From bhim2059 at yahoo.com  Thu Jan  1 08:57:55 2004
From: bhim2059 at yahoo.com (Bhim D. Shrestha)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Happy New Year, 2004
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Message-ID: <20040101085755.75871.qmail@web21204.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Dears,
 
Happy and Prosperous New Year, 2004
 
Bhim Dhoj Shrestha
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From richardjordan at lycos.com  Thu Jan  1 13:34:56 2004
From: richardjordan at lycos.com (richard t jordan)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Happy New Year, 2004
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--From New York City, Happy 2004 -- we're already working on the road to Tunis. Best to all! Richard J.

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Hi Dears,

Happy and Prosperous New Year, 2004

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From bhim2059 at yahoo.com  Fri Jan  2 16:47:07 2004
From: bhim2059 at yahoo.com (Bhim D. Shrestha)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Happy New Year, 2004
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Hi Richard,
Nice to read that work towards Tunisia is being started. I am also interested what things to be done. Let me know.
 
Bhim

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--From New York City, Happy 2004 -- we're already working on the road to Tunis. Best to all! Richard J.
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Happy and Prosperous New Year, 2004
 
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From ecarll at optonline.net  Sun Jan  4 16:20:41 2004
From: ecarll at optonline.net (Elizabeth Carll, PhD)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20031221124925.02940bf8@gpo.iol.ie>
Message-ID: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAOENKGHAA.ecarll@optonline.net>

Dear All,

As some of you may be aware,  I have started a Working Group on Health
(Mental and Physical) and ICT and invite those with interest in the area of
health to join.

There has been some discussion as to the difference between a Working Group
and Caucus and there does not seem to be any clear information as to the
differences.  Perhaps those who have formed either or who would know the
differences, particularly with regard to procedures for forming and function
of the group, please share the information on the listserv.  I would think
others interested in forming new groups would also find the information
helpful.

Best regards,

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net



From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Sun Jan  4 17:42:59 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?djilali=20benamrane?=)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
In-Reply-To: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAOENKGHAA.ecarll@optonline.net>
Message-ID: <20040104174259.66055.qmail@web60704.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear Elizabeth,
Congratulation for your initiative and hope you will
be ready with relevant proposals for the Tinis'
Summit.
If your discussion Group Working Group or Caucus will
accpet contribution in French, i shall be very happy
to participate in regard with Health and
public/private approach. I am member of an Association
Biens Publics ? l'Echelle Mondiale (World Public
Common Goods)which application to the Health sector
(science, training, medecines, druggs, access to
health structures etc...)
All the best
Djilali 
--- "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net>
wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> As some of you may be aware,  I have started a
> Working Group on Health
> (Mental and Physical) and ICT and invite those with
> interest in the area of
> health to join.
> 
> There has been some discussion as to the difference
> between a Working Group
> and Caucus and there does not seem to be any clear
> information as to the
> differences.  Perhaps those who have formed either
> or who would know the
> differences, particularly with regard to procedures
> for forming and function
> of the group, please share the information on the
> listserv.  I would think
> others interested in forming new groups would also
> find the information
> helpful.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Dr. Elizabeth Carll
> Focal Point
> International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
> Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
> NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
> Tel: 1-631-754-2424
> Fax: 1-631-754-5032
> ecarll@optonline.net
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


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From rikp at bluewin.ch  Sun Jan  4 21:45:58 2004
From: rikp at bluewin.ch (rikp@bluewin.ch)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
In-Reply-To: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAOENKGHAA.ecarll@optonline.net>
Message-ID: <3FBD524B0010853A@mssazhh-int.msg.bluewin.ch>

Elizabeth, et al,

I think the distinction is somewhat semantic and not particularly important.

In my mind, a caucus is USUALLY composed of a certain sector or sub-group
within civil society, i.e. the women's caucus, Indigenous Peoples Caucus,
the youth caucus, the trade union caucus.  Whereas a working group is a set
of organizations working together on a particular ISSUE.  I.e. the scientific
information working group; Patents, Copyright and Trademarks WG; Environment
and ICTs WG.  

In short, a caucus is a group of organizations united by common identity,
and a working group is a group or organizations united by common issue or
purpose.  These are often interchangeable, i.e. an educators caucus versus
an education working group. and there are of course lots of exceptions to
this. 

But that is my understanding of the distinction.

In terms of a "Working Group on Health", I think that working group is the
best term rather than a caucus.  Unless you would like to be "health care
workers caucus."

I hope that helps a little.

-- Rik Panganiban



By the way, I vote for not including the "(mental and physical)" addition
to the name of the working group.  I think this should just be clarified
in a mission statement of the group.


>-- Original Message --
>From: "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net>
>To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
>Reply-To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:20:41 -0500
>
>
>Dear All,
>
>As some of you may be aware,  I have started a Working Group on Health
>(Mental and Physical) and ICT and invite those with interest in the area
>of
>health to join.
>
>There has been some discussion as to the difference between a Working Group
>and Caucus and there does not seem to be any clear information as to the
>differences.  Perhaps those who have formed either or who would know the
>differences, particularly with regard to procedures for forming and function
>of the group, please share the information on the listserv.  I would think
>others interested in forming new groups would also find the information
>helpful.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Dr. Elizabeth Carll
>Focal Point
>International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
>Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
>NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
>Tel: 1-631-754-2424
>Fax: 1-631-754-5032
>ecarll@optonline.net
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Plenary mailing list
>Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


From ecarll at optonline.net  Sun Jan  4 22:40:32 2004
From: ecarll at optonline.net (Elizabeth Carll, PhD)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
In-Reply-To: <20040104174259.66055.qmail@web60704.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAGEOHGHAA.ecarll@optonline.net>

Dear Djilali,

Thank you for your interest in the Health and ICT Working Group.  We would
be most happy to have you join, however, as we are just starting up, we do
not as of yet have someone who is fluent in French and would be able to
translate.  I would suggest if it is not too laborious for you to
communicate in English, to join and, hopefully, in the near future we will
have members who are bilingual in French/English to help translate any
documents and written material from those who are not fluent in English.   I
had no difficulty understanding your post.  Therefore this is something for
you to perhaps consider.

Best regards,

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net

-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of djilali benamrane
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 12:43 PM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and
Caucus


Dear Elizabeth,
Congratulation for your initiative and hope you will
be ready with relevant proposals for the Tinis'
Summit.
If your discussion Group Working Group or Caucus will
accpet contribution in French, i shall be very happy
to participate in regard with Health and
public/private approach. I am member of an Association
Biens Publics ? l'Echelle Mondiale (World Public
Common Goods)which application to the Health sector
(science, training, medecines, druggs, access to
health structures etc...)
All the best
Djilali
--- "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net>
wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> As some of you may be aware,  I have started a
> Working Group on Health
> (Mental and Physical) and ICT and invite those with
> interest in the area of
> health to join.
>
> There has been some discussion as to the difference
> between a Working Group
> and Caucus and there does not seem to be any clear
> information as to the
> differences.  Perhaps those who have formed either
> or who would know the
> differences, particularly with regard to procedures
> for forming and function
> of the group, please share the information on the
> listserv.  I would think
> others interested in forming new groups would also
> find the information
> helpful.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dr. Elizabeth Carll
> Focal Point
> International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
> Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
> NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
> Tel: 1-631-754-2424
> Fax: 1-631-754-5032
> ecarll@optonline.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


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From ecarll at optonline.net  Sun Jan  4 22:57:13 2004
From: ecarll at optonline.net (Elizabeth Carll, PhD)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
In-Reply-To: <3FBD524B0010853A@mssazhh-int.msg.bluewin.ch>
Message-ID: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAIEOIGHAA.ecarll@optonline.net>

Dear Rik,

Thank you for the background information and your comments.  It would seem
to make sense for us to call ourselves the Health and ICT working group
rather than a caucus based on the general distinction you drew between WGs
as issue focused and caucuses as representing a sector or sub-group within
civil society.  However, I can see that the difference is not always so
clear as the Human Rights Caucus would seem issue focused and the Media
Caucus could be both.

Are there any differences as to organizational structure?

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net

-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of rikp@bluewin.ch
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 4:46 PM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and
Caucus


Elizabeth, et al,

I think the distinction is somewhat semantic and not particularly important.

In my mind, a caucus is USUALLY composed of a certain sector or sub-group
within civil society, i.e. the women's caucus, Indigenous Peoples Caucus,
the youth caucus, the trade union caucus.  Whereas a working group is a set
of organizations working together on a particular ISSUE.  I.e. the
scientific
information working group; Patents, Copyright and Trademarks WG; Environment
and ICTs WG.

In short, a caucus is a group of organizations united by common identity,
and a working group is a group or organizations united by common issue or
purpose.  These are often interchangeable, i.e. an educators caucus versus
an education working group. and there are of course lots of exceptions to
this.

But that is my understanding of the distinction.

In terms of a "Working Group on Health", I think that working group is the
best term rather than a caucus.  Unless you would like to be "health care
workers caucus."

I hope that helps a little.

-- Rik Panganiban



By the way, I vote for not including the "(mental and physical)" addition
to the name of the working group.  I think this should just be clarified
in a mission statement of the group.


>-- Original Message --
>From: "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net>
>To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
>Reply-To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:20:41 -0500
>
>
>Dear All,
>
>As some of you may be aware,  I have started a Working Group on Health
>(Mental and Physical) and ICT and invite those with interest in the area
>of
>health to join.
>
>There has been some discussion as to the difference between a Working Group
>and Caucus and there does not seem to be any clear information as to the
>differences.  Perhaps those who have formed either or who would know the
>differences, particularly with regard to procedures for forming and
function
>of the group, please share the information on the listserv.  I would think
>others interested in forming new groups would also find the information
>helpful.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Dr. Elizabeth Carll
>Focal Point
>International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
>Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
>NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
>Tel: 1-631-754-2424
>Fax: 1-631-754-5032
>ecarll@optonline.net
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Plenary mailing list
>Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary

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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Mon Jan  5 04:52:45 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus-semantics
In-Reply-To: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAIEOIGHAA.ecarll@optonline.net>
Message-ID: <20040105045245.58552.qmail@web21325.mail.yahoo.com>

A quick note - if this is of help:
 
Working group - a group of people appointed to study a particular problem or advise on some question.
 
