From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Wed Dec  1 09:01:16 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] report on TFFM meeting 29 November
In-Reply-To: <4101B41E-4302-11D9-B15F-000A9575083C@earthlink.net>
References: <4101B41E-4302-11D9-B15F-000A9575083C@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <p0611040ebdd337bee0c3@[192.168.1.254]>

Rik,

Thank you for this.  Very helpful.

One comment, not about financing.  You describe 
Mr. Geiger saying that all participants at the 
Tunis Summit would need badges.  I think we 
should ask that the RFID system used in Geneva 
*not* be used again. Perhaps something for the CS 
bureau to take up?

Thanks,

Adam




At 2:01 PM -0500 11/30/04, Rik Panganiban wrote:
>Task Force on Financing Mechanisms
>29 November 2004
>UNDP Headquarters, New York, USA
>Unofficial Report on Proceedings
>Rik Panganiban, Conference of NGOs
>
>
>INTRODUCTION
>The Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had its 
>final meeting at UNDP headquarters on 29 
>November 2004.  The following is an unofficial 
>report on the proceedings and should not be 
>considered minutes or an official record of the 
>meeting or its outcomes.
>
>The morning meeting began with a welcome by the 
>Administrator of UNDP Mr. Mark Malloch Brown, 
>followed by reports from the Secretariat on the 
>draft report, from Charles Geiger on the WSIS 
>process, and from Sarbuland Khan on the recent 
>UN ICT Task Force meeting.  The afternoon was 
>spent discussing the substance of the report, 
>particularly ?access? and ?content and 
>applications? issues.  The meeting concluded 
>with discussing the process forward for the Task 
>Force.
>
>
>WSIS PROCESS
>Charles Geiger of the WSIS secretariat gave a 
>?state of play? report on the WSIS.  He noted 
>that the Group of Friends of the Chair would 
>ideally like to receive even a draft of the 
>report of the TFFM for its meeting from 16-17 
>December.  He clarified the status of the 
>Digital Solidarity Fund as not being created 
>?by? the WSIS but created ?in conjunction? with 
>the Summit, since it emerged  from the parallel 
>WSIS Cities Summit which occurred in Lyon in 
>December 2003.?
>
>Mr. Geiger also noted that Prepcom II in 
>February would decide on the format and 
>structure of the Tunis Summit.  In general he 
>felt that the Tunisian host country is planning 
>on a similar format to the Geneva Summit, with a 
>main official summit and several parallel or 
>side-events happening around the same time. 
>However he noted that because of security 
>considerations, all participants at the side 
>events would have to have badges, i.e. some form 
>of accreditation, to attend.
>
>

  (rest deleted)

From rsagun at takingitglobal.org  Wed Dec  1 10:06:28 2004
From: rsagun at takingitglobal.org (rsagun@takingitglobal.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] report on TFFM meeting 29 November
Message-ID: <156710-22004123110628961@M2W060.mail2web.com>

Dear Adam and all,

Indeed, it should be put on the agenda.

Another issue is the role of the "CS Connectors" to the WGIG. It needs
further elaboration. A working mechanism between CS members of the WGIG and
"CS Connectors" should be developed soon. CS members of the WGIG must
strengthen its interaction with the CS Plenary and CSB.

Best regards,

Robert Sagun
Policy Coordinator
WSIS Youth Caucus



Original Message:
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From: Adam Peake ajp@glocom.ac.jp
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:01:16 +0900
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org, rikp@earthlink.net, dbenamrane@yahoo.com,
viola@icvolunteers.org, rbloem@ngocongo.org
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] report on TFFM meeting 29 November


Rik,

Thank you for this.  Very helpful.

One comment, not about financing.  You describe 
Mr. Geiger saying that all participants at the 
Tunis Summit would need badges.  I think we 
should ask that the RFID system used in Geneva 
*not* be used again. Perhaps something for the CS 
bureau to take up?

Thanks,

Adam






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From: ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es (Lady Murrugarra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] =?iso-8859-1?q?Boletin=20Electronico=20IMT=20-=20N=BA=203?=
Message-ID: <20041201202305.2503.qmail@web11801.mail.yahoo.com>

Invitamos a todos uds a visitar la pagina web de Tropicales 
 
www.upch.edu.pe/tropicales 
 
con muchas novedades...
 
El ?ltimo boletin electronico de este a?o lo pueden encontrar en :
http://www.upch.edu.pe/tropicales/boletines/BOLETIN2004/BOLETIN4_3.htm
 
Indice del Boletin

1.      Noticias 

2.      Visitas 

3.      Proyectos 

4.      Reconocimientos 

5.      Publicaciones 

6.      Rotantes Nacionales y Extranjeros 

7.      Eventos 

Cordiales saludos,

 



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From schock at riseup.net  Wed Dec  1 22:11:45 2004
From: schock at riseup.net (Sasha Costanza-Chock)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] World Regulators to Focus on Licensing Rules, Broadband
Message-ID: <41AE41A1.50206@riseup.net>

Anyone attending this? It would be great to somehow intervene, or at the 
very least get some information back.

sc


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http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/Events/Seminars/2004/GSR04/

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/Events/Seminars/2004/GSR04/pdf/Programme.pdf

WORLD REGULATORS TO FOCUS
ON LICENSING RULES, BROADBAND

When the ITU's 2004 Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) opens next week in
Geneva, it will be chaired by a U.S. regulator for the first time -- FCC
Comr. Kathleen Abernathy. Abernathy told us Mon. she's approaching the
session with an open mind. The U.S. has much to learn from the discussions,
for example, as it struggles with changes to the universal service fund
system, said Abernathy, who has attended 2 other GSRs. The official theme of
the meeting is "licensing in an era of convergence." Regulators have
traditionally controlled spectrum through licenses, but that approach makes
less sense in an era of convergence and given the large number of
competitors challenging incumbents. "The old way of regulating... doesn't
seem to work anymore," Abernathy said: "You have to step back and say what's
the appropriate regulatory framework... You need to think beyond 'I regulate
a monopoly' to 'How do I create an environment that attracts investment?'"

Wireless broadband services like Wi-Fi, which has emerged as a popular
alternative in the U.S., likely will be a hot topic, Abernathy said. The
U.S. has adopted an unlicensed approach and "wireless appears to be one of
the lowest cost alternatives out there," she said: "The question is how does
it fit in" with other regulation. Finding ways to make more spectrum
available, through auction or other means, is another likely topic, she
said. GSR sessions are largely "feel good" meetings that give regulators
from around the world a chance to interact, said a source who has attended
previous sessions. However, they can be viewed as important. For example,
the chairmanship of the last GSR by a Jordanian was considered significant
by the Arab group of companies.






From rikp at earthlink.net  Wed Dec  1 21:09:12 2004
From: rikp at earthlink.net (Rik Panganiban)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Baseline CS requirements for Tunis Summit
In-Reply-To: <p0611040ebdd337bee0c3@[192.168.1.254]>
References: <4101B41E-4302-11D9-B15F-000A9575083C@earthlink.net> <p0611040ebdd337bee0c3@[192.168.1.254]>
Message-ID: <40106A8D-43DD-11D9-B010-000A9575083C@earthlink.net>

Adam,

Your point raises a larger issue of what are the basic civil society 
requirements for our meaningful participation at the Tunis Summit, 
which as you say is a Bureau issue.  Ideally the bureau should 
facilitate a consultation process with all relevant caucuses and 
working groups to get their views on this, since these rules and format 
will be set at Prepcom II.

Just some quick thoughts on what practical things we will need in Tunis:

*	facilities: meeting spaces, exhibition spaces, tables to distribute 
literature, press conference facilities
*	services: internet access, including WIFI and cybercafes; printing 
and photocopying; remote viewing areas to observe the official 
plenaries; cell phones that we can rent for a week
*	accommodations: lower cost options for developing country and lower 
income participants
*	cost issues: cost for civil society use of facilities and services 
should be significant less than the cost for the private sector and 
governments, ideally on a sliding scale based on organization budget or 
other fair criteria

Perhaps our security / privacy working group could make a 
recommendation on reasonable security measures that don't violate the 
right to privacy?

It also might be helpful to list what we don't really need: i.e. 
expensive gift bags and souvenirs, cultural programs, tokenistic 
"multi-stakeholder" dialogues without substance.

Regards,

Rik	


On Dec 1, 2004, at 4:01 AM, Adam Peake wrote:

> Rik,
>
> Thank you for this.  Very helpful.
>
> One comment, not about financing.  You describe Mr. Geiger saying that 
> all participants at the Tunis Summit would need badges.  I think we 
> should ask that the RFID system used in Geneva *not* be used again. 
> Perhaps something for the CS bureau to take up?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
>
> At 2:01 PM -0500 11/30/04, Rik Panganiban wrote:
>> Task Force on Financing Mechanisms
>> 29 November 2004
>> UNDP Headquarters, New York, USA
>> Unofficial Report on Proceedings
>> Rik Panganiban, Conference of NGOs
>>
>>
>> INTRODUCTION
>> The Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had its final meeting at UNDP 
>> headquarters on 29 November 2004.  The following is an unofficial 
>> report on the proceedings and should not be considered minutes or an 
>> official record of the meeting or its outcomes.
>>
>> The morning meeting began with a welcome by the Administrator of UNDP 
>> Mr. Mark Malloch Brown, followed by reports from the Secretariat on 
>> the draft report, from Charles Geiger on the WSIS process, and from 
>> Sarbuland Khan on the recent UN ICT Task Force meeting.  The 
>> afternoon was spent discussing the substance of the report, 
>> particularly ?access? and ?content and applications? issues.  The 
>> meeting concluded with discussing the process forward for the Task 
>> Force.
>>
>>
>> WSIS PROCESS
>> Charles Geiger of the WSIS secretariat gave a ?state of play? report 
>> on the WSIS.  He noted that the Group of Friends of the Chair would 
>> ideally like to receive even a draft of the report of the TFFM for 
>> its meeting from 16-17 December.  He clarified the status of the 
>> Digital Solidarity Fund as not being created ?by? the WSIS but 
>> created ?in conjunction? with the Summit, since it emerged  from the 
>> parallel WSIS Cities Summit which occurred in Lyon in December 2003.?
>>
>> Mr. Geiger also noted that Prepcom II in February would decide on the 
>> format and structure of the Tunis Summit.  In general he felt that 
>> the Tunisian host country is planning on a similar format to the 
>> Geneva Summit, with a main official summit and several parallel or 
>> side-events happening around the same time. However he noted that 
>> because of security considerations, all participants at the side 
>> events would have to have badges, i.e. some form of accreditation, to 
>> attend.
>>
>>
>
>
>
===============================================
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

** Please note CONGO's new mailing address: CP 50, 1211 Gen?ve 20, 
Switzerland.? Our physical office address is 11, Avenue De La Paix, 1st 
Floor, 1202 Gen?ve, Switzerland. **
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From nne75 at yahoo.com  Thu Dec  2 11:33:40 2004
From: nne75 at yahoo.com (Nnenna)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Baseline CS requirements for Tunis Summit
In-Reply-To: <40106A8D-43DD-11D9-B010-000A9575083C@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <20041202113340.38375.qmail@web50206.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear all, Rik
 
One big question for the Tunis summit will be a good evaluation of the PrepCom there.  Yes, things the CS needs, things we don't need.  I agree.  But :
Attitude, treatment, information.  I guess we should look at these too.
 
Best
 
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From rikp at earthlink.net  Thu Dec  2 19:35:05 2004
From: rikp at earthlink.net (Rik Panganiban)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Australia opts for education vs filtering of child pornography
Message-ID: <44B153BE-4499-11D9-B010-000A9575083C@earthlink.net>

Interesting article from News.com.au on the Australian government's  
decision to not adopt filtering technologies to keep out child  
pornography, instead opting for public and parent education on the  
dangers of the internet:

	http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/ 
0,4057,11555864%255E15306,00.html

Interesting implications for internet governance and content  
restrictions / censorship issues.

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


  December 1, 2004

THE Federal Government had rejected mandatory filtering of the internet  
to stop child pornography, Parliament was told today.

  Communications Minister Helen Coonan said the government had recently  
reviewed ways of preventing child pornography, including a  
British-style national internet filtering system but rejected it.

  Senator Coonan said the study had found such a filter would cost  
around $45 million a year initially and $33 million a year in later  
years.

  She said it also had the potential to choke the internet and drive up  
costs for consumers and small business.

  "The biggest issue is not so much the money but such an expensive  
scheme would not necessarily solve the problem and small to medium ISPs  
(internet service providers) would be driven out of business for little  
or no benefit," Senator Coonan said. "What does work is greater  
information and parental supervision and that is the kind of program  
that the government is promoting."

  The government has provided $30 million to educate parents about the  
perils of the internet and ISPs are required to provide cost-price  
filtering software to subscribers.

  Senator Coonan's comments were triggered by a question from  
Independent senator Brian Harradine.

  "Why won't the government at least for the start prevent child porn  
being transmitted into Australia either through the internet and ISPs  
or via satellite?" Senator Harradine said. "Why won't the government  
take that action since we've got laws against child porn?"

  AAP
===============================================
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

** Please note CONGO's new mailing address: CP 50, 1211 Gen?ve 20,  
Switzerland.? Our physical office address is 11, Avenue De La Paix, 1st  
Floor, 1202 Gen?ve, Switzerland. **
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From Alex.Byrne at uts.edu.au  Thu Dec  2 22:47:04 2004
From: Alex.Byrne at uts.edu.au (Alex Byrne)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Australia opts for education vs filtering ofchild pornography
Message-ID: <A66C0810DC834C47807CF0E333243F7AEA83@FLANDERS.shelbyville.lib.uts.edu.au>

Dear Rik and colleagues

 

This result is the result of sustained advocacy by the Australian Library and Information Association, Electronic Frontiers Australia and others coupled with valuable research reports on Internet filtering produced by our national research organisation, CSIRO.  Despite strong lobbying and political leverage in the Senate by Senator Brian Harradine and others, the Federal Government has supported a complaints based scheme for handling offensive content and an educational scheme centred around NetAlert.

 

In the face of considerable community concern about child pornography and pedophilia, beaten up by the 'tabloid' media, this is a satisfactory result if not as liberal as many of us would prefer.  Few "take down" notices have been issued under the regulatory scheme and the threat of mandatory filtering has been avoided although it is still imposed in some schools.  The focus of the legislation is on protecting minors.

 

Regards

 

Alex

 

 

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From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org] On Behalf Of Rik Panganiban
Sent: Friday, 3 December 2004 6:35 AM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Australia opts for education vs filtering of child pornography

 

Interesting article from News.com.au on the Australian government's decision to not adopt filtering technologies to keep out child pornography, instead opting for public and parent education on the dangers of the internet: 

 

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11555864%255E15306,00.html 

 

Interesting implications for internet governance and content restrictions / censorship issues. 

 

Rik Panganiban 

================================ 

 

December 1, 2004 

 

THE Federal Government had rejected mandatory filtering of the internet to stop child pornography, Parliament was told today. 

 

Communications Minister Helen Coonan said the government had recently reviewed ways of preventing child pornography, including a British-style national internet filtering system but rejected it. 

 

Senator Coonan said the study had found such a filter would cost around $45 million a year initially and $33 million a year in later years. 

 

She said it also had the potential to choke the internet and drive up costs for consumers and small business. 

 

"The biggest issue is not so much the money but such an expensive scheme would not necessarily solve the problem and small to medium ISPs (internet service providers) would be driven out of business for little or no benefit," Senator Coonan said. "What does work is greater information and parental supervision and that is the kind of program that the government is promoting." 

 

The government has provided $30 million to educate parents about the perils of the internet and ISPs are required to provide cost-price filtering software to subscribers. 

 

Senator Coonan's comments were triggered by a question from Independent senator Brian Harradine. 

 

"Why won't the government at least for the start prevent child porn being transmitted into Australia either through the internet and ISPs or via satellite?" Senator Harradine said. "Why won't the government take that action since we've got laws against child porn?" 

 

AAP 

=============================================== 

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 

 

** Please note CONGO's new mailing address: CP 50, 1211 Gen?ve 20, Switzerland.  Our physical office address is 11, Avenue De La Paix, 1st Floor, 1202 Gen?ve, Switzerland. **



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From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Fri Dec  3 07:36:38 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Baseline CS requirements for Tunis Summit
In-Reply-To: <40106A8D-43DD-11D9-B010-000A9575083C@earthlink.net>
References: <4101B41E-4302-11D9-B15F-000A9575083C@earthlink.net>
 <p0611040ebdd337bee0c3@[192.168.1.254]>
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Rik,

Very good starting point (think you might have 
covered everything!) Hope the Bureau can begin to 
consider your suggestions at their meeting this 
coming weekend.

But we should not loose the point about RFIDs in 
the discussion about wider requirements.  Charles 
Gieger has mentioned badges and accreditation, so 
it would be sensible I think to respond soon on 
this one issue.

Rest, add: meeting rooms that are sound-proofed, 
unlike the open-top boxes in Geneva. Cellphones 
and GSM SIM cards. If no Wi-Fi or limited 
Internet access, we need to know in advance, we 
can bring our own Wi-Fi.  Simple bulletin and 
announcement boards.

Thanks,

Adam



>Adam,
>
>Your point raises a larger issue of what are the 
>basic civil society requirements for our 
>meaningful participation at the Tunis Summit, 
>which as you say is a Bureau issue.  Ideally the 
>bureau should facilitate a consultation process 
>with all relevant caucuses and working groups to 
>get their views on this, since these rules and 
>format will be set at Prepcom II.
>
>Just some quick thoughts on what practical things we will need in Tunis:
>
>*	facilities: meeting spaces, exhibition 
>spaces, tables to distribute literature, press 
>conference facilities
>*	services: internet access, including WIFI 
>and cybercafes; printing and photocopying; 
>remote viewing areas to observe the official 
>plenaries; cell phones that we can rent for a 
>week
>*	accommodations: lower cost options for 
>developing country and lower income participants
>*	cost issues: cost for civil society use 
>of facilities and services should be significant 
>less than the cost for the private sector and 
>governments, ideally on a sliding scale based on 
>organization budget or other fair criteria
>
>Perhaps our security / privacy working group 
>could make a recommendation on reasonable 
>security measures that don't violate the right 
>to privacy?
>
>It also might be helpful to list what we don't 
>really need: i.e. expensive gift bags and 
>souvenirs, cultural programs, tokenistic 
>"multi-stakeholder" dialogues without substance.
>
>Regards,
>
>Rik
>
>
>On Dec 1, 2004, at 4:01 AM, Adam Peake wrote:
>
>>Rik,
>>
>>Thank you for this.  Very helpful.
>>
>>One comment, not about financing.  You describe 
>>Mr. Geiger saying that all participants at the 
>>Tunis Summit would need badges.  I think we 
>>should ask that the RFID system used in Geneva 
>>*not* be used again. Perhaps something for the 
>>CS bureau to take up?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Adam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>At 2:01 PM -0500 11/30/04, Rik Panganiban wrote:
>>>Task Force on Financing Mechanisms
>>>29 November 2004
>>>UNDP Headquarters, New York, USA
>>>Unofficial Report on Proceedings
>>>Rik Panganiban, Conference of NGOs
>>>
>>>
>>>INTRODUCTION
>>>The Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had its 
>>>final meeting at UNDP headquarters on 29 
>>>November 2004.  The following is an unofficial 
>>>report on the proceedings and should not be 
>>>considered minutes or an official record of 
>>>the meeting or its outcomes.
>>>
>>>The morning meeting began with a welcome by 
>>>the Administrator of UNDP Mr. Mark Malloch 
>>>Brown, followed by reports from the 
>>>Secretariat on the draft report, from Charles 
>>>Geiger on the WSIS process, and from Sarbuland 
>>>Khan on the recent UN ICT Task Force meeting. 
>>>The afternoon was spent discussing the 
>>>substance of the report, particularly ?access? 
>>>and ?content and applications? issues.  The 
>>>meeting concluded with discussing the process 
>>>forward for the Task Force.
>>>
>>>
>>>WSIS PROCESS
>>>Charles Geiger of the WSIS secretariat gave a 
>>>?state of play? report on the WSIS.  He noted 
>>>that the Group of Friends of the Chair would 
>>>ideally like to receive even a draft of the 
>>>report of the TFFM for its meeting from 16-17 
>>>December.  He clarified the status of the 
>>>Digital Solidarity Fund as not being created 
>>>?by? the WSIS but created ?in conjunction? 
>>>with the Summit, since it emerged  from the 
>>>parallel WSIS Cities Summit which occurred in 
>>>Lyon in December 2003.
>>>
>>>Mr. Geiger also noted that Prepcom II in 
>>>February would decide on the format and 
>>>structure of the Tunis Summit.  In general he 
>>>felt that the Tunisian host country is 
>>>planning on a similar format to the Geneva 
>>>Summit, with a main official summit and 
>>>several parallel or side-events happening 
>>>around the same time. However he noted that 
>>>because of security considerations, all 
>>>participants at the side events would have to 
>>>have badges, i.e. some form of accreditation, 
>>>to attend.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>===============================================
>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
>
>** Please note CONGO's new mailing address: CP 
>50, 1211 Gen?ve 20, Switzerland.? Our physical 
>office address is 11, Avenue De La Paix, 1st 
>Floor, 1202 Gen?ve, Switzerland. **


From vb at bertola.eu.org  Fri Dec  3 09:33:48 2004
From: vb at bertola.eu.org (Vittorio Bertola)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ICANN Public Forum on WSIS/WGIG
Message-ID: <gic0r0lhobo315fkiubfo0kd0ur6aks07d@4ax.com>

To whoever might be interested, due to the lack of time for public
discussion during the WSIS Workshop held here at the ICANN meeting in Cape
Town last Wednesday, I have asked ICANN to set aside one hour to discuss
about WSIS and WGIG during its public forum.

This will happen today around 16:30 local time (15:30 in Europe). As ICANN
supplies ways of remote participation (webcast and e-mail address for
comments), anyone is encouraged to participate, especially with observation
that pertain to ICANN's part of the IG world. (I am not sure whether Kummer
and/or Desai will be in the room, though.)

The link for more information is:
http://www.icann.org/meetings/capetown/
-- 
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From vb at bertola.eu.org  Fri Dec  3 14:23:41 2004
From: vb at bertola.eu.org (Vittorio Bertola)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ICANN Public Forum on WSIS/WGIG
In-Reply-To: <gic0r0lhobo315fkiubfo0kd0ur6aks07d@4ax.com>
References: <gic0r0lhobo315fkiubfo0kd0ur6aks07d@4ax.com>
Message-ID: <emt0r0tiepn11aeg8krs5fqvh4t99spns1@4ax.com>

Just a note - the program is running late - this will likely start around
half an hour later than initially forecast.

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:33:48 +0100, Vittorio Bertola <vb@bertola.eu.org>
wrote:

>To whoever might be interested, due to the lack of time for public
>discussion during the WSIS Workshop held here at the ICANN meeting in Cape
>Town last Wednesday, I have asked ICANN to set aside one hour to discuss
>about WSIS and WGIG during its public forum.
>
>This will happen today around 16:30 local time (15:30 in Europe). As ICANN
>supplies ways of remote participation (webcast and e-mail address for
>comments), anyone is encouraged to participate, especially with observation
>that pertain to ICANN's part of the IG world. (I am not sure whether Kummer
>and/or Desai will be in the room, though.)
>
>The link for more information is:
>http://www.icann.org/meetings/capetown/

-- 
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From accuosto at chasque.net  Fri Dec  3 15:57:24 2004
From: accuosto at chasque.net (WSIS Papers)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISPapers Newsletter No.2 - ICTs Trade Agreements
Message-ID: <011701c4d950$c9131aa0$4704a8c0@paullier.net>

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  WSIS Papers Newsletter - November 2004 No.2
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In this issue: ICTs TRADE AGREEMENTS

Content:

- International trade agreements
- International telecommunications regime: framing WSIS
- Related documents and opinions
- Bilateral trade agreements: case studies
- Related Choike's in-depth reports

Available online at:

      http://wsispapers.choike.org/

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Free trade agreements have increasingly broadened their scope of regulation
concerning telecommunications, under the pretext that these are services
just like any other. This has hindered the access to communication and
information as a fundamental human right as the private sector gains power
through liberalization.

Decisions that affect the global media system are now being taken behind
closed doors, without consulting the civil society but with the support of
giant media moguls that encourage corporate property of information, showing
total disregard for cultural diversity issues.

Advocates for a market-oriented information society are the big media
companies, mostly American, that own traditional audiovisual media as well
as internet sites such as the recent AOL-Time Warner merger. Their political
face is the Government of the USA that legislates in favour of big media
companies both nationally and internationally by controlling multilateral
organizations, namely the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU). These organizations, as well as other
regional free trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) play a
double role in protecting "Big Media" interests: they not only eliminate
barriers to the expansion of multinationals but also protect their overseas
profits through intellectual property agreements.

When the WTO was created in 1995, a General Agreement on Trade in Services
(GATS) was established to deal with all kinds of service goods, including
telecommunications. This agreement planned a progressive liberalization of
trade in services leaving little space for governments to adopt their own
social policies. In the meantime, private corporations dominated the market.

Following the GATS plan, two important telecommunications agreements were
signed: the Basic Telecommunication Agreement (BTA) and the Information
Technology Agreement (ITA). The former, reached in 1996, aimed to reduce
tariffs on information technology products by the year 2000, a measure that
favoured the expansion of telecommunication companies as sales increased
worldwide. The latter takes a step forward in the process of liberalization,
forcing members to open their telecommunication markets thus imposing a
pro-competitive system that bans preferential treatment to national
companies.

Many developing countries have shown a tendency towards liberalization of
ICTs in the hope that the developed world would show signs of flexibility in
the subsidies to their agricultural goods. This "bargain", however, proved
to be unsuccessful in the WTO ministerial meeting held in Cancun in 2003
where the United States refused to take any measure that would harm their
farmers.

Nevertheless, cooperation between southern countries managed to keep
liberalization of telecommunications at bay in order to foster plurality in
media to guarantee balance and respect for cultural diversity.

As a result of the collapse in international negotiations, the United States
has turned aggressively towards bilateral trade agreements -with Chile,
Singapore, Morocco, Australia and Central American countries-. Regarding
telecommunications, the American strategy consists in prohibiting any
upcoming measure that may regulate "digital products", especially the
Internet, considered to be the new channel for the spread of information.

Tensions between North and South, as well as the debate on the role of a
free market have found a new scenario: the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS), consisting of two stages, the last one to be held in Tunis
in November 2005.

Hosted by the ITU, the summit has provided a space for civil society to
express their views on the matter. The Civil Society Declaration, that
emerged from the first phase of the WSIS held in Geneva December 2003,
stated that "it is not acceptable for [...] global governance frameworks to
be designed by and for small groups of powerful governments and companies
and then exported to the world as faits accomplis. Instead, they must
reflect the diverse views and interests of the international community as a
whole."

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International trade agreements
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*   General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
Created in the Uruguay Round of negotiations held in 1995, GATS aims for the
liberalizations of trade in all services, including telecommunications. The
site provides a summary, the text of the agreement, news and
interpretations.
--> http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/serv_e/serv_e.htm

*   Information Technology Agreement (ITA)
Adopted in 1996, participants commited to completely eliminate duties on
information technology products by the year 2000. The site includes previous
events, list of participants, as well as information about recent symposium.
--> http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/inftec_e/inftec_e.htm

*   Basic Telecommunication Agreement (BTA)
Negotiations began during the Uruguay Round in the framework of GATS and
were completed years later with new members who commited to liberalize their
telecommunication markets. The site includes a list of all current
commitments.
--> http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/serv_e/telecom_e/telecom_e.htm

*   WTO: The Basic Telecommunications Agreement: Background, process and
status
Provides a briefing of the BTA as a "measure of the extent of
telecommunications liberalisation in its member countries, and a mechanism
for deepening commitments by these countries to liberalise their sectors".
--> http://www.ictdevagenda.org/frame.php?dir=07&sd=10&sid=2&id=188

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International telecommunications regime: framing WSIS
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*   Regime conflicts at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Thomas F. Ruddy
This paper applies regime theory and institutional economics to the
conflicts that arise when existing regimes are challenged at WSIS process.
The paper presents the interests of four of the other main institutions
involved, which more closely reflect those of the United States, including
the WTO. PDF format.
--> http://www.wsis.ethz.ch/paperorlandoumbruch0405.pdf

*   The rise and decline of the international telecommunications regime
William Drake
The telecommunications regime comprises the principles, norms, rules and
decision making procedures that governments have agreed to govern the
organization of international networks and services. This paper explores its
historical development, transformation, and decay. PDF format.
--> http://www.ceip.org/files/projects/irwp/pdf/draketelecom.pdf

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Related documents and opinions
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*   Civil Society Declaration at WSIS
In the first fase of the World Summit in the Information Society (WSIS) held
in Geneva in 2003, members of the civil society expressed their views
against market oriented policies concerning ICTs.
--> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en?&id=1179|1208

*   Telecommunications cannot be left to the market
Nelson Mandela
At the Telecom'95 Nelson Mandela expressed: "given the fundamental impact of
telecommunications on society and the immense historical imbalances,
telecommunications issues must become part of general public debate on
development policies. Telecommunications cannot be simply treated as one
commercial sector of the economy, to be left to the forces of the free
market".
--> http://www.polity.org.za/html/govdocs/speeches/1995/sp1003.html

*   Global trade & media
In recent years, industrialized nations led by the US have imposed global
trade agreements more favorable than ever to the giant media corporations.
This has resulted in the rise of a global media oligopoly: a few tightly
knit, dominant transnational firms with interlocking boards of directors and
unprecedented lobbying power.
--> http://www.freepress.net/issues/page.php?id=trade

*   Culture Trade Monitor
The aim of this site is to provide a resource for information on how 'free
trade' deals affect culture, media, and communication rights. Culture Trade
Monitor lies at the intersection between the trade justice and communication
rights movements.
--> http://www.worldwidewiki.net/wiki/CultureTradeMonitor

*   The Political Economy of International Communications
Robert W. McChesney, Dan Schiller
This paper examines the changing balance of public and private control over
media and telecommunications in the global political economy, patterns of
concentration and investment in the overall communication sector, and
possibilities for improving the contribution of media and telecommunications
to development in different parts of the world.
-->
http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/0/C9DCBA6C7DB78C2AC1256BDF0049A774?OpenDocument

*   GATS: A growing threat to cultural policy
Garry Neil
Already, GATS places constraints on the ability of sovereign governments to
implement cultural policies and programs. Proposals in the new round of
liberalization talks and the comprehensive negotiating agenda adopted by the
WTO, can only bring further restrictions on governmental measures that
support domestic cultural expressions and ensure cultural diversity.
--> http://www.incd.net/paper03.html

*   Brixen/Bressanone Declaration on Cultural Diversity and GATS (October
2002)
In this declaration the European Regional Ministers for Culture and
Education expressed their concern about GATS impact in the fields of
education, culture and media and demanded that democratically supported
services in education, culture and media are excluded from further GATS
involvement. PDF format.
-->
http://www.are-regions-europe.org/PDF/CD-Main_Texts/Brixen%20Declaration-def-GB.pdf

*   Liberalizing telecommunications markets
Cees Hamelink
In "ICTs and social development: The Global policy context" Hamelink argues
that the WTO Telecommunications Agreement is symptomatic of the rationale
underlying a decade-long process of international negotiation in which trade
interests, rather than socio-cultural aspirations, determine national
communications policy.
-->
http://www.telcor.gob.ni/BCS/societal-issues/11/www.unrisd.org/infotech/conferen/icts/icts-01.htm#P108_7695

*   Globalization, ICTs and the new imperialism: Perspectives on Africa in
the global electronic village
Y.Z. Ya'u
According to this article the BTA implies that governments should not assist
or give subsidy to local companies operating in the sector. This, according
to the WTO logic, is to ensure a level playing field. Unfortunately, the
field had never been level. Local companies cannot compete with
multinationals that have access to vast resources, extremely large capital
base, access to the most current technology and the advantages of economy of
scale.
--> http://www.codesria.org/Links/Home/Abstracts%20GA%2012-20/ICT_Yau.htm

*   From GATT-Uruguay Round to the WTO: Communication
This website of the South-North Development Monitor (SUNS) provides valuable
background information of the procecss of negotiation of the BTA, from the
Uruguay Round to the WTO.
--> http://www.sunsonline.org/trade/areas/communic/index.htm

*   The digital trade agenda of the US: Parallel tracks of bilateral,
regional and multilateral liberalization
Sacha Wunsch-Vincent
This article analyzes the US digital trade agenda, which includes the
liberalization of trade in telecommunication, computer, entertainment and
other electronically deliverable services, free trade chapters on
e-commerce, and a strong protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs).
PDF format.
-->
http://www.siaw.unisg.ch/org/siaw/web.nsf/SysWebRessources/h03waw31/$FILE/Beitrag_Wunsch.pdf

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Bilateral trade agreements: case studies
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*   USA-Chile Free Trade Agreement: Telecommunications
Signed in 2003, Chile commits to open its telecommunication markets
establishing a competitive system that bans preferential rights to local
firms. The site includes reports, reviews, press releases as well as the
official text.
-->
http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/Chile_FTA/Section_Index.html

*   Singapore-USA Free Trade Agreement
The Singapore-US agreement has been heralded as a model for reducing
barriers to investment and strengthening intellectual property rights. The
telecomunications clauses aim to create a free and open market for foreign
investment.
--> http://www.sice.oas.org/Trade/USA-Singapore/Chap09_e.asp#CHAPTER%209

*   Australia/USA Treaty: A loss for cultural diversity
Richard Letts
Australia and the USA have decided the terms of a free trade agreement. The
agreement is a "negative list" agreement: i.e. all aspects of trade between
the two countries are included excepting those that are "subtracted" through
explicitly stated provisions. Negative list agreements are especially
dangerous because they require infinite foresight to anticipate their
consequences.
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/2394.html

*   A comparative analysis of the Chile-US and Singapore-US Free Trade
Agreements
The free trade agreements concluded by the United States with Chile in
December 2002 and with Singapore in February 2003 mark a new development in
the way the United States envisage the treatment of cultural goods and
services in trade agreements. PDF format.
-->
http://www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/international/diversite-culturelle/eng/pdf/update0304.pdf

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Related Choike's in-depth reports
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* World Trade Organization
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/385.html

* GATS - Trade in Services
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1169.html

* Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/2265.html

* World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/703.html

* Lack of diversity in the media
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1109.html

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- "WSIS Papers" and "Choike" are projects of the
Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM) -  Third World Institute

- "WSIS Papers" is supported by the
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) / PanAmericas
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From accuosto at chasque.net  Fri Dec  3 16:00:27 2004
From: accuosto at chasque.net (WSIS Papers)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Boletin WSISPapers No. 2 - Acuerdos comerciales y TICs
Message-ID: <012301c4d951$351407a0$4704a8c0@paullier.net>

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   Bolet?n de WSIS Papers - Noviembre 2004 No.2
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En este n?mero: ACUERDOS COMERCIALES Y TICs:
?EL MERCADO TIENE LA ULTIMA PALABRA?

Contenido:

- Acuerdos internacionales
- Acuerdos bilaterales y regionales
- LA CMSI y el papel del mercado
- El comercio de la cultura y la comunicaci?n
- AGCS: barrera para los servicios p?blicos

Disponible en l?nea en:

http://wsispapers.choike.org/

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El derecho a la comunicaci?n y la informaci?n como derecho humano
fundamental, se ha visto crecientemente amenazado por los acuerdos de libre
comercio que, bajo el pretexto de considerarlos servicios comercializables
como cualquier otro, regulan diversos aspectos de las tecnolog?as de la
informaci?n y la comunicaci?n (TIC).

Cada vez m?s las decisiones se toman a puertas cerradas, sin consulta a la
sociedad civil, pero s? incluyendo el punto de vista de los grandes
conglomerados medi?ticos que fomentan la apropiaci?n corporativa de la
informaci?n ignorando la diversidad cultural.

Los actores que impulsan ?sta visi?n de la sociedad de la informaci?n
orientada al mercado son principalmente las grandes empresas de medios, en
su mayor?a norteamericanas, que concentran desde medios tradicionales hasta
empresas de Internet como la recientemente fusionada AOL-Time Warner. Su
brazo gubernamental es el gobierno de Estados Unidos que obra a favor de los
intereses de estas empresas en el ?mbito interno, mientras que su brazo
internacional alcanza organizaciones multilaterales tales como la
Organizaci?n Mundial del Comercio (OMC), la Organizaci?n Mundial de la
Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) y la Uni?n Internacional de Telecomunicaciones
(UIT). Estos organismos, en conjunto con otros regionales como el Tratado de
Libre Comercio de Am?rica del Norte (TLCAN) o el ?rea de Libre Comercio de
las Am?ricas (ALCA) cumplen un doble rol a favor de los "Grandes Medios":
levantan las barreras para la expansi?n de las transnacionales a la vez que
aseguran sus ganancias a trav?s de acuerdos sobre propiedad intelectual.

Con la creaci?n de la OMC en 1995, el comercio de servicios pasa a ser
regulado conjuntamente con el comercio de bienes a trav?s del Acuerdo
General sobre Comercio de Servicios (AGCS) que incluye el comercio de las
telecomunicaciones. Este ambicioso acuerdo proyecta la liberalizaci?n de los
servicios con serias implicancias para las pol?ticas sociales de los estados
firmantes a los cuales se les restringe el uso p?blico de las
telecomunicaciones en favor de la propiedad privada.

Con el fin de cumplir con lo delineado en AGCS, se celebran en los a?os
subsiguientes dos acuerdos fundamentales: el Acuerdo sobre Tecnolog?a de la
Informaci?n (ATI) y el Acuerdo B?sico de Telecomunicaciones (BTA). El
primero, firmado por 55 pa?ses en 1996, ten?a como fin la reducci?n de
tarifas de productos de TICs para el a?o 2000 lo que permiti? el crecimiento
de las grandes compa??as de la telecomunicaci?n aumentando su competitividad
en el mercado internacional. Por otro lado el BTA da un paso a?n mayor hacia
la liberalizaci?n puesto que compromete a los firmantes a la apertura de sus
mercados, imponiendo un sistema pro-competitivo que proh?be los subsidios a
las empresas nacionales de telecomunicaci?n.

Muchos pa?ses en v?as de desarrollo se muestran flexibles a liberalizar las
TICs en la espera de que el mundo desarrollado les conceda a cambio
subsidios para sus productos, generalmente agr?colas. Sin embargo, la
expectativa por este "intercambio" se vio frustrada en la reuni?n
ministerial de Canc?n 2003 donde Estados Unidos protegi? a sus productores
agr?colas.

La cooperaci?n Sur-Sur logr? defender su posici?n de establecer un l?mite a
la explotaci?n privada de las telecomunicaciones en vista de asegurar cierta
pluralidad de los medios de comunicaci?n que permita un equilibrado manejo
de la informaci?n en respeto de las diversas culturas.

No obstante, y ante el colapso de la negociaciones, Estados Unidos se ha
movido agresivamente por los acuerdos bilaterales - con Chile, Singapur,
Marruecos, Australia y pa?ses de Centroam?rica- que proh?ben la introducci?n
de medidas que regulen los "productos digitales" y en especial el Internet
que se espera ser? la nueva forma de difusi?n de la creaci?n.

Las tensiones presentes en las relaciones Norte-Sur, y la pugna sobre el
papel del mercado, han traspasado un nuevo escenario: la Cumbre Mundial de
la Sociedad de la Informaci?n (CMSI) cuya segunda fase se celebrar? en T?nez
en noviembre de 2005.

El evento, convocado por la UIT, abri? espacios para que redes de la
sociedad civil expresaran sus cuestionamientos y propuestas que se plasmaron
en una Declaraci?n de la Sociedad Civil. En cuanto a la progresiva
liberalizaci?n de los reg?menes regulatorios para las telecomunicaciones
expresaron que "no es aceptable que estos marcos de gobierno mundial [...]
sean dise?ados por y para peque?os grupos de poderosos gobiernos y empresas,
y posteriormente sean exportados a todo el mundo como hechos consumados. En
vez de ello, deben reflejar las diversas opiniones e intereses de la
comunidad internacional en su conjunto."

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Acuerdos internacionales
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*   Acuerdo General sobre Comercio de Servicios (AGCS)
Creado conjuntamente con la OMC en la Ronda Uruguay 1995, regula el comercio
de todo tipo de servicios y su progresiva liberalizaci?n. Las
telecomunicaciones tienen un anexo propio. El sitio incluye resumen, texto
en Word o Pdf, e interpretaci?n.
--> http://www.wto.org/spanish/docs_s/legal_s/legal_s.htm#services

*    Acuerdo sobre Tecnolog?a de la Informaci?n (ATI)
Adoptada en 1996, los participantes acordaron eliminar totalmente los
derechos aplicados a los productos de tecnolog?a de la informaci?n para el
a?o 2000. El sitio incluye antecedentes al acuerdo, el texto completo y
ultimos acuerdos sobre el tema.
--> http://www.wto.org/spanish/tratop_s/inftec_s/inftec_s.htm

*    Acuerdo B?sico de Telecomunicaciones (ABT)
Iniciado en la Ronda Uruguay de 1995, el ABT se ha ido ampliando en nuevas
negociaciones con nuevos adherentes a la liberalizaci?n del comercio de las
telecomunicaciones. El sitio incluye una lista de los compromisos m?s
actuales en el sector.
--> http://www.wto.org/spanish/tratop_s/serv_s/telecom_s/telecom_s.htm

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Acuerdos bilaterales y regionales
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*    Tratado de libre comercio Chile-USA: telecomunicaciones
Entrado en vigor en enero de 2004, Chile se compromete a instaurar un
mercado de las telecomunicaciones abierto y competitivo, prohibi?ndose
derechos preferenciales para las firmas locales.
--> http://www.sice.oas.org/Trade/chiusa_s/Chap13_s.asp#Chap13s

*   Comercio de Servicios en la Comunidad Andina: Telecomunicaciones
En mayo de 1999, los pa?ses andinos acordaron la liberalizaci?n de todos los
servicios de telecomunicaciones, excepto los de radiodifusi?n sonora y
televisi?n, a partir del 1 de enero del 2002, "con la finalidad de eliminar
los obst?culos al libre comercio en el sector".
--> http://www.comunidadandina.org/servicios/teleco.htm

*    El reto de mantener la posici?n sobre la cultura en las negociaciones
"Ante la detenci?n de las conversaciones en la OMC, el objetivo evidente de
Estados Unidos es establecer suficientes precedentes bilaterales -10, 15 o
m?s- en los cuales los pa?ses acepten liberalizar sus sectores culturales,
para luego intentar imponer este modelo como un hecho consumado cuando las
negociaciones m?s generales de la OMC y otras negociaciones regionales se
reanuden". El sitio incluye subart?culos sobre las negociaciones de Estados
Unidos con Am?rica Central, Australia, Corea y Marruecos.
-->
http://www.cdc-ccd.org/coalition_currents/Dec03/coalition_currents_sp.html

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LA CMSI y el papel del mercado
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*  Declaraci?n de la sociedad civil a la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de
la Informaci?n
En la Primera fase del CMSI llevada a cabo en Ginebra en 2003, los miembros
de la sociedad civil expresaron su posici?n hacia la visi?n de mercado de la
sociedad civil. Documento PDF.
--> http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/civil-society-declaration-es.pdf

*   "Se cay? el sistema": enredos de la sociedad de la informacion.
En este libro publicado por la Agencia Latinoamericana de Informaci?n en
noviembre de 2003 se hace referencia a algunos hitos determinantes del
surgimiento de la sociedad de la informaci?n, sus desequilibrios, y el
debate suscitado en la m?s reciente Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la
Informaci?n e incluye una secci?n de los obst?culos impuestos por la
liberalizaci?n descontrolada y la intensa privatizaci?n de los sectores de
comunicaciones.
--> http://www.alainet.org/publica/cmsi/

* Acceso universal a las telecomunicaciones: la brecha digital y la grieta
de credibilidad
El ?xito en la implementaci?n de estrategias de servicio universal a nivel
nacional ha sido limitado. En verdad, las normas de la OMC que exigen que
estas estrategias sean "no m?s onerosas de lo necesario", en t?rminos de
distorsi?n de las fuerzas del mercado, tienen todav?a que ser puestas a
prueba; si ello ocurre, y cuando ocurra, el resultado puede ser un nuevo
conjunto de obst?culos para hacer realidad el servicio universal.
--> http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=222

* 20 a?os no es nada: del NOMIC a la CMSI
Los autores hacen un repaso hist?rico de propuestas que buscaban
democratizar las estructuras comunicacionales y proveen una visi?n cr?tica
del proceso de la CMSI, en la medida en que temas como mercantilizaci?n de
la cultura y la comunicaci?n no han sido objetos de un tratamiento adecuado
por parte de los gobiernos.
-->
http://catedras.fsoc.uba.ar/mastrini/investigaciones/mastrini_decharras.doc

* Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la Informaci?n: Visiones enfrentadas
Este art?culo explica el enfrentamiento vivido en la primera fase de la
CMSI, entre la visi?n de la sociedad civil y la tendencia dominante que
identifica al mercado como el ?nico marco v?lido para impulsar el
desarrollo.
--> http://movimientos.org/foro_comunicacion/show_text.php3?key=1504

-------------------------------------------------------
El comercio de la cultura y la comunicaci?n
-------------------------------------------------------

*   Monitor del comercio de la cultura
La meta de este sitio es proveer recursos para informaci?n sobre como los
convenios de "comercio libre" afectan la cultura, los medios y los derechos
a la comunicaci?n. El monitor del Comercio de la Cultura se asienta en la
intersecci?n entre el comercio justo y el movimiento a los derechos a la
comunicaci?n. Actualmente, cuenta con una plantilla wiki y un espacio para
notas colaborativas. La mayor parte de los documentos est? en ingl?s.
--> http://www.worldwidewiki.net/wiki/CultureTradeMonitor

 *  Acuerdo multilateral en telecomunicaciones
Este art?culo publicado por la Red del Tercer Mundo en 1995 muestra los
inicios del proceso de negociaci?n del Acuerdo B?sico de Telecomunicaciones.
Analiza las tendencias de liberalizaci?n en el sector y la posici?n de
algunos pa?ses, como Jap?n y Estados Unidos.
--> http://www.tercermundoeconomico.org.uy/TME-75/tendencias01.html

* La OMC y la privatizaci?n de los servicios culturales
El AGCS limita la capacidad de los gobiernos para ejercer pol?ticas en favor
del inter?s com?n. La administraci?n local, auton?mica y estatal, podr?an
verse obligadas a eliminar todas aquellas acciones tendentes a una adecuada
regulaci?n y financiaci?n de servicios esenciales.
--> http://www.encuentropopular.org/areas/omc/artic007.htm

* Declaraci?n de Brixen/Bressanone sobre la cultura y el AGCS
En esta declaraci?n de octubre de 2002 los ministros europeos de cultura y
educaci?n expresaban que el AGCS afecta negativamente a los servicios
p?blicos en los ?mbitos de la educaci?n, de la cultura y de los medios de
comunicaci?n y solicitaban que ?stos fueran excluidos de las futuras
negociaciones del AGCS. Formato PDF.
-->
http://www.are-regions-europe.org/PDF/CD-Main_Texts/Brixen%20Declaration-def
-E.pdf

* Ideolog?a y mercado: romper con las obviedades
Tras el mercado de la comunicaci?n se esconden muchos otros mercados. Esto
explica las estrategias de monopolio y de concentraci?n aplicadas por las
multinacionales del sector. La ?nica alternativa para la sociedad civil es:
reconocer el verdadero valor de las cosas, poner en evidencia los ?ndices de
destrucci?n y oponerse al liberalismo en su propio terreno; el econ?mico.
--> http://movimientos.org/foro_comunicacion/show_text.php3?key=999

* Telecomunicaciones no pueden ser libradas a las leyes del mercado
"Dado su impacto social y los inmensos desequilibrios hist?ricos entre el
Norte y el Sur, las telecomunicaciones deben ser parte de un debate general
y p?blico sobre las pol?ticas de desarrollo".
--> http://www.redtercermundo.org.uy/tm_economico/texto_completo.php?id=2164

* La agenda de desarrollo de Doha amenaza la diversidad cultural
La comunidad cultural mundial debe redoblar su oposici?n al seguimiento
ciego de una agenda manejada por agentes comerciales. Nosotros debemos
trabajar para apoyar la iniciativa de un nuevo pacto cultural global, y
tener una actitud vigilante hacia nuestros agentes comerciales, como tambi?n
hacia la OMC. La capacidad que tienen las naciones de estimular y apoyar a
sus propios artistas y productores culturales, se pueden perder del todo en
la "Agenda de Doha de la OMC".
--> http://www.incd.net/informe01.html

* Aproveche la oferta: el ALCA remata los medios de comunicaci?n
"El ALCA es un ejemplo de [...] la aceleraci?n de la liberalizaci?n. La
l?gica del mercado no s?lo domina la econom?a sino tambi?n tiende a
privatizar todos los sectores, es decir, tiende a dominar en lo social, lo
cultural y lo pol?tico".
--> http://www.alainet.org/active/show_text.php3?key=2167

-------------------------------------------------------
AGCS: barrera para los servicios p?blicos
-------------------------------------------------------

* El AGCS y el peligro de desaparici?n de los servicios p?blicos
En el ?mbito internacional la liberalizaci?n significa una recolocaci?n de
los poderes hacia las empresas transnacionales. En el sector de los
servicios este cambio ha venido acompa?ado por la apropiaci?n de los dise?os
de las pol?ticas p?blicas por parte de una tecnocracia internacional que
mantiene que las fuerzas del mercado son los mejores servidores del inter?s
p?blico.
--> http://www.moir.org.co/ALCA/TLC/acuerdo_general_sobre_servicios.htm

* Del contrato social a los contratos privados: La privatizaci?n de la
salud, la educaci?n y la infraestructura b?sica
Las instituciones internacionales de gobierno, los gobiernos que las
controlan y las corporaciones que presionan a ambos abogan por la
privatizaci?n, pese a que los peligros que ?sta entra?a, pueden da?ar seria
y permanentemente los medios de vida de la poblaci?n m?s pobre del mundo. La
postura de ?privatizar primero y preguntar despu?s? y la confianza ingenua
en los procesos y resultados de las reformas del mercado han causado
sufrimientos precisamente a aquellos grupos que esas organizaciones tienen
el cometido de proteger. Formato PDF.
-->http://www.socwatch.org/es/informeImpreso/pdfs/delcontratosocial2003_esp.
pdf

* GATS: Los servicios p?blicos bajo la presi?n de la liberalizaci?n
El proceso de liberalizaci?n y privatizaci?n de servicios b?sicos y p?blicos
se ha vuelto un ?rea central de conflicto tanto en los pa?ses
industrializados como en las naciones en v?as de desarrollo. En muchos
lugares, ONGs y movimientos sociales prestan resistencia a la tendencia
dominante hacia el comercio de servicios. No ven en ?l una respuesta
adecuada a los problemas de calidad y las deficiencias existentes, y sobre
todo temen un distanciamiento a?n mayor de los principios de igualdad y
acceso universal a los servicios, es decir, temen la marginaci?n de los
pobres que a menudo no pueden pagar los servicios b?sicos
indispensables.Formato PDF.
--> http://www.boell.de/downloads/global/GIP%201%20GATS_Span.pdf

-------------------------------------------------------
Especiales de Choike relacionados
-------------------------------------------------------

* Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Informaci?n (CMSI)
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo/informes/647.html

* Organizaci?n Mundial del Comercio
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo/informes/384.html

* Medios de comunicaci?n comunitarios
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo/informes/1283.html

* Falta de diversidad en los medios
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo/informes/1183.html

* GATS - Acuerdo sobre Comercio de Servicios
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo/informes/1094.html


-------------------------------------------------------
- "WSIS Papers" y "Choike" son proyectos del
  Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM)

- "WSIS Papers" es apoyado por el Centro Internacional
  de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC) - PanAmericas
-------------------------------------------------------



From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Fri Dec  3 16:12:56 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Baseline CS requirements for Tunis Summit
In-Reply-To: <p06110421bdd449c08ed6@[192.168.1.254]>
Message-ID: <20041203161257.25877.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com>

In French bellow,
Problems of translation of speechees and discussions
and traduction of documents are as allways totally
absent of our debate and proposals.
Let me remember to those who was prtesent in Geneva
how poor and insufficient was covered these issues in
Geneva.
As CS we have to be more aware than government or
private sector representatives on such issues.
Please advice.
All the best
Coome toujours les problèmes de traduction et
d'interprétation sont tolalement omis de nos
préoccupation alors que la société civile doit faire
un max pour résoudre ces problèmes et que Genève nous
avons tant souffert des insuffisances à mon sens
voulues par les organisateurs.
Bien à vous.
--- Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> wrote:

> Rik,
> 
> Very good starting point (think you might have 
> covered everything!) Hope the Bureau can begin to 
> consider your suggestions at their meeting this 
> coming weekend.
> 
> But we should not loose the point about RFIDs in 
> the discussion about wider requirements.  Charles 
> Gieger has mentioned badges and accreditation, so 
> it would be sensible I think to respond soon on 
> this one issue.
> 
> Rest, add: meeting rooms that are sound-proofed, 
> unlike the open-top boxes in Geneva. Cellphones 
> and GSM SIM cards. If no Wi-Fi or limited 
> Internet access, we need to know in advance, we 
> can bring our own Wi-Fi.  Simple bulletin and 
> announcement boards.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
> >Adam,
> >
> >Your point raises a larger issue of what are the 
> >basic civil society requirements for our 
> >meaningful participation at the Tunis Summit, 
> >which as you say is a Bureau issue.  Ideally the 
> >bureau should facilitate a consultation process 
> >with all relevant caucuses and working groups to 
> >get their views on this, since these rules and 
> >format will be set at Prepcom II.
> >
> >Just some quick thoughts on what practical things
> we will need in Tunis:
> >
> >*	facilities: meeting spaces, exhibition 
> >spaces, tables to distribute literature, press 
> >conference facilities
> >*	services: internet access, including WIFI 
> >and cybercafes; printing and photocopying; 
> >remote viewing areas to observe the official 
> >plenaries; cell phones that we can rent for a 
> >week
> >*	accommodations: lower cost options for 
> >developing country and lower income participants
> >*	cost issues: cost for civil society use 
> >of facilities and services should be significant 
> >less than the cost for the private sector and 
> >governments, ideally on a sliding scale based on 
> >organization budget or other fair criteria
> >
> >Perhaps our security / privacy working group 
> >could make a recommendation on reasonable 
> >security measures that don't violate the right 
> >to privacy?
> >
> >It also might be helpful to list what we don't 
> >really need: i.e. expensive gift bags and 
> >souvenirs, cultural programs, tokenistic 
> >"multi-stakeholder" dialogues without substance.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Rik
> >
> >
> >On Dec 1, 2004, at 4:01 AM, Adam Peake wrote:
> >
> >>Rik,
> >>
> >>Thank you for this.  Very helpful.
> >>
> >>One comment, not about financing.  You describe 
> >>Mr. Geiger saying that all participants at the 
> >>Tunis Summit would need badges.  I think we 
> >>should ask that the RFID system used in Geneva 
> >>*not* be used again. Perhaps something for the 
> >>CS bureau to take up?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Adam
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>At 2:01 PM -0500 11/30/04, Rik Panganiban wrote:
> >>>Task Force on Financing Mechanisms
> >>>29 November 2004
> >>>UNDP Headquarters, New York, USA
> >>>Unofficial Report on Proceedings
> >>>Rik Panganiban, Conference of NGOs
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>INTRODUCTION
> >>>The Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had its 
> >>>final meeting at UNDP headquarters on 29 
> >>>November 2004.  The following is an unofficial 
> >>>report on the proceedings and should not be 
> >>>considered minutes or an official record of 
> >>>the meeting or its outcomes.
> >>>
> >>>The morning meeting began with a welcome by 
> >>>the Administrator of UNDP Mr. Mark Malloch 
> >>>Brown, followed by reports from the 
> >>>Secretariat on the draft report, from Charles 
> >>>Geiger on the WSIS process, and from Sarbuland 
> >>>Khan on the recent UN ICT Task Force meeting. 
> >>>The afternoon was spent discussing the 
> >>>substance of the report, particularly ³access² 
> >>>and ³content and applications² issues.  The 
> >>>meeting concluded with discussing the process 
> >>>forward for the Task Force.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>WSIS PROCESS
> >>>Charles Geiger of the WSIS secretariat gave a 
> >>>³state of play² report on the WSIS.  He noted 
> >>>that the Group of Friends of the Chair would 
> >>>ideally like to receive even a draft of the 
> >>>report of the TFFM for its meeting from 16-17 
> >>>December.  He clarified the status of the 
> >>>Digital Solidarity Fund as not being created 
> >>>³by² the WSIS but created ³in conjunction² 
> >>>with the Summit, since it emerged  from the 
> >>>parallel WSIS Cities Summit which occurred in 
> >>>Lyon in December 2003.
> >>>
> >>>Mr. Geiger also noted that Prepcom II in 
> >>>February would decide on the format and 
> >>>structure of the Tunis Summit.  In general he 
> >>>felt that the Tunisian host country is 
> >>>planning on a similar format to the Geneva 
> >>>Summit, with a main official summit and 
> >>>several parallel or side-events happening 
> >>>around the same time. However he noted that 
> >>>because of security considerations, all 
> >>>participants at the side events would have to 
> >>>have badges, i.e. some form of accreditation, 
> >>>to attend.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >===============================================
> >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
> >
> >** Please note CONGO's new mailing address: CP 
> >50, 1211 Genéve 20, Switzerland.  Our physical 
> >office address is 11, Avenue De La Paix, 1st 
> >Floor, 1202 Genéve, Switzerland. **
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
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> 


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From james.archibald at mcgill.ca  Fri Dec  3 16:32:57 2004
From: james.archibald at mcgill.ca (Jak Archibald)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nouveaut=E9?=
Message-ID: <003e01c4d955$bf7ffc60$17ecce84@mcgill.ca>

 
Nouveaut?
 
