covers legal electronic 
transactions, data exchanges and e-mail messages, according to a U.N. 
release. The draft will be submitted to the commission's next full 
session in June.
      Participants argue that a treaty will harmonize disparate 
national laws on e-commerce and help create more confidence in doing 
business online. Jonas Astrup of the International Chamber of 
Commerce said at the meeting that his group favors self-regulation by 
industry. The chamber is working on guidelines for businesses online.

Tidbits From Europe
      The German government on Monday announced plans for a bill aimed 
at reducing unsolicited e-mail along the lines of the new U.S. 
anti-spam law. The European Commission last year criticized Germany 
for not implementing a European Union directive on spam.
      In other news, a coalition of European business groups on 
Tuesday called on heads of state preparing for their annual spring 
summit March 25-26 to move to stimulate research and development.
      The coalition, which consists of EuroCommerce, EuroChambres and 
two organizations representing small and medium-sized companies, also 
urged strategies for education and training, tax breaks, and 
labor-market reform to add flexibility. "Europe is still nowhere 
close to reaching the objective of becoming the most competitive and 
dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010," the coalition 
said.
      Also, the new European Network and Information Security Agency 
(ENISA) launched its Web site last week.
      And the European Commission requested proposals by June for 
trans-European telecommunications networks under the so-called eTEN 
program on public electronic services. The eTEN this year is focused 
on online government, health and learning, as well as trust and 
security services. The proposed budget is more than $50 million.
      Finally, the French prime minister's office announced plans for 
a nationwide filtering system in public schools to block students' 
access to racist or anti-Semitic Web sites.





At 08:49 PM +0200 04.02.2004, William Drake wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>It was reported in Technology Daily, March 24, 2004, in an article 
>by William New called, "International Roundup: Net Governance, 
>Airline Security On U.N. Stage," available by subscription at 
><http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/techdaily/>http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/techdaily/. 
>As I said, the report stated that Gross' comments about the 
>possibility of Senegal accepting the U.S. view were made at a 
>subsequent State Dept. advisory committee meeting, which is why 
>Fatimata would not have heard them on her trip.
>
>Best,
>
>Bill Drake
>

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From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Sat Apr  3 22:38:30 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: RE: Report from Breakout Groups at Internet Governance Forum, 26 March
References: <E1B9KAc-0006C6-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <002d01c419c4$030d3c60$0a00000a@default>

Hallo Wolfgang
Besten Dank f?r deine beiden Berichte ("Schattenboxen ..." und den folgenden
Report) ; f?r alle nicht Teilnehmende eine klare und verst?ndliche
Erstattung.

En francais ci-dessous

Hi Wolfgang
Many thanks for your very clear report from the NY Internet Gouvernance (IG)
meeting.
I'd just comment on point 5a ("There will be no single organisation with an
overall responsibility for the Internet..."). Your german Report
"Schattenboxen am East River" is more explicit about this point, by
mentioning a bottom-up "growing consensus" among the stakeholders for it.
Thus you write that "such a network needn't a unique/homogenous decision
centre"  (...) "but such a system requires a lot of consultation,
coordination , cooperation (3C)".
Hence my questions : is this opinion also shared by CS meeting participants,
and particularly by the CS IG Caucus ?
And what is the complete rationale about this statement ?
During PrepCom-3 and Summit I the opinion mainly prevailing in our CS
meetings didn't exclude a control of the Internet by a multilateral body,
generally linked to the UN system, and ITU was considered by a large part of
us (see our statements about that in our Declaration) as a possible body to
include Internet gouvernance in its management and standardisation scope.
Furthermore I'd stress the strong support for this position of our
colleagues from DCs.
In my opinion this is one of the most crucial issues we have to deal with
during WSIS and therefore needs more debate in our groups (mainly C&T
group).
Another critical issue will be the actual capacity of the ITU, struggling
with its top management and financial crisis. That's why I did some
proposals for an urgent ITU reform for returning to its basic functions -and
the Internet is part of them- and for giving it the means to cope
efficiently with them. Unfortunately these proposals weren't included in our
Declaration.
Notwithstanding these difficulties, I am quite sure that a majority of the
C&T group members favor the ITU solution as the most suitable compromise,
both in terms of gouvernance and tranparency. There is still the big issue
of CS inclusion in ITU working groups, but this could be solved by a
specific settlement agreed on by the ITU Council and approved by the next
ITU Plenipotentiary conference. For me this CS inclusion would be one of the
most concrete advances of the WSIS process.
Best regards
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France

Salut Wolfgang
Merci beaucoup pour ton compte-rendu tres clair de la reunion de NY sur la
gouvernance Internet (GI).
Je voudrais juste faire une remarque sur le point 5a ("Il n'y aura pas une
organisation unique avec une totale reponsabilite de l'Internet ..."). Ton
compte-rendu en allemand intitule "Boxe de l'ombre sur les rives de l'East
River" est plus explicite sur ce point en evoquant un consensus grandissant
"du bas vers le haut" parmi les partenaires sur ce point. Ainsi tu ecris "un
tel reseau n'a pas besoin d'un centre de decision unique/homogene (...) mais
un tel systeme requiert une importante consultation, coordination et
cooperation (3C)".
D'ou mes questions : ce point de vue est-il aussi partage par les
participants de la SC ? cette reunion et en particulier par son caucus sur
la GI ? Et quel est l'argumentaire complet sous tendant une telle
declaration ?
Pendant PrepCom-3 et le Sommet n?I le point de vue qui prevalait
generalement dans nos reunions n'excluait pas le controle d'Internet par un
organisme multilateral, generalement en relation avec l'ONU, et l'UIT a ete
consideree par une large part d'entre nous (voir nos affirmations sur ce
point dans notre Declaration) comme un possible organisme qui inclurait la
gouvernance, la gestion et la normalisation d'Internet dans son champ
d'activites. En outre je voudrais souligner le tr?s fort soutien de nos
collegues des PeD pour cette position.
A mon avis il s'agit la de l'un des problemes les plus cruciaux dont nous
avons a traiter pendant le SMSI, et pour cette raison il exige plus de debat
dans nos groupes de travail (principalement le groupe C&T).
Un autre probleme critique est la capacite reelle de l'UIT, qui se debat
dans sa crise de direction et financiere. C'est pour ca  que j'avais fait
des propositions pour que l'UIT revienne d'urgence sur ses fonctions de
base -et l'Internet est une d'elles- et pour lui donner les moyens de faire
face a celles-ci de maniere efficace. Ces propositions n'ont malheureusement
pas ete retenues dans notre Declaration.
En depit des difficultes, je suis sur qu'une majorite des membres du Groupe
C&T est en faveur de la solution de l'UIT comme le compromis le plus adapte,
a la fois en termes de gouvernance et de transparence. Il reste le gros
probleme de l'inclusion de la SC dans les groupes de travail de l'UIT, mais
celui-ci pourrait etre resolu par un reglement specifique resultant d'un
accord du Conseil de l'UIT et approuve par sa prochaine Conference
Plenipotentiaire. Pour moi, cette inclusion  de la SC serait une des
avanc?es les plus concretes du processus du SMSI.
Bien cordialement
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France


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Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: RE: Report from Breakout Groups at Internet
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> Dear List,
>
> Here is my brief evaluation from the UN ICT TF Forum in New York, March
2004, and some proposals for next steps.
>
> 1. It was clear from the beginning, that the Forum was not a "negotiating
body". The interesting point here is, that in the absence of a negotiating
body, a bottom up policy development process (PDP) has started (already with
the ITU Workshop) in which a rough consensus is emerging and essential
principles are defined. A forthcoming negotiating body will have
difficulties to ignore these principles. Already in Geneva during the final
stage of WSIS, there was a discussion whether the group should be organized
as a "formal (small) group" or as an "open process" with a small secretariat
as a "facilitator" and "collector" of positions. Probably we see now a
combination of both. The secretariat will develop certainly a life of its
own. It is one possibility that the secretariat becomes the stimulator and
moderator of "the process", while "the group" will have no other option than
to build on what has been already expressed in the process und to
communicate the results to "the top"
>  , that is Kofi Annan and the Intergovernmental WSIS Bureau. The idea of a
"multi tiered group", with a small number of "Gurus" in the center and a
broader mixture of "representatives" of the different stakeholders around
them would further stimulate, that the "process" is more important than
formal groupings and negotiations. And BTW, the Kofi Annan Group has no
mandate "to negotiate". Its task is to make recommendations to the next
phase of the summit. Formal Negotiations, if any and needed, will start, at
the earliest, after November 2005.
>
>
> 2. Vint Cerfs Leitmotivs, "if it is not broken, do not fix it" and "make
no harm" did certainly impress a majority of governments. The statement by
the Brazilian representative, where he differentiated "government" from
"governance" and raised only key issues related to sovereignty like the
national ccTLD and its relationship to the Root Server, indicated, that the
WSIS rhetoric of some governments comes down to earth. On the other hand I
have no idea, how impressed the Chinese government was. In the official list
of participants, among 285 people listed, was only one rep from China: a
Vice Minister. But she remained silent the whole two days. Adam mentioned a
statement of a Chinese rep in the Saturday meeting of the UNICTTF. Could
Adam be a little bit more specific? Who was it? What he/she said it?.
>
>
> 3. On the other hand, Karl Auerbachs criticism against the "if it is not
broken do not fix it" impressed as many other stakeholders. The need for
more experimentation and the option to go beyond existing structures was
taken as a very serious challenge which would open the door for new, still
unknown developments and achievements. It was interesting to see, how the
two "fathers of the Internet", 30 years after the invention of TCP/IP,
presented themselves. While Vint Cerf had a more conservative approach, Bob
Kahn was more future oriented. I do not know whether it was by chance that
Vint Cerf opened the meeting and Bob Kahn had the last word. But is was
interesting to note, that Figueiras linked the "Internet 1.02" to Vint while
he linked the "Internet 1.07 or 1.08" to Bob. This is indeed a challenge and
the CS IG Caucus should think about this. This is supported also by the
brilliant speech of Kofi Annan. One of his key sentences was: "In managing,
promoting and protecting i
>  ts (the Internet) presence in our lives, we need to be no less creative
than those who invented it. Clearly, there is a need for governance, but
that does not necessarily mean that it has to be done in the traditional
way, for something that is so very different."
>
> 4. I think it is unavoidable that some intergovenmentsal treaty
arragements will emerge in the years ahead. I see here two directions:
>
> 4a. One is on the application layer, that are issues like Spam,
Cybercrime, eCommerce, Content and Culture etc. This has nothing to do with
"Internet Governance" in a narrow defintiion, but these are pressing issues
for governments, which governments relate themselves (correctly or
incorrectly) to their understanding of "Internet Governance". It will be
important to single out these issues as soon as possible and to find
relevant negotiating body for these subjects. (Council of Europe for
Cybercrime? OECD for Spam? WTO for eCommerce? UNESCO for Content and
Culture?). My impression is, that nobody challenges here the leading role of
governments. Even the private sector indicated clearly, that they expect
that governments will do something to clean the Information Highways from
Criminals and Spammers and offered "technical support". Here it would be
important, that the Caucus is developing the key issues and interests,
important for users. And it has to ask for more openness an
>  d transparency in these intergovernmental bodies as well as for a
"multistakeholder approach" with substantial access and participation in the
negotiations.
>
> 4b. The other issue is the Root Server question. This is related to the
governmental understanding of "Sovereignty" and has a lot of symbolic
meaning in it. To substitute the existing "trust system" by a "treaty
system" will be another key issues for the years ahead. But the issue is
complicated, both politically and legally. Politically the issue is
primarily not the DoC but the US Congress, which will have in the end to
ratify a contractual arrangement. Do you remember the GAO report from August
2000, where the GAO asked the question, whether the DoC was justified to
hand over some responsibilities to ICANN and raised the point, whether there
is "american property", because the research and development which has led
to the Internet, was financed by US taxpayers money? So even if the DoC
would agree to share the responsibility for this simple "checking function"
of zone files and the power to authorize publications in the root, it will
be doubtful, if the Congress would agre
>  e. But also legally it is not easy to start a process. Should it be done
via a UN codification conference? Then you need a mandate from the UN
General Assembly.  It could be started within the GAC (probably only by a
limited number of interested governments). Or the USG/DoC could invite
interested governments to informal multilateral "consultations". It would be
also useful to think about another "legal option", below a treaty under
"international law", a MoU or something like this which would avoid
ratification procedures. Because the issue is more symbolic, a flexible
solution could be found, if the political will is there. The decisive date
here is not Tunis 2005 but October 2006, when the MoU between ICANN and the
DoC is terminating.
>
> 5. From the discussion so far I see the emergence of at least three
principles, where a "rough consensus" is growing:
>
> 5a: There will be no single organisation with an overall responsibility
for the Internet, but a network of different bodies and mechanisms,
governmental and non-governmental.
>
> 5b: The Multistakeholder approach is more or less accepted as a basic
principle. The open question here is, how to distribute functions and
"power" among the stakeholders.
>
> 5c: There will be no "big bang". It will be and will remain a "process"
with some landmarks, a never ending story of searching for a global
mechanism for Internet Governance.
>
>
> 6. What does this mean for the CS IG Caucus? I repeat what I already
proposed to the list, replying to Vittorio:
>
> 6a: We should bring our knowledge and expertise to the table and write
clear and well founded innovative papers on relevant issues
>
> 6b: We should, where possible, organize a series of thematic workshops and
conferences, inviting other stakeholders.
>
> 6c: We should develop a short "Internet Governance Position Paper",
similar to the ICC Paper.
>
> 6d: We should closely collaborate with the Secretariat in Geneva, asking
to link our papers and conferences to the "process" and insist into a
representative representation in the Working Group.
>
> Best regards
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
>
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Sun Apr  4 09:58:27 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: RE: Report from Breakout Groups at Internet Governance Forum, 26 March
In-Reply-To: <002d01c419c4$030d3c60$0a00000a@default>
Message-ID: <20040404085827.51677.qmail@web60705.mail.yahoo.com>

Only in French,
Jean louis, j'ai envie de te remercier pour plusieurs
raisons :
1... Tu es le seul qui fait l'effort de traduire en
plusieurs langues allemand, anglais, français !
chapeau !
Ce que ne veulent pas comprendre nos amis de cette
liste tous anglophones effrénés, pressés, méprisants
pour le reste, c'est que lorsqu'un texte est traduit
il est accessible et don part la réaction... lorsqu'on
peine à lire et à comprendre tu sais bien que cela
rebutte pour répondre d'où la fermeture voulue ou non
du dialogue dans cette liste ! Moi je dénoncerais un
crime d'initiés depuis le termps que j'hurle sans
résultat !
2... Pour ce qui concerne le seul point soulevé dans
ton texte en français il ya plusieurs points à relever
:
- il semble que les maigres résultats des débats
réalisés avec difficultés à Genève par la société
civile sont remis en cause par la même société civile
aveuglée par la domination des intérêts du Nord... Le
plaidoyer pour une institution multilatérale pour la
gestion des DNS est oublié, effacé, remis en cause
!!!! c'est du réalisme de nos amis de la SC....
- des gens parce qu'ils ont les moyens et sont en
situation de rente (dans leur majorité anglophones,
politiquement corrects, bon chec bon genre) vont
participer à des rencontres organisées ça et là et
décident ou autionnent des discussions et des
stratégies, tactiques et démarches qui pèseront
lourdement dans l'organisation des travaux du sommet
de Tunis... VOUS VERREZ QU'ON DIRA LORS DU SOMMET QUE
LES DICUSSIONS PREPARATOIRES AURONT ETE PARTICIPATIVE
AVEC UNE SC ACTIVE !
- la SC a-t-elle eu l'idée de consolider un groupe de
travail sur la réforme du système onusien dont la
modification de l'UIT ne peut-être qu'une composante
articulée à l'ensemble ?
- qui s'occupe de la voix des représentants des pays
en développement que ce soit sa composante
gouvernementale totalement muselée par les IBW, ou sa
composante opérateurs privés entièrement soumise aux
multinationale et sa composante société civile
immature, sans moyens, méprisée !
Amitiés
Djilali     
--- Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hallo Wolfgang
> Salut Wolfgang
> Merci beaucoup pour ton compte-rendu tres clair de
> la reunion de NY sur la
> gouvernance Internet (GI).
> Je voudrais juste faire une remarque sur le point 5a
> ("Il n'y aura pas une
> organisation unique avec une totale reponsabilite de
> l'Internet ..."). Ton
> compte-rendu en allemand intitule "Boxe de l'ombre
> sur les rives de l'East
> River" est plus explicite sur ce point en evoquant
> un consensus grandissant
> "du bas vers le haut" parmi les partenaires sur ce
> point. Ainsi tu ecris "un
> tel reseau n'a pas besoin d'un centre de decision
> unique/homogene (...) mais
> un tel systeme requiert une importante consultation,
> coordination et
> cooperation (3C)".
> D'ou mes questions : ce point de vue est-il aussi
> partage par les
> participants de la SC à cette reunion et en
> particulier par son caucus sur
> la GI ? Et quel est l'argumentaire complet sous
> tendant une telle
> declaration ?
> Pendant PrepCom-3 et le Sommet n°I le point de vue
> qui prevalait
> generalement dans nos reunions n'excluait pas le
> controle d'Internet par un
> organisme multilateral, generalement en relation
> avec l'ONU, et l'UIT a ete
> consideree par une large part d'entre nous (voir nos
> affirmations sur ce
> point dans notre Declaration) comme un possible
> organisme qui inclurait la
> gouvernance, la gestion et la normalisation
> d'Internet dans son champ
> d'activites. En outre je voudrais souligner le très
> fort soutien de nos
> collegues des PeD pour cette position.
> A mon avis il s'agit la de l'un des problemes les
> plus cruciaux dont nous
> avons a traiter pendant le SMSI, et pour cette
> raison il exige plus de debat
> dans nos groupes de travail (principalement le
> groupe C&T).
> Un autre probleme critique est la capacite reelle de
> l'UIT, qui se debat
> dans sa crise de direction et financiere. C'est pour
> ca  que j'avais fait
> des propositions pour que l'UIT revienne d'urgence
> sur ses fonctions de
> base -et l'Internet est une d'elles- et pour lui
> donner les moyens de faire
> face a celles-ci de maniere efficace. Ces
> propositions n'ont malheureusement
> pas ete retenues dans notre Declaration.
> En depit des difficultes, je suis sur qu'une
> majorite des membres du Groupe
> C&T est en faveur de la solution de l'UIT comme le
> compromis le plus adapte,
> a la fois en termes de gouvernance et de
> transparence. Il reste le gros
> probleme de l'inclusion de la SC dans les groupes de
> travail de l'UIT, mais
> celui-ci pourrait etre resolu par un reglement
> specifique resultant d'un
> accord du Conseil de l'UIT et approuve par sa
> prochaine Conference
> Plenipotentiaire. Pour moi, cette inclusion  de la
> SC serait une des
> avancées les plus concretes du processus du SMSI.
> Bien cordialement
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
> CSDPTT-France


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From rbloem at ngocongo.org  Sun Apr  4 22:59:55 2004
From: rbloem at ngocongo.org (Renata BLOEM)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Phase 2  -Process to Tunis
Message-ID: <IBEGJNBEEELEANPJGINMAELODHAA.rbloem@ngocongo.org>

Dear all,

The full Governmental Bureau met on 31 March in a closed meeting and from
what I heard afterwards outlined some of following decisions:

1.	To meet in Tunis from 24-26 June for the first official meeting: First
PrepCom with formal and informal sessions  (the date is 98% sure, the Asian
Group still has some problems. Final,final confirmation will come during
next Bureau meeting on 21 April)

2.	At the Tunis meeting they need
	*	to elect a Chairperson, (Mr Samasskou made a statement that Mali was nor
presenting itself anymore, most probably 		the Eastern European Group will
propose Latvia)

	*	to discuss process and adopt some sort of roadmap (based on Mr Utsumi's
proposal)

	*	to find consensus on what the outcome of Tunis is to be. Suggested (or
wished by Tunesia) is e.g. a political 		Declaration (without opening the
Principles of the Geneva Declaration) and a Tunis Agenda (PoA with concrete
proposals)

3.	That there will be some parallel tracks:
	*	The (multistakeholder) process from PrepComs (June 2004, January 2005 and
September 2005) and Regional and/or 		Thematic Meetings to Tunis Summit
November 2005
	*	The Task Force on Finance meetings which might or not report to PrepComs
	*	The WG on Internet Governance (IG) with its own Secretariat (consisting
probably of Reps from various UN 			Agencies, CS not excluded, and convened
by Switzerland, operational not before May or even June) which will 		report
to Tunis Summit but is expected to go beyond.

All this still needs confirmation. Best regards,
Renata

Cher tous,
Le Bureau gouvernemental s?est r?uni le 31 mars dernier lors d?une r?union
priv?e et d?apr?s ce que j?ai appris, les d?cisions suivantes ont ?t? prises
:

1.	La premi?re rencontre officielle aura lieu ? Tunis du 24 au 26 juin :
Premi?re Prepcom avec des r?unions formelles et informelles (la date est
sure ?
98%, le Groupe Asie ayant toujours quelques difficult?s. Cette date sera
confirm?e lors de la prochaine rencontre du Bureau gouvernemental).

2.	Durant la rencontre ? Tunis, les d?cisions suivantes devront ?tre prises
:
-	Elire un pr?sident (M. Samasskou a annonc? que le Mali ne se repr?sentera
pas,
tr?s probablement le Groupe d?Europe de l?Est pr?sentera la Lettonie).
-	Discuter des processus et adopter  une ligne de conduite (road map) (bas?e
sur les
propositions de M. Utsumi)
-	Trouver un consensus sur l?issue (outcome) de la rencontre ? Tunis.
D?claration sugg?r?e
 (ou d?sir?e par la Tunisie) ex. : d?claration politique  (sans recourir aux
Principes de la D?claration de Gen?ve) et un Ordre du jour (Agenda) de Tunis
(PoA avec
des propositions concr?tes).
-
3.	Des processus parall?les vont se mettre en route :

-	Les (multi -stake -holder) processus PrepComs (juin 2004, janvier 2005 et
septembre 2005) ainsi que des R?unions th?matiques et/ou r?gionales sur le
Sommet de Tunis pr?vu en novembre 2005.
-	Le Groupe de travail sur les questions financi?res qui pourrait ou non
rendre
compte au PrepCom
-	Le WG sur la Gouvernance d?Internet (IG) avec son propre secr?tariat
(consistant probablement en des repr?sentants de plusieurs agences
onusiennes,
CS n?est pas exclu, et convoqu? par la Suisse, ne sera pas op?rationnel
avant
mai ou juin) et rendra compte au sommet de Tunis mais est suppos? aller plus
loin.

Tout cela doit ?tre confirm?. Salutations cordiales.
Renata

Estimados amigos,
El gabinete gobernmental se ha reunido el 31 de marzo en una reuni?n
privada, y
de lo que me dijeron, las siguientes decisiones fueron tomadas:

1.	El primer encuentro oficial tendr? lugar en T?nez del 24 al 26 de junio:
primera PrepCom con reuniones formales e informales (la fecha est? al 98%
segura, el Grupo Asia siguiendo con dificultates. Esta fecha ser? confirmada
duante la pr?xima reuni?n del Gabinete gobernamental).

2.	Durante el encuentro en T?nez, las decisiones siguientes deber?n ser
tomadas:
-	elegir un presidente (Sr Samasskou anunci? que el Mali no se representer?,
muy
probablemente el Grupo Europa del Este presenter? a Letonia)

-	hablar de los procesos y adoptar una l?nea de conducta (basada en las
proposiciones del Sr Uzumis)

-	Encontrar un consenso acerca del final de la reuni?n en T?nez. Declaraci?n
surgerida (o deseada por T?nez) ej. Declaraci?n pol?tica (sin recurrir a los
Principios de la Declaraci?n de Ginebra) y un Orden del d?a de T?nez (PoA
con
propuestas concretas).

3.	Acontecimientos paralelos ser?n organizados:
- los (puestas multiples) procesos PrepComs (junio 2004, enero 2005 y
setiembre
2005) as? como las reuniones tem?ticas y/o regionales acerca de la Cumbre de
T?nez previsto en novienmbre 2005.
- El grupo de trabajo acerca de las cuestiones financieras que podr?a o no
dar
parte al PrepCOm

El WG sobre la ?Internet Governance (IG)? con su propio secretariado
(consistando probablemente en representantes de varias agencias de la ONU,
CS
no est? excluido, y convocado por Suiza, no ser? operacional antes de mayo o
junio) y dara parte en la Cumbre de T?nez pero se supone que vay? mas all?.

Todo eso necesitar? confirmaci?n.
Atentamente.
Renata



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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Mon Apr  5 01:09:33 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Phase 2  -Process to Tunis
In-Reply-To: <IBEGJNBEEELEANPJGINMAELODHAA.rbloem@ngocongo.org>
Message-ID: <20040405000933.74010.qmail@web21324.mail.yahoo.com>

Renata:

Will any Prep Coms ( Jan 2005 or Sept 2005 ) be held
in Geneva or NY ? 

How is it envisaged that CS participates / provides
comments and input with regard to Finance issues ?

Amali De Silva - Mitchell
Vancouver Community Network, Canada

--- Renata BLOEM <rbloem@ngocongo.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
> cut
> 
> 1.	To meet in Tunis from 24-26 June for the first
> official meeting: First
> PrepCom with formal and informal sessions  (the date
> is 98% sure, the Asian
PrepComs
> (June 2004, January 2005 and
> September 2005) and Regional and/or 		Thematic
> Meetings to Tunis Summit
> November 2005
> 	*	The Task Force on Finance meetings which might or
> not report to PrepComs
cut....
> 	

> All this still needs confirmation. Best regards,
> Renata
> 
>
=== message truncated ===


From magaly at dawn.org.br  Mon Apr  5 01:22:20 2004
From: magaly at dawn.org.br (magaly pazello)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Phase 2  -Process to Tunis
In-Reply-To: <IBEGJNBEEELEANPJGINMAELODHAA.rbloem@ngocongo.org>
References: <IBEGJNBEEELEANPJGINMAELODHAA.rbloem@ngocongo.org>
Message-ID: <4D3F560B-8697-11D8-BC54-000A95B172C6@dawn.org.br>

Dear all,

I would like to share my thoughts in relation to the Renate message. I 
think this is a very strange decisions in terms of UN processes in my 
sense for the follow reasons at least:

a) Few days for the first prepcom after the summit in Geneva, less than 
as usual to do. It is the same time spend in regional preparatory 
process like Ad Hoc Committee meeting for example as happened recently 
(March) in Chile for Cairo+10.

b) The possible discussion points as Renate sent is too big to discuss 
to reach some consensus in three days if we consider how was the 
previous precoms.

c) There is no reason to produce a political Declaration when there are 
two documents as result of the first phase. A political Declaration 
'without opening the Principles of the Geneva Declaration'. What they 
want of it?

d) The TF and WG which might or not report to PrepComs, if I 
understanding well.

People that are in Genevad do have any idea about what is really happen?

Regards,
Magaly Pazello

DAWN Network
(Brazil)

On 04/04/2004, at 18:59, Renata BLOEM wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The full Governmental Bureau met on 31 March in a closed meeting and 
> from
> what I heard afterwards outlined some of following decisions:
>
> 1.	To meet in Tunis from 24-26 June for the first official meeting: 
> First
> PrepCom with formal and informal sessions  (the date is 98% sure, the 
> Asian
> Group still has some problems. Final,final confirmation will come 
> during
> next Bureau meeting on 21 April)
>
> 2.	At the Tunis meeting they need
> 	*	to elect a Chairperson, (Mr Samasskou made a statement that Mali 
> was nor
> presenting itself anymore, most probably 		the Eastern European Group 
> will
> propose Latvia)
>
> 	*	to discuss process and adopt some sort of roadmap (based on Mr 
> Utsumi's
> proposal)
>
> 	*	to find consensus on what the outcome of Tunis is to be. Suggested 
> (or
> wished by Tunesia) is e.g. a political 		Declaration (without opening 
> the
> Principles of the Geneva Declaration) and a Tunis Agenda (PoA with 
> concrete
> proposals)
>
> 3.	That there will be some parallel tracks:
> 	*	The (multistakeholder) process from PrepComs (June 2004, January 
> 2005 and
> September 2005) and Regional and/or 		Thematic Meetings to Tunis Summit
> November 2005
> 	*	The Task Force on Finance meetings which might or not report to 
> PrepComs
> 	*	The WG on Internet Governance (IG) with its own Secretariat 
> (consisting
> probably of Reps from various UN 			Agencies, CS not excluded, and 
> convened
> by Switzerland, operational not before May or even June) which will 
> 		report
> to Tunis Summit but is expected to go beyond.
>
> All this still needs confirmation. Best regards,
> Renata
>
> Cher tous,
> Le Bureau gouvernemental s?est r?uni le 31 mars dernier lors d?une 
> r?union
> priv?e et d?apr?s ce que j?ai appris, les d?cisions suivantes ont ?t? 
> prises
> :
>
> 1.	La premi?re rencontre officielle aura lieu ? Tunis du 24 au 26 juin 
> :
> Premi?re Prepcom avec des r?unions formelles et informelles (la date 
> est
> sure ?
> 98%, le Groupe Asie ayant toujours quelques difficult?s. Cette date 
> sera
> confirm?e lors de la prochaine rencontre du Bureau gouvernemental).
>
> 2.	Durant la rencontre ? Tunis, les d?cisions suivantes devront ?tre 
> prises
> :
> -	Elire un pr?sident (M. Samasskou a annonc? que le Mali ne se 
> repr?sentera
> pas,
> tr?s probablement le Groupe d?Europe de l?Est pr?sentera la Lettonie).
> -	Discuter des processus et adopter  une ligne de conduite (road map) 
> (bas?e
> sur les
> propositions de M. Utsumi)
> -	Trouver un consensus sur l?issue (outcome) de la rencontre ? Tunis.
> D?claration sugg?r?e
>  (ou d?sir?e par la Tunisie) ex. : d?claration politique  (sans 
> recourir aux
> Principes de la D?claration de Gen?ve) et un Ordre du jour (Agenda) de 
> Tunis
> (PoA avec
> des propositions concr?tes).
> -
> 3.	Des processus parall?les vont se mettre en route :
>
> -	Les (multi -stake -holder) processus PrepComs (juin 2004, janvier 
> 2005 et
> septembre 2005) ainsi que des R?unions th?matiques et/ou r?gionales 
> sur le
> Sommet de Tunis pr?vu en novembre 2005.
> -	Le Groupe de travail sur les questions financi?res qui pourrait ou 
> non
> rendre
> compte au PrepCom
> -	Le WG sur la Gouvernance d?Internet (IG) avec son propre secr?tariat
> (consistant probablement en des repr?sentants de plusieurs agences
> onusiennes,
> CS n?est pas exclu, et convoqu? par la Suisse, ne sera pas op?rationnel
> avant
> mai ou juin) et rendra compte au sommet de Tunis mais est suppos? 
> aller plus
> loin.
>
> Tout cela doit ?tre confirm?. Salutations cordiales.
> Renata
>
> Estimados amigos,
> El gabinete gobernmental se ha reunido el 31 de marzo en una reuni?n
> privada, y
> de lo que me dijeron, las siguientes decisiones fueron tomadas:
>
> 1.	El primer encuentro oficial tendr? lugar en T?nez del 24 al 26 de 
> junio:
> primera PrepCom con reuniones formales e informales (la fecha est? al 
> 98%
> segura, el Grupo Asia siguiendo con dificultates. Esta fecha ser? 
> confirmada
> duante la pr?xima reuni?n del Gabinete gobernamental).
>
> 2.	Durante el encuentro en T?nez, las decisiones siguientes deber?n ser
> tomadas:
> -	elegir un presidente (Sr Samasskou anunci? que el Mali no se 
> representer?,
> muy
> probablemente el Grupo Europa del Este presenter? a Letonia)
>
> -	hablar de los procesos y adoptar una l?nea de conducta (basada en las
> proposiciones del Sr Uzumis)
>
> -	Encontrar un consenso acerca del final de la reuni?n en T?nez. 
> Declaraci?n
> surgerida (o deseada por T?nez) ej. Declaraci?n pol?tica (sin recurrir 
> a los
> Principios de la Declaraci?n de Ginebra) y un Orden del d?a de T?nez 
> (PoA
> con
> propuestas concretas).
>
> 3.	Acontecimientos paralelos ser?n organizados:
> - los (puestas multiples) procesos PrepComs (junio 2004, enero 2005 y
> setiembre
> 2005) as? como las reuniones tem?ticas y/o regionales acerca de la 
> Cumbre de
> T?nez previsto en novienmbre 2005.
> - El grupo de trabajo acerca de las cuestiones financieras que podr?a 
> o no
> dar
> parte al PrepCOm
>
> El WG sobre la ?Internet Governance (IG)? con su propio secretariado
> (consistando probablemente en representantes de varias agencias de la 
> ONU,
> CS
> no est? excluido, y convocado por Suiza, no ser? operacional antes de 
> mayo o
> junio) y dara parte en la Cumbre de T?nez pero se supone que vay? mas 
> all?.
>
> Todo eso necesitar? confirmaci?n.
> Atentamente.
> Renata
>
>
>
> Renate Bloem
> President of the Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
> ________________________
> CONGO C.P.50
> CH-1211 Geneva 20
> Tel: +41 76 346 2310
> Fax: +33 45 085 0816
> E-mail: rbloem@ngocongo.org
> Website: www.ngocongo.org
> Website: www.congoCHR.org
> _________________________________________
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> membership association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in 
> United
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> objective is
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> governments
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Mon Apr  5 10:24:53 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Phase 2  -Process to Tunis
In-Reply-To: <IBEGJNBEEELEANPJGINMAELODHAA.rbloem@ngocongo.org>
Message-ID: <20040405092453.52891.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com>

En français plus bas
Renata,
Thanks for this translation effort in 3 langages, i
appreciate it veru much and hope that other colleagues
will try to follow your example.
Is there anything made to help CS representive without
resources to attend such a PRECOM or will it be
reserved to the North and depending representives ?
All the best
Djilali
Merci Reneta pour cet effort de traduction du message
en 3 langues, puisse-t-il servir d'exemple à d'autres
membres de cette liste.
Y a-t-il un effort de réflexion et de proposition pour
aider les représentants de la SC du SUD à participer
ou ce PRECOms era-t-il comme les précédent réservé au
Nord et aux serviteurs-alibi du Nord ?
Amitiés
Djilali
--- Renata BLOEM <rbloem@ngocongo.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> The full Governmental Bureau met on 31 March in a
> closed meeting and from
> what I heard afterwards outlined some of following
> decisions:
> 
> 1.	To meet in Tunis from 24-26 June for the first
> official meeting: First
> PrepCom with formal and informal sessions  (the date
> is 98% sure, the Asian
> Group still has some problems. Final,final
> confirmation will come during
> next Bureau meeting on 21 April)
> 
> 2.	At the Tunis meeting they need
> 	*	to elect a Chairperson, (Mr Samasskou made a
> statement that Mali was nor
> presenting itself anymore, most probably 		the
> Eastern European Group will
> propose Latvia)
> 
> 	*	to discuss process and adopt some sort of roadmap
> (based on Mr Utsumi's
> proposal)
> 
> 	*	to find consensus on what the outcome of Tunis is
> to be. Suggested (or
> wished by Tunesia) is e.g. a political 		Declaration
> (without opening the
> Principles of the Geneva Declaration) and a Tunis
> Agenda (PoA with concrete
> proposals)
> 
> 3.	That there will be some parallel tracks:
> 	*	The (multistakeholder) process from PrepComs
> (June 2004, January 2005 and
> September 2005) and Regional and/or 		Thematic
> Meetings to Tunis Summit
> November 2005
> 	*	The Task Force on Finance meetings which might or
> not report to PrepComs
> 	*	The WG on Internet Governance (IG) with its own
> Secretariat (consisting
> probably of Reps from various UN 			Agencies, CS not
> excluded, and convened
> by Switzerland, operational not before May or even
> June) which will 		report
> to Tunis Summit but is expected to go beyond.
> 
> All this still needs confirmation. Best regards,
> Renata
> 
> Cher tous,
> Le Bureau gouvernemental s’est réuni le 31 mars
> dernier lors d’une réunion
> privée et d’après ce que j’ai appris, les décisions
> suivantes ont été prises
> :
> 
> 1.	La première rencontre officielle aura lieu à
> Tunis du 24 au 26 juin :
> Première Prepcom avec des réunions formelles et
> informelles (la date est
> sure à
> 98%, le Groupe Asie ayant toujours quelques
> difficultés. Cette date sera
> confirmée lors de la prochaine rencontre du Bureau
> gouvernemental).
> 
> 2.	Durant la rencontre à Tunis, les décisions
> suivantes devront être prises
> :
> -	Elire un président (M. Samasskou a annoncé que le
> Mali ne se représentera
> pas,
> très probablement le Groupe d’Europe de l’Est
> présentera la Lettonie).
> -	Discuter des processus et adopter  une ligne de
> conduite (road map) (basée
> sur les
> propositions de M. Utsumi)
> -	Trouver un consensus sur l’issue (outcome) de la
> rencontre à Tunis.
> Déclaration suggérée
>  (ou désirée par la Tunisie) ex. : déclaration
> politique  (sans recourir aux
> Principes de la Déclaration de Genève) et un Ordre
> du jour (Agenda) de Tunis
> (PoA avec
> des propositions concrètes).
> -
> 3.	Des processus parallèles vont se mettre en route
> :
> 
> -	Les (multi -stake -holder) processus PrepComs
> (juin 2004, janvier 2005 et
> septembre 2005) ainsi que des Réunions thématiques
> et/ou régionales sur le
> Sommet de Tunis prévu en novembre 2005.
> -	Le Groupe de travail sur les questions financières
> qui pourrait ou non
> rendre
> compte au PrepCom
> -	Le WG sur la Gouvernance d’Internet (IG) avec son
> propre secrétariat
> (consistant probablement en des représentants de
> plusieurs agences
> onusiennes,
> CS n’est pas exclu, et convoqué par la Suisse, ne
> sera pas opérationnel
> avant
> mai ou juin) et rendra compte au sommet de Tunis
> mais est supposé aller plus
> loin.
> 
> Tout cela doit être confirmé. Salutations cordiales.
> Renata
> 
> Estimados amigos,
> El gabinete gobernmental se ha reunido el 31 de
> marzo en una reunión
> privada, y
> de lo que me dijeron, las siguientes decisiones
> fueron tomadas:
> 
> 1.	El primer encuentro oficial tendrá lugar en Túnez
> del 24 al 26 de junio:
> primera PrepCom con reuniones formales e informales
> (la fecha está al 98%
> segura, el Grupo Asia siguiendo con dificultates.
> Esta fecha será confirmada
> duante la próxima reunión del Gabinete
> gobernamental).
> 
> 2.	Durante el encuentro en Túnez, las decisiones
> siguientes deberán ser
> tomadas:
> -	elegir un presidente (Sr Samasskou anunció que el
> Mali no se representerá,
> muy
> probablemente el Grupo Europa del Este presenterá a
> Letonia)
> 
> -	hablar de los procesos y adoptar una línea de
> conducta (basada en las
> proposiciones del Sr Uzumis)
> 
> -	Encontrar un consenso acerca del final de la
> reunión en Túnez. Declaración
> surgerida (o deseada por Túnez) ej. Declaración
> política (sin recurrir a los
> Principios de la Declaración de Ginebra) y un Orden
> del día de Túnez (PoA
> con
> propuestas concretas).
> 
> 3.	Acontecimientos paralelos serán organizados:
> - los (puestas multiples) procesos PrepComs (junio
> 2004, enero 2005 y
> setiembre
> 2005) así como las reuniones temáticas y/o
> regionales acerca de la Cumbre de
> Túnez previsto en novienmbre 2005.
> - El grupo de trabajo acerca de las cuestiones
> financieras que podría o no
> dar
> parte al PrepCOm
> 
> El WG sobre la ‘Internet Governance (IG)’ con su
> propio secretariado
> (consistando probablemente en representantes de
> varias agencias de la ONU,
> CS
> no está excluido, y convocado por Suiza, no será
> operacional antes de mayo o
> junio) y dara parte en la Cumbre de Túnez pero se
> supone que vayá mas allá.
> 
> Todo eso necesitará confirmación.
> Atentamente.
> Renata
> 
> 
> 
> Renate Bloem
> President of the Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
> ________________________
> CONGO C.P.50
> CH-1211 Geneva 20
> Tel: +41 76 346 2310
> Fax: +33 45 085 0816
> E-mail: rbloem@ngocongo.org
> Website: www.ngocongo.org
> Website: www.congoCHR.org
> _________________________________________
> The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international,
> not-for-profit
> membership association that facilitates the
> participation of NGOs in United
> Nations debates and decisions.  Founded in 1948,
> CONGO's 
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From alalegre at fma.ph  Mon Apr  5 10:44:14 2004
From: alalegre at fma.ph (Alan G. Alegre)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [CS Bureau] WSIS Phase 2  -Process to Tunis
References: <IBEGJNBEEELEANPJGINMAELODHAA.rbloem@ngocongo.org>
Message-ID: <01bd01c41af2$8ea98a60$0d00a8c0@fma>

>
> The full Governmental Bureau met on 31 March in a closed meeting and from
> what I heard afterwards outlined some of following decisions:
>
> 1. To meet in Tunis from 24-26 June for the first official meeting: First
> PrepCom with formal and informal sessions  (the date is 98% sure, the
Asian
> Group still has some problems. Final,final confirmation will come during
> next Bureau meeting on 21 April)
>

Hi Renata

Thanks for this info...
Do you know who comprising the "Asian Group"? What governments are now in
the IGB?

Al Alegre


From marzouki at ras.eu.org  Mon Apr  5 12:19:35 2004
From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
In-Reply-To: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOOELKDBAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>
Message-ID: <1EBE51F5-86F3-11D8-BC92-0003935A8C90@ras.eu.org>

Hi all,

According to a press wire by AFP, dated April 3 (see below, in French), 
a UN agency will be created, called "international agency for digital 
solidarity" to manage this issue. The secretariat would be based in 
Geneva, while main activities will be hosted in Lyon, France. I'm not 
sure AFP is right when they call it a UN agency : it surely takes a lot 
more formal process to create a UN agency. It may very well be an 
international initiative led and managed by local authorities (cities). 
The creation of the agency should be announced in early May in Paris, 
during the congress of the organization named "united cities and local 
governments".
Meryem
==========

samedi 3 avril 2004, 13h27
Lyon accueillira une agence onusienne pour la solidarit? num?rique

LYON, 3 avr (AFP) - La ville de Lyon accueillira une "agence 
internationale pour la solidarit? num?rique" li?e au Fonds de 
solidarit? num?rique (FSN) dont la cr?ation a ?t? d?cid?e en d?cembre 
dernier, ont indiqu? samedi ses cr?ateurs ? l'issue d'une r?union qui 
s'est tenue vendredi ? Lyon.

Les statuts de la FSN, dont le secr?tariat sera install? ? Gen?ve dans 
une villa mise ? disposition par la ville, ont ?t? ?tablis vendredi par 
Mamadou Diop-Decroix, ministre de l'Information du S?n?gal, Mercedes 
Bresso, pr?sidente de la province de Turin, Christian Ferrazino, maire 
de Gen?ve, et G?rard Collomb, s?nateur-maire de Lyon.

La cr?ation du FSN sera formalis?e d?but mai ? Paris lors du congr?s de 
l'organisation "cit?s et gouvernements locaux unis".

L'agence internationale bas?e ? Lyon aura notamment pour fonction 
d'instruire les dossiers propos?s au fonds auquel elle sera li?e par 
une convention, et, si possible, d'animer un r?seau d'agences 
r?gionales bas?es sur les cinq continents.

C'est le pr?sident s?n?galais Abdoulaye Wade qui, le 4 d?cembre ? Lyon, 
lors du "sommet mondial des villes et des pouvoirs locaux", avait ? 
nouveau plaid? pour la cr?ation d'un fonds de solidarit? num?rique 
permettant aux pays les plus pauvres d'avoir acc?s aux nouvelles 
technologies.

G?rard Collomb avait alors expliqu? qu'"Internet, ? l'instar de l'eau, 
de la sant?, de l'?ducation, doit ?tre consid?r? et reconnu comme un 
service essentiel".

La ville de Gen?ve avait annonc? le versement de 500.000 francs suisses 
(330.000 euros), le S?n?gal 500.000 dollars (environ 420.000 euros), et 
la ville de Lyon 300.000 euros pour le financement de ce fonds.
==============
Le vendredi, 2 avr 2004, ? 15:06 Europe/Paris, William Drake a ?crit :

> Hi,
> ?
> I just read a news report saying that the US State Department's David 
> Gross and Phillip Bond, the Commerce undersecretary for technology, 
> traveled two weeks ago to Senegal to promote the U.S. view that no new 
> financing mechanisms are needed.? Senegal of course?led the effort at 
> WSIS to establish a new fund, but was also the first state selected 
> for a Bush administration initiative to get the private sector to 
> invest in developing countries' tech industries.? The report said that 
> Gross and Bond met with the Senegalese president and others, and later 
> told?a State Department advisory group that he is "cautiously 
> optimistic" that Senegal will accept the U.S. view that no new 
> multilateral fund is needed.? So I guess we'll see if their money was 
> well spent....
> ?
> Cheers,
> ?
> Bill


From diana at abantu.org  Mon Apr  5 13:03:34 2004
From: diana at abantu.org (Diana Mercorios)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
Message-ID: <200404050803.AA118489460@abantu.org>

Thank you Frannie.

Regards,
Diana


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Frannie Wellings <wellings@epic.org>
Reply-To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Date:  Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:01:29 -0500

>Hi everyone - Here's the piece from Technology Daily that Bill was 
>speaking about.  I've sent an e-mail to someone at the State 
>Department to try and get more information about that meeting. I'll 
>let you know if I hear anything. - Frannie
>


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From diana at abantu.org  Mon Apr  5 13:02:27 2004
From: diana at abantu.org (Diana Mercorios)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
Message-ID: <200404050802.AA1378222210@abantu.org>

Dear William,
Thank you for this.

Regards,
Diana

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "William Drake" <wdrake@ictsd.ch>
Reply-To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Date:  Fri, 2 Apr 2004 20:49:57 +0200

>Hi,
>
>
>It was reported in Technology Daily, March 24, 2004, in an article by William New called, "International Roundup: Net Governance, Airline Security On U.N. Stage," available by subscription at http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/techdaily/.  As I said, the report stated that Gross' comments about the possibility of Senegal accepting the U.S. view were made at a subsequent State Dept. advisory committee meeting, which is why Fatimata would not have heard them on her trip.
>
>Best,
>
>Bill Drake
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Diana Mercorios [mailto:dmercorios@yahoo.com]
>  Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:41 PM
>  To: wdrake@ictsd.ch; CSPlenary
>  Subject: Fwd: Re: Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
>
>
>  Dear William,
>  As you can see from the message below it would seem that there have been a few 'misunderstandings'. Would it be possible for you to forward the source of the information to us. 
>  Thank you.
>  Diana Mercorios
>
>  Diana Mercorios RPM (Europe)
>  ABANTU for Development
>  dmercorios@yahoo.com/diana@abantu.org
>  I want to sing like birds sing Not worrying who hears or what they think 


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From herve at info.unicaen.fr  Mon Apr  5 13:47:51 2004
From: herve at info.unicaen.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9_Le_Crosnier?=)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
In-Reply-To: <1EBE51F5-86F3-11D8-BC92-0003935A8C90@ras.eu.org>
References: <1EBE51F5-86F3-11D8-BC92-0003935A8C90@ras.eu.org>
Message-ID: <40715577.4020308@info.unicaen.fr>

Meryem Marzouki wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> According to a press wire by AFP, dated April 3 (see below, in French), 
> a UN agency will be created, called "international agency for digital 
> solidarity" to manage this issue. The secretariat would be based in 
> Geneva, while main activities will be hosted in Lyon, France. I'm not 
> sure AFP is right when they call it a UN agency : it surely takes a lot 
> more formal process to create a UN agency. It may very well be an 
> international initiative led and managed by local authorities (cities). 
> The creation of the agency should be announced in early May in Paris, 
> during the congress of the organization named "united cities and local 
> governments".
> Meryem
> ==========

	Hello,

	Sure it's not a UN agency, but a consequence
	of the "Sommet des villes et des pouvoirs locaux dans
	la soci?t? de l'information" held in Lyon last november.

	It means that many actors are on the process to create
	a digital solidarity fund. The problem is the one of
	the multistakeholder approach for the funding (in the
	Wade prposal, only voluntary funding by consumers ;
	the CS communique about this call for more open solution
	including intergouvernemental funding and private
	funding from TIC producers).

	The other one is about control of funds. I'm not very well
	with the center of such a fund in the North when usage is
	on the South.

	Last, we must always remain that any digital solidarity fund
	is a transitional solution. Stopping the debt of the South
	is much more usefull and efficient. They already fullfill
	the debt, and only financial mechanisms allow North to
	postpone new debts over the old one.

	Hope this will not be the case for digital solidarity,
	with a never ending debt, 'cause gap is not only very
	large, but also enlarging every time following innovation
	(large bandwidth, ?lectric power... and new usages such
	? TV on the net, images and vid?o, music and radio...).

	Sorry for my bad english writing.

Herv? Le Crosnier


From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Mon Apr  5 14:48:25 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
References: <1EBE51F5-86F3-11D8-BC92-0003935A8C90@ras.eu.org> <40715577.4020308@info.unicaen.fr>
Message-ID: <00af01c41b14$ac263ee0$0a00000a@default>

Salut Herv?
Ecris en fran?ais : tu y excelles !
Cordialement
Jean-Louis Fullsack

----- Original Message -----
From: "Herv? Le Crosnier" <herve@info.unicaen.fr>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund


> Meryem Marzouki wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > According to a press wire by AFP, dated April 3 (see below, in French),
> > a UN agency will be created, called "international agency for digital
> > solidarity" to manage this issue. The secretariat would be based in
> > Geneva, while main activities will be hosted in Lyon, France. I'm not
> > sure AFP is right when they call it a UN agency : it surely takes a lot
> > more formal process to create a UN agency. It may very well be an
> > international initiative led and managed by local authorities (cities).
> > The creation of the agency should be announced in early May in Paris,
> > during the congress of the organization named "united cities and local
> > governments".
> > Meryem
> > ==========
>
> Hello,
>
> Sure it's not a UN agency, but a consequence
> of the "Sommet des villes et des pouvoirs locaux dans
> la soci?t? de l'information" held in Lyon last november.
>
> It means that many actors are on the process to create
> a digital solidarity fund. The problem is the one of
> the multistakeholder approach for the funding (in the
> Wade prposal, only voluntary funding by consumers ;
> the CS communique about this call for more open solution
> including intergouvernemental funding and private
> funding from TIC producers).
>
> The other one is about control of funds. I'm not very well
> with the center of such a fund in the North when usage is
> on the South.
>
> Last, we must always remain that any digital solidarity fund
> is a transitional solution. Stopping the debt of the South
> is much more usefull and efficient. They already fullfill
> the debt, and only financial mechanisms allow North to
> postpone new debts over the old one.
>
> Hope this will not be the case for digital solidarity,
> with a never ending debt, 'cause gap is not only very
> large, but also enlarging every time following innovation
> (large bandwidth, ?lectric power... and new usages such
> ? TV on the net, images and vid?o, music and radio...).
>
> Sorry for my bad english writing.
>
> Herv? Le Crosnier
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


From rikp at earthlink.net  Mon Apr  5 16:17:07 2004
From: rikp at earthlink.net (rikp@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?
Message-ID: <3381873.1081178227483.JavaMail.root@louie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>

Dear Colleagues,

Given that the first official preparatory meeting for the Tunis Phase of the WSIS will likely be June 24-26 June in Tunis, do people feel that it would be helpful to convene civil society meetings prior to the official meetings?  If so, we should be approaching the Tunis secretariat about making arrangements for CS meeting spaces, computers and other logistical arrangements.

Since the first preparatory meeting is taking place in Africa, it is likely that we may have a number of new participants at this meeting than during the Geneva phase.  I would propose that we organize at least a CS orientation session for a couple of hours scheduled in order to explain and discuss the various CS structures, intiatives, working groups, caucuses, and history up to Geneva 2003.  Breakout sessions organized by caucuses and working groups could be scheduled.  And Content and Themes and the Bureau should have times to meet.  I personally think we need at least one full day to do this, ideally two.

Note that for new participants in the Tunis Phase, new requests for accreditation have to be received via fax or post to the WSIS secretariat at least SIX WEEKS prior to the meeting, which in this case would be the 1st week of May.  So if you know of groups who would like to participate, please inform them NOW, so they can make get accredited, coordinate calendars, raise funds, get board approval, etc.  Groups already accredited during the Geneva Phase are still accredited in this phase.

In general, I would like to avoid what happened in previous prepcoms, where we spent too much time debating with each other when we could have been lobbying governments or engaging with private sector groups.  In June, given the limited time of the prepcom, we need to use the official meeting times as efficiently and wisely as possible.

Regards,

Rik Panganiban
CONGO

===============================================
RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator

Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) 
web: http://www.ngocongo.org
email: rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org
mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524 

From katitza at privaterra.org  Mon Apr  5 17:34:02 2004
From: katitza at privaterra.org (katitza@privaterra.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Roundtable Consumers and Privacy in South America
In-Reply-To: 
     <3381873.1081178227483.JavaMail.root@louie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
References: 
    <3381873.1081178227483.JavaMail.root@louie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <17931.200.121.16.154.1081182842.squirrel@secure.privaterra.org>

Roundtable Consumers and Privacy in South America
(Buenos Aires, 16 April, 2004)


Aim: promote the dialogue between consumer protection organizations,
government agencies, and privacy and consumer law experts.

Organizers: Electronic Privacy Information Center (USA), Instituto de
Derecho del Consumidor del Colegio Publico de Abogados de la Capital
Federal (Argentina), and Foro de Habeas Data (Argentina).

Date: 16 April, 2004, 9:00 ? 17h30.

Location: Colegio P?blico de Abogados de la Capital Federal.  Address:
Corrientes 1441 ? Ciudad de Buenos Aires - Argentina

Agenda and schedule:
9:00 ? 9:15: Welcome.  Presentation of experts.
9:15 ? 11:00: Panel 1: Recent developments in privacy and consumer
protection in South America.
11:30 ? 13:30: Panel 2: Examples of work done by public interest groups in
the field of privacy and data protection ? Collaboration between public
interest groups and government authorities.
13:30 ? 15:00: Lunch.
15:00 ? 15:45: Panel 3: The OECD and APEC Privacy Guidelines.
16:15 ? 17:30: Panel 4: Future developments - Proposals for the work ahead
in privacy ? Co-operation between consumer protection groups and
government data protection agencies in South America.