Caucus - A meeting ( a group ) of members of  WSIS - Civil Society convened to decide on policy.
 
( with the kind assistance of the Oxford dictionary ! )
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell ( Vancouver Community Network )
Co-coordinator North American Caucus


"Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net> wrote:
Dear Rik,

Thank you for the background information and your comments. It would seem
to make sense for us to call ourselves the Health and ICT working group
rather than a caucus based on the general distinction you drew between WGs
as issue focused and caucuses as representing a sector or sub-group within
civil society. However, I can see that the difference is not always so
clear as the Human Rights Caucus would seem issue focused and the Media
Caucus could be both.

Are there any differences as to organizational structure?

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net

-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of rikp@bluewin.ch
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 4:46 PM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and
Caucus


Elizabeth, et al,

I think the distinction is somewhat semantic and not particularly important.

In my mind, a caucus is USUALLY composed of a certain sector or sub-group
within civil society, i.e. the women's caucus, Indigenous Peoples Caucus,
the youth caucus, the trade union caucus. Whereas a working group is a set
of organizations working together on a particular ISSUE. I.e. the
scientific
information working group; Patents, Copyright and Trademarks WG; Environment
and ICTs WG.

In short, a caucus is a group of organizations united by common identity,
and a working group is a group or organizations united by common issue or
purpose. These are often interchangeable, i.e. an educators caucus versus
an education working group. and there are of course lots of exceptions to
this.

But that is my understanding of the distinction.

In terms of a "Working Group on Health", I think that working group is the
best term rather than a caucus. Unless you would like to be "health care
workers caucus."

I hope that helps a little.

-- Rik Panganiban



By the way, I vote for not including the "(mental and physical)" addition
to the name of the working group. I think this should just be clarified
in a mission statement of the group.


>-- Original Message --
>From: "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" 
>To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
>Reply-To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:20:41 -0500
>
>
>Dear All,
>
>As some of you may be aware, I have started a Working Group on Health
>(Mental and Physical) and ICT and invite those with interest in the area
>of
>health to join.
>
>There has been some discussion as to the difference between a Working Group
>and Caucus and there does not seem to be any clear information as to the
>differences. Perhaps those who have formed either or who would know the
>differences, particularly with regard to procedures for forming and
function
>of the group, please share the information on the listserv. I would think
>others interested in forming new groups would also find the information
>helpful.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Dr. Elizabeth Carll
>Focal Point
>International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
>Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
>NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
>Tel: 1-631-754-2424
>Fax: 1-631-754-5032
>ecarll@optonline.net
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Plenary mailing list
>Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary

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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Mon Jan  5 10:01:14 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
In-Reply-To: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAGEOHGHAA.ecarll@optonline.net>
Message-ID: <20040105100114.27933.qmail@web60702.mail.yahoo.com>

OK, Elizabeth, i do agree with your relevant
proposal... I shall see if there is other colleagues
from BPEM/Santé who would like to attend your Health
and ITC WG or Caucus. In fact have already choice the
label ?
Friendly
Djilali 
--- "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net>
wrote:
> Dear Djilali,
> 
> Thank you for your interest in the Health and ICT
> Working Group.  We would
> be most happy to have you join, however, as we are
> just starting up, we do
> not as of yet have someone who is fluent in French
> and would be able to
> translate.  I would suggest if it is not too
> laborious for you to
> communicate in English, to join and, hopefully, in
> the near future we will
> have members who are bilingual in French/English to
> help translate any
> documents and written material from those who are
> not fluent in English.   I
> had no difficulty understanding your post. 
> Therefore this is something for
> you to perhaps consider.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
> Dr. Elizabeth Carll
> Focal Point
> International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
> Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
> NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
> Tel: 1-631-754-2424
> Fax: 1-631-754-5032
> ecarll@optonline.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
> [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
> Behalf Of djilali benamrane
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 12:43 PM
> To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between
> Working Group and
> Caucus
> 
> 
> Dear Elizabeth,
> Congratulation for your initiative and hope you will
> be ready with relevant proposals for the Tinis'
> Summit.
> If your discussion Group Working Group or Caucus
> will
> accpet contribution in French, i shall be very happy
> to participate in regard with Health and
> public/private approach. I am member of an
> Association
> Biens Publics à l'Echelle Mondiale (World Public
> Common Goods)which application to the Health sector
> (science, training, medecines, druggs, access to
> health structures etc...)
> All the best
> Djilali
> --- "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net>
> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > As some of you may be aware,  I have started a
> > Working Group on Health
> > (Mental and Physical) and ICT and invite those
> with
> > interest in the area of
> > health to join.
> >
> > There has been some discussion as to the
> difference
> > between a Working Group
> > and Caucus and there does not seem to be any clear
> > information as to the
> > differences.  Perhaps those who have formed either
> > or who would know the
> > differences, particularly with regard to
> procedures
> > for forming and function
> > of the group, please share the information on the
> > listserv.  I would think
> > others interested in forming new groups would also
> > find the information
> > helpful.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
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From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] comments - article on RFIDs at the Summit
Message-ID: <p05100300bc1872cd0a4b@[192.168.11.3]>

Story below from the Washington Times about the identity badges we 
were required to used during the Summit. I've annotated with 
comment/additional information in {italics} (if your email only takes 
plain text, just look for the curly brackets).  Thanks to Alberto for 
checking my notes.

Security of course important, but so are the concerns this issue raises.

And a very Happy new year to all!

Thanks,

Adam



Summit group confirms use of ID chip
By Audrey Hudson and Betsy Pisik
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published December 18, 2003
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20031217-115051-5373r>

Organizers of the World Summit on the Information Society yesterday 
confirmed that badges worn by high-level attendees were affixed with 
identification chips some say were unknown to the forum's 
participants.

{That RFIDs were used was not disclosed publicly before the Summit 
began, or to my knowledge, announced during the Summit.}

However, a spokesman for the International Telecommunication Union 
(ITU), which was the host of the three-day event in Geneva last week, 
scoffed at concerns by privacy advocates that the technology could 
monitor an individual's movement or that the data it collects could 
be misused.

{The RFID was in the name badge, and associated with a database that 
contained all the information about the badge owner that the person 
submitted during pre-registration. That information was a minimum of 
name, position, affiliation, email address, nationality and date of 
birth. Much more information was requested as optional, from passport 
number and place of issue, to arrival and departure dates, hotel, and 
so on. Potential then is to associate this information with other 
data: for example the Summit secretariat helped with visa 
applications and applications for fellowships which contain far more 
detail -- note *potential*, not saying it actually happened. When the 
badge was used at a check-point this pre-registered information along 
with a corresponding picture was displayed on the operators screen. 
Of course there were (are?) opportunities for misuse.}

Three European researchers who discovered the chips in their badges, 
first reported by The Washington Times on Sunday, said participants 
were not told about the chips.

{Correct, Summit participants were not told.}

ITU spokesman Gary Fowlie confirmed during an interview from Geneva 
that radio frequency identification chips (RFIDs) were embedded in 
the passes and that data readers were in place to record information 
transmitted by the chip.

Mr. Fowlie disputed that RFIDs have long-range tracking capability, 
and called The Times story "really off base."

"Transmission distance is 1 to 2 centimeters. You have to put your 
badge right up to the screen," he said.

{This comment seems to have the technology back to front. A card was 
analyzed in another country and was found to have a range of 70 cm to 
1 meter. As analysis was made only on a limited number of cards, so 
we can't be sure that all chips had the same properties: ITU 
spokesperson may be correct, however it seems unlikely. The card 
reader at the checkpoint may have required the badge to be pressed 
close against it, the chip itself was much stronger. i.e. it had the 
potential to be read by sensors not obvious to those passing by. *I 
am not saying that such sensors existed* but that they could is the 
point.}

But U.S. and European privacy advocates and critics of RFID 
technology said the story was on target, and that the use of the 
chips at the summit has caused an uproar in the United States and 
Europe.

"It sent off a shot heard round the world," said Katherine Albrecht, 
director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and 
Numbering (CASPIAN), a leading opponent of RFID technology.

"We're rolling in e-mails on this thing. It's confirmation this is 
real, it is here, and it's being abused already."

Last week's summit, which was partly organized by the United Nations, 
focused on Internet governance and access, security, 
intellectual-property rights and privacy. The badges were worn by 
more than 50 prime ministers, presidents and other high-level 
officials from 174 countries, including a representative from the 
United States, John Marburger, head of the White House Office of 
Science and Technology Policy.

In a lengthy statement to The Times yesterday, summit officials said 
participants were notified some personal information would appear on 
the Internet, but declined to say whether participants were told of 
the embedded technology.

{We were asked during registration if we would like our email 
addresses to be included in the publicly available list of 
participants. It had been usual for WSIS preparatory meetings 
(PrepComs), etc., for participants to be listed both on paper and 
online: name, position and affiliation, with email optional. No 
mention was made of "embedded technology".}

The passes were intended "to facilitate identification by security at 
entry checkpoints," and participants had to swipe the badges across 
the readers to gain access to the summit and meeting rooms, the 
statement said.

{This is correct and the system worked quite well. Although at least 
one person did obtain a govt. card after forging some credentials.}

"Readers were quite prominently displayed and were only placed at 
entry checkpoints," WSIS spokeswoman Francine Lambert said. "The data 
stored on our servers do not and cannot monitor movement."

{Of course the data collected could monitor movement. There was a 
chronological log of when a badge-holder passed through a checkpoint. 
Theses records would show that I went into the hall a number of times 
each day (there was no apparent monitoring on the way out). And 
database could also potentially (and easily) be searched to see who 
went in at the same time as me. Me plus Joe one time: so what. Me 
plus Joe seven times and someone might wonder if they see a pattern?}

U.S. companies use RFID chips to track inventory from the factory to 
stores. Manufactures also are testing a system that tracks products 
leaving the shelves and alerts employees to restock.

EZ Pass, used at toll booths, uses RFID technology. Authorities 
investigating the murder of federal prosecutor Jonathan P. Luna 
learned that he had made repeated trips to Philadelphia during the 
past six months by tracking electronic data gathered at toll booths 
in Pennsylvania and Delaware.

The Defense Department is requiring its top 100 suppliers to 
implement RFID technology by 2005 to track inventory. The remainder 
of its 43,000 suppliers must ship items RFID-ready by 2006.