Le r?seau Lexicologie, Terminologie, Traduction, l'un des r?seaux
th?matiques de recherches linguistiques de l'Agence universitaire de la
Francophonie (AUF), annonce la publication de La localisation,
probl?matique de la formation.   [ http://www.ltt.auf.org/books.html ]
 
 
Archibald, J. (dir.). La localisation, probl?matique de la formation.
Montr?al : Linguatech ?diteur, 2004. ISBN : 2-920342-45-2
 
Description : Six sp?cialistes engag?s r?fl?chissent ? la probl?matique
de la formation en localisation dans le monde francophone.
 
R?uni par le directeur de l'UFR en traduction de l'Universit? McGill, ce
groupe de chercheurs, administrateurs et traductologues se penche sur
diverses approches pratiqu?es dans l'?ducation des localisateurs,
appliqu?es en Belgique, au Canada, en France et au Qu?bec.  Dans un
premier temps, les auteurs t?moignent d'abord du glissement de la t?che
du traducteur vers celle de localisateur dans un monde marqu? par
l'internationalisation, la diversit? culturelle et linguistique, ainsi
que l'informatisation des communications interculturelles.
 
Le constat est simple.  Traduire et adapter des logiciels et des sites
Internet exigent des traducteurs-localisateurs un ensemble de
comp?tences qui exc?dent largement la formation traditionnelle en
traduction.  Plusieurs solutions sont envisag?es, allant des simples
mises ? jour en classe ou ? distance ? de nouveaux programmes de
premier, deuxi?me et troisi?me cycles. Ces derniers visent la formation
d'une nouvelle classe de praticiens. Les enjeux de cette pratique de la
localisation rel?vent de la ma?trise tant des langues que des nouvelles
sciences de la communication.
 
Cette r?flexion n?cessaire sur la localisation telle qu'elle s'exerce
aujourd'hui nous aide ? mieux saisir le nouveau profil exig? des
traducteurs-localisateurs.  Par la force des choses, une telle r?flexion
interpelle ?galement les formateurs.
 
Table des mati?res :
 
? La t?che du localisateur - James Archibald, Universit? McGill
? La formation en localisation ? l'universit? : pour quoi faire ? - Jean
Quirion, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais
? La localisation : un enjeu majeur pour une pr?sence accrue des deux
langues officielles sur Internet - Dyane Adam, Commissariat aux langues
officielles du Canada
? Le bagage sp?cifique du localiseur/localisateur : le vrai ? nouveau
profil ? requis - Daniel Gouadec, Universit? Rennes 2
? De l'adaptation ? la localisation publicitaire - Mathieu Guid?re,
Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2 et CREC Saint-Cyr
? Un mod?le didactique en ligne : LOCTRANS - Marie Trincaretto, Institut
libre Marie Haps
? Autour et au tour de la localisation : perspectives et prospective -
Marc Charron, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais
? Programmes de formation cit?s
? Index des sujets
? Index des noms propres
 
Personne-ressource : Madame Lucie Dubuc, Linguatech ?diteur inc., C.P.
92012, Place Portobello, BROSSARD QC J4W 3K8, Canada.
Courriel : lingua@ican.net 
T?l. : 450.443.98.51
 
 
 

 
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From rikp at earthlink.net  Fri Dec  3 16:24:24 2004
From: rikp at earthlink.net (Rik Panganiban)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Baseline CS requirements for Tunis Summit
In-Reply-To: <20041203161257.25877.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20041203161257.25877.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <CBD1DD42-4547-11D9-88C4-000A9575083C@earthlink.net>

Ah zut, c'est vrai.  C'est un bon point.  Merci.

Au minimum, nous avons besoin de la disponsibilit? d'une systeme de 
tradduction electronique (ecouteurs, micros, etc.) et une cadre des 
interpretes voluntaires de Francais a Anglais pour les reunions de 
societe civile.  Aussi une systeme pour les tradduciones de documents 
sera important.

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

Damn, that's true.  It's a good point, thanks.

At a minimum, we need the availability of an electronic interpretation 
system (headsets, microphones, etc.) and a team of volunteer 
interpreters from English-French for the civil society meetings. Also a 
system for the translation of written documents will be important.

rik

On Dec 3, 2004, at 11:12 AM, djilali benamrane wrote:

>
> In French bellow,
> Problems of translation of speechees and discussions
> and traduction of documents are as allways totally
> absent of our debate and proposals.
> Let me remember to those who was prtesent in Geneva
> how poor and insufficient was covered these issues in
> Geneva.
> As CS we have to be more aware than government or
> private sector representatives on such issues.
> Please advice.
> All the best
> Coome toujours les probl?mes de traduction et
> d'interpr?tation sont tolalement omis de nos
> pr?occupation alors que la soci?t? civile doit faire
> un max pour r?soudre ces probl?mes et que Gen?ve nous
> avons tant souffert des insuffisances ? mon sens
> voulues par les organisateurs.
> Bien ? vous.
> --- Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>
>> Rik,
>>
>> Very good starting point (think you might have
>> covered everything!) Hope the Bureau can begin to
>> consider your suggestions at their meeting this
>> coming weekend.
>>
>> But we should not loose the point about RFIDs in
>> the discussion about wider requirements.  Charles
>> Gieger has mentioned badges and accreditation, so
>> it would be sensible I think to respond soon on
>> this one issue.
>>
>> Rest, add: meeting rooms that are sound-proofed,
>> unlike the open-top boxes in Geneva. Cellphones
>> and GSM SIM cards. If no Wi-Fi or limited
>> Internet access, we need to know in advance, we
>> can bring our own Wi-Fi.  Simple bulletin and
>> announcement boards.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>>> Adam,
>>>
>>> Your point raises a larger issue of what are the
>>> basic civil society requirements for our
>>> meaningful participation at the Tunis Summit,
>>> which as you say is a Bureau issue.  Ideally the
>>> bureau should facilitate a consultation process
>>> with all relevant caucuses and working groups to
>>> get their views on this, since these rules and
>>> format will be set at Prepcom II.
>>>
>>> Just some quick thoughts on what practical things
>> we will need in Tunis:
>>>
>>> *	facilities: meeting spaces, exhibition
>>> spaces, tables to distribute literature, press
>>> conference facilities
>>> *	services: internet access, including WIFI
>>> and cybercafes; printing and photocopying;
>>> remote viewing areas to observe the official
>>> plenaries; cell phones that we can rent for a
>>> week
>>> *	accommodations: lower cost options for
>>> developing country and lower income participants
>>> *	cost issues: cost for civil society use
>>> of facilities and services should be significant
>>> less than the cost for the private sector and
>>> governments, ideally on a sliding scale based on
>>> organization budget or other fair criteria
>>>
>>> Perhaps our security / privacy working group
>>> could make a recommendation on reasonable
>>> security measures that don't violate the right
>>> to privacy?
>>>
>>> It also might be helpful to list what we don't
>>> really need: i.e. expensive gift bags and
>>> souvenirs, cultural programs, tokenistic
>>> "multi-stakeholder" dialogues without substance.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Rik
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 1, 2004, at 4:01 AM, Adam Peake wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rik,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for this.  Very helpful.
>>>>
>>>> One comment, not about financing.  You describe
>>>> Mr. Geiger saying that all participants at the
>>>> Tunis Summit would need badges.  I think we
>>>> should ask that the RFID system used in Geneva
>>>> *not* be used again. Perhaps something for the
>>>> CS bureau to take up?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At 2:01 PM -0500 11/30/04, Rik Panganiban wrote:
>>>>> Task Force on Financing Mechanisms
>>>>> 29 November 2004
>>>>> UNDP Headquarters, New York, USA
>>>>> Unofficial Report on Proceedings
>>>>> Rik Panganiban, Conference of NGOs
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> INTRODUCTION
>>>>> The Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had its
>>>>> final meeting at UNDP headquarters on 29
>>>>> November 2004.  The following is an unofficial
>>>>> report on the proceedings and should not be
>>>>> considered minutes or an official record of
>>>>> the meeting or its outcomes.
>>>>>
>>>>> The morning meeting began with a welcome by
>>>>> the Administrator of UNDP Mr. Mark Malloch
>>>>> Brown, followed by reports from the
>>>>> Secretariat on the draft report, from Charles
>>>>> Geiger on the WSIS process, and from Sarbuland
>>>>> Khan on the recent UN ICT Task Force meeting.
>>>>> The afternoon was spent discussing the
>>>>> substance of the report, particularly ?access?
>>>>> and ?content and applications? issues.  The
>>>>> meeting concluded with discussing the process
>>>>> forward for the Task Force.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> WSIS PROCESS
>>>>> Charles Geiger of the WSIS secretariat gave a
>>>>> ?state of play? report on the WSIS.  He noted
>>>>> that the Group of Friends of the Chair would
>>>>> ideally like to receive even a draft of the
>>>>> report of the TFFM for its meeting from 16-17
>>>>> December.  He clarified the status of the
>>>>> Digital Solidarity Fund as not being created
>>>>> ?by? the WSIS but created ?in conjunction?
>>>>> with the Summit, since it emerged  from the
>>>>> parallel WSIS Cities Summit which occurred in
>>>>> Lyon in December 2003.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mr. Geiger also noted that Prepcom II in
>>>>> February would decide on the format and
>>>>> structure of the Tunis Summit.  In general he
>>>>> felt that the Tunisian host country is
>>>>> planning on a similar format to the Geneva
>>>>> Summit, with a main official summit and
>>>>> several parallel or side-events happening
>>>>> around the same time. However he noted that
>>>>> because of security considerations, all
>>>>> participants at the side events would have to
>>>>> have badges, i.e. some form of accreditation,
>>>>> to attend.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ===============================================
>>> 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
>>>
>>> ** Please note CONGO's new mailing address: CP
>>> 50, 1211 Gen?ve 20, Switzerland.? Our physical
>>> office address is 11, Avenue De La Paix, 1st
>>> Floor, 1202 Gen?ve, Switzerland. **
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Plenary mailing list
>> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>>
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>>
>
>
> =====
> Djilali Benamrane : dbenamrane@yahoo.com
> Tel/fax : (227) 75 35 09 BP 11207 - Niamey - Niger
> T?l/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Sat Dec  4 09:12:03 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Nouveauté
In-Reply-To: <003e01c4d955$bf7ffc60$17ecce84@mcgill.ca>
Message-ID: <20041204091203.4667.qmail@web60708.mail.yahoo.com>

Excellente nouvelle,
Mais, il serait souhaitable que l'Afrique ne soit pas
comme toujours absente de telles initiatives et dans
l'état actuel des choses il appartient à la
francophonie du Nord d'associer sa ou ses composantes
du Sud.
L'Afrique subsaharienne pourrait prendre un axe de
réflexion au même titre que le Magheb et ou l'Asie.
Cela pourrait redonner un semblant de crédibilité à
cette honnorable mais lamentablement inefficace
institution, broyée par la domination de l'anglais au
sein même de ses rangs.
Djilali 
--- Jak Archibald <james.archibald@mcgill.ca> wrote:

>  
> Nouveauté
>  
> Le réseau Lexicologie, Terminologie, Traduction,
> l'un des réseaux
> thématiques de recherches linguistiques de l'Agence
> universitaire de la
> Francophonie (AUF), annonce la publication de La
> localisation,
> problématique de la formation.   [
> http://www.ltt.auf.org/books.html ]
>  
>  
> Archibald, J. (dir.). La localisation, problématique
> de la formation.
> Montréal : Linguatech éditeur, 2004. ISBN :
> 2-920342-45-2
>  
> Description : Six spécialistes engagés réfléchissent
> à la problématique
> de la formation en localisation dans le monde
> francophone.
>  
> Réuni par le directeur de l'UFR en traduction de
> l'Université McGill, ce
> groupe de chercheurs, administrateurs et
> traductologues se penche sur
> diverses approches pratiquées dans l'éducation des
> localisateurs,
> appliquées en Belgique, au Canada, en France et au
> Québec.  Dans un
> premier temps, les auteurs témoignent d'abord du
> glissement de la tâche
> du traducteur vers celle de localisateur dans un
> monde marqué par
> l'internationalisation, la diversité culturelle et
> linguistique, ainsi
> que l'informatisation des communications
> interculturelles.
>  
> Le constat est simple.  Traduire et adapter des
> logiciels et des sites
> Internet exigent des traducteurs-localisateurs un
> ensemble de
> compétences qui excèdent largement la formation
> traditionnelle en
> traduction.  Plusieurs solutions sont envisagées,
> allant des simples
> mises à jour en classe ou à distance à de nouveaux
> programmes de
> premier, deuxième et troisième cycles. Ces derniers
> visent la formation
> d'une nouvelle classe de praticiens. Les enjeux de
> cette pratique de la
> localisation relèvent de la maîtrise tant des
> langues que des nouvelles
> sciences de la communication.
>  
> Cette réflexion nécessaire sur la localisation telle
> qu'elle s'exerce
> aujourd'hui nous aide à mieux saisir le nouveau
> profil exigé des
> traducteurs-localisateurs.  Par la force des choses,
> une telle réflexion
> interpelle également les formateurs.
>  
> Table des matières :
>  
> · La tâche du localisateur - James Archibald,
> Université McGill
> · La formation en localisation à l'université : pour
> quoi faire ? - Jean
> Quirion, Université du Québec en Outaouais
> · La localisation : un enjeu majeur pour une
> présence accrue des deux
> langues officielles sur Internet - Dyane Adam,
> Commissariat aux langues
> officielles du Canada
> · Le bagage spécifique du localiseur/localisateur :
> le vrai « nouveau
> profil » requis - Daniel Gouadec, Université Rennes
> 2
> · De l'adaptation à la localisation publicitaire -
> Mathieu Guidère,
> Université Lumière Lyon 2 et CREC Saint-Cyr
> · Un modèle didactique en ligne : LOCTRANS - Marie
> Trincaretto, Institut
> libre Marie Haps
> · Autour et au tour de la localisation :
> perspectives et prospective -
> Marc Charron, Université du Québec en Outaouais
> · Programmes de formation cités
> · Index des sujets
> · Index des noms propres
>  
> Personne-ressource : Madame Lucie Dubuc, Linguatech
> éditeur inc., C.P.
> 92012, Place Portobello, BROSSARD QC J4W 3K8,
> Canada.
> Courriel : lingua@ican.net 
> Tél. : 450.443.98.51
>  
>  
>  
> 
>  
> 


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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Sun Dec  5 20:27:56 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Position paper draft
Message-ID: <20041205202757.94750.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear colleagues,
As promised, please find here after for your comments,
the draft of a Position Paper aiming at clarifying our
position arround 3 proposals of recommandations.
This document has to be corrected and completed (sorry
for my poor anglish.
Djilali)

POSITION DOCUMENT DRAFT OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY
DISCUSSION GROUP ON THE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES FINANCE MECHANISMS
(Document of contribution to the debates in
preparation of the SMSI - Phase II - Tunis, November
2005)
(wsis-finance@yahoogroupes.fr)

Back ground

Regarding the challenges generated by the
extraordinary emergence of the ITC which affect all
activity sectors, the international Community decided
to convene a world summit. The United Nations
Organization entrusted the UIT to lead the process.
Its preparation innovated, in particular in two
fields: on the one hand organizing the summit in two
phases and two places, the first in Geneva by the end
of 2003, the second in Tunis by the end of 2005, on
the other hand, the implication in addition to States
and their intergovernmental organization
representatives, private operators and civil company,
associated all the stages of the process.

1 Results of the Geneva phase and challenges of the
Tunis phase

 It will be difficult to evaluate with objectivity the
real performances of the Geneva phase of the WSIS as
long as it is easy to justify now, that such or such
raised insufficiency was foreseeable and raised from
the beginning to be addressed, with implicit term of
reference during the second phase. In Geneva, the
objectives seemed clear: seeking ways and means to
reduce the digital gap and to facilitate the access to
communication and information technologies for
development ITC/D. The participation was massive
there, rather dedicated safety, poor interpretation
and translation, officially denounced at the closing
session by several governmental delegations.
Emergence, consequent means and dynamism of the
private operators dominated the exercise, supported
and promoted by the UN-ITU, dedicating itself as ultra
liberalism defender, in the spirit of the public
private partnership (PPP). The civil society seems to
be satisfied by the role assigned to her as an alibi
in the greatest organized disorder and destitution, in
conformity with the image of representation and
defence of the interests of the great majority of the
world population, surviving in misery and despair.



The Geneva meeting have been a remarkable show, a fair
during which the interests of the dominant private
operators, architects of the globalisation process in
general and "merchandization of the human relations
were exposed and effectively defended in particular.
The debates of the rare and relevant topics for the
civil society were deferred for the meeting of Tunis
such as those on the good governance, or the finance
mechanisms of the strategies, policies and action
plans for the promotion of information and
communication for the development. The Tunis meeting
could prove more difficulties than that of Geneva; so
much the objective became fuzzier, more complex
because having to lead to proposals specific,
operational, verifiable, sanctionnables. The couple
private operators - civil society showed its
impertinence and the limits of a factitious
interdependency. The credibility of the U.N. system in
general and certain intergovernmental organizations in
particular, has been severely degraded in the past.
Tunis as a hosting place of the second phase of the
WISIS Summit is disputed regarding the governmental
policy and the deficit of the standards of good
governance, respect of the human rights and freedom of
access to the means of communication which prevail in
this country.

Draft of the recommendation N° 1 on the context of the
Summit 

The various and relevant working groups of the civil
society, trying to do their best in difficult
conditions,  with insufficient and disparate means, to
promote an concerted  position for the WSIS, must take
into consideration the gravity of the world situation
and unacceptable conditions of their implementation in
the process. Contrary to the working groups of the
governments, the intergovernmental organizations or
the private operators, the groups of the civil society
are the only ones not to have autonomous and
sufficient means for a minimum implementation
capacity. Their insidious and suicidal inclusion in
such an approach promoted and brought into fashion by
the U.N. System within the concept of the Private
Public Partnership, whose ITU supported and which
UNESCO has just followed with the recent agreement
signed with Microsoft, constitutes a real danger of
confusion and discredit. We support the proposal (see
meeting of Berlin, November 18-20, 2004, on the ITC
and development) of the German civil society to create
a working group on the working methods of the civil
society and request this working group to improve
coherence of work and the self-sufficiency of its
initiatives compared to the other partners implied in
the WSIS process.

2…  A requirement for a relevant assessment of the
needs for financing before any examination of the
mechanisms of mobilization and allowance of the
resources. 

To have the ambition to examine the relevance and the
effectiveness of the finance mechanisms existing or to
be created for an adequate financing of the ITC for
Development has a sense only if the volume of the
indicative needs for financing were correctly
appreciated. Do not displease any with those which
minimize the challenge of the volume of the financing
to the profit of a useful debate but secondary,
focused on the only concerns of quality, exemplarity,
facilities of control, follow-up and evaluation
answering the only concerns of the donors, the
procedures and mechanisms are only tools to carry out
objectives. However these are the objectives which
require and legitimate adequate means for their
implementation, as soon as possible and at lower
costs, under control of the international community
and not of one of the parts. 

Draft of recommendation N° 2 on the imperative
subordination of the evaluations of the mechanisms of
financing to the clarification of the aimed
objectives. 

The working groups of the civil society owe all
however their fields of competence, to concentrate on
the desirable contents of a world strategy of
sustainable development of information and
communication technologies aiming at the Sustainable
Human Development. Each group in its field will have
to argue on the relevance of the issue consisting in
promoting the effective and universal access to the
ITC/D like a basic right of satisfaction of an
essential need, with information and the communication
for the individual and collective development. This
basic and essential right to be informed and to
communicate is an indispensable condition of
satisfaction of the other rights recognized by the
Universal Declaration of the Human Rights and by the
whole of the international institutions which govern
the relations of the international community, that it
acts of the right to dignity, education, health,
sufficient alimentation, decent housing, with freedom
or safety. One will never underline sufficiently but
to defend his universal rights, the human being, in
some situation where it is, must be able to be
informed and to be able to communicate to denounce the
insufficiencies, the dysfunctions even failures or
abuses. Information and communication must be regarded
as public goods on a worldwide scale (BPEM) and to be
treated like such by the international community. The
latter will have to make of it a criterion of
qualification of world and or national good governance
(for memory, several governmental delegations asked at
the time of the meeting of Geneva on last 16 November,
as well in the working group on the Finance mechanisms
as in that of the friends of the president of the
WSIS, so that the mandate of the debates in Tunis be
able to be widened with these important aspects of
approach of the ITC under the angle of public goods).

3…  To privilege the requirements of relevant response
to the correct satisfaction of the need of ITC/D,
before being concerned with profits of the private
operators suppliers of goods and services. 

If the civil society intends to be located in a vision
of construction of a better world, of safety, progress
and well shared welfare, it must promote another idea
of universality and globalisation, another image of
the planetary village to build. Such a vision
encourages taking into consideration the Digital gap
as a result of another gap, more global, which does
not cease deepening, between populations living in the
rich and poor countries. The objectives of the ITC are
only one component of the broader objectives and more
integrators of those relating to the urgency for the
international community to answer the intolerable
situations of poverty, misery and despair from which
suffer its great majority, vegetating in the poor
countries. The market and the interests of the private
operators cannot constitute reliable solutions, able
to satisfy the needs for access of the fragile, poor,
rural or wedged populations. Logics of answers
individual, local, national or regional are
insufficient and the colossal needs which justify
strategies of world regulation, for promoting huge
programs of international co-operation and
intersectorial development.

Draft of recommendation N° 3 on the imperative
subordination of the objectives of the ITC/D to those
of the sustainable human development. 

The working group on the mechanisms of financing of
the TIC/D, requires so that work of evaluation and
proposal of the civil society, however their
competences, must be confronted with those agreed by
the competent authorities of the international
community at the time of the preceding world summits,
in particular those retained by Millennium (Objectives
of the development of the Millennium, New York 2000).
The finance mechanisms of the ITC must be in adequacy
with those of the financing of under development and
poverty. The initiatives of the Mutual aid funds such
as Solidarity Digital Funds which abound, so useful
are, have relevance only if they are registered and
consolidate the finance mechanisms of under
development and more especially those having to check
than engagements of government aid to development, or
Official Development Assistance (ODA), are sufficient
and are respected by the governments of the rich
countries. Within these quantifiable and verifiable
volumes of financing, the development of the ITC/D,
articulated with that of the other branches of
activities, should have the mechanisms, likely to
exist already, even if they must be the subject of
consequent reform in their organization and their
management, of mobilization and allowance of the
resources, in the transparency and the respect of a
world good governance which should take precedence
over the conditionality of the bilateral and
multilateral donors. The world good governance remains
a concept to be created and the architecture of the
leading institutions of the world is to be re-examined
consequently. Deep system of the United Nations
reforms that everyone waits will constitute an
advisability to revise, gather and if necessary widen
the mandates of the institution or institutions in
charge with the ITC sector. By supporting the dominant
multinationals of the ITC sector, the UN-ITU largely
showed its incompetence as regards to international
co-operation in telecommunications. On its side,
UNESCO proved its inefficiency to defend its mandate
as regards to information development and is satisfied
to play a minor part in this issue. Other
intergovernmental at international or regional levels
and with various statutes have to be revisited for
better coordinating and making the unit more coherent
(the ONPI, the UCANN, Africa One, RASCOM, PANAFTEL,
NEPAD, FSNs and others...).

Elements of conclusion:

The task is immense and the time insufficient from
here to the Tunis Summit to transform these general
analyses into proposals for actions. That means that
the debates and combat will continue after Tunis and
that will require the continuation of the mobilization
of the civil society in the mechanisms of evaluation
and follow-up of the decisions agreed upon at the time
of the Tunis Summit. 

(Version N° 02 of December 5, 2004)





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From james.archibald at staff.mcgill.ca  Sun Dec  5 21:13:32 2004
From: james.archibald at staff.mcgill.ca (james.archibald@staff.mcgill.ca)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] =?iso-8859-1?b?Tm91dmVhdXTp?=
In-Reply-To: <20041204091203.4667.qmail@web60708.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20041204091203.4667.qmail@web60708.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1102281212.41b379fca70f7@webmail.mcgill.ca>

Djilali,
Merci de cette r?flexion.  Vous aurez peut-?tre int?r?t ? voir l'un des derniers
num?ros de la revue "Maghreb-Machrek" (No 178 - Hiver 2003-2004).  Tout le
num?ro est consacr? ? "L'internet arabe".
Vous lirez peut-?tre ?galement mon article, "La soci?t? de l'information et les
probl?mes de s?curit?" actuellement sous presse. Si cela vous dit, je vous le
ferai parvenir sur publication.
Mes meilleurs sentiments,
J. Archibald


Quoting djilali benamrane <dbenamrane@yahoo.com>:

> Excellente nouvelle,
> Mais, il serait souhaitable que l'Afrique ne soit pas
> comme toujours absente de telles initiatives et dans
> l'?tat actuel des choses il appartient ? la
> francophonie du Nord d'associer sa ou ses composantes
> du Sud.
> L'Afrique subsaharienne pourrait prendre un axe de
> r?flexion au m?me titre que le Magheb et ou l'Asie.
> Cela pourrait redonner un semblant de cr?dibilit? ?
> cette honnorable mais lamentablement inefficace
> institution, broy?e par la domination de l'anglais au
> sein m?me de ses rangs.
> Djilali
> --- Jak Archibald <james.archibald@mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
> >
> > Nouveaut?
> >
> > Le r?seau Lexicologie, Terminologie, Traduction,
> > l'un des r?seaux
> > th?matiques de recherches linguistiques de l'Agence
> > universitaire de la
> > Francophonie (AUF), annonce la publication de La
> > localisation,
> > probl?matique de la formation.   [
> > http://www.ltt.auf.org/books.html ]
> >
> >
> > Archibald, J. (dir.). La localisation, probl?matique
> > de la formation.
> > Montr?al : Linguatech ?diteur, 2004. ISBN :
> > 2-920342-45-2
> >
> > Description : Six sp?cialistes engag?s r?fl?chissent
> > ? la probl?matique
> > de la formation en localisation dans le monde
> > francophone.
> >
> > R?uni par le directeur de l'UFR en traduction de
> > l'Universit? McGill, ce
> > groupe de chercheurs, administrateurs et
> > traductologues se penche sur
> > diverses approches pratiqu?es dans l'?ducation des
> > localisateurs,
> > appliqu?es en Belgique, au Canada, en France et au
> > Qu?bec.  Dans un
> > premier temps, les auteurs t?moignent d'abord du
> > glissement de la t?che
> > du traducteur vers celle de localisateur dans un
> > monde marqu? par
> > l'internationalisation, la diversit? culturelle et
> > linguistique, ainsi
> > que l'informatisation des communications
> > interculturelles.
> >
> > Le constat est simple.  Traduire et adapter des
> > logiciels et des sites
> > Internet exigent des traducteurs-localisateurs un
> > ensemble de
> > comp?tences qui exc?dent largement la formation
> > traditionnelle en
> > traduction.  Plusieurs solutions sont envisag?es,
> > allant des simples
> > mises ? jour en classe ou ? distance ? de nouveaux
> > programmes de
> > premier, deuxi?me et troisi?me cycles. Ces derniers
> > visent la formation
> > d'une nouvelle classe de praticiens. Les enjeux de
> > cette pratique de la
> > localisation rel?vent de la ma?trise tant des
> > langues que des nouvelles
> > sciences de la communication.
> >
> > Cette r?flexion n?cessaire sur la localisation telle
> > qu'elle s'exerce
> > aujourd'hui nous aide ? mieux saisir le nouveau
> > profil exig? des
> > traducteurs-localisateurs.  Par la force des choses,
> > une telle r?flexion
> > interpelle ?galement les formateurs.
> >
> > Table des mati?res :
> >
> > ? La t?che du localisateur - James Archibald,
> > Universit? McGill
> > ? La formation en localisation ? l'universit? : pour
> > quoi faire ? - Jean
> > Quirion, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais
> > ? La localisation : un enjeu majeur pour une
> > pr?sence accrue des deux
> > langues officielles sur Internet - Dyane Adam,
> > Commissariat aux langues
> > officielles du Canada
> > ? Le bagage sp?cifique du localiseur/localisateur :
> > le vrai ? nouveau
> > profil ? requis - Daniel Gouadec, Universit? Rennes
> > 2
> > ? De l'adaptation ? la localisation publicitaire -
> > Mathieu Guid?re,
> > Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2 et CREC Saint-Cyr
> > ? Un mod?le didactique en ligne : LOCTRANS - Marie
> > Trincaretto, Institut
> > libre Marie Haps
> > ? Autour et au tour de la localisation :
> > perspectives et prospective -
> > Marc Charron, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais
> > ? Programmes de formation cit?s
> > ? Index des sujets
> > ? Index des noms propres
> >
> > Personne-ressource : Madame Lucie Dubuc, Linguatech
> > ?diteur inc., C.P.
> > 92012, Place Portobello, BROSSARD QC J4W 3K8,
> > Canada.
> > Courriel : lingua@ican.net
> > T?l. : 450.443.98.51
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From adavidziuk at yahoo.com  Mon Dec  6 06:09:44 2004
From: adavidziuk at yahoo.com (alejandra davidziuk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP [December 6, 2004]
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Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP [December 6, 2004]


PRESS RELEASES

PRIMER FORUM MUNDIAL DE LA INFORMACIÓN Y LA
COMUNICACIÓN
El Primer Foro Mundial de la Información y de la
Comunicación (FMIC) que tendrá lugar el 25 de enero,
se desarrolla en el espíritu de Porto Alegre, ya sea
por querer ser un espacio abierto, ya sea porque se va
a construir con los interesados presentes en el Foro
Social Mundial (FSM). Puede servir para que los miles
de periodistas que asisten al FSM puedan pasar un día
discutiendo con los otros interlocutores (sociedad
civil, sindicatos, investigadores), la situación de la
información y de la comunicación en el mundo. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/591/


WSIS

WORLD REGULATORS TO FOCUS ON LICENSING RULES,
BROADBAND
When the ITU's 2004 Global Symposium for Regulators
(GSR) opens next week in Geneva, it will be chaired by
a U.S. regulator for the first time – FCC Comr.
Kathleen Abernathy. Abernathy told us Mon. she's
approaching the session with an open mind. The U.S.
has much to learn from the discussions, for example,
as it struggles with changes to the universal service
fund system, said Abernathy, who has attended 2 other
GSRs. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/595/


CALL FOR SIDE-/COUNTER-EVENTS AROUND TUNIS WSIS 
Activists from Indymedia Beirut, with support from
other Indymedias in Africa / Europe / Middle East,
have issued a call for participation in planning side-
or counter-events around the WSIS in Tunis. They have
been particularly inspired by the recent European
Forum on Communication Rights and may think about
something along those lines. They are currently
contacting other media groups in the region. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/593/

POSITION DOCUMENT DRAFT OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY
DISCUSSION GROUP ON THE ICT FINANCE MECHANISMS 
Regarding the challenges generated by the
extraordinary emergence of the ICT which affect all
activity sectors, the international Community decided
to convene a world summit. The United Nations
Organization entrusted the UIT to lead the process.
Its preparation innovated, in particular in two
fields: on the one hand organizing the summit in two
phases and two places, the first in Geneva by the end
of 2003, the second in Tunis by the end of 2005, on
the other hand, the implication in addition to States
and their intergovernmental organization
representatives, private operators and civil company,
associated all the stages of the process.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/588/

REPORT ON THE TASK FORCE ON FINANCING MECHANISMS
MEETING
This report on the Task Force on Financing Mechanisms
meeting, held on November 29 in the UNDP Headquarters,
New York, is an unofficial report on proceedings
written by 
Rik Panganiban, Conference of NGOs.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/587/	

DEBATE: LA SEGUNDA FASE DE LA CMSI SERÁ “TORMENTOSA” -
DISPUTAS SOBRE LA FINANCIACIÓN SE ACELERARON DURANTE
UNA REUNIÓN DEL UN ICT TASK FORCE
 “Una vez más fue un representante de una ONG tuvo que
animar el debate. Roberto Bissio, Director del
Instituto del Tercer Mundo en Uruguay y hablando en
representación de la Asociación para el Progreso de
las Comunicaciones (APC), dejo claro que debería ser
perfectamente aceptable subsidiar la conectividad en
países en desarrollo. El gobierno de EEUU subsidió a
internet durante 20 años y ganó millones en dinero y
exportaciones más tarde por ello”. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/586/

DEBATE: WSIS PHASE TWO WILL BE "STORMY" - DISPUTE OVER
FINANCING WAS STEPPED UP AT UN ICT TASK FORCE MEETING
“It was an NGO representative again who had to kick
off a more lively debate. Roberto Bissio, Director of
the Third World Institute in Uruguay and speaking on
behalf of the Association for Progressive
Communications (APC), made clear that should be
totally okay to subsidise connectivity in developing
countries. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/583/

GHANA TO HOST AFRICAN REGIONAL PREPARATORY CONFERENCE
OF WORLD SUMMIT ON INFORMATION SOCIETY 
 [Leopold L.L. Armah] Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Chief
Executive of the Commonwealth Telecommunications
Organisation (CTO), last Wednesday met in Accra with
the Secretariat of the African Regional Preparatory
Conference for the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) to examine the preparations so far made
towards the hosting of the summit scheduled for Accra
in February next year. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/581/

CRIS CAMPAIGN AT THE ORBICOM CONFERENCE 
Invited to speak at the opening plenary of the Orbicom
conference on Media in Africa and the Arab World in
Marrakech, Steve Buckley, President, World Association
of Community Radio Broadcasters took the opportunity
to highlight the CRIS campaign and civil society
issues in WSIS. A copy of his intervention follows.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/579/


GENERAL INFORMATION

INFORME DE LA COMISIÓN VALECH SOBRE PRISIÓN POLÍTICA Y
TORTURA EN CHILE
Un informe esclarecedor de temas que parecen historia
de otro mundo, un mundo de tortura que no debería
haber tenido lugar. Hoy este raconto de sucesos nos
sirven para reflexionar y tomar conciencia. El tema de
la tortura en Chile comenzó a abrirse paso hacia la
opinión pública incluso antes de la creación de los
medios opositores de la década de 1970. La tortura
nunca dejó de estar en el centro de las denuncias.
Pero sólo gracias a la información recabada por la
Comisión Valech se ha logrado calibrar el alcance
efectivo de la tortura en la vida de miles de
personas. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/594/

INTERNET AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
A number of countries recently implemented a series of
measures aimed at tightening up Internet security
without realising that these very measures can
seriously restrict our use of certain services. Are we
trading our civil liberties for increased security?
Here's a broad look at the measures adopted in the
main European countries. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/592/

ICT TRADE AGREEMENTS
Free trade agreements have increasingly broadened
their scope of regulation concerning
telecommunications, under the pretext that these are
services just like any other. This has hindered the
access to communication and information as a
fundamental human right as the private sector gains
power through liberalization. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/590/

ACUERDOS COMERCIALES YTICS: ¿EL MERCADO TIENE LA
ÚLTIMA PALABRA?
El derecho a la comunicación y la información como
derecho humano fundamental, se ha visto crecientemente
amenazado por los acuerdos de libre comercio que, bajo
el pretexto de considerarlos servicios
comercializables como cualquier otro, regulan diversos
aspectos de las tecnologías de la información y la
comunicación (TIC).
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/589/

ITEM, URUGUAY: PARTICIPACIÓN EN FORO MINISTERIAL DE
AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE Y UNIÓN EUROPEA SOBRE LA
SOCIEDAD DE LA INFORMACIÓN
Se realizó en Río de Janeiro, Brasil, el III Foro
Ministerial América Latina y el Caribe y Unión Europea
sobre la Sociedad de la Información bajo el lema "Una
Alianza para la Cohesión Social a través de la
Inclusión Digital". 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/585/

ITEM, URUGUAY: PARTICIPATION IN THE LATIN AMERICAN AND
CARIBBEAN – EUROPEAN UNION MINISTERIAL FORUM ON THE
INFORMATION SOCIETY
The III Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) – European
Union (EU) Ministerial Forum on the Information
Society: An Alliance for Social Cohesion through
Digital Inclusion, was held in Rio de Janeiro on 22
and 23 November 2004. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/582/

AUSTRALASIAN ICT RIGHTS MONITOR REBUILD
c2o, an APC member in Australia, has completely
redesigned the Australian ICT policy website following
huge interest in the region. The site now supports
multiple authors, has improved its readability and has
integrated XML news feeds. c2o/Toy Satellite will be
promoting the new Australasian ICT Rights Monitor
through APC.au, the organisation that founded c2o and
manages Toy Satellite's projects and reporting. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/584/


¿QUIERE PARTICIPAR? FIRME LA CARTA DE CRIS
Nuestra visión de la Sociedad de la Información se
fundamenta en el Derecho a Comunicar como un medio de
acrecentar los derechos humanos y fortalecer la vida
social, económica y cultural de las personas y las
comunidades. Para lograrlo, resulta fundamental que
las organizaciones de la sociedad civil se unan para
cooperar en la construcción de una sociedad de la
información basada en principios de transparencia,
diversidad, participación, justicia social y
económica, e inspiradas por la equidad de género y las
perspectivas culturales y regionales. Lo invitamos a
conocer más sobre la Campaña de CRIS y a participar
firmando la Carta de CRIS: 
http://scripts.planetgrey.org/cris/sign_charter_form.html
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/97/ 

LA CHARTE DE CRIS
Notre vision de la «société de l’information» est
basée sur le droit de communiquer qui est considéré
comme un moyen pour étendre les droits de l’homme et
améliorer la vie sociale, économique et culturelle des
personnes et des communautés. Pour cela, il est
essentiel que les organisations de la société civile
se réunissent afin d’aider à la construction d’une
société de l’information basée sur les principes de
transparence, de diversité, de participation et de
justice économique et sociale et inspirée par une
approche équitable du rapport des sexes, de la culture
et des aspects régionaux.
http://scripts.planetgrey.org/cris/sign_charter_form.html
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/95/

WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET INVOLVED? ENDORSE THE CRIS
CHARTER
Our vision of the 'Information Society' is grounded in
the Right to Communicate, as a means to enhance human
rights and to strengthen the social, economic and
cultural lives of people and communities. Crucial to
this is that civil society organisations come together
to help build an information society based on
principles of transparency, diversity, participation
and social and economic justice, and inspired by
equitable gender, cultural and regional perspectives.
We invite you to read more about CRIS Campaign and get
involved endorsing the CRIS Chapter:
http://scripts.planetgrey.org/cris/sign_charter_form.html
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/98/ 

READ MORE / LEA MAS / LISEZ PLUS
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From: lists at mraihi.com (Marouen MRAIHI)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New measures taken in Tunisia to promote new information technologies
Message-ID: <093401c4db84$439b8c50$6bfaa8c0@MAROUEN>

Notes: 
- Fran?ais ? la suite 
- 1 Tunisian Dinar = 0.8 US$ 
_________________________________________

Several decisions were taken today in Tunisia towards promoting new information technologies. The decisions were announced at the end of the meeting which was dedicated to "the discussion of the means of implementing the goals of President Ben Ali's 2004 electoral program as regards establishing the bases for a knowledge-based economy," it was officially announced.
The new measures aim at reducing the cost of telephone service, promoting broadband internet connections and assisting NGO's and businesses involved in new information technologies. They include:
. Reducing home telephone subscription fees, immediately, from 60 to 20 dinars and abolishing the subscription fees for any second telephone line. 
. Totally abolishing telephone subscription fees by 2009. 
. Reducing telephone subscription fees for rural area networks from 60 to 20 dinars. 
. Ensuring that each citizen possesses an e-mail address by 2009. 
. Ensuring a two-fold increase of the country's current connection capacity by the end of 2005. 
. Generalizing access to ADSL broadband connections across the country. 
. Launching 100 new public internet centers (publinets) by the end of 2005. 
. Subsidizing the cost of new information technology projects to a 50% level (for projects that have a cost of no more than 10,000 dinars). 
. Annual allocation of a 5,000-dinar subsidy to 50 associations involved in the promotion of new information technologies. 
. Providing 100 associations involved in assistance, training and support to activities related to computer recycling and distribution. 
The promotion of new information technologies is a crucial component of President Ben Ali's policies.
Tunisia will be hosting the second phase of the World Sumit on the Information Society in November 16-18, 2005.

________________________

Dans le cadre de la concr?tisation des diff?rents points du programme ?lectoral pr?sidentiel, le Chef de l'Etat a pr?sid? un Conseil minist?riel consacre ? l'examen des moyens d'assurer la mise en oeuvre du volet relatif ? l'am?nagement d'une plateforme favorable ? l'?dification de l'?conomie du savoir. 
Au d?but des travaux, le Pr?sident Zine El Abidine Ben Ali a soulign? l'imp?ratif de gagner le pari de l'?conomie du savoir afin d'int?grer la Tunisie dans la carte mondiale de l'industrie de l'intelligence, de renforcer les opportunit?s d'investissement dans ce domaine porteur et de cr?er une nouvelle g?n?ration d'entreprises permettant de mettre ? contribution les comp?tences au service des sp?cialit?s de pointe. 
Le Conseil a pass? en revue la situation du secteur des technologies de la communication aux plans de l'infrastructure et du d?veloppement des r?seaux ainsi qu'en mati?re de services et de leur adaptation aux besoins et exigences de l'?conomie du savoir, et du renforcement de l'employabilit? dans ces secteurs. 
Dans ce cadre, le Conseil a arr?t? les mesures suivantes : 
- Abaisser, ? partir d'aujourd'hui, de 60 ? 20 dinars, les frais d'abonnement au r?seau de t?l?phonie fixe et supprimer totalement les frais d'abonnement familial pour une deuxi?me ligne, dans la perspective de supprimer totalement l'ensemble de ces frais a l'horizon 2009. 
- Abaisser, ? partir d'aujourd'hui, de 60 a 20 dinars, les frais d'abonnement au r?seau de t?l?phonie rurale. 
- Supprimer, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, les frais d'abonnement au r?seau num?rique ? int?gration de services (Rnis). 
- Elaborer une ?tude sur le co?t des communications t?l?phoniques et de la transmission des donn?es, de mani?re ? l'adapter aux exigences de la comp?titivit? de l'entreprise ?conomique. 
- Relier, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, le p?le technologique d'El Ghazala et les centres r?gionaux de t?l?travail d?j? existants, au moyen d'un r?seau intranet, les connecter au r?seau Internet et am?liorer leur contenu informatif et de services. 
- Consolider la connexion de la Tunisie au r?seau Internet avant la fin de l'ann?e 2005 dans le but de garantir une connexion ? haut d?bit. 
- Oeuvrer, progressivement et avant la fin de 2009, ? offrir ? chaque citoyen la possibilit? de disposer d'une adresse ?lectronique lui permettant d'entrer en contact, ? distance, avec l'administration et les entreprises. 
- Doubler, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, la capacit? actuelle de connexion au r?seau Internet. 
- Renforcer la capacit? du r?seau national structure de l'internet afin d'augmenter la bande passante et ?laborer une ?tude technique sur les moyens de faciliter la fluidit? du trafic sur le r?seau Internet, de mani?re ? garantir la qualit? requise de l'acc?s aux services disponibles, conform?ment aux normes et standards en vigueur dans le monde. 
- Acc?l?rer la g?n?ralisation du haut d?bit, ? travers le syst?me ADSL, ? tous les Chefs-lieux de gouvernorats. 
- Cr?er, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, cent nouveaux centres publics d'internet (publinet) repartis entre les diff?rentes r?gions du pays. 
- Entamer, imm?diatement, la proc?dure visant ? permettre aux promoteurs dans les secteurs des technologies de la communication de b?n?ficier d'une subvention de 50 pc du co?t du projet avec un plafond de 10.000 dinars et abaisser de 70 pc, durant les deux premi?res ann?es du d?marrage du projet, les frais de connexion des publinets cr?es dans les petites agglom?rations. 
- Faire b?n?ficier 25 jeunes promoteurs de projets dans les technologies de l'information et de la communication dans les zones rurales d'une subvention de 50 pc du co?t du projet avec un plafond de 10 mille dinars. 
- Cr?er, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, trois nouveaux centres de t?l?travail dans les gouvernorats int?rieurs. 
- Allouer, annuellement, une subvention de 5 mille dinars ? 50 associations oeuvrant dans le domaine de la diffusion de la culture num?rique reparties entre les diff?rents gouvernorats. 
- Accorder, dans le cadre de contrats-programmes, une subvention de 5 mille dinars ? 100 associations actives dans les domaines de la formation et de l'encadrement, ainsi qu'en mati?re de soutien du programme de recyclage et de distribution des ordinateurs.

Le Pr?sident de la R?publique a recommand? d'assurer le suivi de la concr?tisation de ces mesures et de garantir toutes les conditions propices afin d'encourager les diff?rentes parties concern?es, en particulier les jeunes, ? adh?rer ? ces programmes, de mani?re ? atteindre les objectifs escompt?s dont notamment la g?n?ralisation de l'utilisation des technologies de l'information et de la communication et leur mise ? contribution dans l'?conomie du savoir, dans les diff?rentes r?gions du pays, afin d'impulser les cr?ations d'emploi dans ces secteurs strat?giques.