Featured speakers:
-        Horacio Bersten, Director of the Instituto de Derecho del
Consumidor del
Colegio P?blico, Expert in consumer law and Secretary General of the Uni?n
de Usuarios y Consumidores (Argentina);
-        Mart?n Bersten (Argentina);
-        Beatriz Garc?a Buitrago, President of Consumidores Argentinos
(Argentina);
-        Cris?logo C?ceres, ASPEC (Per?);
-        Ariel Caplan, Consumidores Libres (Argentina);
-        Enrique A. Chaparro, member of IACR, the International
Association of
Cryptologic Research, the Technical Committee on Security and Privacy of
IEEE Computer Society, and representative for Argentina with the Technical
Committee 11 (Security) of IFIP (International Federation of Information
Processing) (Argentina);
-        Giovani Fletcher, IPADECU (Panam?);
-        Renato Jijena Leiva, Attorney-at-Law (Chile);
-        Esteban Ruiz Martinez, author of ?Los Informes Comerciales y el
derecho
a la informaci?n;? Agencia de Protecci?n de datos personales (Data
Protection Authority) (Argentina);
-        Gustavo Maurino, A.C.I.J. (Argentina);
-        Gabriel Martinez Medrano, Attorney-at-law specialized in consumer
and
privacy cases (Argentina);
-        Eduardo Mercovich, Argentinean Committee of the International
Coalition
Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (Argentina);
-        Paulina Murillo, Tribuna de Consumidores (Ecuador);
-        Patricia Vaca Narvaja, Secretary, Defensa del Consumidor
(Argentina);
-        Pablo Palazzi, Attorney-at-law; author of ?Transmisi?n
internacional de
datos personales y protecci?n de la privacidad?; founder, Foro de Habeas
Data (Argentina);
-        Katitza Rodriguez, Director, Privaterra and CPSR-Per? (Per?);
-        Marc Rotenberg, President, Electronic Privacy Information Center
(EPIC)
(USA);
-        Liliana Schvartz, Expert in consumer law and author of ?Los Informes
Comerciales? (Argentina);
-        Marcelo Sodr?, IDEC (Brazil);
-        Pablo Segura, Agencia de Protecci?n de datos personales (Data
Protection
Authority) (Argentina);
-        Antonino Serra, Consumers International (Oficina para Am?rica
Latina y
el Caribe) (Chile);
-        Angeles Spandonari (Argentina);
-        Gustavo Tanus, Director of www.protecci?ndedatos.com.ar (Argentina);
-        Roberto Zorzoli, Consumidores Libres (Argentina);
Representatives from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and European
privacy experts are also expected.

Contact:
C?dric Laurant, EPIC; chlaurant@epic.org; +1 (202) 483-1140 x114.






From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Mon Apr  5 18:23:25 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
In-Reply-To: <00af01c41b14$ac263ee0$0a00000a@default>
Message-ID: <20040405172325.58817.qmail@web21325.mail.yahoo.com>

Thank you Meryem et al. for the information re: finance - Amali

Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr> wrote:Salut Hervé
Ecris en français : tu y excelles !
Cordialement
Jean-Louis Fullsack

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hervé Le Crosnier" 
To: 

Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund


> Meryem Marzouki wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > According to a press wire by AFP, dated April 3 (see below, in French),
> > a UN agency will be created, called "international agency for digital
> > solidarity" to manage this issue. The secretariat would be based in
cut



Amali De Silva-Mitchell MSc.

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From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund
In-Reply-To: <00af01c41b14$ac263ee0$0a00000a@default>
Message-ID: <20040405183440.16057.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com>

Respect ! Monsieur Fullsack qui fait l'effort
d'envoyer ses messages en deux voire 3 langues pour
que les gens puissent suivre et réagir sans parâitre
des nalphabètes... !
Au fait ! Es-tu sure que le sieur Le Cronier soit un
francophone ! ou aurait-il honte de l'être
--- Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Salut Hervé
> Ecris en français : tu y excelles !
> Cordialement
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hervé Le Crosnier" <herve@info.unicaen.fr>
> To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 2:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity
> Fund
> 
> 
> > Meryem Marzouki wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > According to a press wire by AFP, dated April 3
> (see below, in French),
> > > a UN agency will be created, called
> "international agency for digital
> > > solidarity" to manage this issue. The
> secretariat would be based in
> > > Geneva, while main activities will be hosted in
> Lyon, France. I'm not
> > > sure AFP is right when they call it a UN agency
> : it surely takes a lot
> > > more formal process to create a UN agency. It
> may very well be an
> > > international initiative led and managed by
> local authorities (cities).
> > > The creation of the agency should be announced
> in early May in Paris,
> > > during the congress of the organization named
> "united cities and local
> > > governments".
> > > Meryem
> > > ==========
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sure it's not a UN agency, but a consequence
> > of the "Sommet des villes et des pouvoirs locaux
> dans
> > la société de l'information" held in Lyon last
> november.
> >
> > It means that many actors are on the process to
> create
> > a digital solidarity fund. The problem is the one
> of
> > the multistakeholder approach for the funding (in
> the
> > Wade prposal, only voluntary funding by consumers
> ;
> > the CS communique about this call for more open
> solution
> > including intergouvernemental funding and private
> > funding from TIC producers).
> >
> > The other one is about control of funds. I'm not
> very well
> > with the center of such a fund in the North when
> usage is
> > on the South.
> >
> > Last, we must always remain that any digital
> solidarity fund
> > is a transitional solution. Stopping the debt of
> the South
> > is much more usefull and efficient. They already
> fullfill
> > the debt, and only financial mechanisms allow
> North to
> > postpone new debts over the old one.
> >
> > Hope this will not be the case for digital
> solidarity,
> > with a never ending debt, 'cause gap is not only
> very
> > large, but also enlarging every time following
> innovation
> > (large bandwidth, électric power... and new usages
> such
> > à TV on the net, images and vidéo, music and
> radio...).
> >
> > Sorry for my bad english writing.
> >
> > Hervé Le Crosnier
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plenary mailing list
> > Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> >
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


=====
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Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
Page web sur l'Afrique et la globalisation : http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Mon Apr  5 19:55:56 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?
In-Reply-To: <3381873.1081178227483.JavaMail.root@louie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <20040405185556.66337.qmail@web60701.mail.yahoo.com>

en français ci-aprés,
Dear Rikp,
Colleagues sent me messages regretting my irrelevant
messages pleadind for translation of messages in 2 or
3 langages so french civile society representatives
and opinion leaders should be able to understand the
challenge, react and contribute...
Today i would like to be positive regarding your
message.
I agree with your idea to prepare the CS participation
for the June PRECOM in Tunisia... I would like to
propose that each North SC organisation represented at
this meeting fund the participation of one
representative from Africa without any condition of
langage speaking, color of the skeen, gouvernance of
the respective government... At such a condition we
can confirm our openess to our colleagues from Africa
and we shall help them to organize theselves and their
countries for a better participation....
And plesa don't reply that the North SC is herself
trying to mobilize resources to found her
participation !
All the best
Djilali
Cher Ripk
J'ai fait l'objet de critiques sur mon entêtement à
soulever la nécessité de disposer de traduction des
messages en 2 ou 3 langues pour permettre à nos amis
non englophones de suivre et de réagir et participer
confortablement aux débats....
Je voudrais être constructif dans ce message et
soutenir votre appel à une meilleure préparation de la
SC afin d'en améliorer l'ouverture vers sa composante
Sud !
Je voudrais que chaque association de la SC
participante à la rencontre de Tunis finance une
participation d'une ou d'un représentant du Sud, sans
conditionalité ni de couleur de peau ni de langue ni
de gouvernance du gouvernement d'origine !
Je suis trés sérieux et suis prêt à me l'appliquer
pour ne pas m'entendre dire que la société du Nord a
elle -même des difficultés ç financer sa propre
participation...
Amitiés
Djilali   
--- rikp@earthlink.net wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Given that the first official preparatory meeting
> for the Tunis Phase of the WSIS will likely be June
> 24-26 June in Tunis, do people feel that it would be
> helpful to convene civil society meetings prior to
> the official meetings?  If so, we should be
> approaching the Tunis secretariat about making
> arrangements for CS meeting spaces, computers and
> other logistical arrangements.
> 
> Since the first preparatory meeting is taking place
> in Africa, it is likely that we may have a number of
> new participants at this meeting than during the
> Geneva phase.  I would propose that we organize at
> least a CS orientation session for a couple of hours
> scheduled in order to explain and discuss the
> various CS structures, intiatives, working groups,
> caucuses, and history up to Geneva 2003.  Breakout
> sessions organized by caucuses and working groups
> could be scheduled.  And Content and Themes and the
> Bureau should have times to meet.  I personally
> think we need at least one full day to do this,
> ideally two.
> 
> Note that for new participants in the Tunis Phase,
> new requests for accreditation have to be received
> via fax or post to the WSIS secretariat at least SIX
> WEEKS prior to the meeting, which in this case would
> be the 1st week of May.  So if you know of groups
> who would like to participate, please inform them
> NOW, so they can make get accredited, coordinate
> calendars, raise funds, get board approval, etc. 
> Groups already accredited during the Geneva Phase
> are still accredited in this phase.
> 
> In general, I would like to avoid what happened in
> previous prepcoms, where we spent too much time
> debating with each other when we could have been
> lobbying governments or engaging with private sector
> groups.  In June, given the limited time of the
> prepcom, we need to use the official meeting times
> as efficiently and wisely as possible.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rik Panganiban
> CONGO
> 
> ===============================================
> RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator
> 
> Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with
> the United Nations (CONGO) 
> web: http://www.ngocongo.org
> email: rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org
> mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


=====
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Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
Page web sur l'Afrique et la globalisation : http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/
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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Mon Apr  5 20:27:49 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] NGO Focal points/Governance/WSIS & NGLS
Message-ID: <20040405192749.2386.qmail@web21325.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear All:
 
The following UN-NGLS ( UN Non-Governmental Liason Service) documents may be of interest looking forward to Phase 2.
 
1. NGLS Summary Report of UN NGO Focal Points Meeting 
 
2. The Crisis in Global Governance: A Report from the NGLS Consultation with Civil Society 
 
Found at : http://www.un-ngls.org/
 
3. Roundup 109 - Moving the Agenda Forward at the World Summit on the Information Society
 
Found at: http://www.un-ngls.org/roundup.htm
 
 
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell
President Vancouver Community Network ( Canada )



Amali De Silva-Mitchell BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE

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djilali benamrane wrote:
> Respect ! Monsieur Fullsack qui fait l'effort
> d'envoyer ses messages en deux voire 3 langues pour
> que les gens puissent suivre et r?agir sans par?itre
> des nalphab?tes... !
> Au fait ! Es-tu sure que le sieur Le Cronier soit un
> francophone ! ou aurait-il honte de l'?tre

	Bonjour Jean-Louis et Djilali,

	Merci de vos remarques.

	Je comprends aussi un peu l'espagnol, mais je n'y arrive pas
	en allemand, ni en portugais, en cor?en, en indhi, en chinois...
	aussi suis-je content que certains les locuteurs de ces langues
	ne les utilisent pas sur cette liste.

	Etre francophone consiste ? d?fendre sa langue,
	non pas comme langue imp?riale, mais dans toutes
	les situations pour lesquelles les francophones ont
	? se parler entre eux. Cela signifie par exemple
	franciser les termes techniques, les conceptions
	li?es aux nouveaux paradigmes de la soci?t? globale...

	Etre francophone, consiste aussi ? interpr?ter en
	fran?ais (avec les mots du fran?ais, mais aussi avec les
	id?es, les espoirs, les r?f?rences que cette langue
	v?hicule) les concepts et les d?bats mondiaux.

	C'est ainsi la raison pour laquelle j'ai cr??
	en 1994 une liste de diffusion pour les biblioth?caires
	francophones du monde entier. A l'?poque il existait
	d'excellentes listes en anglais comme PACS-L... mais
	il me semblait juste et n?cessaire de cr?er un ?quivalent
	en fran?ais. Je n'ai pas h?sit?, et j'ai m?me bataill?
	pour faire respecter le fran?ais dans tous les messages
	de cette liste (BIBLIO-FR), qui a su d'ailleurs devenir
	une r?f?rence pour les ?trangers qui souhaitaient
	perfectionner leur approche du fran?ais. D?sol? de ne
	pas ?tre tomb? dans l'internet francophone l'ann?e
	derni?re.

	La langue diplomatique a longtemps ?t? le fran?ais.
	Ce n'est malheureusement plus le cas. Malheureusement,
	car cette langue est tr?s pr?cise. Autant je suis francophone
	et d?fenseur de la francophonie, autant je me refuse
	? une conception imp?riale de ma langue maternelle
	(qui est aussi ma langue de pr?dilection). Un linguiste
	fran?ais a d'ailleurs ?crit un excellent livre sur ce
	sujet : Claude Hag?ge - Le fran?ais et les si?cles
	aux Editions Odile Jacob. Je le conseille ? tous ceux
	qui croient d?fendre le fran?ais quand ils n'ont qu'une
	vision d'un "fran?ais de pouvoir", souvent bien loin des
	r?alit?s du fran?ais vivant de la francophonie, qui est
	un r?seau mondial de locuteurs qui partagent une
	espace mental commun (la langue et les signifi?s qu'elle
	v?hicule, donc les ?motions, les projets, les inclinaisons...).

	Pour lire en fran?ais mes id?es, vous pouvez vous
	connecter sur http://vecam.org qui me fait
	l'honneur de publier mes "petits papiers". Vous y verrez que
	je ma?trise, autant qu'un ?l?ve francophone peut le faire,
	la langue de Voltaire comme celle de Queneau ou de San Antonio.
	Je m'y amuse et m'y complait.

	Mais dans un d?bat international, le pidgin ? base d'anglais que
	j'utilise (et que d'autres qui ne sont pas des locuteurs
	anglicistes nous font aussi la gentillesse d'utiliser) me
	semble un effort n?cessire.

	Un effort que je n'ai pas le courage de traduire pour cette
	r?ponse... Que les non francophones (les hispanophones,
	les lusophones, les malais et les chinois, qui sont tous
	bien plus nombreux dans le monde, si ce n'est sur cette liste,
	que les francophones) me le pardonnent.

	Merci aussi ? nos amis cor?ens de nous faire l'honneur de
	traduire en anglais, pour que nous puissions, m?me avec
	difficult?, les suivre, notamment en regard du passionnant
	travail qu'ils(elles) m?nent sur le droit du travail, la
	s?curit? et les implications sur la vie priv?e.

	Merci ? celles et ceux pour qui le wolof, l'arabe ou l'indhi
	sont plus naturelles que le fran?ais ou l'anglais dans lequels
	ils s'expriment pourtant pour les ?changes mondiaux.

	Merci enfin de ne pas confondre la qualit? des id?es et
	des d?bats avec la(les) langues dans lesquelles celui-ci
	s'exprime. Les d?bats sont pr?par?s dans chaque aire
	linguistique. Ils arrivent sur une liste comme celle de la
	soci?t? civile avec un objectif de cr?er une volont? partag?e.
	La question linguistique est celle de la traduction a post?riori
	des textes de r?f?rence, des textes consensuels, des textes
	?labor?s... une liste de d?bat me semble devoir
	?tre plus largement ouverte ? l'impromptu.

	La politique et l'?laboration se font dans les langues
	vernaculaires. la diplomatie et le consensus s'?rigent
	dans le sabir le plus ?quitablement parl? par ceux qui
	participent ? l'?laboration de ce consensus. Ni langue,
	car elle manque de pr?cision et d'?motions, ni totalement
	d?racin?e (comme pourrait l'?tre l'esperanto), le
	m?ta-langage international, surtout dans une discipline
	largement influenc?e par les termes techniques, comme par
	les approches juridiques lib?rales, comme l'est la
	"soci?t? de l'information", reste un moyen d'?changer les
	grandes lignes. Il reste ? chaque langue, ? chaque approche
	linguistique, ?motionnelle et juridique, ? d?river (je pr?f?re
	ce terme ? "traduire") les consensus (et aussi les points
	d'achoppement) pour les int?grer ? l'univers mental partag?
	par ses propres locuteurs.

	Ne crispons pas les d?bats sur la langue, mais adaptons
	dans les langues, les situations, les approches, les concepts
	et les mod?les, le d?bat mondial pour nos aires linguistiques et
	pour une r?elle ?galit? dans le monde.

	Cela me semble la mission premi?re de la francophonie quand elle
	refuse l'anglais comme langue h?g?monique de la pens?e et du
	droit. La francophonie fait cela en soutenant les politiques
	publiques de diversit? linguistique et culturelle. Un enjeu qui
	est bien loin de la babelisation des d?bats sur les listes
	de diffusion internationales.

	Une langue qui sait avoir, dans les mots que chacun h?rite de sa
	m?re et de l'?cole, de v?ritables d?bats ouverts sur le monde
	est une langue qui est vivante, inventive, souple et adaptative,
	commme le sont les langues v?ritables. Une telle langue est bien
	loin de se trouver en risque dans le concert mondial.

	Le fran?ais du monde entier, avec ses variations, ses
	?volutions, ses capacit?s ? int?grer les mots et les situations
	venues de l'anglais, de l'arabe, de l'espagnol... et demain du
	chinois, comme la d?mographie et la croissance ?conomique le
	laissent penser... ce fran?ais l? n'est pas en danger.

	Laissez-moi parler et ?crire ce fran?ais dans les situations de
	d?bats entre francophones, et pardonnez mes efforts certainement
	d?mesur?s en regard de la pi?tre qualit? des textes qu'ils
	peuvent produire, pour r?duire ma pens?e ? son noyau dur
	dans une langue qui m'est ?trang?re. Une "langue" qui est
	d'ailleurs ?trang?re ? tout le monde (ne faites pas croire aux
	anglicistes que ce cr?ole, lointain descendant de Shakespeare,
	est de l'anglais, ls ne vous suivraient pas). Mais qui permet
	de glisser quelques id?es simples dans le concert mondial
	parce que majoritairement (et non par tous) re?ue. M?me
	si elle est pour la plupart, en tout cas pour moi, plus
	difficile ? ?crire.

	L'objectif de la "solidarit? num?rique" n'est pas que tous
	soient oblig?s de suivre les programmes des langues riches
	et majoritaires, m?me en fran?ais, mais bien de construire
	partout dans le monde, des capacit?s de cr?ation, de diffusion,
	de critique et de d?bat dans les circonstances adapt?es ? chaque
	environnement culturel et linguistique...

	C'est en tout cas ce que j'ai lu dans le texte de la soci?t?
	civile qui vise ? une soci?t? "inclusive" de l'information.
	Pardonnez-moi cet anglicisme, ce sera mon dernier mot.

Herv? Le Crosnier


Suite du message ? l'origine de cette mise au point.


 > --- Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
 >
 >>Salut Herv?
 >>Ecris en fran?ais : tu y excelles !
 >>Cordialement
 >>Jean-Louis Fullsack
 >>
 >>----- Original Message -----
 >>From: "Herv? Le Crosnier" <herve@info.unicaen.fr>
 >>To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
 >>Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 2:47 PM
 >>Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity
 >>Fund
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>>Meryem Marzouki wrote:
 >>>
 >>>>Hi all,
 >>>>
 >>>>According to a press wire by AFP, dated April 3
 >>
 >>(see below, in French),
 >>
 >>>>a UN agency will be created, called
 >>
 >>"international agency for digital
 >>
 >>>>solidarity" to manage this issue. The
 >>
 >>secretariat would be based in
 >>
 >>>>Geneva, while main activities will be hosted in
 >>
 >>Lyon, France. I'm not
 >>
 >>>>sure AFP is right when they call it a UN agency
 >>
 >>: it surely takes a lot
 >>
 >>>>more formal process to create a UN agency. It
 >>
 >>may very well be an
 >>
 >>>>international initiative led and managed by
 >>
 >>local authorities (cities).
 >>
 >>>>The creation of the agency should be announced
 >>
 >>in early May in Paris,
 >>
 >>>>during the congress of the organization named
 >>
 >>"united cities and local
 >>
 >>>>governments".
 >>>>Meryem
 >>>>==========
 >>>
 >>>Hello,
 >>>
 >>>Sure it's not a UN agency, but a consequence
 >>>of the "Sommet des villes et des pouvoirs locaux
 >>
 >>dans
 >>
 >>>la soci?t? de l'information" held in Lyon last
 >>
 >>november.
 >>
 >>>It means that many actors are on the process to
 >>
 >>create
 >>
 >>>a digital solidarity fund. The problem is the one
 >>
 >>of
 >>
 >>>the multistakeholder approach for the funding (in
 >>
 >>the
 >>
 >>>Wade prposal, only voluntary funding by consumers
 >>
 >>;
 >>
 >>>the CS communique about this call for more open
 >>
 >>solution
 >>
 >>>including intergouvernemental funding and private
 >>>funding from TIC producers).
 >>>
 >>>The other one is about control of funds. I'm not
 >>
 >>very well
 >>
 >>>with the center of such a fund in the North when
 >>
 >>usage is
 >>
 >>>on the South.
 >>>
 >>>Last, we must always remain that any digital
 >>
 >>solidarity fund
 >>
 >>>is a transitional solution. Stopping the debt of
 >>
 >>the South
 >>
 >>>is much more usefull and efficient. They already
 >>
 >>fullfill
 >>
 >>>the debt, and only financial mechanisms allow
 >>
 >>North to
 >>
 >>>postpone new debts over the old one.
 >>>
 >>>Hope this will not be the case for digital
 >>
 >>solidarity,
 >>
 >>>with a never ending debt, 'cause gap is not only
 >>
 >>very
 >>
 >>>large, but also enlarging every time following
 >>
 >>innovation
 >>
 >>>(large bandwidth, ?lectric power... and new usages
 >>
 >>such
 >>
 >>>? TV on the net, images and vid?o, music and
 >>
 >>radio...).
 >>
 >>>Sorry for my bad english writing.
 >>>
 >>>Herv? Le Crosnier
 >>>
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 >>>Plenary mailing list
 >>>Plenary@wsis-cs.org
 >>>
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 >
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From acarvin at edc.org  Mon Apr  5 16:47:54 2004
From: acarvin at edc.org (Andy=20Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?
Message-ID: <iss.80e8fd90.4ce6.40717f1c.b9074.d0@smtp.attwireless.net>

Hi Rik,

I think it would be very useful to have a couple of days of CS pre-prepcom meetings, particularly an orientation for those of us who will be attending our first prepcom. I think first timers might be somewhat intimidated by the process and an orientation/primer could be very  useful...


Thanks,
andy carvin
edc center for media & community

rik wrote:
Given that the first official preparatory meeting for the Tunis Phase of the WSIS will likely be June 24-26 June in Tunis, do people feel that it would be helpful to convene civil society meetings prior to the official meetings?  If so, we should be approaching the Tunis secretariat about making arrangements for CS meeting spaces, computers and other logistical arrangements.

Snip

From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Tue Apr  6 08:53:38 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] il faut assurer la traduction de nos echanges !
In-Reply-To: <4071BE2A.4070204@info.unicaen.fr>
Message-ID: <20040406075338.78260.qmail@web60708.mail.yahoo.com>

No translation in English,
Merci Monsieur Le Crosnier de ce brillant plaidoyer.
Je prends pour ma part note de votre savoir de
l'Histoire, de la réalité et du devenir de la langue
de Voltaire.... Je suis impressionné !
Plaidoyer d'importance pour ceux qui se préoccupent de
cette langue et de son statut dans la vision du
devenir de l'humanité...
Mon propos était et reste lié simplement au fait que
des dizaines de millions de français en France et
surtout d'Africains francisés malgré eux sont des
anglophones analphabètes... Je ne cesserais de
dénoncer cette double exclusion de cette partie de
l'Afrique liée à sa pauvreté et à son malheur d'avoir
été colonisée par une France dont l'élite anglophone
profite de sa rente de situation et ne trouve pas le
temps de partager son savoir...
Nous en tant que société civile sommes sensés nous
situer dans une vision de partage et si ce n'est pas
le cas, l'une des parties devrait se rapprocher des
multinationales là où tout le monde parle la langue de
Bush et de Blair et de la mondialisation au service de
l'ultralibéralisme...
Ce débat n'est pas hors sujet, il structure les
fondement de la société de demain, dominée par
l'anglais ou acceptant la diversité lunguistique...
les technologies de l'information et de la
communication le permettent, des personnes et des
individus pourtant américaines comme le promoteur du
projet Gutemberg de la bibliothèque numérique
universelle travaillent à la sauvegarde des écrits
dans toutes les langues encore disponibles de par le
monde, si nous nous attardons à notre confort et à
notre efficacité en vérouillant les débats aux seuls
initiés parlant anglais, alors il serait temps de
promouvoir une autre société civile capable de
partager avec les le maximum....
Mes réactions peuvent paraître excessives et me le
sont reprochées par beaucoup de membres de cette
liste... je ne suis devenu comme cela que lorsque je
me suis senti humilié, trahi, méprisé au sommet de
Genève lorsque dans les débats en général et au sein
de la société civile il y vait les maîtres ceux qui
maîtrisaient l'Anglais et les analphabètes en anglais
imbéciles et impuissant qui faisaient le l'autosensure
qui jouaient au sourd muet dans les couloirs de Genève
et pourtant nous étions en terre trilingue où le
français a droit de citer !
Je ne souhaite revivre la même situation à Tunis
sachant que beaucoup de participants n'hésiteront pas
à faire supporter aux Tunisiens les insuffisances de
traduction et d'interprétation....
Pour l'histoire, je rappelle qu'à la clôture du Sommet
de Genève les délégations chinoises, arabe et
méxicaine et françaises ont dénoncer officiellement et
publiquement le parti pris des organisateurs pour la
seule langue anglaise au détriment des autres !!!!
Amitiés
Djilali   


=====
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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Tue Apr  6 09:37:34 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?
In-Reply-To: <3381873.1081178227483.JavaMail.root@louie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <20040406083734.62278.qmail@web21323.mail.yahoo.com>

Rik - these are all good suggestions. Do we have a functioning CS Bureau ? / who is responsible for sorting out these logistical issues ?
 
Amali  ( VCN - Canada ) 

rikp@earthlink.net wrote:
Dear Colleagues,

Given that the first official preparatory meeting for the Tunis Phase of the WSIS will likely be June 24-26 June in Tunis, do people feel that it would be helpful to convene civil society meetings prior to the official meetings? If so, we should be approaching the Tunis secretariat about making arrangements for CS meeting spaces, computers and other logistical arrangements.

Since the first preparatory meeting is taking place in Africa, it is likely that we may have a number of new participants at this meeting than during the Geneva phase. I would propose that we organize at least a CS orientation session for a couple of hours scheduled in order to explain and discuss the various CS structures, intiatives, working groups, caucuses, and history up to Geneva 2003. Breakout sessions organized by caucuses and working groups could be scheduled. And Content and Themes and the Bureau should have times to meet. I personally think we need at least one full day to do this, ideally two.

Note that for new participants in the Tunis Phase, new requests for accreditation have to be received via fax or post to the WSIS secretariat at least SIX WEEKS prior to the meeting, which in this case would be the 1st week of May. So if you know of groups who would like to participate, please inform them NOW, so they can make get accredited, coordinate calendars, raise funds, get board approval, etc. Groups already accredited during the Geneva Phase are still accredited in this phase.

In general, I would like to avoid what happened in previous prepcoms, where we spent too much time debating with each other when we could have been lobbying governments or engaging with private sector groups. In June, given the limited time of the prepcom, we need to use the official meeting times as efficiently and wisely as possible.

Regards,

Rik Panganiban
Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) 



Amali De Silva-Mitchell BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE

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From rguerra at cpsr.org  Tue Apr  6 12:33:17 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?
Message-ID: <p06100503bc9845f180a5@[192.168.0.55]>

Do we have upcoming WSIS events which CS needs to mobilize for  - yes
Do we have a CS bureau - yes

Do we have any funding - no...

Should we be discussing things other than beer or wine choices on the 
list - yes

Are any of the points that Rik raises about a possible meeting before 
the next prepcom new - no, we've always done so. I and others onb 
numerous occasions have suggested not only meeting in person, but 
preparing virtually before to develop our ideas, our strategy and how 
to best intervene.

As has been mentioned before on this list - Phase II (which we are 
now in) in inherently more complex and  likely much more fragmented. 
CS's limited resources need to be much better coordinated vs. the 
earlier phase.

The bigger "meta" questions - what do we want to achieve, what's the 
CS road map, and how to coordinate our efforts SHOULD be discussed 
here, in this open space. For if not, all our "talk" of openness and 
transparency are just empty words - as we don't practice what we 
preach!

So what's really going on? Some groups like the governance group, the 
civil liberties (public voice) grp, and latin american caucus are 
discussing "things" - but the rest? i'm frankly worried.

But there is time - not much of it. If don't get our act together, 
coordinate better - and yes, receive some sort of funding by the end 
of the summer - we'll have serious problems to be able to engage in 
the same fashion and with the same effectiveness as we did in phase I.

so what's next - we'll let's develop that online....

regards

Robert


At 1:37 AM -0700 4/6/04, Amali De Silva wrote:
>Rik - these are all good suggestions. Do we have a functioning CS 
>Bureau ? / who is responsible for sorting out these logistical 
>issues ?
>
>Amali  ( VCN - Canada )
>
>rikp@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Given that the first official preparatory meeting for the Tunis 
>Phase of the WSIS will likely be June 24-26 June in Tunis, do people 
>feel that it would be helpful to convene civil society meetings 
>prior to the official meetings? If so, we should be approaching the 
>Tunis secretariat about making arrangements for CS meeting spaces, 
>computers and other logistical arrangements.
>
>Since the first preparatory meeting is taking place in Africa, it is 
>likely that we may have a number of new participants at this meeting 
>than during the Geneva phase. I would propose that we organize at 
>least a CS orientation session for a couple of hours scheduled in 
>order to explain and discuss the various CS structures, intiatives, 
>working groups, caucuses, and history up to Geneva 2003. Breakout 
>sessions organized by caucuses and working groups could be 
>scheduled. And Con tent and Themes and the Bureau should have times 
>to meet. I personally think we need at least one full day to do 
>this, ideally two.
>
>Note that for new participants in the Tunis Phase, new requests for 
>accreditation have to be received via fax or post to the WSIS 
>secretariat at least SIX WEEKS prior to the meeting, which in this 
>case would be the 1st week of May. So if you know of groups who 
>would like to participate, please inform them NOW, so they can make 
>get accredited, coordinate calendars, raise funds, get board 
>approval, etc. Groups already accredited during the Geneva Phase are 
>still accredited in this phase.
>
>In general, I would like to avoid what happened in previous 
>prepcoms, where we spent too much time debating with each other when 
>we could have been lobbying governments or engaging with private 
>sector groups. In June, given the limited time of the prepcom, we 
>need to use the official meeting times as efficiently and wisely as 
>possible.
>
>Regards,
>
>Rik Panganiban
>Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United 
>Nations (CONGO)
>
>
>
>Amali De Silva-Mitchell BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE
>
>Tel: 1-604-736-9012 & Email: 
><mailto:amalidesilva@yahoo.com>amalidesilva@yahoo.com
>
>
>
>
>
>


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From t.naughton at iafrica.com  Tue Apr  6 13:46:04 2004
From: t.naughton at iafrica.com (Tracey Naughton)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?
In-Reply-To: <p06100503bc9845f180a5@[192.168.0.55]>
Message-ID: <BC98732C.4539%t.naughton@iafrica.com>

Robert and all

re: Roberts message on what is getting done out here.

African Civil Society is meeting in Tunis 13th - 15th April and hopefully
you will hear something from us after that. It has taken some time to find a
way to gather and we are most grateful to the UNECA (United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa) for enabling some of the African CS people to meet
next week.

>From a personal south perspective, reading the list seems like everything is
happening in the north and yes, like everyone else, while we certainly have
capacity, we do not have the resources to participate. Worse is that we need
more resources than people in the north to get there because we are further
away and live in weak currency economies. Donors are quite concerned that
the process has cost a great deal to date, with limited tangible outcome
that differs from what we can do in the normal course of our work. WSIS
pessimism is also justifiably high among stakeholders on the ground many of
whom feel that national mobilisation is a more important African priority
than dissipated effort at international level. That is not to say that we do
not want to participate in debates of global significance (in which the
south could well lose out again).......but there are limited resources and
pressing needs on the ground.

I think if people want us there then there will have to be a real effort in
solidarity / parity resource securing.

>From a Media Caucus Chair perspective I have not been able to garner
resources either, though, thankfully we have been able to mobilise
participation at key meetings by people who are in the north already.

Regards to all

Tracey Naughton


 
Nyaka - Communication & Development
Tracey Naughton
Consultant
201 Somerset Hall
239 Oxford Road
Illovo  2196
South Africa

Phone/fax:    +27 (0) 11 880 5030
cell:                 +27 (0) 82 821 1771
Email:              t.naughton@iafrica.com



From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Tue Apr  6 17:06:51 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?
In-Reply-To: <p06100503bc9845f180a5@[192.168.0.55]>
Message-ID: <20040406160651.82051.qmail@web21321.mail.yahoo.com>

All: 
 
thank you for responding Robert.
 
I think we do have to move ahead even if funding is not available at the moment. 
 
The true source of vision in Civil Society has always come from the passion of it's members who most often started their organizations with no money - so what is stopping us ?
 
We have the resources to communicate  - lots of lists !  
 
What were the results of the discussions you co-ordinated Robert a couple of weeks ago ? Grateful if you would share the results.
 
What were the themes etc advocated ?
 
Do we need another virtual discussion ? 
 
Please provide us with at least 10 days notice to re-schedule our activites to fit in with the next on-line discussion if you are proposing that. ( we are all working in different time zones - not all at EST )

thank you,
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell
President Vancouver Community Network, Canada
 

Robert Guerra <rguerra@cpsr.org> wrote:
Do we have upcoming WSIS events which CS needs to mobilize for  - yes
Do we have a CS bureau - yes


Do we have any funding - no...

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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Tue Apr  6 18:02:57 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Suggestion for WSIS-CSSection On-line Online Org/HR/Resources database for CS co-ordination
Message-ID: <20040406170257.55066.qmail@web21327.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear All:
 
As there is no funding available at the moment I wish to suggest the setting up of the following database to maximize our existing potential.
 
Suggestion: WSIS - CS Section On-line Org/HR/Resources database for CS co-ordination
 
This will be a compilation of CS organizations willing to donate:

   Facilities - space for meetings at key locations ( Geneva, NY, Asian location, NA location , LA location etc)
   Human hours ( dedicated e.g. 10 hs /wk) to write / research / administer / co-ordinate advocacy groups etc 
   Printing facilities for documents - locally ( for Tunis as well )
   Funds through national / international partnerships to support southern organizations with their internet connectivity requirements ( e.g. X North.org pledges US$ 800.00 for a 18 month period to support the internet service connectivity for X South.org ) Re: public engagement - local and international level
   On-line facility to store all relevant documents ( e.g.webGui ? ) for access by all
   Event site listing all CS-WSIS activites taking place around the globe - supporters of open source / freeware I am sure you can come up with something to prove the point for the need for such tools in society

Could UN / On-line Volunteers help us out with setting this up and the co-ordination process ?

Thanks,

Amali De Silva - Mitchell

President Vancouver Community Network ( Canada )

 

 
 
 
 
 
 



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From bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de  Tue Apr  6 18:00:32 2004
From: bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Ralf Bendrath)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?
References: <20040406160651.82051.qmail@web21321.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4072E230.609526C9@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

To the translation team: Can we get a translation of Rik's and this
message? I neither speak Spanish nor French... Thanks!

Hi all,

the idea of having a CS pre-prepcom in Tunis was also discussed at the
recent Public Voice meeting of mainly North American groups in New York,
and also here in Germany at our last federal CS meeting in mid-March.

We had the idea to not only have it as an introduction for the ones who
are new to the WSIS process, but also as a collection of workshops for
capacity building especially for CS people who have been involved and
active before. As has been said, phase two will be more complex, so we
need to be more efficient in our use of scarce resources like time,
money, attention span etc. And we will have to take into account the
special situation in Tunisia, where internet traffic is monitored and
human rights websites are blocked.

A preliminary list that we in Germany (with help fom Robert) developled
included the following workshops. We already listed some people who
might help organizing them, though some have not been asked yet and we
have no idea who will be able to come to Tunisia then.

- secure and free communication infrastructures (Robert Guerra, Chaos
Computer Club Berlin, Alvar Freude/Odem.org)

- human rights legal instruments (Rikke Frank J?rgensen/Human Rights
Caucus, also invite someone from Tunisian Human Righs League)

- moderation and discussion skills / techniques (Heiner Benking/Open
Forum, Berlin)

- websites and online collaboration tools (Robert Guerra, Derrick
Cogburn)

- press work / strategy (Media Caucus?)

- WSIS phase one and past UN summits: process experiences / modalities /
rules of procedure for NGO participation, also: lessons learned
(Renate Bloem, Wolfgang Kleinw?chter, UN Associations?)

- Negotiation and "diplomacy" skills for lobbying / interaction with
governments / delegation members) 

- ... and whatever people find useful and are willing to organize.

The general idea is to have a pool of parallel workshops people can pick
from. There should also be some time for caucus and plenary meetings,
where the political discussions can take place. Of course it would be
good to combine this with an introduction session on the moring of the
first day (23 June).

So: If we can get 4-5 working group rooms for the two days and a big one
for plenary every evening, it should work and would be a great
contribution to the overall process.

Best, Ralf


From rikp at earthlink.net  Tue Apr  6 18:59:36 2004
From: rikp at earthlink.net (rikp@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] reunion de societe civile en Tunis 22-23 Juin?
Message-ID: <6811279.1081274376039.JavaMail.root@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>

[Here are my main points in bad French]

Juste les grandes questions en Fran??ais:

* La premiere prepcom de le SMSI-Tunsi sera 24-26 Juin en Tunis

* Donc, je demande si on doit organiser des reunions de societe civile juste avant les reuniones officiales

* Si oui, on doit communiquer avec le secretariat Tunisien sur les espaces, les ordinateurs, et les autres choses logistiques.

* Je pense que nous avons besoin d'un session d'orientation pour les participants nouvelles pour expliquer les structures, les initiatives, les groupes de travail, et la histoire jusqu'a Geneve 2003.

* Peut-etre les caucuses et les groupes de travail pouvaient organiser des autres reuniones sur ses sujets.

* Et le bureau et la groupe de Content and Themes doit reunir

* En fin, je pense que nous avons besoins de un jour au moins, ou mieux deux jours.

* Les groupes nouvelles de le proces de SMSI ont besoin de commander par fax ou poste l'accreditation officiale SIX SEMAINES avant la reunion.  Donc, environ la premiere semaine de Mai.  Les organizations accredit??s pour le SMSI-Geneve sont aussi accredit??s pour le SMSI-Tunis.

Desol?? pour mon fran??ais horrible.

Rik Panganiban
==========================


	From: 	  rikp@earthlink.net
	Subject: 	[WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?
	Date: 	5 avril 2004 11:17:07 GMT-04:00
	To: 	  plenary@wsis-cs.org
	Reply-To: 	  plenary@wsis-cs.org

Dear Colleagues,

Given that the first official preparatory meeting for the Tunis Phase of the WSIS will likely be June 24-26 June in Tunis, do people feel that it would be helpful to convene civil society meetings prior to the official meetings?  If so, we should be approaching the Tunis secretariat about making arrangements for CS meeting spaces, computers and other logistical arrangements.

Since the first preparatory meeting is taking place in Africa, it is likely that we may have a number of new participants at this meeting than during the Geneva phase.  I would propose that we organize at least a CS orientation session for a couple of hours scheduled in order to explain and discuss the various CS structures, intiatives, working groups, caucuses, and history up to Geneva 2003.  Breakout sessions organized by caucuses and working groups could be scheduled.  And Content and Themes and the Bureau should have times to meet.  I personally think we need at least one full day to do this, ideally two.

Note that for new participants in the Tunis Phase, new requests for accreditation have to be received via fax or post to the WSIS secretariat at least SIX WEEKS prior to the meeting, which in this case would be the 1st week of May.  So if you know of groups who would like to participate, please inform them NOW, so they can make get accredited, coordinate calendars, raise funds, get board approval, etc.  Groups already accredited during the Geneva Phase are still accredited in this phase.

In general, I would like to avoid what happened in previous prepcoms, where we spent too much time debating with each other when we could have been lobbying governments or engaging with private sector groups.  In June, given the limited time of the prepcom, we need to use the official meeting times as efficiently and wisely as possible.

Regards,

Rik Panganiban
CONGO


===============================================
RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator

Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) 
web: http://www.ngocongo.org
email: rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org
mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524

From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Wed Apr  7 08:48:55 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] reunion de societe civile en Tunis 22-23 Juin?
In-Reply-To: <6811279.1081274376039.JavaMail.root@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <20040407074855.19575.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>

Merci RIK, votre français est parfait et je m'empresse
d'y répondre...
Il serait souhaitable de copier ce message sur les
listes africaines pour qu'elle soit informé dans la
lnague qu'ils maîrisent et surtout qu'ils se préparent
pour indiquer les conditions minimales ou souhaitable
de leur participation directe ou indirecte...
Je sais bien qu'à l'impossible nul n'est tenu mais
c'est un formidable début, j'en suis heureux et je
ferai de mon mieux pour assurer une large diffusion...
cf notamment les listes auquelles je copie le
message...
Je ne demandais pas plus dans mes messages
outranciers...juste un peu de considération pour la sc
du sud en formation.... j'espère que les francophones,
mais aussi les hispanophones, lozophones etc...
suivront le bon exemple de l'élargissement de la
diffusion de l'information.
Amitiés
Djilali
--- rikp@earthlink.net wrote:
> [Here are my main points in bad French]
> 
> Juste les grandes questions en FranÃ§ais:
> 
> * La premiere prepcom de le SMSI-Tunsi sera 24-26
> Juin en Tunis
> 
> * Donc, je demande si on doit organiser des reunions
> de societe civile juste avant les reuniones
> officiales
> 
> * Si oui, on doit communiquer avec le secretariat
> Tunisien sur les espaces, les ordinateurs, et les
> autres choses logistiques.
> 
> * Je pense que nous avons besoin d'un session
> d'orientation pour les participants nouvelles pour
> expliquer les structures, les initiatives, les
> groupes de travail, et la histoire jusqu'a Geneve
> 2003.
> 
> * Peut-etre les caucuses et les groupes de travail
> pouvaient organiser des autres reuniones sur ses
> sujets.
> 
> * Et le bureau et la groupe de Content and Themes
> doit reunir
> 
> * En fin, je pense que nous avons besoins de un jour
> au moins, ou mieux deux jours.
> 
> * Les groupes nouvelles de le proces de SMSI ont
> besoin de commander par fax ou poste l'accreditation
> officiale SIX SEMAINES avant la reunion.  Donc,
> environ la premiere semaine de Mai.  Les
> organizations accreditÃ©s pour le SMSI-Geneve sont
> aussi accreditÃ©s pour le SMSI-Tunis.
> 
> DesolÃ© pour mon franÃ§ais horrible.
> 
> Rik Panganiban
> ==========================
> 
> 
> 	From: 	  rikp@earthlink.net
> 	Subject: 	[WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis
> 22-23 June?
> 	Date: 	5 avril 2004 11:17:07 GMT-04:00
> 	To: 	  plenary@wsis-cs.org
> 	Reply-To: 	  plenary@wsis-cs.org
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Given that the first official preparatory meeting
> for the Tunis Phase of the WSIS will likely be June
> 24-26 June in Tunis, do people feel that it would be
> helpful to convene civil society meetings prior to
> the official meetings?  If so, we should be
> approaching the Tunis secretariat about making
> arrangements for CS meeting spaces, computers and
> other logistical arrangements.
> 
> Since the first preparatory meeting is taking place
> in Africa, it is likely that we may have a number of
> new participants at this meeting than during the
> Geneva phase.  I would propose that we organize at
> least a CS orientation session for a couple of hours
> scheduled in order to explain and discuss the
> various CS structures, intiatives, working groups,
> caucuses, and history up to Geneva 2003.  Breakout
> sessions organized by caucuses and working groups
> could be scheduled.  And Content and Themes and the
> Bureau should have times to meet.  I personally
> think we need at least one full day to do this,
> ideally two.
> 
> Note that for new participants in the Tunis Phase,
> new requests for accreditation have to be received
> via fax or post to the WSIS secretariat at least SIX
> WEEKS prior to the meeting, which in this case would
> be the 1st week of May.  So if you know of groups
> who would like to participate, please inform them
> NOW, so they can make get accredited, coordinate
> calendars, raise funds, get board approval, etc. 
> Groups already accredited during the Geneva Phase
> are still accredited in this phase.
> 
> In general, I would like to avoid what happened in
> previous prepcoms, where we spent too much time
> debating with each other when we could have been
> lobbying governments or engaging with private sector
> groups.  In June, given the limited time of the
> prepcom, we need to use the official meeting times
> as efficiently and wisely as possible.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rik Panganiban
> CONGO
> 
> 
> ===============================================
> RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator
> 
> Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with
> the United Nations (CONGO) 
> web: http://www.ngocongo.org
> email: rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org
> mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
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Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
Page web sur l'Afrique et la globalisation : http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Wed Apr  7 08:56:55 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?
In-Reply-To: <4072E230.609526C9@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <20040407075655.51651.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com>

Excellent initiative Ralf, You really are in the good
way... Propose to those who master 2 or 3 languages to
do the effort to translate even approximatively the
content of their message, especially when it concerns
important information.
All the best
Djilali
--- Ralf Bendrath <bendrath@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> To the translation team: Can we get a translation of
> Rik's and this
> message? I neither speak Spanish nor French...
> Thanks!
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> the idea of having a CS pre-prepcom in Tunis was
> also discussed at the
> recent Public Voice meeting of mainly North American
> groups in New York,
> and also here in Germany at our last federal CS
> meeting in mid-March.
> 
> We had the idea to not only have it as an
> introduction for the ones who
> are new to the WSIS process, but also as a
> collection of workshops for
> capacity building especially for CS people who have
> been involved and
> active before. As has been said, phase two will be
> more complex, so we
> need to be more efficient in our use of scarce
> resources like time,
> money, attention span etc. And we will have to take
> into account the
> special situation in Tunisia, where internet traffic
> is monitored and
> human rights websites are blocked.
> 
> A preliminary list that we in Germany (with help fom
> Robert) developled
> included the following workshops. We already listed
> some people who
> might help organizing them, though some have not
> been asked yet and we
> have no idea who will be able to come to Tunisia
> then.
> 
> - secure and free communication infrastructures
> (Robert Guerra, Chaos
> Computer Club Berlin, Alvar Freude/Odem.org)
> 
> - human rights legal instruments (Rikke Frank
> Jörgensen/Human Rights
> Caucus, also invite someone from Tunisian Human
> Righs League)
> 
> - moderation and discussion skills / techniques
> (Heiner Benking/Open
> Forum, Berlin)
> 
> - websites and online collaboration tools (Robert
> Guerra, Derrick
> Cogburn)
> 
> - press work / strategy (Media Caucus?)
> 
> - WSIS phase one and past UN summits: process
> experiences / modalities /
> rules of procedure for NGO participation, also:
> lessons learned
> (Renate Bloem, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, UN
> Associations?)
> 
> - Negotiation and "diplomacy" skills for lobbying /
> interaction with
> governments / delegation members) 
> 
> - ... and whatever people find useful and are
> willing to organize.
> 
> The general idea is to have a pool of parallel
> workshops people can pick
> from. There should also be some time for caucus and
> plenary meetings,
> where the political discussions can take place. Of
> course it would be
> good to combine this with an introduction session on
> the moring of the
> first day (23 June).
> 
> So: If we can get 4-5 working group rooms for the
> two days and a big one
> for plenary every evening, it should work and would
> be a great
> contribution to the overall process.
> 
> Best, Ralf
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


=====
Djilali Benamrane : dbenamrane@yahoo.com
Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
Page web sur l'Afrique et la globalisation : http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/
Groupe de discussion: http://www.egroups.com/list/afriqueglobalization

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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Wed Apr  7 09:09:44 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Suggestion for WSIS-CSSection On-line Online Org/HR/Resources database for CS co-ordination
In-Reply-To: <20040406170257.55066.qmail@web21327.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040407080944.24358.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>

En français, des porpositions d'appui financier si
cela peut profiter à la SC du Sud...

Amali, may i propose to allocate some resources to the
translation?
Thanks for the information, i forward it lirectly in
English to Franch speaking lists in Africa...
All the best
Djilali
--- Amali De Silva <amalidesilva@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear All:
>  
> As there is no funding available at the moment I
> wish to suggest the setting up of the following
> database to maximize our existing potential.
>  
> Suggestion: WSIS - CS Section On-line
> Org/HR/Resources database for CS co-ordination
>  
> This will be a compilation of CS organizations
> willing to donate:
> 
>    Facilities - space for meetings at key locations
> ( Geneva, NY, Asian location, NA location , LA
> location etc)
>    Human hours ( dedicated e.g. 10 hs /wk) to write
> / research / administer / co-ordinate advocacy
> groups etc 
>    Printing facilities for documents - locally ( for
> Tunis as well )
>    Funds through national / international
> partnerships to support southern organizations with
> their internet connectivity requirements ( e.g. X
> North.org pledges US$ 800.00 for a 18 month period
> to support the internet service connectivity for X
> South.org ) Re: public engagement - local and
> international level
>    On-line facility to store all relevant documents
> ( e.g.webGui ? ) for access by all
>    Event site listing all CS-WSIS activites taking
> place around the globe - supporters of open source /
> freeware I am sure you can come up with something to
> prove the point for the need for such tools in
> society
> 
> Could UN / On-line Volunteers help us out with
> setting this up and the co-ordination process ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Amali De Silva - Mitchell
> 
> President Vancouver Community Network ( Canada )
> 
>  
> 
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> 
> 
> 
> Amali De Silva-Mitchell
> BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE
> 
> Tel: 1-604-736-9012 & Email: amalidesilva@yahoo.com
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
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From christine.wenzel at web.de  Wed Apr  7 09:54:17 2004
From: christine.wenzel at web.de (Christine Wenzel)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Global WSIS-2005 Fundraising Campaign
Message-ID: <4073C1B9.4030906@web.de>

Hey there on the List -

Has this press release already been posted (april 5)? - if so, i'm sorry 
for being redundant.
I'm not quite sure what exactly this funding is about - or for "who".

Just intended to share that background information with you.

Rgds,
Christine

german coordination group (wkk), Germany


---------------------------------------------------
http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/campaign.html
http://www.itu.int/wsis/newsroom/press_releases/wsis/2004/5apr.html

*ITU Launches Global WSIS-2005 Fundraising Campaign*


*Japan makes first contribution of nearly 400,000 Swiss Francs.
WSIS partners confirm staff for Executive Secretariat. *

*Geneva, 5 April 2004* ? The Secretary-General of the International 
Telecommunication Union, Mr Yoshio Utsumi, today launched a global 
fundraising campaign <http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/campaign.html> to 
support activities for the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the 
Information Society. Appealing to the international community, he called 
on all stakeholders to help make the WSIS-2005 Fundraising Campaign and 
the Summit in Tunis a success.

The fundraising campaign got off to an impressive start with an 
announcement by the Government of Japan, Ministry of Public Management, 
Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, of a CHF 386 300 (JPY 33 401 
000) contribution to the WSIS Fund. In addition, the governments of 
Japan, Spain, Canada, Switzerland and the Republic of Korea as well as 
other stakeholders, including UNESCO, and KDDI Corporation and BHN 
Association of Japan, have confirmed that they will provide professional 
staff to serve in the WSIS Executive Secretariat.

Mr Utsumi thanked these partners for their continued commitment to the 
Summit process. He called upon governments and other stakeholders to 
contribute generously to the WSIS-2005 Fundraising Campaign. He said, 
?Financial and in-kind support is essential to prepare for the Tunis 
phase of the Summit and to help bridge the digital divide and create a 
truly inclusive Information Society.?

?WSIS depends entirely on voluntary contributions to a special fund 
established by ITU,? noted Mr Utsumi. The cost of organizing the Tunis 
phase of the Summit is estimated to be about CHF 15 million. The goal of 
the fundraising campaign is to raise at least CHF 5 million in cash 
contributions for the WSIS Fund while covering the remaining amount 
through in-kind support from various partners.

The Geneva Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society 
culminated with global agreement on a Declaration of Principles for the 
emerging Information Society and a Plan of Action to implement concrete 
measures to make it a reality. The road map to Tunis and beyond 
envisages accelerated realization of the United Nations Millennium 
Development Goals built on a foundation of access to information and 
communication technology for all by 2015.

Contributions to the WSIS Fund can be tracked here 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/contributors2.html>.

*Contact info*
Telephone: +41 22 730 6373
Fax: +41 22 730 6393
E-mail: wsismedia@itu.int

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Call from Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi

The Geneva Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society 
culminated with a landmark gathering of participants from all sectors, 
including nearly * 50 Heads of State/Government and Vice Presidents * as 
well as other representatives from * 176 countries, international 
organizations, civil society and business*. The Summit established the 
foundations of the Information Society by enunciating a shared vision in 
a Declaration of Principles 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1161%7C0> to 
meet the global challenges of the new millennium along with a concrete 
Plan of Action 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1160%7C0>. 
Significantly, government leaders and their multi-stakeholder partners 
gave an impetus to harnessing the tremendous potential of ICTs to help 
bridge the digital divide and achieve the UN Millennium Development 
Goals, which include forming partnerships to make ICTs accessible to all 
by 2015.

World leaders will once again congregate in Tunis in 2005 to review the 
progress made on the WSIS Action Plan and to formulate an Agenda for the 
future. We now face the immediate challenge of implementing the Plan of 
Action and organizing the Tunis phase of the Summit. * This requires 
contribution of effort and support from all concerned*.

The UN General Assembly Resolution 56/183 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/background/resolutions/56_183_unga_2002.pdf> 
(21 December 2001) that endorsed the holding of the World Summit on the 
Information Society did not provide a specific funding mechanism for 
WSIS. Instead, it invited the international community to make * 
voluntary contributions to a special trust fund* established by ITU to 
support the Summit.

The Geneva Phase of the Summit was made possible thanks to generous 
financial contributions 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/contributors1.html> by different 
governments (including several developing countries) and various 
international organizations. Additional in-kind support was also 
critical in putting together the organizational arrangements. It is 
estimated that the Tunis phase of the Summit * will cost approximately 
** CHF 15 million* 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/financial-status2.html>, which does not 
include elements of the process supported by the host country, Tunisia. 
* I have set a goal of raising * * at least CHF 5 million* 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/contributors2.html> * in financial 
contributions* to fund preparatory activities for the Tunis phase with 
the expectation that the remainder can be supported through in-kind 
contributions from various partners.