But privacy advocates say the technology Mr. Fowlie described in use 
at the summit can be used on humans.

"It's going to be used to track us," said Barry Steinhardt, director 
of the technology and liberty program for the American Civil 
Liberties Union in New York.

The ACLU said it has received complaints from Europeans concerned 
about how data collected at the summit will be used at the 2005 
summit, where Tunisia plays host.

"There is a lot of concern this data will be transferred to Tunisia 
and used to punish citizens or residents, or to keep tabs on the 
participants who are coming there, perhaps deny entry," Mr. 
Steinhardt said. "There is a lot of concern that this data will be 
transferred to a less-than-democratic nation."

{This concern was expressed strongly in Geneva. Many are opposed to 
holding a Summit on information society in a country that does not 
respect universal human rights. The problem is not so much in the 
actual data gathered in Geneva, all that happened in Geneva was 
probably harmless. The concern is that data gathered for one 
reasonable purpose could be passed to a regime that might use it in 
ways that could be harmful. e.g. While Geneva may never think to 
track who I stood in line with, another government might be 
interested to identify who associated with a participant they know to 
be hostile to their regime. That "hostile" person might not go to the 
Tunis Summit --for example-- but their previously anonymous 
associates might.}

Ms. Lambert said the data was stored for one day on the readers and 
erased, but did not say how long data was stored on the database or 
if it was ever erased.

{Hard to tell if all the data collected is still in the ITU database. 
I can access the first level of information for people that were in 
GLOCOM's delegation. I cannot make changes. But this is the same 
information that would be in the conference participants list that 
has usually been available. Perhaps the more detailed information has 
already been deleted?}

"The actual data submitted by participants was stored on ITU-secured 
servers that were not accessible by any other party than the [ITU, 
United Nations, and WSIS executive secretariat ], and the data has 
not been communicated to any other party," she said.

The personal data was obtained from visa applications.

"This has tremendous value for intelligence gathering," said Alberto 
Escudero-Pascual, a researcher in computer security and privacy at 
the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

The chips were discovered by Mr. Escudero-Pascual, Stephane Koch, 
president of Internet Society Geneva, and George Danezis, a 
researcher of privacy-enhancing technologies and computer security at 
Cambridge University.

{Alberto Escudero-Pascual arrived at the Summit a couple of days 
early, had his picture taken while registering and as the operator's 
screen was turned slightly towards him, was able to see his personal 
information flash on the screen as the photo was taken. He realized 
the photo was going to be used to identify him in security checks in 
the halls --of course, it's a high level, head of state Summit, 
strong security is all fine and good. If it is sensibly applied. But 
Alberto wonders how it would work? And so the story of the RFID chip 
and data gathering begins to emerge.}

When the card containing an RFID chip is swiped onto the reader, the 
location information is sent via the chip's antenna to a database 
that contains information on the subject.

Mr. Escudero-Pascual said he witnessed the data collected by the 
summit when his information flashed on a computer screen at an entry 
point. The information included a picture of the participant, name, 
occupation, organization, a time stamp of all main entry points and 
each time the participant passed a line into a room.

The data is stored in chronological order, allowing readers to 
determine when, where and which participants are walking into the 
room.

"They might want to know, 'Who has Alberto been queuing with for the 
last few days?' and they can basically see who Alberto is working 
with or talking to by who he enters with," Mr. Escudero-Pascual said.

"This is not a conspiracy theory. We use these systems in our daily 
lives to open garages, but people are not aware" of other ways the 
technology can be used, he said.

RFID chips are embedded in many "smart card" systems used for access 
to military bases, airports, gated communities, hospitals, state 
parks and country clubs. RFID chips also can alert government 
agencies to a host of law-breaking activities, such as expired 
insurance policies or license plates.

But tagging participants in a political summit raises privacy and 
security issues, and privacy advocates think the summit's organizers 
might have broken laws by not disclosing the chips' presence.

At least one of the researchers said it violates the Swiss Federal 
Law on Data Protection of June 1992.

{Yes, opinion seems to be that it violates Swiss law, and would 
normally be illegal in Geneva. Except the UN is in some cases exempt 
from data protection laws. So while on Swiss soil but under the 
auspices of the UN, it's likely that no violation occurred. However, 
some UN data protection guidelines were ignored 
<http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/71.htm> Wonder if the ITU database 
is also protected? ITU has an unusual status in the UN System. 
Alberto Escudero-Pascual has contacted most EU member states' Data 
Protection Agencies and is seeking support from any individuals and 
organizations in order to get a statement from ITU and the Swiss 
Delegation in WSIS concerning the data collection practises and the 
system in Tunisia.}

"They may be exempt from those laws, but they certainly violated the 
spirit of the law by collecting highly personal information without 
their knowledge or consent," Mr. Steinhardt said.

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From: wolfgang at imv.au.dk (wolfgang@imv.au.dk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS etc.
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Happy New Yeaer to All

Here are some good news:

1. The ITU has taken the Civil Society Declaration to the front page of its official WSIS website and to the list of documents which you can download (in three languages). It says: "Civil Society Declaration: handed out to the President of the Summit at the last Plenary meeting on 12 December 2003". This sounds like Bill McIver appearence in the last Plenary Session a remarkable step forward in the process of recognition of civil society as an independent political factor. 
see: http://www.itu.int/wsis/

2. The Swedish Minister for Development, Mrs Astrid Dufborg, member of the UN ICT Taks Force, has a nice compliment and encouragement for civil society on the front page of the UN ICT TF Website:  "Extremely important point. Many of us, belonging to government and who have been fighting for having civil society along, have seen extremely good results of your efforts around WSIS - all over the place I hear about the meetings, discussions etc. You have done a great job. Keep on going! You have much more support than you know!" 
see: http://www.unicttaskforce.org/wsis/rt3_wk.asp    

Best wishes

wolfgang



-- Original Nachricht--
Von: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Senden: 01:36 PM
Betreff: [WSIS CS-Plenary] comments - article on RFIDs at the Summit



Story below from the Washington Times about the identity badges
we were required to used during the Summit. I've annotated with
comment/additional information in {italics} (if your email only
takes plain text, just look for the curly brackets).? Thanks to
Alberto for checking my notes.

Security of course important, but so are the concerns this issue
raises.

And a very Happy new year to all!

Thanks,

Adam



Summit group confirms use of ID chip
By Audrey Hudson and Betsy Pisik
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published December 18, 2003
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20031217-115051-5373r>

Organizers of the World Summit on the Information Society
yesterday confirmed that badges worn by high-level attendees were
affixed with identification chips some say were unknown to the forum's
participants.

{That RFIDs were used was not disclosed publicly before the
Summit began, or to my knowledge, announced during the
Summit.}

However, a spokesman for the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU), which was the host of the three-day event in Geneva last
week, scoffed at concerns by privacy advocates that the technology
could monitor an individual's movement or that the data it collects
could be misused.

{The RFID was in the name badge, and associated with a
database that contained all the information about the badge owner that
the person submitted during pre-registration. That information was a
minimum of name, position, affiliation, email address, nationality and
date of birth. Much more information was requested as optional, from
passport number and place of issue, to arrival and departure dates,
hotel, and so on. Potential then is to associate this information with
other data: for example the Summit secretariat helped with visa
applications and applications for fellowships which contain far more
detail -- note *potential*, not saying it actually happened. When the
badge was used at a check-point this pre-registered information along
with a corresponding picture was displayed on the operators screen. Of
course there were (are?) opportunities for misuse.}

Three European researchers who discovered the chips in their
badges, first reported by The Washington Times on Sunday, said
participants were not told about the chips.

{Correct, Summit participants were not told.}

ITU spokesman Gary Fowlie confirmed during an interview from Geneva
that radio frequency identification chips (RFIDs) were embedded in the
passes and that data readers were in place to record information
transmitted by the chip.

Mr. Fowlie disputed that RFIDs have long-range tracking capability,
and called The Times story "really off base."

"Transmission distance is 1 to 2 centimeters. You have to
put your badge right up to the screen," he said.

{This comment seems to have the technology back to front. A
card was analyzed in another country and was found to have a range of
70 cm to 1 meter. As analysis was made only on a limited number of
cards, so we can't be sure that all chips had the same properties: ITU
spokesperson may be correct, however it seems unlikely. The card
reader at the checkpoint may have required the badge to be pressed
close against it, the chip itself was much stronger. i.e. it had the
potential to be read by sensors not obvious to those passing by. *I am
not saying that such sensors existed* but that they could is the
point.}

But U.S. and European privacy advocates and critics of RFID technology
said the story was on target, and that the use of the chips at the
summit has caused an uproar in the United States and Europe.

"It sent off a shot heard round the world," said
Katherine Albrecht, director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy
Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN), a leading opponent of RFID
technology.

"We're rolling in e-mails on this thing. It's confirmation this
is real, it is here, and it's being abused already."

Last week's summit, which was partly organized by the United Nations,
focused on Internet governance and access, security,
intellectual-property rights and privacy. The badges were worn by more
than 50 prime ministers, presidents and other high-level officials
from 174 countries, including a representative from the United States,
John Marburger, head of the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy.

In a lengthy statement to The Times yesterday, summit officials
said participants were notified some personal information would appear
on the Internet, but declined to say whether participants were told of
the embedded technology.

{We were asked during registration if we would like our email
addresses to be included in the publicly available list of
participants. It had been usual for WSIS preparatory meetings
(PrepComs), etc., for participants to be listed both on paper and
online: name, position and affiliation, with email optional. No
mention was made of "embedded technology".}

The passes were intended "to facilitate identification by
security at entry checkpoints," and participants had to swipe the
badges across the readers to gain access to the summit and meeting
rooms, the statement said.

{This is correct and the system worked quite well. Although at
least one person did obtain a govt. card after forging some
credentials.}

"Readers were quite prominently displayed and were only
placed at entry checkpoints," WSIS spokeswoman Francine Lambert
said. "The data stored on our servers do not and cannot monitor
movement."

{Of course the data collected could monitor movement. There
was a chronological log of when a badge-holder passed through a
checkpoint. Theses records would show that I went into the hall a
number of times each day (there was no apparent monitoring on the way
out). And database could also potentially (and easily) be searched to
see who went in at the same time as me. Me plus Joe one time: so what.
Me plus Joe seven times and someone might wonder if they see a
pattern?}

U.S. companies use RFID chips to track inventory from the factory to
stores. Manufactures also are testing a system that tracks products
leaving the shelves and alerts employees to restock.