Source : http://www.smsitunis2005.org/plateforme/detail.php?id=283

Marouen MRAIHI 
WSIS Youth Caucus - Tunisia
http://www.wsisyouth.org
http://www.mraihi.com 
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Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New measures taken in Tunisia to promote new information technologies
Message-ID: <093401c4db84$439b8c50$6bfaa8c0@MAROUEN>

Notes: 
- Fran?ais ? la suite 
- 1 Tunisian Dinar = 0.8 US$ 
_________________________________________

Several decisions were taken today in Tunisia towards promoting new information technologies. The decisions were announced at the end of the meeting which was dedicated to "the discussion of the means of implementing the goals of President Ben Ali's 2004 electoral program as regards establishing the bases for a knowledge-based economy," it was officially announced.
The new measures aim at reducing the cost of telephone service, promoting broadband internet connections and assisting NGO's and businesses involved in new information technologies. They include:
. Reducing home telephone subscription fees, immediately, from 60 to 20 dinars and abolishing the subscription fees for any second telephone line. 
. Totally abolishing telephone subscription fees by 2009. 
. Reducing telephone subscription fees for rural area networks from 60 to 20 dinars. 
. Ensuring that each citizen possesses an e-mail address by 2009. 
. Ensuring a two-fold increase of the country's current connection capacity by the end of 2005. 
. Generalizing access to ADSL broadband connections across the country. 
. Launching 100 new public internet centers (publinets) by the end of 2005. 
. Subsidizing the cost of new information technology projects to a 50% level (for projects that have a cost of no more than 10,000 dinars). 
. Annual allocation of a 5,000-dinar subsidy to 50 associations involved in the promotion of new information technologies. 
. Providing 100 associations involved in assistance, training and support to activities related to computer recycling and distribution. 
The promotion of new information technologies is a crucial component of President Ben Ali's policies.
Tunisia will be hosting the second phase of the World Sumit on the Information Society in November 16-18, 2005.

________________________

Dans le cadre de la concr?tisation des diff?rents points du programme ?lectoral pr?sidentiel, le Chef de l'Etat a pr?sid? un Conseil minist?riel consacre ? l'examen des moyens d'assurer la mise en oeuvre du volet relatif ? l'am?nagement d'une plateforme favorable ? l'?dification de l'?conomie du savoir. 
Au d?but des travaux, le Pr?sident Zine El Abidine Ben Ali a soulign? l'imp?ratif de gagner le pari de l'?conomie du savoir afin d'int?grer la Tunisie dans la carte mondiale de l'industrie de l'intelligence, de renforcer les opportunit?s d'investissement dans ce domaine porteur et de cr?er une nouvelle g?n?ration d'entreprises permettant de mettre ? contribution les comp?tences au service des sp?cialit?s de pointe. 
Le Conseil a pass? en revue la situation du secteur des technologies de la communication aux plans de l'infrastructure et du d?veloppement des r?seaux ainsi qu'en mati?re de services et de leur adaptation aux besoins et exigences de l'?conomie du savoir, et du renforcement de l'employabilit? dans ces secteurs. 
Dans ce cadre, le Conseil a arr?t? les mesures suivantes : 
- Abaisser, ? partir d'aujourd'hui, de 60 ? 20 dinars, les frais d'abonnement au r?seau de t?l?phonie fixe et supprimer totalement les frais d'abonnement familial pour une deuxi?me ligne, dans la perspective de supprimer totalement l'ensemble de ces frais a l'horizon 2009. 
- Abaisser, ? partir d'aujourd'hui, de 60 a 20 dinars, les frais d'abonnement au r?seau de t?l?phonie rurale. 
- Supprimer, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, les frais d'abonnement au r?seau num?rique ? int?gration de services (Rnis). 
- Elaborer une ?tude sur le co?t des communications t?l?phoniques et de la transmission des donn?es, de mani?re ? l'adapter aux exigences de la comp?titivit? de l'entreprise ?conomique. 
- Relier, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, le p?le technologique d'El Ghazala et les centres r?gionaux de t?l?travail d?j? existants, au moyen d'un r?seau intranet, les connecter au r?seau Internet et am?liorer leur contenu informatif et de services. 
- Consolider la connexion de la Tunisie au r?seau Internet avant la fin de l'ann?e 2005 dans le but de garantir une connexion ? haut d?bit. 
- Oeuvrer, progressivement et avant la fin de 2009, ? offrir ? chaque citoyen la possibilit? de disposer d'une adresse ?lectronique lui permettant d'entrer en contact, ? distance, avec l'administration et les entreprises. 
- Doubler, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, la capacit? actuelle de connexion au r?seau Internet. 
- Renforcer la capacit? du r?seau national structure de l'internet afin d'augmenter la bande passante et ?laborer une ?tude technique sur les moyens de faciliter la fluidit? du trafic sur le r?seau Internet, de mani?re ? garantir la qualit? requise de l'acc?s aux services disponibles, conform?ment aux normes et standards en vigueur dans le monde. 
- Acc?l?rer la g?n?ralisation du haut d?bit, ? travers le syst?me ADSL, ? tous les Chefs-lieux de gouvernorats. 
- Cr?er, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, cent nouveaux centres publics d'internet (publinet) repartis entre les diff?rentes r?gions du pays. 
- Entamer, imm?diatement, la proc?dure visant ? permettre aux promoteurs dans les secteurs des technologies de la communication de b?n?ficier d'une subvention de 50 pc du co?t du projet avec un plafond de 10.000 dinars et abaisser de 70 pc, durant les deux premi?res ann?es du d?marrage du projet, les frais de connexion des publinets cr?es dans les petites agglom?rations. 
- Faire b?n?ficier 25 jeunes promoteurs de projets dans les technologies de l'information et de la communication dans les zones rurales d'une subvention de 50 pc du co?t du projet avec un plafond de 10 mille dinars. 
- Cr?er, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, trois nouveaux centres de t?l?travail dans les gouvernorats int?rieurs. 
- Allouer, annuellement, une subvention de 5 mille dinars ? 50 associations oeuvrant dans le domaine de la diffusion de la culture num?rique reparties entre les diff?rents gouvernorats. 
- Accorder, dans le cadre de contrats-programmes, une subvention de 5 mille dinars ? 100 associations actives dans les domaines de la formation et de l'encadrement, ainsi qu'en mati?re de soutien du programme de recyclage et de distribution des ordinateurs.

Le Pr?sident de la R?publique a recommand? d'assurer le suivi de la concr?tisation de ces mesures et de garantir toutes les conditions propices afin d'encourager les diff?rentes parties concern?es, en particulier les jeunes, ? adh?rer ? ces programmes, de mani?re ? atteindre les objectifs escompt?s dont notamment la g?n?ralisation de l'utilisation des technologies de l'information et de la communication et leur mise ? contribution dans l'?conomie du savoir, dans les diff?rentes r?gions du pays, afin d'impulser les cr?ations d'emploi dans ces secteurs strat?giques.

Source : http://www.smsitunis2005.org/plateforme/detail.php?id=283

Marouen MRAIHI 
WSIS Youth Caucus - Tunisia
http://www.wsisyouth.org
http://www.mraihi.com 
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From: lists at mraihi.com (Marouen MRAIHI)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Baseline CS requirements for Tunis Summit
References: <20041203161257.25877.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com> <CBD1DD42-4547-11D9-88C4-000A9575083C@earthlink.net>
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We also need a media center for CS (at least some of CS members) to make it
easier the work of translators and for making copies of the documents
without having to ask favours from ES bureau

Marouen


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Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Baseline CS requirements for Tunis Summit


Ah zut, c'est vrai.  C'est un bon point.  Merci.

Au minimum, nous avons besoin de la disponsibilit? d'une systeme de
tradduction electronique (ecouteurs, micros, etc.) et une cadre des
interpretes voluntaires de Francais a Anglais pour les reunions de
societe civile.  Aussi une systeme pour les tradduciones de documents
sera important.

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

Damn, that's true.  It's a good point, thanks.

At a minimum, we need the availability of an electronic interpretation
system (headsets, microphones, etc.) and a team of volunteer
interpreters from English-French for the civil society meetings. Also a
system for the translation of written documents will be important.

rik




From lists at mraihi.com  Mon Dec  6 16:39:46 2004
From: lists at mraihi.com (Marouen MRAIHI)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Minutes of the 4th annual private sector cooperation meeting in the Arab region
References: <20041203161257.25877.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com> <CBD1DD42-4547-11D9-88C4-000A9575083C@earthlink.net> <09db01c4db8f$be161120$6bfaa8c0@MAROUEN>
Message-ID: <0c9801c4dbb2$36f0d130$6bfaa8c0@MAROUEN>

There are some quick minutes I took during the 4th annual private sector
cooperation meeting in the Arab region organized by the ITU Arabic regional
office (Egypt) and the National frequencies Agency (Tunisia) in Tunis from
November 30 to December 2nd. I wasn't able to attend all the sessions but I'
ve chosen some where I can find some useful information for the Civil
society.

http://www.mraihi.com/blog/index.php?2004/12/06/10

Regards

Marouen MRAIHI
WSIS Youth Caucus - Tunisia
http://www.wsisyouth.org
http://www.mraihi.com



From karenb at gn.apc.org  Mon Dec  6 18:27:54 2004
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Press Release: Jambo OpenOffice - Swahili Free and Open Source
 Software.
Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.0.20041206182710.0535dd90@pop.gn.apc.org>

Dear all,

Please find below information about the the Open Swahili Localisation 
Project - and the first ever release of a free office suite software in 
swahili - "Jambo OpenOffice"

Feel free to distribute widely..

karen

    SUMMARY
    http://www.o.ne.tz - http://www.kilinux.org

    Because it could be done, we play our part!
    Swahili Free and Open Source Software.

    Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,
    As  the  Father  of  Tanzania, the late Mwalimu Nyerere will always be
    remembered by his famous saying: "It can be done; play your part".

    Today,  4th December 2004, The Open Swahili Localization Project, also
    known  as  Kilinux,  is  proud to announce the first ever release of a
    free office suite software in Swahili, called "Jambo OpenOffice."

    Jambo  OpenOffice  is the Swahili version of OpenOffice.org, a leading
    international  effort  to  provide a free and open source office suite
    based  on  open standards and capable of running on all major computer
    platforms.

    This   pioneering  effort  is  funded  by  the  Swedish  International
    Development  Agency (SIDA) and The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM).
    It  is  coordinated  by  the  Department  of  Computer Science (UDSM),
    Institute  of  Kiswahili  Research  (IKR)  and the Swedish consultancy
    company IT+46. The project does not only aim to localize free and open
    source  software  into  Swahili,  but  also to create awareness of the
    benefits of using and extending free software.

    For more information: info@kilinux.org

    FULL PRESS RELEASE in english, swahili, spanish, swedish, catalan,
    and french
    http://www.o.ne.tz
    http://www.kilinux.org


    Main project coordinator, UDSM
    Dr. Hashim Twaakyondo
    Email:htwaaky@cs.udsm.ac.tz
    Phone: +255 22 24 10 657 (office), +255 744 386261 (mobile)

    Technical project coordinator, IT +46
    Dr. Alberto Escudero Pascual
    Email: aep@it46.se
    Phone: +255 745 88 40 04

    ICT Project Manager, SIDA
    Jens Nilsen
    Email: jens.nilsen@sida.se
    Phone: +255 22 21 22 235 (office), +255 744 44 44 80 (mobile)


From rikp at earthlink.net  Mon Dec  6 16:05:46 2004
From: rikp at earthlink.net (Rik Panganiban)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Position paper draft
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References: <20041205202757.94750.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>
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Djilali,

Merci pour cette "position paper" en anglais.  Est-ce que tu peut 
envoyer le document en fran?ais aussi?  J'ai des problemes de 
comprehension, mais peut-etr? en fran?ais sera plus clair.

Juste deux commentaires, en anglais malhereusement......

Thanks for this position paper.  Can you send it in French also?  I am 
having problems understanding it, but perhaps the french will be more 
clear.

Just a couple of comments:

*	Role of Civil Society in Financing Issues:  There appears to be some 
confusion within the TFFM on the role and contributions of civil 
society to the financing of ICTs, viewed by many largely as an issue 
among governments, the private sector and multilateral development 
banks.  The sole role identified by members of the Task Force for civil 
society was an "implementer" and recipient of ICT funding.  Does civil 
society also finance independently ICT development?  How can this be 
measured and evaluated?  More clarity on this issue would be 
appreciated.

*	Prioritizing the Gaps. Given the fact that there are many "digital 
divides" that need to be met, many marginalized communities, many 
regions with no meaningful access to ICTs, how can financing be 
targetted and prioritized to do the most good with limited resources?  
How can the gaps be mapped so that the most serious ones are addressed 
as a matter of urgency?

Regards,

Rik Panganiban

On Dec 5, 2004, at 3:27 PM, djilali benamrane wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> As promised, please find here after for your comments,
> the draft of a Position Paper aiming at clarifying our
> position arround 3 proposals of recommandations.
> This document has to be corrected and completed (sorry
> for my poor anglish.
> Djilali)
>
> POSITION DOCUMENT DRAFT OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY
> DISCUSSION GROUP ON THE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
> TECHNOLOGIES FINANCE MECHANISMS
> (Document of contribution to the debates in
> preparation of the SMSI - Phase II - Tunis, November
> 2005)
> (wsis-finance@yahoogroupes.fr)
>
> Back ground
>
> Regarding the challenges generated by the
> extraordinary emergence of the ITC which affect all
> activity sectors, the international Community decided
> to convene a world summit. The United Nations
> Organization entrusted the UIT to lead the process.
> Its preparation innovated, in particular in two
> fields: on the one hand organizing the summit in two
> phases and two places, the first in Geneva by the end
> of 2003, the second in Tunis by the end of 2005, on
> the other hand, the implication in addition to States
> and their intergovernmental organization
> representatives, private operators and civil company,
> associated all the stages of the process.
>
> 1 Results of the Geneva phase and challenges of the
> Tunis phase
>
>  It will be difficult to evaluate with objectivity the
> real performances of the Geneva phase of the WSIS as
> long as it is easy to justify now, that such or such
> raised insufficiency was foreseeable and raised from
> the beginning to be addressed, with implicit term of
> reference during the second phase. In Geneva, the
> objectives seemed clear: seeking ways and means to
> reduce the digital gap and to facilitate the access to
> communication and information technologies for
> development ITC/D. The participation was massive
> there, rather dedicated safety, poor interpretation
> and translation, officially denounced at the closing
> session by several governmental delegations.
> Emergence, consequent means and dynamism of the
> private operators dominated the exercise, supported
> and promoted by the UN-ITU, dedicating itself as ultra
> liberalism defender, in the spirit of the public
> private partnership (PPP). The civil society seems to
> be satisfied by the role assigned to her as an alibi
> in the greatest organized disorder and destitution, in
> conformity with the image of representation and
> defence of the interests of the great majority of the
> world population, surviving in misery and despair.
>
>
>
> The Geneva meeting have been a remarkable show, a fair
> during which the interests of the dominant private
> operators, architects of the globalisation process in
> general and "merchandization of the human relations
> were exposed and effectively defended in particular.
> The debates of the rare and relevant topics for the
> civil society were deferred for the meeting of Tunis
> such as those on the good governance, or the finance
> mechanisms of the strategies, policies and action
> plans for the promotion of information and
> communication for the development. The Tunis meeting
> could prove more difficulties than that of Geneva; so
> much the objective became fuzzier, more complex
> because having to lead to proposals specific,
> operational, verifiable, sanctionnables. The couple
> private operators - civil society showed its
> impertinence and the limits of a factitious
> interdependency. The credibility of the U.N. system in
> general and certain intergovernmental organizations in
> particular, has been severely degraded in the past.
> Tunis as a hosting place of the second phase of the
> WISIS Summit is disputed regarding the governmental
> policy and the deficit of the standards of good
> governance, respect of the human rights and freedom of
> access to the means of communication which prevail in
> this country.
>
> Draft of the recommendation N? 1 on the context of the
> Summit
>
> The various and relevant working groups of the civil
> society, trying to do their best in difficult
> conditions,  with insufficient and disparate means, to
> promote an concerted  position for the WSIS, must take
> into consideration the gravity of the world situation
> and unacceptable conditions of their implementation in
> the process. Contrary to the working groups of the
> governments, the intergovernmental organizations or
> the private operators, the groups of the civil society
> are the only ones not to have autonomous and
> sufficient means for a minimum implementation
> capacity. Their insidious and suicidal inclusion in
> such an approach promoted and brought into fashion by
> the U.N. System within the concept of the Private
> Public Partnership, whose ITU supported and which
> UNESCO has just followed with the recent agreement
> signed with Microsoft, constitutes a real danger of
> confusion and discredit. We support the proposal (see
> meeting of Berlin, November 18-20, 2004, on the ITC
> and development) of the German civil society to create
> a working group on the working methods of the civil
> society and request this working group to improve
> coherence of work and the self-sufficiency of its
> initiatives compared to the other partners implied in
> the WSIS process.
>
> 2
>   A requirement for a relevant assessment of the
> needs for financing before any examination of the
> mechanisms of mobilization and allowance of the
> resources.
>
> To have the ambition to examine the relevance and the
> effectiveness of the finance mechanisms existing or to
> be created for an adequate financing of the ITC for
> Development has a sense only if the volume of the
> indicative needs for financing were correctly
> appreciated. Do not displease any with those which
> minimize the challenge of the volume of the financing
> to the profit of a useful debate but secondary,
> focused on the only concerns of quality, exemplarity,
> facilities of control, follow-up and evaluation
> answering the only concerns of the donors, the
> procedures and mechanisms are only tools to carry out
> objectives. However these are the objectives which
> require and legitimate adequate means for their
> implementation, as soon as possible and at lower
> costs, under control of the international community
> and not of one of the parts.
>
> Draft of recommendation N? 2 on the imperative
> subordination of the evaluations of the mechanisms of
> financing to the clarification of the aimed
> objectives.
>
> The working groups of the civil society owe all
> however their fields of competence, to concentrate on
> the desirable contents of a world strategy of
> sustainable development of information and
> communication technologies aiming at the Sustainable
> Human Development. Each group in its field will have
> to argue on the relevance of the issue consisting in
> promoting the effective and universal access to the
> ITC/D like a basic right of satisfaction of an
> essential need, with information and the communication
> for the individual and collective development. This
> basic and essential right to be informed and to
> communicate is an indispensable condition of
> satisfaction of the other rights recognized by the
> Universal Declaration of the Human Rights and by the
> whole of the international institutions which govern
> the relations of the international community, that it
> acts of the right to dignity, education, health,
> sufficient alimentation, decent housing, with freedom
> or safety. One will never underline sufficiently but
> to defend his universal rights, the human being, in
> some situation where it is, must be able to be
> informed and to be able to communicate to denounce the
> insufficiencies, the dysfunctions even failures or
> abuses. Information and communication must be regarded
> as public goods on a worldwide scale (BPEM) and to be
> treated like such by the international community. The
> latter will have to make of it a criterion of
> qualification of world and or national good governance
> (for memory, several governmental delegations asked at
> the time of the meeting of Geneva on last 16 November,
> as well in the working group on the Finance mechanisms
> as in that of the friends of the president of the
> WSIS, so that the mandate of the debates in Tunis be
> able to be widened with these important aspects of
> approach of the ITC under the angle of public goods).
>
> 3
>   To privilege the requirements of relevant response
> to the correct satisfaction of the need of ITC/D,
> before being concerned with profits of the private
> operators suppliers of goods and services.
>
> If the civil society intends to be located in a vision
> of construction of a better world, of safety, progress
> and well shared welfare, it must promote another idea
> of universality and globalisation, another image of
> the planetary village to build. Such a vision
> encourages taking into consideration the Digital gap
> as a result of another gap, more global, which does
> not cease deepening, between populations living in the
> rich and poor countries. The objectives of the ITC are
> only one component of the broader objectives and more
> integrators of those relating to the urgency for the
> international community to answer the intolerable
> situations of poverty, misery and despair from which
> suffer its great majority, vegetating in the poor
> countries. The market and the interests of the private
> operators cannot constitute reliable solutions, able
> to satisfy the needs for access of the fragile, poor,
> rural or wedged populations. Logics of answers
> individual, local, national or regional are
> insufficient and the colossal needs which justify
> strategies of world regulation, for promoting huge
> programs of international co-operation and
> intersectorial development.
>
> Draft of recommendation N? 3 on the imperative
> subordination of the objectives of the ITC/D to those
> of the sustainable human development.
>
> The working group on the mechanisms of financing of
> the TIC/D, requires so that work of evaluation and
> proposal of the civil society, however their
> competences, must be confronted with those agreed by
> the competent authorities of the international
> community at the time of the preceding world summits,
> in particular those retained by Millennium (Objectives
> of the development of the Millennium, New York 2000).
> The finance mechanisms of the ITC must be in adequacy
> with those of the financing of under development and
> poverty. The initiatives of the Mutual aid funds such
> as Solidarity Digital Funds which abound, so useful
> are, have relevance only if they are registered and
> consolidate the finance mechanisms of under
> development and more especially those having to check
> than engagements of government aid to development, or
> Official Development Assistance (ODA), are sufficient
> and are respected by the governments of the rich
> countries. Within these quantifiable and verifiable
> volumes of financing, the development of the ITC/D,
> articulated with that of the other branches of
> activities, should have the mechanisms, likely to
> exist already, even if they must be the subject of
> consequent reform in their organization and their
> management, of mobilization and allowance of the
> resources, in the transparency and the respect of a
> world good governance which should take precedence
> over the conditionality of the bilateral and
> multilateral donors. The world good governance remains
> a concept to be created and the architecture of the
> leading institutions of the world is to be re-examined
> consequently. Deep system of the United Nations
> reforms that everyone waits will constitute an
> advisability to revise, gather and if necessary widen
> the mandates of the institution or institutions in
> charge with the ITC sector. By supporting the dominant
> multinationals of the ITC sector, the UN-ITU largely
> showed its incompetence as regards to international
> co-operation in telecommunications. On its side,
> UNESCO proved its inefficiency to defend its mandate
> as regards to information development and is satisfied
> to play a minor part in this issue. Other
> intergovernmental at international or regional levels
> and with various statutes have to be revisited for
> better coordinating and making the unit more coherent
> (the ONPI, the UCANN, Africa One, RASCOM, PANAFTEL,
> NEPAD, FSNs and others...).
>
> Elements of conclusion:
>
> The task is immense and the time insufficient from
> here to the Tunis Summit to transform these general
> analyses into proposals for actions. That means that
> the debates and combat will continue after Tunis and
> that will require the continuation of the mobilization
> of the civil society in the mechanisms of evaluation
> and follow-up of the decisions agreed upon at the time
> of the Tunis Summit.
>
> (Version N? 02 of December 5, 2004)
>
>
>
>
>
> =====
> Djilali Benamrane : dbenamrane@yahoo.com
> Tel/fax : (227) 75 35 09 BP 11207 - Niamey - Niger
> T?l/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
> Page web sur le SMSI (mecanismes de financement) : en cours de 
> construction
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> http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/
> Groupe de discussion: http://www.egroups.com/list/afriqueglobalization
>
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Mon Dec  6 21:53:02 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Position paper draft
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Cher Rik et les autres,
Merci de ces premiers commentaires, je commençais à
désespérer.
Le texte en français a été trransmis depuis une
semaine, je le copie ci-aprés.

PROJET DE DOCUMENT DE POSITION
DU GROUPE DE DISCUSSION DE LA SOCIETE CIVILE SUR LES
MECANISMES DE FINANCEMENT DES TECHNOLOGIES DE
L’INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION AU SERVICE DU
DEVELOPPEMENT

(Document de contribution aux débats en préparation du
SMSI – Phase II – Tunis, novembre 2005) 
(wsis-finance@yahoogroupes.fr)


Le contexte

Face aux défis générés par l’extraordinaire émergence
des Tics qui affectent l’ensemble des secteurs
d’activité, la Communauté internationale a décidé de
convoquer un sommet mondial pour en traiter.
L’organisation de ce sommet onusien a été confiée à
l’UIT. Sa préparation a innové, notamment en deux
domaines : d’une part la tenue du sommet en deux
phases et en deux lieux, la première fin 2003 à
Genève, la seconde fin 2005 à Tunis, d’autre part,
l’implication en plus des Etats et de leurs
organisations intergouvernementales, des opérateurs
privés et de la société civile, associés à toutes les
étapes du processus. 

1…  Résultats de la phase de Genève et enjeux de celle
de Tunis

Il sera difficile d’évaluer avec objectivité les
performances de la phase genevoise du SMSI tant il
vrai qu’il est facile à posteriori de justifier que
telle ou telle insuffisance relevée était prévisible
et relevait dés le départ des attributions implicites
de la seconde phase. A Genève, l’objectif semblait
clair, rechercher les voies et les moyens pour réduire
le fossé numérique et faciliter l’accès aux
technologies de l’information et de la communication
pour le développement TIC/D. La participation y fut
massive, la sécurité plutôt zélée, les services de
traduction et d’interprétation, médiocres puisque
dénoncés officiellement lors de la séance de clôture,
par plusieurs délégations gouvernementales.
L’émergence, les moyens conséquents mis en œuvre et le
dynamisme des opérateurs privés, promus par l’UIT
défenseur zélé de l’ultra libéralisme notamment aux
moyens du partenariat public – privé (PPP), ont dominé
l’exercice. La société civile semble se satisfaire du
rôle qui lui était assigné, celui de l’alibi dans le
plus grand désordre organisé et dans un dénuement
conforme à l’image de représentation et de défense des
intérêts de la grande majorité de la population
mondiale, survivant bien tant bien que mal dans la
misère et dans la désespérance.            
La rencontre de Genève aura été un remarquable show,
une foire durant laquelle les intérêts des opérateurs
privés dominants, architectes du processus de
globalisation en général et de marchandisation des
relations humaines en particulier, ont été savamment
exposés et efficacement défendus. Les débats des rares
thèmes porteurs pour la société civile, ont été
reportés pour la rencontre de Tunis dont ceux sur la
gouvernance ou sur les mécanismes de financement des
stratégies, politiques et programmes d’action pour la
promotion des technologies de l’information et de la
communication au service du développement.
La rencontre de Tunis pourrait s’avérer plus difficile
que celle de Genève, tant l’objectif est devenu plus
flou, plus complexe parce que devant déboucher sur des
propositions concrètes, opérationnelles, vérifiables,
sanctionnables. Le couple opérateurs privés – société
civile a montré son impertinence et les limites d'une
solidaire factice. La crédibilité du système onusien
en général et de certaines organisations
intergouvernementales en particulier, sévèrement
entamée par le passé, s'est encore dégradée. Tunis en
tant que lieu d’accueil de la seconde phase du sommet
est contesté au regard de la politique gouvernementale
et du déficit des normes de bonne gouvernance, de
respect des droits de l’homme et de liberté d’accès
aux moyens de communication qui prévalent dans ce
pays. 

Projet de recommandation N° 1 portant sur le contexte
du Sommet Mondial sur la société de l'information.

Les multiples groupes de travail de la société civile
œuvrant, tant bien que mal, avec des moyens
insuffisants et disparates, pour promouvoir une
position commune au SMSI doivent tirer les
enseignements de la gravité de la situation mondiale
et des conditions difficiles de leur fonctionnement.
Contrairement aux groupes de travail des
gouvernements, des organisations intergouvernementales
ou des opérateurs privés, les groupes de la société
civile sont les seules à ne pas disposer de moyens
autonomes et suffisants pour un fonctionnement
minimum. Leur inclusion insidieuse et suicidaire dans
une démarche promue par le concept onusien à la mode
du Partenariat Public privé dont l’UIT s’est faite le
chantre et que l’UNESCO vient de suivre avec le récent
accord signé avec Microsoft, constitue un réel danger
de confusion et de discrédit.     
Nous soutenons la proposition (rencontre de Berlin,
18-20 novembre 2004, sur les TICs et de développement)
de la société civile allemande de créer un groupe de
travail sur les méthodes de travail de la société
civile et donnons mandat à ce groupe de travail
d’améliorer la cohérence du travail et
l’autonomisation de ses initiatives par rapport aux
autres partenaires impliqués dans la préparation du
SMSI.

2…  Un impératif d'évaluation des besoins de
financement préalablement à l’examen des mécanismes de
mobilisation et d’allocation des ressources.

Avoir l’ambition d’examiner la pertinence et
l’efficacité des mécanismes existants ou à créer pour
un financement adéquat des TIC/D n’a de sens que si le
volume des besoins indicatifs de financement a été
correctement cerné. N’en déplaisent à ceux qui
minimisent le défi du volume du financement au profit
d’un débat utile mais secondaire, axé sur les seules
préoccupations de qualité, d’exemplarité, de facilités
de contrôle, de suivi et d’évaluation répondant aux
seules préoccupations des  donateurs, les procédures
et mécanismes ne sont que des outils pour réaliser des
objectifs. Or ce sont ces objectifs qui nécessitent et
légitiment des moyens adéquats pour leur réalisation,
dans les meilleurs délais et aux moindres coûts, sous
maîtrise de la communauté internationale et non d’une
des parties. 

Projet de recommandation N° 2 portant sur l’impérative
subordination des évaluations des mécanismes de
financement à la clarification et à l’explicitation
des objectifs poursuivis

Les groupes de travail de la société civile doivent
tous et quelques soient leurs domaines de compétence,
se concentrer sur le contenu souhaitable d’une
stratégie mondiale de développement durable des
technologies de l’information et de la communication
au service d’un développement humain durable. Chacun
des groupes en son domaine devra argumenter sur la
pertinence de la démarche consistant à promouvoir
l’accès effectif et universel aux TIC/D comme un droit
fondamental de satisfaction d’un besoin essentiel à
l’information et à la communication pour le
développement individuel et collectif. Ce droit
fondamental et essentiel d’être informé et de
communiquer est une condition sine qua non de
satisfaction des autres droits reconnus par la
Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme et par
l’ensemble des dispositifs qui régissent les relations
de la communauté internationale, qu’il s’agisse du
droit à la dignité, à l’éducation, à la santé, à
l'alimentation suffisante, à l'habitat décent, à la
liberté ou à la sécurité. On ne soulignera jamais
suffisamment que pour défendre ses droits universels,
l’être humain, dans quelque situation où il se trouve,
doit pouvoir être informé et pouvoir communiquer pour
dénoncer les insuffisances, les dysfonctionnements
voire les manquements ou les abus. Information et
communication doivent être considérées comme des biens
publics à l’échelle mondiale (BPEM) et être traitées
comme telles par la communauté internationale. Cette
dernière devra en faire un critère de qualification de
bonne gouvernance mondiale et nationale (pour mémoire,
plusieurs délégations gouvernementales ont demandé
lors de la rencontre de Genève le 16 novembre dernier,
aussi bien dans le groupe de travail sur les
mécanismes de financement que dans celui des amis du
président du SMSI, à ce que le mandat des débats à
Tunis puissent être élargi à ces aspects importants
d’approche des TICs sous l’angle de biens publics).

3…  Privilégier les impératifs de réponse pertinente à
la satisfaction correcte de la demande en TIC/D avant
de se préoccuper des profits des opérateurs
fournisseurs de biens et de services.

Si la société civile entend se situer dans une vision
de construction d’un monde meilleur, de sécurité, de
progrès et de bien être partagé, elle se doit de
promouvoir une autre idée de la mondialisation et de
la globalisation, une autre image du village
planétaire à édifier. Une telle démarche incite à
considérer le fossé numérique comme une résultante
d'un autre fossé, plus global, qui ne cesse de
s’approfondir entre populations vivant dans les pays
riches et pauvres.  Les objectifs des TICs ne sont
qu’une composante des objectifs plus larges et plus
intégrateurs de ceux relatifs à l’urgence pour la
communauté internationale à répondre aux situations
intolérables de pauvreté, de misère et de désespérance
dont souffrent sa grande majorité, végétant dans les
pays pauvres. Le marché et les intérêts des opérateurs
privés ne peuvent constituer des solutions fiables,
capables de satisfaire les besoins d’accès des
populations fragiles, pauvres, rurales ou enclavées.
Les logiques de réponses individuelles, locales,
nationales ou régionales sont insuffisantes et les
besoins colossaux qui justifient des stratégies de
régulation mondiale, pour une mise en œuvre de
programmes globaux de coopération internationale et de
développement intersectoriels.       

Projet de recommandation N° 3 portant sur l’impérative
subordination des objectifs des TIC/D à ceux du
développement humain durable.

Le groupe de travail sur les mécanismes de financement
des TIC/D, demande à ce que les travaux d’évaluation
et de proposition de la société civile, toutes
compétences confondues, se doivent d’être confrontés à
ceux convenus par les instances compétentes de la
communauté internationale lors des sommets mondiaux
précédents, notamment ceux retenus par le Millenium
(Objectifs du développement du Millénaire, New York
2000).  Les mécanismes de financement des TICs doivent
être en adéquation avec ceux du financement du sous
développement et de la pauvreté. Les initiatives du
genre Fonds de solidarité numérique qui foisonnent,
aussi utiles soient-elles, n’ont de pertinence que si
elles s’inscrivent et confortent les mécanismes de
financement du sous développement et plus spécialement
ceux devant vérifier que les engagements d’aide
publique au développement (APD) sont suffisants et
sont respectés par les gouvernements des pays riches.
Au sein de ces volumes de financement quantifiables et
vérifiables, le développement des TIC/D, articulé à
celui des autres secteurs d’activité, devrait disposer
des mécanismes, susceptibles d’exister déjà, même
s’ils doivent faire l’objet de reformes conséquentes
dans leur organisation et dans leur fonctionnement, de
mobilisation et d’allocation des ressources, dans la
transparence et dans le respect d’une bonne
gouvernance mondiale qui devrait primer sur les
conditionalités des donateurs bilatéraux et
multilatéraux. La bonne gouvernance mondiale reste un
concept à créer et l’architecture des institutions de
direction du monde, est à revoir en conséquence. La
reforme profonde du système des nations unies que tout
le monde attend, constituera une opportunité pour
réviser, regrouper et le cas échéant élargir les
mandats de l’institution ou des institutions en charge
du secteur des TICs. En se mettant au service des
multinationales dominantes du secteur, l’UIT a
largement démontré son incompétence en matière de
coopération internationale en télécommunications. De
son côté, l’UNESCO a prouvé son inefficacité à
défendre son mandat en matière de développement de
l’information et se contente de jouer un rôle mineur
dans ce sommet. D’autres organisations aux statuts
divers et à rayonnement régional ou sous régional
méritent d’être revisitées pour mieux coordonner et
rendre l’ensemble plus cohérent (l’ONPI, l’UCANN,
Africa One, RASCOM, PANAFTEL, NEPAD, FSNs et autres…
).

Eléments de conclusion :

La tâche est immense et les délais d’ici le sommet de
Tunis insuffisants pour transformer ces analyses
générales en propositions d’actions. Cela signifie que
les débats et combats se poursuivront après Tunis et
que cela nécessitera la poursuite de la mobilisation
de la société civile dans les mécanismes d’évaluation
et de suivi des décisions convenues lors du sommet.

 (Version 02 du 5décembre 2004)
 



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From phet at apdip.net  Tue Dec  7 02:28:09 2004
From: phet at apdip.net (Phet Sayo)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UNDP-APDIP selects Advisory Panel
Message-ID: <20041207023618.EC56D2A4005@mail.apdip.net>

>>Excellence, vision, creative diversity: supporting the quest for open,
>>inclusive and development-oriented Internet policies<<

Synopsis:
UNDP-APDIP selects Advisory Panel for its 'Open R	egional Dialogue on
Internet Governance'. Distinguished information and communication technology
and development policy experts from government, research, industry and civil
society from 13 countries in the Asia-Pacific to advise on Internet
governance policy priorities in the Asia-Pacific region

In more detail:
Kuala Lumpur, December  6, 2004


Making Internet governance work for human development

In October 2004 UNDP's Asia-Pacific Information Programme (APDIP) launched a
new initiative to strengthen the voice of stakeholders from the Asia-Pacific
in Internet governance and make ICT policy-making responsive to development
priorities. Upcoming activities of this Open Regional Dialogue on Internet
Governance (ORDIG) include a community-managed portal (www.igov.apdip.net)
for ICT policy-issues, surveys in more than 15 countries in the region to
identify priority concerns for further research and direct information
sharing with the UN Working Group on Internet Governance in the run-up to
the second part of the UN World Summit on the Information Society to be held
in Tunis in November 2005.


All these and many more activities are envisaged to be developed and
executed in close consultation with a multi-stakeholder Advisory Panel.

A tough choice

An open call for nominations to the Panel had attracted nearly one hundred
high quality expressions of interest. From this pool APDIP and its partners
have carefully selected a group of high-level experts that come from all
parts of the Asia-Pacific region and bring to the task the widest range of
experience and interest in ICT policy issues possible. "The choice was a
very difficult one", admits Shahid Akhtar, Regional Co-ordinator of APDIP,
"but the outcome is a unique mix of expertise, experience and backgrounds
that is as inclusive and creative as one would want the overall system of
Internet governance to be."

Panel members include senior public officials responsible for ICT
policy-making, eminent scholars and researchers from the Internet
development community, key representatives of civil society organizations
working on Internet governance issues and high-level Internet entrepreneurs
from the private sector. The Panel will be tasked to advise UNDP-APDIP on
all activities related to ORDIG and will carry out its work in online
consultations and face-to-face meetings. The individual members are:

- Izumi Aizu, Secretary, Internet Governance Task Force of Japan, Japan;
- Al Alegre, Coordinator, Foundation for Media Alternative, Philippines;
- Dr. R.K. Arora, Group Coordinator & Senior Director, Department of IT,
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, India;
- Sanjib Raj Bhandari, CEO, Mercantile Communications, Nepal;
- Valerie de Costa, Director, International Division, Infocomm Development
Authority of Singapore, Singapore;
- Dr. Gihan V Dias, Programme Director, Technology, Standards and
Compliance, ICT Agency, Computer Science and Eng. Dept. University of
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka;
- Thinley Dorji, Director, Bhutan Communications Authority, Bhutan;
- Dr. Thaweesak Koanantakool, Director, National Electronics and Computer
Technology Center, Thailand;
- Fuatai Purcell, Secretary, ICT advisor, Samoa National ICT Committee,
Samoa;
- Dr. Budi Rahardjo, Director of R&D, Center on Industry and Information
Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia;
- Dr. Masoud Shafiee, , Deputy Minister for ICT/Education and Research,
Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, Iran;
- Karaitiana Taiuru, Managing Director, Net Home Internet Solutions, New
Zealand;
- Yan Hongqiang, Deputy Director, Telecommunication Administration Bureau,
Minstry of Information Industry, People's Republic of China.

For further information on ORDIG, which receives support from the
International Development Research Centre and is a collaboration effort
between APDIP, UN-ESCAP, the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, Diplo
Foundation and the Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance, please
visit www.igov.apdip.net , or write to Dieter Zinnbauer at: dieter@apdip.net



From khaled.khelifi at ati.tn  Tue Dec  7 10:08:48 2004
From: khaled.khelifi at ati.tn (khaled khelifi)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New measures taken in Tunisia to promote new information technologies
References: <093401c4db84$439b8c50$6bfaa8c0@MAROUEN>
Message-ID: <003601c4dc44$c16d7740$23445fc1@khelifi>


Cher Marouen
C'est vraiement fabuleux, la Tunisie se pr?pare ? pas de g?ant au SMSI. Les derni?res d?cisions permettront de moderniser davantage l'infrastructure TIC dans le pays et d?velopperont les services offerts aux entreprises et aux particuliers.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marouen MRAIHI 
  To: plenary@wsis-cs.org 
  Cc: governance@lists.cpsr.org ; digitaldivide@milhouse.edc.org 
  Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:10 PM
  Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New measures taken in Tunisia to promote new information technologies


  Notes: 
  - Fran?ais ? la suite 
  - 1 Tunisian Dinar = 0.8 US$ 
  _________________________________________

  Several decisions were taken today in Tunisia towards promoting new information technologies. The decisions were announced at the end of the meeting which was dedicated to "the discussion of the means of implementing the goals of President Ben Ali's 2004 electoral program as regards establishing the bases for a knowledge-based economy," it was officially announced.
  The new measures aim at reducing the cost of telephone service, promoting broadband internet connections and assisting NGO's and businesses involved in new information technologies. They include:
  . Reducing home telephone subscription fees, immediately, from 60 to 20 dinars and abolishing the subscription fees for any second telephone line. 
  . Totally abolishing telephone subscription fees by 2009. 
  . Reducing telephone subscription fees for rural area networks from 60 to 20 dinars. 
  . Ensuring that each citizen possesses an e-mail address by 2009. 
  . Ensuring a two-fold increase of the country's current connection capacity by the end of 2005. 
  . Generalizing access to ADSL broadband connections across the country. 
  . Launching 100 new public internet centers (publinets) by the end of 2005. 
  . Subsidizing the cost of new information technology projects to a 50% level (for projects that have a cost of no more than 10,000 dinars). 
  . Annual allocation of a 5,000-dinar subsidy to 50 associations involved in the promotion of new information technologies. 
  . Providing 100 associations involved in assistance, training and support to activities related to computer recycling and distribution. 
  The promotion of new information technologies is a crucial component of President Ben Ali's policies.
  Tunisia will be hosting the second phase of the World Sumit on the Information Society in November 16-18, 2005.

  ________________________

  Dans le cadre de la concr?tisation des diff?rents points du programme ?lectoral pr?sidentiel, le Chef de l'Etat a pr?sid? un Conseil minist?riel consacre ? l'examen des moyens d'assurer la mise en oeuvre du volet relatif ? l'am?nagement d'une plateforme favorable ? l'?dification de l'?conomie du savoir. 
  Au d?but des travaux, le Pr?sident Zine El Abidine Ben Ali a soulign? l'imp?ratif de gagner le pari de l'?conomie du savoir afin d'int?grer la Tunisie dans la carte mondiale de l'industrie de l'intelligence, de renforcer les opportunit?s d'investissement dans ce domaine porteur et de cr?er une nouvelle g?n?ration d'entreprises permettant de mettre ? contribution les comp?tences au service des sp?cialit?s de pointe. 
  Le Conseil a pass? en revue la situation du secteur des technologies de la communication aux plans de l'infrastructure et du d?veloppement des r?seaux ainsi qu'en mati?re de services et de leur adaptation aux besoins et exigences de l'?conomie du savoir, et du renforcement de l'employabilit? dans ces secteurs. 
  Dans ce cadre, le Conseil a arr?t? les mesures suivantes : 
  - Abaisser, ? partir d'aujourd'hui, de 60 ? 20 dinars, les frais d'abonnement au r?seau de t?l?phonie fixe et supprimer totalement les frais d'abonnement familial pour une deuxi?me ligne, dans la perspective de supprimer totalement l'ensemble de ces frais a l'horizon 2009. 
  - Abaisser, ? partir d'aujourd'hui, de 60 a 20 dinars, les frais d'abonnement au r?seau de t?l?phonie rurale. 
  - Supprimer, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, les frais d'abonnement au r?seau num?rique ? int?gration de services (Rnis). 
  - Elaborer une ?tude sur le co?t des communications t?l?phoniques et de la transmission des donn?es, de mani?re ? l'adapter aux exigences de la comp?titivit? de l'entreprise ?conomique. 
  - Relier, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, le p?le technologique d'El Ghazala et les centres r?gionaux de t?l?travail d?j? existants, au moyen d'un r?seau intranet, les connecter au r?seau Internet et am?liorer leur contenu informatif et de services. 
  - Consolider la connexion de la Tunisie au r?seau Internet avant la fin de l'ann?e 2005 dans le but de garantir une connexion ? haut d?bit. 
  - Oeuvrer, progressivement et avant la fin de 2009, ? offrir ? chaque citoyen la possibilit? de disposer d'une adresse ?lectronique lui permettant d'entrer en contact, ? distance, avec l'administration et les entreprises. 
  - Doubler, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, la capacit? actuelle de connexion au r?seau Internet. 
  - Renforcer la capacit? du r?seau national structure de l'internet afin d'augmenter la bande passante et ?laborer une ?tude technique sur les moyens de faciliter la fluidit? du trafic sur le r?seau Internet, de mani?re ? garantir la qualit? requise de l'acc?s aux services disponibles, conform?ment aux normes et standards en vigueur dans le monde. 
  - Acc?l?rer la g?n?ralisation du haut d?bit, ? travers le syst?me ADSL, ? tous les Chefs-lieux de gouvernorats. 
  - Cr?er, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, cent nouveaux centres publics d'internet (publinet) repartis entre les diff?rentes r?gions du pays. 
  - Entamer, imm?diatement, la proc?dure visant ? permettre aux promoteurs dans les secteurs des technologies de la communication de b?n?ficier d'une subvention de 50 pc du co?t du projet avec un plafond de 10.000 dinars et abaisser de 70 pc, durant les deux premi?res ann?es du d?marrage du projet, les frais de connexion des publinets cr?es dans les petites agglom?rations. 
  - Faire b?n?ficier 25 jeunes promoteurs de projets dans les technologies de l'information et de la communication dans les zones rurales d'une subvention de 50 pc du co?t du projet avec un plafond de 10 mille dinars. 
  - Cr?er, au cours de l'ann?e 2005, trois nouveaux centres de t?l?travail dans les gouvernorats int?rieurs. 
  - Allouer, annuellement, une subvention de 5 mille dinars ? 50 associations oeuvrant dans le domaine de la diffusion de la culture num?rique reparties entre les diff?rents gouvernorats. 
  - Accorder, dans le cadre de contrats-programmes, une subvention de 5 mille dinars ? 100 associations actives dans les domaines de la formation et de l'encadrement, ainsi qu'en mati?re de soutien du programme de recyclage et de distribution des ordinateurs.

  Le Pr?sident de la R?publique a recommand? d'assurer le suivi de la concr?tisation de ces mesures et de garantir toutes les conditions propices afin d'encourager les diff?rentes parties concern?es, en particulier les jeunes, ? adh?rer ? ces programmes, de mani?re ? atteindre les objectifs escompt?s dont notamment la g?n?ralisation de l'utilisation des technologies de l'information et de la communication et leur mise ? contribution dans l'?conomie du savoir, dans les diff?rentes r?gions du pays, afin d'impulser les cr?ations d'emploi dans ces secteurs strat?giques.