As part of this comprehensive fundraising campaign, I have written to 
our various partners requesting contributions to support the process. I 
would like to emphasize that the need is urgent, indeed vital, for the 
organization of the Tunis Summit and its successful outcome.

*To support WSIS-2005 with your valuable contributions, please call +41 
22 730 6310 or send an email to wsis@itu.int, for the attention of Mr. 
Christopher Clark.*

*More information on how to contribute to WSIS-2005 Fundraising 
Campaign* 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1194%7C1195>

/Yoshio Utsumi
Secretary-General of ITU and Secretary-General of WSIS/

------------------------------------------------------------------------

*Quick links:*

    * Tunis Phase: Contributions ?
      <http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/contributors2.html>
    * Tunis Phase: Financial status ?
      <http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/financial-status2.html>
    * Geneva Phase: Contributions ?
      <http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/contributors1.html>
    * Geneva Phase: Financial status ?
      <http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/financial-status1.html>




From christine.wenzel at web.de  Wed Apr  7 09:54:26 2004
From: christine.wenzel at web.de (Christine Wenzel)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] campagne mondiale de collecte de fonds
Message-ID: <4073C1C2.4090603@web.de>

?llo et meilleures salutations!

Christine
cercle de coordination allemend (wkk), Allemagne


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http://www.itu.int/wsis/newsroom/press_releases/wsis/2004/5apr-fr.html

cette page seulement en anglais - je suis desol?e:
http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/campaign-fr.html

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*L'UIT lance une campagne mondiale de collecte de fonds pour le 
financement du SMSI 2005*


*Premi?re contribution: le Japon verse pr?s de 400 000 francs suisses.
Confirmation du d?tachement de personnel au Secr?tariat ex?cutif.*

*Gen?ve, 5 avril 2004* ? Le Secr?taire g?n?ral de l'Union internationale 
des t?l?communications, M. Yoshio Utsumi, a lanc? aujourd'hui une 
campagne mondiale de collecte de fonds 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/campaign.html> pour le financement des 
travaux pr?paratoires ? la phase de Tunis du Sommet mondial sur la 
soci?t? de l'information (SMSI). Dans un appel lanc? ? la communaut? 
internationale, il a exhort? toutes les parties prenantes ? contribuer 
au succ?s de cette campagne pour le SMSI 2005 et du Sommet proprement 
dit, qui se tiendra ? Tunis.

Cette campagne de collecte de fonds a pris un excellent d?part, le 
Gouvernement du Japon, en l'occurence le Minist?re de la gestion 
publique, des affaires int?rieures, des postes et des t?l?communications 
ayant annonc? qu'il contribuerait ? hauteur de 386 300 francs suisses 
(JPY 33 401 000) au Fonds pour le SMSI. En outre, les Gouvernements du 
Japon, de l'Espagne, du Canada, de la Suisse et la R?publique de Cor?e, 
ainsi que d'autres parties prenantes, dont l'UNESCO, KDDI Corporation et 
BHN Association (Japon), ont confirm? qu'ils d?tacheraient des 
sp?cialistes aupr?s du Secr?tariat ex?cutif du SMSI.

M. Utsumi a remerci? ces partenaires pour l'engagement sans faille dont 
ils font preuve envers le Sommet et a appel? les gouvernements et 
d'autres parties prenantes ? r?pondre g?n?reusement ? l'appel de fonds. 
"Il est essentiel d'apporter un appui tant financier qu'en nature ? la 
pr?paration de la phase de Tunis du Sommet, ? la r?duction de la 
fracture num?rique et ? l'?dification d'une soci?t? de l'information 
vraiment inclusive", a t il d?clar?.

"Le SMSI est enti?rement tributaire des contributions volontaires 
vers?es ? un fonds sp?cial cr?? par l'UIT", a indiqu? M. Utsumi. Le co?t 
estimatif de l'organisation de la phase de Tunis s'?l?ve ? quelque 15 
millions de francs suisses. Cette campagne vise ? recueillir au moins 5 
millions de francs suisses en esp?ces pour alimenter le Fonds pour le 
SMSI, le compl?ment devant ?tre financ? par un appui en nature fourni 
par divers partenaires.

La phase de Gen?ve du Sommet a abouti ? la conclusion d'un accord, au 
niveau mondial, relatif ? une D?claration de principes sur la soci?t? de 
l'information naissante et ? un Plan d'action visant ? mettre en oeuvre 
des mesures concr?tes pour que cette soci?t? devienne r?alit?. Dans le 
plan de pr?paration de la phase de Tunis et des activit?s ult?rieures, 
il est envisag? d'acc?l?rer la mise en oeuvre des objectifs de 
d?veloppement ?nonc?s dans la D?claration du Mill?naire des Nations 
Unies, qui tablent sur la g?n?ralisation de l'acc?s aux technologies de 
l'information et de la communication d'ici ? 2015.

La liste des contributions au Fonds pour le SMSI peut ?tre consult?e ici 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/contributors2.html>.

*Contact*
Telephone: +41 22 730 6373
Fax: +41 22 730 6393
E-mail: wsismedia@itu.int <mailto:wsismedia@itu.int>

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Call from Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi

The Geneva Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society 
culminated with a landmark gathering of participants from all sectors, 
including nearly * 50 Heads of State/Government and Vice Presidents * as 
well as other representatives from * 176 countries, international 
organizations, civil society and business*. The Summit established the 
foundations of the Information Society by enunciating a shared vision in 
a Declaration of Principles 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1161%7C0> to 
meet the global challenges of the new millennium along with a concrete 
Plan of Action 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1160%7C0>. 
Significantly, government leaders and their multi-stakeholder partners 
gave an impetus to harnessing the tremendous potential of ICTs to help 
bridge the digital divide and achieve the UN Millennium Development 
Goals, which include forming partnerships to make ICTs accessible to all 
by 2015.

World leaders will once again congregate in Tunis in 2005 to review the 
progress made on the WSIS Action Plan and to formulate an Agenda for the 
future. We now face the immediate challenge of implementing the Plan of 
Action and organizing the Tunis phase of the Summit. * This requires 
contribution of effort and support from all concerned*.

The UN General Assembly Resolution 56/183 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/background/resolutions/56_183_unga_2002.pdf> 
(21 December 2001) that endorsed the holding of the World Summit on the 
Information Society did not provide a specific funding mechanism for 
WSIS. Instead, it invited the international community to make * 
voluntary contributions to a special trust fund* established by ITU to 
support the Summit.

The Geneva Phase of the Summit was made possible thanks to generous 
financial contributions 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/contributors1.html> by different 
governments (including several developing countries) and various 
international organizations. Additional in-kind support was also 
critical in putting together the organizational arrangements. It is 
estimated that the Tunis phase of the Summit * will cost approximately 
** CHF 15 million* 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/financial-status2.html>, which does not 
include elements of the process supported by the host country, Tunisia. 
* I have set a goal of raising * * at least CHF 5 million* 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/contributors2.html> * in financial 
contributions* to fund preparatory activities for the Tunis phase with 
the expectation that the remainder can be supported through in-kind 
contributions from various partners.

As part of this comprehensive fundraising campaign, I have written to 
our various partners requesting contributions to support the process. I 
would like to emphasize that the need is urgent, indeed vital, for the 
organization of the Tunis Summit and its successful outcome.

*To support WSIS-2005 with your valuable contributions, please call +41 
22 730 6310 or send an email to wsis@itu.int, for the attention of Mr. 
Christopher Clark.*

*More information on how to contribute to WSIS-2005 Fundraising 
Campaign* 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1194%7C1195>

/Yoshio Utsumi
Secretary-General of ITU and Secretary-General of WSIS/

------------------------------------------------------------------------

*Quick links:*

    * Tunis Phase: Contributions ?
      <http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/contributors2.html>
    * Tunis Phase: Financial status ?
      <http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/financial-status2.html>
    * Geneva Phase: Contributions ?
      <http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/contributors1.html>
    * Geneva Phase: Financial status ?
      <http://www.itu.int/wsis/funding/financial-status1.html>



From Bruno.Oudet at imag.fr  Wed Apr  7 12:11:08 2004
From: Bruno.Oudet at imag.fr (Bruno OUDET)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] traduction du message de Ralf sur les ateliers avant la
 PrepCom de Tunis
Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20040407131011.027e3620@leibniz.imag.fr>

Bonjour ? tous,

L'id?e d'avoir un pre-prepcom de CS ? Tunis a ?t? ?galement discut? lors de 
la r?union r?cente de Voix Publique r?unissant  principalement des groupes 
nord-am?ricains ? New York, et ?galement ici en Allemagne lors de notre 
derni?re r?union f?d?rale de CS de la mi-mars.

Nous avons eu l'id?e de l'avoir non seulement d'offrir une introduction ? 
ceux  qui sont nouveaux  dans le  processus de SMSI, mais ?galement de 
tenir une s?rie d'ateliers pour le d?veloppement du savoir faire pour les 
personnes de CS qui ont ?t? impliqu?es et actifs pr?cedemment.

  Comme cela a ?t? dit, la phase deux sera plus complexe, aussi nous devons 
?tre plus efficaces dans notre utilisation des ressources rares comme le 
temps, l'argent, la capacit? d'attention.  Et nous devrons tenir compte de 
la situation sp?ciale en Tunisie, o? le trafic d'Internet est surveill? et 
les sites de droits de l'homme bloqu?s.

Une liste pr?liminaire d'ateliers que nous en Allemagne (avec l'aide de 
Robert) inclut les ateliers suivants.  Nous avons d?j? 
list?es  certaines  personnes qui pourraient aider ? les organiser, m?me si 
nous n'avons pas demander leur avis ? certains d'entre eux.  De plus nous 
n'avons aucune id?e sur qui pourra venir en Tunisie ? la PrepCom.

-       infrastructures s?curis?es et libres de communication (Robert 
Guerra, club d'ordinateur de chaos de  Berlin, Alvar Freude/Odem.org)

-       instruments juridiques l?gaux des droits de l'homme (Rikke 
J?rgensen/ Caucus des droits de l'homme, et invitation ?galement  de 
quelqu'un de la ligue des droits tunisienne des droits de l'homme)

-       savoir faire et techniques de mod?ration et de discussion ( Heiner 
Benking/Open Forum Berlin)

-       sites webs  et outils en ligne de collaboration (Robert Guerra, 
Derrick Cogburn)

-       travail de presse/strat?gie (m?dias Caucus?)

-       phase une du SMSI et sommets pass?s  de l'ONU:  exp?riences du 
processus/ modalit?s/ r?gles de proc?dure pour la participation d'ONG., 
aussi:  le?ons apprises (Renate Bloem, Wolfgang Kleinw?chter, associations 
de l'cOnu?)

-       Savoir faire  de n?gociation et de "diplomatie" pour faire du lobby 
et interagir avec des gouvernements et des membres de d?l?gations

-        et autres ateliers jug?s utiles que des personnes sont dispos?es ? 
organiser.

L'id?e g?n?rale est d'avoir un ensemble d' ateliers en  parall?le dans 
lequel on pourra choisir..  Il devrait ?galement y avoir un certain temps 
pour le caucus et les r?unions pl?ni?res, o? les discussions politiques 
peuvent se d?rouler.  Naturellement il serait bon de combiner ceci avec une 
session d'introduction le matin du premier jour (23 juin).

  Ainsi:  Si nous pouvons obtenir 4-5 des salles pour les groupes de 
travail pour les deux jours et une grande pour la session pl?ni?re chaque 
soir?e, ceci devrait marcher et une grande contribution au processus global.

Cordialement

Ralf



From christine.wenzel at web.de  Wed Apr  7 13:34:36 2004
From: christine.wenzel at web.de (Christine Wenzel)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] campagne mondiale de collecte de fonds
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From rikp at earthlink.net  Wed Apr  7 16:55:40 2004
From: rikp at earthlink.net (rikp@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] dates of 1st prepcom confirmed: 24-26 June, Hammamet, Tunisia
Message-ID: <18174960.1081353340791.JavaMail.root@huey.psp.pas.earthlink.net>

Dear colleagues,

The dates and place of the 1st WSIS-Tunis preparatory meeting have been confirmed: 24-26 June in Hammamet, Tunisia.

Les dates et le lieux de la premiere reunion preparatoire de le SMSI-Tunis sont confirm??s: 24-26 Juin en Hammamet, Tunisie.



>From the official WSIS Website / De la site officiale de le SMSI:

http://www.itu.int/wsis/preparatory2/hammamet/index.html

"A Preparatory Meeting for the Tunis phase of the Summit will take place at  Hammamet, Tunisia, from 24-26 June 2004. An invitation letter will be sent out  end of April and pre-registration will start in May 2004. More information regarding this meeting will be  available soon.

"Fellowships. Thanks to donations from Governments (at the actual stage Switzerland and Finland), a certain number of fellowships are available for Government representatives from  LDCs (in principle one fellowship per LDC) for the Preparatory meeting at Hammamet, Tunisia, from 24 to 26 June 2004. For more information please check the  guidelines  and the request  form or contact the  Executive Secretariat. Note: the deadline to submit fellowship applications  for the Preparatory Meeting is 12 May 2004."

- Rik Panganiban, CONGO

===============================================
RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator

Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) 
web: http://www.ngocongo.org
email: rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org
mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524

From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Wed Apr  7 18:33:52 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Suggestion for WSIS-CSSection On-line Online Org/HR/Resources database for CS co-ordination
In-Reply-To: <20040407080944.24358.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040407173352.61247.qmail@web21323.mail.yahoo.com>

great idea ! Amali

djilali benamrane <dbenamrane@yahoo.com> wrote:
En français, des porpositions d'appui financier si
cela peut profiter à la SC du Sud...

Amali, may i propose to allocate some resources to the
translation?
Thanks for the information, i forward it lirectly in
English to Franch speaking lists in Africa...
All the best
Djilali
--- Amali De Silva wrote:
> Dear All:
> 
> As there is no funding available at the moment I
> wish to suggest the setting up of the following
> database to maximize our existing potential.
> 
> Suggestion: WSIS - CS Section On-line
> Org/HR/Resources database for CS co-ordination
> 
> This will be a compilation of CS organizations
> willing to donate:
> 
> Facilities - space for meetings at key locations
> ( Geneva, NY, Asian location, NA location , LA

From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Wed Apr  7 18:33:52 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Suggestion for WSIS-CSSection On-line Online Org/HR/Resources database for CS co-ordination
In-Reply-To: <20040407080944.24358.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040407173352.61247.qmail@web21323.mail.yahoo.com>

great idea ! Amali

djilali benamrane <dbenamrane@yahoo.com> wrote:
En français, des porpositions d'appui financier si
cela peut profiter à la SC du Sud...

Amali, may i propose to allocate some resources to the
translation?
Thanks for the information, i forward it lirectly in
English to Franch speaking lists in Africa...
All the best
Djilali
--- Amali De Silva wrote:
> Dear All:
> 
> As there is no funding available at the moment I
> wish to suggest the setting up of the following
> database to maximize our existing potential.
> 
> Suggestion: WSIS - CS Section On-line
> Org/HR/Resources database for CS co-ordination
> 
> This will be a compilation of CS organizations
> willing to donate:
> 
> Facilities - space for meetings at key locations
> ( Geneva, NY, Asian location, NA location , LA
> location etc)
> Human hours ( dedicated e.g. 10 hs /wk) to write
> / research / administer / co-ordinate advocacy
> groups etc 
> Printing facilities for documents - locally ( for
> Tunis as well )
> Funds through national / international
> partnerships to support southern organizations with
> their internet connectivity requirements ( e.g. X
> North.org pledges US$ 800.00 for a 18 month period
> to support the internet service connectivity for X
> South.org ) Re: public engagement - local and
> international level
> On-line facility to store all relevant documents
> ( e.g.webGui ? ) for access by all
> Event site listing all CS-WSIS activites taking
> place around the globe - supporters of open source /
> freeware I am sure you can come up with something to
> prove the point for the need for such tools in
> society
> 
> Could UN / On-line Volunteers help us out with
> setting this up and the co-ordination process ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Amali De Silva - Mitchell
> 
> President Vancouver Community Network ( Canada )
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Amali De Silva-Mitchell
> BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE
> 
> Tel: 1-604-736-9012 & Email: amalidesilva@yahoo.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


=====
Djilali Benamrane : dbenamrane@yahoo.com
Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
Page web sur l'Afrique et la globalisation : http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/
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From: mauric75 at adinet.com.uy (Mauricio de los Santos)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Indigenous Women in the Information Society
Message-ID: <001b01c41cf1$70347a80$1201a8c0@ladrillo>

Indigenous Women in the Information Society

Around 300 women are participating of the IV Continental Encounter of Indigenous Women, which is currently taking place in Lima. Different ways of dominating communication, which exclude people and specially women, are being discussed during the encounter.

Delegates of different communication experiences discussed about the huge difficulties to call the traditional media's attention regarding indigenous realities, leaving discriminatory stereotypes aside.

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From duhamic at rwanda1.com  Thu Apr  8 06:33:59 2004
From: duhamic at rwanda1.com (DUHAMIC-ADRI)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] reunion de societe civile en Tunis 22-23 Juin?
References: <6811279.1081274376039.JavaMail.root@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <00b101c41d2b$1982fab0$b900a8c0@Executif>

Merci beaucoup pour ces informations

Benineza Innocent
Secr?taire Ex?cutif de DUHAMIC ADRI
KIGALI RWANDA
----- Original Message -----
From: <rikp@earthlink.net>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 7:59 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] reunion de societe civile en Tunis 22-23 Juin?


[Here are my main points in bad French]

Juste les grandes questions en Fran??ais:

* La premiere prepcom de le SMSI-Tunsi sera 24-26 Juin en Tunis

* Donc, je demande si on doit organiser des reunions de societe civile juste
avant les reuniones officiales

* Si oui, on doit communiquer avec le secretariat Tunisien sur les espaces,
les ordinateurs, et les autres choses logistiques.

* Je pense que nous avons besoin d'un session d'orientation pour les
participants nouvelles pour expliquer les structures, les initiatives, les
groupes de travail, et la histoire jusqu'a Geneve 2003.

* Peut-etre les caucuses et les groupes de travail pouvaient organiser des
autres reuniones sur ses sujets.

* Et le bureau et la groupe de Content and Themes doit reunir

* En fin, je pense que nous avons besoins de un jour au moins, ou mieux deux
jours.

* Les groupes nouvelles de le proces de SMSI ont besoin de commander par fax
ou poste l'accreditation officiale SIX SEMAINES avant la reunion.  Donc,
environ la premiere semaine de Mai.  Les organizations accredit??s pour le
SMSI-Geneve sont aussi accredit??s pour le SMSI-Tunis.

Desol?? pour mon fran??ais horrible.

Rik Panganiban
==========================


From:   rikp@earthlink.net
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?
Date: 5 avril 2004 11:17:07 GMT-04:00
To:   plenary@wsis-cs.org
Reply-To:   plenary@wsis-cs.org

Dear Colleagues,

Given that the first official preparatory meeting for the Tunis Phase of the
WSIS will likely be June 24-26 June in Tunis, do people feel that it would
be helpful to convene civil society meetings prior to the official meetings?
If so, we should be approaching the Tunis secretariat about making
arrangements for CS meeting spaces, computers and other logistical
arrangements.

Since the first preparatory meeting is taking place in Africa, it is likely
that we may have a number of new participants at this meeting than during
the Geneva phase.  I would propose that we organize at least a CS
orientation session for a couple of hours scheduled in order to explain and
discuss the various CS structures, intiatives, working groups, caucuses, and
history up to Geneva 2003.  Breakout sessions organized by caucuses and
working groups could be scheduled.  And Content and Themes and the Bureau
should have times to meet.  I personally think we need at least one full day
to do this, ideally two.

Note that for new participants in the Tunis Phase, new requests for
accreditation have to be received via fax or post to the WSIS secretariat at
least SIX WEEKS prior to the meeting, which in this case would be the 1st
week of May.  So if you know of groups who would like to participate, please
inform them NOW, so they can make get accredited, coordinate calendars,
raise funds, get board approval, etc.  Groups already accredited during the
Geneva Phase are still accredited in this phase.

In general, I would like to avoid what happened in previous prepcoms, where
we spent too much time debating with each other when we could have been
lobbying governments or engaging with private sector groups.  In June, given
the limited time of the prepcom, we need to use the official meeting times
as efficiently and wisely as possible.

Regards,

Rik Panganiban
CONGO


===============================================
RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator

Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations
(CONGO)
web: http://www.ngocongo.org
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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Thu Apr  8 07:00:29 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CFP Conference
Message-ID: <20040408060029.78167.qmail@web21324.mail.yahoo.com>

Please could those governance caucus / privacy specialists attending the CFP Conference in California in 2 weeks please share their thoughts with the list, if possible ? There is a section devoted to WSIS.
 
Thank you,
 
Amali



Amali De Silva-Mitchell  AAT,BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE

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From raoul.weiler at skynet.be  Thu Apr  8 08:31:16 2004
From: raoul.weiler at skynet.be (Raoul Weiler)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CFP Conference
References: <20040408060029.78167.qmail@web21324.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <006d01c41d3b$7d3619b0$0b01a8c0@computer03>

Hello,

Could you tell where and when this takes in California?

I will be in the San Francisco area from next week on.

Many thanks,  

Raoul Weiler
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Amali De Silva 
  To: plenary@wsis-cs.org 
  Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:00 AM
  Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CFP Conference


  Please could those governance caucus / privacy specialists attending the CFP Conference in California in 2 weeks please share their thoughts with the list, if possible ? There is a section devoted to WSIS.

  Thank you,

  Amali



  Amali De Silva-Mitchell  AAT,BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE

  Tel: 1-604-736-9012 & Email: amalidesilva@yahoo.com






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From Bruno.Salgues at int-evry.fr  Thu Apr  8 13:47:52 2004
From: Bruno.Salgues at int-evry.fr (Bruno Salgues)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] cooperation possibility
Message-ID: <OOELJGPMOCPCNCFPELCMCEPCCAAA.Bruno.Salgues@int-evry.fr>

Possibility of co-operation with French Institution.

Laboratory CRITIC
Seek foreign researchers resulting from the following countries:

Arm?nie, Azerba?djan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Moldavie,
Tadjikistan, Turkm?nistan and Ouzb?kistan.

The research topics are:

-     Digital divide (economic and politic approach)
- Sciences, technology and Society only in technology of Information and
communication
- Waste in Technology of Information and communication and ecological
product design
- Real market development and specific product for low developed countries.

It can be obtained financing in the conditions following

-  to be old of less than 35 years
- to be citizen of a country of the list   or to be resident permanent
there.

Language can be English or German, but some knowledge of French is waiting
(It is not necessary to speak or to be fluent in French, but you must be
able to live in French and know ?basic French for live?)

1) Doctoral  Exchanges

It is obligatorily necessary to be registered in thesis (PHD or equivalent)
in a scientific institution of this contry and to have at least two more
years to carry out.  The duration of the purse is  two years.  The total
duration of the stays abroad must lie between 4 and 8 months during the 2
years of purse.

Granted maximum amount:  16.400 euros over two years.

2) Post-doctoral Exchanges:

To be of a raised scientific level and to have published at least three
scientific articles.

The duration of the purse is  two years.  Granted maximum amount:  20.400
euros over two years

About CRITIC and INT

Critic is one of laboratory of INT (Institut National des
Telecommunications)
www.int-evry.fr
www.salgues.com/critic.htm

Contact:

Bruno SALGUES
Laboratoire CRITIC
Institut National des T?l?communications
9 rue Charles Fourier
91000 EVRY
France

Mail : Bruno.salgues@int-evry.fr
Fax : 00 33 1 60 76 43 83


Please, send a curriculum vitae and a letter of intent.


From wellings at epic.org  Thu Apr  8 15:16:35 2004
From: wellings at epic.org (Frannie Wellings)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] letter from UN ICT TF to Forum participants
Message-ID: <p06001f2ebc9b0e2aacdf@[192.168.1.62]>

United Nations Nations Unies
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TASK FORCE
SECRETARIAT
Room DC1-1464, One UN Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (1-212) 963-5796 Fax: (1-917) 367-4340 or ((1-212) 963-2812
e-mail address: icttaskforce@un.org Website address: www.unicttaskforce.org


6 April 2004

Dear Global Forum Participant,

On behalf of the United Nations Information and 
Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force, we
would like to extend our deep appreciation for 
your valuable contribution to the Global Forum on 
Internet Governance. More than 300 participants - 
Task Force members, leaders of the Internet 
community, government officials and 
representatives of the private sector, civil 
society and academia - engaged in an open and 
inclusive dialogue, sharing their perspectives, 
concerns and vision for the Information Society 
of the future.

The feedback that we received from many 
participants indicates broad satisfaction with 
the Forum as a useful and productive event. The 
discussions were free and open and there was 
respect for the diversity of views expressed by 
various stakeholders. There was also genuine 
dialogue and a willingness to find common ground 
and areas of agreement, in order to move forward 
on this difficult issue. The Forum, thus, 
provided an important opportunity to enhance our 
understanding of the many issues that fall under 
the rubric of Internet governance, to clarify the 
positions of the many stakeholder groups and to 
discover and broaden common ground among them.

We detected broad support for a number of 
baseline principles that should guide the 
evolution of
governance arrangements. Some issues were also 
identified on which international cooperation is 
required and there was general recognition of the 
need for effective participation of developing 
countries and civil society in governance 
arrangements. The Task Force was asked to 
undertake several tasks, including 
capacity-building and education and 
awareness-raising. It was also requested to 
develop a matrix of the current status of 
governance of non-technical issues.

We would like to assure you that all statements 
and interventions during the Plenary sessions and 
the
thematic break-out discussions were carefully 
noted and the full range of views expressed will 
be reflected in the summaries of the proceedings. 
The Forum will constitute an important 
contribution to the Secretary-General's 
consultations on Internet governance, leading up 
to the formation of a Working Group on the 
subject.

The UN ICT Task Force intends to continue to 
contribute to the consultation process, including
through its regional networks, to ensure that the 
overall outcome preserves the freedom, openness, 
security and stability of the Internet and, as 
the Secretary-General urged in his opening 
statement, makes the medium "accessible and 
responsive to the needs of all the world's 
people".

We encourage you to remain engaged in this 
process and to continue to build on a good 
beginning to
ensure that the Internet remains a vital, dynamic 
medium for promoting human development.

With our best regards.

Jos?-Maria Figueres-Olsen
Chairman

Sarbuland Khan
Executive Coordinator
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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Thu Apr  8 16:48:07 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re:[WSIS CS-Plenary]CFPComputers, Freedom and Privacy Conference
In-Reply-To: <006d01c41d3b$7d3619b0$0b01a8c0@computer03>
Message-ID: <20040408154807.74887.qmail@web21321.mail.yahoo.com>

The link is http://cfp2004.org/
 
The Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference is April 20-23, 2004 at the Claremont Resort and Spa, Berkeley CA.
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell

Raoul Weiler <raoul.weiler@skynet.be> wrote:
Hello,
 
Could you tell where and when this takes in California?
 
I will be in the San Francisco area from next week on.
 
Many thanks,  
 
Raoul Weiler
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Amali De Silva 
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:00 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CFP Conference


Please could those governance caucus / privacy specialists attending the CFP Conference in California in 2 weeks please share their thoughts with the list, if possible ? There is a section devoted to WSIS.
 
Thank you,
 
Amali



Amali De Silva-Mitchell  AAT,BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE

Tel: 1-604-736-9012 & Email: amalidesilva@yahoo.com

 

 

 










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From karenb at gn.apc.org  Fri Apr  9 13:15:55 2004
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CFP Conference
In-Reply-To: <20040408060029.78167.qmail@web21324.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20040409131429.021ce1d8@pop.gn.apc.org>

hi amali

Rikke, Ralf and myself submitted a proposal to CFP for a WSIS panel some 
months back. It has been a long process but ulimately unsuccessful for us. 
As you note, there will be a panel on WSIS (which was proposed subsequently 
to ours) but i don't believe any of us will be able to attend due to lack 
of funding.

karen


From rguerra at cpsr.org  Sat Apr 10 18:48:21 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Virtual Collaboration Group Update - April 2004
Message-ID: <p0610051cbc9de2b6e953@[192.168.0.56]>

Virtual Collaboration Group Update - April 2004
--------------------------------------------------

(1) Working group URL is  - http://cms.privaterra.org/WSIS_WG_Virtual
- The Wiki software has been updated - should resolve some of the 
issues people where having in accessing and viewing the site.

(2) The Latin American caucus has drafted a formal letter which they 
have asked to be circulated for endorsement by CS members and working 
groups.

The civil society organization: Latin American and Caribbean Caucus, 
an active participant in the WSIS process, has followed the 
discussion on the use of different platform options for collaborative 
interaction and joint efforts online. In consonance with our will to 
build an inclusive and democratic information society we want the 
communications options within the framework of this process to be the 
most simple, accessible and open possible...... [continued]

English translation - 
http://cms.privaterra.org/WGV_Comments_200403_la_caucus_en
Spanish original - http://cms.privaterra.org/WGV_Comments_200403_la_caucus_es

If you would like to endorse the letter please either add your name 
and info the the wiki and/or send your info to Beatriz Busaniche 
(busaniche@caminandoutopias.org.ar) - who will add your info to the 
list of signatories.

help and/or volunteers are requested to translate the letter into 
French and Arabic. Please contact Beatriz for further details.


(3) The mailing list setup for the working group has been moved from 
a personal server to one at an academic institution - where support 
and bandwidth is more readibly available. Existing subscribers have 
been transferred over, and the wiki page has been updated accordingly.

New mailing list URL -  http://lists.si.umich.edu/mailman/listinfo/wsis-virtual


regards

Robert

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Robert Guerra <rguerra@privaterra.org>
Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>

From rguerra at cpsr.org  Sat Apr 10 19:44:15 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Phase II - Comments - ideas for discussion..
Message-ID: <p0610051bbc9dde68e6dd@[192.168.0.56]>

Note: This is long message which i've written before taking my 
morning coffee. Please see these comments as my personal opinion. My 
purpose is to suggest a more focused and strategic discussion on this 
list.

The creation of the virtual participation group generated a great 
deal of discussion. My purpose here isn't to get into details, but 
more share my personal observations how that relates to the larger 
discussion at hand - that of this list and it's role in planning, 
sharing, and observation of the WSIS process.

1. The creation of the Virtual Working group did indeed generate a 
great deal of discussion. So much so, that  the latin american and 
Caribbean caucus  drafted a formal protest note and opened it up to 
signatories!

2. One has to be careful - that it is easy to get sidetracked, 
distracted in a way from the larger issues at hand.

A case in point - In the discussion related to open source (F/OSS) 
and the virtual participation group, I feel the original focus/idea 
was lost. Which was (and is) to bring together a group of people, of 
organizations who are interested in learning, researching, and yes 
collaborating to know what tools are out "there" to improve the way 
we "virtually" collaborate.

I had hoped people could recommend concrete F/OSS tools (such as 
Gnomemeeting, and others) which exist and/or are being developed - 
but that didn't happen. So if you know of a tool which allows for 
virtual meetings to occur (using text, voice, video and/or 
application sharing) - then , pretty please - send me a private note 
about it so that I can add it to the list being maintained on the 
Working Group Wiki.


3. Throughout the WSIS process Civil Society (those on this list 
included) talked about key values which must be followed - values of:

* Transparency
* Openness
* Inclusion (which can said to include honest and true collaboration)

but, have those values been followed on this very list? Have people, 
organizations and the working groups been as open, transparent and 
inclusive as possible?

As i'm mentioned (now on numerous occasions) , I am very worried 
about the lack of substance being discussed on  the CS lists. For 
example

(a) where is the discussion and debate about Phase I? What reports 
have been written? where are they available, and in what languages 
are they available?
    (for example, what do people think about Anriette Esterhuysen's 
recent paper?)

(b) Viola Krebs and I raised at the March informal meeting some very 
key concerns about the CS bureau, its norms and ideas on how to go 
forward. These points were articulated in the report Viola circulated 
- however, no comments to-date? Do people not care? or have they not 
even seen the report?

if you haven't  - it's here - 
http://cms.privaterra.org/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=47


(c) OpenWSIS - increasingly it's getting a higher profile and 
Bertrand de la Chappell is getting funding from the Swiss and others 
to move it forward. But do we know what what it's mission is? Is it 
just a space for discussion, or is it shaping up to be the new 
platform for funding and participation for WSIS?

is openwsis really open - or the efforts of a few to advance a 
specific non-open agenda? I honestly don't know, and would like to 
hear from Bertrand and others as to what's going on.

(d) List Overload - Too many lists, too little real content

Might i propose an idea - that working groups that are active 
regularly send in a short report to the plenary list on their 
activities, accomplishments and upcoming meetings.Say, would sending 
in a month report be something feasible to do?

(e) Funding - gone...?

Another topic that i'm amazed isn't being discussed here is the one 
of funding. I mean, we have no funding, the CS secretariat is no 
longer, and there is no coordinated efforts (yet) underway to 
facilitate and coordinate CS participation.

Do people care? Even though we all in a way compete for funding, 
would it not make sense - to try to collaborate to find the funding, 
the resources  and partners so that CS can participate in the 
upcoming PrepCom and variety of regional and thematic meetings being 
planned in the months ahead.

(f) next steps - planning ahead

Might we want to start a discussion, in the open, and in a 
transparent fashion of  what strategy, plans, timelines and #$%^&# we 
want to do between now and Nov 2005.

We need, we must take this seriously  as if not, we can easily get 
distracted - and miss the "boat"

- Well, i now have my coffee - which i desperately need..so i'll stop 
and await comments from everyone on the points i've raised above.


regards

Robert



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Robert Guerra <rguerra@privaterra.org>
Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>

From veni at veni.com  Sat Apr 10 21:39:58 2004
From: veni at veni.com (veni markovski)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Phase II - Comments - ideas for
  discussion..
In-Reply-To: <p0610051bbc9dde68e6dd@[192.168.0.56]>
References: <p0610051bbc9dde68e6dd@[192.168.0.56]>
Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.2.20040410233743.02d1acb0@198.111.183.129>

>(e) Funding - gone...?

Robert, if we can't organize some, the CS will not be able to participate 
in Tunis.

>Another topic that i'm amazed isn't being discussed here is the one of 
>funding. I mean, we have no funding, the CS secretariat is no longer, and 
>there is no coordinated efforts (yet) underway to facilitate and 
>coordinate CS participation.

Not only that, there is already funding for participation of governmental 
representatives from the least developed countries (sic!), but none for the 
CS from the same countries!!?

>Do people care? Even though we all in a way compete for funding, would it 
>not make sense - to try to collaborate to find the funding, the 
>resources  and partners so that CS can participate in the upcoming PrepCom 
>and variety of regional and thematic meetings being planned in the months 
>ahead.

Yes, it does. I believe that the requests for funding should be going from 
the CS Plenary / CS Secretariat and use the same formulae like the PrepComs 
in Geneva/Paris/Bucharest.

veni 


From rguerra at cpsr.org  Sat Apr 10 21:45:16 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Phase II - Comments - ideas for  
 discussion..
Message-ID: <p06100525bc9e0d52e5cd@[192.168.0.56]>

>
>>Do people care? Even though we all in a way compete for funding, 
>>would it not make sense - to try to collaborate to find the 
>>funding, the resources  and partners so that CS can participate in 
>>the upcoming PrepCom and variety of regional and thematic meetings 
>>being planned in the months ahead.
>
>Yes, it does. I believe that the requests for funding should be 
>going from the CS Plenary / CS Secretariat and use the same formulae 
>like the PrepComs in Geneva/Paris/Bucharest.

btw.  there is no cs secretariat anymore . cs plenary is much more 
diffuse group. which is why i sent the challenge - let's see what 
comes as a result
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Robert Guerra <rguerra@privaterra.org>
Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>

From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Mon Apr 12 13:33:46 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June and preparing suggestions
References: <20040406160651.82051.qmail@web21321.mail.yahoo.com> <4072E230.609526C9@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <013601c4208a$66e3d740$0a00000a@default>

En francais ci-dessous

Hello Ralf (sorry it isn't in your mother language which is much easier,
even for me)
... and all

I fully support Ralf's ideas and suggestions;
I'd just ask to add one working group (WG) dealing with "ICT Access,
Infrastructure, and Financing in DCs". Because as everybody should know,
these crucial issues for "bridging the digital divide" have failed to reach
an agreement during WSIS phase 1, and a special working group under the
auspices of the UN is supposed to be in charge of submitting its concrette
proposals to Summit 2 at Tunis.
As you also know, I volunteer to contribute for setting up this CS WG as
"Focal, both as Focal person" of CS C&T group for "Access and
Infrastructure", and since I intervened during PrepCom-3 on behalf of C&T in
the Informal intergouvernmental Working Group on Financing.
Unfortunately I'm also an active member of International Solar Energy
Society and our annual congress and exhibition will take place at Freiburg
from 20th  to 23rd of June. Furthermore, I don't believe that my
organization will be able to finance my trip to Tunis. So I'll be condemned
to contribute by e-mail and to "partipate virtually" to the Tunis
meeting(s), as will be many of our CS friends .
Therefore I'd strongly support the idea of convening the "European Caucus",
which was (theoretically) set up before Summit 1, somewhere in Western
(continental) Europe. This could be an actual "european prepcom" paving the
way of the Tunis PrepCom, alltogether allowing the most european CS
organizations to participate actively in the WSIS second phase process.
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France

Bonjour Ralf
(dommage que ce ne soit pas dans ta langue maternelle qui serait plus
facile, meme pour moi)
... et tous
Je soutiens entierement les idees et suggestions de Ralf.
J'aimerais simplement y ajouter un groupe de travail (GT) traitant de
"Acces, Infrastructure et Financement des TIC dans les PeD". Parce que comme
chacun devrait le savoir, ces problemes cruciaux pour "Reduire le fosse
numerique" n'ont pas reussi a aboutir ? un accord general pendant la 1ere
phase du SMSI et un groupe de travail specialise a ete mis en place sous les
auspices des Nations Unies qui est en principe charge de soumettre ses
propositions concretes au Sommet de Tunis. . Comme vous le savez aussi, je
suis volontaire pour contribuer a mettre en place ce GT de la SC, a la fois
en tant que "Personne focale" du GT Contenus & Themes" (C&T) de la SC et
parce que je suis intervenu au nom de ce groupe C&T dans le Groupe de
travail informel intergouvernemental sur les questions de financement lors
de PrepCom-3.
Malheureusement je suis aussi membre actif de l'International Solar Energy
Society qui tient son assemblee annuelle et son exposition du 20 au 23 juin.
Par ailleurs je ne crois pas que mon organisation puisse me payer le voyage
a Tunis. Je serai donc condammne a contribuer par courriel et a "participer
virtuellement" aux reunions de Tunis, comme un grand nombre d'amis de la SC.
C'est pourquoi je soutiens avec force l'idee de d'organiser une reunion du
"Caucus europeen", qui avait ete (theoriquement) constitue avant le Sommet
de Geneve, quelque part en Europe de l'Ouest (continentale). Elle pourrait
etre un veritable prepcom europeen et ouvrir la voie pour le PerpCom de
Tunis, tout en permettant a la plupart des organisations de la SC europeenne
de participer activement au processus de la 2eme phase du SMSI.
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralf Bendrath" <bendrath@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Cc: <translation@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?


> To the translation team: Can we get a translation of Rik's and this
> message? I neither speak Spanish nor French... Thanks!
>
> Hi all,
>
> the idea of having a CS pre-prepcom in Tunis was also discussed at the
> recent Public Voice meeting of mainly North American groups in New York,
> and also here in Germany at our last federal CS meeting in mid-March.
>
> We had the idea to not only have it as an introduction for the ones who
> are new to the WSIS process, but also as a collection of workshops for
> capacity building especially for CS people who have been involved and
> active before. As has been said, phase two will be more complex, so we
> need to be more efficient in our use of scarce resources like time,
> money, attention span etc. And we will have to take into account the
> special situation in Tunisia, where internet traffic is monitored and
> human rights websites are blocked.
>
> A preliminary list that we in Germany (with help fom Robert) developled
> included the following workshops. We already listed some people who
> might help organizing them, though some have not been asked yet and we
> have no idea who will be able to come to Tunisia then.
>
> - secure and free communication infrastructures (Robert Guerra, Chaos
> Computer Club Berlin, Alvar Freude/Odem.org)
>
> - human rights legal instruments (Rikke Frank J?rgensen/Human Rights
> Caucus, also invite someone from Tunisian Human Righs League)
>
> - moderation and discussion skills / techniques (Heiner Benking/Open
> Forum, Berlin)
>
> - websites and online collaboration tools (Robert Guerra, Derrick
> Cogburn)
>
> - press work / strategy (Media Caucus?)
>
> - WSIS phase one and past UN summits: process experiences / modalities /
> rules of procedure for NGO participation, also: lessons learned
> (Renate Bloem, Wolfgang Kleinw?chter, UN Associations?)
>
> - Negotiation and "diplomacy" skills for lobbying / interaction with
> governments / delegation members)
>
> - ... and whatever people find useful and are willing to organize.
>
> The general idea is to have a pool of parallel workshops people can pick
> from. There should also be some time for caucus and plenary meetings,
> where the political discussions can take place. Of course it would be
> good to combine this with an introduction session on the moring of the
> first day (23 June).
>
> So: If we can get 4-5 working group rooms for the two days and a big one
> for plenary every evening, it should work and would be a great
> contribution to the overall process.
>
> Best, Ralf
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


From rguerra at cpsr.org  Mon Apr 12 14:27:27 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS CS meeting in Europe
Message-ID: <p06100514bca049bb9411@[192.168.0.55]>

Jean-Louis:

I am not sure if it has been mentioned in this list yet (i think Ralf 
mentioned it an earlier posting..), but there is work underway  for a 
European CS meeting on June 13th, right after the "Wizards of Civil 
Society" conference in Berlin.
http://www.wizards-of-os.org/








At 2:33 PM +0200 4/12/04, Fullsack Jean-Louis wrote:
>Therefore I'd strongly support the idea of convening the "European Caucus",
>which was (theoretically) set up before Summit 1, somewhere in Western
>(continental) Europe. This could be an actual "european prepcom" paving the
>way of the Tunis PrepCom, alltogether allowing the most european CS
>organizations to participate actively in the WSIS second phase process.
>Jean-Louis Fullsack
>CSDPTT-France


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Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>

From markus at nnm-ev.de  Mon Apr 12 15:01:19 2004
From: markus at nnm-ev.de (Markus Beckedahl)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS CS meeting in Europe
In-Reply-To: <p06100514bca049bb9411@[192.168.0.55]>
References: <p06100514bca049bb9411@[192.168.0.55]>
Message-ID: <3184.62.134.109.31.1081778479.squirrel@www.werk21system.de>

hi,

> I am not sure if it has been mentioned in this list yet (i think Ralf
> mentioned it an earlier posting..), but there is work underway  for a
> European CS meeting on June 13th, right after the "Wizards of Civil
> Society" conference in Berlin.
> http://www.wizards-of-os.org/

it?s the "wizards of os 3", not "wizards of cs". :)

but yes, it?s true, an european-north american caucus meeting is planned
for sunday, 13th, right after the wos3.

ciao,
markus


--
Netzwerk Neue Medien e.V.
http://www.nnm-ev.de



From busaniche at caminandoutopias.org.ar  Mon Apr 12 16:10:57 2004
From: busaniche at caminandoutopias.org.ar (Beatriz Busaniche)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Settimana delle =?ISO-8859-1?Q?libert=E0?= nell'era digitale
Message-ID: <1081782656.2667.16.camel@linux.local>

(Sorry for the crossposting)

This is a very interesting event organiced by Hipatia and FSF Europe. I would
like to invite you to join it in Italy next week.

Regards
Beatriz




Con Hipatia y la FSF-Europa estamos organizando la Semana de la
Libertad. 

http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/83402/1
--------------------------------
Dal 17-22 aprile: settimana delle libert? nell'era digitale
da fsfeurope.org

La settimana delle libert? consiste in una serie di conferenze e
workshop
itineranti sul tema della libert? della conoscenza. In ogni citt?
saranno
organizzati eventi di vario tipo che affronteranno una serie di filoni
tematici: libert? e tecnologia, libert? ed arte, libert? e diritto,
libert? ed
educazione.

Partecipano rappresentanti di organizzazioni internazionali tra cui:

* Richard Stallmann, USA, fondatore del progetto GNU e della
  Free Software Foundation, programmatore

* Sergio Amadeu, brasiliano, Direttore-Presidente dell'Instituto
Nacional de 
  Tecnologia da Informacao del Governo Brasiliano. Promotore dei
Telecentros    
  brasiliani

* Diego Saravia, argentino, Universit? Nazionale di Salta. Creatore
della
  prima distribuzione Argentina di GNU/Linux. Membro di Hipatia.

La settimana delle libert? ? promossa ed organizzata da Hipatia e Free
Software Foundation Europe.

Date previste, durante Aprile 2004

* 17-18 Siena
* 19 Firenze
* 20 Milano
* 21 Torino
* 22 Roma

Il programma completo degli eventi sar? pubblicato sui siti ufficiali:

http://liberamente.hipatia.info/
http://liberamente.fsfeurope.org/

Per maggiori informazioni contattare l'Ufficio Stampa della FSF Europe:

italy@press.fsfeurope.org

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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Mon Apr 12 18:29:40 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS CS meeting in Europe
In-Reply-To: <3184.62.134.109.31.1081778479.squirrel@www.werk21system.de>
Message-ID: <20040412172940.13987.qmail@web21326.mail.yahoo.com>

Not wizard of oz I think, so - is it  "o s" for open source only ? 
 
What are the themes and issues you are planning on covering ? 
 
Also, please could you be transparent and post date /  time / venue and who should be rsvped by those attending ?
 
thank you for the initiative !
 
Amali

Markus Beckedahl <markus@nnm-ev.de> wrote:
hi,

> I am not sure if it has been mentioned in this list yet (i think Ralf
> mentioned it an earlier posting..), but there is work underway for a
> European CS meeting on June 13th, right after the "Wizards of Civil
> Society" conference in Berlin.
> http://www.wizards-of-os.org/

it´s the "wizards of os 3", not "wizards of cs". :)

but yes, it´s true, an european-north american caucus meeting is planned
for sunday, 13th, right after the wos3.

ciao,
markus


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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Mon Apr 12 18:37:52 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS CS meeting in Europe
In-Reply-To: <20040412172940.13987.qmail@web21326.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040412173752.65630.qmail@web21323.mail.yahoo.com>

Grateful if you could post relevant information in the run-up and during /post meeting to the North American Caucus list:
 
n_america@wsis-cs.org 

Thank you!

Amali De Silva - Mitchell

President Vancouver Community Network, Canada

Markus Beckedahl <markus@nnm-ev.de> wrote:
hi,

> I am not sure if it has been mentioned in this list yet (i think Ralf
> mentioned it an earlier posting..), but there is work underway for a
> European CS meeting on June 13th, right after the "Wizards of Civil
> Society" conference in Berlin.
> http://www.wizards-of-os.org/

it´s the "wizards of os 3", not "wizards of cs". :)

but yes, it´s true, an european-north american caucus meeting is planned
for sunday, 13th, right after the wos3.

ciao,
markus


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From thomas at thomasruddy.org  Mon Apr 12 19:00:49 2004
From: thomas at thomasruddy.org (Thomas Ruddy)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS CS meeting in Europe
In-Reply-To: <20040412172940.13987.qmail@web21326.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <000501c420b8$18a738a0$2f6103d5@RIGGENBACH>

Amali,

I am not an organizer, but I plan to attend. The Web address is as follows:

http://wiki.wizards-of-os.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WSIS 

 

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Thomas Ruddy,  <http://www.thomasruddy.org> convenor http://www.wsis.ethz.ch

Switzerland

 

-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org] On Behalf
Of Amali De Silva
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 7:30 PM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS CS meeting in Europe

 

Not wizard of oz I think, so - is it  "o s" for open source only ? 

 

What are the themes and issues you are planning on covering ? 

 

Also, please could you be transparent and post date /  time / venue and who
should be rsvped by those attending ?

 

thank you for the initiative !