EZ Pass, used at toll booths, uses RFID technology. Authorities
investigating the murder of federal prosecutor Jonathan P. Luna
learned that he had made repeated trips to Philadelphia during the
past six months by tracking electronic data gathered at toll booths in
Pennsylvania and Delaware.

The Defense Department is requiring its top 100 suppliers to implement
RFID technology by 2005 to track inventory. The remainder of its
43,000 suppliers must ship items RFID-ready by 2006.

But privacy advocates say the technology Mr. Fowlie described in use
at the summit can be used on humans.

"It's going to be used to track us," said Barry Steinhardt,
director of the technology and liberty program for the American Civil
Liberties Union in New York.

The ACLU said it has received complaints from Europeans concerned
about how data collected at the summit will be used at the 2005
summit, where Tunisia plays host.

"There is a lot of concern this data will be transferred to
Tunisia and used to punish citizens or residents, or to keep tabs on
the participants who are coming there, perhaps deny entry," Mr.
Steinhardt said. "There is a lot of concern that this data will
be transferred to a less-than-democratic nation."

{This concern was expressed strongly in Geneva. Many are
opposed to holding a Summit on information society in a country that
does not respect universal human rights. The problem is not so much in
the actual data gathered in Geneva, all that happened in Geneva was
probably harmless. The concern is that data gathered for one
reasonable purpose could be passed to a regime that might use it in
ways that could be harmful. e.g. While Geneva may never think to track
who I stood in line with, another government might be interested to
identify who associated with a participant they know to be hostile to
their regime. That "hostile" person might not go to the
Tunis Summit --for example-- but their previously anonymous associates
might.}

Ms. Lambert said the data was stored for one day on the readers
and erased, but did not say how long data was stored on the database
or if it was ever erased.

{Hard to tell if all the data collected is still in the ITU
database. I can access the first level of information for people that
were in GLOCOM's delegation. I cannot make changes. But this is the
same information that would be in the conference participants list
that has usually been available. Perhaps the more detailed information
has already been deleted?}

"The actual data submitted by participants was stored on
ITU-secured servers that were not accessible by any other party than
the [ITU, United Nations, and WSIS executive secretariat ], and the
data has not been communicated to any other party," she
said.

The personal data was obtained from visa applications.

"This has tremendous value for intelligence gathering,"
said Alberto Escudero-Pascual, a researcher in computer security and
privacy at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

The chips were discovered by Mr. Escudero-Pascual, Stephane Koch,
president of Internet Society Geneva, and George Danezis, a researcher
of privacy-enhancing technologies and computer security at Cambridge
University.

{Alberto Escudero-Pascual arrived at the Summit a couple of
days early, had his picture taken while registering and as the
operator's screen was turned slightly towards him, was able to see his
personal information flash on the screen as the photo was taken. He
realized the photo was going to be used to identify him in security
checks in the halls --of course, it's a high level, head of state
Summit, strong security is all fine and good. If it is sensibly
applied. But Alberto wonders how it would work? And so the story of
the RFID chip and data gathering begins to emerge.}

When the card containing an RFID chip is swiped onto the reader,
the location information is sent via the chip's antenna to a database
that contains information on the subject.

Mr. Escudero-Pascual said he witnessed the data collected by the
summit when his information flashed on a computer screen at an entry
point. The information included a picture of the participant, name,
occupation, organization, a time stamp of all main entry points and
each time the participant passed a line into a room.

The data is stored in chronological order, allowing readers to
determine when, where and which participants are walking into the
room.

"They might want to know, 'Who has Alberto been queuing with
for the last few days?' and they can basically see who Alberto is
working with or talking to by who he enters with," Mr.
Escudero-Pascual said.

"This is not a conspiracy theory. We use these systems in our
daily lives to open garages, but people are not aware" of other
ways the technology can be used, he said.

RFID chips are embedded in many "smart card" systems used
for access to military bases, airports, gated communities, hospitals,
state parks and country clubs. RFID chips also can alert government
agencies to a host of law-breaking activities, such as expired
insurance policies or license plates.

But tagging participants in a political summit raises privacy and
security issues, and privacy advocates think the summit's organizers
might have broken laws by not disclosing the chips' presence.

At least one of the researchers said it violates the Swiss
Federal Law on Data Protection of June 1992.

{Yes, opinion seems to be that it violates Swiss law, and
would normally be illegal in Geneva. Except the UN is in some cases
exempt from data protection laws. So while on Swiss soil but under the
auspices of the UN, it's likely that no violation occurred. However,
some UN data protection guidelines were ignored
<http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/71.htm> Wonder if the ITU
database is also protected? ITU has an unusual status in the UN
System. Alberto Escudero-Pascual has contacted most EU member states'
Data Protection Agencies and is seeking support from any individuals
and organizations in order to get a statement from ITU and the Swiss
Delegation in WSIS concerning the data collection practises and the
system in Tunisia.}

"They may be exempt from those laws, but they certainly
violated the spirit of the law by collecting highly personal
information without their knowledge or consent," Mr. Steinhardt
said.

END


-- 








From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Mon Jan  5 13:44:01 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:22 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] comments - article on RFIDs at the Summit
References: <p05100300bc1872cd0a4b@[192.168.11.3]>
Message-ID: <00b801c3d391$fab52500$0a00000a@default>

comments - article on RFIDs at the SummitHappy and successful New year Adam and all

A special thank to Adam for this revealing but worrying identity badge story. 
Yet the fundamentals of this non glorious swiss technology achievement was known by a number of CS members, especially those very clever in "security/internet issues", they used to deal with daily in specialised CS circles (caucuses, working groups, lobbying groups). But nobody raised any appropriated protest during our CS meetings, nor were there any fears transmitted to the CS Secretariate. Instead, some zealous CS members urged us to sent the CS Secretariate all our thanks for the "brilliant job" they did ! A very obedient and curious CS indeed !

Best regards
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Adam Peake 
  To: plenary@wsis-cs.org 
  Cc: aep@it.kth.se 
  Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:38 PM
  Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] comments - article on RFIDs at the Summit


  Story below from the Washington Times about the identity badges we were required to used during the Summit. I've annotated with comment/additional information in {italics} (if your email only takes plain text, just look for the curly brackets).  Thanks to Alberto for checking my notes.


  Security of course important, but so are the concerns this issue raises.


  And a very Happy new year to all!


  Thanks,


  Adam






  Summit group confirms use of ID chip
  By Audrey Hudson and Betsy Pisik
  THE WASHINGTON TIMES
  Published December 18, 2003
  <http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20031217-115051-5373r>


  Organizers of the World Summit on the Information Society yesterday confirmed that badges worn by high-level attendees were affixed with identification chips some say were unknown to the forum's participants.


  {That RFIDs were used was not disclosed publicly before the Summit began, or to my knowledge, announced during the Summit.}


  However, a spokesman for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which was the host of the three-day event in Geneva last week, scoffed at concerns by privacy advocates that the technology could monitor an individual's movement or that the data it collects could be misused.


  {The RFID was in the name badge, and associated with a database that contained all the information about the badge owner that the person submitted during pre-registration. That information was a minimum of name, position, affiliation, email address, nationality and date of birth. Much more information was requested as optional, from passport number and place of issue, to arrival and departure dates, hotel, and so on. Potential then is to associate this information with other data: for example the Summit secretariat helped with visa applications and applications for fellowships which contain far more detail -- note *potential*, not saying it actually happened. When the badge was used at a check-point this pre-registered information along with a corresponding picture was displayed on the operators screen. Of course there were (are?) opportunities for misuse.}


  Three European researchers who discovered the chips in their badges, first reported by The Washington Times on Sunday, said participants were not told about the chips.


  {Correct, Summit participants were not told.}

  ITU spokesman Gary Fowlie confirmed during an interview from Geneva that radio frequency identification chips (RFIDs) were embedded in the passes and that data readers were in place to record information transmitted by the chip.

  Mr. Fowlie disputed that RFIDs have long-range tracking capability, and called The Times story "really off base."

  "Transmission distance is 1 to 2 centimeters. You have to put your badge right up to the screen," he said.

  {This comment seems to have the technology back to front. A card was analyzed in another country and was found to have a range of 70 cm to 1 meter. As analysis was made only on a limited number of cards, so we can't be sure that all chips had the same properties: ITU spokesperson may be correct, however it seems unlikely. The card reader at the checkpoint may have required the badge to be pressed close against it, the chip itself was much stronger. i.e. it had the potential to be read by sensors not obvious to those passing by. *I am not saying that such sensors existed* but that they could is the point.}

  But U.S. and European privacy advocates and critics of RFID technology said the story was on target, and that the use of the chips at the summit has caused an uproar in the United States and Europe.

  "It sent off a shot heard round the world," said Katherine Albrecht, director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN), a leading opponent of RFID technology.

  "We're rolling in e-mails on this thing. It's confirmation this is real, it is here, and it's being abused already."

  Last week's summit, which was partly organized by the United Nations, focused on Internet governance and access, security, intellectual-property rights and privacy. The badges were worn by more than 50 prime ministers, presidents and other high-level officials from 174 countries, including a representative from the United States, John Marburger, head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.


  In a lengthy statement to The Times yesterday, summit officials said participants were notified some personal information would appear on the Internet, but declined to say whether participants were told of the embedded technology.


  {We were asked during registration if we would like our email addresses to be included in the publicly available list of participants. It had been usual for WSIS preparatory meetings (PrepComs), etc., for participants to be listed both on paper and online: name, position and affiliation, with email optional. No mention was made of "embedded technology".}


  The passes were intended "to facilitate identification by security at entry checkpoints," and participants had to swipe the badges across the readers to gain access to the summit and meeting rooms, the statement said.

  {This is correct and the system worked quite well. Although at least one person did obtain a govt. card after forging some credentials.}


  "Readers were quite prominently displayed and were only placed at entry checkpoints," WSIS spokeswoman Francine Lambert said. "The data stored on our servers do not and cannot monitor movement."