  Source : http://www.smsitunis2005.org/plateforme/detail.php?id=283

  Marouen MRAIHI 
  WSIS Youth Caucus - Tunisia
  http://www.wsisyouth.org
  http://www.mraihi.com 
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Tue Dec  7 11:05:29 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UNDP-APDIP selects Advisory Panel
In-Reply-To: <20041207023618.EC56D2A4005@mail.apdip.net>
Message-ID: <20041207110529.59015.qmail@web60703.mail.yahoo.com>

En français ci-aprés
If there is a Continent in need to such an initiative
(UNDP-APDIP) it is Africa.
Why the UNDP African Bureau has not undertaken such an
approach ? Where are our great African leaders who are
promising so through NEPAD, Solidarity Digital Fund
(SDF) which means in French homeless Sans Domicile
Fixe ?
Even regional initiatives like the proposed one
UNDP-ADPIP has no relevance if it is not intergrated
in a global vision a new mechanism to collect and
allow finance for development in respect of
international cooperation and not in service of
private interests.
All the best
Djilali
S'il ya un continent dans le besoin et dans la
désespérance en ce domaine c'est bien l'Afrique.
Alors ne peut-on se demander que fait le Bureau du
PNUD pour l'Afrique et que font nos leaders divins du
NEPAD et des fonds de solidatiré numérique.
Cette initiative PNUD Région asir Pacifique me
réconforte dans ma conviction que l'approche régional
et ou sectorielle est contre productive et qu'il
faille d'abord résoudre le problème global du
développement et des mécanismes de mobilisation et
d'allocation des ressources pour le rattrappage des
pays en sous développement et non les initiatives
tendant à servir les profits des société privées
dominantes du secteur.
Bien à vous
Djilali 
--- Phet Sayo <phet@apdip.net> wrote:

> >>Excellence, vision, creative diversity: supporting
> the quest for open,
> >>inclusive and development-oriented Internet
> policies<<
> 
> Synopsis:
> UNDP-APDIP selects Advisory Panel for its 'Open R
> egional Dialogue on
> Internet Governance'. Distinguished information and
> communication technology
> and development policy experts from government,
> research, industry and civil
> society from 13 countries in the Asia-Pacific to
> advise on Internet
> governance policy priorities in the Asia-Pacific
> region
> 
> In more detail:
> Kuala Lumpur, December  6, 2004
> 
> 
> Making Internet governance work for human
> development
> 
> In October 2004 UNDP's Asia-Pacific Information
> Programme (APDIP) launched a
> new initiative to strengthen the voice of
> stakeholders from the Asia-Pacific
> in Internet governance and make ICT policy-making
> responsive to development
> priorities. Upcoming activities of this Open
> Regional Dialogue on Internet
> Governance (ORDIG) include a community-managed
> portal (www.igov.apdip.net)
> for ICT policy-issues, surveys in more than 15
> countries in the region to
> identify priority concerns for further research and
> direct information
> sharing with the UN Working Group on Internet
> Governance in the run-up to
> the second part of the UN World Summit on the
> Information Society to be held
> in Tunis in November 2005.
> 
> 
> All these and many more activities are envisaged to
> be developed and
> executed in close consultation with a
> multi-stakeholder Advisory Panel.
> 
> A tough choice
> 
> An open call for nominations to the Panel had
> attracted nearly one hundred
> high quality expressions of interest. From this pool
> APDIP and its partners
> have carefully selected a group of high-level
> experts that come from all
> parts of the Asia-Pacific region and bring to the
> task the widest range of
> experience and interest in ICT policy issues
> possible. "The choice was a
> very difficult one", admits Shahid Akhtar, Regional
> Co-ordinator of APDIP,
> "but the outcome is a unique mix of expertise,
> experience and backgrounds
> that is as inclusive and creative as one would want
> the overall system of
> Internet governance to be."
> 
> Panel members include senior public officials
> responsible for ICT
> policy-making, eminent scholars and researchers from
> the Internet
> development community, key representatives of civil
> society organizations
> working on Internet governance issues and high-level
> Internet entrepreneurs
> from the private sector. The Panel will be tasked to
> advise UNDP-APDIP on
> all activities related to ORDIG and will carry out
> its work in online
> consultations and face-to-face meetings. The
> individual members are:
> 
> - Izumi Aizu, Secretary, Internet Governance Task
> Force of Japan, Japan;
> - Al Alegre, Coordinator, Foundation for Media
> Alternative, Philippines;
> - Dr. R.K. Arora, Group Coordinator & Senior
> Director, Department of IT,
> Ministry of Communications and Information
> Technology, India;
> - Sanjib Raj Bhandari, CEO, Mercantile
> Communications, Nepal;
> - Valerie de Costa, Director, International
> Division, Infocomm Development
> Authority of Singapore, Singapore;
> - Dr. Gihan V Dias, Programme Director, Technology,
> Standards and
> Compliance, ICT Agency, Computer Science and Eng.
> Dept. University of
> Moratuwa, Sri Lanka;
> - Thinley Dorji, Director, Bhutan Communications
> Authority, Bhutan;
> - Dr. Thaweesak Koanantakool, Director, National
> Electronics and Computer
> Technology Center, Thailand;
> - Fuatai Purcell, Secretary, ICT advisor, Samoa
> National ICT Committee,
> Samoa;
> - Dr. Budi Rahardjo, Director of R&D, Center on
> Industry and Information
> Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia;
> - Dr. Masoud Shafiee, , Deputy Minister for
> ICT/Education and Research,
> Ministry of Information and Communications
> Technology, Iran;
> - Karaitiana Taiuru, Managing Director, Net Home
> Internet Solutions, New
> Zealand;
> - Yan Hongqiang, Deputy Director, Telecommunication
> Administration Bureau,
> Minstry of Information Industry, People's Republic
> of China.
> 
> For further information on ORDIG, which receives
> support from the
> International Development Research Centre and is a
> collaboration effort
> between APDIP, UN-ESCAP, the Asia Pacific Network
> Information Centre, Diplo
> Foundation and the Open Regional Dialogue on
> Internet Governance, please
> visit www.igov.apdip.net , or write to Dieter
> Zinnbauer at: dieter@apdip.net
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Tue Dec  7 11:20:33 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Nouveauté
In-Reply-To: <1102281212.41b379fca70f7@webmail.mcgill.ca>
Message-ID: <20041207112033.5776.qmail@web60702.mail.yahoo.com>

Merci James,
Je suis preneur de toutes informations sur le sujet et
mon plus grand espoir c'est d'être démenti par des
faits et des actes, tant il est vrai que nous
participons tous consciemment ou non à la
rationalisation et à la vulgarisation des idées
dominantes à tous les niveaux et ce faisant le Sud se
meurt dans l'indifférence.
Bien à vous
Djilali 
--- james.archibald@staff.mcgill.ca wrote:

> Djilali,
> Merci de cette réflexion.  Vous aurez peut-être
> intérêt à voir l'un des derniers
> numéros de la revue "Maghreb-Machrek" (No 178 -
> Hiver 2003-2004).  Tout le
> numéro est consacré à "L'internet arabe".
> Vous lirez peut-être également mon article, "La
> société de l'information et les
> problèmes de sécurité" actuellement sous presse. Si
> cela vous dit, je vous le
> ferai parvenir sur publication.
> Mes meilleurs sentiments,
> J. Archibald
> 
> 
> Quoting djilali benamrane <dbenamrane@yahoo.com>:
> 
> > Excellente nouvelle,
> > Mais, il serait souhaitable que l'Afrique ne soit
> pas
> > comme toujours absente de telles initiatives et
> dans
> > l'état actuel des choses il appartient à la
> > francophonie du Nord d'associer sa ou ses
> composantes
> > du Sud.
> > L'Afrique subsaharienne pourrait prendre un axe de
> > réflexion au même titre que le Magheb et ou
> l'Asie.
> > Cela pourrait redonner un semblant de crédibilité
> à
> > cette honnorable mais lamentablement inefficace
> > institution, broyée par la domination de l'anglais
> au
> > sein même de ses rangs.
> > Djilali
> > --- Jak Archibald <james.archibald@mcgill.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Nouveauté
> > >
> > > Le réseau Lexicologie, Terminologie, Traduction,
> > > l'un des réseaux
> > > thématiques de recherches linguistiques de
> l'Agence
> > > universitaire de la
> > > Francophonie (AUF), annonce la publication de La
> > > localisation,
> > > problématique de la formation.   [
> > > http://www.ltt.auf.org/books.html ]
> > >
> > >
> > > Archibald, J. (dir.). La localisation,
> problématique
> > > de la formation.
> > > Montréal : Linguatech éditeur, 2004. ISBN :
> > > 2-920342-45-2
> > >
> > > Description : Six spécialistes engagés
> réfléchissent
> > > à la problématique
> > > de la formation en localisation dans le monde
> > > francophone.
> > >
> > > Réuni par le directeur de l'UFR en traduction de
> > > l'Université McGill, ce
> > > groupe de chercheurs, administrateurs et
> > > traductologues se penche sur
> > > diverses approches pratiquées dans l'éducation
> des
> > > localisateurs,
> > > appliquées en Belgique, au Canada, en France et
> au
> > > Québec.  Dans un
> > > premier temps, les auteurs témoignent d'abord du
> > > glissement de la tâche
> > > du traducteur vers celle de localisateur dans un
> > > monde marqué par
> > > l'internationalisation, la diversité culturelle
> et
> > > linguistique, ainsi
> > > que l'informatisation des communications
> > > interculturelles.
> > >
> > > Le constat est simple.  Traduire et adapter des
> > > logiciels et des sites
> > > Internet exigent des traducteurs-localisateurs
> un
> > > ensemble de
> > > compétences qui excèdent largement la formation
> > > traditionnelle en
> > > traduction.  Plusieurs solutions sont
> envisagées,
> > > allant des simples
> > > mises à jour en classe ou à distance à de
> nouveaux
> > > programmes de
> > > premier, deuxième et troisième cycles. Ces
> derniers
> > > visent la formation
> > > d'une nouvelle classe de praticiens. Les enjeux
> de
> > > cette pratique de la
> > > localisation relèvent de la maîtrise tant des
> > > langues que des nouvelles
> > > sciences de la communication.
> > >
> > > Cette réflexion nécessaire sur la localisation
> telle
> > > qu'elle s'exerce
> > > aujourd'hui nous aide à mieux saisir le nouveau
> > > profil exigé des
> > > traducteurs-localisateurs.  Par la force des
> choses,
> > > une telle réflexion
> > > interpelle également les formateurs.
> > >
> > > Table des matières :
> > >
> > > · La tâche du localisateur - James Archibald,
> > > Université McGill
> > > · La formation en localisation à l'université :
> pour
> > > quoi faire ? - Jean
> > > Quirion, Université du Québec en Outaouais
> > > · La localisation : un enjeu majeur pour une
> > > présence accrue des deux
> > > langues officielles sur Internet - Dyane Adam,
> > > Commissariat aux langues
> > > officielles du Canada
> > > · Le bagage spécifique du
> localiseur/localisateur :
> > > le vrai « nouveau
> > > profil » requis - Daniel Gouadec, Université
> Rennes
> > > 2
> > > · De l'adaptation à la localisation publicitaire
> -
> > > Mathieu Guidère,
> > > Université Lumière Lyon 2 et CREC Saint-Cyr
> > > · Un modèle didactique en ligne : LOCTRANS -
> Marie
> > > Trincaretto, Institut
> > > libre Marie Haps
> > > · Autour et au tour de la localisation :
> > > perspectives et prospective -
> > > Marc Charron, Université du Québec en Outaouais
> > > · Programmes de formation cités
> > > · Index des sujets
> > > · Index des noms propres
> > >
> > > Personne-ressource : Madame Lucie Dubuc,
> Linguatech
> > > éditeur inc., C.P.
> > > 92012, Place Portobello, BROSSARD QC J4W 3K8,
> > > Canada.
> > > Courriel : lingua@ican.net
> > > Tél. : 450.443.98.51
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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From Bruno.Oudet at imag.fr  Tue Dec  7 13:32:20 2004
From: Bruno.Oudet at imag.fr (oudet)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] rencontres d'Autrans du 12 au 15 janvier
In-Reply-To: <418882A9000D7B16@mail4.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch)
References: <418882A9000D7B16@mail4.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch)
Message-ID: <41B5B0E4.7080907@imag.fr>

Bonjour Renata,

j'organise depuis neuf ans d?j? une manifestation Internet ? Autrans 
pr?s de Grenoble dans la montagne.
C'est convivial, relaxe, studieux. Est ce que tu es int?ress?e ? venir 
dans l'atelier qui va parler du SMSI?

Avec unve voiture si tu es press?e tu peux m?me faire l'aller retour 
dans la journ?e ? partir de Gen?ve.

Amicalement Bruno

Pour en avoir plus un wiki: http://autrans.crao.net
et le site des inscriptions:  http://www.autrans.net




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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Tue Dec  7 15:28:43 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] rencontres d'Autrans du 12 au 15 janvier
In-Reply-To: <41B5B0E4.7080907@imag.fr>
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--- oudet <Bruno.Oudet@imag.fr> wrote:

> Bonjour Renata,
> 
> j'organise depuis neuf ans déjà une manifestation
> Internet à Autrans 
> près de Grenoble dans la montagne.
> C'est convivial, relaxe, studieux. Est ce que tu es
> intéressée à venir 
> dans l'atelier qui va parler du SMSI?
> 
> Avec unve voiture si tu es pressée tu peux même
> faire l'aller retour 
> dans la journée à partir de Genève.
> 
> Amicalement Bruno
> 
> Pour en avoir plus un wiki: http://autrans.crao.net
> et le site des inscriptions:  http://www.autrans.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Tue Dec  7 15:51:24 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New measures taken in Tunisia to promote new information technologies
In-Reply-To: <003601c4dc44$c16d7740$23445fc1@khelifi>
Message-ID: <20041207155124.27143.qmail@web60703.mail.yahoo.com>

In French bellow,
Dear Khaled, Merouiane and all,
Thanks for these very good news on the Tunisian
programme for ITC for development. this contitute
encouraging reply for those who thought Tunis
irrelevant to host the Summit.
When these decision will be implemented it will be
more difficult to practice against freedom of
information and communication.
This programme could be equilibrated by measures in
favour of public sectors, Internet in administrations
but also internet with free access in each university
departments, in each lyceem, in each college, school
and public training institutions. Internet free in
social, women, young and senior administrations and so
the Tunisian could benefit of real internet access no
depending on their resources.... We are here in an
approoach of public goods, information and
communication technology for development but also for
democracy, freedom, education, health and welfare.
Congratulations for tunisian people and good luck for
the progress in the future.
All the best
Djilali   
Pour Khaled, Marouen et les autres.
Excellentes nouvelles que ce programme pour les
TIC/développement. Cela vient conforter ceux qui
pensient que le sommet à Tunis pourrait se révéler
profitable pour la population tunisienne.
Les progrés quantitatifs dans les conditions d'accès à
Internet rendront plus diffile vélléité d'étouffer
l'accès à l'information et à la communication.
Seul point d'insuffisance c'est ce déséquilibre en
défaveur des mesures pour internet dans les services
publics d'éducation, de sa,té, sociaux, administratifs
avec des possibilités d'accès effectifs et gratuits
pour qu'internet deveinnen en Tunisie un instrument
facilitant l'accès réel et universel à l'information
et à la communication pour le développement mais aussi
pour la liberté, la démoncratie et le progrès (dans un
esprit de bien public.
Félicitation au peuple tunisien et bon courage pour
d'autres étapes, d'autres progrès.
Amitiés
Djilali
 


--- khaled khelifi <khaled.khelifi@ati.tn> wrote:

> 
> Cher Marouen
> C'est vraiement fabuleux, la Tunisie se prépare à
> pas de géant au SMSI. Les dernières décisions
> permettront de moderniser davantage l'infrastructure
> TIC dans le pays et développeront les services
> offerts aux entreprises et aux particuliers.
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Marouen MRAIHI 
>   To: plenary@wsis-cs.org 
>   Cc: governance@lists.cpsr.org ;
> digitaldivide@milhouse.edc.org 
>   Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:10 PM
>   Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New measures taken in
> Tunisia to promote new information technologies
> 
> 
>   Notes: 
>   - Français à la suite 
>   - 1 Tunisian Dinar = 0.8 US$ 
>   _________________________________________
> 
>   Several decisions were taken today in Tunisia
> towards promoting new information technologies. The
> decisions were announced at the end of the meeting
> which was dedicated to "the discussion of the means
> of implementing the goals of President Ben Ali's
> 2004 electoral program as regards establishing the
> bases for a knowledge-based economy," it was
> officially announced.
>   The new measures aim at reducing the cost of
> telephone service, promoting broadband internet
> connections and assisting NGO's and businesses
> involved in new information technologies. They
> include:
>   . Reducing home telephone subscription fees,
> immediately, from 60 to 20 dinars and abolishing the
> subscription fees for any second telephone line. 
>   . Totally abolishing telephone subscription fees
> by 2009. 
>   . Reducing telephone subscription fees for rural
> area networks from 60 to 20 dinars. 
>   . Ensuring that each citizen possesses an e-mail
> address by 2009. 
>   . Ensuring a two-fold increase of the country's
> current connection capacity by the end of 2005. 
>   . Generalizing access to ADSL broadband
> connections across the country. 
>   . Launching 100 new public internet centers
> (publinets) by the end of 2005. 
>   . Subsidizing the cost of new information
> technology projects to a 50% level (for projects
> that have a cost of no more than 10,000 dinars). 
>   . Annual allocation of a 5,000-dinar subsidy to 50
> associations involved in the promotion of new
> information technologies. 
>   . Providing 100 associations involved in
> assistance, training and support to activities
> related to computer recycling and distribution. 
>   The promotion of new information technologies is a
> crucial component of President Ben Ali's policies.
>   Tunisia will be hosting the second phase of the
> World Sumit on the Information Society in November
> 16-18, 2005.
> 
>   ________________________
> 
>   Dans le cadre de la concrétisation des différents
> points du programme électoral présidentiel, le Chef
> de l'Etat a présidé un Conseil ministériel consacre
> à l'examen des moyens d'assurer la mise en oeuvre du
> volet relatif à l'aménagement d'une plateforme
> favorable à l'édification de l'économie du savoir. 
>   Au début des travaux, le Président Zine El Abidine
> Ben Ali a souligné l'impératif de gagner le pari de
> l'économie du savoir afin d'intégrer la Tunisie dans
> la carte mondiale de l'industrie de l'intelligence,
> de renforcer les opportunités d'investissement dans
> ce domaine porteur et de créer une nouvelle
> génération d'entreprises permettant de mettre à
> contribution les compétences au service des
> spécialités de pointe. 
>   Le Conseil a passé en revue la situation du
> secteur des technologies de la communication aux
> plans de l'infrastructure et du développement des
> réseaux ainsi qu'en matière de services et de leur
> adaptation aux besoins et exigences de l'économie du
> savoir, et du renforcement de l'employabilité dans
> ces secteurs. 
>   Dans ce cadre, le Conseil a arrêté les mesures
> suivantes : 
>   - Abaisser, à partir d'aujourd'hui, de 60 à 20
> dinars, les frais d'abonnement au réseau de
> téléphonie fixe et supprimer totalement les frais
> d'abonnement familial pour une deuxième ligne, dans
> la perspective de supprimer totalement l'ensemble de
> ces frais a l'horizon 2009. 
>   - Abaisser, à partir d'aujourd'hui, de 60 a 20
> dinars, les frais d'abonnement au réseau de
> téléphonie rurale. 
>   - Supprimer, au cours de l'année 2005, les frais
> d'abonnement au réseau numérique à intégration de
> services (Rnis). 
>   - Elaborer une étude sur le coût des
> communications téléphoniques et de la transmission
> des données, de manière à l'adapter aux exigences de
> la compétitivité de l'entreprise économique. 
>   - Relier, au cours de l'année 2005, le pôle
> technologique d'El Ghazala et les centres régionaux
> de télétravail déjà existants, au moyen d'un réseau
> intranet, les connecter au réseau Internet et
> améliorer leur contenu informatif et de services. 
>   - Consolider la connexion de la Tunisie au réseau
> Internet avant la fin de l'année 2005 dans le but de
> garantir une connexion à haut débit. 
>   - Oeuvrer, progressivement et avant la fin de
> 2009, à offrir à chaque citoyen la possibilité de
> disposer d'une adresse électronique lui permettant
> d'entrer en contact, à distance, avec
> l'administration et les entreprises. 
>   - Doubler, au cours de l'année 2005, la capacité
> actuelle de connexion au réseau Internet. 
>   - Renforcer la capacité du réseau national
> structure de l'internet afin d'augmenter la bande
> passante et élaborer une étude technique sur les
> moyens de faciliter la fluidité du trafic sur le
> réseau Internet, de manière à garantir la qualité
> requise de l'accès aux services disponibles,
> conformément aux normes et standards en vigueur dans
> le monde. 
>   - Accélérer la généralisation du haut débit, à
> travers le système ADSL, à tous les Chefs-lieux de
> gouvernorats. 
>   - Créer, au cours de l'année 2005, cent nouveaux
> centres publics d'internet (publinet) repartis entre
> les différentes régions du pays. 
>   - Entamer, immédiatement, la procédure visant à
> permettre aux promoteurs dans les secteurs des
> technologies de la communication de bénéficier d'une
> subvention de 50 pc du coût du projet avec un
> plafond de 10.000 dinars et abaisser de 70 pc,
> durant les deux premières années du démarrage du
> projet, les frais de connexion des publinets crées
> dans les petites agglomérations. 
>   - Faire bénéficier 25 jeunes promoteurs de projets
> dans les technologies de l'information et de la
> communication dans les zones rurales d'une
> subvention de 50 pc du coût du projet avec un
> plafond de 10 mille dinars. 
>   - Créer, au cours de l'année 2005, trois nouveaux
> centres de télétravail dans les gouvernorats
> intérieurs. 
>   - Allouer, annuellement, une subvention de 5 mille
> dinars à 50 associations oeuvrant dans le domaine de
> la diffusion de la culture numérique reparties entre
> les différents gouvernorats. 
>   - Accorder, dans le cadre de contrats-programmes,
> une subvention de 5 mille dinars à 100 associations
> actives dans les domaines de la formation et de
> l'encadrement, ainsi qu'en matière de soutien du
> programme de recyclage et de distribution des
> ordinateurs.
> 
>   Le Président de la République a recommandé
> d'assurer le suivi de la concrétisation de ces
> mesures et de garantir toutes les conditions
> propices afin d'encourager les différentes parties
> concernées, en particulier les jeunes, à adhérer à
> ces programmes, de manière à atteindre les objectifs
> escomptés dont notamment la généralisation de
> l'utilisation des technologies de l'information et
> de la communication et leur mise à contribution dans
> l'économie du savoir, dans les différentes régions
> du pays, afin d'impulser les créations d'emploi dans
> ces secteurs stratégiques.
> 
>   Source :
>
http://www.smsitunis2005.org/plateforme/detail.php?id=283
> 
>   Marouen MRAIHI 
>   WSIS Youth Caucus - Tunisia
>   http://www.wsisyouth.org
>   http://www.mraihi.com 


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Tel/fax : (227) 75 35 09 BP 11207 - Niamey - Niger
Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
Page web sur le SMSI (mecanismes de financement) : en cours de construction 
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From lists at mraihi.com  Tue Dec  7 16:46:21 2004
From: lists at mraihi.com (Marouen MRAIHI)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New measures taken in Tunisia to promote new information technologies
References: <20041207155124.27143.qmail@web60703.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <058301c4dc7c$518654f0$6bfaa8c0@MAROUEN>

Hello

We already have a free internet access in every school, college and
university (at least public ones). . These measures are especially dedicated
to the rest of the population and to comply with the continious need for
more bandwidth to implement our developement plans. I hope that these points
can give new ideas for other countries/bodies on the local and global level.
_____
L'acc?s ? internet depuis les ?coles, les lyc?es et les universit?s est d?j?
assur? et sans frais (au moins ceux publiques). Ces intiatives ciblent
surtout le reste de la population et pour r?pondre au besoin continu de plus
de d?bit. Personnellement j'esp?re que ces points pourraient donner des
id?es ? d'autres pays/organismes ? l'?chelle locale ou mondiale.

Marouen MRAIHI
WSIS Youth Caucus - Tunisia
http://www.wsisyouth.org
http://www.mraihi.com



----- Original Message -----
From: "djilali benamrane" <dbenamrane@yahoo.com>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Cc: <governance@lists.cpsr.org>; <digitaldivide@milhouse.edc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New measures taken in Tunisia to promote new
information technologies


>
> In French bellow,
> Dear Khaled, Merouiane and all,
> Thanks for these very good news on the Tunisian
> programme for ITC for development. this contitute
> encouraging reply for those who thought Tunis
> irrelevant to host the Summit.
> When these decision will be implemented it will be
> more difficult to practice against freedom of
> information and communication.
> This programme could be equilibrated by measures in
> favour of public sectors, Internet in administrations
> but also internet with free access in each university
> departments, in each lyceem, in each college, school
> and public training institutions. Internet free in
> social, women, young and senior administrations and so
> the Tunisian could benefit of real internet access no
> depending on their resources.... We are here in an
> approoach of public goods, information and
> communication technology for development but also for
> democracy, freedom, education, health and welfare.
> Congratulations for tunisian people and good luck for
> the progress in the future.
> All the best
> Djilali
> Pour Khaled, Marouen et les autres.
> Excellentes nouvelles que ce programme pour les
> TIC/d?veloppement. Cela vient conforter ceux qui
> pensient que le sommet ? Tunis pourrait se r?v?ler
> profitable pour la population tunisienne.
> Les progr?s quantitatifs dans les conditions d'acc?s ?
> Internet rendront plus diffile v?ll?it? d'?touffer
> l'acc?s ? l'information et ? la communication.
> Seul point d'insuffisance c'est ce d?s?quilibre en
> d?faveur des mesures pour internet dans les services
> publics d'?ducation, de sa,t?, sociaux, administratifs
> avec des possibilit?s d'acc?s effectifs et gratuits
> pour qu'internet deveinnen en Tunisie un instrument
> facilitant l'acc?s r?el et universel ? l'information
> et ? la communication pour le d?veloppement mais aussi
> pour la libert?, la d?moncratie et le progr?s (dans un
> esprit de bien public.
> F?licitation au peuple tunisien et bon courage pour
> d'autres ?tapes, d'autres progr?s.
> Amiti?s
> Djilali
>
>



From esther.joly at club-internet.fr  Tue Dec  7 14:25:32 2004
From: esther.joly at club-internet.fr (Esther Joly)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] rencontres d'Autrans du 12 au 15 janvier
In-Reply-To: <41B5B0E4.7080907@imag.fr>
Message-ID: <BDDB7BEC.1ACD9%esther.joly@club-internet.fr>

Oui, oui, oui, bonne id?e.

Esther qui devrait y ?tre

> De?: oudet <Bruno.Oudet@imag.fr>
> R?pondre ??: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Date?: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:32:20 +0100
> ??: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Objet?: [WSIS CS-Plenary] rencontres d'Autrans du 12 au 15 janvier
> 
> Bonjour Renata,
> 
> j'organise depuis neuf ans d?j? une manifestation Internet ? Autrans
> pr?s de Grenoble dans la montagne.
> C'est convivial, relaxe, studieux. Est ce que tu es int?ress?e ? venir
> dans l'atelier qui va parler du SMSI?
> 
> Avec unve voiture si tu es press?e tu peux m?me faire l'aller retour
> dans la journ?e ? partir de Gen?ve.
> 
> Amicalement Bruno
> 
> Pour en avoir plus un wiki: http://autrans.crao.net
> et le site des inscriptions:  http://www.autrans.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


From juana at conectas.org  Tue Dec  7 19:19:37 2004
From: juana at conectas.org (Juana Kweitel)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] please unsuscribe me
References: <BDDB7BEC.1ACD9%esther.joly@club-internet.fr>
Message-ID: <022501c4dc91$b116da10$665aa8c0@JUANA>

thanks!


From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Wed Dec  8 08:08:50 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New measures taken in Tunisia to promote new information technologies
In-Reply-To: <058301c4dc7c$518654f0$6bfaa8c0@MAROUEN>
Message-ID: <20041208080851.26716.qmail@web60710.mail.yahoo.com>

In French bellow
Thanks Marouen for these interesting information.
If i well understand all public institutions for
education, research, health, social and cultural
issues are provided with free access to internet, in
urban as well in rurale areas. Congratulation, it is
really an example for other countries in the
underdeveloped world. Please let's us informed on
unisian progress in the other sectors, so we will feel
better when we will attend the summit by the end of
2005.
All the best
Merci cher Marouen pour ces informations
interrssantes. Si j'ai bien compris l'accès gratuit à
internet est déjà assuré dans les zones urbaines et
rurales en tunisies dans tous les secteurs publics de
l'éducation, de la santé, de la rechehrche, de la
culture.
Si c'est le cas, la Tunisie devient réellement un cas
d'étude et une success story comme on dit pour les
autres pats en sous développement.
Félicitations et continuez à nous informer sur les
progrès dans les autres secteurs d'activités et ainsi
nous serons encore plus heureux d'aller en fin 2005
participer au sommet mondial et examiner ces
prouesses. (une petite parenthèse qui dépasse le cas
tunisien : il faut espérer que le secteur public
tunisien n'est pas en cours de démentellement
insidieux comme dans la plupart des pays développés,
libéraux, démocratiques, mais si c'est le prix à payer
pour faire partie des pays qui comptent pourquoi s'en
priver ?)
Amitiés
Djilali  
--- Marouen MRAIHI <lists@mraihi.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> We already have a free internet access in every
> school, college and
> university (at least public ones). . These measures
> are especially dedicated
> to the rest of the population and to comply with the
> continious need for
> more bandwidth to implement our developement plans.
> I hope that these points
> can give new ideas for other countries/bodies on the
> local and global level.
> _____
> L'accès à internet depuis les écoles, les lycées et
> les universités est déjà
> assuré et sans frais (au moins ceux publiques). Ces
> intiatives ciblent
> surtout le reste de la population et pour répondre
> au besoin continu de plus
> de débit. Personnellement j'espère que ces points
> pourraient donner des
> idées à d'autres pays/organismes à l'échelle locale
> ou mondiale.
> 
> Marouen MRAIHI
> WSIS Youth Caucus - Tunisia
> http://www.wsisyouth.org
> http://www.mraihi.com
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "djilali benamrane" <dbenamrane@yahoo.com>
> To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
> Cc: <governance@lists.cpsr.org>;
> <digitaldivide@milhouse.edc.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New measures taken in
> Tunisia to promote new
> information technologies
> 
> 
> >
> > In French bellow,
> > Dear Khaled, Merouiane and all,
> > Thanks for these very good news on the Tunisian
> > programme for ITC for development. this contitute
> > encouraging reply for those who thought Tunis
> > irrelevant to host the Summit.
> > When these decision will be implemented it will be
> > more difficult to practice against freedom of
> > information and communication.
> > This programme could be equilibrated by measures
> in
> > favour of public sectors, Internet in
> administrations
> > but also internet with free access in each
> university
> > departments, in each lyceem, in each college,
> school
> > and public training institutions. Internet free in
> > social, women, young and senior administrations
> and so
> > the Tunisian could benefit of real internet access
> no
> > depending on their resources.... We are here in an
> > approoach of public goods, information and
> > communication technology for development but also
> for
> > democracy, freedom, education, health and welfare.
> > Congratulations for tunisian people and good luck
> for
> > the progress in the future.
> > All the best
> > Djilali
> > Pour Khaled, Marouen et les autres.
> > Excellentes nouvelles que ce programme pour les
> > TIC/développement. Cela vient conforter ceux qui
> > pensient que le sommet à Tunis pourrait se révéler
> > profitable pour la population tunisienne.
> > Les progrés quantitatifs dans les conditions
> d'accès à
> > Internet rendront plus diffile vélléité d'étouffer
> > l'accès à l'information et à la communication.
> > Seul point d'insuffisance c'est ce déséquilibre en
> > défaveur des mesures pour internet dans les
> services
> > publics d'éducation, de sa,té, sociaux,
> administratifs
> > avec des possibilités d'accès effectifs et
> gratuits
> > pour qu'internet deveinnen en Tunisie un
> instrument
> > facilitant l'accès réel et universel à
> l'information
> > et à la communication pour le développement mais
> aussi
> > pour la liberté, la démoncratie et le progrès
> (dans un
> > esprit de bien public.
> > Félicitation au peuple tunisien et bon courage
> pour
> > d'autres étapes, d'autres progrès.
> > Amitiés
> > Djilali
> >
> >
> 
> 
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From lists at mraihi.com  Wed Dec  8 09:45:40 2004
From: lists at mraihi.com (Marouen MRAIHI)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ICANN claims success in African outreach
Message-ID: <006f01c4dd0a$b4ee3ce0$6bfaa8c0@MAROUEN>

The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers has closed out its first
African meeting in almost two years claiming a successful outreach to the
Internet community on a continent with the lowest Internet penetration of
any.


7 Dec 2004, 09:47 GMT -
ICANN president Paul Twomey said in a press conference that at the Cape
Town, South Africa meeting ICANN heard that Africa's primary concern in this
area is creating the infrastructure to allow its citizens to access the
Internet.

"That's not our primary function at all," Twomey said. ICANN coordinates the
Internet's addressing systems. "But the functions ICANN helps coordinate
ensure that when Africa does get online, Africa can access the rest of the
Internet in a seamless way."

Following the meeting, AfrISPA, the African Internet Service Provider
Association, issued a statement saying it supports ICANN, in the face of the
ongoing "Internet governance" debate within the United Nations, in which
ICANN is entangled.

Referring to this UN World Summit on the Information Society process.
AfriSPA said in a statement that any "externally imposed changes in the
roles of ICANN or [African regional Internet registry] AfriNIC would not be
well received."

"There are more urgent and focal areas for the WSIS, UN and ITU to address,"
said Eric Osiakwan, executive secretary of AfrISPA. "Coordination of the
Internet's unique identifiers is currently being handled very well".

WSIS should instead be focused on issues such as child pornography, spam,
and the lack of bandwidth in developing nations. "ICANN works well for names
and numbers - the same bottom up approach can be used to solve these other
ongoing issues," he said.

http://cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=ED688EE3-43D5-482B-9C6E-EFAC0AA4A
7DD

Marouen



From ca at rits.org.br  Wed Dec  8 10:23:53 2004
From: ca at rits.org.br (Carlos Afonso)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] please unsuscribe me
In-Reply-To: <022501c4dc91$b116da10$665aa8c0@JUANA>
References: <BDDB7BEC.1ACD9%esther.joly@club-internet.fr> <022501c4dc91$b116da10$665aa8c0@JUANA>
Message-ID: <41B6D639.7020800@rits.org.br>

Juana, in mailing lists the user herself or himself does the unsubscription.

Just go the list Web page and do it yourself with your email and 
password (which you have received when you subscribed or were subscribed 
to the list). Use the form at the end of the page.

If you do not have the password, send a message to a list moderator (the 
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Please do not send messages of this type to the list, as all the other 
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--c.a.

Juana Kweitel wrote:

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Rede de Informa??es para o Terceiro Setor - Rits
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Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brasil         CEP 22270-060  
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From maseger at t-online.de  Wed Dec  8 09:04:00 2004
From: maseger at t-online.de (Marianne Seger)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Unsubscribe - password: efokme
Message-ID: <1CbxmB-03uG5R0@fwd07.sul.t-online.com>

Dear Friends!
Please take me out of your list. (In about 4 months time I will re-scubribe again).

I will be on a trip through AUSTRALIA (with friends, for some weeks).

After that, I am taking part in the "World Summit on the Information Societies,
Phase II, PrepCom 2" in GENEVA (Feb. 2005). My friends/contacts will brief me.
 
and: I am taking part, too, in the CSW (Commission on the Status of Women) "Beijing plus 10"
Conference (end of February - 2 weeks March), 2005, NEW YORK.

In my 1-woman-management, I will not be able to follow up on all e-mails....(during the
travel time).

Greetings and good wishes to all of you
from desk to desk

MARIANNE SEGER
Kohlenkamp 45
D-45468 Muelheim
GERMANY
e-mail: maseger@t-online.de

(permanent NGO-representative, affiliate to ECOSOC,
for EURAG, at UN headquaarters GENEVA and NEW YORK)

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From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Wed Dec  8 14:42:30 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UK Govt: Hold us to account on African poverty
Message-ID: <p0611045dbddcc2434969@[192.168.1.254]>

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5080707-110366,00.html

Hold us to account on African poverty, Brown tells aid agencies

Larry Elliott, economics editor
Wednesday December 8, 2004

The Guardian
Gordon Brown will today urge aid agencies to hold ministers fully to 
account for progress made in writing off African debt, tackling 
disease and breaking down trade barriers.

Describing the next 12 months as "a make or break year for 
development", the chancellor will say that Britain is prepared to be 
judged on how it uses its c of the G8 industrial nations to tackle 
poverty in the world's poorest continent.

"The task for government now is to replace talk by action, 
initiatives by results, and rise to the challenge, pledging to strive 
for urgent progress both on the priorities of finance and development 
and trade,"


rest at URL above.


UK is not just holding the G8 presidency this year, it will also hold 
the EU presidency during the Tunis Summit.

thanks,

Adam

From ca at rits.org.br  Wed Dec  8 15:10:33 2004
From: ca at rits.org.br (Carlos Afonso)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UK Govt: Hold us to account on African poverty
In-Reply-To: <p0611045dbddcc2434969@[192.168.1.254]>
References: <p0611045dbddcc2434969@[192.168.1.254]>
Message-ID: <41B71969.9060607@rits.org.br>

The real concern of Mr Brown and the G8 is really "breaking down trade 
barriers" and make sure tied "aid" is increased -- the rest really 
stinks of demagoguery...

--c.a.

Adam Peake wrote:

> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5080707-110366,00.html
>
> Hold us to account on African poverty, Brown tells aid agencies
>
> Larry Elliott, economics editor
> Wednesday December 8, 2004
>
> The Guardian
> Gordon Brown will today urge aid agencies to hold ministers fully to 
> account for progress made in writing off African debt, tackling 
> disease and breaking down trade barriers.
>
> Describing the next 12 months as "a make or break year for 
> development", the chancellor will say that Britain is prepared to be 
> judged on how it uses its c of the G8 industrial nations to tackle 
> poverty in the world's poorest continent.
>
> "The task for government now is to replace talk by action, initiatives 
> by results, and rise to the challenge, pledging to strive for urgent 
> progress both on the priorities of finance and development and trade,"
>
>
> rest at URL above.
>
>
> UK is not just holding the G8 presidency this year, it will also hold 
> the EU presidency during the Tunis Summit.
>
> thanks,
>
> Adam
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>
>

-- 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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diretor de planejamento
Rede de Informa??es para o Terceiro Setor - Rits
Rua Guilhermina Guinle, 272, 6? andar - Botafogo  
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brasil         CEP 22270-060  
tel +55-21-2527-5494        fax +55-21-2527-5460
ca@rits.org.br            http://www.rits.org.br
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From j.a.k.cave at warwick.ac.uk  Wed Dec  8 15:43:17 2004
From: j.a.k.cave at warwick.ac.uk (Jonathan Cave)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UK Govt: Hold us to account on African
  poverty
In-Reply-To: <41B71969.9060607@rits.org.br>
References: <p0611045dbddcc2434969@[192.168.1.254]>
 <41B71969.9060607@rits.org.br>
Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20041208153916.01f5dc88@mail.csv.warwick.ac.uk>

I'm no great fan of New Labour, nor do I endorse all that HM Treasury does, 
but I think this is a bit unfair to Gordon Brown. It may be substantially 
true of the G8 (and also of the EU's trade policy). But Brown's personal 
involvement is probably the main reason why the HIPC programme continues at 
all - however flawed it may be) and is foursquare behind the activities of 
DFID in Africa.

J.



At 15:10 08/12/2004, Carlos Afonso wrote:
>The real concern of Mr Brown and the G8 is really "breaking down trade 
>barriers" and make sure tied "aid" is increased -- the rest really stinks 
>of demagoguery...
>
>--c.a.
>
>Adam Peake wrote:
>
>>http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5080707-110366,00.html
>>
>>Hold us to account on African poverty, Brown tells aid agencies
>>
>>Larry Elliott, economics editor
>>Wednesday December 8, 2004
>>
>>The Guardian
>>Gordon Brown will today urge aid agencies to hold ministers fully to 
>>account for progress made in writing off African debt, tackling disease 
>>and breaking down trade barriers.
>>
>>Describing the next 12 months as "a make or break year for development", 
>>the chancellor will say that Britain is prepared to be judged on how it 
>>uses its c of the G8 industrial nations to tackle poverty in the world's 
>>poorest continent.
>>
>>"The task for government now is to replace talk by action, initiatives by 
>>results, and rise to the challenge, pledging to strive for urgent 
>>progress both on the priorities of finance and development and trade,"
>>
>>
>>rest at URL above.
>>
>>
>>UK is not just holding the G8 presidency this year, it will also hold the 
>>EU presidency during the Tunis Summit.
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>Adam
>>_______________________________________________
>>Plenary mailing list
>>Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>>
>
>--
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Carlos Afonso
>diretor de planejamento
>Rede de Informa??es para o Terceiro Setor - Rits
>Rua Guilhermina Guinle, 272, 6? andar - Botafogo
>Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brasil         CEP 22270-060
>tel +55-21-2527-5494        fax +55-21-2527-5460
>ca@rits.org.br            http://www.rits.org.br
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>
>
>
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From ca at rits.org.br  Wed Dec  8 17:23:59 2004
From: ca at rits.org.br (Carlos Afonso)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UK Govt: Hold us to account on African  poverty
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20041208153916.01f5dc88@mail.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
References: <p0611045dbddcc2434969@[192.168.1.254]> <41B71969.9060607@rits.org.br> <6.1.2.0.2.20041208153916.01f5dc88@mail.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <41B738AF.4010905@rits.org.br>

OK, Jonathan, time will tell for sure.

fraternal rgds

--c.a.

Jonathan Cave wrote:

> I'm no great fan of New Labour, nor do I endorse all that HM Treasury 
> does, but I think this is a bit unfair to Gordon Brown. It may be 
> substantially true of the G8 (and also of the EU's trade policy). But 
> Brown's personal involvement is probably the main reason why the HIPC 
> programme continues at all - however flawed it may be) and is 
> foursquare behind the activities of DFID in Africa.
>
> J.
>
>
>
> At 15:10 08/12/2004, Carlos Afonso wrote:
>
>> The real concern of Mr Brown and the G8 is really "breaking down 
>> trade barriers" and make sure tied "aid" is increased -- the rest 
>> really stinks of demagoguery...
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> Adam Peake wrote:
>>
>>> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5080707-110366,00.html
>>>
>>> Hold us to account on African poverty, Brown tells aid agencies
>>>
>>> Larry Elliott, economics editor
>>> Wednesday December 8, 2004
>>>
>>> The Guardian
>>> Gordon Brown will today urge aid agencies to hold ministers fully to 
>>> account for progress made in writing off African debt, tackling 
>>> disease and breaking down trade barriers.
>>>
>>> Describing the next 12 months as "a make or break year for 
>>> development", the chancellor will say that Britain is prepared to be 
>>> judged on how it uses its c of the G8 industrial nations to tackle 
>>> poverty in the world's poorest continent.
>>>
>>> "The task for government now is to replace talk by action, 
>>> initiatives by results, and rise to the challenge, pledging to 
>>> strive for urgent progress both on the priorities of finance and 
>>> development and trade,"
>>>
>>>
>>> rest at URL above.
>>>
>>>
>>> UK is not just holding the G8 presidency this year, it will also 
>>> hold the EU presidency during the Tunis Summit.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> Adam
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Plenary mailing list
>>> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>>> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> Carlos Afonso
>> diretor de planejamento
>> Rede de Informa??es para o Terceiro Setor - Rits
>> Rua Guilhermina Guinle, 272, 6? andar - Botafogo
>> Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brasil         CEP 22270-060
>> tel +55-21-2527-5494        fax +55-21-2527-5460
>> ca@rits.org.br            http://www.rits.org.br
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Plenary mailing list
>> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
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>
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> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
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>

-- 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Carlos Afonso
diretor de planejamento
Rede de Informa??es para o Terceiro Setor - Rits
Rua Guilhermina Guinle, 272, 6? andar - Botafogo  
Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brasil         CEP 22270-060  
tel +55-21-2527-5494        fax +55-21-2527-5460
ca@rits.org.br            http://www.rits.org.br
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++




From lists at mraihi.com  Thu Dec  9 10:48:53 2004
From: lists at mraihi.com (Marouen MRAIHI)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Japan participation to the WSIS
Message-ID: <01e801c4dddc$b19370b0$6bfaa8c0@MAROUEN>

Japan has confirmed the active participation to WSIS process by naming Mr Aiko Doden (from NHK television) as the ambassador of Japan for the WSIS
___________________
Le Japon vient de confirmer sa participation active au processus du SMSI en nommant mr Aiko Doden (de la t?l?vison NHK) comme ambassadeur du Japon pour le SMSI

Information from http://www.smsitunis2005.org/plateforme/detail.php?id=284 


Marouen MRAIHI 
WSIS Youth Caucus - Tunisia
http://www.wsisyouth.org
http://www.mraihi.com 

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From rguerra at lists.privaterra.org  Thu Dec  9 18:09:42 2004
From: rguerra at lists.privaterra.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Zimbabwe curbs rights groups
Message-ID: <p06200700bdde44672fb0@[192.168.1.251]>

A question to the plenary - in light of this development in Zimbabwe 
and the particular reference to "governance issues", will the 
governance caucus care to comment or issue a press release.

regards

Robert

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4083201.stm

Zimbabwe curbs rights groups


Mugabe has warned against foreign interference
Zimbabwe's parliament has passed a controversial bill which bans 
international human rights groups from working in the country.

  The bill, which also cuts foreign funding to local groups dealing 
with "governance issues", was approved by 48 votes to 28.

  There are fears that hundreds of aid groups will now be forced to shut down.

  Critics of President Robert Mugabe say the legislation is part of 
attempts to muzzle his political opponents.

  The term "issues of governance" is believed to apply to groups 
involved in aiding the interests or activities of a political party.

  Correspondents say up to 10,000 jobs could be lost once the 
Non-Governmental Organisations Bill comes into force.

  The new legislation comes ahead of parliamentary elections due to be 
held in March next year.

  The opposition and human rights groups say it will interfere with 
NGOs' preparations for the vote, since it will require each group to 
re-register with the authorities - a potentially lengthy process.




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

From lists at mraihi.com  Fri Dec 10 09:17:36 2004
From: lists at mraihi.com (MRAIHI Marouen)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] What happened in Captown ?
Message-ID: <4c7ebfe696af680d4def8e1f61cf2c27@>

Could anyone from CSB Members brief us on what happened during Captown
meeting(s) if it's possible ? 


Marouen MRAIHI

From magaly at greatvideo.com  Fri Dec 10 13:17:17 2004
From: magaly at greatvideo.com (magaly pazello)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] What happened in Captown ?
In-Reply-To: <4c7ebfe696af680d4def8e1f61cf2c27@>
References: <4c7ebfe696af680d4def8e1f61cf2c27@>
Message-ID: <D0732264-4AAD-11D9-A423-000A95B172C6@greatvideo.com>

Hello! Marouen,
we are just arriving at home, give us this weekend to organize the 
notes.

cheers,
Magaly Pazello

On 10/12/2004, at 07:17, MRAIHI Marouen wrote:

> Could anyone from CSB Members brief us on what happened during Captown
> meeting(s) if it's possible ?
>
>
> Marouen MRAIHI
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From d.korff at londonmet.ac.uk  Wed Dec  8 16:48:08 2004
From: d.korff at londonmet.ac.uk (Douwe Korff)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Re: ICANN claims success in African outreach
References: <006f01c4dd0a$b4ee3ce0$6bfaa8c0@MAROUEN> <20041208101630.GA18723@nic.fr>
Message-ID: <41B73048.31F6B97E@londonmet.ac.uk>

just a question to those of you who know more about this than ignorant
me (ie to all of you):  is the question of when which law applies to
various activities "on" the internet, and of what should be the
determining factors in this, addressed by WSIS (or anyone else)??

any refs or other help greatly appreciated!

ciao ciao -

douwe

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:45:40AM +0100,
>  Marouen MRAIHI <lists@mraihi.com> wrote
>  a message of 47 lines which said:
> 
> > "Coordination of the Internet's unique identifiers is currently
> > being handled very well".
> >
> > WSIS should instead be focused on issues such as child pornography, spam,
> > and the lack of bandwidth in developing nations. "ICANN works well for names
> > and numbers
> 
> So, we can summary ICANN: "What is mine is mine. Everything else is
> debatable." :-)
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From gurstein at ADM.NJIT.EDU  Fri Dec 10 14:35:47 2004
From: gurstein at ADM.NJIT.EDU (Gurstein, Michael)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FW: [ciresearchers] 2005 Fellowships for Threatened Scholars
Message-ID: <A0E19BF31237DE4A9B1FF1E122FAC13A0B75BAD0@ADMCLUSTER.njitdm.campus.njit.edu>


-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus Foth [mailto:m.foth@qut.edu.au] 
Sent: December 10, 2004 7:26 AM
To: ciresearchers@vancouvercommunity.net
Subject: [ciresearchers] 2005 Fellowships for Threatened Scholars 


ANNOUNCEMENT:

  2005 FELLOWSHIPS FOR THREATENED SCHOLARS

  Following please find an announcement of new fellowship deadlines 
which may be of interest. We would appreciate your help in circulating 
it to any colleagues who may interested. We also welcome direct 
nominations of any individuals you know who may qualify.

  Sincerely,

  Robert Quinn
  Executive Director
  IIE Scholar Rescue Fund
www.iie.org/SRF/home


  ===================================

  Dear Friends,
  Amigos Queridos,
Chers Amis,

  Following please find an announcement concerning new fellowships for 
threatened scholars. Scholars from any country and any field may 
qualify. We invite you to nominate suitable candidates, and ask for 
your help in forwarding the announcement to any academic colleagues who 
may be interested. We are especially eager to identify candidates still 
facing threats in their home country/region, who may not be aware of 
the program. At the same time, we invite participation from 
universities and colleges that might be willing to host fellowship 
recipients. We are especially eager to identify universities and 
colleges outside of the US, especially French, Spanish and Russian 
language institutions.

  Adjunto s?rvase encontrar una convocatoria de becas para acad?micos en 
riesgo. Esta convocatoria abarca acad?micos de todos los pa?ses y todas 
las ?reas de especializaci?n. Los invitamos a nominar candidatos con el 
perfil adecuado y les solicitamos compartir este anuncio con colegas 
interesados en el tema. Nos encontramos interesados en identificar 
candidatos que se encuentren en riesgo actual en su pa?s o regi?n de 
origen y que no se hayan enterado del programa. Simult?neamente, 
invitamos la participaci?n de las instituciones acad?micas dispuestas a 
auspiciar a los beneficiarios de este programa. Estamos especialmente 
interesados en identificar universidades fuera de los Estados Unidos, 
con intereses espec?ficos en instituciones de habla Hispana, Francesa y 
Rusa.

Veuillez trouver ici une annonce au sujet de nouvelles bourses 
destin?es aux acad?miques menac?s. Les acad?miques de n'importe quel 
pays et de tous niveaux d'?tudes peuvent ?tre qualifi?s. Nous 
sollicitons votre aide dans la nomination de quelques candidats et 
aussi dans la diffusion de cette annonce ? tous les universitaires 
int?ress?s. Nous d?sirons particuli?rement identifier des candidats en 
danger de menaces dans leur pays d'origine et qui ignorent l'existence 
de ce programme. Du m?me coup, nous invitons la participation des 
?tablissements universitaires qui seraient dispos?s ? accueillir 
quelques boursiers menaces, particuli?rement des ?tablissements en 
dehors des ?tats Unis dont la langue d'enseignement est en fran?ais, 
espagnol et russe.

  Thanks for your help,
  Gracias por su ayuda,
Merci pour votre aide,

  Robert Quinn
  Executive Director


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

ANNOUNCEMENT: 2005 FELLOWSHIPS FOR THREATENED SCHOLARS

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

  Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowships

  The Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund 
provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened 
in their home countries. These fellowships permit scholars to find 
temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, 
enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share 
their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large. 
When conditions improve, these scholars will return home to help 
rebuild universities and societies ravaged by fear, conflict and 
repression.

  How the Scholar Rescue Fund Works:

  * Academics, researchers and independent scholars from any country, 
field or discipline may qualify. Preference is given to scholars with a 
Ph.D. or other highest degree in their field; who have been employed in 
scholarly activities at a university, college or other institution of 
higher learning during the last four years (excluding displacement or 
prohibition); who demonstrate superior academic accomplishment or 
promise; and whose selection is likely to benefit the academic 
community in the home and/or host country or region. Applications from 
female scholars and under-represented groups are strongly encouraged.

  * Universities, colleges and research centers in any country may apply 
to serve as hosts.

  * Applications and nominations should be made to the Fund's Selection 
Committee. Institutions interested in hosting a particular scholar 
should submit a letter with the scholar's application. Fellowships are 
awarded to institutions for support of specific individuals, to be 
matched in most cases by the institution or third-party. Fellowship 
recipients are expected to continue their work in safety at the host 
institution-teaching, lecturing, conducting research, writing and 
publishing. Fellowships from 3 months to one calendar year will be 
considered with up to 25 fellowships awarded annually. The maximum 
award is US $20,000.

  * Applications are accepted at any time. Emergency applications 
receive urgent consideration. Non-emergency applications will be 
considered according to the following schedule:

Winter 2005: Applications received by January 1; decision by March 1.

Spring 2005: Applications received by April 1; decision by June 1.

Fall 2005: Applications received by October 1; decision by December 1.

  How to apply:

  To apply or to learn how your institution might host an SRF scholar, 
contact:

  IIE Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowships
  809 U.N. Plaza, Second Floor
New York, New  York 10017
  Tel: (USA) 1-212-984-5588
  Fax: (USA) 1-212-984-5401
  E-mail: SRF@iie.org
  Web: www.iie.org/SRF/home



  __________________________________________________________

  This is an announcement of the current deadlines for the IIE Scholar 
Rescue Fund Fellowships. You received this message because you 
requested it or because it was suggested to us that you or your 
colleagues might be interested. If you would rather not receive notices 
of future fellowship deadlines, 
mailto:U-B1734.38714.0.28713@lists.iie.org or if the email address is 
not clickable, simply copy the text to the right of the 'mailto:' 
command and paste it into your email application and hit send. You will 
be taken off the list immediately. Thank you!

From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Fri Dec 10 21:41:30 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] What happened in Captown ?
In-Reply-To: <D0732264-4AAD-11D9-A423-000A95B172C6@greatvideo.com>
Message-ID: <20041210214130.77570.qmail@web60704.mail.yahoo.com>

Dr Francis Muguet could also provide us with some
appreciations on what happened in Cape Town.

--- magaly pazello <magaly@greatvideo.com> wrote:

> Hello! Marouen,
> we are just arriving at home, give us this weekend
> to organize the 
> notes.
> 
> cheers,
> Magaly Pazello
> 
> On 10/12/2004, at 07:17, MRAIHI Marouen wrote:
> 
> > Could anyone from CSB Members brief us on what
> happened during Captown
> > meeting(s) if it's possible ?
> >
> >
> > Marouen MRAIHI
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plenary mailing list
> > Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> >
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> >
> 
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From adavidziuk at yahoo.com  Mon Dec 13 02:08:17 2004
From: adavidziuk at yahoo.com (alejandra davidziuk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP [December 12, 2004]
Message-ID: <20041213020818.44344.qmail@web12002.mail.yahoo.com>

Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP [December 12, 2004]

This is the last digest of 2004. Have a nice Christmas
and very good 2005!
Next digest will be sent in January.