 

Amali

Markus Beckedahl <markus@nnm-ev.de> wrote:

hi,

> I am not sure if it has been mentioned in this list yet (i think Ralf
> mentioned it an earlier posting..), but there is work underway for a
> European CS meeting on June 13th, right after the "Wizards of Civil
> Society" conference in Berlin.
> http://www.wizards-of-os.org/

it?s the "wizards of os 3", not "wizards of cs". :)

but yes, it?s true, an european-north american caucus meeting is planned
for sunday, 13th, right after the wos3.

ciao,
markus


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From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Tue Apr 13 08:30:21 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fw: News on Human Rights Commission for 7 April (from congoCHR.org)
Message-ID: <067101c42129$2e2d1a20$0a00000a@default>

From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Tue Apr 13 08:30:21 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fw: News on Human Rights Commission for 7 April (from congoCHR.org)
Message-ID: <067101c42129$2e2d1a20$0a00000a@default>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fullsack Jean-Louis" <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
To: <rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: News on Human Rights Commission for 7 April (from congoCHR.org)


> En francais ci-apres
> Helo all
>
> I'd just draw the attention of the HR Caucus and especially of the Gender
> Caucus to the European Parliament Report A-0055/2004 by Karin Junker
> entitled "Report upon population and development : ten years after the
> international conferennce on population and development (Cairo, 1994).
> It i.a. contains some strong critical statements of the so called "Mexico
> policy" which forbids for example the USAID to fund development activities
> which are in favor of or encompass family planning and voluntary abortion
> information.
> It also mentions that this policy -reintroduced by the US- have frozen
since
> 2002 the contribution that the US committed to provide to the UN Fund for
> Population. The European Commission decided to compensate for this loss of
> credit. But the Report asks the European Union and its member countries
to
> enter into a factual debate with the US about the catastrophic
consequences
> on DCs populations of this "Mexico policy", encouraging President Bush to
> repeal it.
> Moreover the report contains a lot of information and considerations about
> the evolution of DCs' population rights and health during the last decade.
> This Report is available at the EP website (www.europarl.eu.int)
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
> CSDPTT-France
>
> J'aimerais juste attirer l'attention du Caucus des Droits de l'Homme et
plus
> particulierement du Caucus Femmes sur le Rapport A5- 0055/2004 du
Parlement
> Europeen dont le Rapporteur est la deputee Karin Junker et qui est
intitule
> "Rapport sur la population et le developpemement : dix ans apres la
> Conference internationale sur la population et le developpement (Le Caire,
> 1994)".
> Il contient entre autres quelques affirmations fortes et critiques contre
ce
> qu'on appelle la "politique de Mexico" qui interdit par exemple a l'agence
> americaine d'aide au developpement USAID de financer des activites de
> developpement qui sont en faveur de ou comportent de l'information sur le
> planning familial et l'interruption volontaire de grossesse.
> Il mentionne aussi que cette politique -reintroduite par les USA- a gele
> depuis 2002 la contribution que les USA se sont engages a fournir au Fonds
> des NU pour la population (FNUAP). La Commission europeenne a pris
> l'initiative de compenser la perte de credits ainsi occasionnee. Mais le
> Rapport demande l'Union Europeenne et ses Etats membres d'engager avec les
> Etats-Unis un debat factuel au sujet des consequences catastrophiques de
> cette "politique de Mexiico" sur les populations des PeD, en encourageant
le
> President Bush a abroger celle-ci.
> En outre; le Rapport contient un grande quantite d'informations et de
> considerations sur l'evolution de la sante et des droits des populations
des
> PeD durant la derniere decennie.
> Ce Rapport est disponible sur le site du Parlement europeen
> www.europarl.eu.int.
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
> CSDPTT
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "CONGO (Rik Panganiban)" <rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org>
> To: <undisclosed-recipients:>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 2:59 PM
> Subject: News on Human Rights Commission for 7 April (from congoCHR.org)
>
>
> > *LATEST NEWS ON THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION *
> > *AT WWW.CONGOCHR.ORG *
> >
> > /News & Civil Society Perspectives on the UN Commission on Human Rights
/
> >
> > http://www.ngoCHR.org ? http://www.congoCHR.org
> >
> >
> > *Roundtables on Freedom of Expression in Turkey 7-8 April*
> >
> > The International Publishers Association and International PEN are
> > sponsoring two days of roundtables on Freedom of Expression at the
> > Palais from 7 to 8 April. Civil and Political rights in Turkey will be
> > the particular focus of the roundtables.
> >
> > For more info, go to
> > http://www.congochr.org/view/index.php?list_ids=85&basic_entity=DOCUMENT
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> > *Gender / Women's Caucus Schedule for CHR*
> >
> > Conchita Poncini, president of the NGO CSW, updates us on the calendar
> > of events organized by the Gender/Women's Caucus. Their next event is on
> > 13 April, a panel on "Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Sexual
> > Exploitation"....
> >
> > For more info, go to
> > http://www.congochr.org/view/index.php?list_ids=84&basic_entity=DOCUMENT
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> > *Online Resource for Children's Human Rights Issues*
> >
> > The Child Rights Information Network maintains an up-to-date website on
> > children's human rights issues at the CHR at
> > http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/unchr.htm. They also host a
> > website for the NGO Subgroup to the CHR as well as an email newsletter
> > on child rights and the CHR.
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> > *29th meeting: NGOs request Optional Protocol to the ICESCR*
> >
> > This morning, NGOs expressed their concerns over the protection of
> > economic, social and cultural rights, requesting the creation of an
> > Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
> > Cultural Rights...
> >
> > For complete story, go to
> > http://www.congochr.org/view/index.php?basic_entity=DOCUMENT&list_ids=67
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> > *Event on the Human Rights Situation in Colombia*
> >
> > The Colombian government should start implementing the measures
> > contained in the resolutions and recommendations adopted by the
> > Inter-American Court of Human Rights as well as by other international
> > governmental and non-governmental organizations. This was the position
> > generally maintained at an NGO parallel event held on the human rights
> > situation in Colombia, last Friday, April 4 and which focused most
> > notably on the atrocities committed against members and sympathizers of
> > the Union Patriotica (Patriotic Union) ...
> >
> > For complete story, go to
> > http://www.congochr.org/view/index.php?basic_entity=DOCUMENT&list_ids=77
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> > *Peaceful demonstration against violations in Darfur*
> >
> > A coalition of Sudanese opposition parties held a peaceful demonstration
> > to raise awareness about the human rights situation in the Darfur region
> > of western Sudan last Friday, April 4th, in front of the Palais des
> > Nations. This demonstration took place at a time when delegates from the
> > Sudanese government and opposition parties where attending the currently
> > ongoing 60th session of the Commission on Human Rights ...
> >
> > For complete story, go to
> > http://www.congochr.org/view/index.php?basic_entity=DOCUMENT&list_ids=78
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> > *Commission addresses civil and political rights at 30th meeting*
> >
> > The 30th meeting of the CHR began with an interactive dialogue on item
> > 11 - civil and political rights - with the presentation of three reports
> > dealing with questions of extrajudicial executions, torture and
> > detention, disappearances and arbitrary detention ...
> >
> > For complete story, go to
> > http://www.congochr.org/view/index.php?basic_entity=DOCUMENT&list_ids=79
> >
> > ==================================
> > *ABOUT congoCHR.org
> >
> > All organizations interested in the UN Commission on Human Rights are
> > invited to visit our new website www.congoCHR.org. This website provides
> > news and information on the UN Commission on Human Rights from a civil
> > society perspective. Highlighting the rich, diverse, local-to-global
> > voices of civil society around the world, congoCHR.org is an open
> > platform for all civil society groups to use in disseminating th! eir
> > press releases, reports and other news items. This initiative continues
> > CONGO's coverage of past sessions of the CHR, as well as other global
> > fora such as the World Health Assembly and the World Summit on the
> > Information Society.
> >
> > Our colleagues at the International Conference of Volunteers will be
> > coordinating a team of volunteer reporters, who will be providing daily
> > reports on what is happening at the Commission on Human Rights from now
> > until the conclusion of this session on April 23. As always, we welcome
> > the important contributions that volunteers make to our work. We also
> > express appreciation to the association M.C.Art for their technical
> > support of this endeavor.
> >
> > In addition, our friends at Pax Romana and the Advocacy Centre for Asia
> > have developed a complementary website to archive all NGO and government
> > statements and documents presented at this year's CHR. The website can
> > be found at http://www.unchr.info. We invite you to visit their site as
> > well.
> >
> > For more information about the congoCHR.org website, please contact Rik
> > Panganiban at rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org or Isolda Agazzi Ben Attia at
> > isolda.agazzi@ngocongo.org.
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> >
> > *
> > Sur www.congoCHR.org
> > *
> > Nous invitons toutes les organisations int?ress?es ? suivre la session
> > annuelle de la Commission des Nations Unies pour les Droits de l'Homme ?
> > visiter notre nouveau site Web www.congoCHR.org. Ce site Web fournit des
> > nouvelles et des informations sur la Commission des Nations Unies pour
> > les Droits de l'Homme ? partir de la perspective de la soci?t? civile.
> >
> > Renfor?ant les voix riches, diverses, locales ? globales de la soci?t?
> > civile autour du monde, congoCHR.org est une plate-forme ouverte ?
> > l?usage de tous les groupes de la soci?t? civile pour diss?miner leurs
> > communiqu?s de presse, leurs rapports et autres nouvelles. Cette
> > initiative poursuit la couverture par CONGO des sessions pass?es de la
> > CDH, aussi bien que d'autres fora globaux tels que l'Assembl?e Mondiale
> > de la sant? et le Sommet Mondiale de la Soci?t? de l'Information.
> >
> > Nos coll?gues ? la Conf?rence internationale des volontaires
> > coordonneront une ?quipe de journalistes volontaires, qui fourniront des
> > rapports quotidiens sur les ?v?nements de la Commission pour les Droits
> > de l'Homme jusqu'? la conclusion de cette session le 23 avril. Nous
> > sommes toujours conscients des contributions importantes que les
> > volontaires apportent ? notre travail. Nous exprimons ?galement notre
> > appr?ciation ? l'association M.C.Art pour leur appui technique dans
> > cette entreprise.
> >
> > En outre, nos amis ? Pax Romana et Advocacy Centre for Asia ont
> > d?velopp? un site Web compl?mentaire pour archiver les rapports et
> > documents des ONG et des gouvernements pr?sent?s ? la CDH de cette
> > ann?e. Nous vous invitons ? visiter ?galement leur site Web ?
> > http://www.unchr.info.
> >
> > Pour de plus amples renseignements sur le site Web de congoCHR.org,
> > veuillez contacter Rik Panganiban ? rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org ou
> > Isolda Agazzi Ben Attia ? isolda.agazzi@ngocongo.org.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > *Sobre www.congoCHR.org *
> >
> > Invitamos a todas las organizaciones interesadas en seguir la sesi?n
> > anual de la Comisi?n de la ONU por los Derechos Humanos a visitar
> > nuestro nuevo sitio Web www.congoCHR.org. Este sitio proporciona
> > noticias e informaci?n sobre la Comisi?n de Naciones Unidas por los
> > Derechos Humanos desde la perspectiva de la sociedad civil. Acentuando
> > la riqueza y la diversidad de la voz local a global de la sociedad civil
> > alrededor del mundo, congoCHR.org es una tribuna abierta a todos los
> > grupos de la sociedad civil para la difusi?n de sus lanzamientos de
> > prensa, informes y otras noticias. Esta iniciativa prolonga la cobertura
> > de CONGO de pasadas sesiones de la CDH, as? como de otros foros globales
> > tales como la Asamblea Mundial de la Salud y la Cumbre Mundial de la
> > Sociedad de la Informaci?n.
> >
> > Nuestros colegas de la Conferencia internacional de voluntarios
> > coordinar?n un equipo de reporteros voluntarios, que proporcionar?n
> > informes diarios sobre los acontecimientos de la Comisi?n por los
> > Derechos Humanos hasta la clausura de esta sesi?n el 23 de abril.
> > Valoramos, como siempre, la contribuci?n importante que los voluntarios
> > aportan a nuestro trabajo. Tambi?n exprimimos nuestro aprecio a la
> > asociaci?n M.C.Art por su ayuda t?cnica en este af?n.
> >
> > Nuestros colegas de Pax Romana y Advocacy Centre for Asia (Centro de la
> > defensa del Asia) han desarrollado igualmente un sitio Web
> > complementario donde se archivar?n las declaraciones y documentos
> > presentados por las ONG y los gobiernos en la CDH este a?o. Les
> > invitamos a visitar su sitio Web que puede ser localizado en
> > http://www.unchr.info.
> >
> > Para m?s informaci?n sobre el sitio Web de congoCHR.org, le rogamos
> > comunicar con Rik Panganiban: rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org o con Isolda
> > Agazzi Ben Attia: isolda.agazzi@ngocongo.org.
> >
>
>


From markus at nnm-ev.de  Tue Apr 13 10:27:48 2004
From: markus at nnm-ev.de (Markus Beckedahl)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS CS meeting in Europe
In-Reply-To: <20040412172940.13987.qmail@web21326.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <3184.62.134.109.31.1081778479.squirrel@www.werk21system.de>
        <20040412172940.13987.qmail@web21326.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4492.62.134.108.147.1081848468.squirrel@www.werk21system.de>

hi,

> Not wizard of oz I think, so - is it  "o s" for open source only ?

the os is for "operating systems". the conference-subtitle is "the future
of the digital commons", so free software and open source are one topic,
but there will be many more:

"The conference series Wizards of Operating Systems (wos) has its
foundations in the grand liberation movements in the realm of knowledge:
free software, free content, free science, free networks, free hardware.
The wos is showcasing freedom that works. It is more about highlighting
solutions than pinpointing problems. WOS wants to inspire and to motivate.
It presents success stories so others may learn from them.

WOS 3 will offer a dense program of presentations, discussions and
workshops. "

> What are the themes and issues you are planning on covering ?
>
> Also, please could you be transparent and post date /  time / venue and
> who should be rsvped by those attending ?

i?m travelling right now and am out of office, maybe ralf has more
informations about the topics?

the whole sunday, 13th of july from 10am to 6pm is plannend for the
wsis-meeting.

ciao,
markus


--
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From diana at abantu.org  Tue Apr 13 14:05:46 2004
From: diana at abantu.org (Diana Mercorios)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Phase II - Comments - ideas fordiscussion..
Message-ID: <200404130905.AA1379795038@abantu.org>

Dear Veni and Robert,
Thank you bringing this issue of funding to the fore. It is CRUCIAL that CS coordinates and works together to find sources of funding to enable its participation. Those of us in the north could possibly approach funders that we know/have contact with.

Regards,
Diana

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: veni markovski <veni@veni.com>
Reply-To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Date:  Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:39:58 +0300

>
>>(e) Funding - gone...?
>
>Robert, if we can't organize some, the CS will not be able to participate 
>in Tunis.
>
>>Another topic that i'm amazed isn't being discussed here is the one of 
>>funding. I mean, we have no funding, the CS secretariat is no longer, and 
>>there is no coordinated efforts (yet) underway to facilitate and 
>>coordinate CS participation.
>
>Not only that, there is already funding for participation of governmental 
>representatives from the least developed countries (sic!), but none for the 
>CS from the same countries!!?
>
>>Do people care? Even though we all in a way compete for funding, would it 
>>not make sense - to try to collaborate to find the funding, the 
>>resources  and partners so that CS can participate in the upcoming PrepCom 
>>and variety of regional and thematic meetings being planned in the months 
>>ahead.
>
>Yes, it does. I believe that the requests for funding should be going from 
>the CS Plenary / CS Secretariat and use the same formulae like the PrepComs 
>in Geneva/Paris/Bucharest.
>
>veni 
>
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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 13 18:57:54 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS CS meeting in Europe
In-Reply-To: <4492.62.134.108.147.1081848468.squirrel@www.werk21system.de>
Message-ID: <20040413175754.2896.qmail@web21321.mail.yahoo.com>

Thank you!
 
I hope that those who are attending which seem to be many persons on this list, will share their insights with this list. 
 
I also hope that the conference organizers will post transcripts ( whichever medium ) on-line.
 
Just reminding all that most of us are not fortunate enough ( lack of funding ) to be able to attend these conferences from the distances that we are attempting to work from.
 
Your on-line support is very much appreciated,
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell 

Markus Beckedahl <markus@nnm-ev.de> wrote:
hi,

> Not wizard of oz I think, so - is it "o s" for open source only ?

the os is for "operating systems". the conference-subtitle is "the future
of the digital commons", so free software and open source are one topic,
but there will be many more:

"The conference series Wizards of Operating Systems (wos) has its
foundations in the grand liberation movements in the realm of knowledge:
free software, free content, free science, free networks, free hardware.
The wos is showcasing freedom that works. It is more about highlighting
solutions than pinpointing problems. WOS wants to inspire and to motivate.
It presents success stories so others may learn from them.

WOS 3 will offer a dense program of presentations, discussions and
workshops. "

> What are the themes and issues you are planning on covering ?
>
> Also, please could you be transparent and post date / time / venue and
> who should be rsvped by those attending ?

i´m travelling right now and am out of office, maybe ralf has more
informations about the topics?

the whole sunday, 13th of july from 10am to 6pm is plannend for the
wsis-meeting.

ciao,
markus


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From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] fyi-2nd International Translation Conference: Global Security:
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From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Beware of Gates bearing Gifts
Message-ID: <p06100503bca23d35a7ba@[192.168.0.55]>

BEWARE OF GATES BEARING GIFTS
http://cinsa.info/portal/index.php?
option=articles&task=viewarticle&artid=145&Itemid=60
African leaders are busy signing agreements with major US software 
companies, granting them long term monopolies in return for short 
term donations. They are proudly announcing short-term benefits but
remaining silent about any long-term costs. Foreign corporations know 
well how important immediate benefits are to politicians and how 
difficult it is for them to resist such opportunities.
-- 
###
Robert Guerra <rguerra@privaterra.org>
Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>

From nne75 at yahoo.com  Wed Apr 14 08:49:00 2004
From: nne75 at yahoo.com (Nnenna)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Tunis meeting FR/En
In-Reply-To: <20040413141514.37720.qmail@web13004.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040414074900.17281.qmail@web10908.mail.yahoo.com>

Chers tous
 
La réunion  de la société civile africaine a débuté hier en présence de M Guellouz, SG de la Commission tunisienne pour le SMSI2005.  Pour aujourd'hui et demain, il s'agira de bien affiner notre vision, consolider notre structure, harmoniser nos priorités  et établir notre plan d'action.  Vos contributions sont les bienvenues.
 
Dear all
 
The African CS meeting kicked off yesterday in the presence of Mr Guellouz, secretray of the Tunisian WSIS commission. For today and tomorrow, our task will be to refine our vision,  consolidate our structure, harmonize our priorities and establish our action plan.  All contributions are welcome.
 
Nnenna

		
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From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Tunis meeting FR/En
In-Reply-To: <20040414074900.17281.qmail@web10908.mail.yahoo.com>
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Message-ID: <p0610050dbca2e9dbef8e@[192.168.0.55]>

Nnenna:

As discussed at the meet you were at in Tunis in March - i would hope 
as a minimum the following can be provided to the plenary list:


* A list those present, where they are from,
* a meeting  agenda
*  and a summary of the meeting

Given the issues with the Tunisian government, i would also be of 
interest that you or others from the meeting clearly state :
a. who from the Government and in what capacity they are meeting you.
b. What efforts have been made to include non VGNGOS (very government 
NGOS)  from the meeting. Civil Society from Tunisia - independent 
journalists, lawyers and those active in UN Fora - such as the UN 
commission on human rights, have a VERY keen interest in 
participating in WSIS discussion  in their own country.

Again, as mentioned at the meeting in March - please indicate who 
clearly let us know how "claims" to represent Tunisia (both from a 
governmental and NGO side) as transparency is key.

regards

Robert



At 12:49 AM -0700 4/14/04, Nnenna wrote:
>Chers tous
>
>La r?union  de la soci?t? civile africaine a d?but? hier en pr?sence 
>de M Guellouz, SG de la Commission tunisienne pour le SMSI2005. 
>Pour aujourd'hui et demain, il s'agira de bien affiner notre vision, 
>consolider notre structure, harmoniser nos priorit?s  et ?tablir 
>notre plan d'action.  Vos contributions sont les bienvenues.
>
>Dear all
>
>The African CS meeting kicked off yesterday in the presence of Mr 
>Guellouz, secretray of the Tunisian WSIS commission. For today and 
>tomorrow, our task will be to refine our vision,  consolidate our 
>structure, harmonize our priorities and establish our action plan. 
>All contributions are welcome.
>
>Nnenna
>
>
>
>Do you Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! Tax Center - <http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html>File online 
>by April 15th


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From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TUNISIA : Eight young Internet users convicted of terrorism on no
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Message-ID: <p06100511bca301085e0c@[192.168.0.55]>

Does the Africa CS meeting in Tunisia care to comment on this report? 
will it be raised with the Tunisians?



>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:28:33 +0200
>To: internet@rsf.org
>From: "RSF.Internet" <internet@rsf.org>
>Subject: [Opennet]
>  TUNISIA : Eight young Internet users convicted of terrorism on no
>  condamn?ssans preuve
>
>The Internet under surveillance
>14 April 2004 (en fran?ais ? la suite)
>
>TUNISIA
>
>Eight young Internet users convicted of terrorism on no evidence
>
>Sentenced to up to 26 years in prison in travesty of justice
>
>Reporters Without Borders today voiced shock and outrage today at 
>sentences of up to 26 years in prison imposed by a Tunis court on 6 
>April on eight Internet users from the southern city of Zarzis who 
>were accused of promoting terrorist attacks on no other evidence 
>than files downloaded from the Internet.
>
>"The trial of these young people shows the Tunisian judicial 
>system's outrageous contempt for the right of defence," the 
>organisation said, calling for their release when their appeal is 
>heard. "Just looking at Internet sites cannot be considered evidence 
>of a terrorist plot - the Tunisian regime is trying to terrorize 
>Internet users and silence dissent."
>
>The organisation called on the international community, starting 
>with the United States and the European Union, to reaffirm that the 
>fight against terrorism does not under any circumstances justify 
>violating individual freedoms or letting justice take second place 
>to the arbitrary exercise of power.
>
>A Tunis criminal court headed by judge Adel Jeridi sentenced seven 
>people to 19 years and three months in prison. They were Hamza 
>Mahrouk, 21, Farouk Chelandi, 21, Amor Rached, 21, Abdel-Ghaffar 
>Guiza, 21, Aymen Mecharek, 22, Ridha Hadj Brahim, a 38-year-old 
>teacher, and Ayoub Sfaxi, who normally lived abroad.
>
>Tahar Guemir, 19, who also normally lived abroad, was sentenced to 
>26 years in prison as the alleged ring-leader. A ninth defendant, 
>19-year-old Abderrazak Bourguiba, is to be tried shortly by a minors 
>court because he was only 17 at the time of the alleged crimes. 
>Reporters Without Borders called for Bourguiba's immediate release.
>
>The eight were convicted of "forming a band to terrorize people... 
>aggression against individuals with the intent to terrorize... 
>holding unauthorized meetings... theft and attempted theft... 
>preparing explosive material [and] unauthorized possession of 
>substances intended for making explosive devices."
>
>Reporters Without Borders has been told that the prosecution 
>produced no serious evidence against the defendants. The case file 
>only contained a few files which they had downloaded from the 
>Internet, such as information about the Kalashnikov rifle and 
>documents explaining how to make a bomb. When the arrests were make, 
>the police only confiscated a tube of a glue and a few CD-ROMs, 
>which were the only evidence to support the allegation of making 
>explosives.
>
>One of the defence lawyers, Najib Hosni, said many irregularities 
>marred the judicial proceedings. For example, as they were arrested 
>in Zarzis, they should have been tried there, and not in Tunis. Five 
>of the defendants filed a complaint alleging that they were 
>tortured, but the court refused to allow any medical examination.
>
>According to several different sources, the young defendants just 
>used the Internet to download files about the situation in the 
>Middle East. They also reportedly talked with one of their teachers, 
>Ridha Hadj Brahim (who is one of those convicted), about the best 
>way to support the Palestinian cause.
>
>www.internet.rsf.org
>________________________________________________________________________________
>Internet sous surveillance
>
>TUNISIE
>
>Huit internautes condamn?s sans preuve 
>
>Accus?s de terrorisme, des jeunes de Zarzis (sud du pays) ont ?cop? 
>de peines allant jusqu'? 26 ans de prison, au terme d'une parodie de 
>proc?s
>
>Huit internautes ont ?t? condamn?s, le  6 avril 2004, ? des peines 
>allant jusqu'? 26 ans de prison. Ils sont accus?s d'avoir foment? 
>des attentats terroristes, mais aucune preuve n'a ?t? fournie par 
>l'accusation pour supporter cette th?se. L'acte d'accusation se base 
>uniquement sur des documents t?l?charg?s sur Internet.
>
>Reporters sans fronti?res est profond?ment choqu?e par ce verdict 
>inique. L'organisation demande aux juges de prononcer en appel la 
>lib?ration des internautes de Zarzis et r?clame la lib?ration 
>imm?diate de Abderrazak Bourguiba, qui doit ?tre jug? prochainement 
>par un tribunal pour mineurs. "Le proc?s de ces jeunes d?montre que 
>la justice tunisienne m?prise outrageusement les droits de la 
>d?fense. En effet, la simple consultation de sites Internet ne peut 
>constituer la preuve d'un complot terroriste. Le r?gime tunisien 
>cherche ? terroriser les internautes et ?touffer la dissidence. La 
>communaut? internationale, les Etats-Unis et l'Union europ?enne en 
>t?te, doit r?affirmer que la lutte contre le terrorisme ne justifie 
>en aucun cas que les libert?s individuelles soient bafou?es  et que 
>la justice s'efface au profit de l'arbitraire", a d?clar? Reporters 
>sans fronti?res.
>
>La troisi?me chambre criminelle du tribunal de Tunis, pr?sid?e par 
>Adel Jeridi, a condamn?, le 6 avril, Hamza Mahrouk (21 ans), Amor 
>Farouk Chelandi (21 ans), Amor Rached (21 ans), Abdel-Ghaffar Guiza 
>(21 ans), Aymen Mecharek (22 ans) et Ridha Hadj Brahim (38 ans), ? 
>19 ans et trois mois de prison. Ayoub Sfaxi, r?sidant ? l'?tranger, 
>a ?t? condamn? ? la m?me peine. Tahar Guemir (19 ans), r?sidant 
>?galement ? l'?tranger et consid?r? par l'accusation comme le chef 
>du groupe, a ?t? condamn? ? 26 ans de prison. Un dernier inculp?, 
>Abderrazak Bourguiba (19 ans), qui n'avait que 17 ans au moment des 
>faits. devrait ?tre jug? prochainement par un tribunal pour mineurs.
>
>Ils ont ?t? condamn?s pour "formation de bande pour terroriser les 
>gens", "agression contre des individus dans l'intention de 
>terroriser ", "tenue de r?unions non autoris?es", "vol et tentative 
>de vol", "pr?paration de mati?re explosive" et d?tention de produits 
>destin?s ? la fabrication d'engins explosifs sans autorisation".
>
>Selon les informations recueillies par Reporters sans fronti?res, 
>l'accusation n'a produit aucune preuve s?rieuse ? l'encontre des 
>huit accus?s. N'ont ?t? port?s au dossier que quelques documents 
>t?l?charg?s sur Internet par les jeunes de Zarzis, comme par exemple 
>des informations sur le fusil Kalachnikov, ou des textes expliquant 
>comment fabriquer une bombe. La police n'a saisi, lors des 
>interpellations, qu'un tube de colle et quelques CD-Rom, qui sont 
>les seules preuves permettant d'?tayer l'accusation de "fabrication 
>d'explosif".
>
>Selon l'un des avocats de la d?fense, Najib Hosni, la proc?dure 
>judiciaire a ?t? entach?e de nombreuses irr?gularit?s. Par exemple, 
>ayant ?t? arr?t?s ? Zarzis, ils auraient d? ?tre jug? dans cette 
>ville et non ? Tunis, comme cela a ?t? le cas. L'avocat affirme 
>?galement que ses clients ont ?t? tortur?s. Or, la justice a refus? 
>toute expertise m?dicale suite ? la plainte d?pos?e par cinq des 
>inculp?s.
>
>En r?alit?, selon des sources concordantes, les jeunes de Zarzis 
>auraient uniquement utilis? le web pour t?l?charger des documents 
>li?s ? la crise au Proche-Orient. Ils auraient ?galement discut? 
>avec un de leurs professeurs, Ridha Hadj Brahim, de la fa?on d'agir 
>pour soutenir la cause palestinienne.
>
>
>--
>Julien Pain
>Bureau Internet / Internet desk
>___________________________________________
>
>Reporters sans fronti?res / Reporters Without Borders
>TEL: ++ (0) 1 44 83 84 71
>FAX: ++ (0) 1 45 23 11 51
>internet@rsf.org
>www.internet.rsf.org
>
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From rk_iw at gmx.de  Wed Apr 14 15:09:15 2004
From: rk_iw at gmx.de (Rainer Kuhlen)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TUNIS prepcom accomodation
Message-ID: <407D460B.2080700@gmx.de>

Has anyone any information about accomodation in Tunis  in case one is 
considering to participate in the first PrepCom in June?

-- 
Prof. Dr. Rainer Kuhlen
Chair of NETHICS e.V. (Ethics in the Net) - www.nethics.net
Department of Computer and Information Science - University of Konstanz
Box D 87
D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
email: rainer.kuhlen@uni-konstanz.de
URL: http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/People/rk.html

Phone Univ.: ++49 (0)7531 - 882879; Fax: ++49 (0)7531 882048
Mobile 0049 0171 452 7010
Phone Berlin ++49 (0)30 / 275 94241; Fax: /27594260






From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Thu Apr 15 08:11:07 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
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References: <p06100511bca301085e0c@[192.168.0.55]>
Message-ID: <00bc01c422b8$d345a460$0a00000a@default>

TUNISIA : Eight young Internet users convicted of terrorisEn francais ci-dessous

Hello Robert

As you, I'm very concerned about the situation in Tunisia regarding human rights, especially in relation to Info Society multiple aspects and domains. 
As far as the information in your message is concerned, "Le Monde" dated Sunday/Monday, April 8th and 9th, even mentioned 10 arrested Internet users.
I do hope that our African friends will give us some actualized news about this severe attempt against human rights and their protests.
By the way, I also hope that we will have a report from the African CS meeting with the relevant information you asked for in one of your last messages.
Thanks Robert for your commitment.
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France

Salut Robert
Comme toi je suis bien inquiet sur la situation en Tunisie, s'agissant des droits de l'homme en particulier par rapport aux aspects et domaines lies ? la Societe de l'Information.
Concernant l'information de ton message, "Le Monde" dat? du Dimanche/Lundi 8-9 avril, mentionne m?me 10 utilisateurs Internet arretes.
J'espere vraiment que nos amis africains nous fourniront des nouvelles actualisees sur cette severe atteinte aux droits humains et sur leur protestation.
Par ailleurs, j'espere que nous aurons un compte-rendu de la Reunion de la SC africaine avec les informations pertinentes que tu as demandees dans un de tes messages precedents.
Merci Robert pour ton engagement.
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France  
    
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Guerra 
  To: Tracey Naughton ; Nnenna 
  Cc: plenary@wsis-cs.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 4:55 PM
  Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TUNISIA : Eight young Internet users convicted of terrorism on no condamn?ssans preuve


  Does the Africa CS meeting in Tunisia care to comment on this report? will it be raised with the Tunisians?






    Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:28:33 +0200
    To: internet@rsf.org
    From: "RSF.Internet" <internet@rsf.org>
    Subject: [Opennet]
     TUNISIA : Eight young Internet users convicted of terrorism on no
     condamn?ssans preuve


    The Internet under surveillance
    14 April 2004 (en fran?ais ? la suite)


    TUNISIA

    Eight young Internet users convicted of terrorism on no evidence

    Sentenced to up to 26 years in prison in travesty of justice

    Reporters Without Borders today voiced shock and outrage today at sentences of up to 26 years in prison imposed by a Tunis court on 6 April on eight Internet users from the southern city of Zarzis who were accused of promoting terrorist attacks on no other evidence than files downloaded from the Internet.

    "The trial of these young people shows the Tunisian judicial system's outrageous contempt for the right of defence," the organisation said, calling for their release when their appeal is heard. "Just looking at Internet sites cannot be considered evidence of a terrorist plot - the Tunisian regime is trying to terrorize Internet users and silence dissent."

    The organisation called on the international community, starting with the United States and the European Union, to reaffirm that the fight against terrorism does not under any circumstances justify violating individual freedoms or letting justice take second place to the arbitrary exercise of power.

    A Tunis criminal court headed by judge Adel Jeridi sentenced seven people to 19 years and three months in prison. They were Hamza Mahrouk, 21, Farouk Chelandi, 21, Amor Rached, 21, Abdel-Ghaffar Guiza, 21, Aymen Mecharek, 22, Ridha Hadj Brahim, a 38-year-old teacher, and Ayoub Sfaxi, who normally lived abroad.

    Tahar Guemir, 19, who also normally lived abroad, was sentenced to 26 years in prison as the alleged ring-leader. A ninth defendant, 19-year-old Abderrazak Bourguiba, is to be tried shortly by a minors court because he was only 17 at the time of the alleged crimes. Reporters Without Borders called for Bourguiba's immediate release.

    The eight were convicted of "forming a band to terrorize people... aggression against individuals with the intent to terrorize...  holding unauthorized meetings... theft and attempted theft... preparing explosive material [and] unauthorized possession of substances intended for making explosive devices."

    Reporters Without Borders has been told that the prosecution produced no serious evidence against the defendants. The case file only contained a few files which they had downloaded from the Internet, such as information about the Kalashnikov rifle and documents explaining how to make a bomb. When the arrests were make, the police only confiscated a tube of a glue and a few CD-ROMs, which were the only evidence to support the allegation of making explosives.

    One of the defence lawyers, Najib Hosni, said many irregularities marred the judicial proceedings. For example, as they were arrested in Zarzis, they should have been tried there, and not in Tunis. Five of the defendants filed a complaint alleging that they were tortured, but the court refused to allow any medical examination.

    According to several different sources, the young defendants just used the Internet to download files about the situation in the Middle East. They also reportedly talked with one of their teachers, Ridha Hadj Brahim (who is one of those convicted), about the best way to support the Palestinian cause.


    www.internet.rsf.org
    ________________________________________________________________________________
    Internet sous surveillance


    TUNISIE

    Huit internautes condamn?s sans preuve 

    Accus?s de terrorisme, des jeunes de Zarzis (sud du pays) ont ?cop? de peines allant jusqu'? 26 ans de prison, au terme d'une parodie de proc?s

    Huit internautes ont ?t? condamn?s, le  6 avril 2004, ? des peines allant jusqu'? 26 ans de prison. Ils sont accus?s d'avoir foment? des attentats terroristes, mais aucune preuve n'a ?t? fournie par l'accusation pour supporter cette th?se. L'acte d'accusation se base uniquement sur des documents t?l?charg?s sur Internet.

    Reporters sans fronti?res est profond?ment choqu?e par ce verdict inique. L'organisation demande aux juges de prononcer en appel la lib?ration des internautes de Zarzis et r?clame la lib?ration imm?diate de Abderrazak Bourguiba, qui doit ?tre jug? prochainement par un tribunal pour mineurs. "Le proc?s de ces jeunes d?montre que la justice tunisienne m?prise outrageusement les droits de la d?fense. En effet, la simple consultation de sites Internet ne peut constituer la preuve d'un complot terroriste. Le r?gime tunisien cherche ? terroriser les internautes et ?touffer la dissidence. La communaut? internationale, les Etats-Unis et l'Union europ?enne en t?te, doit r?affirmer que la lutte contre le terrorisme ne justifie en aucun cas que les libert?s individuelles soient bafou?es  et que la justice s'efface au profit de l'arbitraire", a d?clar? Reporters sans fronti?res.

    La troisi?me chambre criminelle du tribunal de Tunis, pr?sid?e par Adel Jeridi, a condamn?, le 6 avril, Hamza Mahrouk (21 ans), Amor Farouk Chelandi (21 ans), Amor Rached (21 ans), Abdel-Ghaffar Guiza (21 ans), Aymen Mecharek (22 ans) et Ridha Hadj Brahim (38 ans), ? 19 ans et trois mois de prison. Ayoub Sfaxi, r?sidant ? l'?tranger, a ?t? condamn? ? la m?me peine. Tahar Guemir (19 ans), r?sidant ?galement ? l'?tranger et consid?r? par l'accusation comme le chef du groupe, a ?t? condamn? ? 26 ans de prison. Un dernier inculp?, Abderrazak Bourguiba (19 ans), qui n'avait que 17 ans au moment des faits. devrait ?tre jug? prochainement par un tribunal pour mineurs.

    Ils ont ?t? condamn?s pour "formation de bande pour terroriser les gens", "agression contre des individus dans l'intention de terroriser ", "tenue de r?unions non autoris?es", "vol et tentative de vol", "pr?paration de mati?re explosive" et d?tention de produits destin?s ? la fabrication d'engins explosifs sans autorisation".

    Selon les informations recueillies par Reporters sans fronti?res, l'accusation n'a produit aucune preuve s?rieuse ? l'encontre des huit accus?s. N'ont ?t? port?s au dossier que quelques documents t?l?charg?s sur Internet par les jeunes de Zarzis, comme par exemple des informations sur le fusil Kalachnikov, ou des textes expliquant comment fabriquer une bombe. La police n'a saisi, lors des interpellations, qu'un tube de colle et quelques CD-Rom, qui sont les seules preuves permettant d'?tayer l'accusation de "fabrication d'explosif".

    Selon l'un des avocats de la d?fense, Najib Hosni, la proc?dure judiciaire a ?t? entach?e de nombreuses irr?gularit?s. Par exemple, ayant ?t? arr?t?s ? Zarzis, ils auraient d? ?tre jug? dans cette ville et non ? Tunis, comme cela a ?t? le cas. L'avocat affirme ?galement que ses clients ont ?t? tortur?s. Or, la justice a refus? toute expertise m?dicale suite ? la plainte d?pos?e par cinq des inculp?s.

    En r?alit?, selon des sources concordantes, les jeunes de Zarzis auraient uniquement utilis? le web pour t?l?charger des documents li?s ? la crise au Proche-Orient. Ils auraient ?galement discut? avec un de leurs professeurs, Ridha Hadj Brahim, de la fa?on d'agir pour soutenir la cause palestinienne.



    --
    Julien Pain
    Bureau Internet / Internet desk
    ___________________________________________

    Reporters sans fronti?res / Reporters Without Borders
    TEL: ++ (0) 1 44 83 84 71
    FAX: ++ (0) 1 45 23 11 51
    internet@rsf.org
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From Philip.Thigo at eltaller.org  Thu Apr 15 09:59:27 2004
From: Philip.Thigo at eltaller.org (Philip Thigo)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TUNIS prepcom accomodation
References: <407D460B.2080700@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <002601c422c7$f6b3a0a0$366ffea9@Youth>

Yes,
What kind of hotel would you require;
we can send you a few hotel options for your consideration.

Kind wishes:

Philip

___________________________________

Philip Thigo
Youth Coordinator
Foundation El Taller
2 Rue El Ghazali,
Menzah V, 1004
Tunis, Tunisia.
Tel.   216. 71.752457 / 752057
Fax.  216.71.751570
Http://www.eltaller.org


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rainer Kuhlen" <rk_iw@gmx.de>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:09 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TUNIS prepcom accomodation


> Has anyone any information about accomodation in Tunis  in case one is
> considering to participate in the first PrepCom in June?
>
> --
> Prof. Dr. Rainer Kuhlen
> Chair of NETHICS e.V. (Ethics in the Net) - www.nethics.net
> Department of Computer and Information Science - University of Konstanz
> Box D 87
> D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
> email: rainer.kuhlen@uni-konstanz.de
> URL: http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/People/rk.html
>
> Phone Univ.: ++49 (0)7531 - 882879; Fax: ++49 (0)7531 882048
> Mobile 0049 0171 452 7010
> Phone Berlin ++49 (0)30 / 275 94241; Fax: /27594260
>
>
>
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From karenb at gn.apc.org  Thu Apr 15 09:59:43 2004
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] APC Vacancy: Communications & Information Policy Programme
 Manager
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20040415095907.038d80f8@pop.gn.apc.org>

Dear all,

Please find below an announcement for an APC Vacancy. Please help us 
circulate. -- Thank you very much.

karen
=====

==========================================================
OPENING: Communications and Information Policy Programme Manager
ORGANISATION: Association For Progressive Communications (APC)
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: May 9 2004
==========================================================

POSITION TO BE FILLED
Communications and Information Policy Programme (CIPP) Manager

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To strategically manage and develop APC's Communications and Information 
Policy Programme (CIPP)


ABOUT THE COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION POLICY PROGRAMME

Our goal: To build more inclusive ICT decision-making processes by 
facilitating civil society engagement through building their capacity and 
supporting advocacy, at national and international levels. Civil society 
inclusion in policy-making will lead to their involvement in implementing 
and monitoring policies, and ultimately to societies in which there is 
greater citizen participation.

Citizens and organisations that want to ensure that the internet remains a 
tool and a venue for promoting social, gender and environmental justice, 
development and democracy, are struggling to navigate the terrain of 
global, regional, and national internet governance, policy and regulation. 
They frequently do not know which issues are on the agenda, who is debating 
and deciding them, how their work could be affected, and how to get involved.

Through CIPP, APC is implementing global and regional ICT policy projects 
that raise awareness, build capacity, tools and information resources to 
strengthen civil society participation in decision-making. APC has been 
taking advantage of global processes such as the World Summit on the 
Information Society (WSIS) to galvanise civil society awareness of ICT 
policy issues, but our ultimate objective is to build participation in ICT 
policy at national level. See: http://www.apc.org/english/rights/

KEY RESULT AREAS FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION POLICY PROGRAMME MANAGER

The CIPP manager reports to the APC Executive Director and is a member of 
the APC strategic management team. The CIPP manager is responsible for:

-Programme and project development, and management of APC's CIPP work
-Participation in APC's strategic management team
-Strategic positioning of the APC and CIPP and implementation of strategic 
priorities identified by APC members
-Networking and building APC's profile in the ICT policy field
-Building and maintaining strategic partnerships for APC in the field of 
ICT policy
-Management of CIPP project staff and oversight of regional CIPP projects 
(projects are based internationally, regionally and also nationally and 
cover multiple activities including information production and 
dissemination, research, advocacy, etc.)
-Fundraising for the programme and programme projects
-Facilitating the participation of APC members in regional CIPP activity
-Supporting APC members in ICT policy project development
and fundraising

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
-Experience in and understanding of global and regional level
ICT policy issues
-Understanding of how ICT policy issues relate to development and social 
justice
-Experience and background in civil society networking
-Fundraising experience
-Three to five years "hands on" people management experience
-Five years experience in project management
-Excellent computer and internet skills and experience in working in an 
online environment
-Good writing skills and experience in writing reports, proposals, as well 
as articles
-Sound academic qualifications in a related area

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

-Strategic thinking
-Leadership skills
-Networking and communication skills
-Excellent English written and oral communication skills, including public 
speaking experience
-Working knowledge of Spanish and French would be an advantage
-Ability to work in a team and under pressure
-Able to work independently and to manage people mainly via online 
communications (project coordinators all work from different countries and 
communicate daily through email and other tools)
-Able to travel frequently
-Planning skills
-Integrity

DURATION OF CONTRACT
One-year period, on a full time basis, renewable based on assessment of 
performance and availability of funds.

LOCATION
The incumbent can work from anywhere in the world as APC is a truly virtual 
organisation and does not have a physical headquarters. We do our work 
online. For this position we want to particularly encourage candidates from 
the global South to apply.

HOW TO APPLY
Please send a CV and a covering letter IN ENGLISH that illustrate your 
interest in the position. You should be include the following information:
-description of your interest in working with the APC
-your background/interest in ICT policy issues
-description of your background in supporting civil society networking and 
ICT initiatives
-description of your background in project management and team 
coordination, specifically in an international and/or online context
-description of your computer skills
-where you live
-languages you speak and write
-other information you think might be of importance to our assessment of 
your application
-2 references: names, relationship, contact details; at least one of these 
should be related to project or campaign that you have managed.

Please send this information via email with 'CIPP Manager' in the subject 
line to: jobs@apc.org by May 9 2004.


=======================================
APC Forum is a meeting place for the APC community - people 
and        institutions who are or have been involved in collaboration with 
APC, and share the APC vision - a world in which all people have easy, 
equal and affordable access to the creative potential of information and 
communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives and create more
democratic and egalitarian societies.

_______________________________________________
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apc.forum@lists.apc.org
http://lists.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/apc.forum



From rikp at earthlink.net  Thu Apr 15 14:26:36 2004
From: rikp at earthlink.net (Rik Panganiban)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TUNIS prepcom accomodation
In-Reply-To: <407D460B.2080700@gmx.de>
References: <407D460B.2080700@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <850185E8-8EE0-11D8-9792-000A95EA981E@earthlink.net>

Rainer, et al,

I have been doing some research on this.  Generally the cheapest 
accommodations in Hammamet I have found are around 100 USD per day. 
Others have told me they know of hotels that cost closer to 80 USD, but 
I have not found those same prices. It is a resort town, so housing 
will be at a premium during this vacation period in June.  Which means 
that people should book as soon as possible because even the more 
expensive rooms might not be available.

I have sent a message to the Tunisian NGO coordination site hoping that 
they may be of some help.

- Rik Panganiban

------------------------------------------------------
[en fran?ais]

Rainer et tous,

J'avais fait des recherches sur le logement en Tunis.  Le mois cher 
chambre en Hammamet que j'ai trouv? est environ 100 USD par jour.  
Autres personnes m'ont dit que ils savent des h?tels pres de 80 USD, 
mais je n'avais pas trouv? la meme chose.  C'est un village 
touristique, donc le logement sera especialement cher durante le period 
de vacances en Juin.  Il faut reserver tr?s vite.

J'ai envoy? un message ? le website de coordination de societe civile 
tunisienne pour des conseils.

- Rik Panganiban

On 14 avr. 04, at 10:09, Rainer Kuhlen wrote:

> Has anyone any information about accomodation in Tunis  in case one is 
> considering to participate in the first PrepCom in June?
>
> -- 
> Prof. Dr. Rainer Kuhlen
> Chair of NETHICS e.V. (Ethics in the Net) - www.nethics.net
> Department of Computer and Information Science - University of Konstanz
> Box D 87
> D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
> email: rainer.kuhlen@uni-konstanz.de
> URL: http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/People/rk.html
>
===============================================
RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator

Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship
with the United Nations (CONGO)
web: http://www.ngocongo.org
email: rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org
mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524
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From rguerra at cpsr.org  Thu Apr 15 14:26:08 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TUNIS prepcom accomodation
In-Reply-To: <002601c422c7$f6b3a0a0$366ffea9@Youth>
References: <407D460B.2080700@gmx.de>
 <002601c422c7$f6b3a0a0$366ffea9@Youth>
Message-ID: <p0610050abca43d6d7943@[192.168.0.55]>

that type of information should be made available by the Tunisian 
Government and ITU - as there the designated hotels are likely to be 
covered by host country agreements - a key point which affords 
official delegates additional protection and immunity ...

so in a word - we need to hear about accommodation from official 
sources too! let's not be too naive when travelling to tunis!


At 8:59 AM +0000 4/15/04, Philip Thigo wrote:
>Yes,
>What kind of hotel would you require;
>we can send you a few hotel options for your consideration.
>
>Kind wishes:
>
>Philip
>
>___________________________________
>
>Philip Thigo
>Youth Coordinator
>Foundation El Taller
>2 Rue El Ghazali,
>Menzah V, 1004
>Tunis, Tunisia.
>Tel.   216. 71.752457 / 752057
>Fax.  216.71.751570
>Http://www.eltaller.org
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rainer Kuhlen" <rk_iw@gmx.de>
>To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:09 PM
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TUNIS prepcom accomodation
>
>
>>  Has anyone any information about accomodation in Tunis  in case one is
>>  considering to participate in the first PrepCom in June?
>>
>>  --
>>  Prof. Dr. Rainer Kuhlen
>>  Chair of NETHICS e.V. (Ethics in the Net) - www.nethics.net
>>  Department of Computer and Information Science - University of Konstanz
>>  Box D 87
>>  D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
>>  email: rainer.kuhlen@uni-konstanz.de
>>  URL: http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/People/rk.html
>>
>>  Phone Univ.: ++49 (0)7531 - 882879; Fax: ++49 (0)7531 882048
>>  Mobile 0049 0171 452 7010
>>  Phone Berlin ++49 (0)30 / 275 94241; Fax: /27594260
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  _______________________________________________
>>  Plenary mailing list
>>  Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>>  http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>>
>>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
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>Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


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###
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Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>

From rguerra at cpsr.org  Thu Apr 15 15:20:28 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Preperation for Tunis...
Message-ID: <p06100512bca44aa99326@[192.168.0.55]>

Given the # of reports about press freedoms and human rights  issues 
in Tunisia - I would assume we'd want to get a copy of the host 
country agreement between the UN and Tunisia to see what type of 
protection and immunity is given to delegates of the PrepCom.

As has been raised before - Tunis, and Tunisia isn't as liberal, free 
and respectful of rights as is Switzerland - as such, we should air 
on the side of caution. I would not want any colleagues to get 
arrested, or worse - imprisoned for activities which are acceptable 
and perfectly legal in their home country

I thus propose a couple of things:

(1) In collaboration with the C&T group, draft a petition - to ask 
the UN, ITU & Tunisian government for a copy of the Host country 
agreement for this and any future prepcoms.

(2) As part of the petition we insist that censorship at the 
conference site (as occurred at the march informal meeting) is 
inconsistent and incompatible with CS participation

For those of you who did'nt read the earlier reports - Both the Human 
Rights watch and Amnesty International sites where blocked at the 
Informal Meeting internet cafe setup for all delegates. How do we 
know if our own NGO sites are blocked too...this completely 
unacceptable!

- http://www.hrw.org
- http://www.amnesty.org

(3) For as much as we "hear"  there's a Tunisian CS/NGO coordination 
group - can we please find out more about them. Who are they? Are 
they really CS or just appointees by the Tunisian government ?

CS groups in Tunisia that i know - aren't getting any information 
about how to participate in the process. So i'm frankly worried that 
all the talk about "inclusion" in Tunisia isn't in fact correct...

(4) The Tunisian prepcom will be TWO days - that's awful short and 
makes it very expensive for those coming from abroad to justify the 
trip.

Are there any plans, or should there be any plans  to organize an 
event around the prepcom to prepare ourselves and interact with 
independent CS in Tunisia. No doubt an information gathering event - 
where we'd learn more about the reality of the country and find ways 
to construct dialogue and partnerships with all sectors of the 
society there.

but again - we need to know in precise terms from the Tunsian 
authorities what are the limits they are imposing on us. Can we get 
written confirmation that host country immunity applies to us? if 
not, we need to - we must - be careful in who we meet and what we do 
when we are in the country.

A case in point - though I was an invited official participant of the 
march informal meeting, i had to wait over TWO hours at the airport 
to get my passport returned.  is this "expedited" treatment? if so, 
there sure will be long line-ups for the prepcoms and the summit in 
2005.

regards

Robert

At 9:26 AM -0400 4/15/04, Rik Panganiban wrote:
>Rainer, et al,
>
>I have been doing some research on this.  Generally the cheapest 
>accommodations in Hammamet I have found are around 100 USD per day. 
>Others have told me they know of hotels that cost closer to 80 USD, 
>but I have not found those same prices. It is a resort town, so 
>housing will be at a premium during this vacation period in June. 
>Which means that people should book as soon as possible because even 
>the more expensive rooms might not be available.
>
>I have sent a message to the Tunisian NGO coordination site hoping 
>that they may be of some help.
>
>- Rik Panganiban

-- 
###
Robert Guerra <rguerra@privaterra.org>
Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>

From rguerra at cpsr.org  Thu Apr 15 18:36:27 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] United Nations Seminar on Policy and Security Issues in
 Information Technology I (New York, 23 April 2004)
Message-ID: <p0610051cbca478885387@[192.168.0.55]>

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>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:19:35 -0400
>To: huridocs-tech@hrea.org
>Subject: [huridocs-tech] United Nations Seminar on Policy and 
>Security Issues in Information Technology I (New York, 23 April 2004)
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>      SERIES ON POLICY AWARENESS AND TRAINING IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
>      Seminar on Policy and Security Issues in Information Technology I
>                            Friday, 23 April 2004
>
>
>As part of the series on Policy Awareness and Training in Information
>Technology, the first high-level Seminar of this year on "Policy and
>Security Issues in Information Technology" and the Official Launching
>Ceremony for the 2004 Series will be held in the Economic and Social
>Council Chamber on Friday, 23 April 2004, from 3 to 6 p.m.
>
>This interactive seminar is addressed by recognized experts in the
>subjects.  It is primarily aimed at ambassadors and other diplomats.
>However, all interested staff members as well as NGO representatives are
>welcome and encouraged to attend.
>
>This is the third year of a successful programme, organized by the United
>Nations Information and Communication Technologies (UNICT) Task Force and
>the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). The
>programme, supported by Intel Corporation, is presented under the auspices
>of the ECOSOC Ad-Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Informatics.
>
>Due to security reasons, NGOs that wish to attend the Seminar are
>requested to register by submitting the attached application form by
>Monday 19 April. Please note that without advance registration, United
>Nations Security will be unable to provide clearance to participants for
>access to the Economic and Social Council Chamber.
>
>Please find attached:
>
>
>1.     A detailed information note;
>
>2.    The programme;
>
>3.    A registration form.
>
>
>For further information please contact to the UNITAR secretariat at Tel:
>(212) 963-9196.
>
>
>
>
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>


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From marzouki at ras.eu.org  Fri Apr 16 13:48:20 2004
From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Logistics - Try Nabeul instead of Hammamet
Message-ID: <57177AD2-8FA4-11D8-BDC6-0003935A8C90@ras.eu.org>

Hi,

Here is some help regarding logistics, without any comment on other 
issues, as for now.
Instead of staying in Hammamet, which is very expensive, you can stay 
in Nabeul (12km from Hammamet) and less "high-level" resort, while very 
nice too, if not nicer. Note also that Tunis is only approximately 60 
km from Hammamet, and there are trains, buses, collective taxis, etc.

I've found a website giving a lot of practical details on Nabeul 
(including a list of "publinets", the Tunisian cybercafe :-)) : 
http://www.nabeul.net/pratique/ (in French).

A more or less accurrate schedule of trains from/to Tunis can be found 
in the attached PDF.
Note that there is no direct fast train from Tunis to Hammamet or 
Nabeul : one has to change in Bir Bou Regba, or take the omnibus train. 
You can try this website to get some indications (the schedule is out 
of date):
(To Tunis, check Hammamet and Nabeul lines, 1h30 from Hammamet, 1h15 
from Nabeul) :
http://www.carthagus.com/horaire/grand_train_vers_tunis.php to get some 
indications
(From  Tunis, check Hammamet and Nabeul lines) :
http://www.carthagus.com/horaire/grand_train_depart_tunis.php

Meryem

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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Fri Apr 16 17:09:58 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Tunis meeting FR/En
In-Reply-To: <20040414074900.17281.qmail@web10908.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040416160958.39497.qmail@web60708.mail.yahoo.com>

Nnenna,
Merci de nous rappeler, le lieu de tenue de cette
rencontre, et de nous dire l'ordre du jour de la
réunion, les participants et surtout le compte rendu !
Non courage et à bientôt
Djilali
--- Nnenna <nne75@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chers tous
>  
> La réunion  de la société civile africaine a débuté
> hier en présence de M Guellouz, SG de la Commission
> tunisienne pour le SMSI2005.  Pour aujourd'hui et
> demain, il s'agira de bien affiner notre vision,
> consolider notre structure, harmoniser nos priorités
>  et établir notre plan d'action.  Vos contributions
> sont les bienvenues.
>  
> Dear all
>  
> The African CS meeting kicked off yesterday in the
> presence of Mr Guellouz, secretray of the Tunisian
> WSIS commission. For today and tomorrow, our task
> will be to refine our vision,  consolidate our
> structure, harmonize our priorities and establish
> our action plan.  All contributions are welcome.
>  
> Nnenna
> 
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From mciver at albany.edu  Fri Apr 16 18:26:48 2004
From: mciver at albany.edu (Bill McIver, University at Albany)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Call for Papers (deadline extended) -- International Colloquium on
 Communication and Democracy
Message-ID: <40801758.8050001@albany.edu>

Please be advised that the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 
Communication & Democracy: Technology & Citizen Engagement colloquium 
has been extended from April 1 to April 19.

The revised Call for Papers is attached, and it would be greatly 
appreciated if you would re-circulate it widely.

Many thanks,

Mary C. Milliken, BA, MA

Research Assistant

e-Government/e-Citizen

NRC IIT - CNRC ITI
46 Dineen Drive/ 46 Promenade Dineen
Fredericton, NB
Canada
E3B 9W4
Tel: 506-444-0378

Fax: 506-444-6114





Call for Papers

International Colloquium
Communication and Democracy: Technology and Citizen Engagement
Wednesday, August 4 ? Friday, August 6, 2004
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Host: University of New Brunswick, Department of Sociology

Sponsor: University of New Brunswick, Office of Research Services
School of Communications and Multimedia, Edith Cowan University,
Perth, Australia

Partner: National Research Council Institute for Information Technology
e-Business, Canada

Since the early 1990s, governments, industry and commercial 
organizations, public agencies, non-governmental organizations, 
communities and individual citizens have embraced the Internet and other 
information and communication technologies (ICT), expending extensive 
resources on their deployment and adoption.

Along this digital journey, on one end of a continuum, claims have been 
made about the revolutionary and emancipatory potential of ICT. 
Promoters exhort the urgency of its adoption to realize citizen 
empowerment, institutional transformation and transparency, direct 
democracy, and the erasure of time and space to create an electronic 
global village.

At the other end of this continuum of debate, critics argue that the 
potential benefits of ICT are being outweighed by a growing digital 
impotence for citizens, who are increasingly bound by new forms of 
regulation, institutional electronic rigidities, market regulation, the 
extension of commercial practices deeper into social life, and technical 
design myopic of human needs.

The broad themes of citizen engagement, democratic inclusion, and 
socio-economic betterment for citizens, communities and nations have 
emerged as key research concerns that cut across issues such as the 
digital divide, convergence, e-commerce and the dot com bomb, 
e-learning, e-health, gaming, virtual communities, community 
informatics, connectivity, broadband, and government online.

Now, ten years into the popular development of the Internet, it is 
opportune to critically reflect on where we have been, where we are 
supposed to be, what we have learned, or what we should have learned, 
where we should be going, and what questions we should be asking as we 
continue further on this journey.
The purpose of this colloquium is to reflect on the core issues of 
communications, democracy and citizen engagement and to push the margins 
of thinking and debate around entry points such as methodologies, social 
practices, theoretical frameworks, technical design, institutional 
relations and citizen needs. It will bring together up-and-coming 
researchers and established experts to exchange ideas about current 
research and theories - and rethink the ways forward. Presentations can 
be based on local, national or international research.

To facilitate open discussion and full involvement all sessions will be 
plenary.

Central themes for panels (papers) include, but are not restricted to:

Technology R&D and Citizen Needs

This panel focuses on user needs and applications research and 
development. Featuring social scientists and computer science 
researchers, half the presenters discuss communication from a user needs 
perspective, and other presenters discuss the process behind the design 
of community informatics and other applications. One goal of the panel 
is to encourage debate among social and computer scientists about 
citizen needs and technology research and development. Needs assessment, 
the socio-economic aspects of the communication relationship, and 
technology designed to meet user needs are possible theme areas.

Research Methodologies

Various qualitative and quantitative methods offer a number of 
possibilities for research on citizen needs, democratic communications, 
community communications, human/technology interface, and community 
informatics, among others. This panel discusses such questions as: what 
are the ?right? research questions that should be asked, and why? What 
are different methodologies that should be employed? Empirical examples, 
theoretical and methodological examples or possibilities could be explored.

Citizen Engagement and E-Democracy

Panelists will discuss findings of research on ICT used to facilitate 
citizen engagement in communities and between citizens, in relation to 
community organizations, government agencies and the state. What do 
"engagement" and "e-Democracy" mean to citizens, governments and 
communities, and what should they mean? What are the best means, 
channels or practices to attain them?




Organizers

Andrew Reddick, Ph.D. Group Leader, e-Government/e-Citizen Group, NRC 
Institute for Information Technology - e-Business, Fredericton, NB, 
Canada andrew.reddick@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Vanda Rideout, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, 
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada vrideout@unb.ca
Mary C. Milliken, MA, Ph.D. candidate, UNB, Conference Organizer, NRC 
Institute for Information Technology - e-Business, 
mary.milliken@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Submission of Abstract

Faculty, researchers and graduate students are encouraged to submit 250 
word abstracts in .doc or .pdf format, for peer review, to the attention 
of Mary C. Milliken, mary.milliken@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca by 19 April 2004. 
Authors will be notified of acceptance by 30 April. The deadline for 
full papers is 12 July 2004. Discussants will provide comments on final 
papers.

For further information about this event, please refer to our web site 
at http://www.unb.ca/technocitizen/ or contact Mary at the above e-mail 
address.