  {Of course the data collected could monitor movement. There was a chronological log of when a badge-holder passed through a checkpoint. Theses records would show that I went into the hall a number of times each day (there was no apparent monitoring on the way out). And database could also potentially (and easily) be searched to see who went in at the same time as me. Me plus Joe one time: so what. Me plus Joe seven times and someone might wonder if they see a pattern?}

  U.S. companies use RFID chips to track inventory from the factory to stores. Manufactures also are testing a system that tracks products leaving the shelves and alerts employees to restock.

  EZ Pass, used at toll booths, uses RFID technology. Authorities investigating the murder of federal prosecutor Jonathan P. Luna learned that he had made repeated trips to Philadelphia during the past six months by tracking electronic data gathered at toll booths in Pennsylvania and Delaware.

  The Defense Department is requiring its top 100 suppliers to implement RFID technology by 2005 to track inventory. The remainder of its 43,000 suppliers must ship items RFID-ready by 2006.

  But privacy advocates say the technology Mr. Fowlie described in use at the summit can be used on humans.

  "It's going to be used to track us," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the technology and liberty program for the American Civil Liberties Union in New York.

  The ACLU said it has received complaints from Europeans concerned about how data collected at the summit will be used at the 2005 summit, where Tunisia plays host.

  "There is a lot of concern this data will be transferred to Tunisia and used to punish citizens or residents, or to keep tabs on the participants who are coming there, perhaps deny entry," Mr. Steinhardt said. "There is a lot of concern that this data will be transferred to a less-than-democratic nation."

  {This concern was expressed strongly in Geneva. Many are opposed to holding a Summit on information society in a country that does not respect universal human rights. The problem is not so much in the actual data gathered in Geneva, all that happened in Geneva was probably harmless. The concern is that data gathered for one reasonable purpose could be passed to a regime that might use it in ways that could be harmful. e.g. While Geneva may never think to track who I stood in line with, another government might be interested to identify who associated with a participant they know to be hostile to their regime. That "hostile" person might not go to the Tunis Summit --for example-- but their previously anonymous associates might.}


  Ms. Lambert said the data was stored for one day on the readers and erased, but did not say how long data was stored on the database or if it was ever erased.

  {Hard to tell if all the data collected is still in the ITU database. I can access the first level of information for people that were in GLOCOM's delegation. I cannot make changes. But this is the same information that would be in the conference participants list that has usually been available. Perhaps the more detailed information has already been deleted?}


  "The actual data submitted by participants was stored on ITU-secured servers that were not accessible by any other party than the [ITU, United Nations, and WSIS executive secretariat ], and the data has not been communicated to any other party," she said.

  The personal data was obtained from visa applications.


  "This has tremendous value for intelligence gathering," said Alberto Escudero-Pascual, a researcher in computer security and privacy at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

  The chips were discovered by Mr. Escudero-Pascual, Stephane Koch, president of Internet Society Geneva, and George Danezis, a researcher of privacy-enhancing technologies and computer security at Cambridge University.


  {Alberto Escudero-Pascual arrived at the Summit a couple of days early, had his picture taken while registering and as the operator's screen was turned slightly towards him, was able to see his personal information flash on the screen as the photo was taken. He realized the photo was going to be used to identify him in security checks in the halls --of course, it's a high level, head of state Summit, strong security is all fine and good. If it is sensibly applied. But Alberto wonders how it would work? And so the story of the RFID chip and data gathering begins to emerge.}


  When the card containing an RFID chip is swiped onto the reader, the location information is sent via the chip's antenna to a database that contains information on the subject.

  Mr. Escudero-Pascual said he witnessed the data collected by the summit when his information flashed on a computer screen at an entry point. The information included a picture of the participant, name, occupation, organization, a time stamp of all main entry points and each time the participant passed a line into a room.

  The data is stored in chronological order, allowing readers to determine when, where and which participants are walking into the room.

  "They might want to know, 'Who has Alberto been queuing with for the last few days?' and they can basically see who Alberto is working with or talking to by who he enters with," Mr. Escudero-Pascual said.

  "This is not a conspiracy theory. We use these systems in our daily lives to open garages, but people are not aware" of other ways the technology can be used, he said.

  RFID chips are embedded in many "smart card" systems used for access to military bases, airports, gated communities, hospitals, state parks and country clubs. RFID chips also can alert government agencies to a host of law-breaking activities, such as expired insurance policies or license plates.

  But tagging participants in a political summit raises privacy and security issues, and privacy advocates think the summit's organizers might have broken laws by not disclosing the chips' presence.

  At least one of the researchers said it violates the Swiss Federal Law on Data Protection of June 1992.

  {Yes, opinion seems to be that it violates Swiss law, and would normally be illegal in Geneva. Except the UN is in some cases exempt from data protection laws. So while on Swiss soil but under the auspices of the UN, it's likely that no violation occurred. However, some UN data protection guidelines were ignored <http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/71.htm> Wonder if the ITU database is also protected? ITU has an unusual status in the UN System. Alberto Escudero-Pascual has contacted most EU member states' Data Protection Agencies and is seeking support from any individuals and organizations in order to get a statement from ITU and the Swiss Delegation in WSIS concerning the data collection practises and the system in Tunisia.}


  "They may be exempt from those laws, but they certainly violated the spirit of the law by collecting highly personal information without their knowledge or consent," Mr. Steinhardt said.

  END




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From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Mon Jan  5 14:10:40 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS etc.
References: <E1AdURY-0002iv-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <00be01c3d395$b3c006c0$0a00000a@default>

Hi Wolfgang and all
Just a "bemol" to these news which sound rather well, at least for Wolfgang.
I'm not so enthousiastic upon them
a) because the french version (and probably the spanish too) of CS
Declaration is very bad ;
b) because "handed out to the President" doesn't guarantee that it is a main
official document of the Summit (as are the Declaration of principles and
the Action Plan) and this was fundamental in Bill's address to the Plenary.
c) I happened to meet the President of PrepCom in the Hall and he did the
same statement to me as Mrs Dufborg did. However, the CS had no appropriate
space to meet regularly during the Summit. Just remember the Signal-to-noise
ratio on "our floor" at Palexpo.

However, let's hope that the second phase of the Summit will be more and
really "CS inclusive". That's my wish for the new year.

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT

----- Original Message -----
From: <wolfgang@imv.au.dk>
To: "Adam Peake" <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>; <plenary@wsis-cs.org>; <aep@it.kth.se>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:06 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS etc.