WSIS

ICANN CLAIMS SUCCESS IN AFRICAN OUTREACH
ICANN president Paul Twomey said in a press conference
that at the Cape Town, South Africa meeting ICANN
heard that Africa's primary concern in this area is
creating the infrastructure to allow its citizens to
access the Internet.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/609/

LE JAPON CONFIRME SA PARTICIPATION
Le Japon vient de confirmer sa participation active au
processus du SMSI en nommant Mr Aiko Doden (de la
télévison NHK) comme ambassadeur du Japon pour le
SMSI. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/607/

JAPAN PARTICIPATION TO THE WSIS 
Japan has confirmed the active participation to WSIS
process by naming Mr Aiko Doden (from NHK television)
as the ambassador of Japan for the WSIS. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/606/ 

COMMUNICATION RIGHTS : WSIS AND BEYOND
The Asian Civil Society Forum took place on November
25 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand. It was organized in 2
sessions (one specifically on WSIS, and the second one
on broader Communications Rights issues and concerns +
video conference with WGIG representatives including
Martin Kummer). 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/597/ 


NEWSROOM

MEXICO: AMARC SALUDA ENTREGA DE DOS PERMISOS A RADIOS
COMUNITARIAS INDÍGENAS
Este lunes 6 de diciembre, los representantes legales
de Radio Jën Poj de Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca
y Radio Uandarhi de Uruapan, Michoacán recibieron de
la Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT)
sus títulos de permiso para operar sus emisoras. Ambas
radios son operadas por indígenas, en el caso de Jën
Poj atiende a comunidades mixes y Uandarhi a población
purépecha migrante. Con la emisión de dichos permisos
por primera vez en la historia de nuestro país son
grupos indígenas quienes tienen su propio permiso para
operar y administrar sus radios. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/608/

COMMUNICATION MEETINGS IN MARRAKECH
João Brant, a CRIS-Brazil member sent his special
comments (in Portuguese) on three events that took
place in Marrakech, Morocco in November: 1) “The role
and place of the media in the Information Society in
Africa and Arabic region”(Nov. 22-24); “The first
Round Table on Community Communication for the
Sustainable Development” (Nov. 21); 3) “Meeting of
Global Governance of CRIS Campaign International. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/605/

A NEW JOURNAL ON ICT
A new refereed e-journal has been launched:
"International Journal of Education and Development
using Information and Communication Technology
(IJEDICT)". Articles in the first issue will be
published early in 2005. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/604/ 

VOTO ELECTRÓNICO
El 14 de diciembre a las 6 pm tendrá lugar la
Mesa-Debate "Voto electrónico" para debatir las
circunstancias que acompañan la cuestión del voto
electrónico como factor central del Gobierno
electrónico. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/602/

CIVIBLOG PROJECT 
Canada's Citizen Lab has developed an information and
communication (ICT) project that involves making
"blogging" space available to those working for
non-governmental organisations (NGOs) abroad. "Blogs"
(or "weblogs") are Internet-based daily journals. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/603/

INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S DAY OF BROADCASTING 
On December 12 the International Children's Day of
Broadcasting is celebrated globally. The purpose of
International Children's Day of Broadcasting is to
encourage broadcasters to help children learn and tell
other children, and adults, about how to help build a
protective environment in their community. "Children
have the right to live in a safe world. Everyone must
play a part in creating a safer world." 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/601/

DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LA RADIO Y LA TELEVISIÓN EN FAVOR
DE LOS NIÑOS 
El 12 de diciembre de 2004 se celebra el Día
Internacional de la Radio y la Televisión en Favor de
los Niños. Esta jornada constituye en una oportunidad
para que emisores y productores de todo el mundo se
pongan "En Sintonía con los Niños". 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/600/ 

SOLIDARIDAD Y DEFENSA DEL CIUDADANO FRENTE A LOS
PODERES MEDIÁTICOS 
 [Por Mariano Cebrián Herreros] Junto a los
tradicionales, emergen otros nuevos medios mientras se
desarrollan innovadoras infraestructuras que modifican
los escenarios. La presencia de los satélites
nacionales, continentales y mundiales junto al
desarrollo de Internet cambian los espacios
comunicativos físicos tal como estaban configurados
hasta hace poco tiempo y generan otros de tipo social,
cultural, político y económico globales. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/599/ 

UN MINUTO POR MIS DERECHOS 
Un Minuto por mis Derechos es el nombre de un proyecto
de UNICEF, en el que usando la metodología de
TheOneMinutes, busca incentivar a niños y jóvenes para
que produzcan videos de exactamente 60 segundos de
duración, sobre temas relacionados con sus derechos,
vivencias y demandas, como parte del ejercicio de su
derecho a la participación y para hacer escuchar su
voz en los medios y la sociedad en general. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/598/


¿QUIERE PARTICIPAR? FIRME LA CARTA DE CRIS
Nuestra visión de la Sociedad de la Información se
fundamenta en el Derecho a Comunicar como un medio de
acrecentar los derechos humanos y fortalecer la vida
social, económica y cultural de las personas y las
comunidades. Para lograrlo, resulta fundamental que
las organizaciones de la sociedad civil se unan para
cooperar en la construcción de una sociedad de la
información basada en principios de transparencia,
diversidad, participación, justicia social y
económica, e inspiradas por la equidad de género y las
perspectivas culturales y regionales. Lo invitamos a
conocer más sobre la Campaña de CRIS y a participar
firmando la Carta de CRIS: 
http://scripts.planetgrey.org/cris/sign_charter_form.html
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/97/ 

LA CHARTE DE CRIS
Notre vision de la «société de l’information» est
basée sur le droit de communiquer qui est considéré
comme un moyen pour étendre les droits de l’homme et
améliorer la vie sociale, économique et culturelle des
personnes et des communautés. Pour cela, il est
essentiel que les organisations de la société civile
se réunissent afin d’aider à la construction d’une
société de l’information basée sur les principes de
transparence, de diversité, de participation et de
justice économique et sociale et inspirée par une
approche équitable du rapport des sexes, de la culture
et des aspects régionaux.
http://scripts.planetgrey.org/cris/sign_charter_form.html
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/95/

WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET INVOLVED? ENDORSE THE CRIS
CHARTER
Our vision of the 'Information Society' is grounded in
the Right to Communicate, as a means to enhance human
rights and to strengthen the social, economic and
cultural lives of people and communities. Crucial to
this is that civil society organisations come together
to help build an information society based on
principles of transparency, diversity, participation
and social and economic justice, and inspired by
equitable gender, cultural and regional perspectives.
We invite you to read more about CRIS Campaign and get
involved endorsing the CRIS Chapter:
http://scripts.planetgrey.org/cris/sign_charter_form.html
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/98/ 

READ MORE / LEA MAS / LISEZ PLUS
http://www.crisinfo.org/





		
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From lists at mraihi.com  Tue Dec 14 10:21:02 2004
From: lists at mraihi.com (Marouen MRAIHI)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] IRFD World Forum on Information Society  - Call for Papers
Message-ID: <012e01c4e1c6$a26ea170$6bfaa8c0@MAROUEN>

----- Original Message -----
From: IRFD World Forum on Information Society
To: marouen@mraihi.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:22 AM
Subject: Phase Two - Tunis Forum - Call for Papers




Call for Papers

 The International Research Foundation for Development is organizing the
second phase of its World Forum on Information Society to be held in Tunis
in November 2005 in view of the United Nations World Summit on the
Information Society, November 16-18, 2005.

 IRFD will also host an online virtual conference in association with and
prior to the World Forum in Tunisia.

 We would like to invite all stakeholders to examine the relevant issues and
considerations pertaining to the information revolution and knowledge
society in a comprehensive and scientific manner with the goal of finding
solutions, sharing best practices and experiences, and launching new action
programs.



 IRFD World Forum on Information Society
Digital Divide, Global Development and the Information Society
Phase Two: In view of the United Nations World Summit on the Information
Society
November 14 - 16, 2005 at The Renaissance Tunis Hotel
Send abstracts now. Early Registration Deadline - May 1st, 2005





 Online Virtual Conference of the World Forum on Information Society
Abstract Deadline: February 15th, 2005. Registration Deadline - March 18th,
2005



 Business Forum and IT Industry Presentation
 IRFD invites the business community and IT industry to present and showcase
new products and services that have the capacity to enhance the objectives
of the Information Society.



 Session Themes of the World Forum
 .Knowledge Economy, Knowledge Management, and Information Society
 .Information Communication Technology, e-Commerce and Business Environment
 .The Role of ICT in Economic Growth, and Socio-Economic Development
 .Information Science and Technology: Scientific Innovation and Information
Society
 .Transfer of Information Technology and Knowledge: Development and
Underdevelopment
 .ICT for Small Island Developing States, Least Developed Countries,
Landlocked Developing Countries
 .Geographical Information System and Sustainable Information Society
 .Cities and Regions, and Community Empowerment in an Information Age
 .Information Society and e-Governance
 .Social Stratification and Digital Divide
 .Culture and Politics in an Information Age
 .Issues and the Role of Media in an Information Age
 .Digital Divide: Development Policies and Action
 .Digital Education, Distance Learning and Creation of Information Society
 .Financing Mechanism and International Cooperation for Information Society
 .Presentation of Case Studies: Best Practices and Experiences of ICT
application for Development
 .The Role of ICT in women's participation in development


 For further information on these events, click here to visit our website:
http://www.irfd.org

 The International Research Foundation for Development operates within the
framework of its Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of
the United Nations.



IRFD . 2830 S. Holly Street . Cambridge, MN 55008 USA . wfis@irfd.org .
http://www.irfd.org




From sbuckley at gn.apc.org  Tue Dec 14 11:57:05 2004
From: sbuckley at gn.apc.org (Steve Buckley)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: HRW- Tunisia: Police Use Force to Block Rights Meeting
Message-ID: <4.3.1.20041214114606.02d33ab0@pop.gn.apc.org>

>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:HRWpress@hrw.org>Human Rights Watch
>To: <mailto:HRWpress@hrw.org>HRW Press
>Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 4:32 PM
>Subject: Tunisia: Police Use Force to Block Rights Meeting
>
>For Immediate Release:
>
>Tunisia: Police Use Force to Block Rights Meeting
>Government Brands Human Rights Group?s Gathering ?Illegal?
>
>(Paris, December 14, 2004) ? Tunisian police used force to block a human 
>rights gathering on Saturday, demonstrating once again the state?s 
>intolerance for independent human rights activities, Human Rights Watch 
>said today.
>
>On a day when Tunisia?s state-controlled newspapers headlined President 
>Zine al-`Abidine Bin `Ali?s achievements on the occasion of International 
>Human Rights Day (December 10), scores of police in Tunis surrounded the 
>headquarters of one of the country?s leading rights groups, the National 
>Council for Liberties in Tunisia (Conseil national pour les libert?s en 
>Tunisie, or CNLT). Police blocked access to people hoping to attend the 
>organization?s general assembly, and also brutally assaulted two CNLT 
>members and another human rights defender.
>
>In recent years, Tunisian police have prevented independent human rights 
>gatherings on dozens of occasions, often using violence to disperse those 
>hoping to gain access to the building where the meeting was scheduled.
>
>The repression of human rights gatherings has occurred at a time when 
>banners around Tunis herald the U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the 
>Information Society (WSIS), which the city is hosting in November. The 
>summit is billed as a global discussion of the impact of the digital 
>revolution and how best to bridge the ?digital divide? between rich and poor.
>
>?In hosting the U.N. summit on the information society, Tunisia wants to 
>be seen as a global leader in expanding access to information,? said Sarah 
>Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. 
>?But when it comes to its human rights record, the Tunisian government is 
>a leader in suppressing information.?
>
>In addition to preventing meetings of the CNLT, Tunisian authorities are 
>blocking local access to the organization?s website 
><http://welcome.to/cnlt>http://welcome.to/cnlt, as well to many other 
>websites that focus on human rights and politics in Tunisia. The official 
>and quasi-official media observe a complete blackout on the organization?s 
>activities and statements.
>
>A government official confirmed that police had prevented the December 11 
>gathering, saying the CNLT ?is not a legal organization.? The official, 
>speaking anonymously to Agence France-Presse, denied that the police used 
>violence.
>
>Although Tunisia?s constitution guarantees freedom of association, 
>Tunisian authorities have refused legal recognition to every truly 
>independent human rights organization that has applied over the past 
>decade. In 1999, the CNLT appealed the refusal of its application by the 
>Interior Ministry, but five years later the administrative court has yet 
>to hear the case.
>
>In July, police in Tunis blocked another independent group, the 
>International Association for Solidarity with Political Prisoners 
>(Association internationale de solidarit? avec les prisonniers politiques, 
>or AISPP), from holding its general assembly in its president?s law 
>office.  On June 15, authorities had denied the organization legal 
>recognition.
>
>In the case of two other rights organizations, authorities at the Interior 
>Ministry have refused even to accept the applications for legal 
>recognition by the Association against Torture (Association de lutte 
>contre la torture en Tunisie, or ALTT) and the Tunisian Center for an 
>Independent Judiciary (Centre Tunisien pour l?ind?pendance de la justice, 
>or CTIJ).
>
>Although legally recognized, the Tunisian Human Rights League (Ligue 
>tunisienne pour la d?fense des droits de l'homme, or LTDH) also faces 
>constant government harassment. On November 28, police massed in front of 
>the League?s office in Kairouan and set up roadblocks at the entrance of 
>the city to prevent people from reaching a conference on the recent 
>national elections. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that police 
>assaulted Hamma Hammami, head of the unrecognized Tunisian Communist 
>Workers Party, when he approached the League office. Tunisian officials 
>denied that any violence was used. One day before the thwarted meeting, 
>Interior Ministry officials in Kairouan had warned the League that the 
>meeting could not take place because its co-organizers included 
>representatives of unrecognized organizations.
>
>?Tunisian authorities boast that there are more than 8,000 legally 
>recognized associations in the country,? Whitson said. ?But as long as the 
>government bans or harasses the handful of groups that dare to question 
>government policies, freedom of association cannot be said to exist in 
>Tunisia.?
>
>For further information, please contact:
>
>In New York, Sarah Leah Whitson (Arabic): +212-216-1230
>In Paris, Eric Goldstein (French): +33-145-406-251
>In London, Urmi Shah: +44-207-713-2788
>In Brussels, Vanessa Saenen (French, Dutch, German): +322-732-2009

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From acarvin at edc.org  Tue Dec 14 14:13:35 2004
From: acarvin at edc.org (Andy Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Live Webcast today: A Tour of the Digital Divide Network
Message-ID: <41BEF50F.3080109@edc.org>

Hi everyone,

You are cordially invited for a live webcast tour of the new Digital
Divide Network website (http://www.digitaldivide.net) today at 12pm 
Eastern US time (17:00 GMT). I'll be conducting the tour. I'll take you 
on a virtual walk through the website, using  streaming audio and live 
Web conferencing. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees 
should register in advance, because space is limited. The tour will be 
conducted in English.

The new DDN website was launched yesterday. It features free blogging, 
bulletin boards, publishing tools and articles. Users can even set up 
their own online workspace; for example, I've set up a workspace for the 
Telecentres caucus. (http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/telecentres)

To register for the webcast, please go here:

http://home.learningtimes.net/edc?invitation_key=839-100B8D16D39

The actual webcast will be held here:

http://econference.edc.org

When you go to this page, you should see information about
the DDN webcast. Please follow the instructions to enter the meeting
room. If you don't see this information, click on the link in the left
column that says Meeting Rooms and then click on any of the meeting
rooms listed, as they'll all be part of the conference. Then click the
"Enter Now" button to enter the conference.

We recommend that you go to the website at least 30 minutes prior to the
webcast so you can download the required Java applet and test it. If you
have any problems entering the virtual meeting room, please feel free to
email help@learningtimes.net for assistance.

Minimum PC requirements:
Pentium II 266 Mhz with 64MB of RAM and a sound card.

Minimum Mac requirements:
OS 9.0-9.2: G3 233 Mhz with 64MB of RAM
OS X: G3 233 Mhz with 128MB of RAM

Users should have speakers or headphones; a microphone is recommended
but not required.

For more information about the event, please email me off-list.

thanks,
ac

-- 
-----------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
-----------------------------------
______________________________________

From Ramin.Kaweh at unctad.org  Tue Dec 14 17:04:04 2004
From: Ramin.Kaweh at unctad.org (Ramin.Kaweh@unctad.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] PrepCom 2 Invitation letter
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From karenb at gn.apc.org  Tue Dec 14 17:41:19 2004
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] PrepCom 2 Invitation letter
In-Reply-To: <OF6D9BD7ED.53920396-ON41256F6A.005D5541-C1256F6A.005DB908@
 unctad.org>
References: <OF6D9BD7ED.53920396-ON41256F6A.005D5541-C1256F6A.005DB908@unctad.org>
Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.0.20041214173957.032b3cc0@pop.gn.apc.org>

hi ramin

>Please see attached the invitation letter by ITU's Secretary-General, Mr. 
>Utsumi, for PrepCom 2, which will be held in Geneva, from 17-25 February 2005.

thanks for this, to highlight for accredited CSO's - make sure you inform 
the secretariat of your designated focal point for registration of 
delegates by Dec 24th.

karen


From e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk  Tue Dec 14 18:32:06 2004
From: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk (Ezendu Ariwa)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] PrepCom 2 Invitation letter
In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.0.20041214173957.032b3cc0@pop.gn.apc.org>
References: 
    <OF6D9BD7ED.53920396-ON41256F6A.005D5541-C1256F6A.005DB908@unctad.org>
    <6.1.1.1.0.20041214173957.032b3cc0@pop.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <1542.163.167.73.78.1103049126.squirrel@163.167.73.78>

Thanks

Ez


> hi ramin
>
>>Please see attached the invitation letter by ITU's Secretary-General, Mr.
>>Utsumi, for PrepCom 2, which will be held in Geneva, from 17-25 February
>> 2005.
>
> thanks for this, to highlight for accredited CSO's - make sure you inform
> the secretariat of your designated focal point for registration of
> delegates by Dec 24th.
>
> karen
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>



From acarvin at edc.org  Wed Dec 15 00:25:52 2004
From: acarvin at edc.org (Andy Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?
Message-ID: <41BF8490.4090605@edc.org>

Last night on a whim, I went online and bought the domain names 
wsisblogs.org and wsisblogs.com.

As you all know, we?re less than a year away from WSIS 2005. During the 
the first summit in Geneva, there was a small contingent of bloggers in 
Geneva, including myself and the amazing folks at DailySummit.net.

Undoubtedly there will be many more at the next summit, including 
delegates, professional journalists, civic journalists and others. And 
let's not forget the prepcoms and thematic meetings. Should we expect 
much of media presence at all of these events, particularly when the 
major policy decisions will take place? Precedence suggests otherwise. 
At the last prepcom meeting in Tunisia last June, I was one of a handful 
of bloggers present, all of whom -- as far as I know -- represented 
civil society; there was practically no mainstream media present, nor 
any noticeable media coverage after the fact.

Just 10 days ago, Rebecca MacKinnon lamented in her blog on the lack of 
mainstream media coverage regarding Internet governance, which was 
discussed at a recent ICANN meeting in Capetown. The event was covered 
by numerous bloggers, she noted, ?But no meaningful mainstream media 
coverage so far. Maybe it?s not as easy to understand or as exciting as 
the FCC, but isn?t it just as important (if not more so) for our global 
communication future??

So all of this got me wondering about WSIS, the upcoming prepcoms and 
other WSIS thematic meetings, and the dearth of quality media coverage. 
 From my perspective, it?s incumbent upon civil society ? including 
civic bloggers ? to embrace a bigger leadership role in publicizing the 
policy outcomes that are currently at stake, and mobilize the online 
public to take interest in the issue.

With all of this swirling through my head last night, I purchased the 
domain names WSISblogs.org and WSISblogs.com. I haven?t thought through 
what should be done with it, but I can envision something like Dave 
Winer?s ConventionBloggers.com, which aggregated all the bloggers 
covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions here in the 
US this past summer. In other words, a site where you could find all the 
latest posts from all the bloggers participating and/or observing the 
WSIS process. The site could be organized by major policy outcomes and 
related WSIS topics, so users could explore the latest blogs on Internet 
governance, the digital divide, protest activities, human rights issues, 
etc, as they occur. It would also be great to allow bloggers to add 
their RSS feeds to the site, since it?s not always possible to get an 
authoritative list of who?ll be blogging prior to WSIS-related events.

Even if we do nothing, chances are there will be bloggers galore at 
WSIS: dozens of bloggers, blogging on a variety of issues, in a variety 
of styles and languages, giving the public unfettered, unfiltered access 
to the WSIS process. Imagine if we could organize them all in one place.

Anyway, it?s just an idea. Would love to hear what others think. -andy

-- 
-----------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
-----------------------------------

From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Wed Dec 15 10:45:42 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] PrepCom 2 Invitation letter
In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.0.20041214173957.032b3cc0@pop.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <20041215104542.77735.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>

Karen,
Would you please check if BPEM is already included on
the List of associations registered for Precom II ?
Can we alson be represented as Civile society working
Group ?
Thanks a lot for your support.

--- karen banks <karenb@gn.apc.org> wrote:

> hi ramin
> 
> >Please see attached the invitation letter by ITU's
> Secretary-General, Mr. 
> >Utsumi, for PrepCom 2, which will be held in
> Geneva, from 17-25 February 2005.
> 
> thanks for this, to highlight for accredited CSO's -
> make sure you inform 
> the secretariat of your designated focal point for
> registration of 
> delegates by Dec 24th.
> 
> karen
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> 


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From tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn  Wed Dec 15 11:39:01 2004
From: tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn (Mohamed Tijani BEN JEMAA)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: Répondre: [WSIS CS-Plenary] PrepCom 2 Invitation letter
Message-ID: <200412151346.iBFDkk1n029399@smtp1.planet.net.tn>

Bonjour Ramin,

 J'espère que tu as fait un bon voyage de retour à Genève.
Je t'écris pour te demander de m'inscrire sur la liste du groupe de
travail sur les méthodes de travail comme déjà convenu à Cape Town.
 
Avec mes remerciements et mon amitié.

Tijani


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mohamed Tijani BEN JEMAA
Membre du Conseil de l'Ordre des Ingénieurs Tunisiens
Vice Président de la CIC, Fédération Mondiale des Organisations d'Ingénieurs
Téléphone : + 216 98 330 114                    Fax : + 216 71 781 927
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



From ecarll at optonline.net  Wed Dec 15 16:58:30 2004
From: ecarll at optonline.net (Elizabeth Carll, PhD)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?
In-Reply-To: <41BF8490.4090605@edc.org>
Message-ID: <LCEBJJNICFFBCNIHEDHCIEFAIFAA.ecarll@optonline.net>

Sounds like an excellent idea about organizing central place for info and
discussion.  Also agree that it is important to get mainstream media
interested in covering these important issues.  Lot depends on what
competing events are occurring in the news at the time of press releases and
pitches to our media contacts.

Best regards,

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point to WSIS
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair, Media/ICT Working Group,
UN NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York

-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of Andy Carvin
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 7:26 PM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?


Last night on a whim, I went online and bought the domain names
wsisblogs.org and wsisblogs.com.

As you all know, we?re less than a year away from WSIS 2005. During the
the first summit in Geneva, there was a small contingent of bloggers in
Geneva, including myself and the amazing folks at DailySummit.net.

Undoubtedly there will be many more at the next summit, including
delegates, professional journalists, civic journalists and others. And
let's not forget the prepcoms and thematic meetings. Should we expect
much of media presence at all of these events, particularly when the
major policy decisions will take place? Precedence suggests otherwise.
At the last prepcom meeting in Tunisia last June, I was one of a handful
of bloggers present, all of whom -- as far as I know -- represented
civil society; there was practically no mainstream media present, nor
any noticeable media coverage after the fact.

Just 10 days ago, Rebecca MacKinnon lamented in her blog on the lack of
mainstream media coverage regarding Internet governance, which was
discussed at a recent ICANN meeting in Capetown. The event was covered
by numerous bloggers, she noted, ?But no meaningful mainstream media
coverage so far. Maybe it?s not as easy to understand or as exciting as
the FCC, but isn?t it just as important (if not more so) for our global
communication future??

So all of this got me wondering about WSIS, the upcoming prepcoms and
other WSIS thematic meetings, and the dearth of quality media coverage.
 From my perspective, it?s incumbent upon civil society ? including
civic bloggers ? to embrace a bigger leadership role in publicizing the
policy outcomes that are currently at stake, and mobilize the online
public to take interest in the issue.

With all of this swirling through my head last night, I purchased the
domain names WSISblogs.org and WSISblogs.com. I haven?t thought through
what should be done with it, but I can envision something like Dave
Winer?s ConventionBloggers.com, which aggregated all the bloggers
covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions here in the
US this past summer. In other words, a site where you could find all the
latest posts from all the bloggers participating and/or observing the
WSIS process. The site could be organized by major policy outcomes and
related WSIS topics, so users could explore the latest blogs on Internet
governance, the digital divide, protest activities, human rights issues,
etc, as they occur. It would also be great to allow bloggers to add
their RSS feeds to the site, since it?s not always possible to get an
authoritative list of who?ll be blogging prior to WSIS-related events.

Even if we do nothing, chances are there will be bloggers galore at
WSIS: dozens of bloggers, blogging on a variety of issues, in a variety
of styles and languages, giving the public unfettered, unfiltered access
to the WSIS process. Imagine if we could organize them all in one place.

Anyway, it?s just an idea. Would love to hear what others think. -andy

--
-----------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
-----------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Plenary mailing list
Plenary@wsis-cs.org
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From a.loreto at ceu.it  Wed Dec 15 10:13:04 2004
From: a.loreto at ceu.it (Angelamaria Loreto)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] PrepCom 2 Invitation letter
References: <OF6D9BD7ED.53920396-ON41256F6A.005D5541-C1256F6A.005DB908@unctad.org>
Message-ID: <000a01c4e2d9$0246c6f0$6700a8c0@ACERAngela>

Thank you very much Ramin.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ramin.Kaweh@unctad.org 
  To: plenary@wsis-cs.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 6:04 PM
  Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] PrepCom 2 Invitation letter


  Dear All, 

  Please see attached the invitation letter by ITU's Secretary-General, Mr. Utsumi, for PrepCom 2, which will be held in Geneva, from 17-25 February 2005. 

  Best regards, Ramin 


   



  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  Ramin Kaweh
  Programme Officer
  UN-NGLS (Non-Governmental Liaison Service)
  Palais des Nations
  1211 Geneva 10
  Switzerland
  tel:  0041.22. 917 2078
  fax: 0041.22. 917 0432
  ramin.kaweh@unctad.org
  www.un-ngls.org
  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 





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From: a.loreto at ceu.it (Angelamaria Loreto)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?
References: <41BF8490.4090605@edc.org>
Message-ID: <000b01c4e2d9$028ea560$6700a8c0@ACERAngela>

I think it's a very good idea. Thank you for doing it

Angelamaria Loreto
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Carvin" <acarvin@edc.org>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:25 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?


> Last night on a whim, I went online and bought the domain names
> wsisblogs.org and wsisblogs.com.
>
> As you all know, we?re less than a year away from WSIS 2005. During the
> the first summit in Geneva, there was a small contingent of bloggers in
> Geneva, including myself and the amazing folks at DailySummit.net.
>
> Undoubtedly there will be many more at the next summit, including
> delegates, professional journalists, civic journalists and others. And
> let's not forget the prepcoms and thematic meetings. Should we expect
> much of media presence at all of these events, particularly when the
> major policy decisions will take place? Precedence suggests otherwise.
> At the last prepcom meeting in Tunisia last June, I was one of a handful
> of bloggers present, all of whom -- as far as I know -- represented
> civil society; there was practically no mainstream media present, nor
> any noticeable media coverage after the fact.
>
> Just 10 days ago, Rebecca MacKinnon lamented in her blog on the lack of
> mainstream media coverage regarding Internet governance, which was
> discussed at a recent ICANN meeting in Capetown. The event was covered
> by numerous bloggers, she noted, ?But no meaningful mainstream media
> coverage so far. Maybe it?s not as easy to understand or as exciting as
> the FCC, but isn?t it just as important (if not more so) for our global
> communication future??
>
> So all of this got me wondering about WSIS, the upcoming prepcoms and
> other WSIS thematic meetings, and the dearth of quality media coverage.
>  From my perspective, it?s incumbent upon civil society ? including
> civic bloggers ? to embrace a bigger leadership role in publicizing the
> policy outcomes that are currently at stake, and mobilize the online
> public to take interest in the issue.
>
> With all of this swirling through my head last night, I purchased the
> domain names WSISblogs.org and WSISblogs.com. I haven?t thought through
> what should be done with it, but I can envision something like Dave
> Winer?s ConventionBloggers.com, which aggregated all the bloggers
> covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions here in the
> US this past summer. In other words, a site where you could find all the
> latest posts from all the bloggers participating and/or observing the
> WSIS process. The site could be organized by major policy outcomes and
> related WSIS topics, so users could explore the latest blogs on Internet
> governance, the digital divide, protest activities, human rights issues,
> etc, as they occur. It would also be great to allow bloggers to add
> their RSS feeds to the site, since it?s not always possible to get an
> authoritative list of who?ll be blogging prior to WSIS-related events.
>
> Even if we do nothing, chances are there will be bloggers galore at
> WSIS: dozens of bloggers, blogging on a variety of issues, in a variety
> of styles and languages, giving the public unfettered, unfiltered access
> to the WSIS process. Imagine if we could organize them all in one place.
>
> Anyway, it?s just an idea. Would love to hear what others think. -andy
>
> --
> -----------------------------------
> Andy Carvin
> Program Director
> EDC Center for Media & Community
> acarvin @ edc . org
> http://www.digitaldivide.net
> Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
> -----------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>


From e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk  Wed Dec 15 20:32:47 2004
From: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk (Ezendu Ariwa)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] PrepCom 2 Invitation letter
In-Reply-To: <000a01c4e2d9$0246c6f0$6700a8c0@ACERAngela>
References: 
    <OF6D9BD7ED.53920396-ON41256F6A.005D5541-C1256F6A.005DB908@unctad.org>
    <000a01c4e2d9$0246c6f0$6700a8c0@ACERAngela>
Message-ID: <1163.163.167.73.67.1103142767.squirrel@163.167.73.67>

Dear Sir/Madam

Thanks

Kindly resend the attachment


Ezendu




> Thank you very much Ramin.
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Ramin.Kaweh@unctad.org
>   To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>   Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 6:04 PM
>   Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] PrepCom 2 Invitation letter
>
>
>   Dear All,
>
>   Please see attached the invitation letter by ITU's Secretary-General,
> Mr. Utsumi, for PrepCom 2, which will be held in Geneva, from 17-25
> February 2005.
>
>   Best regards, Ramin
>
>
>
>
>
>
>   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> *
>   Ramin Kaweh
>   Programme Officer
>   UN-NGLS (Non-Governmental Liaison Service)
>   Palais des Nations
>   1211 Geneva 10
>   Switzerland
>   tel:  0041.22. 917 2078
>   fax: 0041.22. 917 0432
>   ramin.kaweh@unctad.org
>   www.un-ngls.org
>   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> *
>
>
>
>
>
>



From marzouki at ras.eu.org  Thu Dec 16 08:43:08 2004
From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:12 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: PrepCom2 - Accreditation
Message-ID: <82D61720-4F3E-11D9-9591-0003935A8C90@ras.eu.org>

Hi all, Cher tous,

Before registration, accreditation must be checked. See below. Please 
inform the Human Rights Caucus of any accreditation refused, as there 
are some organizations which accreditation is denied by governments, 
like Human Rights in China, for example, and the question has been 
raised during the Hammamet PrepCom by the HR caucus.

Avant l'inscription, l'accreditation doit ?tre v?rifi?e. Voir 
ci-dessous. Merci d'informer le caucus des droits de l'homme de toute 
accreditation refus?e, car certaines organisations se voient refuser 
l'accr?ditation par des gouvernements, c'est le cas de Human Rights in 
China par exemple, et cette question a ?t? soulev?e par le caucus DDH 
pendant la prepcom de Hammamet.

Meryem Marzouki
Co-chair Human Rights Caucus
Co-responsable du caucus des droits de l'homme
http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis

D?but du message r?exp?di? :

> De: Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>
> Date: Lun 13 d?c 2004  17:18:42 Europe/Paris
> ?: hr-wsis@iris.sgdg.org
> Objet: PrepCom2 - Accreditation
>
> [Fran?ais ci-dessous]
> Dear all
>
> Next WSIS PrepCom (PrepCom2 of the 2nd phase) will be held in Geneva, 
> February 17-25, 2005.
>
> - Organizations that have already been accredited organizations for a 
> previous prepcom don't need to ask again for accreditation
>
> - Organizations that have not already been accredited, but are in 
> consultative status with ECOSOC, don't need to request accreditation. 
> However, they have to submit an "expression of interest form" 
> (http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/accreditation/ecosoc-form.html) 6 weeks 
> before PrepCom2, which means the deadline is early January. The reason 
> is that Governments have requested in the Arrangements for 
> Accreditation that a list of such entities be submitted to them 2 
> weeks in advance of each PrepCom.
>
> - Organizations that have not already been accredited, and are not in 
> consultative status with ECOSOC, need to ask for accreditation. The 
> deadline is January 6, 2005.
>
> All accredited organizations and those in consultative status with 
> ECOSOC will need to register their participants to PrepCom2, starting 
> from January 5, 2005 (a registration form will be online).
>
> More information at:
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/preparatory2/pc2/index.html (PrepCom2)
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/participation/accreditation/cs.html 
> (Accreditations)
>
> Please inform us in case you have received a negative answer or no 
> answer to your request for accreditation.
>
> Meryem
>
> ========
> Chers tous,
>
> La prochaine PrepCom du SMSI (PrepCom2 de la seconde phase) aura lieu 
> ? Gen?ve, du 17 au 25 f?vrier 2005.
>
> - Les organisations qui ont d?j? ?t? accr?dit?es pour une pr?c?dente 
> PrepCom n'ont pas ? redemander l'accr?ditation.
>
> - Les organisations qui n'ont pas d?j? ?t? accr?dit?es, mais qui sont 
> en statut consultatif aupr?s de l'ECOSOC n'ont pas besoin de demander 
> l'accr?ditation. Toutefois, elles doivent indiquer au secr?tariat leur 
> intention de participer en remplissant le formulaire d'"expression 
> d'int?r?t"  
> (http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/accreditation/ecosoc-form.html, non 
> disponible en Fran?ais semble-t-il). Cela doit ?tre fait 6 semaines 
> avant la PrepCom, ce qui signifie une date limite d?but janvier. Les 
> ?tats ont en effet demander ? disposer d'une telle liste 2 semaines 
> avant chaque PrepCom.
>
> - Les organisations qui n'ont pas d?j? ?t? accr?dit?es, et qui ne sont 
> pas en statut consultatif aupr?s de l'ECOSOC, doivent demander leur 
> accr?ditation. La date limite est le 6 janvier 2005.
>
> Toutes les organisations accr?dit?es et celles en statut consultatif 
> aupr?s de l'ECOSOC devront inscrire leur repr?sentants ? la PrepCom2, 
> ? partir du 5 janvier 2005 (un formulaire d'inscription sera 
> disponible en ligne).
>
> Plus d'information ?:
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/preparatory2/pc2/index-fr.html (PrepCom2)
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/participation/accreditation/cs-fr.html 
> (Accr?ditations)
>
> Merci de nous informer si vous recevez une r?ponse n?gative, ou pas de 
> r?ponse du tout, ? votre demande d'accr?ditation.
>
> Meryem
>


From vb at bertola.eu.org  Thu Dec 16 11:03:07 2004
From: vb at bertola.eu.org (Vittorio Bertola)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?
In-Reply-To: <41BF8490.4090605@edc.org>
References: <41BF8490.4090605@edc.org>
Message-ID: <1103194987.4082.261.camel@croce>

Il giorno mar, 14-12-2004 alle 19:25 -0500, Andy Carvin ha scritto:
> Anyway, it?s just an idea. Would love to hear what others think. -andy

Good idea - also, the aggregator concept is well recognized now, so
there should even be almost-out-of-the-box software solutions to build a
WSIS blogs aggregator.

I personally think that one person or organization should take
responsibility for maintaining the site and perhaps also for checking
blogs prior to addition - not in terms of censorship, but perhaps in
terms of proper categorization by language, area of interest, etc, and
also to prevent blogspam and/or people who do not blog about WSIS but
might want to add their blog to increase exposure, etc.
-- 
vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...


From rikp at earthlink.net  Wed Dec 15 17:09:55 2004
From: rikp at earthlink.net (Rik Panganiban)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?
In-Reply-To: <41BF8490.4090605@edc.org>
References: <41BF8490.4090605@edc.org>
Message-ID: <2451C23C-4EBC-11D9-AE91-0003937B7670@earthlink.net>

Hi Andy,

I don't think its necessarily a bad idea, particularly if you are 
offering to host the site and provide blogging services for whoever 
wants to use it.  However there are several blogs and news sites 
already out there.  Perhaps you mean an effort similar to what the 
British Council did at the Geneva summit, the "dailysummit" journalist 
blogs?  I would certainly support something that is more edgy, 
humorous, and outsider-friendly.

On wsis-cs.org we will probably be adding a CS blog / news coverage 
page shortly.

Some of us who have established WSIS civil society sites (APC, German 
CS group, WSIS-online.net, CONGO, etc) have been talking about the need 
for a more centralized online space for CS to work collaboratively, 
share documents, report the latest developments, etc.  The blog piece 
is important, but only one part of the puzzle.  The kind of stuff you 
guys have set up for the digital divide network is a great system for 
communities to use.  Perhaps we should just invade your site?

Regards,

Rik Panganiban
(ocassional blogger at rikomatic.objectic.net)

On Dec 14, 2004, at 7:25 PM, Andy Carvin wrote:

> Last night on a whim, I went online and bought the domain names 
> wsisblogs.org and wsisblogs.com.
>
> As you all know, we?re less than a year away from WSIS 2005. During 
> the the first summit in Geneva, there was a small contingent of 
> bloggers in Geneva, including myself and the amazing folks at 
> DailySummit.net.
>
> Undoubtedly there will be many more at the next summit, including 
> delegates, professional journalists, civic journalists and others. And 
> let's not forget the prepcoms and thematic meetings. Should we expect 
> much of media presence at all of these events, particularly when the 
> major policy decisions will take place? Precedence suggests otherwise. 
> At the last prepcom meeting in Tunisia last June, I was one of a 
> handful of bloggers present, all of whom -- as far as I know -- 
> represented civil society; there was practically no mainstream media 
> present, nor any noticeable media coverage after the fact.
>
> Just 10 days ago, Rebecca MacKinnon lamented in her blog on the lack 
> of mainstream media coverage regarding Internet governance, which was 
> discussed at a recent ICANN meeting in Capetown. The event was covered 
> by numerous bloggers, she noted, ?But no meaningful mainstream media 
> coverage so far. Maybe it?s not as easy to understand or as exciting 
> as the FCC, but isn?t it just as important (if not more so) for our 
> global communication future??
>
> So all of this got me wondering about WSIS, the upcoming prepcoms and 
> other WSIS thematic meetings, and the dearth of quality media 
> coverage. From my perspective, it?s incumbent upon civil society ? 
> including civic bloggers ? to embrace a bigger leadership role in 
> publicizing the policy outcomes that are currently at stake, and 
> mobilize the online public to take interest in the issue.
>
> With all of this swirling through my head last night, I purchased the 
> domain names WSISblogs.org and WSISblogs.com. I haven?t thought 
> through what should be done with it, but I can envision something like 
> Dave Winer?s ConventionBloggers.com, which aggregated all the bloggers 
> covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions here in 
> the US this past summer. In other words, a site where you could find 
> all the latest posts from all the bloggers participating and/or 
> observing the WSIS process. The site could be organized by major 
> policy outcomes and related WSIS topics, so users could explore the 
> latest blogs on Internet governance, the digital divide, protest 
> activities, human rights issues, etc, as they occur. It would also be 
> great to allow bloggers to add their RSS feeds to the site, since it?s 
> not always possible to get an authoritative list of who?ll be blogging 
> prior to WSIS-related events.
>
> Even if we do nothing, chances are there will be bloggers galore at 
> WSIS: dozens of bloggers, blogging on a variety of issues, in a 
> variety of styles and languages, giving the public unfettered, 
> unfiltered access to the WSIS process. Imagine if we could organize 
> them all in one place.
>
> Anyway, it?s just an idea. Would love to hear what others think. -andy
>
> -- 
> -----------------------------------
> Andy Carvin
> Program Director
> EDC Center for Media & Community
> acarvin @ edc . org
> http://www.digitaldivide.net
> Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
> -----------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>
>
===============================================
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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 acarvin at edc.org  Thu Dec 16 14:22:32 2004
From: acarvin at edc.org (Andy Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?
In-Reply-To: <2451C23C-4EBC-11D9-AE91-0003937B7670@earthlink.net>
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Message-ID: <41C19A28.5040800@edc.org>

Hi Rik,

No, that's not exactly what I had in mind. I'm not thinking of 
re-creating DailySummit.net, particularly if David Steven and his 
colleagues return for 2005. And I don't mean hosting blogs for people, 
since there are free sites for people to do that already, including our 
new digitaldivide.net website.

What I'm suggesting is a RSS feed aggregator: a website that retrieves 
content from all  the websites like DailySummit and others that will be 
covering WSIS, and hosting summaries of those blogs in one place. 
Conventionbloggers.com is a good example of an event blog aggregator, 
though it's missing some of the features I'd want. It was created for 
all the bloggers who were covering the US political conventions this 
summer. (The republican convention was the second event, so that's why 
this site is showing conservative blogs at the moment.) The site would 
capture the latest blog entries from dozens of different blogs around 
the Internet covering the event and aggregate it in one place, saving 
people the trouble of scouring the Net for individual blogs.

I'd envision doing something similar, but make it sortable by date, 
topic, geography and language. I see the site as a place where people 
can follow WSIS-related events in near-real time, as bloggers from 
various sources post content. So if you're blogging, I'm blogging, 
DailySummit's blogging, Ralf's blogging, others are blogging, summaries 
of our latest blogs could appear in one place.

Technically it shouldn't be that difficult, and I'm trying to corral 
some volunteers from the blog technical development community for 
design, hosting, etc. Fortunately there are a lot of blog techies here 
in the Boston area, so I'm talking about the idea with them.

And you're absolutely right, we also need collaborative online 
workspaces that go beyond blogs, since blogs certainly can't do 
everything. I'd love to have us experiment with the new Digital Divide 
Network website as a collaborative tool. The site can host free blogs, 
bulletin boards, document storage, news and events listings, articles, 
etc, and is free to anyone working on issues related to the digital 
divide. We're going to use DDN for the telecentres caucus, and invite 
other groups to try the site for themselves and see if it could be 
useful to them.

http://www.digitaldivide.net


thanks,
ac


Rik Panganiban wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> I don't think its necessarily a bad idea, particularly if you are 
> offering to host the site and provide blogging services for whoever 
> wants to use it. However there are several blogs and news sites already 
> out there. Perhaps you mean an effort similar to what the British 
> Council did at the Geneva summit, the "dailysummit" journalist blogs? I 
> would certainly support something that is more edgy, humorous, and 
> outsider-friendly.
> 
> On wsis-cs.org we will probably be adding a CS blog / news coverage page 
> shortly.
> 
> Some of us who have established WSIS civil society sites (APC, German CS 
> group, WSIS-online.net, CONGO, etc) have been talking about the need for 
> a more centralized online space for CS to work collaboratively, share 
> documents, report the latest developments, etc. The blog piece is 
> important, but only one part of the puzzle. The kind of stuff you guys 
> have set up for the digital divide network is a great system for 
> communities to use. Perhaps we should just invade your site?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rik Panganiban
> (ocassional blogger at rikomatic.objectic.net)
> 
> On Dec 14, 2004, at 7:25 PM, Andy Carvin wrote:
> 
>     Last night on a whim, I went online and bought the domain names
>     wsisblogs.org and wsisblogs.com.
> 
>     As you all know, we?re less than a year away from WSIS 2005. During
>     the the first summit in Geneva, there was a small contingent of
>     bloggers in Geneva, including myself and the amazing folks at
>     DailySummit.net.
> 
>     Undoubtedly there will be many more at the next summit, including
>     delegates, professional journalists, civic journalists and others.
>     And let's not forget the prepcoms and thematic meetings. Should we
>     expect much of media presence at all of these events, particularly
>     when the major policy decisions will take place? Precedence suggests
>     otherwise. At the last prepcom meeting in Tunisia last June, I was
>     one of a handful of bloggers present, all of whom -- as far as I
>     know -- represented civil society; there was practically no
>     mainstream media present, nor any noticeable media coverage after
>     the fact.
> 
>     Just 10 days ago, Rebecca MacKinnon lamented in her blog on the lack
>     of mainstream media coverage regarding Internet governance, which
>     was discussed at a recent ICANN meeting in Capetown. The event was
>     covered by numerous bloggers, she noted, ?But no meaningful
>     mainstream media coverage so far. Maybe it?s not as easy to
>     understand or as exciting as the FCC, but isn?t it just as important
>     (if not more so) for our global communication future??
> 
>     So all of this got me wondering about WSIS, the upcoming prepcoms
>     and other WSIS thematic meetings, and the dearth of quality media
>     coverage. From my perspective, it?s incumbent upon civil society ?
>     including civic bloggers ? to embrace a bigger leadership role in
>     publicizing the policy outcomes that are currently at stake, and
>     mobilize the online public to take interest in the issue.
> 
>     With all of this swirling through my head last night, I purchased
>     the domain names WSISblogs.org and WSISblogs.com. I haven?t thought
>     through what should be done with it, but I can envision something
>     like Dave Winer?s ConventionBloggers.com, which aggregated all the
>     bloggers covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions
>     here in the US this past summer. In other words, a site where you
>     could find all the latest posts from all the bloggers participating
>     and/or observing the WSIS process. The site could be organized by
>     major policy outcomes and related WSIS topics, so users could
>     explore the latest blogs on Internet governance, the digital divide,
>     protest activities, human rights issues, etc, as they occur. It
>     would also be great to allow bloggers to add their RSS feeds to the
>     site, since it?s not always possible to get an authoritative list of
>     who?ll be blogging prior to WSIS-related events.
> 
>     Even if we do nothing, chances are there will be bloggers galore at
>     WSIS: dozens of bloggers, blogging on a variety of issues, in a
>     variety of styles and languages, giving the public unfettered,
>     unfiltered access to the WSIS process. Imagine if we could organize
>     them all in one place.
> 
>     Anyway, it?s just an idea. Would love to hear what others think. -andy
> 
>     -- 
>     -----------------------------------
>     Andy Carvin
>     Program Director
>     EDC Center for Media & Community
>     acarvin @ edc . org
>     http://www.digitaldivide.net
>     Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
>     -----------------------------------
>     _______________________________________________
>     Plenary mailing list
>     Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>     http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> 
> 
> ===============================================
> 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
> 
> ** Please note CONGO's new mailing address: *CP 50, 1211 Gen?ve 20, 
> Switzerland.*  Our physical office address is 11, Avenue De La Paix, 1st 
> Floor, 1202 Gen?ve, Switzerland. **
> 

-- 
-----------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
-----------------------------------

From acarvin at edc.org  Thu Dec 16 16:51:48 2004
From: acarvin at edc.org (Andy Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] DDN tutorials on blogging, RSS feeds, Creative Commons, online communities
Message-ID: <41C1BD24.1010702@edc.org>

Hi everyone,

For those of you who are experimenting with our new Digital Divide
Network website -- or would like to check it out for the first time --
I've written a series of tutorials on some of the exciting things you
can do with the website.

How to Create a DDN Blog:
http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=69

Ever wanted to create your own blog? You can try out our free,
noncommercial, easy-to-use blogging tool.


How to Create Your Own DDN Community:
http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=72

DDN users can create their own online communities, featuring bulletin
boards, document sharing, news and events listings, blog entries and RSS
feeds.


What's RSS and Why Should I Care About it?
http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=68

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a way of having new content from
websites, blogs and newsletters come directly to you. If you're a
blogger or a online publisher, RSS feeds make it a lot easier for your
readers to keep up-to-date.


A Quick and Easy Guide to Creative Commons Licenses:
http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=70

DDN incorporates Creative Commons licenses, a powerful tool for
assigning personalized copyright rules for your content.

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

All of the tools described in these tutorials are available to DDN
members, and membership is free. To create a DDN account, please visit here:

http://www.digitaldivide.net/members/add.php

thanks,
ac

-- 
-----------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
-----------------------------------

-- 
-----------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
-----------------------------------

From rbloem at ngocongo.org  Thu Dec 16 18:04:17 2004
From: rbloem at ngocongo.org (Renata Bloem)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CSB Cape Town Summary Report
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From rikp at earthlink.net  Thu Dec 16 19:46:37 2004
From: rikp at earthlink.net (Rik Panganiban)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?
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References: <41BF8490.4090605@edc.org> <2451C23C-4EBC-11D9-AE91-0003937B7670@earthlink.net> <41C19A28.5040800@edc.org>
Message-ID: <3291F958-4F9B-11D9-91BD-0003937B7670@earthlink.net>

Ah, a WSIS RSS feed aggregator.  Yes, that would a great tool to have.  
Particularly since there are a host of WSIS-related events in 2005 that 
people will want to receive reporting on.  OK, you've got my vote.