-- 

Bill McIver
Assistant Professor
School of Information Science and Policy
University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, New York 12222
USA

e-mail: mciver@albany.edu <mailto:mciver@albany.edu>
URL: http://www.albany.edu/~mciver <http://www.albany.edu/%7Emciver>

From emem_o at yahoo.com  Fri Apr 16 19:42:36 2004
From: emem_o at yahoo.com (Emem Okon)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Call for Papers (deadline extended) -- International Colloquium on Communication and Democracy
In-Reply-To: <40801758.8050001@albany.edu>
Message-ID: <20040416184236.39354.qmail@web11502.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Bill,
I am a Nigerian and I want to send in my abstract as
required. Just want to find out, will I be offered
travel grant to cover flights from Nigeria and
accommodation and feeding during the conference? I
really want to participate in this conference. 

Emem J. Okon
Niger Delta Women for Justice


--- "Bill McIver, University at Albany"
<mciver@albany.edu> wrote:
> 
> Please be advised that the deadline for submitting
> abstracts to the 
> Communication & Democracy: Technology & Citizen
> Engagement colloquium 
> has been extended from April 1 to April 19.
> 
> The revised Call for Papers is attached, and it
> would be greatly 
> appreciated if you would re-circulate it widely.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Mary C. Milliken, BA, MA
> 
> Research Assistant
> 
> e-Government/e-Citizen
> 
> NRC IIT - CNRC ITI
> 46 Dineen Drive/ 46 Promenade Dineen
> Fredericton, NB
> Canada
> E3B 9W4
> Tel: 506-444-0378
> 
> Fax: 506-444-6114
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Call for Papers
> 
> International Colloquium
> Communication and Democracy: Technology and Citizen
> Engagement
> Wednesday, August 4 – Friday, August 6, 2004
> Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
> 
> Host: University of New Brunswick, Department of
> Sociology
> 
> Sponsor: University of New Brunswick, Office of
> Research Services
> School of Communications and Multimedia, Edith Cowan
> University,
> Perth, Australia
> 
> Partner: National Research Council Institute for
> Information Technology
> e-Business, Canada
> 
> Since the early 1990s, governments, industry and
> commercial 
> organizations, public agencies, non-governmental
> organizations, 
> communities and individual citizens have embraced
> the Internet and other 
> information and communication technologies (ICT),
> expending extensive 
> resources on their deployment and adoption.
> 
> Along this digital journey, on one end of a
> continuum, claims have been 
> made about the revolutionary and emancipatory
> potential of ICT. 
> Promoters exhort the urgency of its adoption to
> realize citizen 
> empowerment, institutional transformation and
> transparency, direct 
> democracy, and the erasure of time and space to
> create an electronic 
> global village.
> 
> At the other end of this continuum of debate,
> critics argue that the 
> potential benefits of ICT are being outweighed by a
> growing digital 
> impotence for citizens, who are increasingly bound
> by new forms of 
> regulation, institutional electronic rigidities,
> market regulation, the 
> extension of commercial practices deeper into social
> life, and technical 
> design myopic of human needs.
> 
> The broad themes of citizen engagement, democratic
> inclusion, and 
> socio-economic betterment for citizens, communities
> and nations have 
> emerged as key research concerns that cut across
> issues such as the 
> digital divide, convergence, e-commerce and the dot
> com bomb, 
> e-learning, e-health, gaming, virtual communities,
> community 
> informatics, connectivity, broadband, and government
> online.
> 
> Now, ten years into the popular development of the
> Internet, it is 
> opportune to critically reflect on where we have
> been, where we are 
> supposed to be, what we have learned, or what we
> should have learned, 
> where we should be going, and what questions we
> should be asking as we 
> continue further on this journey.
> The purpose of this colloquium is to reflect on the
> core issues of 
> communications, democracy and citizen engagement and
> to push the margins 
> of thinking and debate around entry points such as
> methodologies, social 
> practices, theoretical frameworks, technical design,
> institutional 
> relations and citizen needs. It will bring together
> up-and-coming 
> researchers and established experts to exchange
> ideas about current 
> research and theories - and rethink the ways
> forward. Presentations can 
> be based on local, national or international
> research.
> 
> To facilitate open discussion and full involvement
> all sessions will be 
> plenary.
> 
> Central themes for panels (papers) include, but are
> not restricted to:
> 
> Technology R&D and Citizen Needs
> 
> This panel focuses on user needs and applications
> research and 
> development. Featuring social scientists and
> computer science 
> researchers, half the presenters discuss
> communication from a user needs 
> perspective, and other presenters discuss the
> process behind the design 
> of community informatics and other applications. One
> goal of the panel 
> is to encourage debate among social and computer
> scientists about 
> citizen needs and technology research and
> development. Needs assessment, 
> the socio-economic aspects of the communication
> relationship, and 
> technology designed to meet user needs are possible
> theme areas.
> 
> Research Methodologies
> 
> Various qualitative and quantitative methods offer a
> number of 
> possibilities for research on citizen needs,
> democratic communications, 
> community communications, human/technology
> interface, and community 
> informatics, among others. This panel discusses such
> questions as: what 
> are the ‘right’ research questions that should be
> asked, and why? What 
> are different methodologies that should be employed?
> Empirical examples, 
> theoretical and methodological examples or
> possibilities could be explored.
> 
> Citizen Engagement and E-Democracy
> 
> Panelists will discuss findings of research on ICT
> used to facilitate 
> citizen engagement in communities and between
> citizens, in relation to 
> community organizations, government agencies and the
> state. What do 
> "engagement" and "e-Democracy" mean to citizens,
> governments and 
> communities, and what should they mean? What are the
> best means, 
> channels or practices to attain them?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Organizers
> 
> Andrew Reddick, Ph.D. Group Leader,
> e-Government/e-Citizen Group, NRC 
> Institute for Information Technology - e-Business,
> Fredericton, NB, 
> Canada andrew.reddick@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
> Vanda Rideout, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department
> of Sociology, 
> University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
> vrideout@unb.ca
> Mary C. Milliken, MA, Ph.D. candidate, UNB,
> Conference Organizer, NRC 
> 
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Sat Apr 17 09:22:54 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TUNIS prepcom accomodation
In-Reply-To: <850185E8-8EE0-11D8-9792-000A95EA981E@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <20040417082254.6216.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com>

Merci pour ces efforts d'information sur le coût des
chambres à Nabel et Hammet et Tunis...
Le chiffre de 100 US$ est simplement dissuasif pour
les ONG du Sud sauf celles ramenées par les
gouvernements respectifs et ou à la solde des
bailleurs de fonds qui les financent pour les
applaudissements...
La société civile aurait dû et devrait négocier avec
sa composante tunisienne pour obtenir des conditions
favorables... je suis sûre que certains gouvernements
ont dû déjà obtenir de telles conditions et nous nous
donnons l'impression de devoir et de pouvoir tout
accepter !
Le fruit est pourri dans cette société civile repue,
dans ses composantes du Nord qui ont le monopole de
l'expression et sa composante du sud suiviste par
habitude et par nécessité.
Amitiés
Djilali 
--- Rik Panganiban <rikp@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Rainer, et al,
> 
> I have been doing some research on this.  Generally
> the cheapest 
> accommodations in Hammamet I have found are around
> 100 USD per day. 
> Others have told me they know of hotels that cost
> closer to 80 USD, but 
> I have not found those same prices. It is a resort
> town, so housing 
> will be at a premium during this vacation period in
> June.  Which means 
> that people should book as soon as possible because
> even the more 
> expensive rooms might not be available.
> 
> I have sent a message to the Tunisian NGO
> coordination site hoping that 
> they may be of some help.
> 
> - Rik Panganiban
> 
>
------------------------------------------------------
> [en français]
> 
> Rainer et tous,
> 
> J'avais fait des recherches sur le logement en
> Tunis.  Le mois cher 
> chambre en Hammamet que j'ai trouvé est environ 100
> USD par jour.  
> Autres personnes m'ont dit que ils savent des hôtels
> pres de 80 USD, 
> mais je n'avais pas trouvé la meme chose.  C'est un
> village 
> touristique, donc le logement sera especialement
> cher durante le period 
> de vacances en Juin.  Il faut reserver trés vite.
> 
> J'ai envoyé un message à le website de coordination
> de societe civile 
> tunisienne pour des conseils.
> 
> - Rik Panganiban
> 
> On 14 avr. 04, at 10:09, Rainer Kuhlen wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone any information about accomodation in
> Tunis  in case one is 
> > considering to participate in the first PrepCom in
> June?
> >
> > -- 
> > Prof. Dr. Rainer Kuhlen
> > Chair of NETHICS e.V. (Ethics in the Net) -
> www.nethics.net
> > Department of Computer and Information Science -
> University of Konstanz
> > Box D 87
> > D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
> > email: rainer.kuhlen@uni-konstanz.de
> > URL:
> http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/People/rk.html
> >
> ===============================================
> RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator
> 
> Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship
> with the United Nations (CONGO)
> web: http://www.ngocongo.org
> email: rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org
> mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524
> 


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From marzouki at ras.eu.org  Sat Apr 17 15:14:48 2004
From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [English] Information in contribution to the preparation of PrepCom1 in Tunis
Message-ID: <95DFC7C8-9079-11D8-9FE0-0003935A8C90@ras.eu.org>

To: WSIS Civil Society Plenary list, WSIS Civil Society Human Rights 
Caucus list

Dear all,

While some of us are preparing themselves to attend 1st PrepCom of WSIS 
2nd phase, to be held in Hammamet, Tunisia, on June 24-26, 2004, I've 
thought this information could help this preparation process.

The 2003 annual report of the Observatory for the Protection of Human 
Rights Defenders, a joint programme by the International Federation of 
the Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) and the World Organization against 
Torture (OMCT), both members of the WSIS CS Human Rights Caucus, has 
just been published. Entitled "Human Rights Defenders in a Security 
First Environment", the report is available in English, French and 
Spanish, with a preface by Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights defender 
and 2003 Peace Nobel Prize.

The report is available on line:
English: http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/complete2003a.pdf
French: http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Rappfrdef.pdf
Spanish: http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/completa2003e.pdf

3 press conferences has been held, in Geneva, Tunis and Dakar to launch 
it.
The Tunis Press conference should have been presented on April 14, 
2004, by Patrick Baudouin (Honorary president and former president of 
FIDH), Souhayr Belhassen (Vice-president of the Tunisian Human Rights 
League-LTDH and of FIDH) and Raji Sourani (Director of the Palestian 
Center for Human Rights-PCHR and Vice-president of FIDH).
Patrick Baudouin has been denied entry to Tunisia on April 13 : as soon 
as he landed at Tunis Carthage airport, he has been forbidden entry to 
Tunisia and was sent back by the same plane to Paris. It is the 3rd 
time Patrick Baudouin, a lawyer, is denied entry to Tunisia (see FIDH 
communique at http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=904 - French 
only -, this has also been reported by the press).

According to the 2003 report of the Observatory, Tunisia can be 
classified in "Category 2" (on a 1 to 3 scale of human rights defenders 
repression), together with Afghanistan, Belarus, Cameroon, Colombia, 
Cuba, Guatemala, Guin?e-Bissau, Ha?ti, Indonesia, Iran, Kirghizistan, 
Liberia, Mauritania, Ouzb?kistan, Philippines, Chechnya, Rwanda, 
Soudan, Syria, Togo, Turkey, Zimbabwe, where the situation is qualified 
as "Systematic repression: human rights defenders can act through 
independent associations for Human Rights but are subjects to 
systematic repression and/or Intergovernment organizations (IGOs) are 
denied the right to access the country for investigation purposes" 
(http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=900)

Below are some excerpts of the report, relevant regarding WSIS and the 
difficulties for Tunisian civil society implication in this process.

Best regards,
Meryem Marzouki, IRIS, France
Co-coordinator of the WSIS CS Human Rights Caucus
http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis

Excerpts of the 2003 annual report of the Observatory for the 
Protection of Human Rights Defenders:
"
- The war against terrorism and erosion of rights (p 226) :
(p 276) On 10th December 2003, the Chamber of Deputies in Tunisia 
approved
a law ?supporting the international effort to combat terrorism and
money laundering? (Law n? 2003-75, ratified and published in the
Official Journal on 12th December 2003). This law qualifies as acts of 
terrorism
?all actions, whatever their motives, [...] likely to sow terror in
the population with the aim of influencing State policy [...], 
disturbing
the public order, peace, or international security, or causing harm to
individuals or property?. The law also considers as terrorist ?acts of 
incitement
to hatred or to racial or religious fanaticism, regardless of the
means used?. Furthermore, anyone bound by professional privilege (an
attorney, for example) that fails to immediately relay information 
regarding
terrorist acts to authorities is also considered a terrorist.
This law also imposes very strict financial control over non-profit
organizations and political parties. In particular, they may not receive
yearly subscriptions of more than 30 Dinars, accept any donation or
other form of financial support of any value unless exempted by a 
special
provision of the law, accept any foreign funds, unless via an officially
authorized intermediary residing in Tunisia and not prohibited by the
law currently in force and, finally, accept any cash funds whose value
equals or exceeds five thousand Dinars. These provisions constitute a
grave threat to public freedoms. The law appears as a de facto attempt
to further silence any independent voice by drawing the net more tightly
around human rights defenders, journalists, and lawyers, already
subject to constant persecution by authorities. These new financial
measures legitimize the Tunisian Government's desire to monitor, limit,
or even prohibit funding of NGOs. The most flagrant example2 took
place in August 2003, when EU funds earmarked for the Tunisian
Human Rights League (LTDH) were blocked on fallacious legal
grounds.
The ease with which defenders and terrorists are lumped together
makes this law all the more dangerous. In this regard, let's recall the 
statement
made in October 2003 by Tunisia's representative at the 34th
session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights,
which labeled the LDTH an ?illegal terrorist organization?.

- Repression of movements, civil society and freedom of expression
Repression of anti-war movements (p281)
In Tunisia, over 20 participants were wounded and 12 detained for
questioning in Sfax, during the violent repression of a demonstration
organized by the unions, NGOs and opposition parties on 16th February.
On 22nd February, five trade unionists were hospitalised and seven
members of the Committee of Solidarity with Iraq and Palestine were
detained for questioning during a demonstration in Gafsa. In K?bili,
police questioned the chairman of the LTDH section after informing
the regional authorities of the section's decision to organize an 
anti-war
demonstration on 13th March 2003. Similar scenarios took place in
Sousse and Bizerte.

Repression of civil society movements in favour of the defence of human 
rights (p282) :
In Tunisia, human rights activists and lawyers who tried to assemble
to protest against the numerous violations of the rule of law in Tunisia
were also subjected to systematic and usually violent repression9. In
addition, on 3rd June 2003, union leaders and teachers in secondary 
education
were attacked by police officers in civilian dress, when they took
part in a protest meeting in front of the Ministry of national education
and vocational training. Several unionists have been ill treated, 
including
Mr. Ta?eb Bouaicha, Secretary General of the union, and Mr. Sami
Tahri, unionist, who has been seriously injured.

- Obstacles to freedom of association (p283)
The situation is very similar in countries where NGOs are subject to
a regime of declaration, since application receipts are issued in a 
particularly
arbitrary fashion. In Tunisia, out of 2,000 associations officially
listed, less than a dozen are actually independent from the Government.
Among the latter, the Tunisian Centre for Independence of
Justice (CTIJ), the Association Against Torture, the National Council
for Freedoms in Tunisia (CNLT), and the International Association for
Support of Political Prisoners, are still awaiting official recognition 
so
that they can legally exercise their activities.

- Action taken at international and regional level
The United Nations (p285)
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Human
Rights Defenders, Hina Jilani, who had requested an invitation from
the Egyptian and Tunisian authorities in 2002, has not received any
response to date.
The Observatory has informed the special representative of all cases
processed. [...] The Observatory has also provided
the Working Group with additional information concerning developments
on the situation of Zouhair Yahyaoui, as a follow-up to its referral
of the case submitted to the Working Group in 2002.

African Commission on Human and Peoples? Rights (p286)
During its 34th session, in November 2003, the African Commission
on Human and Peoples' Rights adopted a mechanism of protection, by
creating a ?focal point? on human rights defenders16. The situation of
specific defenders in Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and the Western Sahara
can now be monitored using through this mechanism.

World Summit on the Information Society (p287)
During the first phase of the World Summit on the Information
Society in Geneva (10th-12th December 2003), the Observatory drew
the attention of the International Telecommunications Union and the
international community to the serious violations suffered by human
rights defenders in Tunisia, and the serious attacks on freedom of
expression in this country. In this context, the Observatory expresses 
its
concern about the second phase of the Summit, scheduled to be held in
Tunis in 2005, and attaches great importance to the participation of all
representatives of Tunisian and international civil society.

- By country, Human Rights Defenders Harassed : Tunisia (p318-329)

* Harassment of LTDH and its members

Legal proceedings :

At the end of 2003, the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH,
Ligue tunisienne des droits de l'Homme) was the object of examination
by magistrates and open complaints on several occasions targeting the
League itself, its sections, officers and some of its members.
Trial of the Steering Committee of LTDH :

The appeal to quash the proceedings against the LTDH Steering
Committee, following its 5th congress, is still under way. On 21st June
2001, the Court of Appeal of Tunis confirmed the verdict of the Court
of first instance to cancel the proceedings of the last LTDH congress
(October 2000), on the basis of a complaint lodged by four members of
LTDH, supporters of the Democratic Constitutional Party
(Rassemblement constitutionnel d?mocratique -RCD, party in government).

Legal proceedings against LTDH sections :

Gab?s Section: following brutal police intervention on 19th October
2002, the congress of the Gab?s Section was banned. It did nevertheless
take place on 1st December 2002, but a participant lodged a complaint
to have the proceedings cancelled. This cancellation was confirmed
by decision of the court of first instance in Tunis on 12th May 2003.
The League appealed against the verdict.
Korba and K?bilia Sections and of Hammam-Lif Ez-zahra and Radh?s:
the LTDH was the object of summary judgements, on 29th November
and 20th December 2003 respectively, aiming at cancelling the general
assemblies of these sections on account of refusal by certain RCD 
members
to merge with the sections of Korba and K?bilia and of Hammam-
Lif Ez-zahra and Radh?s. The question of substance, to be examined
by the Court of first instance of Tunis, is outstanding as of end 2003.
Sfax Section: On 18th January 2003, four members of the LTDH section,
RCD members, lodged a complaint against the League which had
convened a congress for 1st and 2nd February in order to set up a second
section in Sfax. On 30th January 2003, the judge in chambers decided to
stay the committee's decision to hold a congress, this judgement is to 
be
confirmed by the Court of first instance in Tunis.
Monastir Section: the appeal proceedings in the matter of confiscation
of the premises of the Monastir Section are still under way. In 2002, 
the
owner of the premises of the section obtained cancellation of the 
tenancy
contract which had just been signed with the LTDH, stating that she
(the owner) was not in full possession of her faculties at the time of
signing. The LTDH, which appealed the decision, was able to rent another
office as from September 2003.

Obstacles to LTDH financing :

On 29th August 2003, the Director for Political Affairs of the Ministry
of Interior notified Mr. Mokhtar Trifi, President of LTDH, of the ban
imposed by the Tunisian Government on receiving the second volume
of financing granted by the European union (EU) to the LTDH, in the
context of the European initiative for democracy and human rights
(IEDDH). On 12th September, the LTDH was informed by its bank
(BIAT) that the proceeding of this second transfer ?could not be made
available to the [LTDH] due to lack of necessary authorisations?. To
justify this obstacle, the authorities based themselves on the measures
of law 154 (1959) and of the decree of 8th May 1922. However, the law
only concerns charity associations and ?those recognised of national
interest? which is not the case of the LTDH, and the decree only
concerns money resulting from public collection. This funding was
obtained by the LTDH in April 2001 in the framework of a project
entitled ?restructuring the LTDH (project B7-70/2001/3185)? and the
first phase has been completed.
By the end 2003, financing designed to the LTDH were still frozen.
On 9th January 2004, in reply to a question in parliament concerning
financing by the EU of independent NGO in Tunisia, the
Commissioner for Foreign Affairs of the European union,
Mr. Christopher Patten, stated that the ?European commission raised
the question with the Tunisian authorities? and that they had ?explained
that law [154] is indeed applicable to all Tunisian NGO receiving
foreign financing?, but that ?in a spirit of tolerance and 
conciliation? it
had not been applied to the first payment by the Commission in the 
framework
of this project. Moreover, the authorities recalled that the
LTDH had been the object of a court decision concerning its activities
in preparing its forthcoming general assembly and re-election of its
bureau. The Commissioner stated that ?without passing any judgement
on the legal basis mentioned by the Tunisian authorities, the
Commission was in favour of a political solution to this problem?.

Legal proceedings and harassment of officers and members of the LTDH :

A complaint was lodged on 28th December 2002 against Mr. Hamda
Mezguich, member of the Bizerte Section, by a member of the LTDH,
RCD supporter of the Jendouba Section, for acts of violence during the
Jendouba Congress (September2002). The proceedings are still under way.
On 26th April 2003, M. N?ji Marzouk, publisher, member of the
Steering Committee of the LTDH, was ordered by security agents to
leave the 2003 Book Fair where he had a stand. He was not allowed to
attend the Opening Ceremony of the Fair with the Head of State.
Mr. Anouar Kousri, vice-President of LTDH, is still subjected to
harassment (surveillance of his house, his office and followed wherever
he goes) and his clients are still being subjected to intimidation to 
try
and discourage them from employing his services as a lawyer.
Legal proceedings against Mr. Mokhtar Trifi, and Mr. Slaheddine
Jourchi, first vice-President are still under way. They have both been
accused of ?circulating false information? and ?of not respecting a 
court
verdict? in March 2001 and December 2000 respectively.
The appeal of Mr. Kh?ma?s Ksila, Secretary General and obliged to
stay in exile, sentenced in absentia to 10 years prison and a fine of 
10,000
dinars following accusation under ordinary law, is still outstanding.

* The CNLT and its members are being targeted

Obstacles to freedom of assembly :

The National Council for Freedoms in Tunisia (CNLT, Conseil
national des libert?s en Tunisie), has still been legally registered in
2003, despite repeated requests by its members over the last five years.
They still constantly encounter obstacles to their activities.
Meetings are more or less systematically banned and the offices in
Tunis under constant surveillance. Tunisian police have also intervened
on many occasions encircling the premises where meetings or assemblies
organised by the CNLT were due to take place, in order to prevent
them from taking place. On 24th October 2003, the CNLT tried to
organise a press conference to launch the International Campaign for
Freedom in Tunisia. Its premises were surrounded by an impressive
number of policemen who banned access.
Visiters are also frequently intimidated and it is becoming increasingly
difficult for them to come to present their case or to bear witness.

Harassment and aggression against Sihem Ben Sedrine :

In April 2003, Mrs. Sihem Ben Sedrine, then spokes-person of the
CNLT, was the target of a virulent campaign of defamation and of 
denigration
in the press. She was accused of betraying the Arab cause, whereas
she had just returned from mission in Iraq, under US occupation
since March.
Early December 2003, her car was completely trashed and vandalised,
and on 5th January 2004, Mrs. Ben Sedrine was attacked in the
street while making her way home, which is also the HQ of the CNLT.
She was knocked to the ground by an unidentified individual who
molested her, in the presence of two acolytes, Sihem Ben Sedrine was
punched several times and had her lip split and suffered many bumps
and bruises. It is believed that this attack was carried out on order 
of the
security services who keep her home under constant surveillance.
Lastly, the proceedings opened in June 2001 against Mrs. Ben
Sedrine, for ?dissemination of false information likely to cause 
disturbance
of the peace? and ?attacking judicial institutions? are still 
outstanding.
Mrs. Ben Sedrine was charged after being interviewed by the
Arab television channel Al Mustaqiya, in London, on the question of
torture and corruption in Tunisia.

Sentencing of Om Zied :

On 25th September 2003, Mrs. Neziha Rejiba, alias Om Zied, Editorin-
chief of the newspaper Kalima - banned by the Tunisian authorities -
and Head of communication of the Liaison Committee of the CNLT,
was summoned to appear at the Department of CustoMrs. Enquiries,
Bureau for Exchange rate crime. She was told that she was being charged
with ?illegal detention of foreign currency? according to articles 6,
22, 35, 36 and 37 of the Code of Foreign Exchange. She was charged
with having handed over the sum of 170 euros to a close acquaintance
of a Tunisian political refugee the day after her return from a stay in
France.
Om Zied was summoned to appear on 28th October 2003 before the
3rd Criminal Court of first instance in Tunis. On 18th November 2003,
during a second hearing, Om Zied received an eight months suspended
prison sentence and was fined 1,200 Tunisian dinars.
The Observatory appointed an observer to the two hearings of her
trial following which the political nature of the charges became quite
clear. In fact, the sum of money brought back by Om Zied had been
declared to the Customs. Services. Moreover, the lawyers for the defence
referred to article 36 of the enabling acts of the Code of Foreign
Exchange of 1977, according to which Tunisian residents who bring
back foreign exchange have seven days within which to exchange this
money for Tunisian dinars.
The appeal hearing was scheduled for 31st December 2003, but has
been postponed until 25th February 2004.
Om Zied is moreover victim of harassment and intimidation on a
regular basis in particular on account of the criticism and articles she
writes in her newspaper and for her public stance on foreign TV 
channels.
Her home is under constant surveillance by a team of un-uniformed
policemen who keep up a barrage of provocation to her sons. Her
mail is also opened and sometimes confiscated. Her telephone line is
constantly tapped and frequently cut to prevent her from communicating
with foreign media.

Harassment of several members of CNLT :

Mr. Abderraouf Ayadi, lawyer and Secretary General of CNLT, is
still the victim of constant harassment at his office, his home and 
during
visits elsewhere, and his clients are kept under surveillance. Mr. Nejib
Hosni, spokes-person of the CNLT, is also subjected to such pressure,
as well as Mr. Hedi Manai and Mr. Said Mechichi, respectively former
and current officers of the Jendouba section of CNLT.
The legal proceedings against Mr. Omar Mestiri, former Secretary
General of CNLT and Dr. Moncef Marzouki, former spokes-person, are
still under way. Mr. Mestiri and Mr. Marzouki were charged in 1999
with ?disseminating false information? and ?maintaining an unrecognised
association?.
Mr. M'hamed Ali Bedoui, brother of Dr. Moncef Marzouki, was banned
several times from leaving Tunisian territory although he has a
?Schengen? visa and a valid passport and has not been the object of any
legal proceedings. For several years now, Mr. Bedoui has been subjected
to systematic harassment and acts of persecution which have led to
his becoming unemployed and being unable to leave Tunisia.
Mr. Abdelkhader Ben Khemis, leading member of CNLT from 2001
to 2003 and founder of the chemistry laboratory in Monastir, has been
obliged to give up his functions on account of the recurrent obstacles 
to
his professional activities. His request for his functions to be 
prolonged
was in fact refused when he reached retirement age.

* Right to strike by lawyers called to the Bar called into question

On 8th July 2003, the Court of Appeal of Tunis handed down its verdict
in the case involving six lawyers, RCD members (party in government)
and the Bar association. According to the verdict, the plaintiffs
were entitled to request retroactive cancellation of the strike called 
by
the Bar Association on 2nd February 2002, on the grounds of ?illegal 
strike?.
The strike was called to protest against the many irregularities
occurring in the trial of Hamma Hamami, leader of the communist workers'
party of Tunisia (PCOT) and against acts of violence perpetrated
against observers and lawyers on that occasion.
The Observatory appointed an observer to four of the five hearings
of the trial, jointly with the International Commission of Lawyers and
Avocats Sans Fronti?res - Belgique. The plaintifs maintained that their
?right to work? had been trampled, whereas lawyers close to power who
had not wanted to participate in the strike movement had not been 
prevented
from exercising their profession on 7th February 2002.
The verdict on 8th July constitutes a worrisome precedent. The Bar
Association is henceforth prevented from calling a strike- a right which
exists in the Tunisian Constitution - and lawyers can henceforth be the
object of disciplinary action in the event of strike.
This verdict clearly intends to rein in an overly independent Bar
Association. With its election methods, commitment to defending 
individual
liberties, in particular the fight against police violence, torture
and malfunction of the legal system, the Bar association indeed is one
of the last bastions against arbitrary decisions in Tunisia.
This verdict comes on top of all the pressure exerted on members of
the Bar Association. By way of example, a delegation headed by
Mr. Bechir Essid, President of the Bar, and consisting of members of
the Bar and the Association of Young Lawyers was prevented on 26th
March 2003, from having access to the Iraq Embassy to express its 
solidarity
with the Iraqi people.
On 21st April 2003, an assembly which the Bar Association was to
organise in front of the Ministry of Justice and of Human Rights in 
protest
against the refusal of the Ministry to reply to their demands concerning
their moral and material situation, was banned by the police which
surrounded the Law Courts in Tunis. The lawyers were in a meeting
with the President of the Bar Association at the Association's 
headquarters
so that the lawyers were prevented from leaving and going to the
place of assembly.
Furthermore, in the night of 10th to 11th May 2003, Mr. Bechir Essid
was attacked by members of the police force when he was going to the
Lawyers' Club to find out by these premises had been banned for
lawyers that very day.
Lastly, on 15th May 2003, Mr. Mohamed Jmour, Secretary General of
the Bar Association and N?ji Marzouk, member of the LTDH Steering
Committee, were searched at the airport when they were leaving the
country on the pretext of ?instructions received?. Mr. Jmour was 
subsequently
searched and subjected to harassment regularly when leaving
the country, in particular on 8th December 2003, when he was leaving
for Geneva to attend the World Summit on the Information Society.

* Refusal to register the Tunisian Association Against Torture and 
harassment of its President, Radhia Nasraoui

Refusal to register the Tunisian Association Against Torture :

On 26th June 2003, Mrs. Radhia Nasraoui, Chokri Latif, Ali Ben
Salem and Ridha Barakati, founding members of the Tunisian
Association Against Torture (ALTT, Association de lutte contre la 
torture
en Tunisie), went to the offices of the Governorate of Tunis, to present
documents relevant to the setting up of ALTT in order to obtain a
receipt of legal registration. They were turned back by security persons
at the entrance and were refused access to the relevant bureau.
The ALTT, whose creation was announced on 26th June, the United
Nations International Day for Support to Victims of Torture, has as its
mandate the promotion of local legislation to protect victims from 
torture,
identify cases and ensure follow-up, and provide support to victims
on both medical and legal levels with a view to lodging complaints
before national and international bodies.

Harassment and aggression against Radhia Nasraoui :

On 16th April 2003, the offices of Mrs. Radhia Nasraoui were surrounded
by about 40 members of the political police. Mr. B?chir Essid
and Mr. Mohamed Jmour, who went there were refused access to her
offices.
On 13th July 2003, Mrs. Radhia Nasraoui was attacked by un-uniformed
policemen on her way to a reception at the Tunisian League of
Free Writers, an unrecognised association, on the occasion of the second
anniversary of the association. When Mrs. Nasraoui and and Mr. Jalloul
Azzouna, writer and President of the League of Free Writers, went
through the impressive police barrage designed to prevent the reception
from taking place, Mrs. Nasraoui was pushed against a wall then
struck violently by policemen. Mr. Azzouna, who tried to defend her
was mishandled in the fray. Mrs. Nasraoui, who suffered bruising to her
arms was off work sick for six days
By end 2003, there had been no follow-up to the complaint which
she had lodged with the police services.
On 15th October 2003, Mrs. Radhia Nasraoui started a hunger strike
in protest against the systematic obstacles she encountered in the 
exercise
of her profession as a lawyer and of the constant harassment to
which she, her family and her clients were subjected over the years. In
fact, the several years her house was under constant surveillance by the
police, her telephone tapped, and her mail intercepted. Similarly her
clients were subjected to very strong pressure to discourage them from
employing her services.
The Observatory appointed two solidarity missions to support
Mrs. Radhia Nasraoui, from 7th to 10th November and from 28th to 30th.
On 10th December 2003, Mrs. Radhia Nasraoui announced during a
press conference that she was going to stop her hunger strike.
Mrs. Nasraoui appeared very weakened having lost 16 kilos.
At end 2003, her home is still under surveillance. Mrs. Nasraoui has
nevertheless managed to attract the attention of many representatives
of the international community and of the media to the many serious
violations of the law by the State and of violations of human rights in
Tunisia.

* Harassment of Mr Mohamed Nouri

On 18th July 2003, Mr. Mohamed Nouri, President of the
International Association for solidarity with Political Prisoners 
(AISPP,
Association internationale de solidarit? avec les prisonniers 
politiques),
found his home surrounded with a massive police barrier through an
entire day when he returned from Switzerland.
On 5th December 2003, Mr. Nouri's office was surrounded by policemen
to prevent a press conference from taking place. Representatives
of civil society, including the Dean of the Bar Association of Tunisia,
had made a plea to denounce the dramatic situation of political prisoner
in Tunisia, in particular those in Borg el-Amri, who were on the 34th 
day
of their hunger strike.
On 9th December, he was prevented from leaving Tunisian territory
to go to Geneva.

* Detention and release of Zouhair Yahyaoui

M. Zouhair Yahyaoui, founder and moderator of the internet site
Internet TUNeZINE devoted to fundamental liberties in Tunisia, held
in detention since 4th June 2002, was freed on 18th November 2003,
thanks to national and international mobilisation.
Mr. Zouhair Yahyaoui was arrested on 4th June 2002 and sentenced
on 20th June 2002 by the Court of first instance and then in appeal on
10th July to 2 years prison for ?disseminating false information? 
following
a trial at which the Observatory observed and considered to be
unjust. The Observatory had informed the United Nations Working
Group on Arbitrary Detention of his case on 27th August 2002.
Mr. Yahyaoui left prison in a extremely weakened physical state on
account of the precarious and degrading conditions of his detention. In
particular, he lost all his teeth, as well as having lost a lot of 
weight.
In 2003, Mr. Zouhair Yahyaoui undertook three hunger strikes to
protest against his sentence and the conditions of his detention. In 
addition
to the degrading conditions on the physical level (crowded prison
cell, extreme heat, no access to medical care, etc.), Mr. Zouhair
Yahyaoui was subjected to persecutions, humiliation and punitive 
measures
by the prison warders. These measures were stepped up particularly
after the solidarity assembly organised on his behalf in front of the
prison at Borj El Amri on 6th February 200365. From that time on, food
which was sent to him by his family was regularly stolen and what he
did get was deliberately dirtied by the prison warders. All reading 
matter
was banned, his correspondence was confiscated and his daily walk
banned. Mr. Yahyaoui was also put in the solitary confinement without
food for two days following protests by his family about the conditions
of visits. These punitive measures were stepped up again just before his
release.
On 4th June 2003, his fianc?e, Ms. Sophie Piekarec, a French citizen
and new moderator of TUNeZINE, was refused entry to Tunisia.
Mrs. Sophie Piekarec wanted to visit Zouhair's family, one year to the
day after his arrest, she also wanted to meet with the French
Ambassador in Tunis.

* Harassment of members of RAID

Mr. Fathi Chamkhi, spokes-person of the Assembly for Alternative
International Development (CNLT, Conseil national des libert?s en
Tunisie) RAID - ATTAC/Tunisie, Rassemblement pour une alternative
internationale de d?veloppement), was attacked by a guard of the 
university
police on 28th February 2003 in front of the Faculty of Arts of La
Manouba (near Tunis), where he teaches. Subsequently, police from the
nearby police station subjected him to harassment.
Mr. Sadri Khiari, founding member of CNLT and member of RAID
was able to leave Tunisia in May 2003 and now lives abroad. Mr. Khiari
had been banned from leaving Tunisia since July 2000, on the grounds
that he was the object of legal proceedings, whereas he had never 
received
any information about these legal proceedings.

* Refusal of passport and smear campaign against human rights activists

Government-organised smear campaigns in the so-called independent
press (and described as ?the gutter press? by defence associations)
have continued persecuting Mrs. Khedija Cherif, vice-President of the
Tunisian Association of Democrat Women (ATFD, Association tunisienne
des femmes d?mocrates), Mrs. Souhayr Belhassen, vice-
President of LTDH, Mrs. Sihem Ben Sedrine, member of CNLT and
director of the internet magazine Kalima, Mrs. Bochra Bel Haj Hamida,
ex-President of ATFD, Mr. Mokhtar Trifi, President of LTDH,
Mr. Omar Mestiri, member of CNLT, Mr. Kh?ma?s Chammari, ex-vice
President of LTDH and member of the Committee for the Respect of
Human Rights and Liberties (CRLDHT, Comit? pour le respect des
droits de l'Homme et Libert?s) forced into exile, Kamel Jendoubi,
President of the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Human Rights
(REMDH, R?seau euro-m?diterran?en des droits de l'Homme) and of
CRLDHT. Mr. Jendoubi, now living in France, is still deprived of his
Tunisian passport.


From marzouki at ras.eu.org  Sat Apr 17 15:15:46 2004
From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
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?: liste de la pl?ni?re de la soci?t? civile pour le SMSI, liste du 
caucus des droits de l'homme, liste info-smsi (France)

Chers tous,

Alors que certains d'entre nous se pr?parent ? participer ? la 1e 
PrepCom de la 2nde phase du SMSI, qui se tiendra ? Hammamet, Tunisie, 
du 24 au 26 juin 2004, j'ai pens? que l'information suivante pouvait 
aider ? ce processus de pr?paration.

Le rapport annuel 2003 de l'Observatoire pour la protection des 
d?fenseurs des droits de l'homme, un projet commun de la F?d?ration 
internationale des ligues des droits de l'homme (FIDH) et de 
l'Organisation mondiale contre la torture (OMCT), deux membres du 
caucus des droits de l'homme du SMSI, vient d'?tre publi?. Intitul? 
"Les d?fenseurs des droits de l'homme ? l'?preuve du tout-s?curitaire", 
le rapport est disponible en Fran?ais, Anglais et Espagnol, avec une 
pr?face de Shirin Ebadi, d?fenseur iranienne des droits de l'homme et 
prix Nobel de la Paix 2003.

Le rapport est disponible en ligne:
Fran?ais: http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Rappfrdef.pdf
Anglais: http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/complete2003a.pdf
Espagnol: http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/completa2003e.pdf

3 conf?rences de presse ont ?t? organis?es pour son lancement, ? 
Gen?ve, Tunis et Dakar.
La conf?rence de presse de Tunis aurait d? ?tre pr?sent?e le 14 avril 
2004 par Patrick Baudouin (pr?sident d'honneur et ancien pr?sident de 
la FIDH), Souhayr Belhassen (vice-pr?sident de la Ligue tunisienne des 
droits de l'homme-LTDH et de la FIDH) et Raji Sourani (directeur du 
Centre palestinien des droits de l'homme-CPDH et vice-pr?sident de la 
FIDH).
Patrick Baudouin s'est vu interdire l'acc?s au territoire tunisien le 
13 avril: ? peine avait-il atterri ? l'a?roport de Tunis-Carthage, 
qu'il a ?t? imm?diatement refoul? et renvoy? ? Paris par le m?me avion. 
C'est la troisi?me fois que Patrick Baudouin, avocat, se voit ainsi 
interdire l'acc?s au pays (voir le communiqu? de la FIDH ?: 
http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=904, ainsi que de 
nombreuses d?p?ches d'agences de presse).

Selon le rapport 2003 de l'Observatoire, la Tunisie peut ?tre class?e 
dans les pays de "cat?gorie 2" (sur une ?chelle de r?pression des 
d?fenseurs des droits de l'homme allant de 1 ? 3), avec Afghanistan, 
Belarus, Cameroun, Colombie, Cuba, Guatemala, Guin?e-Bissau, Ha?ti, 
Indon?sie, Iran, Kirghizistan, Liberia, Mauritanie, Ouzb?kistan, 
Philippines, Tch?tch?nie, Rwanda, Soudan, Syrie, Togo, Tunisie, 
Turquie, Zimbabwe, o? la situation est qualifi?e ainsi :" R?pression 
syst?matique : Les d?fenseurs parviennent ? agir sous la forme 
d?associations ind?pendantes en faveur des droits de l?Homme, mais sont 
soumises ? une r?pression syst?matique Et /ou?: Les Organisations 
intergouvernementales (OIG) ne peuvent se rendre dans le pays pour y 
effectuer une enqu?te (http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=900).

Vous trouverez ci-dessous quelques extraits du rapport, pertinents 
vis-?-vis du SMSI et des difficult?s de l'implication de la soci?t? 
civile tunisienne dans ce processus.

Cordialement,
Meryem Marzouki, IRIS, France
Co-coordinatrice du caucus droits de l'homme
http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis

Extraits du rapport 2003 de l'Observatoire pour la protection des 
d?fenseurs des droits de l'homme:
"
- Lutte antiterroriste et ?rosion des droits (p 226) :
(p 226) En Tunisie, le 10 d?cembre 2003, la chambre des d?put?s a vot? 
la loi relative
au ? soutien des efforts internationaux de lutte contre le terrorisme 
et la
r?pression du blanchiment d?argent ? (loi 75-2003, ratifi?e et publi?e 
au Journal
officiel le 12 d?cembre 2003). Cette loi qualifie de terroriste ? toute 
infraction,
quels qu?en soient les mobiles, [?] susceptible de [?] semer la terreur 
parmi
la population dans le dessein d?influencer la politique de l??tat [?], 
de troubler
l?ordre public, la paix ou la s?curit? internationale, de porter 
atteinte aux personnes
et aux biens [?] ?. Par ailleurs, la loi consid?re comme terroristes ? 
les
actes d?incitation ? la haine, au fanatisme racial ou religieux quels 
que soient les
moyens utilis?s ?. En outre, les personnes soumises au secret 
professionnel,
tels les avocats, qui s?abstiendraient d?informer imm?diatement les 
autorit?s
d?informations relatives ? des actes terroristes, sont ?galement 
consid?r?es
comme terroristes.
Par ailleurs, cette loi place les associations et partis politiques 
sous un
contr?le financier tr?s strict. Elle leur impose notamment de 
s?abstenir de : recevoir
toute cotisation de valeur sup?rieure ? 30 dinars par an ; recevoir 
tout don ou
autre forme d?aide financi?re quel qu?en soit le montant, sauf 
exception pr?vue
par une disposition sp?ciale de la loi ; recevoir tout fond provenant 
de l??tranger
sans le concours d?un interm?diaire agr?? r?sidant en Tunisie ? 
condition que la
loi en vigueur ne s?y oppose pas et enfin d?accepter tout fonds en 
esp?ces dont
la valeur est sup?rieure ou ?gale ? cinq mille dinars. Ces dispositions 
constituent
une grave menace sur les libert?s publiques. Elle appara?t de fait 
comme une
tentative suppl?mentaire de verrouiller toute voix ind?pendante en 
resserrant
encore l??tau autour des d?fenseurs des droits de l?Homme, journalistes 
et avocats,
qui sont d?j? la cible permanente des autorit?s. Les nouvelles mesures
financi?res pr?vues concr?tisent les vell?it?s des autorit?s 
tunisiennes visant ?
contr?ler, limiter, voire interdire, les sources de financements des 
ONG. Le
r?cent blocage des fonds devant ?tre accord?s par l?Union europ?enne ? 
la
Ligue tunisienne des droits de l?Homme (LTDH), en ao?t 2003, sur un 
fondement
juridique fallacieux, en est le plus flagrant exemple.
Cette loi pr?sente un danger d?autant plus grand que l?amalgame entre
d?fenseurs et terroristes est ? simple ?. Il suffit de rappeler ? cet 
?gard les propos
du repr?sentant de l??tat tunisien ? la 34e session de la Commission 
africaine
des droits de l?Homme et des peuples (octobre 2003), qualifiant la LTDH
d?? association ill?gale et terroriste ?.

- R?pression des mouvements la soci?t? civile et libert? d?expression
R?pression des mouvements anti-guerre (p230)
En Tunisie, plus de 20 participants ont ?t? bless?s et 12 ont ?t? 
interpell?s ?
Sfax, lors de la r?pression violente d?une manifestation organis?e par 
les syndicats,
ONG et partis d?opposition, le 16 f?vrier. Le 22 f?vrier, cinq 
syndicalistes ont ?t?
hospitalis?s et sept membres du Comit? de solidarit? avec l?Irak et la 
Palestine ont
?t? interpell?s lors d?une manifestation ? Gafsa. ? K?bili, le 
pr?sident de la section
de la LTDH a ?t? convoqu? par la police apr?s avoir inform? les 
autorit?s
r?gionales de la d?cision de la section d?organiser une manifestation 
anti-guerre le
13 mars 2003. Des sc?narios similaires se sont d?roul?s ? Sousse et ? 
Bizerte.

R?pression des mouvements de la soci?t? civile en faveur de la d?fense 
des droits de l?Homme (p231) :
En Tunisie, les d?fenseurs des droits de l?Homme et avocats qui tentent 
de
se rassembler pour protester contre les nombreuses violations de l??tat 
de droit
en Tunisie sont ?galement l?objet d?une r?pression syst?matique et le 
plus souvent
violente 9. Par ailleurs, le 3 juin 2003, des responsables syndicaux et 
des
professeurs de l?enseignement secondaire ont ?t? agress?s par des 
agents de la
police en tenue civile, alors qu?ils participaient ? un rassemblement 
de protestation
devant le minist?re de l??ducation nationale et de la Formation 
professionnelle.
Plusieurs syndicalistes ont ?t? brutalis?s, dont M. Ta?eb Bouaicha,
secr?taire g?n?ral du syndicat, et M. Sami Tahri, syndicaliste, qui a 
?t? gri?vement
bless?.

- Entraves ? la libert? d?association (p232)
La situation est quasi similaire dans les pays o? les ONG sont soumises 
au
r?gime de la d?claration, les r?c?piss?s de d?p?t ?tant d?livr?s de 
fa?on particuli?rement
arbitraire. En Tunisie, parmi 2000 associations officiellement 
recens?es,
moins d?une douzaine sont r?ellement ind?pendantes du pouvoir. Parmi
ces derni?res, le Centre tunisien pour l?ind?pendance de la justice 
(CTIJ),
l?Association de lutte contre la torture, le Conseil national des 
libert?s en
Tunisie (CNLT) ou encore l?Association internationale de soutien aux 
prisonniers
politiques, attendent toujours d??tre officiellement reconnues pour 
exercer
l?galement leurs activit?s.

- Actions men?es au plan international et r?gional
Nations unies (p233)
La repr?sentante sp?ciale du secr?taire g?n?ral de l?ONU sur les 
d?fenseurs
des droits de l?Homme, Hina Jilani, qui avait demand? une invitation 
aux autorit?s
?gyptiennes et tunisiennes en 2002, n?a pas re?u de r?ponse ? ce jour.
L?Observatoire a saisi la repr?sentante sp?ciale de l?ensemble des cas 
trait?s.
[...] L?Observatoire a en outre fourni
des informations suppl?mentaires au groupe de travail concernant 
l??volution de
la situation de Zouhayr Yahyaoui, en suivi de sa saisine du groupe de 
travail
effectu?e en 2002.

Commission africaine des droits de l?Homme et des Peuples (p234)
Lors de sa 34e session, en novembre 2003, la Commission africaine des 
droits
de l?Homme et des Peuples a adopt? un m?canisme de protection par la 
cr?ation
d?un ? point focal ? sur les d?fenseurs des droits de l?Homme. La 
situation des
d?fenseurs en Alg?rie, en ?gypte, en Tunisie et au Sahara occidental 
pourra
?tre d?sormais suivie de fa?on sp?cifique par ce m?canisme.

Sommet mondial sur la soci?t? de l?information (p235)
Lors de la premi?re phase du Sommet mondial sur la soci?t? de 
l?information
? Gen?ve (10-12 d?cembre 2003), l?Observatoire a attir? l?attention de 
l?Union
internationale des t?l?communications (UIT) et de la communaut? 
internationale
sur les graves violations dont sont l?objet les d?fenseurs des droits de
l?Homme en Tunisie, et les graves atteintes port?es ? la libert? 
d?expression
dans ce pays. L?Observatoire exprime, dans ce contexte, sa 
pr?occupation quant
? la tenue de la seconde phase du sommet, pr?vue ? Tunis en 2005, et 
insiste
sur la participation de tous les repr?sentants de la soci?t? civile 
tunisienne et
internationale.

- Par pays, les d?fenseurs des droits de l'homme opprim?s : Tunisie 
(p259-268)

* Harc?lement ? l?encontre de la LTDH et de ses membres

Poursuites judiciaires :

Fin 2003, la Ligue tunisienne des droits de l?Homme (LTDH) fait l?objet 
de
plusieurs instructions ou plaintes ouvertes devant la justice visant la 
Ligue ellem?me,
ses sections, ses dirigeants et certains de ses membres.

Proc?s du comit? directeur de la LTDH :

Le pourvoi en cassation du proc?s en annulation entrepris contre le 
comit?
directeur de la LTDH, issu de son 5e congr?s, est toujours en cours. Le 
21 juin
2001, la cour d?appel de Tunis avait confirm? la d?cision en premi?re 
instance
d?annuler les actes du dernier congr?s de la LTDH (octobre 2000), sur 
la base
d?une plainte d?pos?e par quatre membres de la LTDH, militants du
Rassemblement constitutionnel d?mocratique (RCD, parti au pouvoir).

Proc?dures judiciaires contre les sections de la LTDH :

Section de Gab?s. ? la suite d?une intervention brutale de la police, le
19 octobre 2002, le congr?s de la section de Gab?s avait ?t? interdit. 
Il s?est toutefois
tenu le 1er d?cembre 2002, mais un congressiste avait alors d?pos? 
plainte
pour en annuler les actes. Cette annulation a ?t? confirm?e par une 
d?cision du
tribunal de premi?re instance de Tunis le 12 mai 2003. La Ligue s?est 
pourvue
en appel.
Sections de Korba et K?bilia et de Hammam-Lif Ez-zahra et Radh?s. La 
LTDH a
?t? l?objet de jugements en r?f?r?, respectivement les 29 novembre et
20 d?cembre 2003, visant ? annuler les assembl?es g?n?rales de ces 
sections pour
refus par certains adh?rents du RCD de fusionner les sections de Korba 
et K?bilia
et de Hammam-Lif Ez-zahra et Radh?s. Les proc?dures au fond, qui 
devront ?tre
examin?es par le tribunal de premi?re instance de Tunis, sont en cours 
fin 2003.
Section de Sfax. Le 18 janvier 2003, quatre adh?rents de la section de 
la LTDH,
membres du RCD, ont port? plainte contre la Ligue qui avait convoqu? un 
congr?s
pour les 1er et 2 f?vrier afin de cr?er une deuxi?me section ? Sfax. Le 
30 janvier
2003, le juge en r?f?r? a d?cid? de surseoir ? la d?cision du comit? de 
tenir un
congr?s, jugement qui doit ?tre confirm? le tribunal de 1re instance de 
Tunis.
Section de Monastir. La proc?dure en appel dans l?affaire de la 
confiscation du
bureau de la section de Monastir reste en cours. En 2002, la 
propri?taire du local
de la section avait obtenu la r?siliation du contrat de location 
qu?elle venait de
signer avec la LTDH, indiquant qu?elle n??tait pas en possession de ses 
moyens
lors de la signature. La LTDH, qui s?est pourvue en appel, a pu louer 
un autre
local ? partir de septembre 2003.

Obstacles au financement de la LTDH :

Le 29 ao?t 2003, le directeur des Affaires politiques du minist?re de
l?Int?rieur a notifi? ? M. Mokhtar Trifi, pr?sident de la LTDH, 
l?interdiction
du gouvernement tunisien de recevoir la deuxi?me tranche du financement
octroy? par l?Union europ?enne (UE) ? la LTDH, dans le cadre de 
l?Initiative
europ?enne pour la d?mocratie et les droits de l?Homme (IEDDH). Le 12 
septembre,
la LTDH a ?t? inform?e par sa banque (BIAT) que le virement de
cette deuxi?me tranche ? ne pouvait ?tre mis ? disposition [de la LTDH] 
pour
manque des autorisations requises ?. Pour justifier ce blocage, les 
autorit?s se
fondent sur les dispositions de la loi 154 (1959) et du d?cret du 8 mai 
1922. Or,
la loi ne concerne que les associations de bienfaisance et ? reconnues 
d?int?r?t
national ?, ce qui n?est pas le cas de la LTDH, et le d?cret ne vise 
que les collectes
de fonds r?alis?es aupr?s du public. Ce financement avait ?t? obtenu par
la LTDH en avril 2001 dans le cadre d?un projet intitul? ? 
restructuration de la
Ligue tunisienne pour la d?fense des droits de l?Homme ? (projet B7-
70/2001/3185) et sa premi?re tranche avait ?t? ex?cut?e.
Fin 2003, les fonds devant ?tre allou?s ? la LTDH restent bloqu?s.
Le 9 janvier 2004, dans une r?ponse ? une question parlementaire 
concernant
le financement par l?UE de projets d?ONG ind?pendantes en Tunisie, le
commissaire aux relations ext?rieures de l?Union europ?enne, M. 
Christopher
Patten, a indiqu? que ? la Commission europ?enne a ?voqu? la question 
avec
les autorit?s tunisiennes ? et que celles-ci avaient ? pr?cis? que la 
loi [154]
est bien applicable ? toutes les ONG tunisiennes recevant un financement
de l??tranger ?, mais que, ? dans un souci de tol?rance et de 
conciliation ?, elle
n?avait pas ?t? appliqu?e ? la premi?re tranche pay?e par la Commission 
dans le
cadre de ce projet. Les autorit?s ont par ailleurs rappel? que la LTDH 
a fait
l?objet d?une d?cision de justice limitant ses activit?s ? la 
pr?paration de la prochaine
assembl?e g?n?rale et la r??lection de son bureau. Le commissaire a
indiqu? que ? sans se prononcer sur la base l?gale invoqu?e par les 
autorit?s
tunisiennes, la Commission favorise une solution politique ? ce 
probl?me ?.

Poursuites judiciaires et harc?lement contre les dirigeants et membres 
de la LTDH :

Une plainte a ?t? d?pos?e le 28 d?cembre 2002 contre M. Hamda
Mezguich, membre de la section de Bizerte, par un membre de la LTDH,
adh?rent au RCD de la section de Jendouba, pour actes de violence lors 
du
congr?s de Jendouba (septembre 2002). La proc?dure demeure en instance.
Le 26 avril 2003, M. N?ji Marzouk, ?diteur, membre du comit? directeur
de la LTDH, s?est vu intimer l?ordre de quitter ? la Foire du livre 
2003 ? o? il
tenait un stand, par les agents de s?curit?. Il ne devait pas ?tre 
pr?sent lors de
l?inauguration de cette manifestation par le chef de l??tat.
Me Anouar Kousri, vice-pr?sident de la LTDH, reste l?objet d?actes de
harc?lement (surveillance de son domicile, de son cabinet et de ses 
d?placements)
et sa client?le est toujours victime d?actes d?intimidation, visant ? 
la dissuader
d?avoir recours ? son conseil.
Les poursuites judiciaires visant Me Mokhtar Trifi et M. Slaheddine
Jourchi, premier vice-pr?sident, restent pendantes. Ils avaient tous 
deux ?t?
accus?s pour ? diffusion de fausses nouvelles ? et ? non-respect d?une 
d?cision
de justice ?, respectivement en mars 2001 et d?cembre 2000.
Le proc?s en appel de M. Kh?ma?s Ksila, secr?taire g?n?ral, contraint ?
l?exil, condamn? par contumace ? dix ans de prison ferme et 10 000 
dinars
d?amende sur une accusation de droit commun reste ?galement pendant.