> Happy New Yeaer to All
>
> Here are some good news:
>
> 1. The ITU has taken the Civil Society Declaration to the front page of
its official WSIS website and to the list of documents which you can
download (in three languages). It says: "Civil Society Declaration: handed
out to the President of the Summit at the last Plenary meeting on 12
December 2003". This sounds like Bill McIver appearence in the last Plenary
Session a remarkable step forward in the process of recognition of civil
society as an independent political factor.
> see: http://www.itu.int/wsis/
>
> 2. The Swedish Minister for Development, Mrs Astrid Dufborg, member of the
UN ICT Taks Force, has a nice compliment and encouragement for civil society
on the front page of the UN ICT TF Website:  "Extremely important point.
Many of us, belonging to government and who have been fighting for having
civil society along, have seen extremely good results of your efforts around
WSIS - all over the place I hear about the meetings, discussions etc. You
have done a great job. Keep on going! You have much more support than you
know!"
> see: http://www.unicttaskforce.org/wsis/rt3_wk.asp
>
> Best wishes
>
> wolfgang
>
>
>
> -- Original Nachricht--
> Von: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
> An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Senden: 01:36 PM
> Betreff: [WSIS CS-Plenary] comments - article on RFIDs at the Summit
>
>
>
> Story below from the Washington Times about the identity badges
> we were required to used during the Summit. I've annotated with
> comment/additional information in {italics} (if your email only
> takes plain text, just look for the curly brackets). Thanks to
> Alberto for checking my notes.
>
> Security of course important, but so are the concerns this issue
> raises.
>
> And a very Happy new year to all!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> Summit group confirms use of ID chip
> By Audrey Hudson and Betsy Pisik
> THE WASHINGTON TIMES
> Published December 18, 2003
>
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20031217-115051-
5373r>
>
> Organizers of the World Summit on the Information Society
> yesterday confirmed that badges worn by high-level attendees were
> affixed with identification chips some say were unknown to the forum's
> participants.
>
> {That RFIDs were used was not disclosed publicly before the
> Summit began, or to my knowledge, announced during the
> Summit.}
>
> However, a spokesman for the International Telecommunication
> Union (ITU), which was the host of the three-day event in Geneva last
> week, scoffed at concerns by privacy advocates that the technology
> could monitor an individual's movement or that the data it collects
> could be misused.
>
> {The RFID was in the name badge, and associated with a
> database that contained all the information about the badge owner that
> the person submitted during pre-registration. That information was a
> minimum of name, position, affiliation, email address, nationality and
> date of birth. Much more information was requested as optional, from
> passport number and place of issue, to arrival and departure dates,
> hotel, and so on. Potential then is to associate this information with
> other data: for example the Summit secretariat helped with visa
> applications and applications for fellowships which contain far more
> detail -- note *potential*, not saying it actually happened. When the
> badge was used at a check-point this pre-registered information along
> with a corresponding picture was displayed on the operators screen. Of
> course there were (are?) opportunities for misuse.}
>
> Three European researchers who discovered the chips in their
> badges, first reported by The Washington Times on Sunday, said
> participants were not told about the chips.
>
> {Correct, Summit participants were not told.}
>
> ITU spokesman Gary Fowlie confirmed during an interview from Geneva
> that radio frequency identification chips (RFIDs) were embedded in the
> passes and that data readers were in place to record information
> transmitted by the chip.
>
> Mr. Fowlie disputed that RFIDs have long-range tracking capability,
> and called The Times story "really off base."
>
> "Transmission distance is 1 to 2 centimeters. You have to
> put your badge right up to the screen," he said.
>
> {This comment seems to have the technology back to front. A
> card was analyzed in another country and was found to have a range of
> 70 cm to 1 meter. As analysis was made only on a limited number of
> cards, so we can't be sure that all chips had the same properties: ITU
> spokesperson may be correct, however it seems unlikely. The card
> reader at the checkpoint may have required the badge to be pressed
> close against it, the chip itself was much stronger. i.e. it had the
> potential to be read by sensors not obvious to those passing by. *I am
> not saying that such sensors existed* but that they could is the
> point.}
>
> But U.S. and European privacy advocates and critics of RFID technology
> said the story was on target, and that the use of the chips at the
> summit has caused an uproar in the United States and Europe.
>
> "It sent off a shot heard round the world," said
> Katherine Albrecht, director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy
> Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN), a leading opponent of RFID
> technology.
>
> "We're rolling in e-mails on this thing. It's confirmation this
> is real, it is here, and it's being abused already."
>
> Last week's summit, which was partly organized by the United Nations,
> focused on Internet governance and access, security,
> intellectual-property rights and privacy. The badges were worn by more
> than 50 prime ministers, presidents and other high-level officials
> from 174 countries, including a representative from the United States,
> John Marburger, head of the White House Office of Science and
> Technology Policy.
>
> In a lengthy statement to The Times yesterday, summit officials
> said participants were notified some personal information would appear
> on the Internet, but declined to say whether participants were told of
> the embedded technology.
>
> {We were asked during registration if we would like our email
> addresses to be included in the publicly available list of
> participants. It had been usual for WSIS preparatory meetings
> (PrepComs), etc., for participants to be listed both on paper and
> online: name, position and affiliation, with email optional. No
> mention was made of "embedded technology".}
>
> The passes were intended "to facilitate identification by
> security at entry checkpoints," and participants had to swipe the
> badges across the readers to gain access to the summit and meeting
> rooms, the statement said.
>
> {This is correct and the system worked quite well. Although at
> least one person did obtain a govt. card after forging some
> credentials.}
>
> "Readers were quite prominently displayed and were only
> placed at entry checkpoints," WSIS spokeswoman Francine Lambert
> said. "The data stored on our servers do not and cannot monitor
> movement."
>
> {Of course the data collected could monitor movement. There
> was a chronological log of when a badge-holder passed through a
> checkpoint. Theses records would show that I went into the hall a
> number of times each day (there was no apparent monitoring on the way
> out). And database could also potentially (and easily) be searched to
> see who went in at the same time as me. Me plus Joe one time: so what.
> Me plus Joe seven times and someone might wonder if they see a
> pattern?}
>
> U.S. companies use RFID chips to track inventory from the factory to
> stores. Manufactures also are testing a system that tracks products
> leaving the shelves and alerts employees to restock.
>
> EZ Pass, used at toll booths, uses RFID technology. Authorities
> investigating the murder of federal prosecutor Jonathan P. Luna
> learned that he had made repeated trips to Philadelphia during the
> past six months by tracking electronic data gathered at toll booths in
> Pennsylvania and Delaware.
>
> The Defense Department is requiring its top 100 suppliers to implement
> RFID technology by 2005 to track inventory. The remainder of its
> 43,000 suppliers must ship items RFID-ready by 2006.
>
> But privacy advocates say the technology Mr. Fowlie described in use
> at the summit can be used on humans.
>
> "It's going to be used to track us," said Barry Steinhardt,
> director of the technology and liberty program for the American Civil
> Liberties Union in New York.
>
> The ACLU said it has received complaints from Europeans concerned
> about how data collected at the summit will be used at the 2005
> summit, where Tunisia plays host.
>
> "There is a lot of concern this data will be transferred to
> Tunisia and used to punish citizens or residents, or to keep tabs on
> the participants who are coming there, perhaps deny entry," Mr.
> Steinhardt said. "There is a lot of concern that this data will
> be transferred to a less-than-democratic nation."
>
> {This concern was expressed strongly in Geneva. Many are
> opposed to holding a Summit on information society in a country that
> does not respect universal human rights. The problem is not so much in
> the actual data gathered in Geneva, all that happened in Geneva was
> probably harmless. The concern is that data gathered for one
> reasonable purpose could be passed to a regime that might use it in
> ways that could be harmful. e.g. While Geneva may never think to track
> who I stood in line with, another government might be interested to
> identify who associated with a participant they know to be hostile to
> their regime. That "hostile" person might not go to the
> Tunis Summit --for example-- but their previously anonymous associates
> might.}
>
> Ms. Lambert said the data was stored for one day on the readers
> and erased, but did not say how long data was stored on the database
> or if it was ever erased.
>
> {Hard to tell if all the data collected is still in the ITU
> database. I can access the first level of information for people that
> were in GLOCOM's delegation. I cannot make changes. But this is the
> same information that would be in the conference participants list
> that has usually been available. Perhaps the more detailed information
> has already been deleted?}
>
> "The actual data submitted by participants was stored on
> ITU-secured servers that were not accessible by any other party than
> the [ITU, United Nations, and WSIS executive secretariat ], and the
> data has not been communicated to any other party," she
> said.
>
> The personal data was obtained from visa applications.
>
> "This has tremendous value for intelligence gathering,"
> said Alberto Escudero-Pascual, a researcher in computer security and
> privacy at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
>
> The chips were discovered by Mr. Escudero-Pascual, Stephane Koch,
> president of Internet Society Geneva, and George Danezis, a researcher
> of privacy-enhancing technologies and computer security at Cambridge
> University.
>
> {Alberto Escudero-Pascual arrived at the Summit a couple of
> days early, had his picture taken while registering and as the
> operator's screen was turned slightly towards him, was able to see his
> personal information flash on the screen as the photo was taken. He
> realized the photo was going to be used to identify him in security
> checks in the halls --of course, it's a high level, head of state
> Summit, strong security is all fine and good. If it is sensibly
> applied. But Alberto wonders how it would work? And so the story of
> the RFID chip and data gathering begins to emerge.}
>
> When the card containing an RFID chip is swiped onto the reader,
> the location information is sent via the chip's antenna to a database
> that contains information on the subject.
>
> Mr. Escudero-Pascual said he witnessed the data collected by the
> summit when his information flashed on a computer screen at an entry
> point. The information included a picture of the participant, name,
> occupation, organization, a time stamp of all main entry points and
> each time the participant passed a line into a room.
>
> The data is stored in chronological order, allowing readers to
> determine when, where and which participants are walking into the
> room.
>
> "They might want to know, 'Who has Alberto been queuing with
> for the last few days?' and they can basically see who Alberto is
> working with or talking to by who he enters with," Mr.
> Escudero-Pascual said.
>
> "This is not a conspiracy theory. We use these systems in our
> daily lives to open garages, but people are not aware" of other
> ways the technology can be used, he said.
>
> RFID chips are embedded in many "smart card" systems used
> for access to military bases, airports, gated communities, hospitals,
> state parks and country clubs. RFID chips also can alert government
> agencies to a host of law-breaking activities, such as expired
> insurance policies or license plates.
>
> But tagging participants in a political summit raises privacy and
> security issues, and privacy advocates think the summit's organizers
> might have broken laws by not disclosing the chips' presence.
>
> At least one of the researchers said it violates the Swiss
> Federal Law on Data Protection of June 1992.
>
> {Yes, opinion seems to be that it violates Swiss law, and
> would normally be illegal in Geneva. Except the UN is in some cases
> exempt from data protection laws. So while on Swiss soil but under the
> auspices of the UN, it's likely that no violation occurred. However,
> some UN data protection guidelines were ignored
> <http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/71.htm> Wonder if the ITU
> database is also protected? ITU has an unusual status in the UN
> System. Alberto Escudero-Pascual has contacted most EU member states'
> Data Protection Agencies and is seeking support from any individuals
> and organizations in order to get a statement from ITU and the Swiss
> Delegation in WSIS concerning the data collection practises and the
> system in Tunisia.}
>
> "They may be exempt from those laws, but they certainly
> violated the spirit of the law by collecting highly personal
> information without their knowledge or consent," Mr. Steinhardt
> said.
>
> END
>
>
> --
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From marzouki at ras.eu.org  Mon Jan  5 17:03:45 2004
From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: MUMBAI WSF - A NEW DIGITALISED SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATION / UN NUEVO SISTEMA DE NUMERIZACION DE LA TRADUCCION / UN NOUVEAU SYSTEME DE NUMERISATION DE LA TRADUCTION
Message-ID: <1F1383B8-3FA1-11D8-95FD-0003935A8C90@ras.eu.org>