Rik Panganiban

On Dec 16, 2004, at 9:22 AM, Andy Carvin wrote:

> Hi Rik,
>
> No, that's not exactly what I had in mind. I'm not thinking of 
> re-creating DailySummit.net, particularly if David Steven and his 
> colleagues return for 2005. And I don't mean hosting blogs for people, 
> since there are free sites for people to do that already, including 
> our new digitaldivide.net website.
>
> What I'm suggesting is a RSS feed aggregator: a website that retrieves 
> content from all  the websites like DailySummit and others that will 
> be covering WSIS, and hosting summaries of those blogs in one place. 
> Conventionbloggers.com is a good example of an event blog aggregator, 
> though it's missing some of the features I'd want. It was created for 
> all the bloggers who were covering the US political conventions this 
> summer. (The republican convention was the second event, so that's why 
> this site is showing conservative blogs at the moment.) The site would 
> capture the latest blog entries from dozens of different blogs around 
> the Internet covering the event and aggregate it in one place, saving 
> people the trouble of scouring the Net for individual blogs.
>
> I'd envision doing something similar, but make it sortable by date, 
> topic, geography and language. I see the site as a place where people 
> can follow WSIS-related events in near-real time, as bloggers from 
> various sources post content. So if you're blogging, I'm blogging, 
> DailySummit's blogging, Ralf's blogging, others are blogging, 
> summaries of our latest blogs could appear in one place.
>
> Technically it shouldn't be that difficult, and I'm trying to corral 
> some volunteers from the blog technical development community for 
> design, hosting, etc. Fortunately there are a lot of blog techies here 
> in the Boston area, so I'm talking about the idea with them.
>
> And you're absolutely right, we also need collaborative online 
> workspaces that go beyond blogs, since blogs certainly can't do 
> everything. I'd love to have us experiment with the new Digital Divide 
> Network website as a collaborative tool. The site can host free blogs, 
> bulletin boards, document storage, news and events listings, articles, 
> etc, and is free to anyone working on issues related to the digital 
> divide. We're going to use DDN for the telecentres caucus, and invite 
> other groups to try the site for themselves and see if it could be 
> useful to them.
>
> http://www.digitaldivide.net
>
>
> thanks,
> ac
>
>
> Rik Panganiban wrote:
>> Hi Andy,
>> I don't think its necessarily a bad idea, particularly if you are 
>> offering to host the site and provide blogging services for whoever 
>> wants to use it. However there are several blogs and news sites 
>> already out there. Perhaps you mean an effort similar to what the 
>> British Council did at the Geneva summit, the "dailysummit" 
>> journalist blogs? I would certainly support something that is more 
>> edgy, humorous, and outsider-friendly.
>> On wsis-cs.org we will probably be adding a CS blog / news coverage 
>> page shortly.
>> Some of us who have established WSIS civil society sites (APC, German 
>> CS group, WSIS-online.net, CONGO, etc) have been talking about the 
>> need for a more centralized online space for CS to work 
>> collaboratively, share documents, report the latest developments, 
>> etc. The blog piece is important, but only one part of the puzzle. 
>> The kind of stuff you guys have set up for the digital divide network 
>> is a great system for communities to use. Perhaps we should just 
>> invade your site?
>> Regards,
>> Rik Panganiban
>> (ocassional blogger at rikomatic.objectic.net)
>> On Dec 14, 2004, at 7:25 PM, Andy Carvin wrote:
>>     Last night on a whim, I went online and bought the domain names
>>     wsisblogs.org and wsisblogs.com.
>>     As you all know, we?re less than a year away from WSIS 2005. 
>> During
>>     the the first summit in Geneva, there was a small contingent of
>>     bloggers in Geneva, including myself and the amazing folks at
>>     DailySummit.net.
>>     Undoubtedly there will be many more at the next summit, including
>>     delegates, professional journalists, civic journalists and others.
>>     And let's not forget the prepcoms and thematic meetings. Should we
>>     expect much of media presence at all of these events, particularly
>>     when the major policy decisions will take place? Precedence 
>> suggests
>>     otherwise. At the last prepcom meeting in Tunisia last June, I was
>>     one of a handful of bloggers present, all of whom -- as far as I
>>     know -- represented civil society; there was practically no
>>     mainstream media present, nor any noticeable media coverage after
>>     the fact.
>>     Just 10 days ago, Rebecca MacKinnon lamented in her blog on the 
>> lack
>>     of mainstream media coverage regarding Internet governance, which
>>     was discussed at a recent ICANN meeting in Capetown. The event was
>>     covered by numerous bloggers, she noted, ?But no meaningful
>>     mainstream media coverage so far. Maybe it?s not as easy to
>>     understand or as exciting as the FCC, but isn?t it just as 
>> important
>>     (if not more so) for our global communication future??
>>     So all of this got me wondering about WSIS, the upcoming prepcoms
>>     and other WSIS thematic meetings, and the dearth of quality media
>>     coverage. From my perspective, it?s incumbent upon civil society ?
>>     including civic bloggers ? to embrace a bigger leadership role in
>>     publicizing the policy outcomes that are currently at stake, and
>>     mobilize the online public to take interest in the issue.
>>     With all of this swirling through my head last night, I purchased
>>     the domain names WSISblogs.org and WSISblogs.com. I haven?t 
>> thought
>>     through what should be done with it, but I can envision something
>>     like Dave Winer?s ConventionBloggers.com, which aggregated all the
>>     bloggers covering the Democratic and Republican National 
>> Conventions
>>     here in the US this past summer. In other words, a site where you
>>     could find all the latest posts from all the bloggers 
>> participating
>>     and/or observing the WSIS process. The site could be organized by
>>     major policy outcomes and related WSIS topics, so users could
>>     explore the latest blogs on Internet governance, the digital 
>> divide,
>>     protest activities, human rights issues, etc, as they occur. It
>>     would also be great to allow bloggers to add their RSS feeds to 
>> the
>>     site, since it?s not always possible to get an authoritative list 
>> of
>>     who?ll be blogging prior to WSIS-related events.
>>     Even if we do nothing, chances are there will be bloggers galore 
>> at
>>     WSIS: dozens of bloggers, blogging on a variety of issues, in a
>>     variety of styles and languages, giving the public unfettered,
>>     unfiltered access to the WSIS process. Imagine if we could 
>> organize
>>     them all in one place.
>>     Anyway, it?s just an idea. Would love to hear what others think. 
>> -andy
>>     --     -----------------------------------
>>     Andy Carvin
>>     Program Director
>>     EDC Center for Media & Community
>>     acarvin @ edc . org
>>     http://www.digitaldivide.net
>>     Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
>>     -----------------------------------
>>     _______________________________________________
>>     Plenary mailing list
>>     Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>>     http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>> ===============================================
>> 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
>> ** Please note CONGO's new mailing address: *CP 50, 1211 Gen?ve 20, 
>> Switzerland.*  Our physical office address is 11, Avenue De La Paix, 
>> 1st Floor, 1202 Gen?ve, Switzerland. **
>
> -- 
> -----------------------------------
> Andy Carvin
> Program Director
> EDC Center for Media & Community
> acarvin @ edc . org
> http://www.digitaldivide.net
> Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
> -----------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>
>
===============================================
RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator
Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations 
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From acarvin at edc.org  Thu Dec 16 16:49:16 2004
From: acarvin at edc.org (Andy Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] DDN tutorials on blogging, RSS feeds, Creative Commons, online communities
Message-ID: <41C1BC8C.7030009@edc.org>

Hi everyone,

For those of you who are experimenting with our new Digital Divide 
Network website -- or would like to check it out for the first time -- 
I've written a series of tutorials on some of the exciting things you 
can do with the website.

How to Create a DDN Blog:
http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=69

Ever wanted to create your own blog? You can try out our free, 
noncommercial, easy-to-use blogging tool.


How to Create Your Own DDN Community:
http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=72

DDN users can create their own online communities, featuring bulletin 
boards, document sharing, news and events listings, blog entries and RSS 
feeds.


What's RSS and Why Should I Care About it?
http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=68

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a way of having new content from 
websites, blogs and newsletters come directly to you. If you're a 
blogger or a online publisher, RSS feeds make it a lot easier for your 
readers to keep up-to-date.


A Quick and Easy Guide to Creative Commons Licenses:
http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=70

DDN incorporates Creative Commons licenses, a powerful tool for 
assigning personalized copyright rules for your content.

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All of the tools described in these tutorials are available to DDN 
members, and membership is free. To create a DDN account, please visit here:

http://www.digitaldivide.net/members/add.php

thanks,
ac

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From mh at wacc.org.uk  Fri Dec 17 09:47:20 2004
From: mh at wacc.org.uk (Myriam Horngren)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FW: AlertNet email: Tunisia: Police Use Force to Block Rights Meeting
Message-ID: <7414FB05C3419C42931F0911BE79061D4FECFA@wacc-commserver.wacc.org.uk>

For those who are organising in the run up to WSIS, I thought this might
be of interest.

Myriam

-----Original Message-----
From: alertnet@reuters.com [mailto:alertnet@reuters.com] 
Sent: 14 December 2004 21:24
To: Myriam Horngren
Subject: AlertNet email: Tunisia: Police Use Force to Block Rights
Meeting


This article was found on AlertNet (http://www.alertnet.org) and sent to
you by Jim MccDonnell (jimmcdonnell@blueyonder.co.uk).
Jim MccDonnell said:
Am in Rome just now but came across this report and thought it should be
distributed more widely.

Jim

Tunisia: Police Use Force to Block Rights Meeting
<
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/06ee9ca0dbf9360f502cc5f724d
babd1.htm >
Government Brands Human Rights Group's Gathering 'Illegal'<br />
	Tunisian police used force to block a human rights gathering on
Saturday, demonstrating once again the state's intolerance for
independent human rights activities, Human Rights Watch said today.
	

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From rfj at humanrights.dk  Fri Dec 17 12:55:58 2004
From: rfj at humanrights.dk (Rikke Frank Joergensen)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?
Message-ID: <53E14C44C8F37442B95B73E4C8E744DF0107E5FE@SRVEXC00.dupa.dk>

Hi Andy,

I think it's an excellent idea! 

It would also be a way to illustrate new means of public communication /
media / reporting etc. Thus WSIS would be inventive not only on UN / CS
coop, and working methods of CS, but also in how we communicate and
inform about global policy processes.

Rikke

-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org] On
Behalf Of Andy Carvin
Sent: 15. december 2004 01:26
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?

Last night on a whim, I went online and bought the domain names 
wsisblogs.org and wsisblogs.com.

As you all know, we're less than a year away from WSIS 2005. During the 
the first summit in Geneva, there was a small contingent of bloggers in 
Geneva, including myself and the amazing folks at DailySummit.net.

Undoubtedly there will be many more at the next summit, including 
delegates, professional journalists, civic journalists and others. And 
let's not forget the prepcoms and thematic meetings. Should we expect 
much of media presence at all of these events, particularly when the 
major policy decisions will take place? Precedence suggests otherwise. 
At the last prepcom meeting in Tunisia last June, I was one of a handful

of bloggers present, all of whom -- as far as I know -- represented 
civil society; there was practically no mainstream media present, nor 
any noticeable media coverage after the fact.

Just 10 days ago, Rebecca MacKinnon lamented in her blog on the lack of 
mainstream media coverage regarding Internet governance, which was 
discussed at a recent ICANN meeting in Capetown. The event was covered 
by numerous bloggers, she noted, "But no meaningful mainstream media 
coverage so far. Maybe it's not as easy to understand or as exciting as 
the FCC, but isn't it just as important (if not more so) for our global 
communication future?"

So all of this got me wondering about WSIS, the upcoming prepcoms and 
other WSIS thematic meetings, and the dearth of quality media coverage. 
 From my perspective, it's incumbent upon civil society - including 
civic bloggers - to embrace a bigger leadership role in publicizing the 
policy outcomes that are currently at stake, and mobilize the online 
public to take interest in the issue.

With all of this swirling through my head last night, I purchased the 
domain names WSISblogs.org and WSISblogs.com. I haven't thought through 
what should be done with it, but I can envision something like Dave 
Winer's ConventionBloggers.com, which aggregated all the bloggers 
covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions here in the 
US this past summer. In other words, a site where you could find all the

latest posts from all the bloggers participating and/or observing the 
WSIS process. The site could be organized by major policy outcomes and 
related WSIS topics, so users could explore the latest blogs on Internet

governance, the digital divide, protest activities, human rights issues,

etc, as they occur. It would also be great to allow bloggers to add 
their RSS feeds to the site, since it's not always possible to get an 
authoritative list of who'll be blogging prior to WSIS-related events.

Even if we do nothing, chances are there will be bloggers galore at 
WSIS: dozens of bloggers, blogging on a variety of issues, in a variety 
of styles and languages, giving the public unfettered, unfiltered access

to the WSIS process. Imagine if we could organize them all in one place.

Anyway, it's just an idea. Would love to hear what others think. -andy

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From acarvin at edc.org  Fri Dec 17 16:03:02 2004
From: acarvin at edc.org (Andy Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISblogs.org: an idea worth developing?
In-Reply-To: <3291F958-4F9B-11D9-91BD-0003937B7670@earthlink.net>
References: <41BF8490.4090605@edc.org>  <2451C23C-4EBC-11D9-AE91-0003937B7670@earthlink.net>  <41C19A28.5040800@edc.org> <3291F958-4F9B-11D9-91BD-0003937B7670@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <41C30336.9000007@edc.org>

Thanks, Rik, I appreciate the vote of confidence. :-)

For anyone who has not seen an aggregator before, here is an example:

http://kinja.com/user/acarvin

This is a free aggregating service called Kinja. I have set it up so 
that it will create a public Web page displaying the latest content from 
several blogs and news wires. It automatically retrieves new content 
from each source, then posts a summary of it on the Kinja page.

Similarly, I can see WSISblogs.org displaying all the latest blogs 
related to WSIS, plus allowing them to be sorted by topic, date, source, 
geography and language. I am beginning to explore several open source 
aggregating tools that might be able to do this; if anyone has any 
expertise in server-side RSS aggregators, please feel free to email me 
off-list.

thanks,
ac

Rik Panganiban wrote:
> Ah, a WSIS RSS feed aggregator. Yes, that would a great tool to have. 
> Particularly since there are a host of WSIS-related events in 2005 that 
> people will want to receive reporting on. OK, you've got my vote.
> 
> Rik Panganiban
> 
> On Dec 16, 2004, at 9:22 AM, Andy Carvin wrote:
> 
>     Hi Rik,
> 
>     No, that's not exactly what I had in mind. I'm not thinking of
>     re-creating DailySummit.net, particularly if David Steven and his
>     colleagues return for 2005. And I don't mean hosting blogs for
>     people, since there are free sites for people to do that already,
>     including our new digitaldivide.net website.
> 
>     What I'm suggesting is a RSS feed aggregator: a website that
>     retrieves content from all the websites like DailySummit and others
>     that will be covering WSIS, and hosting summaries of those blogs in
>     one place. Conventionbloggers.com is a good example of an event blog
>     aggregator, though it's missing some of the features I'd want. It
>     was created for all the bloggers who were covering the US political
>     conventions this summer. (The republican convention was the second
>     event, so that's why this site is showing conservative blogs at the
>     moment.) The site would capture the latest blog entries from dozens
>     of different blogs around the Internet covering the event and
>     aggregate it in one place, saving people the trouble of scouring the
>     Net for individual blogs.
> 
>     I'd envision doing something similar, but make it sortable by date,
>     topic, geography and language. I see the site as a place where
>     people can follow WSIS-related events in near-real time, as bloggers
>     from various sources post content. So if you're blogging, I'm
>     blogging, DailySummit's blogging, Ralf's blogging, others are
>     blogging, summaries of our latest blogs could appear in one place.
> 
>     Technically it shouldn't be that difficult, and I'm trying to corral
>     some volunteers from the blog technical development community for
>     design, hosting, etc. Fortunately there are a lot of blog techies
>     here in the Boston area, so I'm talking about the idea with them.
> 
>     And you're absolutely right, we also need collaborative online
>     workspaces that go beyond blogs, since blogs certainly can't do
>     everything. I'd love to have us experiment with the new Digital
>     Divide Network website as a collaborative tool. The site can host
>     free blogs, bulletin boards, document storage, news and events
>     listings, articles, etc, and is free to anyone working on issues
>     related to the digital divide. We're going to use DDN for the
>     telecentres caucus, and invite other groups to try the site for
>     themselves and see if it could be useful to them.
> 
>     http://www.digitaldivide.net
> 
> 
>     thanks,
>     ac
> 
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From katitza at speedy.com.pe  Fri Dec 17 21:23:03 2004
From: katitza at speedy.com.pe (Katitza Rodriguez)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Comentarios de la =?iso-8859-1?q?Campa=F1a_CRIS_--_Anteproyecto_Convenci=F3n?= Unesco
Message-ID: <200412171623.03717.katitza@speedy.com.pe>

Estimad@s amig@s:

En este enlace encontrar?n la traducci?n al castellano de los Comentarios de 
la campa?a CRIS al Anteproyecto de la Convenci?n sobre la Protecci?n de la 
Diversidad de los Contenidos Culturales y las Expresiones Art?sticas de la 
UNESCO. ?

http://www.mediatrademonitor.org/cris-unesco_es.php

C?mo recordar?n, la campa?a CRIS elabor? un informe en el que propon?a la
modificaci?n o eliminaci?n de algunos art?culos del anteproyecto de la 
Convenci?n basados en los siguientes puntos: 

* Primero, la Convenci?n no debe ser subordinada a actuales o futuros acuerdos 
de comercio. Hacerlo, significar?a frustrar su prop?sito. 

* Segundo, deber?a ser dise?ada no s?lo para proteger la diversidad de las 
industrias culturales nacionales y regionales, sino para proteger la 
diversidad cultural y los derechos a la comunicaci?n de toda la humanidad. 

* Tercero, deber?a poner en balance todas las alusiones a la protecci?n de los 
derechos a la propiedad intelectual con referencia a la protecci?n de la 
cultura comunitaria. De lo contrario, las referencias a los derechos de la 
propiedad intelectual deber?an ser removidas totalmente. 

Saludos,

Katitza Rodr?guez

From nne75 at yahoo.com  Mon Dec 20 13:53:47 2004
From: nne75 at yahoo.com (Nnenna)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [wsis-finance] Re: [WSIS-CT] CS organization and role
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20041220102444.025ab7f0@gpo.iol.ie>
Message-ID: <20041220135347.57681.qmail@web50205.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear all
 
I did attend the UNICT TF meeting in Berlin.  I had voiced the under-representation of the CS to this TF earlier on the plenary list.  Just a few lines here:
 
The question of constituency and legitimacy still haunts.  The TF members who belong to the CS were not co-opted (if that term is corrected) as reps fro the CS.  My understanding is that they were "asked" on their individual capacities.  Which means that they may not have the right to send the TF reports to the WSIS CS Plenary and send a feedback.  Is there an obligation to discretion?  Reserve? Secrecy? 
 
One strong point that needs to be raised is not whether the CS should have input into the work of the TF, no.  That is not the question.  The question IS: What will be the CS reading and analysis of the TF report.  I guess the report itself will be ready by now.
 
The other point is that one concrete idea that I have for now is the proposal for "A Global ICT Alliance" as a new working mechanism.  If the idea is carried on from the report by the Pr as a proposal  to the SG ....
 
I think the CS must anticipate and prepare multiple positions even before the  Pr makes proposals to the SG.
 
Coming from Africa, this issue will be touched in the Africa Regional Prepcom www.wsisaccra2005.gov.gh at the beginning of February.  We hope that a concrete African position will be out. 
 
The uphill  task, though, concerning this regional Prepcom is that ressources to ensure Maximum CS participation are still lacking. The best option would have been to get the most of the feeling from the grassroot, translate into a concrete proposal and positon and take it to Geneva for Prepcom II.  If we can achieve this,(that is, an African position that reflects CS engagement) it will booster an African position during PrepCom II as well as that of the Global CS.  Sort of win-win.  So, please consider this as an SOS to support two or three CS members to the Africa Regional Prepcom.
 
Sorry for being long
 
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From westasiaregion at hotmail.com  Tue Dec 21 10:34:54 2004
From: westasiaregion at hotmail.com (westasia)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] U.N. condemns Iran human rights violations
Message-ID: <BAY10-DAV19CDFDFFFEEFCF1CBB1865D8A30@phx.gbl>

FYI.

Monday, December 20, 2004 ? Last updated 7:06 p.m. PT

U.N. condemns Iran human rights violations

By EDITH M. LEDERER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. General Assembly on Monday approved a U.S.-backed resolution criticizing Iran for human rights violations, citing new restrictions on freedom of expression and the persecution of political and religious dissenters.

The measure, which is not legally binding but reflects global opinion, was approved 71-54 with 55 abstentions.

The world body said there is a "worsening situation" regarding freedom of opinion and expression, and freedom of the media, "especially the increased persecution for the peaceful expression of political views, including arbitrary arrest and detention without charge or trial."

It cited "crackdowns by the judiciary and security forces against journalists, parliamentarians, students, clerics and academics; the unjustified closure of newspapers and blocking of Internet sites." It also criticized the disqualification of large numbers of candidates and harassment of opposition activists in the run-up to parliamentary elections in February.

On a positive note, the General Assembly welcomed the Iranian government's invitation to some human rights investigators, a recommendation by the head of the judiciary that judges not propose stoning as a punishment, and the judiciary chief's announcement in April of a ban on torture.

It urged Iran to abide by its human rights obligations and to fully implement the ban on torture, expedite judicial reform, eliminate religious discrimination, end cruel and degrading punishments such as amputation and flogging, eliminate stoning, and institute prison reforms.

The resolution, which was co-sponsored by 34 countries, deplored Iran's execution of children under the age of 18 in violation of international statutes.

It protested continued restrictions on free assembly and forcible dissolution of political parties, the absence of due process of law, and the use of national security laws to deny individual rights.

It cited "the systemic discrimination against women and girls in law and in practice, despite some minor legislative improvements," the continuing discrimination against Christians, Jews and Sunnis, and the increasing discrimination against the Bahais.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Iran






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From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Tue Dec 21 17:25:11 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] PrepCom2 Fellowships
Message-ID: <p06200709bdee0c804d66@[192.168.0.2]>

PrepCom2 Fellowships

See <http://www.itu.int/wsis/preparatory2/pc2/index.html>

It says:


"Deadline for fellowship applications: 21 January 2005
Thanks to donations from Governments a certain number of fellowships 
are available for representatives from Government and NGOs and civil 
society. Priority will be given to participants from LDCs (in 
principle one fellowship per LDC) for the second Preparatory Meeting 
of the Tunis Phase (17-25 February 2005).

Fellowship  guidelines 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/pc2/fellowships/guidelines.html>

Fellowship  request form 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/pc2/fellowships/form.html>"

Check the website, don't rely on this post!

Adam

From mueller at syr.edu  Tue Dec 21 18:26:36 2004
From: mueller at syr.edu (Milton Mueller)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
Message-ID: <s1c824ab.091@gwia201.syr.edu>

The Internet Governance Project released today (Tuesday Dec. 21) one of our most significant WSIS contributions: "A Framework Convention: An International Option for Internet Governance." 

http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/igp-FC.pdf 

The paper, by John Mathiason, compares today's situation to the controversies over climate change in the 1980s. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, rather than seeking to solve all of the problems in a single treaty, pursued a "framework convention," which first established the principles and norms under which international action would proceed. It also set up a procedure for future negotiations over more detailed arrangements. We suggest a similar approach for Internet governance.

The short paper (4 pages) can be downloaded at the Internet Governance Project web site: http://www.internetgovernance.org 

Dr. Milton Mueller, Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies 

Dr. John R. Mathiason, Adjunct Professor, Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs 

Dr. Hans Klein, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy 

Dr. Lee McKnight, Associate Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies 

Dr. Marc Holitscher, Lecturer, Institut f?r Politikwissenschaft der Universit?t Z?rich 

Dr.Derrick L. Cogburn, Assistant Pofessor, Syracuse University, School of Information Studies 




From nne75 at yahoo.com  Tue Dec 21 19:43:18 2004
From: nne75 at yahoo.com (Nnenna)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
In-Reply-To: <s1c824aa.051@gwia201.syr.edu>
Message-ID: <20041221194318.17828.qmail@web50204.mail.yahoo.com>

" In working out those issues, the principle of subsidiarity, which advocates crossborder legislative solutions only when it is considered more effective than action taken at national, regional or local levels, is an appropriate starting point for discussion. Many issues may be better resolved at a regional or national level rather than at the international level."
 
Hi Milton, all
 
I think this is a good work done by the team.  During Phase I, I had actively worked to make sure that using the European Convention as a baseline for legal considerations be removed from the text.  The reason was that it did not take into consideration the issues of other regions.  At least, not Africa.
 
I trust you understand the process involved in getting Conventions and Treaties signed at the global (UN) level.  If the principle of subsidiarity  is "an appropriate starting point for discussion", we should be ready for discussions that may last 15 years. Many countries will call the National Security and Defence issue into question.  Others will bring in issues like sovreignty, economic development, trade and commerce, cultural heritage etc ...
 
This means most of the issues will actually end up as national and regional.
 
To this end, I will suggest that :

   Issues that have to do with Fundamental Human Rights be upheld and maintained.
   Convention must respect the existing principles above
   Must also respect different developmental differences (that may not necessarily be national or regional)
   The subsidiarity principle then, comes in after basic HR and development issues .

All for now

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From avri at acm.org  Tue Dec 21 20:08:22 2004
From: avri at acm.org (avri@acm.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
In-Reply-To: <s1c824aa.051@gwia201.syr.edu>
References: <s1c824aa.051@gwia201.syr.edu>
Message-ID: <1071CD8C-538C-11D9-9818-000393CC2112@acm.org>

On 21 dec 2004, at 13.26, Milton Mueller wrote:

> "A Framework Convention: An International Option for Internet 
> Governance."

I just finished reading this and have a question that may stem from a 
lack of understanding.

If I understand, the the Framework Convention seems to be between 
States.  I do not see where such a convention allows for a full 
MultiStakeHolder (MSH) approach, not do I understand how such a 
framework could allow for a MSH approach.

thanks

a.


From Ramin.Kaweh at unctad.org  Wed Dec 22 09:47:53 2004
From: Ramin.Kaweh at unctad.org (Ramin.Kaweh@unctad.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Advance information about the 4. meeting of the GFC
Message-ID: <OFA5D5490E.9C0BE9C1-ON41256F72.0035436D-C1256F72.0035C559@unctad.org>

Dear All,
The WSIS Secretariat has asked us to forward this information, regarding 
the 4. meeting of the Group of the Friends of the Chair (GFC):

The fourth meeting of the GFC will take place on 10 and 11 January 2005 
from 10.00 to 13.00 and from 15.00 to 18.00 in the Palais des Nations, 
Room XVIII (door 40). 
The meeting of 10 January is a special meeting, open to all stakeholders 
in the WSIS process. The meeting of 11 January is a closed meeting, only 
open to members of the Group and to observers from Government.
The rolling text (both for chapeau and the operational part) as well as 
the formal invitation to the meeting will be posted on the official ITU 
website in early January. 
The badges issued for the previous meetings of the GFC are also valid for 
10 and 11 January 2005. The information on badges on the ITU website under 
thethe section "second meeting of the GFC" is also valid for the fourth 
meeting; the badge counter in the Montbrillant building of ITU will be 
open on 10 and 11 January from 08.00 hours. 

Best,
Ramin

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From: mh at wacc.org.uk (Myriam Horngren)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FW: [eccr] Emphasis on Freedom of Expression in Concluding Documents of aWSIS Follow-up Conference, 2 Dec. 2004, Marrakech
Message-ID: <7414FB05C3419C42931F0911BE79061D4FED3D@wacc-commserver.wacc.org.uk>


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From: owner-eccr@listserv.vub.ac.be
[mailto:owner-eccr@listserv.vub.ac.be] On Behalf Of Jan Servaes
Sent: 21 December 2004 20:54
To: ECCR Mailing list
Subject: [eccr] Emphasis on Freedom of Expression in Concluding
Documents of aWSIS Follow-up Conference, 2 Dec. 2004, Marrakech


Emphasis on Freedom of Expression in Concluding Documents of a WSIS
Follow-up Conference


2 December 2004

Freedom of expression and press freedom are at the core of the
construction of an inclusive and people-centred knowledge society stated
the concluding documents of a three-day UNESCO-supported conference on
the role of African and Arab media in the Information Society, which
took place from 22 to 24 November 2004 in Marrakech. 

The conference was organised by the Moroccan Ministry of Information on
the initiative of the International Network of UNESCO Chairs in
Communication (ORBICOM) and the Swiss Federal Office of Communication as
a follow-up meeting to the 1st phase of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS). More than 270 representatives of
international and regional media professional and non-governmental
organisations as well as media experts from the academic world and the
media industry participated in the event. 

The conference's themes for discussion included the media's place in the
information society; media freedom in cyberspace; impact of the digital
divide on media; media and cultural diversity; women in the media; media
ownership issues and the media's position in Internet governance. 

The Marrakech Declaration and the Plan of Action adopted by the
conference participants stressed the importance of allowing journalists
to carry out their duties without interference from governments. It also
emphasized that press freedom stems from the level of governments'
commitment to democratic values. The Marrakech Declaration prominently
reaffirmed Article 19 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights
saying that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and
expression" and implicitly recognized that many governments only pay lip
service to such freedom inviting them to move from the "promise of
Article 19 to its universal implementation". 

Further, the Marrakech Declaration claimed that media should be involved
as full partners in the construction of the Information Society,
emphasizing media's vital function of gathering, checking, producing and
distributing diverse news and content. Participants reiterated the role
of a free press in holding governments accountable to the people, by
accurately reporting on their activities and plans, by providing a forum
for open debates so that policy makers can assess public opinion. In
this context the Marrakech Declaration stressed the importance of
domestic legislations guaranteeing the independence and plurality of
media in order to allow them to function effectively and responsibly. 

The Marrakech forum spoke out unequivocally about not allowing concerns
of Internet governance to open the door for heavy handed regulation of
the internet. The Marrakech Declaration encouraged "better cooperation
on Internet management" and called for "respect of multilinguism" and
"affordable global connectivity". It also emphasized that "national
security and the battle against crime and terrorism" should not be used
as a pretext to imperil freedom of expression and press freedom. 

The Moroccan Minister of Information, Mr Mohammed Nabil Benabdallah is
sending the Marrakech Declaration and Plan of Action to the UN
Secretary-General in order to be presented to the preparatory meeting of
the 2nd phase of the World Summit on the Information Society with the
expectation that its recommendations will influence the outcome of the
final summit in Tunisia in 2005.

Source: UNESCO

======================================
Professor Jan Servaes
Head
School of Journalism and Communication
University of Queensland
St.Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Tel: +61 7 3365 6115 or 3088
Fax: +61 7 3365 1377
Email: j.servaes@uq.edu.au
URL: http://www.uq.edu.au/sjc/
CRICOS Code 0025B
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From rbloem at ngocongo.org  Wed Dec 22 12:36:30 2004
From: rbloem at ngocongo.org (Renata Bloem)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] GFC meeting in January
Message-ID: <41BEB5B0000923B5@mail4.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch)

Dear all,

 

Following Ramin?s notice about the GFC meeting in January, I urge all those
who can make contribution to the rolling document of 16 December to do so,
see www.itu.int/wsis/gfc/index.html#fourth . It is also of great importance
that the voice of civil society will be heard during the open meeting on
10/11 January! If you cannot come personally, please send us your comments
and contributions that they can be read during the meeting. I appeal to all
caucuses and to the CT Group which has recently emerged again, to make their
input.  There is agreement in general on the flow and structure of the
document and contributions should come to the existing chapters. Input is
wanted at this time in particular regarding proposals ?How to move from
principles to action/solutions?, with other words to implementation.

Best

Renata 

 

Faisant suite ? la note de Ramin concernant la r?union du Groupe des Amis du
Pr?sident (GFC) de janvier, j?encourage vivement tous ceux qui peuvent
apporter des contributions au rolling document du 16 d?cembre. Pour ce
faire, voir  <http://www.itu.int/wsis/gfc/index.html#fourth>
www.itu.int/wsis/gfc/index.html#fourth. Il est ?galement tr?s important que
la voix de la soci?t? civile soit entendue lors de la r?union ouverte du 10
janvier ! Si vous ne pouvez pas venir personnellement, veuillez s?il vous
plait nous envoyer vos commentaires et contributions afin qu?ils puissent
?tre lus pendant les r?unions. Je fais appel ? tous les caucus et au CT
group, qui a r?cemment ?merg? de nouveau, pour faire leur contribution. Il y
a g?n?ralement accord sur la structure du document et des contributions qui
devraient se r?f?rer aux chapitres existants. Des apports sont attendus en
ce moment en particulier concernant la proposition ? comment passer des
principes ? des solutions et l?action ?, en d?autres mots ? la mise en
?uvre.

Cordialement,

Renata

 

 

 

 

 

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:  <mailto:rbloem@ngocongo.org> rbloem@ngocongo.org
Website: www.ngocongo.org <http://www.ngocongo.org/> 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <http://www.ngocongo.org/> 


Reminder: CONGO Postal Address Has Changed


We will soon be unable to receive mail at our old address at the Palais des
Nations in Geneva.  So please make sure to update your records with CONGO's
new Geneva office postal address: CP 50, 1211 Gen?ve 20, Switzerland.  Our
physical office address is 11, Avenue De La Paix, 1st Floor, 1202 Gen?ve,
Switzerland.

 

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From: mathiason at mac.com (John Mathiason)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
In-Reply-To: <1071CD8C-538C-11D9-9818-000393CC2112@acm.org>
References: <s1c824aa.051@gwia201.syr.edu> <1071CD8C-538C-11D9-9818-000393CC2112@acm.org>
Message-ID: <B3E9AEB4-5417-11D9-B0D8-000A95D92C74@mac.com>

Avri,

Let me jump in on this.  As international law has developed over the 
last four centuries, conventions (which are multilateral treaties) have 
to be agreed between States.  However, States could clearly agree 
legally to provide for a Multi-Stakeholder approach.  (There are ample 
precedents, including the provisions in the United Nations Charter for 
participation of NGOs in the work of the Economic and Social Council).  
  Such an agreement within the context of a convention  would make it 
possible for States, some of whom are now challenging the legitimacy of 
civil society and private sector actors, to recognize their legitimacy 
and their specific roles as well as the need for their participation. 
How that approach could best be reflected in a convention would need 
considerable thought, but would be helped if the principle were to be 
agreed.

Regards,

John

John R. Mathiason
Adjunct Professor of International Relations
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University

On Dec 21, 2004, at 15:08, avri@acm.org wrote:

>
> On 21 dec 2004, at 13.26, Milton Mueller wrote:
>
>> "A Framework Convention: An International Option for Internet 
>> Governance."
>
> I just finished reading this and have a question that may stem from a 
> lack of understanding.
>
> If I understand, the the Framework Convention seems to be between 
> States.  I do not see where such a convention allows for a full 
> MultiStakeHolder (MSH) approach, not do I understand how such a 
> framework could allow for a MSH approach.
>
> thanks
>
> a.
>
> _______________________________________________
> governance mailing list
> governance@lists.cpsr.org
> https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance
>


From armahleo at yahoo.co.uk  Wed Dec 22 14:02:13 2004
From: armahleo at yahoo.co.uk (Leopold L.L. Armah)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] =?iso-8859-1?q?GHANA=92S=20YOUTH=20BEGIN=20JOURNEY=20TOWARD=20WSIS=20ACCR?=
 =?iso-8859-1?q?A=202005?=
In-Reply-To: <LYRIS-247629-1281160-2004.12.21-09.33.08--armahleo#yahoo.co.uk@dgroups.org>
Message-ID: <20041222140213.33468.qmail@web25004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

PRESS RELEASE

GHANA?S YOUTH BEGIN JOURNEY TOWARD WSIS ACCRA 2005

Wednesday, 15th December 2004 @ Kumasi

 

As part of activities lined toward World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) African Regional Conference
in Accra from 2 ? 4 February 2005 tagged ?WSIS Accra
2005?, an Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) Campaign for young people was launched in Kumasi
on Wednesday, December 15th 2004. The event is the
first in the series of a ten (10) month Campaign
dubbed National Youth Information Society Campaign
(NYISC).

 

The Campaign, which is being organized under the theme
?Developing the Youth to Meet the Challenges of the
Information Society? aims at bringing together young
people from every corner of the country to get
developed, empowered, informed and deliberate on
issues toward the building of a sustainable
Information Society in Ghana. This includes
sensitizing the youth on the essence of ICTs as well
as give them practical training on how they can use
ICTs for their personal development.

 

The Campaign Coordinator, Mr. Leopold Armah stated
during the opening ceremony that ICTs are a pivotal
key to the successful and timely implementation of the
ultimate median goal of our country
.that is moving
from developing country status to development where
abject poverty would belong to the past. 

 

According to him the future of our country lies in the
hands of all of us and more especially the young
people, because they are the best 'bridge' between the
present generation and the future. He indicated that
the energies of youth, coupled with their ability to
adapt, their creativity and their spirit of
enterprise, make them critical players in development.
Hence investing in them is a sure way of moving Ghana
from a third world status to a first world.

 

In a speech read on his behalf by Mr. N. Odoi, the
Deputy Regional Director of Education, the Minister of
Communications, Hon. Kan Dapaah said that the idea of
the Information Society seeks to ensure that emerging
economies benefit from the potentials of ICT in their
developmental agenda. He therefore called on all
stakeholders to ensure effective participation of all
in building an effective information society.

 

The Campaign is being organized by African Youth
Initiative and PRIME RESOURCES under the auspices of
Ministries of Communications and Education and in
collaboration with the United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa (UNECA). Other partners include
Ghana Information Network for Knowledge Sharing
(ginks) and TechGov.

 

About three hundred and fifty (350) young people and
their tutors drawn from junior and senior secondary
schools across the Ashanti Region participated in the
event. They were taken through topics such as;
opportunities for the youth within the emerging
Information Society and ICTS and its impact on
knowledge sharing, rural development and health. 

 

Other activities lined up include National Youth ICT
Essay Competition; ICT Sensitization Outreach to the
five (5) Regional capitals; Online Discussion and
Media Encounters. 

 

 

NYISC Secretariat,

Ministry of Communications

Tel: 021 ? 685608 / 024-4699905

E-Mail: leopold@ayinitiative.net 





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From jrmathia at maxwell.syr.edu  Wed Dec 22 13:03:18 2004
From: jrmathia at maxwell.syr.edu (John Mathiason)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
In-Reply-To: <1071CD8C-538C-11D9-9818-000393CC2112@acm.org>
References: <s1c824aa.051@gwia201.syr.edu> <1071CD8C-538C-11D9-9818-000393CC2112@acm.org>
Message-ID: <D97BEE98-5419-11D9-B0D8-000A95D92C74@maxwell.syr.edu>

Avri,

Let me jump in on this.  As international law has developed over the 
last four centuries, conventions (which are multilateral treaties) have 
to be agreed between States.  However, States could clearly agree 
legally to provide for a Multi-Stakeholder approach.  (There are ample 
precedents, including the provisions in the United Nations Charter for 
participation of NGOs in the work of the Economic and Social Council).  
  Such an agreement within the context of a convention  would make it 
possible for States, some of whom are now challenging the legitimacy of 
civil society and private sector actors, to recognize their legitimacy 
and their specific roles as well as the need for their participation. 
How that approach could best be reflected in a convention would need 
considerable thought, but would be helped if the principle were to be 
agreed.

Regards,

John

John R. Mathiason
Adjunct Professor of International Relations
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University

On Dec 21, 2004, at 15:08, avri@acm.org wrote:

>
> On 21 dec 2004, at 13.26, Milton Mueller wrote:
>
>> "A Framework Convention: An International Option for Internet 
>> Governance."
>
> I just finished reading this and have a question that may stem from a 
> lack of understanding.
>
> If I understand, the the Framework Convention seems to be between 
> States.  I do not see where such a convention allows for a full 
> MultiStakeHolder (MSH) approach, not do I understand how such a 
> framework could allow for a MSH approach.
>
> thanks
>
> a.
>
> _______________________________________________
> governance mailing list
> governance@lists.cpsr.org
> https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance
>


From ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es  Wed Dec 22 15:06:14 2004
From: ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es (Lady Murrugarra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] POR    QUE    TAN    POCAS    MUJERES EN CIENCIA Y  TECNOLOGIA?
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Wed Dec 22 15:07:22 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
In-Reply-To: <D97BEE98-5419-11D9-B0D8-000A95D92C74@maxwell.syr.edu>
Message-ID: <20041222150722.77528.qmail@web60701.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi John, Nenna, Avri and all,
We must be aware that if there is place for Civile
Society (we are here for that) and for private sector
actors it is not in a strategy of disqualification of
the role of states, especially in their commitments to
ensure the best conditions of international
cooperation as base of peace and security.
For example and in regard to the need of Solidarity
Digital Gap all private and decentralized initiatives
are welcomed including President Wade proposal but it
will constitutue an usufull but non relevant support
regarding the huge need to provide means to LDC's for
telecom infrastructures,  training, capacity building
etc. Only ODA and international state cooperation is
able to respond the the needs in good timing and
resources conditions.
All the best
Djilali 

--- John Mathiason <jrmathia@maxwell.syr.edu> wrote:

> Avri,
> 
> Let me jump in on this.  As international law has
> developed over the 
> last four centuries, conventions (which are
> multilateral treaties) have 
> to be agreed between States.  However, States could
> clearly agree 
> legally to provide for a Multi-Stakeholder approach.
>  (There are ample 
> precedents, including the provisions in the United
> Nations Charter for 
> participation of NGOs in the work of the Economic
> and Social Council).  
>   Such an agreement within the context of a
> convention  would make it 
> possible for States, some of whom are now
> challenging the legitimacy of 
> civil society and private sector actors, to
> recognize their legitimacy 
> and their specific roles as well as the need for
> their participation. 
> How that approach could best be reflected in a
> convention would need 
> considerable thought, but would be helped if the
> principle were to be 
> agreed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John
> 
> John R. Mathiason
> Adjunct Professor of International Relations
> Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
> Syracuse University
> 
> On Dec 21, 2004, at 15:08, avri@acm.org wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 21 dec 2004, at 13.26, Milton Mueller wrote:
> >
> >> "A Framework Convention: An International Option
> for Internet 
> >> Governance."
> >
> > I just finished reading this and have a question
> that may stem from a 
> > lack of understanding.
> >
> > If I understand, the the Framework Convention
> seems to be between 
> > States.  I do not see where such a convention
> allows for a full 
> > MultiStakeHolder (MSH) approach, not do I
> understand how such a 
> > framework could allow for a MSH approach.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > a.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > governance mailing list
> > governance@lists.cpsr.org
> > https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance
> >
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> 


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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Wed Dec 22 15:07:22 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
In-Reply-To: <D97BEE98-5419-11D9-B0D8-000A95D92C74@maxwell.syr.edu>
Message-ID: <20041222150722.77528.qmail@web60701.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi John, Nenna, Avri and all,
We must be aware that if there is place for Civile
Society (we are here for that) and for private sector
actors it is not in a strategy of disqualification of
the role of states, especially in their commitments to
ensure the best conditions of international
cooperation as base of peace and security.
For example and in regard to the need of Solidarity
Digital Gap all private and decentralized initiatives
are welcomed including President Wade proposal but it
will constitutue an usufull but non relevant support
regarding the huge need to provide means to LDC's for
telecom infrastructures,  training, capacity building
etc. Only ODA and international state cooperation is
able to respond the the needs in good timing and
resources conditions.
All the best
Djilali 

--- John Mathiason <jrmathia@maxwell.syr.edu> wrote:

> Avri,
> 
> Let me jump in on this.  As international law has
> developed over the 
> last four centuries, conventions (which are
> multilateral treaties) have 
> to be agreed between States.  However, States could
> clearly agree 
> legally to provide for a Multi-Stakeholder approach.
>  (There are ample 
> precedents, including the provisions in the United
> Nations Charter for 
> participation of NGOs in the work of the Economic
> and Social Council).  
>   Such an agreement within the context of a
> convention  would make it 
> possible for States, some of whom are now
> challenging the legitimacy of 
> civil society and private sector actors, to
> recognize their legitimacy 
> and their specific roles as well as the need for
> their participation. 
> How that approach could best be reflected in a
> convention would need 
> considerable thought, but would be helped if the
> principle were to be 
> agreed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John
> 
> John R. Mathiason
> Adjunct Professor of International Relations
> Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
> Syracuse University
> 
> On Dec 21, 2004, at 15:08, avri@acm.org wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 21 dec 2004, at 13.26, Milton Mueller wrote:
> >
> >> "A Framework Convention: An International Option
> for Internet 
> >> Governance."
> >
> > I just finished reading this and have a question
> that may stem from a 
> > lack of understanding.
> >
> > If I understand, the the Framework Convention
> seems to be between 
> > States.  I do not see where such a convention
> allows for a full 
> > MultiStakeHolder (MSH) approach, not do I
> understand how such a 
> > framework could allow for a MSH approach.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > a.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > governance mailing list
> > governance@lists.cpsr.org
> > https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance
> >
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> 


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Tel/fax : (227) 75 35 09 BP 11207 - Niamey - Niger
Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
Page web sur le SMSI (mecanismes de financement) : en cours de construction 
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From Ramin.Kaweh at unctad.org  Wed Dec 22 16:22:02 2004
From: Ramin.Kaweh at unctad.org (Ramin.Kaweh@unctad.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Roundup Dec 2004
Message-ID: <OFD9F9F3AE.4DF88802-ONC1256F72.0043D2CF-C1256F72.0059DAFF@unctad.org>

Dear All,

Please see the latest NGLS Roundup, summarising the events unfolding since 
PrepCom 1 in Hammamet.

(FYI, this WSIS information portal will be revamped early next year.)

Best wishes,
Ramin



* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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Programme Officer
UN-NGLS (Non-Governmental Liaison Service)
Palais des Nations
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Switzerland
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fax: 0041.22. 917 0432
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From: avri at acm.org (avri@acm.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
In-Reply-To: <20041222150722.77528.qmail@web60701.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20041222150722.77528.qmail@web60701.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <CDF0E71B-5435-11D9-9818-000393CC2112@acm.org>

Hi,

Thanks for the clarifications.  Some comments and more questions:


On 22 dec 2004, at 10.07, djilali benamrane wrote:

> We must be aware that if there is place for Civile
> Society (we are here for that) and for private sector
> actors it is not in a strategy of disqualification of
> the role of states, especially in their commitments to
> ensure the best conditions of international
> cooperation as base of peace and security.
>

My intent is not to look for a way to displace the states, but rather 
to avoid favoring a solution path that might exclude civil society or 
minimize its future role.

However, the following comment indicates that the Framework Convention 
does not, necessarily, exclude civil society.

> --- John Mathiason <jrmathia@maxwell.syr.edu> wrote:
>
>> However, States could clearly agree legally to provide for a 
>> Multi-Stakeholder approach.
>>  (There are ample precedents, including the provisions in the United 
>> Nations Charter for
>> participation of NGOs in the work of the Economic and Social Council).
>>

My question then becomes, what is involved in assuring that this would 
occur if the recommendations were to include the creation of the 
Framework convention?  I assume that one condition of inclusion for 
civil society would include CS being a clearly identifiable 
entity/entities - and I assume that does not mean just NGOs.  I assume 
it also means developing mechanisms for allowing CS more then just an 
observer/comment status; i.e. what level of participation is required 
by the MSH approach.  I am not sure I know what else would be required 
but I am sure it is more then just these two elements, though these 
seem critical to me.

So, if one where to suggest a Framework Convention from the vantage 
point of CS, how would they insure that the right outcome (assuming we 
know what that is) for CS would ensue?  Personally I still feel nervous 
about adopting a strategy that leaves too many questions open.

thanks

a.


ps. can anyone point me to a good focused write-up of the 
multi-stakeholder approach.  i have certainly read about it in several 
papers and have seen it assumed, but don't have a good reference on the 
principles, theories and thoughts behind the approach itself.  i am 
sure some of the scholars among us have already created the right 
document, i just don't know which of the multitude of documents it is 
in. since it seems so central to CS participation, i feel i need to 
gather a deep understanding of the concept.


From Mueller at syr.edu  Wed Dec 22 16:43:45 2004
From: Mueller at syr.edu (Milton Mueller)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] A Framework Convention
	for the Internet?
Message-ID: <s1c95e0b.028@gwia201.syr.edu>

>>> avri@acm.org 12/22/2004 11:23:24 AM >>>
>So, if one were to suggest a Framework Convention from the vantage 
>point of CS, how would they insure that the right outcome (assuming we

>know what that is) for CS would ensue?  Personally I still feel
nervous 
>about adopting a strategy that leaves too many questions open.

Avri:
Global coordination, negotiation and governance is very complex. There
is no strategy whatsoever that can "insure that the right outcome" would
ensue. Indeed, there is no strategy that can guarantee ANY specific
outcome - So you are correct to say that a framework convention poses
risks. And it is important to identify those risks. 

However, you must agree that ANY concrete proposal for formalizing and
institutionalizing new arrangements poses risks. Can you tell me what
strategy will not leave many questions open? Can you suggest a way
forward that poses fewer risks with the same potential gains than a
framework convention? What would it be? 

Surely, talking among ourselves about how an ideal world would look is
safer, but accomplishes little in the long term. Sooner or later the
talk has to be translated into institutions, rules and procedures.

In other words if you are saying, "don't engage states and try to get
formal agreements to engage civil society because we might not get from
the states what we want" I will respond: OK, but the only way to avoid
failing is to avoid any attempt to change anything. 

By making a concrete proposal like this, we are trying to advance the
dialogue. The time is ripe for discussion of new institutional
measures.

--MM

From faia at amauta.rcp.net.pe  Wed Dec 22 16:48:00 2004
From: faia at amauta.rcp.net.pe (Erick Iriarte Ahon)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
In-Reply-To: <s1c824ab.091@gwia201.syr.edu>
References: <s1c824ab.091@gwia201.syr.edu>
Message-ID: <6.0.2.0.0.20041222111819.01f2db70@amauta.rcp.net.pe>

Hi!

Some years ago (in 2001) James Graham started the GIC Project (Group of 
Internationalization of Cyberspace) under the auspicies of the Facultad 
Libre de Derecho de Monterrey, M?xico and Alfa-Redi.

I think that in this moment this project be an interesting contribution to 
the WSIS Process.

The principal documents made by the group:

Prof. James A. Graham & Erick Iriarte, Chairmen, GIC.
The Internationalization of Cyberspace: An E-qual Regime between developed 
and developing countries
http://www.alfa-redi.org/gic/graham-iriarte.pdf

J.A. Graham (in French)
Cyberspace is a new international space (from a sociological and legal 
point of view)
http://www.alfa-redi.org/gic/cyberspace_thesis.pdf

The resolutions of Quito, Monterrey and Lima will be usefull for the 
discuss, too, about a International Framework for the Cyberspace, you could 
fin in the website of  GIC Project: http://www.alfa-redi.org/gic/

Yours,

Erick Iriarte Ahon
Alfa-Redi
http://www.alfa-redi.org




At 01:26 p.m. 21/12/2004, you wrote:

>The Internet Governance Project released today (Tuesday Dec. 21) one of 
>our most significant WSIS contributions: "A Framework Convention: An 
>International Option for Internet Governance."
>
>http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/igp-FC.pdf
>
>The paper, by John Mathiason, compares today's situation to the 
>controversies over climate change in the 1980s. The UN Framework 
>Convention on Climate Change, rather than seeking to solve all of the 
>problems in a single treaty, pursued a "framework convention," which first 
>established the principles and norms under which international action 
>would proceed. It also set up a procedure for future negotiations over 
>more detailed arrangements. We suggest a similar approach for Internet 
>governance.
>
>The short paper (4 pages) can be downloaded at the Internet Governance 
>Project web site: http://www.internetgovernance.org
>
>Dr. Milton Mueller, Professor, Syracuse University School of Information 
>Studies
>
>Dr. John R. Mathiason, Adjunct Professor, Syracuse University Maxwell 
>School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
>
>Dr. Hans Klein, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, 
>School of Public Policy
>
>Dr. Lee McKnight, Associate Professor, Syracuse University School of 
>Information Studies
>
>Dr. Marc Holitscher, Lecturer, Institut f?r Politikwissenschaft der 
>Universit?t Z?rich
>
>Dr.Derrick L. Cogburn, Assistant Pofessor, Syracuse University, School of 
>Information Studies
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Plenary mailing list
>Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


From vb at bertola.eu.org  Wed Dec 22 16:49:09 2004
From: vb at bertola.eu.org (Vittorio Bertola)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
In-Reply-To: <D97BEE98-5419-11D9-B0D8-000A95D92C74@maxwell.syr.edu>
References: <s1c824aa.051@gwia201.syr.edu>
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Multiple replies...

Nnenna:
> Many countries will call the National Security and Defence issue into
> question.  Others will bring in issues like sovreignty, economic
> development, trade and commerce, cultural heritage etc ...
>  
> This means most of the issues will actually end up as national and
> regional.

I am not sure whether that would be such a bad result: I think that the
world is simply too complex to be managed uniformly and effectively at
the global level. Also, the more you move power to the global level, the
less weaker stakeholders (including developing countries, NGOs, and
eventually individual citizens) will count. So I would see a high level
of subsidiariety as a strong insurance for global democracy.

Also, local battles have to be won locally - you can't expect someone
from the outside to come and change your situation, because how can you
ensure that the change will be for the better?

This said, this must not mean that there are no coordinated actions or
global campaigns! And I agree with you that basic civil rights should be
enforced by the global community.

John Mathiason:
> Let me jump in on this.  As international law has developed over the 
> last four centuries, conventions (which are multilateral treaties) have 
> to be agreed between States.  However, States could clearly agree 
> legally to provide for a Multi-Stakeholder approach.  (There are ample 
> precedents, including the provisions in the United Nations Charter for 
> participation of NGOs in the work of the Economic and Social Council).

To add on this, I think it was Desai who noted that, after seeking legal
advice, the UN concluded that those provisions cannot in any way be
interpreted as an indication that the same participation should not be
allowed in other parts of the UN processes.

Avri Doria:
> ps. can anyone point me to a good focused write-up of the 
> multi-stakeholder approach.  i have certainly read about it in several
> papers and have seen it assumed, but don't have a good reference on
> the principles, theories and thoughts behind the approach itself.  i
> am sure some of the scholars among us have already created the right 
> document, i just don't know which of the multitude of documents it is 
> in. since it seems so central to CS participation, i feel i need to 
> gather a deep understanding of the concept.

"Hey! The king is naked!"

No, seriously - it is such a young concept that I don't think there is
an agreed theorization... and you're right that we need one. 

I would mention moving from democracy based on representation to
democracy based on participation. Also, I think that the WSIS Civil
Society structures, as well as, for example, the Civil Society
constituencies in ICANN, are examples of global participatory models for
CS. But all of this is an experiment!
-- 
vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...