* Le CNLT et ses membres pris pour cible

Entraves ? la libert? de r?union :

Le Conseil national des libert?s en Tunisie (CNLT), n?a toujours pas
obtenu d?enregistrement l?gal en 2003, malgr? les demandes r?p?t?es de 
ses
membres depuis cinq ans.
Ces derniers restent l?objet d?obstacles permanents ? leurs activit?s. 
Les
r?unions sont quasi syst?matiquement interdites et le local ? Tunis 
constamment
surveill?. Les forces de l?ordre tunisiennes sont ainsi intervenues ? de
nombreuses reprises en encerclant les lieux o? devaient se tenir des 
r?unions ou
rassemblements organis?s par le CNLT, afin d?en emp?cher le 
d?roulement. Le
24 octobre 2003 notamment, le CNLT a tent? d?organiser une conf?rence de
presse pour le lancement de la Campagne internationale pour la libert? 
en
Tunisie. Son local a ?t? encercl? par un impressionnant d?ploiement de
membres de la police qui en ont interdit l?acc?s.
Aussi, les visiteurs sont ?galement tr?s souvent intimid?s et il 
devient pour
eux de plus en plus difficile de venir soumettre des cas ou t?moignages.

Harc?lement et agression contre Mme Sihem Ben Sedrine :

En avril 2003, Mme Sihem Ben Sedrine, alors porte-parole du CNLT, a fait
l?objet d?une virulente campagne de diffamation et de d?nigrement ? 
travers la
presse. Elle a ?t? accus?e de trahir la cause arabe, alors qu?elle 
revenait d?une
mission en Irak, sous occupation am?ricaine depuis mars.
D?but d?cembre 2003, sa voiture a ?t? enti?rement saccag?e et 
vandalis?e, et
le 5 janvier 2004, Mme Ben Sedrine a ?t? agress?e en pleine rue alors 
qu?elle rentrait
? son domicile, qui est aussi si?ge du CNLT. Mise ? terre par un 
inconnu qui
l?a molest?e, en pr?sence de deux acolytes, Sihem Ben Sedrine a ?t? 
frapp?e ?
coups de poing ? plusieurs reprises et a eu la l?vre fendue et de 
nombreux ecchymoses
et h?matomes. Tout porte ? croire que cette agression a ?t? commandit?e
par les services de s?curit?, qui ne cessent de surveiller son domicile.
Enfin, la proc?dure ouverte en juin 2001 contre Mme Ben Sedrine, pour ? 
diffusion
de fausses nouvelles de nature ? troubler l?ordre public ? et ? 
atteinte ?
l?institution judiciaire ?, reste pendante. Mme Ben Sedrine avait ?t? 
inculp?e
apr?s ?tre intervenue sur la cha?ne de t?l?vision arabe Al Mustaquilla, 
? Londres,
? propos notamment de la question de la torture et de la corruption en 
Tunisie.

Condamnation d?Om Zied :

Le 25 septembre 2003, Mme Neziha Rejiba, alias Om Zied, r?dactrice en
chef du journal Kalima ? interdit par les autorit?s tunisiennes ? et 
responsable
de la communication au comit? de liaison du CNLT, a ?t? convoqu?e ? la 
direction
des enqu?tes douani?res, bureau des infractions de change. Il lui a ?t? 
indiqu?
qu?elle ?tait poursuivie pour ? d?tention ill?gale de devises 
?trang?res ? en
vertu des articles 6, 22, 35, 36 et 37 du Code des changes. Il lui 
?tait reproch?
d?avoir remis une somme de 170 euros ? un proche de r?fugi? politique 
tunisien,
au lendemain de son retour d?un s?jour en France.
Om Zied a ?t? appel?e ? passer en jugement le 28 octobre 2003 devant
la 3e chambre correctionnelle du tribunal de premi?re instance de 
Tunis. Le
18 novembre 2003, lors d?une seconde audience, Om Zied a ?t? condamn?e 
? huit
mois de prison avec sursis et ? une peine d?amende de 1200 dinars 
tunisiens.
L?Observatoire a mandat? un observateur aux deux audiences de son proc?s
au terme duquel le caract?re politique de l?accusation est clairement 
apparu. En
effet, la somme rapport?e par Om Zied avait fait l?objet d?une 
d?claration r?guli?re
aux services de douanes. De plus, les avocats de la d?fense ont rappel? 
les
dispositions de l?article 36 du d?cret d?application du Code des 
changes de 1977,
selon lesquelles les r?sidents tunisiens qui ram?nent de l?argent en 
devises disposent
d?un d?lai de sept jours pour proc?der au change de cette monnaie en
dinars tunisiens.
L?audience en appel qui devait se tenir le 31 d?cembre 2003, a ?t? 
report?e
au 25 f?vrier 2004.
Om Zied est, par ailleurs, victime d?actes de harc?lement et 
d?intimidation
r?guliers en raison notamment de ses ?crits critiques dans son journal 
et de ses
prises de position publiques sur des cha?nes ?trang?res. Son domicile 
est
constamment surveill? par une ?quipe de policiers en civil qui 
multiplient les
provocations ? l??gard de ses fils. Son courrier est ?galement contr?l? 
et parfois
confisqu?. Sa ligne de t?l?phone est sous ?coute permanente et tr?s 
souvent
coup?e pour l?emp?cher de communiquer avec les m?dias ?trangers.

Harc?lement contre plusieurs membres du CNLT :

Me Abderraouf Ayadi, avocat et secr?taire g?n?ral du CNLT, reste l?objet
de harc?lement constant ? son cabinet, son domicile et lors de ses 
d?placements,
et sa client?le reste sous surveillance. Me Nejib Hosni, porte-parole 
du CNLT,
fait ?galement face ? de telles pressions, ainsi que Me Hedi Manai, et 
Me Said
Mechichi, respectivement ancien et actuel dirigeants de la section du 
CNLT ?
Jendouba.
Les proc?dures judiciaires visant M. Omar Mestiri, ancien secr?taire 
g?n?ral
du CNLT, et Dr Moncef Marzouki, ancien porte-parole, sont toujours en
cours. MM. Mestiri et Marzouki avaient ?t? inculp?s en 1999 pour ? 
diffusion de
fausses informations ? et ? maintien d?une association non reconnue ?.
M. M?hamed Ali Bedoui, fr?re du Dr Moncef Marzouki, s?est vu ? plusieurs
reprises interdire de quitter le territoire tunisien bien qu?il dispose 
d?un
visa ? Schengen ? et d?un passeport en cours de validit? et alors qu?il 
ne fait
l?objet d?aucune poursuite judiciaire. M. Bedoui fait l?objet, depuis 
de nombreuses
ann?es, d?un harc?lement syst?matique et d?actes de pers?cution qui lui
ont valu d??tre r?duit au ch?mage et de ne pouvoir quitter la Tunisie.
M. Abdelkhader Ben Khemis, membre dirigeant du CNLT de 2001 ?
2003 et fondateur du laboratoire de chimie de Monastir, se voit 
contraint d?abandonner
ses fonctions dans le cadre d?entraves r?currentes ? ses activit?s 
professionnelles.
Sa demande de prorogation de fonctions a, en effet, ?t? refus?e alors
qu?il arrive ? la retraite.

* Le droit ? la gr?ve du conseil de l?Ordre des avocats remis en cause

Le 8 juillet 2003, la cour d?appel de Tunis a rendu son verdict dans 
l?affaire
opposant six avocats membres du RCD (parti au pouvoir) au conseil de 
l?Ordre
des avocats. Elle a donn? droit ? la demande des plaignants d?obtenir 
l?annulation
r?troactive de l?appel ? la gr?ve lanc?e par le conseil de l?Ordre des 
avocats
le 2 f?vrier 2002, pour ? gr?ve illicite ?.
Cet appel ? la gr?ve visait ? protester contre de nombreuses 
irr?gularit?s survenues
au cours du proc?s de M. Hamma Hamami, chef du Parti communiste
ouvrier de Tunisie (PCOT) et contre les violences perp?tr?es contre les 
observateurs
et avocats ? cette occasion.
L?Observatoire a mandat? un observateur ? quatre des cinq audiences du
proc?s, conjointement avec la Commission internationale de juristes et 
Avocats
sans fronti?res-Belgique. Les demandeurs ont notamment argu? du fait 
que leur
? droit au travail ? avait ?t? bafou?, alors m?me que les avocats 
proches du pouvoir
qui n?ont pas voulu participer au mouvement de gr?ve n?ont jamais ?t?
emp?ch?s d?exercer leur profession le 7 f?vrier 2002.
La d?cision rendue le 8 juillet constitue un pr?c?dent inqui?tant. Le 
barreau
se voit en effet d?sormais emp?ch? d?appeler ? la gr?ve ? droit 
pourtant consacr?
par la Constitution tunisienne ? et les avocats sont d?sormais 
susceptibles
d??tre l?objet de poursuites disciplinaires en cas de recours ? la 
gr?ve.
Cette d?cision a manifestement vis? ? mettre au pas un barreau jug? trop
ind?pendant. Par son mode d??lection, mais aussi par son attachement ? 
la
d?fense des libert?s individuelles et notamment ? la lutte contre les 
violences
polici?res, la pratique de la torture et les dysfonctionnements du 
syst?me judiciaire,
l?Ordre des avocats repr?sente en effet l?un des derniers rares remparts
contre l?arbitraire en Tunisie.
Cette d?cision s?ajoute aux multiples pressions dont sont l?objet les 
membres
du conseil de l?Ordre des avocats. Ainsi, ? titre d?exemple, une 
d?l?gation pr?sid?e
par Me Bechir Essid, b?tonnier de l?Ordre des avocats, et compos?e de
membres de l?Ordre des avocats et de l?Association des jeunes avocats a 
?t?
emp?ch?e, le 26 mars 2003, d?acc?der ? l?ambassade d?Irak pour exprimer 
sa
solidarit? avec le peuple irakien.
Le 21 avril 2003, un rassemblement que devait organiser l?Ordre des 
avocats
devant le minist?re de la Justice et des Droits de l?Homme pour 
protester contre
le refus du minist?re de r?pondre ? leurs revendications concernant 
leur situation
morale et mat?rielle, a ?t? interdit par les forces de police qui ont 
encercl?
le palais de justice de Tunis. Les avocats qui ?taient en r?union avec 
le b?tonnier
au si?ge de l?Ordre des avocats ont ?t? emp?ch?s de sortir et de se 
d?placer
vers le lieu de rassemblement.
Par ailleurs, dans la nuit du 10 ? 11 mai 2003, Me Bechir Essid a ?t? 
agress?
par des membres de la police alors qu?il se rendait au Club des avocats 
pour
s?informer des raisons pour lesquelles ce local avait ?t? interdit 
d?acc?s aux avocats
le jour m?me.
Enfin, le 15 mai 2003, Me Mohamed Jmour, secr?taire g?n?ral du conseil
de l?Ordre des avocats et N?ji Marzouk, membre du comit? directeur de la
LTDH, ont ?t? fouill?s ? l?a?roport alors qu?ils se rendaient ? 
l??tranger sous le
pr?texte d?? instructions re?ues ?. Me Jmour a ?t? par la suite soumis 
? des
fouilles et actes de harc?lement r?guliers lors de ses d?parts pour 
l??tranger,
notamment le 8 d?cembre 2003, alors qu?il se rendait ? Gen?ve pour 
assister au
Sommet mondial sur la soci?t? de l?information.

* Refus d?enregistrement de l?Association de lutte contre la torture en 
Tunisie et harc?lement de sa pr?sidente, Radhia Nasraoui

Refus d?enregistrement de l?Association de lutte contre la torture en 
Tunisie :

Le 26 juin 2003, Me Radhia Nasraoui, Chokri Latif, Ali Ben Salem et
Ridha Barakati, membres fondateurs de l?Association de lutte contre la 
torture
en Tunisie (ALTT), se sont rendus au si?ge du gouvernorat de Tunis, 
afin de
d?poser les documents relatifs ? la cr?ation de l?ALTT pour obtenir un 
r?c?piss?
de d?p?t l?gal. Ils ont ?t? refoul?s par les agents ? l?entr?e et 
l?acc?s au
bureau concern? leur a ?t? refus?.
L?ALTT, dont la cr?ation a ?t? annonc?e le 26 juin, journ?e 
internationale
des Nations unies pour le soutien aux victimes de la torture, a pour 
mandat de
promouvoir les l?gislations locales de protection contre la torture, 
recenser et
faire le suivi des cas de torture, et fournir une assistance aux 
victimes sur le plan
m?dical, ainsi que sur le plan judiciaire en vue du d?p?t de plaintes 
aupr?s des
instances nationales et internationales.

Harc?lement et agression contre Radhia Nasraoui :

Le 16 avril 2003, le cabinet de Me Radhia Nasraoui a ?t? encercl? par 
environ
40 membres de la police politique. Me B?chir Essid et Me Mohamed Jmour,
qui se sont rendus sur les lieux, se sont vu interdire l?acc?s ? son 
bureau.
Le 13 juillet 2003, Me Radhia Nasraoui a ?t? agress?e par des policiers 
en
civil, alors qu?elle se rendait ? une r?ception de la Ligue tunisienne 
des ?crivains
libres, non reconnue, ? l?occasion du deuxi?me anniversaire de 
l?association.
Alors que Me Nasraoui et M. Jalloul Azzouna, ?crivain et pr?sident de la
ligue des ?crivains libres, venaient de passer le barrage de policiers 
d?ploy?s en
nombre pour emp?cher la tenue de la r?ception, Me Nasraoui a ?t? pouss?e
contre un mur puis violemment frapp?e par des policiers. M. Azzouna, 
qui tentait
de la d?fendre, a ?t? malmen? dans la bousculade. Me Nasraoui, qui 
souffrait
de contusions aux bras, a ?t? mise en arr?t de travail pour une dur?e 
de six jours.
Fin 2003, aucune suite n?a ?t? donn?e ? la plainte qu?elle a d?pos?e 
aupr?s
des services de police.
Le 15 octobre 2003, Me Radhia Nasraoui a entam? une gr?ve de la faim, 
afin
de protester contre les entraves syst?matiques qu?elle subit dans 
l?exercice de sa
profession d?avocate et du harc?lement constant dont elle, sa famille 
et ses
clients sont l?objet depuis de nombreuses ann?es. En effet, depuis 
plusieurs
ann?es, sa maison est constamment surveill?e par la police, sa ligne 
t?l?phonique
est sur ?coute, et son courrier est intercept?. De m?me, ses clients 
font
l?objet de tr?s fortes pressions visant ? les dissuader d?avoir recours 
? son conseil.
L?Observatoire a mandat? deux missions de solidarit? aupr?s de Me Radhia
Nasraoui, du 7 au 10 novembre et du 28 au 30, afin de lui apporter son 
soutien.
Le 10 d?cembre 2003, Me Radhia Nasraoui a annonc? lors d?une conf?rence
de presse qu?elle mettait un terme ? sa gr?ve de la faim. Me Nasraoui 
est apparue
tr?s affaiblie, ayant perdu notamment 16 kilos.
Fin 2003, son domicile ?tait toujours l?objet de surveillance. Me 
Nasraoui a
toutefois r?ussi ? attirer l?attention de nombreux repr?sentants de la 
communaut?
internationale et des m?dias sur les graves atteintes ? l??tat de droit 
et aux
droits de l?Homme en Tunisie.

* Harc?lement contre Me Mohamed Nouri

Le 18 juillet 2003, Me Mohamed Nouri, pr?sident de l?Association 
internationale
de solidarit? avec les prisonniers politiques (AISPP), a vu son domicile
entour? d?un fort dispositif policier durant toute une journ?e, alors 
qu?il revenait
de Suisse.
Le 5 d?cembre 2003, Me Nouri a vu son cabinet encercl? par les forces de
l?ordre pour interdire la conf?rence de presse ? laquelle des 
repr?sentants de la
soci?t? civile, dont le doyen du barreau tunisien, avaient appel? afin 
de d?noncer
la situation dramatique des prisonniers politiques en Tunisie, en 
particulier
ceux de Borg el-Amri, alors ? leur 34e jour de gr?ve de la faim.
Le 9 d?cembre, il a ?t? emp?ch? de quitter le territoire tunisien pour 
se
rendre ? Gen?ve.

* D?tention et lib?ration de Zouhair Yahyaoui

M. Zouhair Yahyaoui, fondateur et animateur du site internet TUNeZINE
consacr? aux libert?s fondamentales en Tunisie, d?tenu depuis le 4 juin 
2002, a
?t? lib?r? le 18 novembre 2003, gr?ce ? la mobilisation nationale et 
internationale.
M. Zouhair Yahyaoui avait ?t? arr?t? le 4 juin 2002 et condamn? le 20 
juin
2002 en premi?re instance, puis en appel le 10 juillet ? deux ans de 
prison pour
? propagation de fausses nouvelles ? ? la suite d?un proc?s que 
l?Observatoire
avait observ? et consid?r? comme in?quitable. L?Observatoire avait 
saisi le
groupe de travail des Nations unies sur la d?tention arbitraire de son 
cas le
27 ao?t 2002.
M. Yahyaoui est sorti de prison dans un ?tat physique extr?mement 
affaibli
en raison des conditions de d?tention pr?caires et d?gradantes dans 
lesquelles il
?tait d?tenu. Il a notamment perdu toutes ses dents, ainsi que beaucoup 
de
poids.
En 2003, M. Zouhair Yahyaoui a men? trois gr?ves de la faim pour 
protester
contre sa condamnation et ses conditions de d?tention. Outre des 
conditions
d?gradantes sur le plan physique (cellule surpeupl?e, chaleur extr?me, 
absence
d?acc?s ? des soins m?dicaux, etc.), M. Zouhair Yahyaoui a fait l?objet 
de pers?cutions,
humiliations et mesures punitives de la part des gardiens de la prison.
Ces mesures se sont notamment multipli?es apr?s le rassemblement de 
solidarit?
organis? en sa faveur devant la prison de Borj El Amri le 6 f?vrier 
2003 66.
? partir de ce moment, la nourriture que lui envoyait sa famille ?tait 
r?guli?rement
vol?e et ce qui lui parvenait ?tait d?lib?r?ment souill? par les 
gardiens.
Toute lecture lui a ?t? interdite, sa correspondance a ?t? confisqu?e 
et sa promenade
quotidienne supprim?e. M. Yahyaoui a par ailleurs ?t? mis au cachot
avec privation totale de nourriture pendant deux jours ? la suite des 
protestations
de sa famille concernant les conditions de visite. Ces mesures 
punitives se
sont de nouveau accrues peu avant sa lib?ration.
Le 4 juin 2003, sa fianc?e, Melle Sophie Piekarec, de nationalit? 
fran?aise et
nouvelle animatrice de TUNeZINE, avait ?t? refoul?e de Tunisie. Melle 
Sophie
Piekarec souhaitait rendre visite ? la famille de Zouhair, un an jour 
pour jour
apr?s son arrestation, elle devait ?galement rencontrer l?ambassadeur 
de France
? Tunis.

* Harc?lement ? l?encontre des membres du RAID

M. Fathi Chamkhi, porte-parole du Rassemblement pour une alternative
internationale de d?veloppement (RAID, ATTAC/Tunisie), a ?t? agress? le
28 f?vrier 2003 devant la facult? des lettres de La Manouba (proche de 
la capitale),
o? il enseigne, par un garde de police universitaire. Des agents du 
poste de
police l?ont ensuite harcel?.
M. Sadri Khiari, membre fondateur du CNLT et membre du RAID, a pu
quitter la Tunisie en mai 2003 et vit d?sormais ? l??tranger. M. Khiari 
faisait
l?objet d?une interdiction de sortie du territoire depuis juillet 2000, 
au motif
qu?il ?tait l?objet de poursuites judiciaires, alors qu?il n?avait 
jamais re?u d?informations
quant ? ces poursuites.

* Refus de passeport et campagne de calomnie contre des d?fenseurs des 
droits de l?Homme

Les campagnes de diffamation orchestr?es par le gouvernement dans la
presse dite ind?pendante (et qualifi?e de ? presse de caniveau ? par 
les associations
de d?fense) ont continu?, mettant en cause notamment Mmes Chedija
Cherif, vice-pr?sidente de l?Association tunisienne des femmes 
d?mocrates
(ATFD), Souhayr Belhassen, vice-pr?sidente de la LTDH, Sihem Ben
Sedrine, membre du CNLT et directrice du magazine en ligne Kalima,
Me Bochra Bel Haj Hamida, ex-pr?sidente de l?ATFD, Me Mokhtar Trifi,
pr?sident de la LTDH, M. Omar Mestiri, membre du CNLT, M. Kh?ma?s
Chammari, ex-vice-pr?sident de la LTDH et membre du Comit? pour le 
respect
des droits de l?Homme et des libert?s (CRLDHT) contraint ? l?exil,
Kamel Jendoubi, pr?sident du R?seau euro-m?diterran?en des droits de
l?Homme (REMDH) et du CRLDHT. Ce dernier, r?sidant en France, continue
? ?tre priv? de son passeport.
"

From katitza at privaterra.org  Sun Apr 18 23:42:40 2004
From: katitza at privaterra.org (katitza@privaterra.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Privacy meeting in Argentina/ Reunion de privacidad en Argentina
In-Reply-To: <20040203095852.1561.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20040203095852.1561.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <3773.200.62.136.234.1082328160.squirrel@secure.privaterra.org>

Spanish/English below

El 16 de abril de 2004 se llevo a cabo en Buenos Aires, Argentina, una
mesa redonda organizada con la finalidad de promover el di?logo entre las
organizaciones de defensa del consumidor, expertos en protecci?n del
consumidor y derecho a la privacidad y las agencias gubernamentales de
protecci?n de datos.

Dicha mesa redonda es co-organizada por Electronic Privacy Information
Center (EPIC) de los Estados Unidos, la Oficina para la Am?rica Latina y
Caribe de Consumers International, el Foro de Habeas Data y el Instituto
de Derecho del Consumidor del Colegio P?blico de Abogados de la Capital
Federal, en cuyo local se realizar?.


Pueden encontrar algunas presentaciones e informaci?n sobre el mismo en
http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/buenosaires04/default.html

Saludos/as

Katitza

A short note to let you know that  in this URL you could find information
and materials from the Public Voice Roundtable: Consumers and Privacy in
South America that was held on April 16, 2004 in Buenos Aires Argentina
Organized by the Electronic Privacy Information Center,   Consumers
international (Oficina para Am?rica latina y el Caribe), the Instituto de
Derecho del Consumidor del Colegio P?blico de Abogados de la Capital
Federal
the Foro de Habeas Data

http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/buenosaires04/default.html

Best,

Katitza


From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Mon Apr 19 18:09:24 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ICTs for productivity. McKinsey article: The power of productivity
Message-ID: <20040419170924.96411.qmail@web21321.mail.yahoo.com>

Interesting article / stats  as we work at WSIS and engage the private sector in our ICT work / partnerships. 
 
ICTs for productivity !
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell
President Vancouver Community Network, Canada
 
The McKinsey Quarterly - 

Web site and read the article "THE POWER OF PRODUCTIVITY".

This article can be viewed at
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/ab_g.asp?ar=1423




Amali De Silva-Mitchell  AAT,BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE

Tel: 1-604-736-9012 & Email: amalidesilva@yahoo.com

 

 

 







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From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Tue Apr 20 08:46:59 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ICTs for productivity. McKinsey article: The power of productivity
References: <20040419170924.96411.qmail@web21321.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <001501c426ab$a9fcda00$0a00000a@default>

In french below

Hi Amali

I wonder if this "information" deserves to be disseminated at the CS plenary. In my opinion it is NOT an information but an advertising of some ultra-liberal economists. And most of us -at least those committed in action in the field- are fed up with this "unique thought" ! So please, leave it to the "Chicago boys" and remember their success story : Argentina ! (among other countries, especially in Africa).
By the way, I'd just remind you and all contemplators of the "unique thought" that the CS "unanimously condemned the leading role given to the market" in our alternative Declaration. 

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France

Salut Amali

Je me demande si cette "information" m?rite d'etre distribuee ? la Pleniere de la SC. A mon avis ce n'est PAS de l'information mais de la publicite de quelques economistes ultra-liberaux. Et la majorite d'entre nous -du moins ce qui sont engages dans l'action sur le terrain- en ont marre de cette "pensee unique" ! Laisse la donc aux "Chicago boys" et souviens toi de leur succes : l'Argentine ! (parmi d'autres pays, en particulier en Afrique). 
Par la meme occasion, je voudrais simplement te rappeler ainsi qu'a tous les contemplateurs de la "pensee unique" que la SC a "condamne unanimement le role de guide confere au marche" dans notre Declaration alternative. 

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France
    

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Amali De Silva 
  To: plenary@wsis-cs.org 
  Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 7:09 PM
  Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ICTs for productivity. McKinsey article: The power of productivity


  Interesting article / stats  as we work at WSIS and engage the private sector in our ICT work / partnerships. 

  ICTs for productivity !

  Amali De Silva - Mitchell
  President Vancouver Community Network, Canada

  The McKinsey Quarterly - 
    Web site and read the article "THE POWER OF PRODUCTIVITY".

    This article can be viewed at
    http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/ab_g.asp?ar=1423




  Amali De Silva-Mitchell  AAT,BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE

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From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Tue Apr 20 09:38:25 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: Meeting of ECOSOC with the BWIs and WTO 26 April, New York
References: <408432C6.7050904@ngocongo.org>
Message-ID: <002501c426b2$d9832020$0a00000a@default>

En francais ci-dessous

Dear Rik

It would be interesting to know the NGO which were (so confidentially)
invited to the hearing (!) held on March 22. And even more interesting would
be to know WHAT they told "the hearers" there.
If we consider the outcomes of the former annual meetings there aren't any
reasons to hope for something concrete from such events.
I do believe that CS and the NGOs committed in the WSIS process, will have
to urgently elaborate and specify their action plan for the second phase.
Because this phase will be focused on concrete actions (at least I do hope
for it for our African friends !).  Therefore I would strongly support the
idea of an open discussion upon the content and wording of a kind of  "CS
alternative Action Plan", which concentrates to three or four priorities,
among which development (i.a. bridging the digital gap) will be n?1.
Thanks for coming information.
Best regards
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France

Cher Rik

Il serait interessant de connaitre les ONG qui ont ete (si
confidentiellement) invitees a l'audition du 22 mars. Et il serait encore
plus interessant de savoir ce qu'elles y ont dit a leurs "ecouteurs" (nota :
hearing en anglais signifie litteralement "ecoute"et par extension
audience).
Si nous nous en tenons aux resultats des reunions annuelles precedentes, il
n'y a guere de raisons d'esperer quelque chose de concret de tels
evenements.
Je cois fermement que la SC et ses ONG engagees dans le processus du SMSI,
devront urgemment elaborer et definir leur plan d'action pour la deuxieme
phase du Sommet. Car celle-ci sera focalisee sur les  actions concretes(du
moins faut il l'espere pour nos amis africains!). C'est pour cette raison
que je soutiens fermement l'idee d'une discussion ouverte sur le contenu et
la redaction d'une sorte de "Plan d'Action alternatif de la SC" qui se
concentre sur trois ou quatre priorites parmi lesquelles le developpement
(entre autres le comblement du fosse numerique) sera n?1.
Merci pour l'information a venir.
Bien cordialement
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT .

----- Original Message -----
From: "CONGO (Rik Panganiban)" <rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org>
To: <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:12 PM
Subject: Meeting of ECOSOC with the BWIs and WTO 26 April, New York


> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Please find below information about the Special High Level Meeting of
> ECOSOC with the Bretton Woods Institutions and WTO, which will be held
> on 26 April 2004 at United Nations, New York.
>
> More information available in the ECOSOC web site:
> www.un.org/esa/coordination/ecosoc
>
> Apologies for the late notice of this meeting.  We only received this
> information today.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rik Panganiban
> Communications Coordinator
>
> =================================================
>
> Background on the Special High Level Meeting of  ECOSOC with the Bretton
> Woods Institutions and WTO
> 26 April 2004
>
> Introduction
>
> In a continued multilateral effort to further the attainment of
development
> goals, the Economic and Social Council will host a special high-level
> meeting with the Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Trade Organization
> and?for the first time?UNCTAD, following its resolution E/2003/47.
>
> The meeting will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York
> on 26 April 2004, the day after the spring meetings in Washington of the
> International Monetary and Financial Committee and the Development
> Committee.
>
> The General Assembly, in its resolution 58/230, requested the President of
> the Economic and Social Council, in consultation with all major
> institutional stakeholders, to focus the annual special high-level meeting
> on specific issues, within the holistic, integrated approach of the
> Monterrey Consensus.
>
> This year's meeting wil! l build  on last year's event by addressing the
> overall theme of "Coherence, coordination and cooperation in the context
of
> the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus". In addition, the meeting
> will focus on three specific themes in the roundtable discussions. It is
> intended to be a free-flowing working dialogue in which the chairpersons
of
> the Development Committee, the International Monetary and Financial
> Committee, the General Council of the World Trade Organization and the
> Trade Development Board of UNCTAD are invited to play a role. The World
> Bank, the IMF, the WTO and other institutional stakeholders as well as
> representatives of the business sector and NGOs are also invited to
> participate. The Secretary-General will also take part in the meeting.
>
> The outcome of the special high-level meeting will be in the form of a
> summary of the discussions by the President of the Economic and Social
> Council. It will be circulated among particip! ants at  the Economic and
> Social Council substantive session in July as well as at the General
> Assembly's upcoming debate on FfD follows up.
>
> Preparations
>
> Preparations have started much earlier than in the past. This enabled a
> number of more in-depth intergovernmental interactions, as envisioned in
> the Monterrey Consensus, among all relevant institutional stakeholders.
>
> In addition, NGO and business hearings were held 22 and 24 March,
> respectively.
>
> Background
>
> Special high-level meetings of the Economic and Social Council with
Bretton
> Woods Institutions are a yearly occurrence since 1998. They were mandated
> by GA Resolution 50/227: Further measures for the restructuring and
> revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social and related
> fields, adopted in 1996. Annex I (Para. 88) of that resolution states: "In
> order to improve communication and cooperation at the intergovernmental
> level between the Council and!  the  international financial and trade
> institutions, to facilitate an exchange of views with regard to global
> issues of high priority and relevance and to consider how the Economic and
> Social Council and the international financial and trade institutions
could
> mutually support their respective efforts in promoting and coordinating
> programme activities within their purviews relating to these issues, the
> Council should schedule periodically a high-level special meeting at a
time
> proximate to the semi-annual meetings of the Bretton Woods institutions
> with a view to benefiting, to the extent possible, from high-level
> ministerial participation and the participation of heads of financial and
> trade institutions and other relevant organizations."
>
> Early on in the preparatory process towards the International Conference
on
> Financing for Development the General Assembly, in resolution 54/196 of
> 1999, recognized WTO as a key stakeholder in both the  preparatory process
> and in the high-level intergovernmental event.
>
> Subsequently, in March 2002, the Monterrey Consensus (para. 69 B)
> encouraged "the United Nations, the World Bank and the International
> Monetary Fund, with the World Trade Organization, to address issues of
> coherence, coordination and cooperation, as a follow-up to the Conference,
> at the spring meeting between the Economic and Social Council and the
> Bretton Woods institutions."
>
> In 1998, the first meeting was held against the backdrop of the Asian
> financial crisis, and ministers discussed how to maintain the focus on
> long-term development amidst economic and financial upheavals.
>
> In 1999, the meeting address the functioning of international financial
> markets and stability in financing for development, in the broader context
> of issues related to promoting recovery, ensuring cross-sectional
coherence
> and mobilizing the cooperation of all actors in the developm! ent
process.
>
> In 2000, the focus of discussion was the strengthening international
> financial arrangements and eradicating poverty. For the first time WTO was
> formally represented at the meeting by its Deputy Director-General.
>
> In 2001, the meeting addressed two themes: (a) development financing, in
> particular poverty eradication, official development assistance, and debt,
> and (b) a development-friendly international financial system: public and
> private responsibility in the prevention of financial crises.
>
> In 2002, the topic was "Dialogue on the outcome of the International
> Conference on Financing for Development and the meetings of the
Development
> Committee and International Monetary and Financial Committee". After
> Monterrey, the meetings have helped lay down the foundation for "staying
> engaged" as called for in the Consensus.
>
> In 2003, the meeting focused on an overall assessment of progress in
> implementation of the Monter! rey  Consensus at all levels a year after.
>
> In 2004, the meeting will include for the first time representation from
> UNCTAD's Trade and Development Board.
>
>
> --
> =====================================================
> Rik Panganiban, Communications Coordinator
>
> Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship
> with the United Nations (CONGO)
> web: http://www.ngocongo.org
> email: rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org
>



From nne75 at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 20 13:43:44 2004
From: nne75 at yahoo.com (Nnenna)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: REUNION_MINISTERIELLE_SUR_LA_SOCIETE_DE_L'INFORMATION_
Message-ID: <20040420124344.52513.qmail@web10913.mail.yahoo.com>



Bonjour,
voici pour info l'extrait d'un article paru le journal quotidien sénégalais"lesoleil"
son intégralité : 
http://www.lesoleil.sn/sciences/article.CFM?articles__id=36768
 
REUNION MINISTERIELLE SUR LA SOCIETE DE L’INFORMATION : Me Wade : « assurez l’intégration numérique de l’Afrique »
« Les technologies de l’information et de la communication ont un caractère transversal et influent sur tous les secteurs prioritaires du NEPAD ». C’est par ces mots que le président Wade a replacé les défis de l’Afrique face à la société de l’information. Un chantier immense sur lequel une trentaine de ministres africains en charge des technologies de l’information et de la communication se penchent depuis hier à Dakar pour dégager une position commune. 

À l’ouverture hier au Méridien Président de ces travaux préparatoires de la Phase de Tunis du Somment mondial de la société de l’information (SMSI), le coordonnateur du volet TIC du Nepad s’est dit optimiste puisque l’Afrique peut aller même plus vite que les pays développés « parce que la marge de progression est beaucoup plus large ». Me Wade avait auparavant campé le contexte de la révolution numérique, dégagé les points d’articulation avec le NEPAD et expliqué sa vision de la solidarité. 


		
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From nne75 at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 20 13:44:55 2004
From: nne75 at yahoo.com (Nnenna)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] La réunion de la société civile africaine dans la presse tunisienne
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Samedi 17 Avril 2004 

Une action qui s’inscrit dans la durée

• La proposition de la Tunisie en faveur de la création d’un fonds spécial pour financer la participation de la société civile africaine, saluée

Un rapport préliminaire qui sera enrichi en l’espace de quelques jours et qui sera adopté après les modifications qui s’imposent. Voilà ce qui s’est dégagé, jeudi en fin de soirée, au terme de la 1ère réunion du comité de liaison de la société civile africaine (Clasc) pour la préparation de la seconde phase du Sommet mondial sur la société de l’information (Tunis, novembre 2005) qui a été tenue du 13 au 15 avril courant à Tunis.

Composé des représentants sous-régionaux élus, le Clasc a salué la proposition de la Tunisie en faveur de la création d’un fonds spécial pour aider au financement de la participation de la société civile à toutes les étapes du processus du sommet et rendu un vibrant hommage à l’action du Président Zine El Abidine Ben Ali visant à offrir toutes les facilités nécessaires à la réussite du grand rendez-vous de Tunis.

Il a, par ailleurs, inscrit son action dans la durée puisqu’il se propose de poursuivre son activité au delà du sommet prévu pour les 16, 17 et 18 novembre 2005. C’est ainsi que les membres du comité envisagent de le transformer en un réseau d’ONG africaines concernées par la Société de l’information. Objectif : participer à l’édification de cette société sur la base des résolutions et des programmes du Sommet de Tunis.

Les membres du comité ont, d’un autre côté, recommandé d’organiser une grande plénière de la société civile africaine avant la tenue du sommet et ont penché pour un rendez-vous qui coïnciderait avec la deuxième réunion préparatoire prévue en 2005.

Les membres ont donc décidé de poursuivre la discussion du rapport à distance (à l’honneur de la Société de l’information) afin de le finaliser.

Préparé par la partie tunisienne, le programme de travail a inclu des visites au parc technologique d’El Ghazala, la Siticon Valley tunisienne, au Centre d’informatique pour enfants handicapés, le Centre Ifeda d’information et de formation pour les associations ainsi qu’au siège de quelques associations.

Le comité a été également reçu par le secrétaire d’Etat chargé de l’Informatique et d’Internet et par le secrétaire exécutif de la commission nationale pour le sommet.

Mercredi 14 Avril 2004 

Préparatifs de la seconde phase 
du Sommet mondial sur la société de l’information

La société civile africaine retrousse ses manches

• Démarrage hier à Tunis de la 1ère réunion du groupe de liaison

La première réunion du comité de liaison de la société civile africaine, en préparation de sa participation à la seconde phase du Sommet mondial de la société de l’information (Smsi-Tunis 2005), a démarré hier après-midi à Tunis et se poursuivra jusqu’à demain.

Décidée lors de la première phase du Smsi qui a été tenue à Genève en décembre 2003, cette réunion regroupe les représentants élus des différentes sous-régions du continent et a pour principal objectif de coordonner les positions de la société civile africaine tout le long du processus de la seconde phase du Smsi.

Composé d’une dizaine de membres, le comité a d’abord commencé par se structurer, et ce, après une brève séance d’ouverture qui a été assurée par un représentant du Comité national chargé du Smsi.

Plusieurs points importants ont été ainsi inscrits à l’ordre du jour tels que le programme d’activités du Comité jusqu’au Sommet, sa relation avec le bureau de Bamako, sa représentation auprès de l’ONU et autres organisations, le processus de préparation de la seconde phase, les priorités de la société civile africaine, etc.

Après avoir effectué, au cours de la matinée d’hier, une série de visites à des institutions chargées des technologies de l’information et de la communication ou de la société civile, le comité a programmé de rendre visite à des responsables tunisiens.

Rappelons que le Smsi est la première rencontre du genre à faire participer à tous ses travaux les représentants de la société civile et de lui offrir l’opportunité de constituer un bureau international. Cela à côté des gouvernements, des organisations internationales et du secteur privé.

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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 20 18:49:35 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ICTs for productivity. McKinsey article: The power of productivity
In-Reply-To: <001501c426ab$a9fcda00$0a00000a@default>
Message-ID: <20040420174935.53032.qmail@web21323.mail.yahoo.com>

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this Jean-Louis.
 
We are dealing with a world where the private sector has the money and the resources to support our CS missions and government takes them more seriously than perhaps CS, at times.
 
CS must not walk around with rose coloured glasses and barefeet thinking that if they open their palms to the sky / private sector / govt gold coins will simply fall in to their hands.
 
CS had to think strategy.
 
Each country wants to improve it's standard of living. Simply flushing large sums of money in to programs is of no use if they do not: 
 
1) Meet the goals of the program
 
2) Are efficient, well managed 
 
Productivity is key - what can a CS organization do with the little money they receive is an important question.
 
It will determine:  
 
1) if they get further funding 
 
2) if they can go beyond what was initially envisaged by the project goals to reach more persons at the local level.
 
In the West we talk so much about efficient management ( cs program in this case ) practices - why are you so resistant to sharing thoughts about effeciency / productivity with all ? 
 
In democracies typically there are many avenues of economic and political thought. Not just one way is necessary the best way - we should not be blinkered. 
 
Why are we in a conference that talks about ICTs - it is about money and who controls the systems. It's about getting the world to a better economic / humanitarian place, amongst other thoughts.
 
CS will not get money if the private sector does not get value ( recognition ) for it's money. Big buisness wants to be seen as being socially responsible and even though you may not like it,  big business ( who has the money ) listen to the people who write these books and articles.
 
Big business / govt counts it's pennies very carefully and will give to those who are the most productive ! Better to give org x that reaches 1000 persons through a computer it donates than simply reaching 5 persons ! And isn't that what CS wants too - to reach as many perosns ? 
 
Increasing productivity ( human, capital use of limited resources etc ) will mean that the world will reach a better place for all ( win-win)
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell 
( responding in a personal capacity )
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
In french below
 
Hi Amali
 
I wonder if this "information" deserves to be disseminated at the CS plenary. In my opinion it is NOT an information but an advertising of some ultra-liberal economists. And most of us -at least those committed in action in the field- are fed up with this "unique thought" ! So please, leave it to the "Chicago boys" and remember their success story : Argentina ! (among other countries, especially in Africa).
By the way, I'd just remind you and all contemplators of the "unique thought" that the CS "unanimously condemned the leading role given to the market" in our alternative Declaration. 
 
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France
 
Salut Amali
 
Je me demande si cette "information" mérite d'etre distribuee à la Pleniere de la SC. A mon avis ce n'est PAS de l'information mais de la publicite de quelques economistes ultra-liberaux. Et la majorite d'entre nous -du moins ce qui sont engages dans l'action sur le terrain- en ont marre de cette "pensee unique" ! Laisse la donc aux "Chicago boys" et souviens toi de leur succes : l'Argentine ! (parmi d'autres pays, en particulier en Afrique). 
Par la meme occasion, je voudrais simplement te rappeler ainsi qu'a tous les contemplateurs de la "pensee unique" que la SC a "condamne unanimement le role de guide confere au marche" dans notre Declaration alternative. 
 
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France
    
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Amali De Silva 
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org 
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 7:09 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ICTs for productivity. McKinsey article: The power of productivity


Interesting article / stats  as we work at WSIS and engage the private sector in our ICT work / partnerships. 
 
ICTs for productivity !
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell
President Vancouver Community Network, Canada
 
The McKinsey Quarterly - 

Web site and read the article "THE POWER OF PRODUCTIVITY".

This article can be viewed at
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/ab_g.asp?ar=1423




Amali De Silva-Mitchell  AAT,BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE

Tel: 1-604-736-9012 & Email: amalidesilva@yahoo.com

 

 

 










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From bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de  Tue Apr 20 22:07:29 2004
From: bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Ralf Bendrath)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Composition of the new WSIS PrepCom Bureau
Message-ID: <40859111.235E32DC@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

The new bureau chair will be from the North from what I've heard,
because Samassekou was from the South. Somebody should check with the
Euopean and North American Governments. Probably the EU will get the
ticket, but you never know. 
And the government bureau will probably meet before PrepCom1. That is
where the real discussions and decisions will take place.

Ralf

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http://www.itu.int/wsis/preparatory2/bureau.html

Composition of the new WSIS PrepCom Bureau
 
The governments participating in WSIS have agreed on the composition of
the new Bureau of the Preparatory Committee for the Tunis phase. The
provisional Bureau decided to raise the number of countries per region
to six. Further to this decision and to regional consultations on the
matter, the five regions designated their representatives to serve in
the new provisional PrepCom Bureau for the Tunis Phase:

    * Asia Region: Bangladesh, China, Japan, Pakistan, Republic of
Korea, Saudi Arabia
    * Latin America and Caribbean Region: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
    * Africa Region: Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Senegal, Zambia
    * Western Europe and North America Region: Canada, France, Greece,
Norway, Spain, United States
    * Eastern Europe Region: Armenia, Belarus, Hungary, Lithuania,
Russia, Serbia and Montenegro

In its new composition, the provisional WSIS PrepCom Bureau met for the
first time on 19 March 2004. The composition of the PrepCom Bureau for
the Tunis phase, as well as its chairmanship, will be formally approved
during the Preparatory Meeting that will take place at Hammamet
(Tunisia) from 24-26 June 2004.



From L.Bialy at unesco.org  Wed Apr 21 10:51:37 2004
From: L.Bialy at unesco.org (Bialy, Leszek)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WEC 2004
Message-ID: <FFD6AAB1C8BED7118E5600065BF86A0B0BCED588@mailserver.hq.int.unesco.org>


 <http://www.wec2004.org/> World Engineering Convention - November 2-6,
2004, Shanghai

WEC2004, sponsored by World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO)
and UNESCO, will be held in Shanghai, November 2-6, 2004. It will be jointly
organized by China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), Chinese
Academy of Engineering (CAE) and Shanghai Municipal Government. With the
theme of " Engineers Shape the Sustainable Future", the convention is
designed to provide a platform for engineers, entrepreneurs and engineering
students to interact and discuss issues and problems related with future of
engineering profession. The program of WEC2004 includes: 

?         Plenary session         <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

?         Seven parallel sessions        

?         Project Show for Future Engineers

?         Video Show of Great Engineering Project from All Nations

?         Virtual forums

?         Technical visits

?         Exhibition on Engineering in collaboration with the Shanghai
International Industry Fair 

?         Cultural activities including performance, acrobatic show,
sightseeing in Shanghai and pre- and post-conference tours in scenic and
historic sites in China



WEC Virtual Forums:

?         Responsibilities and Ethics:
http://www.ipenz.org.nz/webforum_ethics/
<http://www.ipenz.org.nz/webforum_ethics/>  (NEW !)

?         Young Engineers, Engineering Education and Accreditation:
http://www.hkie.org.hk/wecforum <http://www.hkie.org.hk/wecforum>  

?         Road of Industrialization in Developing Countries:
http://61.151.243.209/forum/default.jsp
<http://61.151.243.209/forum/default.jsp>  

?         WEC2004 Declaration:
<http://www.sino-meetings.com/declaremain.html>
http://www.sino-meetings.com/declaremain.html

It would be appreciated if you could help promote the event in your
university/institution. It would be most grateful if the WEC2004 website
could be linked to the website of your university/institution, so that more
people will be able to know this important event in engineering field. For
further information about the event, please visit  <http://www.wec2004.org/>
www.wec2004.org or  <http://www.sino-meetings.com/> www.sino-meetings.com.
Thank you for your assistance in advance. 

 

Sincerely,


Eng. Leszek Jeremi Bialy
Communication Project Manager
World Federation of Engineering Organizations/FMOI 
Maison de l'UNESCO 1,rue Miollis 75732-Paris 
tel:+33 1 45 68 48 47 fax: +33 1 43 06 29 27
l.bialy@unesco.org   http://www.wfeo.org <http://www.wfeo.org/>  





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From rikp at earthlink.net  Thu Apr 22 14:49:20 2004
From: rikp at earthlink.net (Rik Panganiban)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on WSIS Prepcom, May 12 accreditation deadline
Message-ID: <DB4562C9-9463-11D8-93CD-000A95EA981E@earthlink.net>

The following is an "e-flash" from the WSIS secretariat.  /  Le suivant 
est un "e-flash" du secretariat de SMSI.

http://www.itu.int/wsis/newsroom/eflash/latest.html
http://www.itu.int/wsis/newsroom/eflash/latest-fr.html

-- Rik Panganiban

========================================

The preparatory meeting for the Tunis  phase will be held from 24 to 26 
June 2004
  The provisional Bureau of the WSIS Preparatory Committee  (PrepCom) 
decided, at its 31 March 2004 meeting, that the  first preparatory 
meeting for the Tunis phase is to be held in  Hammamet (Tunisia) from 
24 to 26 June 2004. The provisional  Bureau confirmed that one of the 
meeting's tasks will be to  specify the structure and mechanisms for 
the second phase of  WSIS, as well as the expected outputs. All 
information  concerning the preparatory meeting will be published on 
the  official WSIS web site..

	? 	
Deadline for accreditation: 12 May 2004
  Non-governmental organizations and civil society and  private-sector 
entities who wish to participate in the preparatory meeting of June 
2004 and who are not yet  accredited to the PrepComs for the Geneva 
phase (see lists  of accredited entities), should submit the 
accreditation  request form to the Executive Secretariat by 12 May 2004 
  at the latest by fax (fax number 00 41 22 730 63 93) or by mail.?
  Requests submitted after the deadline can be considered only  for the 
next WSIS Preparatory Meeting.
  Dates for registration of members of accredited organizations  and 
entities will be provided as soon as possible.
	? 	
  Informal preparatory meeting held in Tunis on 2 and 3 March 2004
  The Tunisian Government, in coordination with ITU, invited the members 
of the new intergovernmental?
  PrepCom Bureau, the civil society Bureau, HLSOC (High-Level Summit 
Organizing Committee) and CCBI (Coordination Committee of Business 
Interlocutors)  to attend an informal preparatory meeting in Tunis on 2 
and 3 March  2004 for the purpose of launching discussions on the 
structure and mechanisms for the second phase of  WSIS. Some 100 people 
took up the invitation and participated in the informal discussions on 
the?
  preparatory process for the Tunis phase.
  In the course of the discussions, Tunisia stressed the importance of 
continuity and cohesion between?
  the two phases of the Summit, as well as the need to be guided by the 
principle of "digital?
  solidarity" with the objective of limiting the digital divide between 
the countries of the North and?
  those of the South and of setting up an Action Plan extending, beyond 
the Tunis phase in 2005, to the?
  year 2015. Tunisia proposed that the second phase of WSIS should be 
placed under the theme "
  Partnership for sustainable development based on  solidarity". See the 
corresponding press  release from the Tunisian Government.

	? 	
Composition of the new WSIS PrepCom Bureau
  The governments participating in WSIS have agreed on the composition 
of the new Bureau of the?
  Preparatory Committee for the Tunis phase. The provisional Bureau 
decided to raise the number of?
  countries per region to six. Further to this decision and to regional 
consultations on the matter, the?
  five regions designated their representatives to serve in the new  
provisional PrepCom Bureau for the?
  Tunis phase. In its new composition, the provisional WSIS PrepCom 
Bureau met for the first time on 19 March 2004. The composition of the 
PrepCom Bureau for  the Tunis phase, as well as its chairmanship, will 
be formally approved during the above mentioned  preparatory meeting.
	? 	
WSIS fundraising campaign launched
  On 5 April 2004, the ITU Secretary-General launched a fundraising 
campaign for WSIS 2005 to support?
  the preparatory process for the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the 
Information Society. The?
  campaign marked its first success with a donation of CHF 386 300 from 
the Government of Japan. Several?
  Member States and other players announced, moreover, that they would 
be supporting WSIS by seconding?
  experts to the Executive Secretariat. Costs in respect of the 
preparatory process for the Tunis phase?
  are expected to amount to CHF 15 million. The goal of this campaign is 
to raise at least CHF 5?
  million, to be paid into the WSIS Special Fund, with the remaining 
amount to be covered by in-kind?
  contributions from various partners. For more information, please 
consult the  WSIS website.
	? 	
ITU Workshop on Internet Governance. Results
  ITU has just published the detailed Report on the Workshop on Internet 
governance  organized on 26 and 27 February 2004 in Geneva, together 
with the  Report from President Shyamal  Ghosh.?
  The Workshop organized by ITU was held as a follow-up to the first 
phase of the World Summit on the?
  Information Society (Geneva, 10-12 December). The workshop highlighted 
participants? views that the?
  scope of governance activities should be articulated in a neutral and 
systematic ways and should make?
  the difference between "hard" forms of governance, which involve laws, 
regulations or standards, and?
  "soft" forms, such as cooperation and coordination. This approach 
would make it possible to map big-
  picture issues such as development of technology for equitable and 
sustainable global development and?
  more narrow-focused issues such as the use of common resources and the 
exchange of specific services?
  and products between nations. Other key components of governance 
issues that were highlighted included?
  information and network security, protection of citizens? rights and 
consumer interests, support for?
  cultural and linguistic diversity, and measures to deal with spam.
  See also the ITU  press release.
	? 	
ITU Working Group on WSIS. Results of the fifth meeting
The fifth meeting of the ITU Council WG-WSIS, open to all Member States 
and Sector Members, took place?
  in Geneva on 25 February 2004, in order to discuss the output from the 
Geneva Phase of the Summit, and?
  evaluate the possible role ITU could play in the implementation of the 
Declaration and Action Plan,?
  and on the organization of the Tunis phase of the Summit.
  Participants noted that in the WSIS Declaration of Principles (Para 
64), ITU?s core competencies are?
  considered of crucial importance for building the Information Society, 
and that some 8 of the 11 key?
  principles in the Declaration relate to the mandate of ITU and most of 
them require that ITU play a?
  leading role in implementation
  In order to prepare the final report to Council 2004, the sixth 
meeting of the Council WG-WSIS will be?
  held at ITU Headquarters in Geneva from 7 to 8 June 2004.?
  Further information and meeting documents are available at the  ITU  
Council website.?
	? 	
ITU-D activities relating to WSIS
Given the major synergies that exist between the outputs of the Geneva 
Summit and ITU's Istanbul?
  Action Plan, the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) is in no 
small way concerned with the?
  implementation of the WSIS Action Plan. See the  List of BDT 
activities planned for 2004.
	? 	
  Global Forum on Internet Governance
The UN ICT Task Force Global Forum on Internet Governance that was held 
on 25 and 26 March 2004 at United Nations?headquarters in New York 
brought together leading players and stakeholders interested in 
Internet?
  governance, including United Nations Member States, civil society, the 
private sector and?
  intergovernmental organizations, including ITU. The Global Forum, 
organized by the United Nations?
  Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, enabled the 
United Nations Secretary-General to?
  lay emphasis on the need to create new, inclusive and 
partnership-based models for Internet regulation?
  that would allow for the needs of all the peoples of the world to be 
taken into consideration. See the corresponding  United Nations press 
release.?
	? 	
  A Swiss diplomat appointed to head the Internet Governance secretariat
  United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Swiss diplomat 
Mr Markus Kummer to head the?
  Internet Governance secretariat. This secretariat is to be established 
in Geneva at the Palais des?
  Nations with the task of assisting the Secretary-General in setting up 
the Working Group on Internet?
  Governance. The establishment of the working group was decided by WSIS 
in December 2003 in Geneva, the?
  participating governments having at that time requested the United 
Nations to set up a working group?
  on Internet governance to study, during the run-up to the 2005 Summit 
and within the framework of an?
  open and inclusive process, issues relating to Internet governance, 
and to formulate proposals with?
  regard to the measures to be taken. See the corresponding  United 
Nations press release.?