Dear all,

I thought this could be of interest to some of you. Best wishes to all.
Meryem

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

>
> EN + FR + ES
> -----------------------
>
> MUMBAI WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
>
> A NEW DIGITALISED SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATION
>
> During the next World Social Forum, which will be held in Mumbai,
> India, 16-21 January 2004, a new translation system will be used. The
> interpreters are volunteers: Babels guarantees this service, as it did
> with success during the last European Social Forum. For the first
> time, we will not have to rent equipment at exorbitant rates thanks to
> the combined use of FM transmitters (for Indian languages) and a
> computer based system that will digitalise the translation. This
> system, called Nomad Interpreting Free Tools (NIFT) uses a simple
> computer which is able to make an interface between the speakers, the
> translators and the audience. NIFT is a joint effort of several
> groups, including APO33 and Babels, together with free-software actors
> in various countries. This is an ongoing process needing support from
> a wider variety of actors and groups.
>
> NIFT reduces the costs, enables the debates and conferences to be
> broadcast via audio streaming in all the languages translated, and to
> archive and index, by speaker, the contents of these debates and
> conferences through different media, such as DVD, CD and websites.
>
>
> Today, we have three different propositions to make.
>
> The first is to offer the possibility to diffuse, by Internet,
> languages that will not be officially translated in Mumbai. The second
> is a request to make your website available as a mirror site to
> broadcast the conferences and debates during the WSF. And third, we
> are inviting you to join the NIFT project that will be developed using
> free software and GNU licence.
>
>
> 1.	This is a proposal for those who want to translate the debates
> of the WSF into languages that will not be officially translated in
> Mumbai. (The official languages are Hindi, English, Marathi,
> Castillian, French, Japanese, Thai and Korean.) For this to happen,
> the interested organisations or institutions need to provide one or
> more translators and to help share the costs. The cost is probably
> about $200 to rent a computer for one conference room and to
> contribute to the costs of the internet connections, but the cost will
> be much less if the translators has his/her own laptop able to work
> with linux.
>
>
> If you are interested, please let us know very soon to
> wsf_stream@ras.eu.org with:
>
> *	The language you want to translate
> *	The number of ?channels? you want to use. A ?channel? is a
> conference room where translations is in place, but it is possible to
> change the ?channel? from room to room with minimal delay at no
> additional cost.
> *	The number of translators you will have for the job.
>
>
>
> 2. This is a request to set up mirror sites to stream and to archive
> the translated conferences. As you know, streaming uses a lot of band
> space and by sharing we can resolve this problem. Each site that wants
> to be part of this mirroring system can do it in one or several
> languages and will take the stream directly from the provider
> installed for the WSF in Mumbai.
>
> The mirror sites will be linked to www.wsf.india.org
> <http://www.wsf.india.org> .
>
> If you are interested, please send the following information to:
> wsf_stream@ras.eu.org
>
> Organsiation
>
> Country
>
> Languages you want to broadcast
>
> Are you in India for the WSF?
>
> Name of the technical contact
>
> Email
>
> Telephone
>
> Url of your site:
>
> Does your provider allow streaming?
>
> Have you done it before?
>
> What is your available bandwidth?
>
> 3. Third is an invitation to join the NIFT project. This software will
> be available on 2 January at http://sourceforge.net/projects/targ/
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/targ/> . We welcome any comments,
> suggestions of new functions or help to get rid of the bugs
>
> In solidarity
>
> NIFT
>
>
>
> -----------------------
>
> FORO SOCIAL MUNDIAL DE NUMBAI
>
> UN NUEVO SISTEMA DE NUMERIZACION DE LA TRADUCCION
>
> Durante el pr?ximo Foro Social Mundial que se desarrollar? en Numbai,
> India, del 16 al 21 de enero, un nuevo sistema de traducci?n estar?
> funcionando. Los int?rpretes ser?n ben?volos : siendo la red Babels la
> que asegurar? esta funci?n, tal como fue realizado con ?xito durante
> el Foro Social Europeo de Par?s-Saint Denis. Y, por primera vez,
> dispondremos de aparatos que rentamos a precios exhorbitantes, que
> permiten la combinaci?n de emetores y receptores FM (para las lenguas
> indias, que comprenden un gran n?mero de locutores) y un sistema de
> numerizaci?n de las traducciones a trav?s de micro-computadoras. Este
> sistema, que hemos bautizado NIFT (Nomad Interpreting Free Tools)
> utiliza simples computadoras que ser?n la interface entre el orador,
> los traductores y la sala. NIFT es el resultado de un trabajo comun de
> diferentes grupos, incluindo APO33 y Babels, con militantes del
> programa libre de varios paises. L@s que le quieren pueden juntar se
> al projecto.
>
> NIFT facilita a la vez reducir costos, difundir sobre internet el
> contenido de las conferencias y debates -y esto en todas las lenguas
> traducidas por medio de streming audio y, finalmente, archivar e
> indexar -por orador- el contenido de las conferencias y debates sobre
> diferentes soportes (sitios xeb, CD, DVD, etc).
>
> Hasta ahora tenemos tres propuestas diferentes :
>
> -- La primera ofrece la posibilidad de traducir en las lenguas que no
> est?n previstas en Numbai para difundirlas sobre internet y asi poder
> utilizar el contenido traducido sobre diferentes soportes.
>
> -- La segunda consiste en proponerles que pongan a disposici?n sus
> sitios (internet) para hacer de ellos sitios espejos para la difusi?n,
> sobre internet, de las conferencias y debates durante el FSM.
>
> -- Finalmente, les proponemos asociarse al perfeccionamiento de NIFT,
> que se desarrolla en programa libre bajo licencia GNU.
>
> 1) La primera consiste en proponer a quienes quieran traducir los
> debates del FSM a una lengua que no est? prevista en Numbai (las
> lenguas " oficiales " seron  Hindu,  Ingl?s,  Marathi, Castellano,
> Franc?s, Japon?s Coreano y Thai)  de poder hacerlo, difundiendo el
> contenido en su lengua sobre internet  y pudiendo archivarlo sobre el
> soporte de su opci?n (sitio Web, CD, DVD, etc). Para ello es necesario
> que las organizaciones o instituciones interesadas provean el o los
> traductores que estar?n presentes en Numbai y prevean una
> participaci?n para gastos que en cualquier caso no rebasar? algunas
> centenas de d?lares por lengua y sala de conferencia (probablemente
> 200 d?lares US para la renta de una computadora y una contribuci?n al
> precio de las conexiones, aunque ese precio ser? muy inferior si el
> traductor tra? su propia mini-computadora capaz de trabajar con
> linux).
>
> Si ustedes est?n interesados, es necesario inscribirse r?pidamente a
> wsf_stream@ras.eu.org indicando :
>
> -- la lengua que desean traducir ;
>
> -- el n?mero de " canales " que desean utilizar ; un " canal "
> corresponde a una sala donde la traducci?n se efect?a, aunque puede
> pensarse, bajo reserva de un poco de tiempo, pasar de una sala a otra
> ;
>
> -- el n?mero de traductores que se encargar?n de ese trabajo.
>
> 2) La segunda proposici?n consiste en instalar sitios espejo retomando
> la difusi?n de las conferencias traducidas para despu?s archivarlas.
> Como saben, el streaming audio consume un gran espacio de la banda
> trasmisora. Entonces, hemos imaginado mutualizar esta limitaci?n
> estableciendo un sistema de espejos diversos (mirroring). Cada sitio
> que quiera difundir el contenido de los debates en una o varias
> lenguas, podr? recuperar directalente el flujo del servidor que vamos
> a intalar y difundirlo a los internautas.
>
> Los sitios espejo estar?n naturalmente indexados sobre el sitio
> www.wsfindia.org <file://www.wsfindia.org> . Si est?n interesad@s para
> que su sitio sea un espejo reproductor del FSM, gracias por llenar el
> formulario adjunto y enviarlo a : wsf_stream@ras.eu.org
>
> Nombre de su organizaci?n :
>
> Pa?s :
>
> Lenguas practicadas en su sitio internet :
>
> ?Estar?n ustedes en India en el FSM?    S?              NO
>
> Nombre y apellidos del contacto t?cnico :
>
> e-mail :
>
> Tel :
>
> URL de su sitio . ?Ya disponen de un servidor de streaming? , ?cuentan
> con un streaming?, ?cu?l es la banda de circulaci?n de la que
> disponen? :
>
> 3) La tercera proposici?n consiste en proponerles  se asocien al
> perfeccionamiento del NIFT. Este programa estar? disponible a partir
> del 2 de enero  sobre el sitio siguiente
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/targ/
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/targ/> . Estamos muy interesados en
> todos sus comentarios, proposiciones de nuevas funciones o cualquier
> ayuda para evitar los errores.
>
> Solidariamente
>
> NIFT
>
>
>
> -----------------------
>
> FORUM SOCIAL MONDIAL DE MUMBAI
>
> UN NOUVEAU SYSTEME DE NUMERISATION DE LA TRADUCTION
>
> Lors du prochain Forum social mondial qui se d?roulera ? Mumbai en
> Inde du 16 au 21 janvier prochain, un nouveau syst?me de traduction
> sera mis en place. Les interpr?tes seront b?n?voles : c'est Babels qui
> assurera cette fonction, comme cela a ?t? fait avec succ?s pendant le
> Forum social europ?en de Paris St Denis. Et, pour la premi?re fois,
> nous nous affranchirons des appareils que nous louons ? des prix
> exorbitants gr?ce ? la combinaison d'?metteurs et de r?cepteurs FM
> (pour les langues indiennes, qui concernent un grand nombre de
> locuteurs) et d'un syst?me de num?risation des traductions gr?ce ? des
> micro-ordinateurs. Ce syst?me que nous avons baptis? NIFT (Nomad
> Interpreting Free Tools) utilise de simples ordinateurs qui seront
> l'interface entre l'orateur, les traducteurs et la salle. NIFT est le
> r?sultat d'un travail commun de diff?rents groupes, comme APO33 et
> Babels, avec des militants du logiciel libre de diff?rents pays. C'est
> un chantier ouvert ? celles et ceux qui voudraient s'y joindre.
>
> NIFT permet tout ? la fois de diminuer les co?ts, de diffuser sur
> Internet le contenu des conf?rences et d?bats et cela dans toutes les
> langues traduites par le biais du streaming audio et, enfin,
> d'archiver et d'indexer - par orateur - le contenu de ces conf?rences
> et d?bats sur diff?rents supports (sites Web, CD, DVD, etc.)
>
> Nous avons aujourd'hui trois propositions de natures diff?rentes ?
> faire.
>
> L'une consiste ? offrir la possibilit? de traduire dans des langues
> qui ne sont pas pr?vues ? Mumbai pour les diffuser sur Internet et
> pouvoir r?utiliser le contenu ainsi traduit sur diff?rents supports.
>
> La deuxi?me consiste ? vous proposer de mettre ? dispositions vos
> sites pour en faire des sites miroirs pour la diffusion, sur Internet,
> des conf?rences et d?bats pendant le FSM.
>
> La troisi?me consiste ? vous proposer de vous associer ? la mise au
> point de NIFT, qui est d?velopp? en logiciel libre sous licence GNU.
>
> 1/ - La premi?re consiste ? proposer ? ceux qui voudraient traduire
> des d?bats du FSM dans une langue qui ne sera pas pr?vue ? Mumbai (les
> langues 'officielles' seront l'Hindi, l'Anglais, le Marathi, le
> Castillan, le Fran?ais, le Japonais, le Cor?en et le Tha?) de pouvoir
> le faire, en diffusant le contenu dans leur langue sur Internet et en
> pouvant l'archiver sur le support de leur choix (site Web, CD, DVD,
> etc.). Pour cela il faut que les organisations ou institutions
> int?ress?es fournisse le ou les traducteurs sur place et  pr?voient
> une participation aux frais qui ne d?passera quelques centaines d'US$
> par langue et salle de conf?rence (probablement 200 US$ pour la
> location d'un ordinateur et une contribution au prix des liaisons,
> mais ce prix sera bien inf?rieur si le traducteur a son propre
> ordinateur portable pouvant travailler sous linux).
>
> Si vous ?tes int?ress?s, il faut vous inscrire tr?s vite ?
> wsf_stream@ras.eu.org en indiquant :
>
> - la langue que vous souhaitez traduire,
>
> - le nombre de "canaux" que vous souhaitez utiliser ; un "canal"
> correspond ? une salle o? la traduction est effectu?e, mais il est
> envisageable, sous r?serve d'un petit d?lai, de passer d'une salle ?
> une autre ;
>
> - le nombre de traducteurs qui se chargeront de ce travail.
>
> 2/ - La deuxi?me proposition consiste ? installer des sites miroirs
> relayant la diffusion des conf?rences traduites  puis en les
> archivant. Comme vous le savez le streaming audio consomme beaucoup de
> bande passante. Nous avons donc imagin? mutualiser cette contrainte en
> mettant en place un syst?me de mirroring. Chaque site voulant diffuser
> le contenu des d?bats dans une ou plusieurs langues, pourra r?cup?rer
> le flux directement du serveur source que nous allons mettre en place
> et le diffuser aux internautes.
>
> Les sites miroirs seront naturellement index?s sur le site
> www.wsfindia.org <file://www.wsfindia.org> .
>
> Si vous ?tes int?ress?-e-s pour que votre site devienne un stream
> miroir du FSM, merci de remplir ce formulaire et de le renvoyer ? :
> wsf_stream@ras.eu.org
>
> Nom de votre organisation :
>
> Pays :
>
> Langues pratiqu?s sur votre site :
>
> Seriez vous en inde pour le WSF :
>
> Nom et pr?nom du contact technique :
>
> Email :
>
> Tel :
>
> URL de votre site : disposez vous d?j? d'un serveur de streaming,
> avez-vous fait d?j? du streaming, bande passante dont vous disposerez
> :
>
> 3/ - La troisi?me proposition consiste ? vous proposer de vous
> associer ? la mise au point de NIFT. Ce logiciel sera disponible ?
> partir du 2 janvier sur le site suivant
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/targ/
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/targ/> . Nous sommes int?ress?s ?
> tous commentaires, propositions de nouvelles fonctions ou aides ?
> chasser les bugs?
>
>
> Amiti?s Solidaires
>
> NIFT