From rbloem at ngocongo.org  Wed Dec 22 17:43:30 2004
From: rbloem at ngocongo.org (Renata Bloem)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Changes regarding the WGIG
Message-ID: <41BEB5B000097C33@mail4.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch)

Dear all,

We were just told that there might be some changes regarding the WGIG. 

Original schedule was:  14 February closed meeting, 15 and 16 February open
meeting (open to all stakeholders in the WSIS process) 17 and 18 February
closed meeting, in parallel with the PrepCom-2.

The new idea, which seems to be approved by the Chairman, Nitin Desai, is to
start on 14 February morning from 11.00 to 13.00 with an open meeting, and
have a closed meeting in the afternoon only. The morning would be used to
report about the progress etc. 

We therefore will not schedule a CSB meeting in the morning of the 14th, as
had been provisionally suggested following the CSB meeting in Cape Town. We
will consult on best timing and possibilities.

We will begin with a general orientation session on Monday 14th in the
afternoon from 14:00 -19:00 which will allow for breakout sessions of
Caucuses and WGs.  More detailed information will be sent out in the first
week of January, once we know more about available rooms and other
equipment.

In the meantime warm wishes for restful and wonderful holidays and see you
in the New Year! 

 

______________________________________________________________

 

On vient de nous annoncer que quelques modifications devraient survenir au
niveau du Groupe de travail sur la Gouvernance de l?Internet (WGIG).

 

Le programme ?tait ? l?origine le suivant : 14 f?vrier, r?union ? huis clos
; 15 et 16 f?vrier, r?unions ouvertes ? toutes les parties prenantes aux
WSIS ; 17 et 18 f?vrier, r?union ? huis clos, parall?lement ? la tenue de la
PrepCom-2.

 

La nouvelle id?e qui semble avoir ?t? approuv?e par le Pr?sident, Nitin
Desai, est de d?buter le matin du 14 f?vrier de 11h00 ? 13h00 par une
r?union ouverte, et de tenir une r?union ? huis clos seulement l?apr?s midi.
La r?union du matin serait ainsi consacr?e au rapport concernant les
progr?s, etc.

 

Par cons?quent nous ne programmerons pas de r?union du Bureau de la Soci?t?
Civile au cours la matin?e du 14 f?vrier, comme cela avait ?t?
provisoirement sugg?r? ? la suite de la r?union du Bureau tenue au Cap. Nous
nous consulterons aussit?t que possible.

 

Nous commencerons par une session d?orientation g?n?rale le lundi 14 f?vrier
entre 14h00 et 19h00, ce qui nous permettra des sessions pour les ? caucus ?
et groupes de travail. Des suppl?ments d?information vous seront envoy?s au
cours de la premi?re semaine de Janvier, une fois que nous en saurons plus
sur les salles et autres ?quipements disponibles.

 

Dans l?attente, je vous adresse mes meilleurs v?ux et je vous souhaite de
formidables et reposantes f?tes avant de vous retrouver ? la nouvelle ann?e.


 

 

 

 

 

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:  <mailto:rbloem@ngocongo.org> rbloem@ngocongo.org
Website:  <http://www.ngocongo.org/> www.ngocongo.org

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at  <http://www.ngocongo.org/> www.ngocongo.org


Reminder: CONGO Postal Address Has Changed


We will soon be unable to receive mail at our old address at the Palais des
Nations in Geneva.  So please make sure to update your records with CONGO's
new Geneva office postal address: CP 50, 1211 Gen?ve 20, Switzerland.  Our
physical office address is 11, Avenue De La Paix, 1st Floor, 1202 Gen?ve,
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From: avri at acm.org (avri@acm.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
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On 22 dec 2004, at 11.43, Milton Mueller wrote:

> Global coordination, negotiation and governance is very complex. There
> is no strategy whatsoever that can "insure that the right outcome" 
> would
> ensue.
> Indeed, there is no strategy that can guarantee ANY specific
> outcome -

Indeed i was not looking for simplcity, perfection or for real 
insurance.  What concerens me thus far is that i see many questions.

> So you are correct to say that a framework convention poses
> risks. And it is important to identify those risks.

that is part of what I was attempting to get a conversation started on. 
  What are the risks and what are the ways to minimize them.  Before 
accepting any strategy, a risk analysis is necessary.

I was also trying to understand some of the necessary preconditions for 
your strategy to work.

>
> However, you must agree that ANY concrete proposal for formalizing and
> institutionalizing new arrangements poses risks.

So far, agreed. (though I admit someone telling me I must agree always 
gives me pause)

> Can you tell me what
> strategy will not leave many questions open?

Don't know.  I figure that various suggestions will be made, I will 
ready them, and then I will explore the preconditions and the risks.  
And when I don't clearly understand something I will pose the questions 
hoping the authors of the strategy, or others who understand it better 
then me, have the answers.

> Can you suggest a way
> forward that poses fewer risks with the same potential gains than a
> framework convention? What would it be?

I don't know, I am still exploring the possibilities.  And was trying 
to understand why this strategy is one that should be pushed forward.  
I have not seem a clear risk/benefit discussion yet.

>
> Surely, talking among ourselves about how an ideal world would look is
> safer, but accomplishes little in the long term. Sooner or later the
> talk has to be translated into institutions, rules and procedures.

I must of missed when I was talking about the ideal world.  Please 
assume that nothing I have written or will ever write presupposes the 
existence of an ideal world.

>
> In other words if you are saying, "don't engage states and try to get
> formal agreements to engage civil society because we might not get from
> the states what we want" I will respond: OK, but the only way to avoid
> failing is to avoid any attempt to change anything.

Don't know when I said that.
But then again you made it a rhetorical conditional, so what i can say?

Obviously I think we need to engage states.  But I think we need to 
understand what we are engaging them over, and indeed we need to know 
who we are.

>
> By making a concrete proposal like this, we are trying to advance the
> dialogue. The time is ripe for discussion of new institutional
> measures.
>

Yep.  And I believe  that is why I was asking concrete questions.  I 
thought I was participating in dialogue.

If we are going to suggest new institutional measures, we better 
understand them and their implications.  Once we engage states, the 
questions will be far more pointed and if we haven't anticipated as 
many questions as possible, the proposal will have less chance of 
flying.  So if it a good proposal, and especially if it is The 
Proposal, then we need to delve into it very deeply.

Perhaps I am slower then everyone else to come to understanding, and if 
so, I beg your indulgence in helping me understand.


a.


From nne75 at yahoo.com  Wed Dec 22 20:39:35 2004
From: nne75 at yahoo.com (Nnenna)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Changes regarding the WGIG
In-Reply-To: <41BEB5B000097C33@mail4.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch)
Message-ID: <20041222203935.87160.qmail@web50201.mail.yahoo.com>

Thanks for the update.
 
Nnenna

		
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From nne75 at yahoo.com  Wed Dec 22 20:48:06 2004
From: nne75 at yahoo.com (Nnenna)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
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Dear all
 
My particular concerns is first of all that human rights issues do not get relegated to the rear.  Like Milton has rightly pointed out, lots of risks are going to be taken. Nobody can guarantee anything.  That is why it is important that principles be laid down.  If we have two or three of those, they will help us keep in focus.
 
Ramin, the down "er" you come, the stronger the govts become!  Undemocratic govts and monopolized economies are stiffling the debate at many national levels.  As much as I know, the African Civil Society (and maybe Asias) may be able to get a stronger impact on national issues if some are treated on the international level.
 
I'm not against the subsidiarity, my point is that certain principles must be retained from the word go!
 
Off to the beach
 
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From: veni at veni.com (Veni Markovski)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
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At 17:49 22-12-04  +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>Nnenna:
> > Many countries will call the National Security and Defence issue into
> > question.  Others will bring in issues like sovreignty, economic
> > development, trade and commerce, cultural heritage etc ...
> >
> > This means most of the issues will actually end up as national and
> > regional.
>
>I am not sure whether that would be such a bad result: I think that the
>world is simply too complex to be managed uniformly and effectively at
>the global level. Also, the more you move power to the global level, the
>less weaker stakeholders (including developing countries, NGOs, and
>eventually individual citizens) will count. So I would see a high level
>of subsidiariety as a strong insurance for global democracy.

Vittorio, colleagues,
we are trying to solve an issue, based on several different models. This 
simply will not work. The US (not always US-centric) views will ALWAYS be 
faced with negativism from quite a lot of countries. There are people who 
would disagree from ANY US-created point of view. Even if it comes from 
Milton, Hans and other people who have proven record of understanding 
things globally.

>Also, local battles have to be won locally - you can't expect someone
>from the outside to come and change your situation, because how can you
>ensure that the change will be for the better?

Actually I'd disagree with that, Vittorio. There are many examples when 
this was happening during the history of the world. When locally people are 
not enough (in numbers, or in quality), a help from outside is always 
useful. Two examples that come from first thought - Garibaldi had plenty of 
soldiers from outside of Italy (including Bulgarians); Bulgaria was 
liberated after almost 500 years of Turkish yoke by Russian, Finnish and 
Romanian soldiers. What about the change in Germany after WW2? What about 
the fact that Roosvelt and Churchill have left the East to Stalin? Of 
course, there are always examples in the other direction:-(

>This said, this must not mean that there are no coordinated actions or
>global campaigns! And I agree with you that basic civil rights should be
>enforced by the global community.

The global community can not enforce civil rights. It can build coalitions 
within countries, organize awareness campaigns, but there are no simple 
rules how to do that. See what happens in countries with no "western" 
culture in the last 10 years, where the "global community" tried to enforce 
civil rights?

There are some things, which may help the discussions:

1. The Internet is a force majeure.
Comparing it to other communications/media that existed before that is 
simplifying the process.

2. There are no common rules for running the Internet in every country
Each country accepts its own rules for handling with this force majeure.

3. So far we have not seen some common, all-humankind coordination effort, 
that has had immediate positive results on all people.
We may ask ourselves, "What makes us sure the situation with the Internet 
will be solved differently from the other treaties, accepted and signed by 
the UN?"

4. So far only a small part of the world has had successful civil society 
participation in the ruling mechanisms.
How can a civil society activists in countries, where there's no such civil 
society be successful?


best,
veni 


From rsagun at takingitglobal.org  Thu Dec 23 07:20:37 2004
From: rsagun at takingitglobal.org (rsagun@takingitglobal.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] GFC meeting in January 2005
Message-ID: <108660-220041242372037684@M2W089.mail2web.com>

Dear Renata,

In response to your call for inputs to the upcoming GFC meeting in January
2005, I am very pleased to transmit to you and the CS Plenary the official
WSIS Youth Caucus contributions to the Political Chapeau and Operational
Part of the emerging Tunis documents. The first attachment was submitted,
in time for the 3rd GFC Meeting, to  Amb. Karklins and the WSIS Executive
Secretative last Dec. 2, 2004 (see
http://www.itu.int/wsis/gfc/docs/3/contributions/wsis-youth-caucus.doc).
The second attachment, meant for the 4th GFC Meeting, was transmitted
today. It is unfortunate that we are not in a capacity to send a
representative to this meeting thus I request for your assistance to share
and echo our positions.

Thank you and may we all have a wonderful holiday!

Warmest regards,

Robert Sagun
Policy Coordinator
WSIS Youth Caucus
www.wsisyouth.org


Original Message:
-----------------
From: Renata Bloem rbloem@ngocongo.org
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:36:30 +0100
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org, ramin.kaweh@unctad.org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] GFC meeting in January


Dear all,

 

Following Ramin?s notice about the GFC meeting in January, I urge all those
who can make contribution to the rolling document of 16 December to do so,
see www.itu.int/wsis/gfc/index.html#fourth . It is also of great importance
that the voice of civil society will be heard during the open meeting on
10/11 January! If you cannot come personally, please send us your comments
and contributions that they can be read during the meeting. I appeal to all
caucuses and to the CT Group which has recently emerged again, to make their
input.  There is agreement in general on the flow and structure of the
document and contributions should come to the existing chapters. Input is
wanted at this time in particular regarding proposals ?How to move from
principles to action/solutions?, with other words to implementation.

Best

Renata 

 

Faisant suite ? la note de Ramin concernant la r?union du Groupe des Amis du
Pr?sident (GFC) de janvier, j?encourage vivement tous ceux qui peuvent
apporter des contributions au rolling document du 16 d?cembre. Pour ce
faire, voir  <http://www.itu.int/wsis/gfc/index.html#fourth>
www.itu.int/wsis/gfc/index.html#fourth. Il est ?galement tr?s important que
la voix de la soci?t? civile soit entendue lors de la r?union ouverte du 10
janvier ! Si vous ne pouvez pas venir personnellement, veuillez s?il vous
plait nous envoyer vos commentaires et contributions afin qu?ils puissent
?tre lus pendant les r?unions. Je fais appel ? tous les caucus et au CT
group, qui a r?cemment ?merg? de nouveau, pour faire leur contribution. Il y
a g?n?ralement accord sur la structure du document et des contributions qui
devraient se r?f?rer aux chapitres existants. Des apports sont attendus en
ce moment en particulier concernant la proposition ? comment passer des
principes ? des solutions et l?action ?, en d?autres mots ? la mise en
?uvre.

Cordialement,

Renata

 

 

 

 

 

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:  <mailto:rbloem@ngocongo.org> rbloem@ngocongo.org
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that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <http://www.ngocongo.org/> 


Reminder: CONGO Postal Address Has Changed


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From e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk  Thu Dec 23 12:42:36 2004
From: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk (Ezendu Ariwa)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Invitation - GROUP OF THE FRIENDS OF THE 
     CHAIR
In-Reply-To: 
     <OFF7A3684B.347567D2-ONC1256F2C.003D592C-C1256F2C.00411488@unctad.org>
References: 
    <OFF7A3684B.347567D2-ONC1256F2C.003D592C-C1256F2C.00411488@unctad.org>
Message-ID: <1541.163.167.73.67.1103805756.squirrel@163.167.73.67>

Dear Sir/Madam

I am interested in attending the GROUP OF THE FRIENDS OF THE CHAIR session

Kindly let me know the date for the next meeting

Ezendu





> Dear All,
>
> The WSIS Executive Secretariat has asked us to send this invitation to the
> plenary:
>
> Please see below an invitation letter from the President of the
> Preparatory Committee of WSIS, Tunis phase, for the first meeting of the
> Group of the Friends of the Chair on 22 October 2004 in the Palais des
> Nations, Room XVII (Door 40, first floor).
>
> The 22 October meeting is a special meeting, open to observers from
> International Organizations, ITU sector members, and from accredited NGOs,
> civil society and business entities. The observers may also take the
> floor.
>
> For security reasons, all persons entering the Palais des Nations need a
> badge. Participants who do not have a UNOG badge should check out our
> website at  http://www.itu.int/wsis/gfc  for information how to get a
> special badge.
>
>
> Please see the documents below for further information:
>
> Invitation letter
> Note on GFC
> Chair's note
> Chair's non-paper
>
>
> For more information, you can visit:    http://www.un-ngls.org/wsis.htm
>
> Best regards,
> Ramin
>
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> Ramin Kaweh
> Programme Officer
> UN-NGLS (Non-Governmental Liaison Service)
> Palais des Nations
> 1211 Geneva 10
> Switzerland
> tel:  0041.22. 917 2078
> fax: 0041.22. 917 0432
> ramin.kaweh@unctad.org
> www.un-ngls.org
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>



From Mueller at syr.edu  Thu Dec 23 16:39:44 2004
From: Mueller at syr.edu (Milton Mueller)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Framework Convention Risks
Message-ID: <s1caae96.097@gwia201.syr.edu>


On 22 dec 2004, at 11.43, Milton Mueller wrote:
>> So you are correct to say that a framework convention poses
>> risks. And it is important to identify those risks.
>
>>> <avri@acm.org> 12/22/2004 1:10:21 PM >>>
>that is part of what I was attempting to get a conversation started
on. 
>What are the risks and what are the ways to minimize them.  Before 
>accepting any strategy, a risk analysis is necessary.

A discussion of risks of a framework convention (FC) makes a lot more
sense if there are alternative strategies that  it can be compared to.
That's why I pushed you by saying: "ANY concrete proposal for
formalizing and
institutionalizing new arrangements poses risks." What you really meant
to ask, then, is what are the risks specific to this proposal, and how
do they compare to other strategies available to us? I cannot answer the
second part of the question, because there seem to be no alternatives on
the table. As for the first part:

Possible Risk 1: 
A FC would become primarily a state-directed effort, excluding CS or
diminishing its role.

Risk analysis: 
I am not too worried about this one. All of the rhetoric and actions
and institutional rrealities surrounding Internet governance give civil
society a major role. Also, consider the precedent of the Climate Change
Convention: CS played a huge role in both shaping and implementing the
UNFCCC. 

Possible Risk 2:
A FC's substantive content could become captured or dominated by states
concerned exclusively with asserting more control over the Internet
(security, terrorism, intellectual property) and not with protecting
Internet FROM states, protecting individual rights, preserving the
Internet's openness and flexibility, legitimizing civil society's
autonomous role in it, recognizing Internet self-governance and
flexibility, etc.) 

Risk analysis:
I view this as a much more serious threat. But it is also a threat
_now_, with or without a FC, because all kinds of shadow governance is
taking place piecemeal in localized regimes such as WIPO, ICANN, Council
of Europe Cybercrime, etc. The unique aspect of WGIG/WSIS is its ability
to take a holistic view that looks over all regimes. That is why it is
preferable to see a FC effort emerge from WSIS/WGIG. A holistic approach
that includes substantial civil society and private sector input, and
which balances US and OECD perspectives with those of developing
countries, seems to me to be more likely to arrive at a balanced
resolution of the many conflicts. 

I would like to follow up on Nnenna's discussion of the potential
quagmire of subsidiarity, but I have not concluded a firm position on
that yet. I am still thinking about it.

I am sure there are more risks that could be thought of, but that's a
start. 

--MM

From Mueller at syr.edu  Thu Dec 23 16:41:35 2004
From: Mueller at syr.edu (Milton Mueller)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] A Framework Convention for the Internet?
Message-ID: <s1caaf16.009@gwia201.syr.edu>


>>> nne75@yahoo.com 12/22/2004 3:48:06 PM >>>
 
>I'm not against the subsidiarity, my point is that certain principles
must be retained from the word go!

I definitely agree with this, and I think you are right to mark out the
way governments might use subsidiarity to undermine human rights
principles. 
 
>Off to the beach
 
Um, I'll be shoveling snow. 

--MM 
 

		
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From nne75 at yahoo.com  Thu Dec 23 19:56:30 2004
From: nne75 at yahoo.com (Nnenna)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Veni's points
In-Reply-To: <s1caae96.096@gwia201.syr.edu>
Message-ID: <20041223195630.37443.qmail@web50204.mail.yahoo.com>

Veni, 
 
You will live long!  That is the way Africans say it!  
 
First point: The global community can not enforce civil rights. It can build coalitions within countries, organize awareness campaigns, but there are no simple rules how to do that. 
 
I wish to add to that by saying that if the African Civil Society has come anywhere in the WSIS process, it has drawn strength and support from the global Civil Society!  That is what we hope to replicate at the regional level.  That a strong coalition of African CS will help give tonus to the National CS!  You may now understand my earlier points.
 
The Internet is a force majeure.
 
No, it  is not just a force majeure, it is a force primordiale!  It changes not just the things we have always been doing.  It changes the very nature and manner of doing things.  I may content myself in saying that onland living has gone online, but I know within me that it has not just gone online, it has gone cyber, speedy, and digital!
 
There are no common rules for running the Internet in every country
 
Mon ami, there are countries in Africa that do not have any national ICT plans!
 
How can a civil society activists in countries, where there's no such civil society be successful?
 
Aie aie aie!  What if  most of the NGOs there were just humanitarian?  Supporting hungry persons and giving out food and non-food items, sheltering the internally displaced persons ...?
 
What if most of the CS entities : women orgs, NGOs, hopitals, interest groups etc ... do not even have an internet connection?
 
And what if they are simply not aware of how to engage in such activism?
 
What if ..., What if... what if ...
 
Milton, the idea is a good one, but you understand that work needs to be done from my (African) side.  That is why we are asking all those questions!
 
Sorry for the snow, if you are not afraid of embargoes and war, you may come to Cote d'Ivoire. 
 
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From muguet at mdpi.org  Thu Dec 23 21:42:15 2004
From: muguet at mdpi.org (Dr. Francis MUGUET)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UN & WSIS
Message-ID: <41CB3BB7.7070204@mdpi.org>



Fran?ais / English

--------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.un.org/News/fr-press/docs/2004/AG10322.doc.htm

Assembl?e g?n?rale 22/12/2004
75e s?ance pl?ni?re ? matin

Les technologies de l?information et des communications au service du 
d?veloppement (A/59/480)

Aux termes de la r?solution sur le Sommet mondial sur la soci?t? de 
l?information, adopt?e sans vote,l?Assembl?e prie instamment les ?tats 
Membres, les organes concern?s de l?ONU ainsi que d?autres organisations 
intergouvernementales, les ONG, la soci?t? civile et le secteur priv?, 
de participer activement ? l?application des textes issus de la phase de 
Gen?ve et au processus pr?paratoire de la phase de Tunis ainsi qu?au 
Sommet lui-m?me afin d?en assurer le succ?s.  Elle prend note des textes 
et d?cisions issus de la premi?re r?union du Comit? pr?paratoire, tenue 
en Tunisie du 24 au 26 juin 2004, concernant la structure et les 
r?sultats de la seconde phase du Sommet et ce qu?elle doit produire. 
Elle se f?licite de la cr?ation du Groupe de travail sur la gouvernance 
de l?Internet et du Groupe d?action sur les m?canismes de financement.

L?Assembl?e a ?galement adopt? une d?cision par laquelle elle prend note 
du rapport du Secr?taire g?n?ral intitul? ? Les technologies de 
l?information et des communications au service du d?veloppement: bilan 
de l?application de la r?solution 57/295 de l?Assembl?e g?n?rale ?.  Par 
cette d?cision, elle prie aussi le Secr?taire g?n?ral de lui pr?senter ? 
sa soixanti?me session un nouveau rapport sur l?application de la 
strat?gie.

Par une deuxi?me d?cision, l?Assembl?e prend acte de la note du 
Secr?taire g?n?ral transmettant le rapport du Directeur g?n?ral de 
l?Organisation des Nations Unies pour l??ducation, la science et la 
culture (UNESCO) sur les programmes de communication pour le 
d?veloppement dans le syst?me des Nations Unies.

-------------------
A tous

Joyeux No?l et Bonne Ann?e !


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


http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/ga10322.doc.htm

Fifty-ninth General Assembly
Plenary  22/12/2004
75th Meeting (AM)

Information and Communication Technologies for Development

The Committee?s report on ?Information and communication technologies 
for development? (document A/59/480) contains a draft resolution and two 
draft decisions.

A draft resolution on the World Summit on the Information Society, which 
the Committee approved without a vote on 24 November, would have the 
Assembly endorse the Declaration of Principles and the Plan of Action 
the Summit adopted on 12 December 2003, and stress the importance of the 
effective and timely implementation of the Plan of Action.  It would 
also urge Member States, the United Nations bodies, including the 
Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, and other 
intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, civil 
society and the private sector to actively help implement the Summit. 
Further, it would call on the international community to make voluntary 
contributions to the special fund set up by the International 
Telecommunication Union to support Summit preparations.

Draft decision I, which was approved by the Committee without a vote on 
24 November, would have the Assembly take note of the report of the 
Secretary-General entitled ?Information and communication technologies 
for development: Progress in the implementation of General Assembly 
resolution 57/295?.  It would also request the Secretary-General to 
submit a further report on implementation of the strategy to the General 
Assembly at its sixtieth session.

By draft decision II, approved by the Committee without a vote on 7 
December, the Assembly would take note of the note by the 
Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Director-General of the 
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 
(UNESCO) on communication for development programmes in the United Nations.

----------------
To all

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year !

Francis

-- 

------------------------------------------------------
Francis F. MUGUET Ph.D

MDPI Foundation Open Access Journals
Associate Publisher
http://www.mdpi.org   http://www.mdpi.net
muguet@mdpi.org       muguet@mdpi.net

ENSTA   Paris, France
KNIS lab.  Director
"Knowledge Networks & Information Society" (KNIS)
muguet@ensta.fr   http://www.ensta.fr/~muguet

World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS)
Civil Society Working Groups
Scientific Information :  http://www.wsis-si.org  chair
Patents & Copyrights   :  http://www.wsis-pct.org co-chair
Financing Mechanismns  :  http://www.wsis-finance.org web

UNMSP project : http://www.unmsp.org
WTIS initiative: http://www.wtis.org
------------------------------------------------------


From muguet at mdpi.org  Thu Dec 23 22:35:19 2004
From: muguet at mdpi.org (Dr. Francis MUGUET)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] more/plus  UN & WSIS
In-Reply-To: <41CB3BB7.7070204@mdpi.org>
References: <41CB3BB7.7070204@mdpi.org>
Message-ID: <41CB4827.7000306@mdpi.org>

Fran?ais / Anglais

Excusez-moi j'ai oubli? de mentionner que les versions anglaises et 
fran?aises sont
?trangement diff?rentes.
En plus dans la version Fran?aise :
Elle prend note des textes et d?cisions issus de la premi?re r?union du 
Comit? pr?paratoire, tenue en Tunisie du 24 au 26 juin 2004, concernant 
la structure et les r?sultats de la seconde phase du Sommet et ce 
qu?elle doit produire. Elle se f?licite de la cr?ation du Groupe de 
travail sur la gouvernance de l?Internet et du Groupe d?action sur les 
m?canismes de financement.
En plus dans la version Anglaise : ( ma traduction )
 On fait appel ? la communaut? internationale pour faire des 
contributions volontaire ? un fond sp?cial mis en place
 par l'IUT pour soutenir la pr?paration du Sommet"

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

Sorry I forgot to mention that the English and French versions are 
strangely different :
In the French version only ( my translation )
It ( the Assembly ) takes notices of the texts and decisions of the 
first reunion of the Preparatory Committee, held in Tunisia
from June 24 to 24, 2004, concerning the structure and results of the 
second phase of the Summit and what it must produce.
It is pleased with the creation of the WGIG and the TFFM.
In the English version only :
Further, it would call on the international community to make voluntary 
contributions to the special fund set up by the International 
Telecommunication Union to support Summit preparations.

Francis

>
>
>
> Fran?ais / English
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.un.org/News/fr-press/docs/2004/AG10322.doc.htm
>
> Assembl?e g?n?rale 22/12/2004
> 75e s?ance pl?ni?re ? matin
>
> Les technologies de l?information et des communications au service du 
> d?veloppement (A/59/480)
>
> Aux termes de la r?solution sur le Sommet mondial sur la soci?t? de 
> l?information, adopt?e sans vote,l?Assembl?e prie instamment les ?tats 
> Membres, les organes concern?s de l?ONU ainsi que d?autres 
> organisations intergouvernementales, les ONG, la soci?t? civile et le 
> secteur priv?, de participer activement ? l?application des textes 
> issus de la phase de Gen?ve et au processus pr?paratoire de la phase 
> de Tunis ainsi qu?au Sommet lui-m?me afin d?en assurer le succ?s.  
> Elle prend note des textes et d?cisions issus de la premi?re r?union 
> du Comit? pr?paratoire, tenue en Tunisie du 24 au 26 juin 2004, 
> concernant la structure et les r?sultats de la seconde phase du Sommet 
> et ce qu?elle doit produire. Elle se f?licite de la cr?ation du Groupe 
> de travail sur la gouvernance de l?Internet et du Groupe d?action sur 
> les m?canismes de financement.
>
> L?Assembl?e a ?galement adopt? une d?cision par laquelle elle prend 
> note du rapport du Secr?taire g?n?ral intitul? ? Les technologies de 
> l?information et des communications au service du d?veloppement: bilan 
> de l?application de la r?solution 57/295 de l?Assembl?e g?n?rale ?.  
> Par cette d?cision, elle prie aussi le Secr?taire g?n?ral de lui 
> pr?senter ? sa soixanti?me session un nouveau rapport sur 
> l?application de la strat?gie.
>
> Par une deuxi?me d?cision, l?Assembl?e prend acte de la note du 
> Secr?taire g?n?ral transmettant le rapport du Directeur g?n?ral de 
> l?Organisation des Nations Unies pour l??ducation, la science et la 
> culture (UNESCO) sur les programmes de communication pour le 
> d?veloppement dans le syst?me des Nations Unies.
>
> -------------------
> A tous
>
> Joyeux No?l et Bonne Ann?e !
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/ga10322.doc.htm
>
> Fifty-ninth General Assembly
> Plenary  22/12/2004
> 75th Meeting (AM)
>
> Information and Communication Technologies for Development
>
> The Committee?s report on ?Information and communication technologies 
> for development? (document A/59/480) contains a draft resolution and 
> two draft decisions.
>
> A draft resolution on the World Summit on the Information Society, 
> which the Committee approved without a vote on 24 November, would have 
> the Assembly endorse the Declaration of Principles and the Plan of 
> Action the Summit adopted on 12 December 2003, and stress the 
> importance of the effective and timely implementation of the Plan of 
> Action.  It would also urge Member States, the United Nations bodies, 
> including the Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, 
> and other intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental 
> organizations, civil society and the private sector to actively help 
> implement the Summit. Further, it would call on the international 
> community to make voluntary contributions to the special fund set up 
> by the International Telecommunication Union to support Summit 
> preparations.
>
> Draft decision I, which was approved by the Committee without a vote 
> on 24 November, would have the Assembly take note of the report of the 
> Secretary-General entitled ?Information and communication technologies 
> for development: Progress in the implementation of General Assembly 
> resolution 57/295?.  It would also request the Secretary-General to 
> submit a further report on implementation of the strategy to the 
> General Assembly at its sixtieth session.
>
> By draft decision II, approved by the Committee without a vote on 7 
> December, the Assembly would take note of the note by the 
> Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Director-General of 
> the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 
> (UNESCO) on communication for development programmes in the United 
> Nations.
>
> ----------------
> To all
>
> Merry Xmas and Happy New Year !
>
> Francis
>


-- 

------------------------------------------------------ 
Francis F. MUGUET Ph.D 

MDPI Foundation Open Access Journals
Associate Publisher
http://www.mdpi.org   http://www.mdpi.net
muguet@mdpi.org       muguet@mdpi.net

ENSTA   Paris, France
KNIS lab.  Director 
"Knowledge Networks & Information Society" (KNIS)
muguet@ensta.fr   http://www.ensta.fr/~muguet

World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS)
Civil Society Working Groups
Scientific Information :  http://www.wsis-si.org  chair
Patents & Copyrights   :  http://www.wsis-pct.org co-chair
Financing Mechanismns  :  http://www.wsis-finance.org web

UNMSP project : http://www.unmsp.org
WTIS initiative: http://www.wtis.org
------------------------------------------------------ 



From jsarr at refer.sn  Fri Dec 24 16:15:18 2004
From: jsarr at refer.sn (Joseph Sarr)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Merry Christmas - Dewenati ci at bu bees bi
Message-ID: <1103904918.41cc409652b7a@www.refer.sn>

Chers Coll?gues,
Joyeux No?l et Heureuse Ann?e 2005

Dear Colleagues, 
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2005 !

Estimados Colegas,
Alegre Navidad y Feliz A?o 2005 ?

Mbokk yu teed yi,
Nu Ndokkel len ci Nowel bi - Dewenati ci at  2005 bu bees bi !

Joseph SARR
Conseil R?gional de Dakar




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From: jsarr at refer.sn (Joseph SARR)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Une carte postale du SENEGAL
Message-ID: <200412241653.QAA23725@mediaxite.com>

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From Francesca.Martinese at comune.bologna.it  Mon Dec 27 00:01:23 2004
From: Francesca.Martinese at comune.bologna.it (Francesca.Martinese@comune.bologna.it)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Francesca Martinese/Comune di Bologna/IT
 =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E8_assente_dall'ufficio=2E?=
Message-ID: <OF6378C2B3.26373EDC-ONC1256F77.0000207A-C1256F77.0000207A@comune.bologna.it>

Sar? assente dall'ufficio a partire da  24/12/2004 e rientrer? il
07/01/2005.

Risponder? al messaggio al mio ritorno.

I will be out of office from 24th December until 7th January.
I'll answer the message as soon as I'm back.




From atanu.garai at oneworld.net  Mon Dec 27 07:53:30 2004
From: atanu.garai at oneworld.net (Atanu Garai)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UNCTAD asked to devise a proposal for SDR for DSF
In-Reply-To: 
 <OF6378C2B3.26373EDC-ONC1256F77.0000207A-C1256F77.0000207A@comune.bologna.it>
Message-ID: <GFEDKBEIKFFCGKADJIGFCEDDEBAA.atanu.garai@oneworld.net>

This meeting seems to be a foreground for UNCTAD's post-WSIS involvement.
/Atanu

From: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/tdxipcd5_en.pdf
Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman and CEO, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization
(TAGO), and Vice Chair of the UN ICT Task Force, emphasized the crucial
importance of
education in capacity building and called on UNCTAD to consider giving
education greater emphasis
in the pre-Conference negotiating text or making it a separate theme. UNCTAD
should play a leading
role in the preparations for the second phase of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS),
to be held in Tunis in 2005, including monitoring the implementation of the
Plan of Action adopted
during the first phase of WSIS. UNCTAD should participate actively in the
current discussion on
Internet governance and ICT for security, in close collaboration with the UN
ICT Task Force and the
ICC, and it should assist developing countries in the design of ICT policies
and in the development of
e-business capacities. It should devise a proposal for a special drawing
right (SDR) system in support
of the global solidarity fund to help bridge the "digital divide", and it
should carry out policy research
into other new and emerging technologies, such as bioinformatics,
nanotechnology and
biotechnology, with a view to helping developing countries formulate
relevant policies in these areas.




Atanu Garai
ICT Advocacy Officer
OneWorld South Asia
C -2/6 Safdarjung Development Area
New Delhi 110016
India.
T: +91 11 51657975
F: +91 11 51657976
E: atanu.garai@oneworld.net
http://www.digitalopportunity.org
http://lists.apdip.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss-pdi





From veni at veni.com  Mon Dec 27 08:16:31 2004
From: veni at veni.com (Veni Markovski)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Internet to ITU: Stay Away from My Network
In-Reply-To: <41C73B50.1090005@ensta.fr>
References: <41C73B50.1090005@ensta.fr>
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20041227100343.02d38108@193.200.15.187>

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From wsb at rrzn.uni-hannover.de  Sun Dec 26 20:57:21 2004
From: wsb at rrzn.uni-hannover.de (Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISII, Free Access to Information, Search Engines
Message-ID: <200412262057.iBQKvLYL028181@rayserv.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>

Dear Francis Muguet,

this email to you is because Ralf Bendrath (Germany, Bremen/Berlin, CC set)
gave me the pointer to contact you. My objective is already very shortly
described by the subject line of this email: I strongly believe it's beeing
necessary to introduce a clear and realistic statement into the declarations    
of WSIS2 concerning the free access to information. Access to information is
already stated at WSIS1 (Declaration of Principles: B3 no. 24-28, Plan of
Action: C3), but it does not make sense without more precision regarding the
process of gaining information.

This process is governed in real life by the search engines. Search engines
nowadays are overtaking the role which libraries have had for centuries. And
in that field we observe a monopolism which we never had before in mankind:
one company (Google) has practically taken over the market (more than 80%
marketshare in Germany). This is like if there would be just one library or
just one newspaper for the whole world. The owner of that one company has
then gained control over the minds of all human beeings. The only "chance"
might be that an ever bigger monopolist (Microsoft) will take over that
segment too, which would certainly not generate a better situation.

I strongly feel, that this threat of the information society has to be
clearly phrased at WSIS2. I'm working in the field of search engines at
Hannover University, Germany, since about 8 years
(http://meta.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/suma-eng.html) and I'm really concerned
about what happens in this field.

Will you step into this matter too? I'm looking for people willing to
act too on this global threat of the information society.

Best Wishes!
Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann
--
Dr. Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann        Tel.: ++49-(0)511-762-4383 Office
                                           ++49-(0)5085-6118    @Home
Project Lead SearchEngineLab         http://metager.de/suma-eng.html
University of Hannover

From accuosto at chasque.net  Mon Dec 27 17:37:11 2004
From: accuosto at chasque.net (WSIS Papers)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSISPapers Newsletter No.3 - "Cybercrime" and human rights
Message-ID: <052801c4ec3a$b2a91420$4704a8c0@paullier.net>

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  WSIS Papers Newsletter - December 2004 No.3
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In this issue: "CYBERCRIME" AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Content:

- Background
- European Cyber Crime Convention
- International convention: civil society perpective
- The impact on civil society
- Case study: Indymedia's servers seized
- The issue of cybercrime in the WSIS process

Available online at:

      http://wsispapers.choike.org/

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Born as part of an intelligence military system, Internet has become an
essential means of communication and information with great democratic
potential as an organizational tool for social movements challenging the
domination of political and economic power.

The September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon led
many countries to promote measures for the surveillance of individuals and
organizations as part of the "war on terrorism". In fact, it also provided a
perfect excuse to introduce measures that previously would have met more
resistance from those concerned about how these new measures might erode
essential civil liberties.

Various attempts have been made to adopt a global definition of "cyber
crime" but the boundaries of this term remain unclear. While there might be
consensus in identifying child pornography as "cybercrime", "organized
crime" or "terrorist act" are defined differently in several national
legislations. As a consequence, in some countries any protest group could
easily be considered a major threat and thus go under official
investigation.

Efforts to reach an international legal solution have resulted in the
introduction of proposals to increase surveillance on global communications,
and Internet users' activities are increasingly being monitored under the
pretext of preventing computer intruders from attacking systems and to
stopping offences such as "intellectual property violations".

For several years the Council of Europe (COE) and the G-8 have assumed a
frontline position in the efforts to build "cybercrime" legal frameworks,
while the United States has been playing a key role in developing and
promoting these initiatives. In 2001, these discussions, which had largely
taken place behind closed doors, finally gave birth to the "Council of
Europe Cyber Crime Convention". This convention requires that states
co-operate in the investigation of cyber crime by allowing data to be shared
between them - even if the crime being investigated in one state is not a
crime in the state from where information is requested.

Minor acts of civil disobedience in some countries might carry draconian
penalties in others and fighting for justice and human rights are themselves
considered criminal acts in many parts of the world. The implications of a
such a convention for social movements, NGOs and human rights organisations
can, therefore, be enormous.

A recent well known case illustrates the true danger of  Internet
surveillance for human rights: on October 7th 2004 the servers of the
Independent Media Community -known as Indymedia- were seized by the FBI.
While the reasons for this act remain still unveiled, Rackspace, the
UK-based Indymedia host server, claims that it acted "in compliance with a
court order pursuant to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT)". In other
words, one country requested handing over of the servers under the
jurisdiction of another country on the grounds of a treaty of international
cooperation, obscuring accountability and due
process. This episode clearly shows how international legislation can easily
be used to undermine freedom of expression.

The Council of  Europe Cybercrime Convention has been promoted as a possible
global governance model for dealing with trans-border cybercrime.
Considering the threats that such a global legal regime would impose on
basic human rights it should be seriously considered in the preparatory
process of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS), to be held in Tunis in November 2005.


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Background
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*  Cyber Crime
Privacy international
Introduction to the problem of cyber crime and the way it is handled by
international law. The site includes news, reports, a legal library and
background information on the leading bodies of international regulation.
-->http://www.privacyinternational.org/index.shtml?cmd[342][]=c-1-Cyber+Crim
e&als[theme]=Cyber%20Crime&conds[1][category........]=Cyber%20Crime

*  Cyber crime and anti-terrorism legislation
APC
Following the attacks on the World Trade Centre and The Pentagon on
September 11th 2001, many states enacted laws to tackle the perceived threat
of terrorism. At the same time, there was an increase in the dialogue and
cooperation between the operators of the Internet and electronic networks,
and the security services of many states.
-->http://www.apc.org/english/rights/handbook/ICT_22.shtml

*  Electronic communications surveillance
Echelon Watch
Echelon is perhaps the most powerful intelligence gathering organization in
the world. Several credible reports suggest that this global electronic
communications surveillance system presents an extreme threat to the privacy
of people all over the world.
-->http://www.echelonwatch.org/

*   International issues : cybercrime
Center for democracy & technology
Several international initiatives on cyber-crime raise concerns for Internet
freedom and threaten to result in government mandates on industry.
-->http://www.cdt.org/international/cybercrime/


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European Cyber Crime Convention
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*  Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention
Council of Europe
Adopted in November 2001, the convention aims to set a regime of
international cooperation for the investigation and prosecution of
cybercrime.
-->http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/QueVoulezVous.asp?NT=185&CM=1&CL
=ENG


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International convention: civil society perpective
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*   The Birth and Rise of International Conventions on Cybercrime
Gus Hosein
Privacy International
In this report Hosein criticizes the COE's Convention on Cybercrime : "As a
member of civil society, I could say that we may have failed to secure civil
liberties within this convention. Perhaps we asked too much of this actor".
Pdf document.
-->http://privacy.openflows.org/pdf/birth+risecoe.pdf

*   Treaty Watch
The Cybercrime Treaty is an international agreement created for the
ostensible purpose of helping police cooperate on crimes that take place on
the Internet. Unfortunately, the treaty, which was drafted with very little
public input, requires signatory nations to cooperate with foreign
dictatorships and give invasive new surveillance powers to law enforcement.
It also lacks protections for privacy or other civil liberties, and applies
far more broadly than to just the Internet.
-->http://www.treatywatch.org/

* Internet under surveillance
Reporters without borders
This report, released in 2004, studies the repression of the internet
worldwide, from dictatorial regimes to the supposedly solid democracies of
Europe and the United States.
-->http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=433

* Electronic privacy information center (EPIC)
A US-based organization, EPIC opposes the European Cybercrime Convention due
to its threat to civil liberties and lack of democratic participation. The
site includes news, government and NGO resources, industry comments and
conferences on the matter.
-->http://www.epic.org/privacy/intl/ccc.html

*   Privacy and human rights 2004
Privacy International
This report reviews the effects on privacy and civil rights beyond September
11, 2001 in more than 60 countries.
-->http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-83992&al
s[theme]=Privacy%20and%20Human%20Rights


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The impact on civil society
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*   An advocacy handbook for the non governmental organisations
Cyber-rights and cyber-liberties
This advocacy handbook for the NGOs provides a policy analysis of the
Cyber-Crime Convention 2001 and its first additional protocol from a human
rights perspective for policy specialists, NGOs, and human rights activists.
-->http://www.cyber-rights.org/cybercrime/

*   Global Internet Liberty Campaign's letter to the COE.
Global Internet Liberty Campaign
Organizations from around the world have urged the Council of Europe to
reject the current version of its Convention on Cyber-Crime. The letter from
the organizations states that provisions of the treaty runs contrary to
internationally accepted human rights norms and would infringe on the free
speech and privacy rights of all Internet users.
-->http://www.gilc.org/privacy/coe-letter-1200.html

*  Internet and civil liberties
CRIS
Defenders of civil liberties are unanimous in their view that 9/11 was a
negative turning point when it comes to protecting our personal data. A
number of countries have adopted laws that restrict online civil liberties
for the purposes of, according to the authorities, combating terrorism more
effectively.
-->http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/592/


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Case study: Indymedia's servers seized
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*  FBI seizes Indymedia servers in the UK
Indymedia
The  7th October 2004, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace
ordering them to hand over Indymedia web servers to the requesting agency.
Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20 Indymedia sites
at its London facility, complied and turned over the requested servers,
effectively removing those sites from the internet. It is unclear how and
why a server that is outside the US jurisdiction can be seized by  US
authorities.
-->http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/111999.shtml

*  Responses to the seizure of indymedia harddrives
Indymedia UK
Civil liberty groups and journalist organisations responded to the seizure
of Indymedia servers in London and legal steps are being taken in Europe and
the US.
-->http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/300886.html

*  Indymedia solidarity statement
Indymedia
More than 11.000 hundred organizations and individuals signed the statement
condemning the action taken against Indymedia and calling for openness and
justice with those responsible.
-->http://solidarity.indymedia.org.uk/?lang=eng

*  APC condemns "arbitrary" seizure of Indymedia web servers by US and
European law enforcers
Choike
"European and North American governments which frequently point to human
rights abuses in countries from the Global South need to explain their own
apparently arbitrary abuse of Indymedia's rights and those of its readers,"
said Anriette Esterhuysen. October 2004.
-->http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/2322.html


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The issue of cybercrime in the WSIS process
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*  Communication rights: WSIS and beyond
CRIS
In the Asian Civil Society Forum, held November 2004, cybercrime was pointed
out as one of the unresolved issues. The Council of Europe Cybercrime
Convention would likely become a model law that other governments may adopt.
While this may appear a comprehensive approach in addressing online criminal
activity, the convention may not be in sync with principles related to human
rights, privacy and other. It's enforcement beyond national borders also
poses danger.
-->http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/597/

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Related Choike's in-depth reports
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* Civil and political rights
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1449.html

* World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/703.html

* The right to communicate
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1215.html


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- "WSIS Papers" and "Choike" are projects of the
Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM) -  Third World Institute

- "WSIS Papers" is supported by the
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) / PanAmericas
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From accuosto at chasque.net  Mon Dec 27 17:40:18 2004
From: accuosto at chasque.net (WSIS Papers)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Boletin WSISPapers No.3 - "Combate al cibercrimen" y derechos humanos
Message-ID: <053001c4ec3b$21d74c40$4704a8c0@paullier.net>

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   Bolet?n de WSIS Papers - Diciembre 2004 No.3
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En este n?mero: "COMBATE AL CIBERCRIMEN" Y DERECHOS HUMANOS

Contenido:

- Informaci?n de contexto
- Tratado internacional sobre cibercrimen
- Convenci?n: la opini?n de la sociedad civil
- El impacto en la sociedad civil
- Caso de estudio: toma de servidores de Indymedia
- El cibercrimen en el proceso de la CMSI

Disponible en l?nea en:

     http://wsispapers.choike.org/

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Nacido como un sistema de comunicaci?n de car?cter militar, Internet se ha
convertido en un medio esencial de comunicaci?n para la sociedad civil, con
un alto potencial democr?tico que permite la organizaci?n de movimientos
sociales capaces de desafiar la dominaci?n del poder pol?tico y econ?mico.

Desde los atentados del 11 de setiembre a las Torres del World Trade Center
y el Pent?gono, algunos gobiernos han promovido medidas para la vigilancia
de los individuos y de las organizaciones como parte de la "guerra contra el
terrorismo". De hecho, ha sido una perfecta excusa para introducir medidas
que hubieran sido de otra forma rechazadas por aquellos preocupados por la
amenaza que estas nuevas reglas significan para las libertades civiles.

Se han hecho varios intentos para adoptar una definici?n global del
"cibercrimen" pero el alcance de este t?rmino es a?n incierto. Mientras
existe consenso respecto a la criminalidad de la pornograf?a infantil, por
ejemplo, el "crimen organizado" o el "terrorismo" son definidos de manera
distinta en cada pa?s. Como consecuencia, un acto de protesta callejera,
puede ser considerado una amenaza grave en algunos pa?ses y, por lo tanto,
sus organizadores son pasibles de actos de investigaci?n y represi?n en su
contra.

Los principales actores hacia una legislaci?n internacional han sido hasta
ahora el Consejo de Europa (COE) y el G-8, mientras que Estados Unidos se ha
 mantenido activo tanto en el desarrollo como en la promoci?n de estos
esfuerzos. Luego de varios a?os de negociaciones a puertas cerradas, en 2001
se adopta la Convenci?n sobre Cibercrimen del Consejo Europeo, que requiere
la cooperaci?n entre pa?ses para la investigaci?n de los cibercr?menes, a?n
si el "crimen" a investigar no fuera considerado tal en el pa?s al que se le
requiere informaci?n. Las implicancias de este marco regulatorio para la
sociedad civil y las ONG son enormes especialmente teniendo en cuenta que en
muchas partes del mundo la lucha por los derechos humanos es considerada un
acto criminal en s? mismo.

Un hecho reciente de gran trascendencia ilustra la amenaza que estos
tratados presentan para los derechos civiles b?sicos: el 7 de octubre de
2004, los servidores de la Comunidad de Medios Independientes -conocida como
Indymedia- fueron confiscados por agentes del FBI. Las razones para este
acto a?n no fueron develadas, sin embargo, Rackspace, la empresa que prove?a
el servidor para Indymedia, expres? que "actu? como buen ciudadano
corporativo y est? cooperando con las leyes de autoridades internacionales".
En definitiva, lo que ocurri? fue que autoridades de un pa?s reclamaron la
entrega de los servidores respald?ndose en un tratado de cooperaci?n
transnacional. Este episodio sirve de muestra para ver c?mo estos tratados
pueden ser usados para violar la libertad de expresi?n y obstaculizar el
debido proceso.

La Convenci?n sobre Cibercrimen de la COE ha sido propuesta como modelo de
gobernanza de Internet para regular el cibercrimen m?s all? de las fronteras
nacionales. Teniendo en cuenta la amenaza que este r?gimen global representa
para los derechos humanos b?sicos, el tema deber? ser seriamente considerado
en el proceso preparatorio para la segunda fase de la Cumbre Mundial sobre
la Sociedad de la Informaci?n (CMSI) que se llevar? a cabo en T?nez en
diciembre de 2005.