===========================================

SMSI E-FLASH No.  14,? 21 avril 2004

	? 	La R?union pr?paratoire de la phase de Tunis aura lieu du 24 au 26 
juin 2004
  Le Bureau provisoire du Comit? de pr?paration (PrepCom) du  SMSI a 
d?cid?, lors de sa s?ance du 31 mars 2004, que la  premi?re R?union 
pr?paratoire de la phase de Tunis se  tiendra du 24 au 26 juin 2004 ? 
Hammamet en Tunisie. Le  Bureau provisoire a confirm? que la r?union 
devra discuter,  entre autres, de la structure, des m?canismes et des 
r?sultats  ? attendre de la deuxi?me phase du SMSI. Toutes les  
informations concernant cette R?union  pr?paratoire seront publi?es sur 
le site web officiel du  SMSI.?
	? 	
Dernier d?lai pour l?accr?ditation : 12 mai 2004
  Les organisations non gouvernementales, les organismes de la soci?t? 
civile et les entit?s du secteur priv? qui souhaitent participer ? la 
R?union pr?paratoire en juin 2004 et qui n?ont pas encore ?t? 
accr?dit?s pendant la phase de Gen?ve (voir  listes des entit?s 
accr?dit?es)  doivent remplir une  demande d?accr?ditation  et la faire 
parvenir au Secr?tariat ex?cutif, par fax au num?ro 00 41 22 730 63 93, 
ou  par courrier, jusqu?au 12 mai 2004, au plus tard.?
  Les demandes soumises apr?s cette date ne pourront ?tre prises en 
consid?ration que pour la prochaine r?union pr?paratoire du SMSI. Les 
dates pour l?inscription des membres d?organisations et d?entit?s 
accr?dit?es seront communiqu?es d?s que possible.
	? 	
R?union informelle de pr?paration ? Tunis du 2 au 3 mars 2004
  Le gouvernement tunisien a invit?, en coordination avec l?UIT, les 
membres du nouveau Bureau intergouvernemental du PrepCom, du Bureau de 
la Soci?t? Civile, du HLSOC  (High Level Summit Organisation Committee) 
et du CCBI (Coordination Committee of Business Interlocutors) ? une 
r?union pr?paratoire informelle ? Tunis du 2 au 3 mars 2004 dans le but 
de lancer les discussions sur la structure et les m?canismes de la 
deuxi?me phase du SMSI. Pr?s de 100 personnes ont r?pondu ? 
l?invitation et ont pris part aux discussions informelles sur le 
processus pr?paratoire de la phase de Tunis du SMSI.?
  Lors de ces discussions, la Tunisie a mis l?accent sur la continuit? 
et la coh?sion entre les deux phases du sommet ainsi que sur la 
n?cessit? d??uvrer dans le cadre du principe de la ''Solidarit? 
num?rique'' avec l'objectif de limiter la fracture num?rique entre les 
pays du nord et du sud et de mettre en place un Plan d'Action allant 
au-del? de la phase de Tunis en 2005 pour s'?tendre jusqu'en 2015. La 
Tunisie propose de mettre la deuxi?me phase du SMSI sous le th?me ''Le 
partenariat pour un d?veloppement solidaire et durable''. Pour plus 
d?informations, veuillez voir le  communiqu? de presse du gouvernement 
tunisien.
	? 	
Constitution du nouveau Bureau du PrepCom du SMSI
  Les Gouvernements participant au WSIS se sont mis d?accord sur la 
composition du nouveau Bureau du Comit? de pr?paration de la phase de 
Tunis. Le Bureau provisoire a d?cid? de porter ? six le nombre des pays 
par r?gion. Suite ? cette d?cision et sur la base de consultations 
r?gionales, les cinq r?gions ont d?sign? leurs repr?sentants dans le  
nouveau Bureau provisoire du PrepCom de la phase de Tunis.  Dans sa 
nouvelle composition, le Bureau provisoire du PrepCom du SMSI s?est 
r?uni pour la premi?re fois le 19 mars 2004. La composition du Bureau 
du PrepCom pour la phase de Tunis, y compris la Pr?sidence, seront 
approuv?es formellement lors de la R?union pr?paratoire susmentionn?.
	? 	
Lancement de la campagne de collecte de fonds pour le SMSI
  Le 5 avril 2004, le Secr?taire g?n?ral de l?UIT a lanc? la campagne de 
collecte de fonds pour le SMSI 2005 afin de soutenir le processus 
pr?paratoire de la phase de Tunis du Sommet Mondial sur la Soci?t? de 
l?Information. La campagne a pris un excellent d?part avec la 
contribution de CHF 386'300 du Gouvernement du Japon. Plusieurs Etats 
membres et acteurs ont annonc?, en outre, qu?ils allaient soutenir le 
SMSI en d?tachant des experts au Secr?tariat ex?cutif. Les co?ts pour 
le processus pr?paratoire de la phase de Tunis sont estim?s ? CHF 15 
millions. L?objectif de cette campagne est de r?unir au moins CHF 5 
millions qui seront vers?s dans le Fonds sp?cial du SMSI et de couvrir 
le restant des co?ts par des contributions en nature des diff?rents 
partenaires. Pour plus d?informations, veuillez consulter le  site web 
du SMSI.
	? 	
R?sultats de l?Atelier sur la gouvernance de l?Internet de l?UIT
  L?UIT vient de publier le rapport d?taill? de l?Atelier sur la 
gouvernance de l?Internet qu?elle a organis? les 26 et 27 f?vrier 2004 
? Gen?ve,  ainsi que le  rapport du Pr?sident M. Shyamal Ghosh. 
L'atelier s'inscrivait dans le prolongement de la premi?re phase du 
Sommet Mondial sur la Soci?t? de l'Information tenu ? Gen?ve du 10 au 
12 d?cembre 2003. Signal? par plusieurs orateurs, l?Atelier a soulign? 
que le caract?re et la port?e de la gouvernance devraient ?tre expos?s 
de mani?re neutre, non-id?ologique et syst?matique, et qu?une 
diff?rence entre une gouvernance "dure", qui fait intervenir la 
l?gislation, la r?glementation ou la normalisation, et une gouvernance 
plus "douce" qui implique coop?ration et coordination, devrait ?tre 
faite. Ces d?finitions seraient mises en correspondance avec des th?mes 
plus g?n?raux, tels que le progr?s technologique au service du 
d?veloppement durable et ?quitable, afin de faire porter plus 
particuli?rement les efforts sur des questions comme l'utilisation des 
ressources communes et l'?change de services et produits sp?cifiques 
d'un pays ? l'autre. D?autres composantes cl?s de la gouvernance  ont 
?t? ?galement mises en exergue comme la s?curit? de l'information et 
des r?seaux, la protection des droits des citoyens et des int?r?ts des 
consommateurs,  l'appui ? la diversit? culturelle et linguistique et 
les mesures visant ? lutter contre le courrier ?lectronique non 
sollicit?. Voir aussi le  communiqu? de presse de  l?UIT.
	? 	
Cinqui?me r?union du Groupe de travail sur le SMSI du Conseil de l?UIT
  La cinqui?me r?union du Groupe de travail sur le SMSI du Conseil de 
l?UIT, ouvert ? tous les Etats Membres et aux membres des secteurs, a 
eu lieu ? Gen?ve le 25 f?vrier 2004. Le Groupe s?est r?uni afin 
d??valuer les r?sultats de la phase de Gen?ve du Sommet et discuter le 
r?le potentiel de l?UIT dans la mise en ?uvre de la D?claration de 
Principes et du Plan d?Action, ainsi que dans l?organisation de la 
phase de Tunis.
  Les participants ont soulign? l?importance fondamentale que la 
D?claration de  Principes accorde aux comp?tences de l?UIT dans 
l??dification de la soci?t? de l?information (paragraphe 64). En outre, 
parmi les onze principes cl? ?nonc?s dans la D?claration, huit sont 
li?s au mandat de l?UIT, et impliquent que celle-ci joue un r?le 
principal dans leur mise en oeuvre.
  La sixi?me r?union du Groupe de Travail du Conseil sur le SMSI aura 
lieu ? l?UIT ? Gen?ve, les 7 et 8 juin, pour mettre au point le rapport 
final qui sera pr?sent? ? la session du Conseil de 2004. Tous les 
documents de r?union et les informations sur les travaux du Groupe sont 
accessibles en ligne sur le  site du  Conseil de l'UIT.?
	? 	
Activit?s de l?UIT-D en relation avec le SMSI
  Etant donn? les grandes synergies entre les r?sultats du Sommet de 
Gen?ve et le Plan d?Action d?Istanbul de l?UIT, le Bureau de 
D?veloppement des T?l?communications (BDT) est largement concern? par 
la mise en ?uvre du Plan d?Action du SMSI. Le BDT a dress? un  tableau  
donnant la liste des activit?s pr?vues en 2004.
	? 	
Forum Mondial sur la Gouvernance de  l?Internet
Le Forum mondial sur la Gouvernance de l?Internet qui a eu lieu du 25 
au 26 mars au Si?ge des Nations Unies ? New York a r?uni les principaux 
acteurs et parties int?ress?s par la gouvernance de l?Internet, y 
compris les Etats Membres des Nations Unies, la soci?t? civile, le 
secteur priv? et les organisations intergouvernementales y compris 
l?UIT. Ce Forum mondial, organis? par le Groupe d??tude des 
technologies de l?information et des communications des Nations Unies, 
a permis au Secr?taire g?n?ral des Nations Unies de mettre l?accent sur 
la n?cessit? de cr?er de nouveaux mod?les inclusifs et partenariaux de 
r?gulation de l?Internet afin de pouvoir prendre en consid?rations les 
besoins de tous les peuples du monde. Pour plus d?informations veuillez 
voir le communiqu? de presse des Nations Unies.
	? 	
Diplomate suisse nomm? ? la t?te du Secr?tariat de la Gouvernance de 
l?Internet
Le Secr?taire g?n?ral des Nations Unies Kofi Annan a nomm? le diplomate 
suisse M. Markus Kummer ? la t?te du Secr?tariat sur la Gouvernance de 
l?Internet. Ce Secr?tariat sera ?tabli ? Gen?ve au Palais des Nations 
et devra aider le Secr?taire g?n?ral ? mettre sur pied le Groupe de 
travail sur la Gouvernance de l?Internet. La cr?ation de ce Groupe de 
travail avait ?t? d?cid?e par le SMSI en d?cembre 2003 ? Gen?ve. Les 
gouvernements participants avaient alors demand? aux Nations Unies de 
mettre en place un Groupe de travail sur la Gouvernance de l?Internet 
qui ?tudiera d?ici le Sommet en 2005, dans le cadre d?un processus 
ouvert et inclusif, les questions li?es ? la gouvernance de l?Internet 
et qui formulera des propositions concernant les mesures ? prendre. 
Pour plus d?informations veuillez voir le  communiqu? de presse Nations 
Unies.?


===============================================
RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator

Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship
with the United Nations (CONGO)
web: http://www.ngocongo.org
email: rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org
mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524 
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From alalegre at fma.ph  Fri Apr 23 06:44:14 2004
From: alalegre at fma.ph (Alan G. Alegre)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fw:  DIGITALDIVIDE Digest - ANNAN STRESSES VALUE OF ENSURING FREE AND OPEN CONTENT IN NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Message-ID: <009601c428f6$04ce20a0$0d00a8c0@fma>

>
> ANNAN STRESSES VALUE OF ENSURING FREE AND OPEN CONTENT IN NEW TECHNOLOGIES
> New York, Apr 21 2004  3:00PM
>
> If the communications revolution is to open doors rather than close them,
> policy-makers must support the providers of content so that they are
> guaranteed freedom of expression, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi
> Annan told an Asian media summit in Kuala Lumpur today.
>
> In a <"http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=883"> message delivered
on
> his behalf by Shashi Tharoor, the Under-Secretary-General for
Communications
> and Public Information, Mr. Annan said the development of new technologies
> is making information more widely available than ever, and introducing new
> voices into debates.
>
> But he said the new information and communication technologies should
never
> be considered as ends in themselves.
>
> "Ultimately, 'what' is communicated is far more important than 'how'
> something is communicated," he said. The three-day summit in Kuala Lumpur
> concluded today.
>
> Stressing the dramatic impact being wrought by new technologies, including
> the Internet, Mr. Annan's message emphasized the importance of ensuring
that
> those technologies are used to promote tolerance instead of division.
>
> "None of this will come about by accident...freedom is not only a human
> right; it is also an indispensable condition for economic and social
> progress."
>
> Mr. Annan urged policy-makers attending the Asian media summit to play an
> active role in the debate ahead of the second phase of the World Summit on
> the Information Society, which is scheduled to take place in Tunisia next
> year.
> ________________
> This press release may be freely distributed.
>
> For more details go to UN News Centre at http://www.un.org/news
>  2004-04-21 00:00:00.000
>



From hlorgat at sangoco.org.za  Fri Apr 23 11:51:55 2004
From: hlorgat at sangoco.org.za (Sangoco)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] =?Windows-1252?Q?INVITATION_Youth_Assembly:_-_=93Youth_Celebrating_Democr?=
 =?Windows-1252?Q?acy_and_Building_Future=94?=
Message-ID: <NGBBIBPAELKLKCDPLFHJGELICOAA.hlorgat@sangoco.org.za>

INVITATION Youth Assembly: - ?Youth Celebrating Democracy and Building
Future?


Dear Friends



You are invited to a Youth Assembly which is organised as part the Global
Campaign for Education ? SA,  5th Annual Global Action Week 19- 25 April
2004 activities under the theme ? Children Missing an Education. Over four
hundred young people many comprising of, and representing, street children,
unemployed and out of school youth, learners, child labour organisations,
child-headed families, and refugees are expected to attend the assembly
which attempts to give voice to youth views on the freedom decade and the
challenges ahead. In addition, it will consider the formation of a GCE-SA
Youth Forum, to campaign and track progress towards meeting the Education
for All Goals particularly as they relate to learners and youth more
generally.



Various organisations, including the Youth Commission, have been invited to
participate in debates and discussion with youth on this day. The Assembly
will take place on Saturday 24 April 2004 at the Johannesburg Municipal
Councillors Chambers (CIVIC CENTRE) Braamfontein. Gauteng. from 10 am ? 3pm.
Cultural items will be rendered.



Refreshments and lunch will be provided.



In solidarity



Hassen Lorgat

GCE-SA head of secretariat

(22 April 2004)



For more information about the organisation of the event:

Lebo or Neli - 011 403 7746



?Over 100 million children are out of school in the world. Of these 56
million are said to be from Africa. Despite gallant efforts and progress
made, many children in South Africa are still missing an education due to
poverty, HIV Aids, child labour etc. Join us in building an inclusive, just
and democratic society.? Solly Mabusela, Chairperson - Global Campaign for
Education (South Africa).



The GCE SA is a coalition of NGO?s, community based organisations, teacher
unions and students organisations. For more information about the campaign
see: www.campaignforeducation.org






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From: wellings at epic.org (Frannie Wellings)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] EPIC conference "Freedom 2.0" May 20-22, 2004
Message-ID: <p06001f7dbcaf287b50fa@[192.168.1.53]>

Hi everyone - I'd like to encourage everyone to attend this 
conference.  As you'll see on the web site, we'll cover many issues 
in these two days, including the World Summit on the Information 
Society and the participation of civil society, secrecy and 
surveillance, voting system integrity, anonymity and biometrics. 
E-mail me off-list if you have any questions I can help with!  I hope 
I'll see some of you there. - Frannie

...sorry to all who are receiving this multiple times :)


======================================================================
        EPIC TO HOST LEADING TECHNOLOGY POLICY CONFERENCE IN MAY
======================================================================

       FREEDOM 2.0
       Washington, DC, May 20-22
       Register at http://www.epic04.org/

Registration is open for "Freedom 2.0: Distributed Democracy, Dialogue
for a Connected World" on May 20-22, 2004 at the Washington Club in
Washington, DC.  This leading technology policy conference, hosted by
the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), features an all-
star line-up of speakers discussing democracy, transparency, privacy
and public voice.

Special events include a Thursday night reception featuring the SWIPE
Project, a performance piece addressing the gathering of data from
driver's licenses.  Friday night's reception will be hosted at the
International Spy Museum and include exclusive access to the museum's
collection.

The first EPIC Champion of Freedom Award will also be presented at the
conference.

The early registration deadline is May 5.

To register for Freedom 2.0:

       http://regmaster.com/epic04.html

Registration is limited. Be sure to register soon.

For more information about the conference, see the Freedom 2.0 web
site:

       http://www.epic04.org/

------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Frannie Wellings
Policy Analyst, Electronic Privacy Information Center
Coordinator, The Public Voice
1718 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 200 
Washington, D.C.  20009   USA 
wellings@epic.org
+1 202 483 1140 extension 107 (telephone)
+1 202 483 1248 (fax)
http://www.epic.org
http://www.thepublicvoice.org
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From rguerra at cpsr.org  Fri Apr 23 22:22:38 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] President Ben Ali calls on Tunisian civil society to play larger
 role during second phase of WSIS
Message-ID: <p06100513bcaf3984fe61@[192.168.0.2]>

http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200404230643.html


President Ben Ali calls on Tunisian civil society to play larger role 
during second phase of WSIS

Tunisia Online  (Tunis)
  NEWS
  April 23, 2004
  Posted to the web April 23, 2004
  Tunis


President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali called upon Tunisian civil society 
to enlarge its participation to the World Summit on the Information 
Society (WSIS) on the occasion of the second phase of the Summit 
scheduled for next year in Tunisia.(www.wsistunis2005.org)

  The first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society was 
hosted by Switzerland, from 10 to 12 December 2003. The second phase 
will be hosted by Tunisia in November 16-18, 2005.

  "While appreciating the participation of the Tunisian civil society 
in the first phase of the Summit, and its role in enriching dialogue 
on the issues submitted to the Summit", said President Ben Ali, "I 
exhort it to enlarge its future participation and to consolidate the 
fields of cooperation and coordination with all the components of the 
international civil society, and especially at the regional level, so 
as to demonstrate the degree of awareness achieved by Tunisians as 
regards the current rapid changes, and their capacity to keep pace 
with the new technologies and to actively contribute to disseminating 
a balanced and solidarity-based development all over the world."

  The Tunisian leader was addressing participants to National 
Associations' Day, a celebration dedicated to NGO's. On this 
occasion, President Ben Ali received the 2004 Gold Mercury 
International award for "Peace, Cooperation and Solidarity". 
(http://www.goldmercury.org/index.html)

  President Ben Ali pointed out that Tunisia had called in 1998 for a 
World Summit on the Information Society, "as part of our 
determination to strengthen the bonds of solidarity and the fields of 
cooperation among nations, in order to establish the foundations of 
an equitable and balanced international growth, capable of narrowing 
the existing gaps and reducing the growing disparities."

  Tunisia had taken the initiative of calling for a world summit under 
the United Nations auspices in 1998, in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA).

  The Tunisian President added, "at the opening of the first phase of 
the Summit, held in Geneva last December, we exhorted all concerned 
parties to assume their historic responsibilities in taking up this 
challenge, and in offering all the peoples of the world the 
opportunity to assimilate the digital and cognitive revolution, and 
to benefit from it in order to create new sources of wealth and 
improve their quality of life."

  "Building the society of knowledge, information and Communication 
constitutes, for us, a fundamental challenge which we have to meet," 
he said.

  Addressing the participants to Geneva phase of the WSIS, last 
December, President Ben Ali had invited "all parties: states, 
governments, international and regional organizations, civil society 
and the private sector" to take part in the Tunis phase of the Summit.


?

?


Copyright ? 2004 Tunisia Online. All rights reserved. Distributed by 
AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).
-- 
###
Robert Guerra <rguerra@privaterra.org>
Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>

From anut_togo at yahoo.fr  Sun Apr 25 17:09:16 2004
From: anut_togo at yahoo.fr (=?iso-8859-1?q?secretariat=20general?=)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] EPIC conference "Freedom 2.0" May 20-22, 2004
In-Reply-To: <p06001f7dbcaf287b50fa@[192.168.1.53]>
Message-ID: <20040425160916.12176.qmail@web42001.mail.yahoo.com>


Salut

je viens de recevoir votre mail mais je vous preierai de nous envoyer les messages en fran?ais car nous sommes francophones et nous ne maitrisons pas bien l'anglais.

Merci pour la comprehension



Frannie Wellings <wellings@epic.org> wrote: Hi everyone - I'd like to encourage everyone to attend this 
conference. As you'll see on the web site, we'll cover many issues 
in these two days, including the World Summit on the Information 
Society and the participation of civil society, secrecy and 
surveillance, voting system integrity, anonymity and biometrics. 
E-mail me off-list if you have any questions I can help with! I hope 
I'll see some of you there. - Frannie

...sorry to all who are receiving this multiple times :)


======================================================================
EPIC TO HOST LEADING TECHNOLOGY POLICY CONFERENCE IN MAY
======================================================================

FREEDOM 2.0
Washington, DC, May 20-22
Register at http://www.epic04.org/

Registration is open for "Freedom 2.0: Distributed Democracy, Dialogue
for a Connected World" on May 20-22, 2004 at the Washington Club in
Washington, DC. This leading technology policy conference, hosted by
the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), features an all-
star line-up of speakers discussing democracy, transparency, privacy
and public voice.

Special events include a Thursday night reception featuring the SWIPE
Project, a performance piece addressing the gathering of data from
driver's licenses. Friday night's reception will be hosted at the
International Spy Museum and include exclusive access to the museum's
collection.

The first EPIC Champion of Freedom Award will also be presented at the
conference.

The early registration deadline is May 5.

To register for Freedom 2.0:

http://regmaster.com/epic04.html

Registration is limited. Be sure to register soon.

For more information about the conference, see the Freedom 2.0 web
site:

http://www.epic04.org/

------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Frannie Wellings
Policy Analyst, Electronic Privacy Information Center
Coordinator, The Public Voice
1718 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 200 
Washington, D.C. 20009 USA 
wellings@epic.org
+1 202 483 1140 extension 107 (telephone)
+1 202 483 1248 (fax)
http://www.epic.org
http://www.thepublicvoice.org
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Mon Apr 26 08:00:15 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] EPIC let's involve non-english speaking people
In-Reply-To: <20040425160916.12176.qmail@web42001.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040426070015.28501.qmail@web60709.mail.yahoo.com>

Ha ha ha,
No translation in English ! 
Je suis heureux du contenu de ce message qui vient
enfin confirmer l'inacceptable domination de l'anglais
qui marginalise les populations de pays pauvres non
anglophones, entre autres les francophones.
Si nous voulons une participation africaine un tant
soi peu significative il faut que les organisateurs
fassent l'effort de faire la traduction des messages
au moins en 2 langues anglais et une autre langue
auchoix....
Je ne fais que rappeler ce message et je suis heureux
qu'enfin on m'enboîte le pas, j'attends d'autres
soutiens de francophones, d'espanophones, de
luzophones et d'arabes si tenté que ces populations
veulent s'exprimer !
Amitiés
Djilali 
--- secretariat general <anut_togo@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> Salut
> 
> je viens de recevoir votre mail mais je vous
> preierai de nous envoyer les messages en français
> car nous sommes francophones et nous ne maitrisons
> pas bien l'anglais.
> 
> Merci pour la comprehension
> 
> 
> 
> Frannie Wellings <wellings@epic.org> wrote: Hi
> everyone - I'd like to encourage everyone to attend
> this 
> conference. As you'll see on the web site, we'll
> cover many issues 
> in these two days, including the World Summit on the
> Information 
> Society and the participation of civil society,
> secrecy and 
> surveillance, voting system integrity, anonymity and
> biometrics. 
> E-mail me off-list if you have any questions I can
> help with! I hope 
> I'll see some of you there. - Frannie
> 
> ...sorry to all who are receiving this multiple
> times :)
> 
> 
>
======================================================================
> EPIC TO HOST LEADING TECHNOLOGY POLICY CONFERENCE IN
> MAY
>
======================================================================
> 
> FREEDOM 2.0
> Washington, DC, May 20-22
> Register at http://www.epic04.org/
> 
> Registration is open for "Freedom 2.0: Distributed
> Democracy, Dialogue
> for a Connected World" on May 20-22, 2004 at the
> Washington Club in
> Washington, DC. This leading technology policy
> conference, hosted by
> the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC),
> features an all-
> star line-up of speakers discussing democracy,
> transparency, privacy
> and public voice.
> 
> Special events include a Thursday night reception
> featuring the SWIPE
> Project, a performance piece addressing the
> gathering of data from
> driver's licenses. Friday night's reception will be
> hosted at the
> International Spy Museum and include exclusive
> access to the museum's
> collection.
> 
> The first EPIC Champion of Freedom Award will also
> be presented at the
> conference.
> 
> The early registration deadline is May 5.
> 
> To register for Freedom 2.0:
> 
> http://regmaster.com/epic04.html
> 
> Registration is limited. Be sure to register soon.
> 
> For more information about the conference, see the
> Freedom 2.0 web
> site:
> 
> http://www.epic04.org/
> 
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> -- 
> 
>
-----------------------------------------------------------------
> Frannie Wellings
> Policy Analyst, Electronic Privacy Information
> Center
> Coordinator, The Public Voice
> 1718 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 200 
> Washington, D.C. 20009 USA 
> wellings@epic.org
> +1 202 483 1140 extension 107 (telephone)
> +1 202 483 1248 (fax)
> http://www.epic.org
> http://www.thepublicvoice.org
>
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From sam_bj2000 at yahoo.fr  Mon Apr 26 08:42:40 2004
From: sam_bj2000 at yahoo.fr (sam_bj2000@yahoo.fr)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New Birthday Calendar
Message-ID: <6630148.1082965360265.JavaMail.Administrator@win02>

Hi 

I'm setting up a birthday calendar and need your help. Just click the link below and enter your birthday details. (It's quick, easy and you can keep your age secret!) 

 http://www.BirthdayAlarm.com/dob/15078212a128032287b969  

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From rkoven at compuserve.com  Mon Apr 26 09:52:18 2004
From: rkoven at compuserve.com (Ronald Koven)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] EPIC let's involve non-english speaking
  people
Message-ID: <200404260452_MC3-1-803E-D720@compuserve.com>

Eh Oh!

Arretez de pleurnicher.

Le francais a ?t? la langue dominante au 18me siecle.

Maintenant c'est le tour de l'anglais. La communication entre les tours de
controle et les cockpits des avions se passe en anglais pour des raisons
evidentes. Je ne voudrais pas monter dans un avion ou le pilote insisterait
de parler dans une autre langue que celui du personnel de la tour.

La dite conference se passe a Washington, convoqu? par une organisation
anglophone. Alors, soyez un peu realiste et mettez vous a mieux maitriser
la langue de Shakespeare si vous voulez bien avoir une action efficace sur
le plan international. Le Roi Canute s'est rendu au bord de la mer pour
demontrer a ses sujets qu'il ne pouvait pas commander la mer de ne pas
monter.

Rony Koven


From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Mon Apr 26 16:07:45 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] EPIC let's involve non-english speaking  people
In-Reply-To: <200404260452_MC3-1-803E-D720@compuserve.com>
Message-ID: <20040426150745.23597.qmail@web60704.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear Ronald,
Message pour Ronald, sans besoin de fatiguer
inutilement les francophones...

Thanks for your message...
I am not plaiding for myself, i feel more or less
confortable with the Sheakspeare language... i am
suffuring for 99,99 % of poor and hopeless African
French speaking people and because of the Tunis Summit
will take place in Tunis which is a French speaking
country, it will be inacceptable that participants
will live what we lived in Geneva last december when
french speaking participants in a French speaking
country was considered just like Voiceless. We also
are the Civil Society representative and have the aim
at sharing not with Governements or private sector
operators but mainly with poor people, more of them
are not english speaking.
I respect your appreciation, but i shall continue to
support the battle even if thanks to leaders like you
it is already and definitly lost.
All the best
Djilali
--- Ronald Koven <rkoven@compuserve.com> wrote:
> Eh Oh!
> 
> Arretez de pleurnicher.
> 
> Le francais a été la langue dominante au 18me
> siecle.
> 
> Maintenant c'est le tour de l'anglais. La
> communication entre les tours de
> controle et les cockpits des avions se passe en
> anglais pour des raisons
> evidentes. Je ne voudrais pas monter dans un avion
> ou le pilote insisterait
> de parler dans une autre langue que celui du
> personnel de la tour.
> 
> La dite conference se passe a Washington, convoqué
> par une organisation
> anglophone. Alors, soyez un peu realiste et mettez
> vous a mieux maitriser
> la langue de Shakespeare si vous voulez bien avoir
> une action efficace sur
> le plan international. Le Roi Canute s'est rendu au
> bord de la mer pour
> demontrer a ses sujets qu'il ne pouvait pas
> commander la mer de ne pas
> monter.
> 
> Rony Koven
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


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From mciver at albany.edu  Mon Apr 26 16:46:51 2004
From: mciver at albany.edu (Bill McIver, University at Albany)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: Babel Fish ? --> Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] EPIC let's involve non-english
 speaking  people
In-Reply-To: <20040426150745.23597.qmail@web60704.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20040426150745.23597.qmail@web60704.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <408D2EEB.9060300@albany.edu>

Machine French and Spanish below.
M?quina francesa y espa?ol abajo.
Machine fran?aise et Espagnol ci-dessous.

Friends,

It is not a perfect tool, but perhaps we can
each try to use http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr .

There are at least two approaches. One is if the author
of the message can go ahead and make the translation
using Alta Vista.  The second is if authors simply
write in the language in which they are comfortable
and readers commit to trying making translations themselves
with Alta Vista.  I think that with the first approach, if
one has some facility in the other languages, they can
make minor corrections while saving time with most of
the translation work.

Thoughts?

WJM



===



Amis,

Ce n'est pas un outil parfait, mais peut-?tre nous mettons en bo?te 
chaque essai pour employer http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr.

Il y a au moins deux approches. On est si l'auteur du message peut 
avancer et faire la traduction en utilisant Alta Vista. La seconde est 
si les auteurs ?crivent simplement dans la langue dans laquelle ils sont 
confortables et les lecteurs commettent ? l'essai faisant les 
traductions elles-m?mes avec Alta Vista. Je pense cela avec la premi?re 
approche, si on a un certain service dans les autres langues, ils peux 
faire des corrections mineures tout en sauvant le temps avec la majeure 
partie du travail de traduction.

Pens?es ?

WJM


==

 

Amig@s,

No es una herramienta perfecta, pero quiz?s podemos cada intento para 
utilizar http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr.

Hay por lo menos dos acercamientos. Uno es si el autor del mensaje puede 
ir a continuaci?n y hacer la traducci?n usando Alta Vista. El segundo es 
si los autores escriben simplemente en la lengua en la cual son c?modos 
y los lectores conf?an a intentar haciendo las traducciones ellos mismos 
con Alta Vista. Pienso eso con el primer acercamiento, si uno tiene 
cierta facilidad en las otras idiomas, ellos puedo hacer correcciones de 
menor importancia mientras que ahorra tiempo con la mayor?a del trabajo 
de la traducci?n.

?Pensamientos?

WJM


djilali benamrane wrote:

>Dear Ronald,
>Message pour Ronald, sans besoin de fatiguer
>inutilement les francophones...
>
>Thanks for your message...
>I am not plaiding for myself, i feel more or less
>confortable with the Sheakspeare language... i am
>suffuring for 99,99 % of poor and hopeless African
>French speaking people and because of the Tunis Summit
>will take place in Tunis which is a French speaking
>country, it will be inacceptable that participants
>will live what we lived in Geneva last december when
>french speaking participants in a French speaking
>country was considered just like Voiceless. We also
>are the Civil Society representative and have the aim
>at sharing not with Governements or private sector
>operators but mainly with poor people, more of them
>are not english speaking.
>I respect your appreciation, but i shall continue to
>support the battle even if thanks to leaders like you
>it is already and definitly lost.
>All the best
>Djilali
>--- Ronald Koven <rkoven@compuserve.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Eh Oh!
>>
>>Arretez de pleurnicher.
>>
>>Le francais a ?t? la langue dominante au 18me
>>siecle.
>>
>>Maintenant c'est le tour de l'anglais. La
>>communication entre les tours de
>>controle et les cockpits des avions se passe en
>>anglais pour des raisons
>>evidentes. Je ne voudrais pas monter dans un avion
>>ou le pilote insisterait
>>de parler dans une autre langue que celui du
>>personnel de la tour.
>>
>>La dite conference se passe a Washington, convoqu?
>>par une organisation
>>anglophone. Alors, soyez un peu realiste et mettez
>>vous a mieux maitriser
>>la langue de Shakespeare si vous voulez bien avoir
>>une action efficace sur
>>le plan international. Le Roi Canute s'est rendu au
>>bord de la mer pour
>>demontrer a ses sujets qu'il ne pouvait pas
>>commander la mer de ne pas
>>monter.
>>
>>Rony Koven
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>Plenary mailing list
>>Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>>
>>    
>>
>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>
>
>=====
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>T?l/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
>Page web sur l'Afrique et la globalisation : http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/
>Groupe de discussion: http://www.egroups.com/list/afriqueglobalization
>
>
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From wellings at epic.org  Mon Apr 26 17:56:55 2004
From: wellings at epic.org (Frannie Wellings)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] EPIC let's involve non-english speaking
 people
In-Reply-To: <20040426070015.28501.qmail@web60709.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20040426070015.28501.qmail@web60709.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <p06001f09bcb2ef0f2b4c@[192.168.1.53]>

Cher Dijilali - je comprends votre point et 
essayerai et signalerai une version espagnole et 
fran?aise de l'annonce de conf?rence d?s que je 
pourrai. Ici I'll traduisent ce message en 
utilisant la suggestion de Bill's de Babelfish. 
Cependant, je demanderais que vous menez par 
exemple et ?crivez dans des langues multiples 
vous-m?me - vous choisissez d'?crire la plupart 
de vos messages en fran?ais. Je comprends you're 
essayant de faire une remarque, mais je pense 
qu'il y a des mani?res plus constructives de 
faire ainsi. Je pense qu'il y a des contraintes 
pour d'autres que vous choisissez de ne pas 
identifier. Il y a une personne dans mon petit 
bureau qui parle le fran?ais et le he's tr?s 
occup?s avec ses propres travail. I've lui a d?j? 
demand? que pour traduire l'annonce de conf?rence 
et le he'll faites-l'aussit?t que possible. 
Pouvez-vous sugg?rer des traducteurs ? La 
conf?rence elle-m?me sera en anglais seulement, 
malheureusement, puisque nous sommes de petit 
sans but lucratif et don't ont les fonds pour 
louer des traducteurs. Cependant, we're remontant 
un sourcebook de wsis a reli? les documents et 
les articles analytiques que nous regardons pour 
traduire en fran?ais et l'Espagnol - il sera cher 
pour nous comme we're ?ditant et distribuant le 
sourcebook pour libre, mais nous savons it's 
important. J'esp?re que vous identifieriez que 
les gens qui parlent seulement une langue 
elles-m?mes, quoique celle qui domine trop 
souvent distinctif, ont ?galement des contraintes 
qu'elles travaillent pour surmonter. Le moyen d'I 
don't d'?tre insultant ou pr?somptueux et moi 
l'appr?cierions si vous seriez un peu plus de 
compr?hension et de constructif et moins agressif 
vous-m?me. Merci, Frannie

Dear Dijilali -
I understand your point and will try and post a 
Spanish and French version of the conference 
announcement as soon as I can. Here I'll 
translate this message using Bill's suggestion of 
Babelfish.  However, I would ask that you lead by 
example and write in multiple languages yourself 
- you choose to write most of your messages in 
French. I understand you're trying to make a 
point, but I think there are more constructive 
ways to do so.
I think that there are constraints for others 
that you choose not to recognize.  There is one 
person in my small office who speaks French and 
he's very busy with his own work. I've already 
asked him to translate the conference 
announcement and he'll do it as soon as possible. 
Can you suggest translators?  The conference 
itself will be in English only, unfortunately, 
since we are a small non-profit and don't have 
the funds to hire translators.  However, we're 
putting together a sourcebook of wsis related 
documents and analytical articles which we are 
looking to translate into French and Spanish - it 
will be expensive for us as we're publishing and 
distributing the sourcebook for free, but we know 
it's important. I hope that you would recognize 
that people who only speak one language 
themselves, albeit the one that too often 
discriminatively dominates, also have constraints 
that they are working to overcome.
I don't mean to be insulting or presumptuous and 
I would appreciate it if you would be a bit more 
understanding and constructive and less 
aggressive yourself.
Thank you, Frannie



Djilali - entiendo su punto e intentar? y fijar? 
una versi?n espa?ola y francesa del aviso de la 
conferencia tan pronto como pueda. Aqu? I'll 
traducen este mensaje usando la sugerencia de 
Bill's de Babelfish. Sin embargo, preguntar?a que 
usted conduce por ejemplo y escribe en idiomas 
m?ltiples usted mismo - usted elige escribir la 
mayor?a de sus mensajes en franc?s. Entiendo 
you're que intenta hacer un punto, pero pienso 
que hay maneras m?s constructivas de hacer tan. 
Pienso que hay apremios para otros que usted 
elija no reconocer. Hay una persona en mi oficina 
peque?a que hable el franc?s y he's muy ocupados 
con sus el propio trabajo. I've ya le pregunt? 
que para traducir el aviso de la conferencia y el 
he'll h?galo cuanto antes. ?Puede usted sugerir 
los traductores? La conferencia s? mismo estar? 
en ingl?s solamente, desafortunadamente, puesto 
que somos no lucrativos peque?o y don't tienen 
los fondos para emplear los traductores. Sin 
embargo, we're que pon?a junto un sourcebook del 
wsis relacion? los documentos y los art?culos 
anal?ticos que estamos mirando para traducir al 
franc?s y espa?ol - ser? costoso para nosotros 
como we're que publica y que distribuye el 
sourcebook para libre, pero sabemos it's 
importante. Espero que usted reconociera a esa 
gente que habla solamente una lengua ellos 
mismos, no obstante la que demasiado a menudo 
discriminatoriamente domina, tambi?n tiene 
apremios que est?n trabajando para superar. El 
medio de I don't de ser que insulta o presumido y 
yo apreciar?amos si usted ser?a un pedacito m?s 
comprensi?n y constructivo y menos agresivo usted 
mismo. Gracias, Frannie








>Ha ha ha,
>No translation in English !
>Je suis heureux du contenu de ce message qui vient
>enfin confirmer l'inacceptable domination de l'anglais
>qui marginalise les populations de pays pauvres non
>anglophones, entre autres les francophones.
>Si nous voulons une participation africaine un tant
>soi peu significative il faut que les organisateurs
>fassent l'effort de faire la traduction des messages
>au moins en 2 langues anglais et une autre langue
>auchoix....
>Je ne fais que rappeler ce message et je suis heureux
>qu'enfin on m'enbo?te le pas, j'attends d'autres
>soutiens de francophones, d'espanophones, de
>luzophones et d'arabes si tent? que ces populations
>veulent s'exprimer !
>Amiti?s
>Djilali
>--- secretariat general <anut_togo@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>>
>>  Salut
>>
>  > je viens de recevoir votre mail mais je vous
>>  preierai de nous envoyer les messages en fran?ais
>>  car nous sommes francophones et nous ne maitrisons
>  > pas bien l'anglais.
>>
>>  Merci pour la comprehension
>>
>>
>>
>>  Frannie Wellings <wellings@epic.org> wrote: Hi
>>  everyone - I'd like to encourage everyone to attend
>>  this
>>  conference. As you'll see on the web site, we'll
>>  cover many issues
>>  in these two days, including the World Summit on the
>>  Information
>>  Society and the participation of civil society,
>>  secrecy and
>>  surveillance, voting system integrity, anonymity and
>>  biometrics.
>>  E-mail me off-list if you have any questions I can
>>  help with! I hope
>>  I'll see some of you there. - Frannie
>>
>>  ...sorry to all who are receiving this multiple
>>  times :)
>>
>>
>>
>======================================================================
>>  EPIC TO HOST LEADING TECHNOLOGY POLICY CONFERENCE IN
>>  MAY
>>
>======================================================================
>>
>>  FREEDOM 2.0
>>  Washington, DC, May 20-22
>>  Register at http://www.epic04.org/
>>
>>  Registration is open for "Freedom 2.0: Distributed
>>  Democracy, Dialogue
>>  for a Connected World" on May 20-22, 2004 at the
>>  Washington Club in
>>  Washington, DC. This leading technology policy
>>  conference, hosted by
>>  the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC),
>>  features an all-
>>  star line-up of speakers discussing democracy,
>>  transparency, privacy
>>  and public voice.
>>
>>  Special events include a Thursday night reception
>>  featuring the SWIPE
>>  Project, a performance piece addressing the
>>  gathering of data from
>>  driver's licenses. Friday night's reception will be
>>  hosted at the
>>  International Spy Museum and include exclusive
>>  access to the museum's
>>  collection.
>>
>>  The first EPIC Champion of Freedom Award will also
>>  be presented at the
>>  conference.
>>
>>  The early registration deadline is May 5.
>>
>>  To register for Freedom 2.0:
>>
>>  http://regmaster.com/epic04.html
>>
>>  Registration is limited. Be sure to register soon.
>>
>>  For more information about the conference, see the
>>  Freedom 2.0 web
>>  site:
>>
>>  http://www.epic04.org/
>>
>>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>  --
>>
>>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>>  Frannie Wellings
>>  Policy Analyst, Electronic Privacy Information
>>  Center
>>  Coordinator, The Public Voice
>>  1718 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 200
>>  Washington, D.C. 20009 USA
>>  wellings@epic.org
>>  +1 202 483 1140 extension 107 (telephone)
>>  +1 202 483 1248 (fax)
>>  http://www.epic.org
>>  http://www.thepublicvoice.org
>>
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From katitza at cpsr.org  Mon Apr 26 20:16:08 2004
From: katitza at cpsr.org (Katitza Rodriguez)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] EPIC let's involve non-english speaking  
     people
In-Reply-To: <20040426150745.23597.qmail@web60704.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <200404260452_MC3-1-803E-D720@compuserve.com>
    <20040426150745.23597.qmail@web60704.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <3664.201.128.106.208.1083006968.squirrel@secure.privaterra.org>

(Sorry, I do not speak French, disculpen no hablo frances)

Dear all
hola a todos/

I am working on the translation into spanish of the EPICs document to
involve Spanish speaking. Language is also a barrier in Latinoamerican.
Sorry for not knowing French.

Estoy trabajando en la traduccion del documento de EPIC (pronto lo
enviare) para involucrar a los amigos/as hispanohablantes. En
Latinoamerica el lenguaje tambien es una barrera.

Katitza

From Francesca.Martinese at comune.bologna.it  Tue Apr 27 00:00:12 2004
From: Francesca.Martinese at comune.bologna.it (Francesca.Martinese@comune.bologna.it)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Francesca Martinese/Comune di Bologna/IT
 =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E8_assente_dall'ufficio=2E?=
Message-ID: <OF740F3CFD.881A4D75-ONC1256E82.007E5CC2-C1256E82.007E5CC4@comune.bologna.it>

Sar? assente dall'ufficio a partire da  26/04/2004 e rientrer? il
30/04/2004.

Sar? assente dall'ufficio dal 26 al 30 aprile 2004.
Risponder? al messaggio al mio ritorno.
Per questioni urgenti, rivolgersi a Marzia Bettocchi (Tel. 051 203395) o a
Greta Zanetti (tel. 051 203488)
I will be out of office from 26th  until 30th April.
I'll answer the message as soon as I'm back.
For urgent matters, please refer to Marzia Bettocchi (Tel. +39 051 203395)
or Greta Zanetti (Tel. +39 051 203488).



From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 27 08:58:21 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: Babel Fish ? --> Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] EPIC let's involve non-english speaking  people
In-Reply-To: <408D2EEB.9060300@albany.edu>
Message-ID: <20040427075821.2413.qmail@web60708.mail.yahoo.com>

En Français plus bas,
Thanks Bill, 
Excellent proposal which need some effort from our
colleagues and friends....
How is it possible than an International NGO could not
commti somebody to translate systematicly messages in
5 United Nations Official languages ?
For the translation from English to French i do think
that is is a duty of Francophonie machine to do it as
well as the duty of PALOP Machine to assume the
translation in Portuguese.
As Civile society we must find a solution to inform
the population in relevant language, it is the first
and easy priority after that we do must deal with
funding issue to facilitate the participation from
poor countries in an transparent format. For that, we
must meet before all with the translation of messages.
All the best
Merci Bill
Excellent proposition qui demandera des efforts de ma
part des collègues et amis militant pour un
monolinguisme dominant et dominateur...
Je m'étonne qu'une ONG internationale ne puisse pas
prendre en charge la traduction des messages dans les
5 langues de l'ONU.
Pour ce qui concerne les traductions vers le français
ou le Portuguais c'est aux machines de la francophonie

et PALOP de s'en préoccuper, elles ont le mandat et
les moyens.
En tant que société civile il est de notre devoir
d'insister pour que les peuples soient informés dans
les langues pertinentes c'est là une priorité facile
qu'il faut résoudre avant de s'attaquer à la
mobilisation des ressources pour une participation
transparente des pays pauvres .... encore faut-il
qu'il soit informé équitablement !
Amitiés
Djilali  
--- "Bill McIver, University at Albany"
<mciver@albany.edu> wrote:
> 
> Machine French and Spanish below.
> Máquina francesa y español abajo.
> Machine française et Espagnol ci-dessous.
> 
> Friends,
> 
> It is not a perfect tool, but perhaps we can
> each try to use
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr .
> 
> There are at least two approaches. One is if the
> author
> of the message can go ahead and make the translation
> using Alta Vista.  The second is if authors simply
> write in the language in which they are comfortable
> and readers commit to trying making translations
> themselves
> with Alta Vista.  I think that with the first
> approach, if
> one has some facility in the other languages, they
> can
> make minor corrections while saving time with most
> of
> the translation work.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> WJM
> 
> 
> 
> ===
> 
> 
> 
> Amis,
> 
> Ce n'est pas un outil parfait, mais peut-être nous
> mettons en boîte 
> chaque essai pour employer
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr.
> 
> Il y a au moins deux approches. On est si l'auteur
> du message peut 
> avancer et faire la traduction en utilisant Alta
> Vista. La seconde est 
> si les auteurs écrivent simplement dans la langue
> dans laquelle ils sont 
> confortables et les lecteurs commettent à l'essai
> faisant les 
> traductions elles-mêmes avec Alta Vista. Je pense
> cela avec la première 
> approche, si on a un certain service dans les autres
> langues, ils peux 
> faire des corrections mineures tout en sauvant le
> temps avec la majeure 
> partie du travail de traduction.
> 
> Pensées ?
> 
> WJM
> 
> 
> ==
> 
>  
> 
> Amig@s,
> 
> No es una herramienta perfecta, pero quizás podemos
> cada intento para 
> utilizar
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr.
> 
> Hay por lo menos dos acercamientos. Uno es si el
> autor del mensaje puede 
> ir a continuación y hacer la traducción usando Alta
> Vista. El segundo es 
> si los autores escriben simplemente en la lengua en
> la cual son cómodos 
> y los lectores confían a intentar haciendo las
> traducciones ellos mismos 
> con Alta Vista. Pienso eso con el primer
> acercamiento, si uno tiene 
> cierta facilidad en las otras idiomas, ellos puedo
> hacer correcciones de 
> menor importancia mientras que ahorra tiempo con la
> mayoría del trabajo 
> de la traducción.
> 
> ¿Pensamientos?
> 
> WJM
> 
> 
> djilali benamrane wrote:
> 
> >Dear Ronald,
> >Message pour Ronald, sans besoin de fatiguer
> >inutilement les francophones...
> >
> >Thanks for your message...
> >I am not plaiding for myself, i feel more or less
> >confortable with the Sheakspeare language... i am
> >suffuring for 99,99 % of poor and hopeless African
> >French speaking people and because of the Tunis
> Summit
> >will take place in Tunis which is a French speaking
> >country, it will be inacceptable that participants
> >will live what we lived in Geneva last december
> when
> >french speaking participants in a French speaking
> >country was considered just like Voiceless. We also
> >are the Civil Society representative and have the
> aim
> >at sharing not with Governements or private sector
> >operators but mainly with poor people, more of them
> >are not english speaking.
> >I respect your appreciation, but i shall continue
> to
> >support the battle even if thanks to leaders like
> you
> >it is already and definitly lost.
> >All the best
> >Djilali
> >--- Ronald Koven <rkoven@compuserve.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Eh Oh!
> >>
> >>Arretez de pleurnicher.
> >>
> >>Le francais a été la langue dominante au 18me
> >>siecle.
> >>
> >>Maintenant c'est le tour de l'anglais. La
> >>communication entre les tours de
> >>controle et les cockpits des avions se passe en
> >>anglais pour des raisons
> >>evidentes. Je ne voudrais pas monter dans un avion
> >>ou le pilote insisterait
> >>de parler dans une autre langue que celui du
> >>personnel de la tour.
> >>
> >>La dite conference se passe a Washington, convoqué
> >>par une organisation
> >>anglophone. Alors, soyez un peu realiste et mettez
> >>vous a mieux maitriser
> >>la langue de Shakespeare si vous voulez bien avoir
> >>une action efficace sur
> >>le plan international. Le Roi Canute s'est rendu
> au
> >>bord de la mer pour
> >>demontrer a ses sujets qu'il ne pouvait pas
> >>commander la mer de ne pas
> >>monter.
> >>
> >>Rony Koven
> >>
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>Plenary mailing list
> >>Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> >>
> >>    
> >>
>
>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> >
> >
> >=====
> >Djilali Benamrane : dbenamrane@yahoo.com
> >Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
> >Page web sur l'Afrique et la globalisation :
> http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/
> >Groupe de discussion:
> http://www.egroups.com/list/afriqueglobalization
> >
> >
> >	
> >		
> >__________________________________
> >Do you Yahoo!?
> >Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for
> 25¢
> >http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash
> >_______________________________________________
> >Plenary mailing list
> >Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Bill McIver
> Assistant Professor
> School of Information Science and Policy
> University at Albany, State University of New York
> Albany, New York 12222
> USA
> 
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Groupe de discussion: http://www.egroups.com/list/afriqueglobalization


	
		
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 27 09:16:16 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] EPIC let's involve non-english speaking people
In-Reply-To: <p06001f09bcb2ef0f2b4c@[192.168.1.53]>
Message-ID: <20040427081616.18450.qmail@web60704.mail.yahoo.com>

In English below
Chère Franie,
Je ne peux pas être insultant lorsque je reçois des
messages comme le votre... Vous donnez l'exemple en
essayant de traduire... cela demande beaucoup
d'effort... Merci
La solution n'est pas individuelle mais collectif et
si notre collectif de la société civile ne peut pas
résoudre ce problème existentialiste et essentiel de
large information des population alors autant
supprimer cette composante si elle accepte de se
placer sous le parapluie anglophone et à son seul
service... excusez l'excès de ma position et si
certains cherchent des participants alibis ils les
trouveront ce n'est pas difficile... et merci pour
ceux qui se traisent !
Amitiés
Djilali
Dear Frannie,
I cannot be in opposition with your kind message.
Thanks to have done effort for a translation.... This
problem of translation is an important one especially
for sharing information with populations... I don't
want to do any effort to support the donination of
English and idea supported by those who support 1 and
only one idea, 1 language, 1 power, etc... Evrybody
know that is is the word of rich and privilegees...
Our network can find the best solution and Bill has
already proposed one let's follow his advice...
All the best
Djilali 
 
--- Frannie Wellings <wellings@epic.org> wrote:
> 
> Cher Dijilali - je comprends votre point et 
> essayerai et signalerai une version espagnole et 
> française de l'annonce de conférence dès que je 
> pourrai. Ici I'll traduisent ce message en 
> utilisant la suggestion de Bill's de Babelfish. 
> Cependant, je demanderais que vous menez par 
> exemple et écrivez dans des langues multiples 
> vous-même - vous choisissez d'écrire la plupart 
> de vos messages en français. Je comprends you're 
> essayant de faire une remarque, mais je pense 
> qu'il y a des manières plus constructives de 
> faire ainsi. Je pense qu'il y a des contraintes 
> pour d'autres que vous choisissez de ne pas 
> identifier. Il y a une personne dans mon petit 
> bureau qui parle le français et le he's très 
> occupés avec ses propres travail. I've lui a déjà 
> demandé que pour traduire l'annonce de conférence 
> et le he'll faites-l'aussitôt que possible. 
> Pouvez-vous suggérer des traducteurs ? La 
> conférence elle-même sera en anglais seulement, 
> malheureusement, puisque nous sommes de petit 
> sans but lucratif et don't ont les fonds pour 
> louer des traducteurs. Cependant, we're remontant 
> un sourcebook de wsis a relié les documents et 
> les articles analytiques que nous regardons pour 
> traduire en français et l'Espagnol - il sera cher 
> pour nous comme we're éditant et distribuant le 
> sourcebook pour libre, mais nous savons it's 
> important. J'espère que vous identifieriez que 
> les gens qui parlent seulement une langue 
> elles-mêmes, quoique celle qui domine trop 
> souvent distinctif, ont également des contraintes 
> qu'elles travaillent pour surmonter. Le moyen d'I 
> don't d'être insultant ou présomptueux et moi 
> l'apprécierions si vous seriez un peu plus de 
> compréhension et de constructif et moins agressif 
> vous-même. Merci, Frannie
> 
> Dear Dijilali -
> I understand your point and will try and post a 
> Spanish and French version of the conference 
> announcement as soon as I can. Here I'll 
> translate this message using Bill's suggestion of 
> Babelfish.  However, I would ask that you lead by 
> example and write in multiple languages yourself 
> - you choose to write most of your messages in 
> French. I understand you're trying to make a 
> point, but I think there are more constructive 
> ways to do so.
> I think that there are constraints for others 
> that you choose not to recognize.  There is one 
> person in my small office who speaks French and 
> he's very busy with his own work. I've already 
> asked him to translate the conference 
> announcement and he'll do it as soon as possible. 
> Can you suggest translators?  The conference 
> itself will be in English only, unfortunately, 
> since we are a small non-profit and don't have 
> the funds to hire translators.  However, we're 
> putting together a sourcebook of wsis related 
> documents and analytical articles which we are 
> looking to translate into French and Spanish - it 
> will be expensive for us as we're publishing and 
> distributing the sourcebook for free, but we know 
> it's important. I hope that you would recognize 
> that people who only speak one language 
> themselves, albeit the one that too often 
> discriminatively dominates, also have constraints 
> that they are working to overcome.
> I don't mean to be insulting or presumptuous and 
> I would appreciate it if you would be a bit more 
> understanding and constructive and less 
> aggressive yourself.
> Thank you, Frannie
> 
> 
> 
> Djilali - entiendo su punto e intentaré y fijaré 
> una versión española y francesa del aviso de la 
> conferencia tan pronto como pueda. Aquí I'll 
> traducen este mensaje usando la sugerencia de 
> Bill's de Babelfish. Sin embargo, preguntaría que 
> usted conduce por ejemplo y escribe en idiomas 
> múltiples usted mismo - usted elige escribir la 
> mayoría de sus mensajes en francés. Entiendo 
> you're que intenta hacer un punto, pero pienso 
> que hay maneras más constructivas de hacer tan. 
> Pienso que hay apremios para otros que usted 
> elija no reconocer. Hay una persona en mi oficina 
> pequeña que hable el francés y he's muy ocupados 
> con sus el propio trabajo. I've ya le preguntó 
> que para traducir el aviso de la conferencia y el 
> he'll hágalo cuanto antes. ¿Puede usted sugerir 
> los traductores? La conferencia sí mismo estará 
> en inglés solamente, desafortunadamente, puesto 
> que somos no lucrativos pequeño y don't tienen 
> los fondos para emplear los traductores. Sin 
> embargo, we're que ponía junto un sourcebook del 
> wsis relacionó los documentos y los artículos 
> analíticos que estamos mirando para traducir al 
> francés y español - será costoso para nosotros 
> como we're que publica y que distribuye el 
> sourcebook para libre, pero sabemos it's 
> importante. Espero que usted reconociera a esa 
> gente que habla solamente una lengua ellos 
> mismos, no obstante la que demasiado a menudo 
> discriminatoriamente domina, también tiene 
> apremios que estén trabajando para superar. El 
> medio de I don't de ser que insulta o presumido y 
> yo apreciaríamos si usted sería un pedacito más 
> comprensión y constructivo y menos agresivo usted 
> mismo. Gracias, Frannie
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >Ha ha ha,
> >No translation in English !
> >Je suis heureux du contenu de ce message qui vient
> >enfin confirmer l'inacceptable domination de
> l'anglais
> >qui marginalise les populations de pays pauvres non
> >anglophones, entre autres les francophones.
> >Si nous voulons une participation africaine un tant
> >soi peu significative il faut que les organisateurs
> >fassent l'effort de faire la traduction des
> messages
> >au moins en 2 langues anglais et une autre langue
> >auchoix....
> >Je ne fais que rappeler ce message et je suis
> heureux
> >qu'enfin on m'enboÓte le pas, j'attends d'autres
> >soutiens de francophones, d'espanophones, de
> >luzophones et d'arabes si tentÈ que ces populations
> >veulent s'exprimer !
> >AmitiÈs
> >Djilali
> >--- secretariat general <anut_togo@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> >>
> >>  Salut
> >>
> >  > je viens de recevoir votre mail mais je vous
> >>  preierai de nous envoyer les messages en
> franÁais
> >>  car nous sommes francophones et nous ne
> maitrisons
> >  > pas bien l'anglais.
> >>
> >>  Merci pour la comprehension
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Frannie Wellings <wellings@epic.org> wrote: Hi
> >>  everyone - I'd like to encourage everyone to
> attend
> >>  this
> >>  conference. As you'll see on the web site, we'll
> >>  cover many issues
> >>  in these two days, including the World Summit on
> the
> >>  Information
> >>  Society and the participation of civil society,
> >>  secrecy and
> >>  surveillance, voting system integrity, anonymity
> and
> >>  biometrics.
> >>  E-mail me off-list if you have any questions I
> can
> >>  help with! I hope
> >>  I'll see some of you there. - Frannie
> >>
> >>  ...sorry to all who are receiving this multiple
> >>  times :)
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>======================================================================
> >>  EPIC TO HOST LEADING TECHNOLOGY POLICY
> CONFERENCE IN
> >>  MAY
> >>
>
>======================================================================
> >>
> >>  FREEDOM 2.0
> >>  Washington, DC, May 20-22
> >>  Register at http://www.epic04.org/
> >>
> >>  Registration is open for "Freedom 2.0:
> Distributed
> >>  Democracy, Dialogue
> >>  for a Connected World" on May 20-22, 2004 at the
> >>  Washington Club in
> >>  Washington, DC. This leading technology policy
> >>  conference, hosted by
> >>  the Electronic Privacy Information Center
> (EPIC),
> 
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Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
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From claire.shearman at mcr1.poptel.org.uk  Tue Apr 27 16:43:28 2004
From: claire.shearman at mcr1.poptel.org.uk (claire.shearman@mcr1.poptel.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Hidden message
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From ACarvin at edc.org  Tue Apr 27 17:00:54 2004
From: ACarvin at edc.org (Andy Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Hidden message
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Message-ID: <OF36DE86DF.6D8A8D4A-ON85256E83.00578E66-85256E83.0057F915@edc.org>

En fran?ais, ci-dessous.
En espa?ol, abajo.


Hi everyone,

This is a virus. I hope no one has opened it.

Is it possible for someone to serve as a list moderator to prevent viruses 
and "out of the office" automatic messages from going out to everyone on 
the list? 

thanks,
ac


C'est un virus. J'esp?re que personne ne l'a ouvert. Est il possible pour 
que quelqu'un serve de mod?rateur de liste pour emp?cher les virus et le 
"out de l'office" ; messages automatiques de sortir ? chacun sur la liste 
?


Esto es un virus. Espero que nadie lo haya abierto. Es posible para que 
alguien sirva como asesor de la lista para prevenir virus y el "out del 
office" ?mensajes autom?ticos de salir a cada uno en la lista?

-------------------------------------------------
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Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
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claire.shearman@mcr1.poptel.org.uk
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From mueller at syr.edu  Mon Apr 26 15:32:13 2004
From: mueller at syr.edu (Milton Mueller)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Toward an Internet Gov caucus position paper
Message-ID: <s08ce53f.053@gwia201.syr.edu>

In the words of our illustrious caucus co-chair (Jeanette H.):

"The active members of this list seemed to agree that it would quite 
good if this caucus managed to produce a position paper that would 
contribute to the debate on Internet Governance that will accompany 
the formation of the UN working group."

It was also agreed that we should take the relevant section of 
the CS Declaration as a starting point, and discuss how to modify
it. That is what I do in this post. 

A summary of the CS Declaration's main points relevant to IG are:

 * Governments should not take over the ICANN function and should not be exclusively responsible for IG
 * The special US oversight role over ICANN and the root zone file (mistakenly identified as the "root servers") should end when "the conditions for system stability and sound management can be guaranteed"
 * There should be "public interest monitoring" and analysis of Internet governance-related IOs such as ICANN, WIPO, OECD, WTO, etc.
 * A "multi-stakeholder observatory committee" should be established to perform this monitoring and analysis

In terms of modifying this statement, I think a lot of work needs to be done. At the time it was written it probably did a good job of staking out basic CS attitudes toward some key Internet governance issues, both broad and narrow. The debate has progressed significantly since WSIS Phase 1, however, and in its current form the statement does not contribute much.

* At a minimum, we need to correct the error and properly identify what ICANN does and what aspect of it is supervised by the U.S. Dept of Commerce. The root servers are actually owned and operated by independent organizations and have no contractual relationship either with ICANN or the U.S. DoC. ICANN does, however, have some MoUs with the USG and the U.S. Dept of Commerce does oversee the contents of the root zone file. 

* In addition, I personally would want to closely re-examine those words about when USG oversight should end; the qualification about "guaranteed" conditions for "system stability and sound management" sounds a bit too restrictive for me. If a new statement is not to be completely irrelevant, a firm position on this issue must be taken

* The "observatory committee" strikes me as an idea who time has come and gone. Most of what it was supposed to do has been superseded by the SG's Working Group. (Maybe we can claim that our call was heeded? ;-) ) 

* A revised statement should take some position on how to deal with multiple, overlapping internet governance regimes. See my discussion of this in the Internet Governance Project's paper on principles and norms
http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/IGP-UNICTTF.pdf
 
A more aggressive approach to revision could do any or all of the following:

* Identify which of the multiple Intgov regimes are failing, or where contradictions or loopholes exist

* Articulate specific critiques and supports of ICANN, e.g. oppose the use of Internet resources as leverage for regulation and control, and call for consistency of its governance mechanisms with the end to end principle; approve its incorporation of direct CS input into its processes, with perhaps some critique of its bowdlerized At-Large mechanisms 

* Articulate specific critiques of ITU and address the ITU-ICANN relationship

* Address in a more substantive way the relationship between developed and developing countries in governance institutions. The current language, which basically says that inclusiveness is good, rather begs the question of what institutional reforms would actually improve the situation.

* Take a position on IPR

* Take a position on spam control

* Take a position on privacy specifically as it relates to Internet governance and surveillance

--MM


From mauric75 at adinet.com.uy  Wed Apr 28 15:07:46 2004
From: mauric75 at adinet.com.uy (Mauricio de los Santos)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Law against secret almost approved in Ecuador
Message-ID: <005c01c42d2a$2f22c260$1201a8c0@ladrillo>

Law against secret almost approved in Ecuador

After a long discussion the law of access to the public information is almost approved in Ecuador.

The law that gives the right to every Ecuadorian citizen to freely access to the public interest information is approved on an 80% with only 10 articles waiting to be approved.

It seems as the voting of the entire project won't have more delays after being approved the most polemic article referred to the limitations of the right of access to the public information.

According to what was approved, all the classified information from the National Security Council will be kept under reserve for National Defense reasons. Inside this there are the issues related to intelligence, intelligence plans, operations, reports and military contra-intelligence. 


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From karenb at gn.apc.org  Wed Apr 28 17:04:17 2004
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ADMIN: list Upgrade and virus checking
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greetings

i'll try running this through babel - i hope it isn't *too* awful!

english
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The wsis-cs.org mailing lists are hosted at GreenNet, a UK member of the APC.

We do use server side scanning, and although this message seems to have 
gotten through, the body has been damaged and the zip file is empty. But 
we'll keep an eye on things.

Also, we have upgraded mailman to version 2.1.1 which will solve a few of 
the other technical problems we've had (which most of you are probably un 
aware of! ) ;)

En espa?ol:
-----------
Las listas que env?an de wsis-cs.org se reciben en GreenNet, miembro 
BRIT?NICO del APC.

Utilizamos la exploraci?n lateral del servidor, y aunque este mensaje se 
parece haber conseguido a trav?s, se ha da?ado el cuerpo y el archivo de 
cierre rel?mpago es vac?o. Pero subsistencia de we'll un ojo en cosas.

?Tambi?n, hemos aumentado a cartero a la versi?n 2.1.1 que solucionar? 
algunos de los otros problemas t?cnicos que we've ten?a (de el cual la 
mayor?a de usted es probablemente un enterado! );)

En fran?ais:
------------
Les listes d'exp?dition de wsis-cs.org sont accueillies chez GreenNet, un 
membre BRITANNIQUE du RPA.

Nous employons le balayage lat?ral de serveur, et bien que ce message 
semble avoir obtenu ? travers, le corps a ?t? endommag? et le dossier de 
fermeture ?clair est vide. Mais subsistance de we'll un oeil sur des choses.

En outre, nous avons promu le mailman ? la version 2.1.1 qui r?soudra 
quelques uns des autres probl?mes techniques que we've a eus dont (la 
plupart d'entre vous est probablement un avertie ! ) ;)

----

regards
karen


From ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es  Wed Apr 28 20:42:34 2004
From: ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?LADY=20MURRUGARRA?=)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] potential of digital media
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20040428165822.03581e78@pop.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <20040428194234.66188.qmail@web11801.mail.yahoo.com>

WOUGNET demonstrates the potential of digital media for development - ITU
Telecom Africa 2004  
World Summit Award News, 23.04.04
http://www.wsis-award.org


The "Women of Uganda Network" a WSA Best Content 2003 in the category
e-Inclusion, will be presented at the ITU Telecom Africa 2004 Forum held in
Cairo (Egypt) on May 4-8th. 

WOUGNET empowers women in the use of ICT and its website has become a key
resource for members and partners providing information and linking a variety
of women related projects and resources in fields such as ICT, education,
business and human rights. 

WOUGNET has a strategic value for the world-wide inclusion of woman and allows
to take advantage of the opportunities presented by e-Content and the internet
in order to effectively address national and local problems of sustainable
development. 

ITU TELECOM AFRICA 2004, taking place in Cairo, Egypt from 4-8 May 2004 is an
event which will bring leading players from government, regional and
international operators, manufacturers, regulators and investment bodies to
participate in a major Exhibition and Forum with the theme "Access Africa".
http://www.itu.int/AFRICA2004/ 


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From wellings at epic.org  Wed Apr 28 22:06:32 2004
From: wellings at epic.org (Frannie Wellings)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Public Voice Briefing on UN meeting, meeting with Kummer,
 Upcoming meetings
Message-ID: <p06001f39bcb5cc958346@[192.168.1.53]>

The Public Voice Briefing
April 27, 2004
http://www.thepublicvoice.org


Contents:

 Summary of Public Voice Meeting at Ford/UN ICT TF Forum 3/26/04

 Report from Meeting with Markus Kummer 4/26/04

 Public Voice Sourcebook Publication and Calendar

 Upcoming Meetings:

The next Public Voice meeting will take place 
during EPIC's Freedom 2.0 conference in 
Washington, DC, May20-22, 2004 
(http://www.epic04.org). 







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Summary of Public Voice Meeting
Friday, March 26, 2004 following the UN ICT Task Force Meeting
Ford Foundation, New York, NY


In Attendance:
Frannie Wellings (EPIC), Marc Rotenberg (EPIC), 
Derrick Cogburn (University of Michigan), Ralf 
Bendrath (Heinrich Boll), Robin Gross (IP 
Justice), Hans Klein (Georgia Tech), Karl 
Auerbach (himself), Rik Panganiban (WFM), Marc 
Bench (WPFC), Michael Gurstein (New Jersey 
Institute of Technology), Rikke Frank Joergensen 
(Danish Institute for Human Rights), Jane 
Finnerup (FN-forbundet/Danish UN Association), 
DeeDee Halleck (Deep Dish), Saskia Fischer (UCC), 
Bertrand de la Chappelle (wsis_online), Andrea 
Taylor (Education Development Center), Robert 
Latham (Social Science Research Council), Aliza 
Dichter (CIMA), Vittorio Bertola (ICANN 
At-Large), Bill McIver (University of Albany), 
Milton Mueller (Syracuse University), YJ Park 
(Syracuse University), Desiree Milosevic 
(Afilias), Veni Markovski (ICANN), Valentina 
Azzarello (UNDP), Stefan (prev Canadian Govt.), 
Bobson Wong (researcher), Bahiyyih Chaffers 
(Baha'I International Community's UN office), 
Olinca Marino (APC Mexico), Chris Chiu (ACLU), 
Nick Moraitis (Taking IT Global), Sarah Tierney 
(Taking IT Global), Catherine Bruce (University 
of South Carolina), Robert Guerra (Privaterra), 
Sasha Costanza-Chock (Free Press), Cari Rotenberg 
(student at Univ. of Michigan), Deborah Hurley, 
Jeff Porten (IT consultant), Francisco Bermudez 
Lopez (Auditoria Democratica Andina), Becky Lentz 
(Ford Foundation).


Goals:

 Assess the UN ICT TF meeting

 Outline needs and goals for moving forward 


Brief History of the Public Voice project:

 The Public Voice Project began 10 years ago as 
the OECD was considering IT related issues. 
Government traditionally brought in business 
interests to consult, but didn't work to interact 
with civil society groups.

 The project has focused on getting NGO's 
involved in IT policy decision making. The Public 
Voice website is http://www.thepublicvoice.org


Reflections on UN ICT TF Forum:

 Process: There was disagreement about the 
degree to which this UN forum was actually a 
Multi-Stakeholder model.  Some thought the 
process was improving in this regard. 

 Substance: It was all about reaffirmation of 
55-year-old human rights principles rather than 
actual implementation.  There were also lots of 
warm fuzzies around the digital divide at the ICT 
TF meeting, but no substance.

 Participation: Some felt it was nice to get an 
ability to rant in the breakout sections and get 
it placed in the report; the rapporteurs will 
note what we said about free speech, privacy, 
etc.  However, it was hard to get a chance to 
speak at the microphone in the Forum. Some civil 
society groups got to sit up front - we should 
select who speaks. 

 A few people felt that civil society is doing 
well in this process and that the forum was 
actually focused on the issues - they seemed to 
be the minority, though.  Most felt there was 
lots of lip service on the ability of government 
to assist, but no specificity.

 Someone pointed out that maybe our expectations for the TF were too high.

 Many were disappointed by the lack of 
participation from developing countries. 
Actions regarding the UN ICT TF Forum:

 We provided Anriette with three main points 
from this meeting to take into the private Task 
Force meeting the next day (Saturday, March 27). 
They were: 1) there was too much talk of 
reaffirmation of principles and not enough talk 
of implementation - we hope the taskforce will 
move beyond the reaffirmation of human rights; 2) 
the selection of the working group and the 
coordination of the group should be transparent; 
and 3) the working group should involve all 
stakeholders.


Significant Points:

Voice -

 There were differing opinions on whether we as 
civil society must have just one voice (meaning 
portray the same message) in order to be 
effective versus whether this is even possible or 
desirable.  It was thought by most participants, 
it seemed, that there is a diversity of 
viewpoints within civil society and it is more 
important to have a voice, the ability to speak 
and be heard, rather than to have a homogenous 
message.

 There was also a concern over an ineffective 
voice - should it be broad or narrow in focus? 


Outreach -

 Participants discussed the need to make these 
issues meaningful to communities on a local 
level, to make the global processes connect with 
what's happening on a locally.  We need to find 
ways to generate content that gets through. 

 There was discussion of the use of regional 
coordination as a basis to move forward. Phase 2 
provides is an opportunity to reactivate regional 
connections.
Action in terms of Outreach:

 The Public Voice project is publishing a 
sourcebook to use for outreach/education which is 
a compilation of documents explaining and 
assessing the wsis process.


Resources -

 Funding: Civil Society depended on resources 
from the ITU and the Swiss in Phase 1 that are no 
longer there in Phase 2.

 Work: we need to know who's doing what and who's best at what. 
Action in terms of Resources:

 In terms of funding for this 2nd phase, it was 
suggested we write an open letter to Tunisia 
asking that they provide us with equipment 
(copying, faxing, printing, etc.). 

 CIMA is currently surveying groups involved in 
wsis to see who is doing what and how.


Participation issues -

 Active participation is difficult and getting 
worse. How do we collaborate? Organize?

 Participants expressed interest in another 
physical meeting as well as interest in virtual 
participation.  There was recognition of problems 
associated with both such as funding for travel 
costs, but also the difficulties for those in 
developing countries and on dial-up connections 
for virtual participation.
Action in terms of Participation:

 Regarding our approach to Tunis, it was felt we 
need an adequate showing and we have to figure 
out who can get out there.  We must directly 
engage government - we should watch out for a 
purely intergovernmental meeting in Tunisia.

 Some in the group are working on improving collaborative technologies.


Efficiency of Civil Society in the Process -

 This Phase won't work in the same way as Phase 
1. Phase 2 will be more complex than phase 1 and 
civil society needs to be more professional, 
coordinated, effective, and better prepared. 
Training sessions were suggested.

 We need to work on capacity building.

 We need to be able to engage with high-level decision makers. 

 It was debated, but many thought the past 
couple of meetings have improved in terms of 
multi-stakeholder involvement. Individuals were 
able to speak as people at the ICT meeting and 
Tunis operated in a similar fashion last month. 
Now, how do we get our act together?  How do we 
account for the diverse voices and diverse 
messages among us?
Action in terms of Engaging High-Level Decision Makers:

 Regarding the Internet Governance Working Group 
specifically, it was suggested we write a public 
letter to Markus Kummer. 


Substance -

 As Rikke said, the ICT TF meeting involved 
reaffirming Human Rights standards from 55 years 
ago.  We need to talk about implementation rather 
than affirmation.  Do we need more guidelines, 
etc. or to impose rights at a national level.  We 
need to develop indicators. To measure Human 
Rights compliance at a national level.  EPIC's 
"Privacy and Human Rights" survey is a great 
start.  We're going to need even more precise 
measurement, more precise tools.

 We were reminded not forget traditional media 
and keep in mind community technologies.

 We were also reminded that even though we'd 
just spent two days at a meeting discussing 
internet governance, we shouldn't confuse the 
Internet Governance Working Group with the entire 
process.


Public Voice Dinner - Friday, March 26th
We also organized a dinner at a restaurant in the 
East Village, Via Della Pace, which was a lot of 
fun and I believe very useful for post-meeting 
conversations, networking, etc.  Thank you to 
everyone there for making it such a super 
evening.  I look forward to more of these dinners 
in the future!







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Meeting with Markus Kummer
April 26, 2004
Washington, DC

In attendance:
Markus Kummer with representatives from the 
Center for Democracy and Technology, the 
Electronic Privacy Information Center, the 
American Library Association, the Internet 
Society, the New America Foundation, and the 
Aspen Institute.


Markus Kummer on his role and the working group itself?

About himself and his approach -

 He feels he has the benefit of being a blank 
sheet of paper without any baggage

 Kummer recognizes there is little time and 
feels he is being realistic about the limitations 
of this working group

 He feels it's extremely important to get the 
process right, that stakeholders recognize 
themselves in the process and in the output of 
the report

 He is sure of the following results: the 
process will involve multilateral diplomacy, 
there will be no new organization resulting from 
the process and the UN will not take over any 
control of the Internet.

 Some of the participants were bashing 
regulation and touting self-regulation, to which 
he responded that he has sympathy for 
self-regulation, but he also realizes that 
nothing happens outside of the law.  His 
viewpoint was that international organizations 
should not heavily intervene, but should set a 
regulatory framework. There has obviously been a 
lack of international governance and this will be 
the focus of future activity.

The Working Group Budget/Make-Up -

 He's been given no budget and is currently going around asking for money

 The group will be financed through a trust fund 
(the classic UN way).  He first approached the 
Swiss government (his own government) asking for 
a salary and money for doing the job.  He will 
receive money from the Swiss Development 
Corporation, and he hopes countries like Ireland, 
the Netherlands, Italy, etc.  He met with the US 
Commerce Department to try and acquire funds even 
though he knew they were not enthusiastic about 
the wsis process.

 He is accepting/asking for private sector 
funding and is meeting with business 
representatives

 He wants to spend money on travel funding for developing country experts

 He intends to hire 7 or 8 people, including an 
administrative assistant and someone to run the 
web site.

 They have prepared a tentative budget of 
$2.3million, which is being vetted in the various 
levels.

Legitimacy -

 Certain countries question the legitimacy of 
the working group and he wants a well-funded 
process with a credible result that stands the 
test of experts.  He recognizes that if this is a 
process filled with white, Anglo-Saxon 
middle-aged Western men, it won't work. 

 His fear is if this is done wrong, if it 
doesn't feel legitimate, there will be 
fragmentation.  He wants to keep everyone 
involved together rather than watch as some 
countries leave and set up a parallel outfit.

Deliverables -

 The Mandate calls for the report to be 
submitted to the summit, but it will be submitted 
earlier. It will be prepared before the summer 
break of 2005 and submitted to the final prepcom 
which will likely be in September of 2005.

 There will be no rolling document - just one 
final document possibly with background papers 
along the way.

 I asked whether I mentioned it was important 
that all documents be translated along the way 
and not just the final ones that they consider to 
be most important.  He said he found that to be a 
very good point and he would address it. 

Regarding the UN ICT Forum -

 Weakness - It was too big. It was also very 
American.  The people in prominent roles were not 
from the South.  There were many reasons for 
this, for example: 1) China didn't want to 
participate; 2) Latin American countries didn't 
want the UN ICT TF to play any role; and 3) they 
invited high profile people who don't always 
come. 

 Kummer told the business community that they 
shouldn't let themselves be lulled into a false 
sense of security because everyone was so 
agreeable at the Forum.  It was very US-centered 
and there will need to be a much more broad 
outlook in the working group. 

 The working group will be much smaller and will 
not involve eminent persons - no CEO profiles. 

Group composition -

 He will start the Secretariat with a core group 
by June 1st.  Probably at the Tunis meeting in 
June, he will propose to the Secretary General 
the nomination of a chairperson.  He will hold 
informal consultations setting up the group.

 He aims to have the group fully operational by 
October.  The text of the mandate is ambiguous 
only calling for him to set up a group that is 
open and inclusive, including all stakeholders, 
etc.  Members will be selected in a consultative 
process.  The Secretary General will nominate but 
will ask for opinions and suggestions for what 
the working group will look like.  Some people 
have offered to work for the Secretariat and some 
have said they'd volunteer as members, but he 
assures people they can't buy their way in. 
People have been proposing a chairman as well. 
Names continue to be suggested for membership and 
the chairmanship, but aren't desired at this 
point. 

 Before taking names, they want to talk of 
profiles and representation? which countries, 
communities, stakeholders?  There will be a 
dialogue with all interested parties. 

 He recognized the need for groups to nominate 
from within rather than be selected by outsiders, 
and the significance of this in terms of working 
group legitimacy.

Consultations -

 The process will likely be organized into three 
tiers: 1) working group discussion, 2) less 
formalized hearings or some such way to address 
interests, and 3) open ended meetings with 
experts.

 There will be a heavy workload for those 
involved. There will probably be three or four 
3-day meetings with a travel day either end, 
which will mean a 3-4 week absence in total. 
Papers will need to be prepared.

Media Message -

 Kummer recognized that members of the media 
have enjoyed printing a story of the UN taking 
over the Internet. He thinks this needs to be 
addressed somehow. 

 The group might meet with members of the media 
to listen and talk with them and to try and 
explain what's happening.

Defining Internet Governance -

 He was asked how it's possible to set up the 
working group when we still don't know how 
broadly or narrowly to conceptualize Internet 
governance.  Representatives from ISOC wanted to 
know if Internet Governance in question would 
involve purely domain names, standards setting, 
pricing etc. or other, more broad layers.  Kummer 
answered that politically and tactically we 
should be broad and more inclusive.  There are 
issues we need to respect.  We do not need to 
reinvent the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights, however.

 The ISOC and CDT representatives in the room 
were interested in convincing Kummer that 1) the 
ITU should not be allowed any responsibility here 
and 2) there already are groups responsible for 
standards setting (ie for problem resolution, go 
to the IETF), intellectual property (WIPO), 
trade/monopoly restrictions (WTO), etc.  Kummer 
responded saying that he's fully aware of the 
problems with the ITU.  On the issue of 
pre-existing structures and their ability to 
handle all of the issues, Kummer believes that 
governance is working fine on a national level, 
but that structure is lacking on an international 
level. He feels there is a missing layer and that 
is what this working group will address.  One 
issue for example that has no resolution is the 
allocation of ccTLDs. There is much unhappiness 
across the board and the working group will have 
to focus on this.  Governments see this as a 
sovereignty issue.  Multilingualism is another 
issue that needs resolution and has no place to 
go.





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Public Voice Sourcebook Publication - Use of Calendar on the Public Voice site
The Public Voice Project has compiled a group of 
documents and analytical articles on the World 
Summit on the Information Society, which is being 
published as a Sourcebook explaining the WSIS. 
The book is currently at the publishers, but 
we'll begin distribution at the end of May.  On 
the Public Voice website, there is a listing of 
events across the globe that relate to the issues 
of the World Summit 
(http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/2004_csonetwork.html), 
which could be useful for outreach.  We would 
like to make the Sourcebook available for people 
who may be attending these events and have the 
opportunity to educate and encourage involvement 
in wsis civil society participation.  Please 
e-mail Frannie at wellings@epic.org with any 
questions about the Sourcebook or suggestions for 
additional events, etc.

Calendar: http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/2004_csonetwork.html

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Upcoming Meetings:

The next Public Voice meeting will take place at 
EPIC's conference in Washington, DC, May 20-22, 
2004.  The conference title is Freedom 2.0: 
Distributed Democracy and the web site is 
http://www.epic04.org.  The four themes of the 
conference are democracy, transparency, public 
voice, and There will be a panel on the World 
Summit on Friday afternoon (5/21) and a Public 
Voice workshop on Saturday (5/22) led by 
Stephanie Perrin of Canada, Deborah Hurley of the 
US, and Pedro Mendizabal of Peru.  The Freedom 
2.0 Announcement follows in English (with Spanish 
and French versions at the end of the e-mail):


       FREEDOM 2.0
       Washington, DC, May 20-22
       Register at http://www.epic04.org/

Registration is open for "Freedom 2.0: 
Distributed Democracy, Dialogue for a Connected 
World" on May 20-22, 2004 at the Washington Club 
in Washington, DC.  This leading technology 
policy conference, hosted by the Electronic 
Privacy Information Center (EPIC), features an 
all-star line-up of speakers discussing 
democracy, transparency, privacy and public voice.

Special events include a Thursday night reception 
featuring the SWIPE Project, a performance piece 
addressing the gathering of data from driver's 
licenses.  Friday night's reception will be 
hosted at the International Spy Museum and 
include exclusive access to the museum's 
collection.

The first EPIC Champion of Freedom Award will 
also be presented at the conference.

The early registration deadline is May 5.  To register for Freedom 2.0:

       http://regmaster.com/epic04.html

Registration is limited. Be sure to register 
soon. For more information about the conference, 
see the Freedom 2.0 web site:

       http://www.epic04.org/

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There will be another meeting the following month 
in Berlin after the Wizards of OS3 Conference. 

European / North American WSIS Civil Society Meeting
Berlin, Germany, June 13, 2004
More Information, Contact: Ralf Bendrath <bendrath(at)zedat.fu-berlin.de>

Objective: To discuss and strategize for the 
involvement of European and North American NGOs 
in WSIS phase two. The meeting will be used to 
prepare for PrepCom 1 of phase two that will take 
place ten days later. Possible topics include: 
Assessment of summit outcomes; action plan 
implementation; ideas for summit documents 2005; 
further discussion of overall civil society 
strategy; how to deal with Tunisia; capacity 
building for civil society participation and 
influence; future interaction with EU officials; 
better coordination with other European and North 
American initiatives. The meeting will be held 
one day after the third "Wizards of OS" 
conference that deals with "liberation movements 
in the information society" and alongside a 
number of other NGO events that take place in 
Berlin during the whole week.
Attendance: Open to all interested civil society members.

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Websites: http://www.epic04.org and http://www.worldsummit2005.org







EPIC Conference Information in Spanish and French:
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LIBERTAD 2.0
Washington, D.C.,
Mayo 20-22
http://www.epic04.org/

El registro est? abierto para el "Freedom 2.0: 
Democracia Distribuida, Di?logo para un Mundo 
Conectado," el Mayo 20-22, 2004 en el Club de 
Washington en Washington, D.C.  Esta conferencia 
principal de la pol?tica de la tecnolog?a, por 
the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), 
ofrece una discussion de democracia, la 
transparencia, la aislamiento y la voz del 
p?blico.

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L'ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER (EPIC)
pr?sente

LIBERTE 2.0
D?mocratie distribu?e - Dialogue pour un monde connect?

20-22 MAI 2004

Washington Club
Washington, DC (Etats-Unis)

Le Centre d'information sur la vie priv?e 
?lectronique (EPIC) a le plaisir de vous inviter 
? participer ? :

LIBERTE 2.0
Washington, DC (Etats-Unis)
20-22 mai 2004

Enregistrez-vous ? http://www.epic04.org/

Cette conf?rence rassemblera des experts et 
orateurs renomm?s, ainsi que d'importants 
d?cideurs politiques, dans les domaines suivants :
- L'impact des nouvelles technologies sur la vie priv?e (Vie priv?e);
- La representation du public dans la mise en 
oeuvre de politiques de d?veloppement des 
nouvelles technologies (D?mocratie);
- Le r?le de la soci?t? civile (Voix du public);
- Le besoin de transparence dans la mise en 
oeuvre de politiques li?es aux nouvelles 
technologies (Transparence);

Ev?nements en marge de la conf?rence :

- Jeudi soir : r?ception et pr?sentation du 
projet "SWIPE" illustrant les dangers pour la vie 
priv?e provenant de la collection de donn?es 
personnelles de pi?ces d'identit?.

- Vendredi soir : r?ception au nouveau mus?e 
"Espion international" ("International Spy 
Museum") lors duquel EPIC d?cernera le prix 
"Champion de la Libert?".

Cl?ture des inscriptions: le 5 mai 2004.

Pour vous inscrire ? Libert? 2.0, visitez http://regmaster.com/epic04.html

Les places sont en nombre limit?.

Pour plus d'informations sur la conf?rence, visitez le site web "Freedom 2.0":
http://www.epic04.org/

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Frannie Wellings
Policy Analyst, Electronic Privacy Information Center
Coordinator, The Public Voice
1718 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 200 
Washington, D.C.  20009   USA 
wellings@epic.org
+1 202 483 1140 extension 107 (telephone)
+1 202 483 1248 (fax)
http://www.epic.org
http://www.thepublicvoice.org
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From katitza at cpsr.org  Wed Apr 28 22:40:21 2004
From: katitza at cpsr.org (Katitza Rodriguez)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] EPIC conference "Freedom 2.0" May 20-22, 2004
In-Reply-To: <p06001f7dbcaf287b50fa@[192.168.1.53]>
References: <p06001f7dbcaf287b50fa@[192.168.1.53]>
Message-ID: <3849.201.128.106.208.1083188421.squirrel@admin.cpsr.org>

Version en castellano:
Spanish version of Frannie?s message:

Frannie dijo:

"Hola a todos/as: Quisiera invitarlos/as a atender esta conferencia. Tal
como veran en nuestra p?gina web, vamos a cubrir diferentes temas en estos
dos dias, incluyendo la CMSI y la participacion de la sociedad civil,
privacidad y vigilancia, integridad de los sistemas de votaci?n
electr?nica, anonimato y biometr?a. Escribanme fuera de la lista si tienen
alguna pregunta al respecto y que crean que pueda ayudar. Espero ver a
algunos de Uds aqui. Frannie".

EPIC organiza esta conferencia principal sobre pol?ticas en tecnolog?as en
Mayo
************************************************************

LIBERTAD 2.0
Washington, D.C.,
Mayo 20-22
http://www.epic04.org/

El regristo esta abierto para Libertad 2.0 para el "Freedom 2.0:
Democracia Distribuida, Di?logo para un Mundo Conectado," el 20-22 de
Mayo, 2004 en el Club de Washington en Washington, D.C.  Esta conferencia
principal de pol?tica de tecnolog?a, es organizada por the Electronic
Privacy Information Center (EPIC), ofrece una discusion de democracia,
transparencia, privacidad y voz p?blica.

Incluye eventos especiales una recepcion la noche del Jueves con una
demostracion del proyecto SWIPE, que consiste en la reunion de datos de
licencias de conducir. Habra una recepcion el viernes por la noche en el
museo internacional del espia e incluira el acceso exclusivo a la
colecci?n de museo. Tambien se presentar?n en la conferencia al primer
campe?n de EPIC por el premio a la Libertad. El plazo para el registro
temprano a la conferencia vence el mayo el 5.

Para registrarse:
http://regmaster.com/epic04.html
El registro es limitado. Asegurese de registrarse pronto.

Para mas informacion en relacion a la conferencia, por favor, visiste LA
WEB de Libertad 2.0 en        http://www.epic04.org/
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> Policy Analyst, Electronic Privacy Information Center
> Coordinator, The Public Voice
> 1718 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 200
> Washington, D.C.  20009   USA
> wellings@epic.org
> +1 202 483 1140 extension 107 (telephone)
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From rbloem at iprolink.ch  Thu Apr 29 11:31:52 2004
From: rbloem at iprolink.ch (Bloem Renate)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Governmental Bureau and First PrepCom
Message-ID: <LAEOLIBJPGHMMBBIAOLNGEGCDBAA.rbloem@iprolink.ch>


This was meant to be sent on April 23, when here everything broke down,
including my computer.
French and Spanish version will be sent later,
All best
Renata



Dear all,

The Governmental Bureau met on 21 April in a closed session, at which they
decided the following that

?	the Tunis meeting 24 ? 26 June will be the official first PrepCom with
rules and procedures as in the first phase and an accreditation opened anew
for those currently not yet accredited (see also ITU website)
?	current discussions and consultations for a new Chair (proposed Latvia) to
be finalized at the next Bureau meeting 10 May . (*)
?	Governments should make proposals, based on their interventions during the
Geneva Summit, on expected outcome and roadmap until 21 May to the
Secretariat. These proposals will probably provide the basis for some
documents to be discussed at the First PrepCom. From what I heard is that
some governments want this process to be governmental only in the beginning,
while others opted for a more open-ended input. I hope to get more
clarification soon.

(*) During the previous Bureau meeting 31 March Mr. Samass?kou had read a
statement, in which he movingly evoked the ups and downs and great moments
of the first phase. Mali and he himself would have been ready to continue,
would it not have been for some governments who claimed reversal: Summit in
the South and a Chair from the North. To make the way free for consensus
agreements in an anyway already difficult process he graciously bowed out.
CS owes him a lot. The space that grew larger throughout the process would
have been difficult to obtain without his support. Thank you Mr. Samass?kou!



Today, 23 April, ended the Commission on Human Rights its annual exhaustive
6 ?weeks deliberations, see also www.congoHCR.org. and all who participated
are at this moment exhausted. Rik will tell you that CONGO will have a new
Office as of next week.
With warm greetings,






From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Thu Apr 29 12:50:03 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Governmental Bureau and First PrepCom
In-Reply-To: <LAEOLIBJPGHMMBBIAOLNGEGCDBAA.rbloem@iprolink.ch>
Message-ID: <20040429115003.57237.qmail@web60705.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear Bloem,
Thanks for these interesting information !
Sorry to say once more how it is so difficult to
follow Civile society position, maily expressed in
English, requiring many time to understand and to
react. I do think that it is possible to do a mimimum
effort to insure translation in Spanish, Portuguese
and if possible French. Apprently French NGOs,
institutions and Companies are not interested to do
this effort, English organisation (CRIS ?) should do
it in the interest of the expected result of the
Summit.
Dealing with the content of the message, how the CS
representatives can think possible to maintain Mr
Samassékou as leader of the Tunis Phase even if he did
the best and more in the Geneva phase ? UN rules are
known even if they are not written.
Why are we spending time and effort on usefulless
debates ?
The report on last African Civile Society in Tunis was
hopeless, only thanks to tunisian government, thanks
for the financial initiative to support african civile
society representatives, thanks for tour offer to
participants, thanks and thanks and thanks ! Are we
serious ? are we credible ? are we usefull ? African
CS had not many requirements and advices to provide to
Tunisian officials ?
Why there is already a Found to support officials
underdevelopped countries representatives and CS is
not explicitly uncluded in this Found ?
Tunis Precom is for tomorrow (june), what have we
already done to make African Civile Society more aware
about Tunis challence and make SC more efficient ?
arrond which items ? which aims ? which expected
results ?
Is there any pilot in the CS battle ?
All the best
Djilali 
--- Bloem Renate <rbloem@iprolink.ch> wrote:
> 
> 
> This was meant to be sent on April 23, when here
> everything broke down,
> including my computer.
> French and Spanish version will be sent later,
> All best
> Renata
> 
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> The Governmental Bureau met on 21 April in a closed
> session, at which they
> decided the following that
> 
> ·	the Tunis meeting 24 – 26 June will be the
> official first PrepCom with
> rules and procedures as in the first phase and an
> accreditation opened anew
> for those currently not yet accredited (see also ITU
> website)
> ·	current discussions and consultations for a new
> Chair (proposed Latvia) to
> be finalized at the next Bureau meeting 10 May . (*)
> ·	Governments should make proposals, based on their
> interventions during the
> Geneva Summit, on expected outcome and roadmap until
> 21 May to the
> Secretariat. These proposals will probably provide
> the basis for some
> documents to be discussed at the First PrepCom. From
> what I heard is that
> some governments want this process to be
> governmental only in the beginning,
> while others opted for a more open-ended input. I
> hope to get more
> clarification soon.
> 
> (*) During the previous Bureau meeting 31 March Mr.
> Samassékou had read a
> statement, in which he movingly evoked the ups and
> downs and great moments
> of the first phase. Mali and he himself would have
> been ready to continue,
> would it not have been for some governments who
> claimed reversal: Summit in
> the South and a Chair from the North. To make the
> way free for consensus
> agreements in an anyway already difficult process he
> graciously bowed out.
> CS owes him a lot. The space that grew larger
> throughout the process would
> have been difficult to obtain without his support.
> Thank you Mr. Samassékou!
> 
> 
> 
> Today, 23 April, ended the Commission on Human
> Rights its annual exhaustive
> 6 –weeks deliberations, see also www.congoHCR.org.
> and all who participated
> are at this moment exhausted. Rik will tell you that
> CONGO will have a new
> Office as of next week.
> With warm greetings,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


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From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Thu Apr 29 13:34:26 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Governmental Bureau and First PrepCom
In-Reply-To: <20040429115003.57237.qmail@web60705.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20040429115003.57237.qmail@web60705.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <a06100509bcb6a4655edf@[192.168.0.4]>

>Dear Bloem,
>Thanks for these interesting information !
>Sorry to say once more how it is so difficult to
>follow Civile society position, maily expressed in
>English, requiring many time to understand and to
>react. I do think that it is possible to do a mimimum
>effort to insure translation in Spanish, Portuguese
>and if possible French. Apprently French NGOs,
>institutions and Companies are not interested to do
>this effort, English organisation (CRIS ?) should do
>it in the interest of the expected result of the
>Summit.


Djilali, hello,

Why don't you do some translation?

The rest of us volunteer to do things.  Why not you?

Pourquoi ne faites-vous pas une  traduction?  Le reste de nous 
volontaires pour faire des choses.  Pourquoi pas vous?

(thanks google <http://www.google.com/language_tools>)


Adam

From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Thu Apr 29 23:19:53 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Governmental Bureau and First PrepCom
In-Reply-To: <a06100509bcb6a4655edf@[192.168.0.4]>
Message-ID: <20040429221953.29782.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear Adam,
I think that it is a very important question to be
adressed seriously.
My concern is to find a translation system in 3 or 4
languages as a system and not if somebody can do it
from time to time and making his best.
I ma not able to assume a systematic translation.
As CS and especially NGO from north can take in charge
such a duty.
If we are not able to resolve this problem we will not
be able to resolve the problem of resource
mobilisation to support poor civile society
representatives and we will be in Tunis apllauding and
thanking presidents and organisators...
All the best
Djilali
--- Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
> >Dear Bloem,
> >Thanks for these interesting information !
> >Sorry to say once more how it is so difficult to
> >follow Civile society position, maily expressed in
> >English, requiring many time to understand and to
> >react. I do think that it is possible to do a
> mimimum
> >effort to insure translation in Spanish, Portuguese
> >and if possible French. Apprently French NGOs,
> >institutions and Companies are not interested to do
> >this effort, English organisation (CRIS ?) should
> do
> >it in the interest of the expected result of the
> >Summit.
> 
> 
> Djilali, hello,
> 
> Why don't you do some translation?
> 
> The rest of us volunteer to do things.  Why not you?
> 
> Pourquoi ne faites-vous pas une  traduction?  Le
> reste de nous 
> volontaires pour faire des choses.  Pourquoi pas
> vous?
> 
> (thanks google
> <http://www.google.com/language_tools>)
> 
> 
> Adam
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


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From rguerra at cpsr.org  Thu Apr 29 11:34:06 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New Information Society Literature
Message-ID: <2147483647.1083220446@localhost>

I'm forwarding this from another list that i'm on...




DEVELOPMENT IN THE INFORMATION AGE, ISSUES IN THE REGULATION OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE.
By Ruth L. Okediji (UNCTAD-ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property Rights
and Sustainable Development Issue Paper No. 9, May 2004). Information
and communication technologies (ICT) pose challenges to developing
countries, but at the same time offer opportunities. As the main
challenges arise from international rules on copyright and database
protection, this paper argues that developing countries should seek to
balance effective protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs)
against robust limitations of exclusive rights to encourage competition
and socially beneficial uses of ICT. In this respect, the international
IPRs system provides important flexibilities in the implementation of
IPRs obligations. To access the report visit
http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/docs/CS_Okediji.pdf

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE, A BATTLE OF COMPETING USE
AND ACCESS VISIONS FOR COUNTRIES OF THE SOUTH. By Alan Story
(UNCTAD-ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable
Development Issue Paper No. 10, May 2004). The paper puts forward five
main findings. First, some forms of intellectual property protection
have erected a clear barrier to the spread of software across the South.
Second, free software formats are moving fast in most developing
countries. Third, after comparing the license costs of proprietary and
free software formats, the paper suggests that costs associated with
free software are significantly lower. Fourth, free software formats
might offer different advantages for technology transfer and follow-up
applications depending on the model used. Finally, free software systems
are not a mere policy choice for developing countries, they are an
important alternative for building, maintaining and changing rules that
govern information flows. To access the report visit
http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/docs/CS_Story.pdf

WHOSE TRADE ORGANIZATION? A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE WTO. By Lori
Wallach and Patrick Woodall (The New Press, March 2004). This
publication tracks the outcomes of the WTO during its nine years of
existence, with chapters on the WTO's impact on the economies and
employment of rich and poor countries, as well as on the environment,
food safety, public health, service sectors, agriculture and human
rights. The book also details the WTO's controversial dispute resolution
system and connects WTO rules with US job losses, unsafe food, attacks
on domestic laws and burgeoning international inequality that makes
headlines daily. For further information see
http://www.citizen.org/publications/articles.cfm?ID=7304&relatedpages=1&
catID=126&secID=1185

NAFTA: TEN YEARS OF CROSS-BORDER DIALOGUES. By David Brooks and Jonathan
Fox (Interhemispheric Resource Center Americas Program Special Report,
March 2004). This article focuses on The North American Free Trade
Agreement's (NAFTA) myriad opportunities for civil society convergence
from below. Social constituency organisations -- such as labour
organisations, environmental organisations, and trade advocacy networks
-- from the US and Mexico have been interacting for more than ten years
under the increased economic integration stimulated by NAFTA. Their
experiences illuminate some of the earliest examples of people-to-people
globalisation. The article concludes that while there is a much greater
civil society network after NAFTA, the level of its organisation and its
impact have been rather limited. To access the article, visit
http://www.americaspolicy.org/reports/2004/0403nafta.html

From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Fri Apr 30 04:59:20 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Governmental Bureau and First PrepCom
In-Reply-To: <20040429221953.29782.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20040429221953.29782.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <a06020432bcb75bf25e3a@[192.168.1.254]>

Dear Djilali,

You have identified an important problem.  Why 
don't you try to fix the problem?  Of course you 
can't change the world, but you can start by 
translating 1 or 2 notes.

There is a  problem.  You volunteer to fix it. 
That's how Civil Society works.  1 message each 
week.  Good luck.

(I was going to try and use Google to translate 
this note, but the computer I am using today 
turns French non-ascii characters into Japanese 
characters, so my apologies for no attempt at 
providing any French!)

Thanks,

Adam



>Dear Adam,
>I think that it is a very important question to be
>adressed seriously.
>My concern is to find a translation system in 3 or 4
>languages as a system and not if somebody can do it
>from time to time and making his best.
>I ma not able to assume a systematic translation.
>As CS and especially NGO from north can take in charge
>such a duty.
>If we are not able to resolve this problem we will not
>be able to resolve the problem of resource
>mobilisation to support poor civile society
>representatives and we will be in Tunis apllauding and
>thanking presidents and organisators...
>All the best
>Djilali
>--- Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>>  >Dear Bloem,
>>  >Thanks for these interesting information !
>>  >Sorry to say once more how it is so difficult to
>>  >follow Civile society position, maily expressed in
>>  >English, requiring many time to understand and to
>>  >react. I do think that it is possible to do a
>>  mimimum
>>  >effort to insure translation in Spanish, Portuguese
>>  >and if possible French. Apprently French NGOs,
>>  >institutions and Companies are not interested to do
>>  >this effort, English organisation (CRIS ?) should
>>  do
>>  >it in the interest of the expected result of the
>>  >Summit.
>>
>>
>  > Djilali, hello,
>>
>>  Why don't you do some translation?
>>
>>  The rest of us volunteer to do things.  Why not you?
>>
>>  Pourquoi ne faites-vous pas une  traduction?  Le
>>  reste de nous
>>  volontaires pour faire des choses.  Pourquoi pas
>>  vous?
>>
>>  (thanks google
>>  <http://www.google.com/language_tools>)
>>
>>
>>  Adam
>>  _______________________________________________
>>  Plenary mailing list
>>  Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>>
>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>
>
>=====
>Djilali Benamrane : dbenamrane@yahoo.com
>T?l/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
>Page web sur l'Afrique et la globalisation : 
>http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/
>Groupe de discussion: http://www.egroups.com/list/afriqueglobalization
>
>
>
>
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From rbloem at iprolink.ch  Fri Apr 30 12:16:56 2004
From: rbloem at iprolink.ch (Bloem Renate)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FW: TR : Governmental Bureau and First PrepCom  version francaise
Message-ID: <LAEOLIBJPGHMMBBIAOLNEEGHDBAA.rbloem@iprolink.ch>


-----Original Message-----
From: Renata Bloem [mailto:rbloem@ngocongo.org]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 4:07 AM
To: Rbloem
Subject: TR : Governmental Bureau and First PrepCom version francaise


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bloem Renate [mailto:rbloem@iprolink.ch]
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 3:32 AM
> To: CS Plenary; bureau wsis; CS Bureau
> Subject: Governmental Bureau and First PrepCom
>
>
>
>
> This was meant to be sent on April 23, when here everything broke
> down, including my computer. French and Spanish version will be sent
> later, All best
> Renata



>Le Bureau s?est r?uni ? huit-clos le 21 avril, les d?cisions suivantes
ont ?t? prises :
-	Le meeting de Tunis qui aura lieu du 24 au 26 juin sera le
premier PrepCom
officiel avec des r?gles et des proc?dures comme lors de la premi?re
phase et une accr?ditation pourra ?tre obtenu par ceux qui le d?sirent
(voir le site web de l?IUT).
-	Les discussions et consultations pour l??lection d?un nouveau
Pr?sident
(Lituanie propos?e) seront finalis?es lors de la prochaine r?union du
Bureau le 10 mai. (*)
-	Les gouvernements devraient ?mettre des propositions, bas?es sur
leurs
interventions durant le Sommet de Gen?ve, au sujet des ?ventuels
r?sultats et des lignes directrices avant le 21 mai au Secr?tariat. Ces
propositions serviront probablement de base de discussion lors du
premier PrepCom. D?apr?s ce que l?on m?a dit , certains gouvernements
souhaitent que ce processus soit d?ordre gouvernemental   au d?but au moins
alors que d?autres optent pour une processus ouvert a toue les acteurs. J?
esp?re obtenir plus d?informations ? ce sujet rapidement.

(*) Au cours de la derni?re r?union du Bureau, le 31 mars dernier, Mr.
Samass?kou, durant son discours a ?voqu? les hauts, les bas et les
moments inoubliables de la premi?re phase. Le Mali et lui-m?me ?taient
dispos?s ? continuer si ce n?est pour la d?cision de certains
gouvernements qui ont souhait? un sommet ayant lieu dans un pays du sud
avec un Pr?sidant venant du Nord. Pour permettre un consensus sur ce
processus d?j? complexe, Mr. Samass?kou s?est inclin?. CS lui doit
?norm?ment. L?espace qui s?est agrandi tout au long de ce processus
n?aurait pu ?tre acquis sans lui. Merci ? vous Mr. Samass?kou !


 Aujourd?hui, 23 avril, la Commission des Droits de l?Homme s?est
achev?e apr?s six semaines de d?lib?rations ?puisantes, se r?f?rer au
site www.congochr.org , et tous les participants sont d?ailleurs
ext?nu?s. Rik vous informera du changement de bureau de CONGO.
Salutations cordiales,

Renata



>
>
> Dear all,
>
> The Governmental Bureau met on 21 April in a closed session, at which
> they decided the following that
>
> ?	the Tunis meeting 24 ? 26 June will be the official first
PrepCom with
> rules and procedures as in the first phase and an accreditation opened

> anew for those currently not yet accredited (see also ITU website)
> ?	current discussions and consultations for a new Chair (proposed
Latvia) to
> be finalized at the next Bureau meeting 10 May . (*)
> ?	Governments should make proposals, based on their interventions
during the
> Geneva Summit, on expected outcome and roadmap until 21 May to the
> Secretariat. These proposals will probably provide the basis for some
> documents to be discussed at the First PrepCom. From what I heard is
> that some governments want this process to be governmental only in the

> beginning, while others opted for a more open-ended input. I hope to
> get more clarification soon.
>
> (*) During the previous Bureau meeting 31 March Mr. Samass?kou had
> read a statement, in which he movingly evoked the ups and downs and
> great moments of the first phase. Mali and he himself would have been
> ready to continue, would it not have been for some governments who
> claimed reversal: Summit in the South and a Chair from the North. To
> make the way free for consensus agreements in an anyway already
> difficult process he graciously bowed out. CS owes him a lot. The
> space that grew larger throughout the process would have been
> difficult to obtain without his support. Thank you Mr. Samass?kou!
>
>
>
> Today, 23 April, ended the Commission on Human Rights its annual
> exhaustive 6 ?weeks deliberations, see also www.congoHCR.org. and all
> who participated are at this moment exhausted. Rik will tell you that
> CONGO will have a new Office as of next week. With warm greetings,
>
>
>
>
>
>






Renate Bloem
President of the Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mil: rbloem@ngocongo.org
Website: www.ngocongo.org

-----Message d'origine-----
De?: Bloem Renate [mailto:rbloem@iprolink.ch]
Envoy??: jeudi 29 avril 2004 12:32
??: CS Plenary; bureau wsis; CS Bureau
Objet?: Governmental Bureau and First PrepCom



This was meant to be sent on April 23, when here everything broke down,
including my computer.
French and Spanish version will be sent later,
All best
Renata



Dear all,

The Governmental Bureau met on 21 April in a closed session, at which
they decided the following that

?	the Tunis meeting 24 ? 26 June will be the official first
PrepCom with rules and procedures as in the first phase and an
accreditation opened anew for those currently not yet accredited (see
also ITU website)
?	current discussions and consultations for a new Chair (proposed
Latvia) to be finalized at the next Bureau meeting 10 May . (*)
?	Governments should make proposals, based on their interventions
during the Geneva Summit, on expected outcome and roadmap until 21 May
to the Secretariat. These proposals will probably provide the basis for
some documents to be discussed at the First PrepCom. From what I heard
is that some governments want this process to be governmental only in
the beginning, while others opted for a more open-ended input. I hope to
get more clarification soon.

(*) During the previous Bureau meeting 31 March Mr. Samass?kou had read
a statement, in which he movingly evoked the ups and downs and great
moments of the first phase. Mali and he himself would have been ready to
continue, would it not have been for some governments who claimed
reversal: Summit in the South and a Chair from the North. To make the
way free for consensus agreements in an anyway already difficult process
he graciously bowed out. CS owes him a lot. The space that grew larger
throughout the process would have been difficult to obtain without his
support. Thank you Mr. Samass?kou!



Today, 23 April, ended the Commission on Human Rights its annual
exhaustive 6 ?weeks deliberations, see also www.congoHCR.org. and all
who participated are at this moment exhausted. Rik will tell you that
CONGO will have a new Office as of next week.
With warm greetings,