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Informaci?n de contexto
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*  Cibercrimen
Privacy International
Introducci?n al problema del cibercrimen y su regulaci?n internacional. El
sitio incluye noticias, informes, informaci?n sobre los organismos de
regulaci?n y el efecto de sus decisiones. Lamentablemente est? disponible
?nicamente en ingl?s.
-->
http://www.privacyinternational.org/index.shtml?cmd[342][]=c-1-Cyber+Crime&als[theme]=Cyber%20Crime&conds[1][category........]=Cyber%20Crime

* ?Control y censura en el internet?
ALAI
El sistema de filtrado, una tecnolog?a que sirve para definir qu? partes de
la Web ser?n accesibles desde un ordenador particular o un grupo de
ordenadores, permite impedir el acceso a contenidos en el ciberespacio. La
aplicaci?n m?s aceptable de esto es la que se refiere a la relaci?n
padres-hijos, pero tambi?n permite que un gobierno o un proveedor de acceso
a Internet se arrogue la funci?n paterna y decida lo que uno puede ver.
--> http://www.alainet.org/active/show_text_pt.php3?key=155

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Tratado internacional sobre cibercrimen
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*   Convenci?n sobre cibercrimen del Consejo Europeo
Consejo Europeo
Adoptada en noviembre de 2001, la convenci?n busca adoptar una pol?tica de
criminalidad com?n, mediante el establecimiento de la cooperaci?n
internacional. Lamentablemente el texto est? disponible ?nicamente en ingl?s
y franc?s.
-->
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/QueVoulezVous.asp?NT=185&CM=2&DF=12/22/04&CL=ENG

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Convenci?n: la opini?n de la sociedad civil
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*  Ocho razones para rechazar el tratado
Treaty Watch
Disponible solo en ingl?s.
--> http://www.treatywatch.org/about.html

*   Internet bajo vigilancia: 2004
Reporteros Sin Fronteras
"El derecho de Internet se est? construyendo ahora en las cuatro esquinas
del planeta. Sin embargo, el fen?meno atrae poco la atenci?n de los medios
de comunicaci?n y de la opini?n p?blica. Ciertamente, la lucha contra el
terrorismo es una prioridad. Pero, sin embargo, no puede llevarse a cabo en
detrimento de los principios fundamentales de una democracia, entre los que
ahora figura el derecho a utilizar libremente la Red".
--> http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=434

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El impacto en la sociedad civil
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*  Carta abierta al Consejo de Europa
Campa?a por la libertad global de Internet
Organizaciones civiles de Estados Unidos y Europa se manifestan en contra de
la convenci?n del cibercrimen del Consejo de Europa por considerarla
contraria a "normas bien establecidas para la protecci?n y libertad del
individuo".
--> http://www.gilc.org/privacy/coe-letter-1000-es.html

*  Ciberterrorismo: el cuento del lobo
Adital
Las nuevas tecnolog?as de la informaci?n y la comunicaci?n no son neutrales.
Su construcci?n forma parte de la ideolog?a, la ?tica y la cultura de la
sociedad libre del conocimiento. El plantear este cuento de Pedrito y el
Lobo, respecto al ciberterrorismo hace sospechar, que lo que se desea es
controlar las redes de todo el planeta.
--> http://www.adital.org.br/site/noticia.asp?lang=ES&cod=14090

* M?s seguridad, menos libertades
ALAI
No es ninguna novedad que los gobiernos traten de sacar el m?ximo provecho
de una situaci?n de desconcierto, para ganar posiciones que en otras
circunstancias provocar?an resistencias. Es b?sicamente lo que la
administraci?n del presidente George W. Bush se encuentra empe?ada en
lograr, en el tiempo m?s corto posible y en todos los frentes, tras los
atentados terroristas contra Estados Unidos del 11 de septiembre, antes de
que se enfr?en los ?nimos de indignaci?n de sus conciudadanos.
--> http://www.alainet.org/active/show_text_pt.php3?key=1453

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Caso de estudio: toma de servidores de Indymedia
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*  El mayor ataque a la prensa alternativa en internet
Kaosenlared
Los dos objetivos principales de esta acci?n represiva son: Dividir a la Red
Indymedia; y Crear miedo entre los activistas de la prensa alternativa.
-->
http://www.esfazil.com/kaos/noticia.php?id_noticia=5827&PHPSESSID=70b84887d6c64a32afad645c0e553921

*  APC condena la confiscaci?n arbitraria de los servidores de Indymedia
APC
"Los gobiernos de Europa y Estados Unidos que a menudo se?alan violaciones a
los derechos humanos en los pa?ses del Sur deben explicar su propia
violaci?n de los derechos de Indymedia y los de sus lectores", declar?
Anriette Esterhuysen, directora ejecutiva de APC.
--> http://www.apc.org/espanol/news/index.shtml?x=26835

* Declaraci?n de solidaridad con Indymedia
Indymedia
Firmada por m?s de 11.000 individuos e organizaciones, la declaraci?n
condena lo sucedido y pide por justicia y transparencia con los
responsables.
--> http://solidarity.indymedia.org.uk/

* Indymedia contra los caballos de Troya
Rebeli?n
Antes de volver a operar con normalidad, Indymedia analizar? sus servidores
confiscados y devueltos sin explicaciones por agentes de Estados Unidos,
para verificar la integridad de los contenidos y la ausencia de programas
esp?a.
--> http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=6272

* No hay una sola voz
Argenpress
Esta acci?n marca un precedente muy peligroso por ser desmedida y estar
rodeada de demasiados halos de misterio. La globalizaci?n de los mecanismos
policiales puede llevar a cerrar p?ginas cuyo p?blico es la red ciudadana,
cansada de recibir las mismas noticias por parte de los grandes lobbys de la
comunicaci?n.
--> http://www.argenpress.info/nota.asp?num=015330

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El cibercrimen en el proceso de la CMSI
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* CMSI: Acuerdos m?nimos y compromisos d?biles
ALAI
Sally Burch
Mientras que el Plan de Acci?n propone crear leyes para contrarrestar el
cibercrimen y el "mal uso" de las TIC, en relaci?n a la protecci?n de la
privacidad, se limita a la propuesta de "fomentar la educaci?n y la
sensibilizaci?n de los usuarios".
--> http://www.alainet.org/active/show_text_pt.php3?key=5175

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Especiales de Choike relacionados
-------------------------------------------------------

* Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Informaci?n (CMSI)
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo/informes/647.html

* El derecho a comunicar
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo/informes/1158.html

* Derechos civiles y pol?ticos
--> http://www.choike.org/nuevo/informes/1351.html

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- "WSIS Papers" y "Choike" son proyectos del
  Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM)

- "WSIS Papers" es apoyado por el Centro Internacional
  de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC) - PanAmericas
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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Mon Dec 27 17:33:34 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UNCTAD asked to devise a proposal for SDR for DSF
In-Reply-To: <GFEDKBEIKFFCGKADJIGFCEDDEBAA.atanu.garai@oneworld.net>
Message-ID: <20041227173334.77214.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>

En Français ci-aprés
Dear all,
This is an interesting proposal consisting of creating
a SDR in support of the SDF analysis and proposals,
SDR will be supported by UNCTAD which should play a
leading
role in the preparations for the second phase of the
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS),
to be held in Tunis in 2005. 
This an interessant initiative which should be
supported as well as any other initiative coming from
UNESCO for education, WHO for health, FAO for
agriculture, UNDP for resources mobilization etc....We
as CS Working Group on finance issues who do think
that the DSF must be considered in global strategies
at both international and national levels. We also
think that the resource mobilization must be focus on
ODA before to be taken into consideration in a special
SDF or in others initiatives based on private
operators, individual actions or cities gifts and
donations.
We are available to continue the debate on the issue
depending on solutions you are going to propose.
All the best
Djilali
Salut à tout le monde,
Ce message pour me féliciter de cette initiative de la
CNUCED qui pourrait être suivie d'initiatives
similaires de l'UNESCO pour l'éducation, de l'OMS pour
la santé, de la FAO pour l'agricyulture, du PNUD pour
la mobilisation des ressources etc....
Tout cela pour dire que dans notre groupe de travail
sur la problèmatique (société civile) du financement
du fossé numérique sans rejeter toutes initiatives
d'appui inviduelles, venant du secteur privé, des
villes et autres association, nous pensons que la
solution est principalement dans l'aide publique au
développement (APD) et la cooperation internationale
et dans la prise en considération du fossé numérique
dans des stratégies globales et nationales de
développement et ce quelque soit l'importance conférée
aux TICs.
Nous marquons notre intérêt et notre disponibilité à
poursuivre le débat.
Bien à vous
Djilali 
--- Atanu Garai <atanu.garai@oneworld.net> wrote:

> This meeting seems to be a foreground for UNCTAD's
> post-WSIS involvement.
> /Atanu
> 
> From: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/tdxipcd5_en.pdf
> Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman and CEO, Talal
> Abu-Ghazaleh Organization
> (TAGO), and Vice Chair of the UN ICT Task Force,
> emphasized the crucial
> importance of
> education in capacity building and called on UNCTAD
> to consider giving
> education greater emphasis
> in the pre-Conference negotiating text or making it
> a separate theme. UNCTAD
> should play a leading
> role in the preparations for the second phase of the
> World Summit on the
> Information Society (WSIS),
> to be held in Tunis in 2005, including monitoring
> the implementation of the
> Plan of Action adopted
> during the first phase of WSIS. UNCTAD should
> participate actively in the
> current discussion on
> Internet governance and ICT for security, in close
> collaboration with the UN
> ICT Task Force and the
> ICC, and it should assist developing countries in
> the design of ICT policies
> and in the development of
> e-business capacities. It should devise a proposal
> for a special drawing
> right (SDR) system in support
> of the global solidarity fund to help bridge the
> "digital divide", and it
> should carry out policy research
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From ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es  Tue Dec 28 17:53:06 2004
From: ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es (Lady Murrugarra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ayuda para ASIA  (Asian Earthquake/Tsunami Relief Efforts - Please Support)
Message-ID: <20041228175306.72260.qmail@web11805.mail.yahoo.com>

----- Original Message ----- From: "International Research Foundation for Development" 
 
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Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 12:37 PM
 
Subject: Asian Earthquake/Tsunami Relief Efforts - Please Support




 

Dear Friends: 

Please support the relief efforts in South Asia by donating to any of the aid organizations listed below.

These international aid organizations are accepting contributions for assistance that they or their affiliates will provide to help victims of the powerful earthquake and resulting tsunamis.

Please forward this message to anyone else that can help.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
PO Box 372
CH-1211 Geneva 19
Switzerland
41-22-730-4222
http://www.ifrc.org/

UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
1-800-FOR-KIDS
http://www.unicef.org

Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres
PO Box 2247
New York, NY 10116-2247
1-888-392-0392
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

Action Against Hunger
247 West 37th Street, Suite 1201
New York, NY 10018
1-212-967-7800
http://www.aah-usa.org

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC Crisis Fund)
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA
1-215-241-7000
http://www.afsc.org

Direct Relief International
27 South La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
1-805-964-4767
http://www.directrelief.org

Mercy Corps
PO Box 2669
Portland, OR 97208
1-800-852-2100
http://www.mercycorps.org

Oxfam International/Oxfam America
1-800-77OXFAM
http://www.oxfam.org/

Save the Children
Asia Earthquake/Tidal Wave Relief Fund
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
1-800-728-3843
www.savethechildren.org

World Relief
7 E. Baltimore St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
1-443-451-1900
http://www.wr.org

World Vision
PO Box 70288
Tacoma, Washington 98481-0288
1-888-56-CHILD
http://www.worldvision.org



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From: mailings at irfd.org (International Research Foundation for Development)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Asian Earthquake/Tsunami Relief Efforts - Please Support
Message-ID: <20041229011840.9959F79C6@serveur.refer.sn>

Dear Friends,

Please support the relief efforts in South Asia by donating to any of the aid organizations listed below.

These international aid organizations are accepting contributions for assistance that they or their affiliates will provide to help victims of the powerful earthquake and resulting tsunamis.

Please forward this message to anyone else that can help.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
PO Box 372
CH-1211 Geneva 19
Switzerland
41-22-730-4222
http://www.ifrc.org/

UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
1-800-FOR-KIDS
http://www.unicef.org

Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres
PO Box 2247
New York, NY 10116-2247
1-888-392-0392
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

Action Against Hunger
247 West 37th Street, Suite 1201
New York, NY 10018
1-212-967-7800
http://www.aah-usa.org

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC Crisis Fund)
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA
1-215-241-7000
http://www.afsc.org

Direct Relief International
27 South La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
1-805-964-4767
http://www.directrelief.org

Mercy Corps
PO Box 2669
Portland, OR 97208
1-800-852-2100
http://www.mercycorps.org

Oxfam International/Oxfam America
1-800-77OXFAM
http://www.oxfam.org/

Save the Children
Asia Earthquake/Tidal Wave Relief Fund
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
1-800-728-3843
www.savethechildren.org

World Relief
7 E. Baltimore St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
1-443-451-1900
http://www.wr.org

World Vision
PO Box 70288
Tacoma, Washington 98481-0288
1-888-56-CHILD
http://www.worldvision.org





From nne75 at yahoo.com  Wed Dec 29 13:37:03 2004
From: nne75 at yahoo.com (Nnenna)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Definitions please
Message-ID: <20041229133703.70698.qmail@web50203.mail.yahoo.com>


Dear all

Just wondering if anyone here can help me get my ideas clear on the definition of the following:

Root server 

bandwith

NGN

Dispute resolution

access

leased line

Peering 

interconnection

VoIP

Spectrum policy

Root

Route

Content

Spam

Cybersecurity

Cybercrime

Free software

Proprietary software

Intellectual Property

Domain names 

 

Many thanks

 

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From rkoven at compuserve.com  Wed Dec 29 13:54:02 2004
From: rkoven at compuserve.com (Ronald Koven)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Definitions please
Message-ID: <200412290854_MC3-1-91AE-3C0A@compuserve.com>

Yeah, somebody could write a good book to answer this query.

Rony Koven

From vb at bertola.eu.org  Wed Dec 29 14:01:28 2004
From: vb at bertola.eu.org (Vittorio Bertola)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Definitions please
In-Reply-To: <20041229133703.70698.qmail@web50203.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20041229133703.70698.qmail@web50203.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1104328888.4086.92.camel@croce>

Il giorno mer, 29-12-2004 alle 05:37 -0800, Nnenna ha scritto:
> Dear all
> 
> Just wondering if anyone here can help me get my ideas clear on the
> definition of the following:

Actually, the WGIG preliminary report due to be released before
PrepCom-2 is supposed to answer more or less to this question :-)
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From mclauglm at po.muohio.edu  Wed Dec 29 14:29:42 2004
From: mclauglm at po.muohio.edu (mclauglm@po.muohio.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Definitions please
In-Reply-To: <20041229133703.70698.qmail@web50203.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20041229133703.70698.qmail@web50203.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <p06010200bdf86f5037c8@[192.168.1.101]>

Nnenna,

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing should be very helpful in 
offering definitions for these terms: 
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html.

Lisa



At 5:37 AM -0800 12/29/04, Nnenna wrote:
>Dear all
>
>Just wondering if anyone here can help me get my ideas clear on the 
>definition of the following:
>
>Root server
>
>bandwith
>
>NGN
>
>Dispute resolution
>
>access
>
>leased line
>
>Peering
>
>interconnection
>
>VoIP
>
>Spectrum policy
>
>Root
>
>Route
>
>Content
>
>Spam
>
>Cybersecurity
>
>Cybercrime
>
>Free software
>
>Proprietary software
>
>Intellectual Property
>
>Domain names
>
>
>
>Many thanks
>
>
>
>Nnenna
>
>
>
>Do you Yahoo!?
>Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. 
><http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=29911/*http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com/>Do 
>good.


From kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de  Wed Dec 29 14:54:27 2004
From: kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Wolfgang_Kleinw=E4chter?=)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG ProgressReport
Message-ID: 
 <ACADB74FBBEFD94795A03FDBBDE62D3716FA82@server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de>

 
Dear list,
 
here is a progress report from the ongoing activities of the WGIG.
 
1. The initiative of  WGIG Secretary Kummer, to ask members of the group to indicate their preferences from the 50+ issues list produced a very constructive reply. The majority of members of the group selected three to six subjects where they indicated that they will be ready to write an issue paper or to contribute to the writing of an issue paper. The "issue paper" is not yet a "position paper". It is a "fact sheet" which describes the problem, collects the relevant facts, and maps the subject into the existing mechanism of governing bodies. Probably, if members of the group can agree, it adds a SWOT analysis to indicate already, where problems exists and controveries can emerge. The "issue paper" will be not longer than 3 - 5 pages. The plan is to have the papers ready for internal distribution until January, 25 or so so that after a inner consultation process  they can constitute a basis for the first part of the forthcoming report which will be also descriptive by nature and include next to the "Map" also a brief history, based mainly of existing contributions from ISOC and others. 
 
2. While some issues of the 50+ list got low priority, other got high. Highest priorities got issues like Root Server, Names and Numbers (not a surprise). For a number of issues, voluneers have started to coordinate the work and to invite all members of the group who have indicated their willingness to make contributions to a special issue to join special sub-working groups. The sub working groups are at this stage for fact finding only. There is no discussion on the political, economic, cultural, legal and other "controversial" aspects of a problem. It is jst a correct factual overview about the issue with the aim to enable an informed discussion among group members at a later stage. The sub working groups are open for all WGIG members. Contributions are welcome. If somebody feels, an issue is not covered she/he can initiatie another sub-group. One member of the sub-group of "Names and Numbers" has already proposed to seperate the issues and to  create two sub-groups because number allocation is different from name space enlargement and name registration. But the debate has just started. No substantial discussion so far. 
 
3. The whole process is a member driven bottom up process, very closer to traditional listserv discussion than to intergovernmental diplomatic negotiations.  WGIG members who are silent or position themselves as "observers" risk to become sidelined. It will be difficult, to articulate dissend voices if you have missed the train. But so far the general climate in the e-mail discussion is very constructive. Each message is driven by the will of the members, to make a constructive contribution and to move foreward. But again, this is only the beginning. No hot potatoes has been on the table so far. 
 
4. The time table has been reorganised. Some members of the group disagreed with the idea, to have the 3rd meeting of the group as a follow up the the ICANN Mar del Plata Meting in Sao Paulo. The Brazilain government did invite the group. Some members saw this as a good idea to enable WGIG members to have a look into the ICANN practice and then to move to Brazil for the WGIG meeting. Others had a different approach. First point was timing. The planned dates were  in conflict with the dates of the already fixed  8th meeting of the UNICTTF in Dublin (which coincides with another meeting of the TFFM). Members of the group gave this meeting a higher priority and wanted to have a date which would enable them to go to Dublin. The new dates of the 3rd WGIG meeting are now April 18 - 20, 2005 in Geneva. Only a small number of members had problems with the Brazilian invitation (fearing that this will undermine the neutrality of the group) . Another proposal to go to New York has been also watered down, in particular with regard to the Visa Probkems members of the group could have if they want to enter the US. 
 
5. Concerning the 2nd meeting  a more detailed programme was discussed. There will be a closed meeting on Monday morning (14.2.) followd by an open closed meeting at the same day. (Opne C.osed means that the meeting is closed in principle, but so-called onlookers will have a right to sit in the room without speaking rights). Tuesday, 15th, will be open ended for everybody. The Wednesday meeting (16.2.) will be again partly "open closed" or "full closed". On Thursday and Friday, probably a drafting group will work on the formulation of the Interim Report, which has to be tabled to PrepCom2 on Monday, 21st, in the morning. There will be a full day during PrepCom2, where the delegates (and observers) will discuss the Interim Report in Plenary (probably Wednesday, 23rd).  The Interim Report will - like the Issue Papers - avoid to formulate already "positions". It will be  procedural and factual and will, probably, invite input from broader constituencies. So the hard work will be done between April and June. 
 
Hope this brings some light into the process. Feel free to contact me if you have any idea how to improve the interaction among WGIG members and the broader public. And please, come with concrete, innovative but short papers. 
 
So far so good. 
 
I wish everybody a  nice "Silvester Party" and to all uf us a great 2005 with a succesfull  WSIS II.
 
Best
 
wolfgang
 
  
 
 

From seiiti at gmail.com  Wed Dec 29 17:07:37 2004
From: seiiti at gmail.com (Seiiti Arata)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Definitions please
In-Reply-To: <p06010200bdf86f5037c8@192.168.1.101>
References: <20041229133703.70698.qmail@web50203.mail.yahoo.com>
	 <p06010200bdf86f5037c8@192.168.1.101>
Message-ID: <874fe21804122909072979ccd8@mail.gmail.com>

another good source for information is the wikipedia

www.wikipedia.org

cheers
Seiiti


On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:29:42 -0500, mclauglm@po.muohio.edu
<mclauglm@po.muohio.edu> wrote:
> Nnenna,
> 
> The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing should be very helpful in
> offering definitions for these terms:
> http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html.
> 
> Lisa
> 
> 
> At 5:37 AM -0800 12/29/04, Nnenna wrote:
> >Dear all
> >
> >Just wondering if anyone here can help me get my ideas clear on the
> >definition of the following:
> >
> >Root server
> >
> >bandwith
> >
> >NGN
> >
> >Dispute resolution
> >
> >access
> >
> >leased line
> >
> >Peering
> >
> >interconnection
> >
> >VoIP
> >
> >Spectrum policy
> >
> >Root
> >
> >Route
> >
> >Content
> >
> >Spam
> >
> >Cybersecurity
> >
> >Cybercrime
> >
> >Free software
> >
> >Proprietary software
> >
> >Intellectual Property
> >
> >Domain names
> >
> >
> >
> >Many thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >Nnenna
> >
> >
> >
> >Do you Yahoo!?
> >Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. 
> ><http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=29911/*http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com/>Do
> >good.
> 
> _______________________________________________
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From bhim2059 at yahoo.com  Wed Dec 29 23:07:55 2004
From: bhim2059 at yahoo.com (Bhim D. Shrestha)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Happy New Year to all WSIS well wishers!
Message-ID: <20041229230756.17514.qmail@web53902.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi dears,
Wishing you a happy and prosperous New Year 2005!
 
However, We have very worst natural calamity Tsunamis, but we have to be united help help them.
 
Bhim Dhoj Shrestha
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From Bruno.Salgues at int-evry.fr  Wed Dec 29 23:10:56 2004
From: Bruno.Salgues at int-evry.fr (Bruno SALGUES)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Definitions please
In-Reply-To: <20041229133703.70698.qmail@web50203.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20041229133703.70698.qmail@web50203.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1104361856.41d33980c65d7@imp.int-evry.fr>

some of this definition are in freench in my website

www.salgues.com

voir glosaire

pour ceux qui lisent le francais

bonne annee
bruno salgues

Selon Nnenna <nne75@yahoo.com>:

>
> Dear all
>
> Just wondering if anyone here can help me get my ideas clear on the
> definition of the following:
>
> Root server
>
> bandwith
>
> NGN
>
> Dispute resolution
>
> access
>
> leased line
>
> Peering
>
> interconnection
>
> VoIP
>
> Spectrum policy
>
> Root
>
> Route
>
> Content
>
> Spam
>
> Cybersecurity
>
> Cybercrime
>
> Free software
>
> Proprietary software
>
> Intellectual Property
>
> Domain names
>
>
>
> Many thanks
>
>
>
> Nnenna
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Do you Yahoo!?
>  Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good.




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From acarvin at edc.org  Wed Dec 29 23:53:25 2004
From: acarvin at edc.org (Andy Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] News: DDN, LearningTimes launch online community for tsunami relief
 efforts; live webcasts Thursday
Message-ID: <41D34375.7000401@edc.org>

(please redistribute)

For Immediate Release
December 29, 2004

Contact:
Andy Carvin, Digital Divide Network
1-617-335-7646
acarvin -at- edc . org

DDN, LEARNINGTIMES LAUNCH ONLINE WORKSPACE FOR TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORTS

Virtual tours of the workspace and e-conferencing tool will take place 
Thursday, December 30 at 7am and 12pm ET (12:00 and 17:00 GMT)

BOSTON, MA: In response to this week's devastating tsunami in the Indian 
Ocean, the Digital Divide Network has created an online community 
workspace on disaster relief and emergency preparedness:

http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/disaster-relief

The virtual community can be used for posting online resources, 
documents, news, and articles about tsunami relief efforts. Users also 
may take advantage of the site's Web bulletin board and post their own 
blog entries. For the time being the space will focus on tsunami-related 
relief efforts; in the long haul we hope the space can be used for 
discussing the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) 
in emergency preparedness and disaster relief.

Additionally, LearningTimes has generously donated an e-conference tool 
to aid coordination and discussion of local relief efforts. This means 
users with a microphone and speakers connected to their computer will be 
able to talk to each other over the Internet, or host their own virtual 
meetings and webcasts. I'm hoping NGOs will use the e-conference tool to 
help coordinate their efforts, as well as for tsunami survivors to share 
their stories.

Invitation to Join Live Webcasts on Thursday, December 30

To introduce users to the website and the e-conferencing tool, we will 
host a live webcast twice on Thursday, December 30. The first webcast 
will take place at 7am ET (12:00 GMT) to accomodate users in Asia and 
Europe, while the second webcast will occur at 12pm ET (17:00 GMT) to 
accomodate North American participants. Both webcasts will be conducted 
in English, while recordings will be archived for future online 
listening and podcasting.

To participate in the live webcast, click on the "webcast" link on the 
community's homepage:

http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/disaster-relief

Next, type in your name; the e-conferencing tool will then be downloaded 
to your computer and log you into the webcast. We recommend you do this 
at least 15 minutes prior to joining the virtual tour. You may also log 
on now if you would like to experiment with the e-conferencing tool, as 
it is being made available 24 hours a day.

Participation in the Website

This new DDN community is free and open to the public, but participants 
must first join the Digital Divide Network website in order to post 
content or chat on the bulletin board. If you're not already a member of 
DDN, please visit here:

http://www.digitaldivide.net/members/add.php

Once you're registered and logged in to the website, please visit the 
community's homepage 
(http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/disaster-relief) and click on 
the button in the center column that says "Join this community." This 
will give you posting privileges and allow you to participate in the 
bulletin board discussions.

We are just beginning to post content to the site, so by the time you 
read this email there should be several tsunami-related resources 
published already. Meanwhile, you are invited to join DDN, log in and 
post your own resources and content to share with colleagues around the 
world.

thanks,
ac

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Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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From veni at veni.com  Thu Dec 30 07:26:04 2004
From: veni at veni.com (Veni Markovski)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG ProgressReport
In-Reply-To: <ACADB74FBBEFD94795A03FDBBDE62D3716FA82@server1.medienkomm.
 uni-halle.de>
References: <ACADB74FBBEFD94795A03FDBBDE62D3716FA82@server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20041230091743.031f40e0@193.200.15.187>

At 15:54 29-12-04  +0100, Wolfgang Kleinw?chter wrote:
>
>1. The initiative of  WGIG Secretary Kummer, to ask members of the group 
>to indicate their preferences from the 50+ issues list produced a very 
>constructive reply.

:) 50+?? A constructive reply:) ?

Wolfgang,
as I am being involved with my government on the WSIS, and plan to continue 
to be involved in the next year, I'm interested to hear some comments on 
the opening remarks of Mr. Utsumi at the opening of the WGIG. I am 
particularly interested in any reaction on the items on page 2. 
http://www.wgig.org/docs/Utsumi.pdf


>3. The whole process is a member driven bottom up process, very closer to 
>traditional listserv discussion than to intergovernmental diplomatic 
>negotiations.

This sounds promising, but still does not answer my concerns above.

best,
veni 


From avri at acm.org  Thu Dec 30 09:10:42 2004
From: avri at acm.org (avri@acm.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG ProgressReport
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20041230091743.031f40e0@193.200.15.187>
References: <ACADB74FBBEFD94795A03FDBBDE62D3716FA82@server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de> <6.2.0.14.2.20041230091743.031f40e0@193.200.15.187>
Message-ID: <AE5DC547-5A42-11D9-B5F0-000393CC2112@acm.org>

On 30 dec 2004, at 02.26, Veni Markovski wrote:

> I'm interested to hear some comments on the opening remarks of Mr. 
> Utsumi at the opening of the WGIG. I am particularly interested in any 
> reaction on the items on page 2. http://www.wgig.org/docs/Utsumi.pdf

Essentially the WG did not accept his view that we should only deal 
with:
    "on the core activity of the  management of Internet resources by 
ICANN,
     in particular top-level domains,"
Though this is one of the most popular topics, the WG did not restrict 
itself to the narrow definition.

In terms of his other points of page 2, the group does seem to consider 
its task facilitation as opposed to negotiation, and have, to this 
point at least, avoided the tone of religious war.

a.


From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Thu Dec 30 09:46:02 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG Progress Report
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Wolfgang,

Thank you very much for this.

Could you tell us about the role of observers, 
the intergovernmental organizations, who are they 
and what rights do they have? I'd guess observers 
can be called to speak but otherwise keep quiet, 
is that how it works?

And for the open/close session, are onlookers 
also bound by the semi-Chatham house rules you 
have adopted?

Anyway: substance.

You say "And please, come with concrete, innovative but short papers."

I can think of things I'd like to comment on, but 
just writing on some subject and throwing it to 
the working group is a bit vague.

Could you --perhaps all of you who joined the 
WGIG via the WSIS CS-- tell us what issues you'd 
like to hear people's ideas on, what questions 
you have that we might all discuss.

Thanks again, and best wishes to all --list 
members and WGIG-- for the New Year.

Adam


At 3:54 PM +0100 12/29/04, Wolfgang Kleinw?chter wrote:
>
>Dear list,
>
>here is a progress report from the ongoing activities of the WGIG.
>
>1. The initiative of  WGIG Secretary Kummer, to 
>ask members of the group to indicate their 
>preferences from the 50+ issues list produced a 
>very constructive reply. The majority of members 
>of the group selected three to six subjects 
>where they indicated that they will be ready to 
>write an issue paper or to contribute to the 
>writing of an issue paper. The "issue paper" is 
>not yet a "position paper". It is a "fact sheet" 
>which describes the problem, collects the 
>relevant facts, and maps the subject into the 
>existing mechanism of governing bodies. 
>Probably, if members of the group can agree, it 
>adds a SWOT analysis to indicate already, where 
>problems exists and controveries can emerge. The 
>"issue paper" will be not longer than 3 - 5 
>pages. The plan is to have the papers ready for 
>internal distribution until January, 25 or so so 
>that after a inner consultation process  they 
>can constitute a basis for the first part of the 
>forthcoming report which will be also 
>descriptive by nature and include next to the 
>"Map" also a brief history, based mainly of 
>existing contributions from ISOC and others.
>
>2. While some issues of the 50+ list got low 
>priority, other got high. Highest priorities got 
>issues like Root Server, Names and Numbers (not 
>a surprise). For a number of issues, voluneers 
>have started to coordinate the work and to 
>invite all members of the group who have 
>indicated their willingness to make 
>contributions to a special issue to join special 
>sub-working groups. The sub working groups are 
>at this stage for fact finding only. There is no 
>discussion on the political, economic, cultural, 
>legal and other "controversial" aspects of a 
>problem. It is jst a correct factual overview 
>about the issue with the aim to enable an 
>informed discussion among group members at a 
>later stage. The sub working groups are open for 
>all WGIG members. Contributions are welcome. If 
>somebody feels, an issue is not covered she/he 
>can initiatie another sub-group. One member of 
>the sub-group of "Names and Numbers" has already 
>proposed to seperate the issues and to  create 
>two sub-groups because number allocation is 
>different from name space enlargement and name 
>registration. But the debate has just started. 
>No substantial discussion so far.
>
>3. The whole process is a member driven bottom 
>up process, very closer to traditional listserv 
>discussion than to intergovernmental diplomatic 
>negotiations.  WGIG members who are silent or 
>position themselves as "observers" risk to 
>become sidelined. It will be difficult, to 
>articulate dissend voices if you have missed the 
>train. But so far the general climate in the 
>e-mail discussion is very constructive. Each 
>message is driven by the will of the members, to 
>make a constructive contribution and to move 
>foreward. But again, this is only the beginning. 
>No hot potatoes has been on the table so far.
>
>4. The time table has been reorganised. Some 
>members of the group disagreed with the idea, to 
>have the 3rd meeting of the group as a follow up 
>the the ICANN Mar del Plata Meting in Sao Paulo. 
>The Brazilain government did invite the group. 
>Some members saw this as a good idea to enable 
>WGIG members to have a look into the ICANN 
>practice and then to move to Brazil for the WGIG 
>meeting. Others had a different approach. First 
>point was timing. The planned dates were  in 
>conflict with the dates of the already fixed 
>8th meeting of the UNICTTF in Dublin (which 
>coincides with another meeting of the TFFM). 
>Members of the group gave this meeting a higher 
>priority and wanted to have a date which would 
>enable them to go to Dublin. The new dates of 
>the 3rd WGIG meeting are now April 18 - 20, 2005 
>in Geneva. Only a small number of members had 
>problems with the Brazilian invitation (fearing 
>that this will undermine the neutrality of the 
>group) . Another proposal to go to New York has 
>been also watered down, in particular with 
>regard to the Visa Probkems members of the group 
>could have if they want to enter the US.
>
>5. Concerning the 2nd meeting  a more detailed 
>programme was discussed. There will be a closed 
>meeting on Monday morning (14.2.) followd by an 
>open closed meeting at the same day. (Opne 
>C.osed means that the meeting is closed in 
>principle, but so-called onlookers will have a 
>right to sit in the room without speaking 
>rights). Tuesday, 15th, will be open ended for 
>everybody. The Wednesday meeting (16.2.) will be 
>again partly "open closed" or "full closed". On 
>Thursday and Friday, probably a drafting group 
>will work on the formulation of the Interim 
>Report, which has to be tabled to PrepCom2 on 
>Monday, 21st, in the morning. There will be a 
>full day during PrepCom2, where the delegates 
>(and observers) will discuss the Interim Report 
>in Plenary (probably Wednesday, 23rd).  The 
>Interim Report will - like the Issue Papers - 
>avoid to formulate already "positions". It will 
>be  procedural and factual and will, probably, 
>invite input from broader constituencies. So the 
>hard work will be done between April and June.
>
>Hope this brings some light into the process. 
>Feel free to contact me if you have any idea how 
>to improve the interaction among WGIG members 
>and the broader public. And please, come with 
>concrete, innovative but short papers.
>
>So far so good.
>
>I wish everybody a  nice "Silvester Party" and 
>to all uf us a great 2005 with a succesfull 
>WSIS II.
>
>Best
>
>wolfgang
>
>
>
>
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>Plenary@wsis-cs.org
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From info at fasngo.org  Thu Dec 30 12:40:13 2004
From: info at fasngo.org (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Femmes_Africa_Solidarit=E9?=)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Definitions please
References: <20041229133703.70698.qmail@web50203.mail.yahoo.com> <p06010200bdf86f5037c8@[192.168.1.101]>
Message-ID: <017301c4ee6c$b573cb80$2264a8c0@hscpartners.ch>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mclauglm@po.muohio.edu>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Definitions please


> Nnenna,
> 
> The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing should be very helpful in 
> offering definitions for these terms: 
> http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html.
> 
> Lisa
> 
> 
> 
> At 5:37 AM -0800 12/29/04, Nnenna wrote:
> >Dear all
> >
> >Just wondering if anyone here can help me get my ideas clear on the 
> >definition of the following:
> >
> >Root server
> >
> >bandwith
> >
> >NGN
> >
> >Dispute resolution
> >
> >access
> >
> >leased line
> >
> >Peering
> >
> >interconnection
> >
> >VoIP
> >
> >Spectrum policy
> >
> >Root
> >
> >Route
> >
> >Content
> >
> >Spam
> >
> >Cybersecurity
> >
> >Cybercrime
> >
> >Free software
> >
> >Proprietary software
> >
> >Intellectual Property
> >
> >Domain names
> >
> >
> >
> >Many thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >Nnenna
> >
> >
> >
> >Do you Yahoo!?
> >Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. 
> ><http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=29911/*http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com/>Do 
> >good.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> 
> 

From acarvin at edc.org  Thu Dec 30 14:55:55 2004
From: acarvin at edc.org (Andy Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] new: tsunami news aggregator
Message-ID: <41D416FB.8060301@edc.org>

Hi everyone,

I've just set up a Web page using the news aggregator Kinja.com. The 
page is a digest of the latest news feeds and first-person blogs related 
to the tsunami disaster.

http://kinja.com/user/tsunami-info

I'd like to see others add their own tsunami-related feeds to the site. 
If you have a news feed or blog that's focusing on the tsunami, or are 
reading one that you'd like to add to the digest, go to the above URL 
and log on with the following info:

login: tsunami-info
password: southasia

Once you've logged in, you can add a news source to the digest by 
pasting it into the "Add a Favorite" form field in the right column. Or, 
you can go here:

http://kinja.com/add.knj

Hope this digest is useful to those of you eager to follow tsunami 
relief efforts....


-- 
-----------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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From acarvin at edc.org  Thu Dec 30 16:06:36 2004
From: acarvin at edc.org (Andy Carvin)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] webcast tour of DDN's disaster relief resource workspace
Message-ID: <41D4278C.6000309@edc.org>

Hi everyone,

At noon eastern U.S. time (17:00 GMT, 9:00 California time), we'll start 
a virtual tour of the new Digital Divide Network disaster relief 
community workspace, including its e-conferencing tool, which we'll use 
to conduct the webcast.

To participate, please go to http://www.learningtimes.net/ddnlogin.shtml 
and type in your name; you'll then download the applet that will start 
the webcast. We recommend that you do this at least 15 minutes prior to 
the webcast.

If you have any technical problems, please email help@learningtimes.net.

Please feel free to forward this message. thanks!

-- 
-----------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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From avri at acm.org  Thu Dec 30 16:47:53 2004
From: avri at acm.org (avri@acm.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG Progress Report
In-Reply-To: <p06110447bdf976241be5@[192.168.1.254]>
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On 30 dec 2004, at 04.46, Adam Peake wrote:

> Could you tell us about the role of observers, the intergovernmental 
> organizations, who are they and what rights do they have? I'd guess 
> observers can be called to speak but otherwise keep quiet, is that how 
> it works?

I guess that is pretty much the rule, but then again it is pretty much 
the rule for everyone: one asks to speak and eventually is called upon 
to speak.  They do seem to speak with regularity.  But there may be a 
subtlety to the rule I am missing.

>
> And for the open/close session, are onlookers also bound by the 
> semi-Chatham house rules you have adopted?

I think the open sessions are open and not bound by those rules.  All 
of the closed sessions are covered by 'Chatham house' rules, which seem 
to be followed to a varying degree.

>
> Anyway: substance.
>
> You say "And please, come with concrete, innovative but short papers."
>
> I can think of things I'd like to comment on, but just writing on some 
> subject and throwing it to the working group is a bit vague.

Well as I indicated in the note I sent a while back, using the 
inventory issues that was put on the WGIG list: 
http://www.wgig.org/docs/inventory-issues.html , might be a start.

In terms of what one writes, I think they should write on something 
that is important to them. Certainly for me, what I value about the 
civil society is the multitude of perspectives on the issues.

Also I think approaching the problem in a way similar to the WGIG team 
needs to, may be helpful, i.e. 
http://www.wgig.org/docs/Template.14.12.04.html.

>
> Could you --perhaps all of you who joined the WGIG via the WSIS CS-- 
> tell us what issues you'd like to hear people's ideas on, what 
> questions you have that we might all discuss.
>
>

I would personally be interested in short position papers on any of the 
inventory issues which indicate what the writer thinks is broken and 
what is working well in terms of current governance processes.

a.


From nne75 at yahoo.com  Thu Dec 30 19:23:11 2004
From: nne75 at yahoo.com (Nnenna)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG Progress Report
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20041230160503.04329f38@lacnic.net.uy>
Message-ID: <20041230192311.79739.qmail@web50209.mail.yahoo.com>

For one reason or the other, I was just reading the CS declaration of Geneva and I will like to reiterate this: 
It must be remembered thatthe Internet is not a singular communications "platform" akin to a public telephone network; it is instead a highly distributed set of protocols, processes, and voluntarily self-associating networks.Accordingly, the Internet cannot be governed effectively by any one organisation or set of interests. An exclusionary intergovernmental model would be especially ill suited to its unique characteristics; only a truly open, multistakeholder, and flexible approach can ensure the Internet's continued growth and transition into a multilingual medium. In parallel, when the conditions for system stability and sound management can be guaranteed, authority over inherently global resources like the root servers should be transferred to a global, multistakeholder entity.

The international community must have full and easy access to knowledge and information aboutICT global governance decision making. 

Best 

 

Nnenna


		
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From webmaster at nilebasin.com  Fri Dec 31 20:23:27 2004
From: webmaster at nilebasin.com (Nabil El-Khodari)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Call for an international treaty on freedom of the Internet
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I totally agree with Nnenna. Though I would encourage establishment of an
international body to investigate complaints about use of Internet for
fraud, phishing, identity theft, etc. but NOT to police the internet. One of
its duties is also to receive complaints and respond to them regarding site
blocking and filtering. It should have the power to investigate and punish
(up to canceling domain name) of search engines that use these techniques in
response to government/corporations pressures.
 
I hope that an international agreement be reached to that effect and only on
receipt of legitimate complaints from users/companies and NOT governments.
Such agreement should express freedom of expression and freedom of the
Internet as an alternative source of information. It should protect
legitimate websites from blocking, filtering, etc. This agreement should be
ratified by all UN members.
 
Sincerely,
  

Nabil El-Khodari <mailto:webmaster@nilebasin.com> 
Founder/Treasurer
Nile Basin Society
Tel.: +1 (647) 722-3256
Fax: +1 (647) 722-3273	

http://nilebasin.com <http://nilebasin.com/> 
http://nilebasin.net <http://nilebasin.net/> 
http://nile.ca <http://nile.ca/>  	
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From echaparro at uolsinectis.com.ar  Thu Dec 30 20:59:22 2004
From: echaparro at uolsinectis.com.ar (Enrique A. Chaparro)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG Progress Report
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20041230160503.04329f38@lacnic.net.uy>
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:10:10 -0300
Ra?l Echeberr?a <raul@lacnic.net> wrote:

RE> Thank you for the question.
RE> I personally think that it would be very useful to have some
RE> contributions from the CS perspective in governance aspects related
RE> with many issues in which seems to be less expert people in the WG .
RE> Among other issues: Privacy, Intellectual Property Rights,
RE> Interconnection, Freedom of information and media and cybercrime.

Raul,
With all due respect, you are addressing two issues with no actual
meaning. There is not anything like "intellectual property", or at
least, there are many different views of it (even in the cold body
of the law). OTOH, there is no such "cybercrime"; there are criminal
activities employing cyber/digital ways and means, but criminal law
is very specific and its principles have been well thought and
remained stable for centuries. If we are going to seriously discuss
these issues (which, IMHO _do_not_ belong to the field of Internet
Governance), please let's avoid marketroid dialect.

As a side note, I strongly support the idea that all the issues
you mention, exception made of interconnection, fall well beyond
the scope of IG. But my position seems to be quite minoritary here :)

Happy 2K5 for everyone!

Regards from the Far South,

Enrique

-- 
``Izena duen guzia omen da.''
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From rkoven at compuserve.com  Fri Dec 31 00:13:01 2004
From: rkoven at compuserve.com (Ronald Koven)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Call for an international treaty on freedom
  of the Internet
Message-ID: <200412301913_MC3-1-91FF-4E69@compuserve.com>

 
Dear Nabil El-Khodari --

Please let me understand this: You are asking for an international treaty
-- meaning something signed by and binding upon governments -- and which
will provide that governments may not file complaints about Internet
content.

The unlikelihood of governments accepting such a self-denying ordinance is
so high that it should underline for you the danger inherent in your call
for such an international treaty. An international treaty of the kind you
are seeking is bound to contain provisions allowing governments to impose
restrictions. That is in the nature of most of the governments involved. 

Often, one of the worst things that can happen in life is that you get what
you ask for, because it won't be what you want.

What we do need is respect for and implementation of the most important
existing international text in this field, that is to say, Article 19 of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Criminal activities can
ordinarily be handled under existing national penal codes. Any
international body to deal with such offenses will necessarily represent
major repressive regimes who will want to exploit the opening to restrict
Internet content, using such pretexts as protection of children to reduce
permissible content to the lowest common political denominator.

What is needed is for pressure to be generated on such governments to open
up. What we don't need is to give those governments openings for imposition
of still broader restrictions than they already impose.

Rony Koven

 
I totally agree with Nnenna. Though I would encourage establishment of an
international body to investigate complaints about use of Internet for
fraud, phishing, identity theft, etc. but NOT to police the internet. One
of
its duties is also to receive complaints and respond to them regarding site
blocking and filtering. It should have the power to investigate and punish
(up to canceling domain name) of search engines that use these techniques
in
response to government/corporations pressures.
 
I hope that an international agreement be reached to that effect and only
on
receipt of legitimate complaints from users/companies and NOT governments.
Such agreement should express freedom of expression and freedom of the
Internet as an alternative source of information. It should protect
legitimate websites from blocking, filtering, etc. This agreement should be
ratified by all UN members.
 
Sincerely,
  

Nabil El-Khodari <mailto:webmaster@nilebasin.com> 
Founder/Treasurer
Nile Basin Society
Tel.: +1 (647) 722-3256
Fax: +1 (647) 722-3273  

http://nilebasin.com <http://nilebasin.com/> 
http://nilebasin.net <http://nilebasin.net/> 
http://nile.ca <http://nile.ca/>        
108 Waterbury Dr.
Toronto, Ontario, M9R 3Y3
Canada  

"If the people will lead, the leaders will follow." Dr. David Suzuki 

From raul at lacnic.net  Thu Dec 30 19:10:10 2004
From: raul at lacnic.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ra=FAl?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Echeberr=EDa?=)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG Progress Report
In-Reply-To: <p06110447bdf976241be5@[192.168.1.254]>
References: <ACADB74FBBEFD94795A03FDBBDE62D3716FA82@server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
 <p06110447bdf976241be5@[192.168.1.254]>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20041230160503.04329f38@lacnic.net.uy>

At 06:46 30/12/2004, Adam Peake wrote:

>Could you --perhaps all of you who joined the WGIG via the WSIS CS-- tell 
>us what issues you'd like to hear people's ideas on, what questions you 
>have that we might all discuss.


Adam:

Thank you for the question.
I personally think that it would be very useful to have some contributions 
from the CS perspective in governance aspects related with many issues in 
which seems to be less expert people in the WG . Among other issues: 
Privacy, Intellectual Property Rights, Interconnection, Freedom of 
information and media and cybercrime.

Raul







From martin_olivera at yahoo.com.ar  Fri Dec 31 13:52:57 2004
From: martin_olivera at yahoo.com.ar (Martin Olivera)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG Progress Report
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20041230160503.04329f38@lacnic.net.uy>
Message-ID: <20041231135257.14791.qmail@web52310.mail.yahoo.com>

 --- Ra?l Echeberr?a <raul@lacnic.net> escribi?: 
> At 06:46 30/12/2004, Adam Peake wrote:
> 
> >Could you --perhaps all of you who joined the WGIG
> via the WSIS CS-- tell 
> >us what issues you'd like to hear people's ideas
> on, what questions you 
> >have that we might all discuss.
> 
> 
> Adam:
> 
> Thank you for the question.
> I personally think that it would be very useful to
> have some contributions 
> from the CS perspective in governance aspects
> related with many issues in 
> which seems to be less expert people in the WG .
> Among other issues: 
> Privacy, Intellectual Property Rights,
> Interconnection, Freedom of 
> information and media and cybercrime.

Raul, is WGIG talking about Government regulations on
privacy, copyright, patent and trade marks, and
freedom of information and media?

I have understood that WGIG mission had to deal with
technical issues about Internet infrastructure and
growing, but if WGIG is becoming a regulation police
assessment body for Internet, it seems not well
conformed in plurality and diversity for that.

Is the mission of WGIG technical? political? both?
At first it appeared as something against ICANN
single-side regultaion about domain names... but now
you are talking about Internet contents regulation?
how was these transformation? How is CS there
represented in this issues? I hope that other WGIG
member do not speak about "Intellectual Property"
because these terms are defining a political position
against free software community and freedom of
knowledge.

Mart?n Olivera

=====
SOLAR Software Libre Argentina
http://www.solar.org.ar

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From webmaster at nilebasin.com  Fri Dec 31 16:15:07 2004
From: webmaster at nilebasin.com (Nabil El-Khodari)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Call for an international treaty on freedom  of the Internet
In-Reply-To: <200412301913_MC3-1-91FF-4E69@compuserve.com>
Message-ID: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAsxojqmGzZ0qgXSfid6kuOMKAAAAQAAAADqXUOvcpP0uop0+BIcWTsAEAAAAA@nilebasin.com>

Dear Rony Koven:

There are two incidents that prompted me to call for this:
1. The China incident where a search engine was ordered to filter content
from certain sites.
2. A personal one, where a friend of mine, a webmaster of a famous Egyptian
daily was tried and convicted in Egypt for publishing his late father's
poems on the ground that it is 'pornographic'. Fact is his father's poems
contained severe political opposition to the government then and yes he used
the f word, but the site was not located in Egypt and it carried the warning
that it has 'adult content' and was rated for adults only. He would have
faced prison had he stayed in Egypt, luckily he escaped to Russia!!!
[I would not, though may be I should, include the Indymedia incident]

Can we leave such issues to governments? At least let them stand up and
submit their reasons to the international community why they refuse to
ratify such agreement that should be based - as you correctly stated -
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

What resort do we have - particularly in non-democratic countries - to fight
that? I believe that the establishment of an international authority to
handle these matters is required.

Thank you for your thoughtful response and Happy New Year.

Sincerely,
 
Nabil El-Khodari
Founder/Treasurer
Nile Basin Society
Tel.: +1 (647) 722-3256
Fax: +1 (647) 722-3273	 

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-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org] On Behalf
Of Ronald Koven
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 7:13 PM
To: INTERNET:plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Call for an international treaty on freedom of
the Internet


 
Dear Nabil El-Khodari --

Please let me understand this: You are asking for an international treaty
-- meaning something signed by and binding upon governments -- and which
will provide that governments may not file complaints about Internet
content.

The unlikelihood of governments accepting such a self-denying ordinance is
so high that it should underline for you the danger inherent in your call
for such an international treaty. An international treaty of the kind you
are seeking is bound to contain provisions allowing governments to impose
restrictions. That is in the nature of most of the governments involved. 

Often, one of the worst things that can happen in life is that you get what
you ask for, because it won't be what you want.

What we do need is respect for and implementation of the most important
existing international text in this field, that is to say, Article 19 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Criminal activities can ordinarily be
handled under existing national penal codes. Any international body to deal
with such offenses will necessarily represent major repressive regimes who
will want to exploit the opening to restrict Internet content, using such
pretexts as protection of children to reduce permissible content to the
lowest common political denominator.

What is needed is for pressure to be generated on such governments to open
up. What we don't need is to give those governments openings for imposition
of still broader restrictions than they already impose.

Rony Koven

 
I totally agree with Nnenna. Though I would encourage establishment of an
international body to investigate complaints about use of Internet for
fraud, phishing, identity theft, etc. but NOT to police the internet. One of
its duties is also to receive complaints and respond to them regarding site
blocking and filtering. It should have the power to investigate and punish
(up to canceling domain name) of search engines that use these techniques in
response to government/corporations pressures.
 
I hope that an international agreement be reached to that effect and only on
receipt of legitimate complaints from users/companies and NOT governments.
Such agreement should express freedom of expression and freedom of the
Internet as an alternative source of information. It should protect
legitimate websites from blocking, filtering, etc. This agreement should be
ratified by all UN members.
 
Sincerely,
  

Nabil El-Khodari <mailto:webmaster@nilebasin.com> 
Founder/Treasurer
Nile Basin Society
Tel.: +1 (647) 722-3256
Fax: +1 (647) 722-3273  

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From airetg at gmail.com  Fri Dec 31 14:38:18 2004
From: airetg at gmail.com (Yulia Timofeeva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG Progress Report
In-Reply-To: <20041231135257.14791.qmail@web52310.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <6.0.0.22.0.20041230160503.04329f38@lacnic.net.uy>
	 <20041231135257.14791.qmail@web52310.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1f72887f0412310638269edfd8@mail.gmail.com>

If what Nnenna cites here could remain true forever

"the Internet cannot be governed effectively by any one organization
or set of interests"

then there is certainly no need for WGIG to get involved into issues
like privacy, copyright, intellectual property, freedom of
information, cybercrime, etc.

However, every second proposal on Internet regulation these days is
mentioning exactly these issues to justify the need for more
_centralized_ regulation

(like this ITU paper
http://www.itu.int/council/wsis/Geneva3_04/intgov-contribution-wg-wsis.doc
)

Yulia

From avri at acm.org  Fri Dec 31 18:52:14 2004
From: avri at acm.org (avri@acm.org)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:19:14 2007
Subject: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG Progress Report
In-Reply-To: <1f72887f0412310638269edfd8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <6.0.0.22.0.20041230160503.04329f38@lacnic.net.uy> <20041231135257.14791.qmail@web52310.mail.yahoo.com> <1f72887f0412310638269edfd8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1620ADA2-5B5D-11D9-B5F0-000393CC2112@acm.org>

On 31 dec 2004, at 09.38, Yulia Timofeeva wrote:

> then there is certainly no need for WGIG to get involved into issues
> like privacy, copyright, intellectual property, freedom of
> information, cybercrime, etc.

Sometime I think WGIG might do something useful in making specific 
recommendations that certain areas did not lend themselves to 
international governance.

Alternatively WGIG could make recommendations that, originating from 
other declarations such as that for Human Rights, interpret the already 
signed agreements to indicate that the nations have a responsibility to 
act in a certain way in ICT affairs.

The point I want to make is that WGIG recommendations are not 
necessarily going to be that a certain aspect should be governed 
through an international mechanism.  They can be just as effective 
recommending that something not be governed or that the principles of 
national governance are already agreed to elsewhere.

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