From ecarll at optonline.net  Mon Jan  5 17:05:38 2004
From: ecarll at optonline.net (Elizabeth Carll, PhD)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
In-Reply-To: <20040105100114.27933.qmail@web60702.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAGEPJGHAA.ecarll@optonline.net>

Djilali,

Welcome to the Health and ITC WG or Caucus.  WE will determine final name
shortly as I have just read Amali's comment and she raises an interesting
point.

I will send some information directly to you.

Best regards,

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net

-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of djilali benamrane
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:01 AM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and
Caucus


OK, Elizabeth, i do agree with your relevant
proposal... I shall see if there is other colleagues
from BPEM/Santi who would like to attend your Health
and ITC WG or Caucus. In fact have already choice the
label ?
Friendly
Djilali
--- "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net>
wrote:
> Dear Djilali,
>
> Thank you for your interest in the Health and ICT
> Working Group.  We would
> be most happy to have you join, however, as we are
> just starting up, we do
> not as of yet have someone who is fluent in French
> and would be able to
> translate.  I would suggest if it is not too
> laborious for you to
> communicate in English, to join and, hopefully, in
> the near future we will
> have members who are bilingual in French/English to
> help translate any
> documents and written material from those who are
> not fluent in English.   I
> had no difficulty understanding your post.
> Therefore this is something for
> you to perhaps consider.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Elizabeth
>
> Dr. Elizabeth Carll
> Focal Point
> International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
> Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
> NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
> Tel: 1-631-754-2424
> Fax: 1-631-754-5032
> ecarll@optonline.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
> [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
> Behalf Of djilali benamrane
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 12:43 PM
> To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between
> Working Group and
> Caucus
>
>
> Dear Elizabeth,
> Congratulation for your initiative and hope you will
> be ready with relevant proposals for the Tinis'
> Summit.
> If your discussion Group Working Group or Caucus
> will
> accpet contribution in French, i shall be very happy
> to participate in regard with Health and
> public/private approach. I am member of an
> Association
> Biens Publics ` l'Echelle Mondiale (World Public
> Common Goods)which application to the Health sector
> (science, training, medecines, druggs, access to
> health structures etc...)
> All the best
> Djilali
> --- "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net>
> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > As some of you may be aware,  I have started a
> > Working Group on Health
> > (Mental and Physical) and ICT and invite those
> with
> > interest in the area of
> > health to join.
> >
> > There has been some discussion as to the
> difference
> > between a Working Group
> > and Caucus and there does not seem to be any clear
> > information as to the
> > differences.  Perhaps those who have formed either
> > or who would know the
> > differences, particularly with regard to
> procedures
> > for forming and function
> > of the group, please share the information on the
> > listserv.  I would think
> > others interested in forming new groups would also
> > find the information
> > helpful.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Dr. Elizabeth Carll
> > Focal Point
> > International Society for Traumatic Stress
> Studies;
> > Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
> > NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
> > Tel: 1-631-754-2424
> > Fax: 1-631-754-5032
> > ecarll@optonline.net
> >
> >
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From ecarll at optonline.net  Mon Jan  5 17:14:24 2004
From: ecarll at optonline.net (Elizabeth Carll, PhD)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and
 Caucus-semantics
In-Reply-To: <20040105045245.58552.qmail@web21325.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDACEPKGHAA.ecarll@optonline.net>

Thanks for the information Amali,

You raise an interesting point as one would assume that either a WG or
Caucus would be involved in policy decision making with regard to a
particular problem or interest area.  Your point related directly to my
question as to differences between the two areas in relation to
organizational structure within the CS.  Certainly we would want to be
involved in policy with regard to health issues.  Something to consider if
there is such a distinction within CS.

Best regards,

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net

  -----Original Message-----
  From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of Amali De Silva
  Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:53 PM
  To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
  Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and
Caucus-semantics


  A quick note - if this is of help:

  Working group - a group of people appointed to study a particular problem
or advise on some question.

  Caucus - A meeting ( a group ) of members of  WSIS - Civil Society
convened to decide on policy.

  ( with the kind assistance of the Oxford dictionary ! )

  Amali De Silva - Mitchell ( Vancouver Community Network )
  Co-coordinator North American Caucus


  "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net> wrote:
    Dear Rik,

    Thank you for the background information and your comments. It would
seem
    to make sense for us to call ourselves the Health and ICT working group
    rather than a caucus based on the general distinction you drew between
WGs
    as issue focused and caucuses as representing a sector or sub-group
within
    civil society. However, I can see that the difference is not always so
    clear as the Human Rights Caucus would seem issue focused and the Media
    Caucus could be both.

    Are there any differences as to organizational structure?

    Elizabeth

    Dr. Elizabeth Carll
    Focal Point
    International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
    Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
    NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
    Tel: 1-631-754-2424
    Fax: 1-631-754-5032
    ecarll@optonline.net

    -----Original Message-----
    From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.o rg [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
    Behalf Of rikp@bluewin.ch
    Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 4:46 PM
    To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
    Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and
    Caucus


    Elizabeth, et al,

    I think the distinction is somewhat semantic and not particularly
important.

    In my mind, a caucus is USUALLY composed of a certain sector or
sub-group
    within civil society, i.e. the women's caucus, Indigenous Peoples
Caucus,
    the youth caucus, the trade union caucus. Whereas a working group is a
set
    of organizations working together on a particular ISSUE. I.e. the
    scientific
    information working group; Patents, Copyright and Trademarks WG;
Environment
    and ICTs WG.

    In short, a caucus is a group of organizations united by common
identity,
    and a working group is a group or organizations united by common issue
or
    purpose. These are often interchangeable, i.e. an educators caucus
versus
    an educ ation working group. and there are of course lots of exceptions
to
    this.

    But that is my understanding of the distinction.

    In terms of a "Working Group on Health", I think that working group is
the
    best term rather than a caucus. Unless you would like to be "health care
    workers caucus."

    I hope that helps a little.

    -- Rik Panganiban



    By the way, I vote for not including the "(mental and physical)"
addition
    to the name of the working group. I think this should just be clarified
    in a mission statement of the group.


    >-- Original Message --
    >From: "Elizabeth Carll, PhD"
    >To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
    >Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
    >Reply-To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
    >Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:20:41 -0500
    >
    >
    >Dear All,
    >
    >As some of you may be aware, I have started a Working Group on Health
    >(Mental and Physical) and ICT and invite those with interest in the
area
    >of
    >health to join.
    >
    >There has been some discussion as to the difference between a Working
Group
    >and Caucus and there does not seem to be any clear information as to
the
    >differences. Perhaps those who have formed either or who would know the
    >differences, particularly with regard to procedures for forming and
    function
    >of the group, please share the information on the listserv. I would
think
    >others interested in forming new groups would also find the information
    >helpful.
    >
    >Best regards,
    >
    >Dr. Elizabeth Carll
    >Focal Point
    >International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
    >Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
    >NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
    >Tel: 1-631-754-2424
    >Fax: 1-631-754-5032
    >ecarll@optonline.net
    >
    >
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From amalidesilva at yahoo.com  Mon Jan  5 18:37:05 2004
From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus-semantics
In-Reply-To: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDACEPKGHAA.ecarll@optonline.net>
Message-ID: <20040105183705.54456.qmail@web21321.mail.yahoo.com>

Elisabeth,
 
I agree with you . It would be interesting to get some clarification on this point, vis-a-vis CS / UN systems - anyone ?
 
Amali

"Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net> wrote:
Thanks for the information Amali,
 
You raise an interesting point as one would assume that either a WG or Caucus would be involved in policy decision making with regard to a particular problem or interest area.  Your point related directly to my question as to differences between the two areas in relation to organizational structure within the CS.  Certainly we would want to be involved in policy with regard to health issues.  Something to consider if there is such a distinction within CS.
 
Best regards,
 
Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net

-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On Behalf Of Amali De Silva
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:53 PM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus-semantics


A quick note - if this is of help:
 
Working group - a group of people appointed to study a particular problem or advise on some question.
 
Caucus - A meeting ( a group ) of members of  WSIS - Civil Society convened to decide on policy.
 
( with the kind assistance of the Oxford dictionary ! )
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell ( Vancouver Community Network )
Co-coordinator North American Caucus


"Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net> wrote:
Dear Rik,

Thank you for the background information and your comments. It would seem
to make sense for us to call ourselves the Health and ICT working group
rather than a caucus based on the general distinction you drew between WGs
as issue focused and caucuses as representing a sector or sub-group within
civil society. However, I can see that the difference is not always so
clear as the Human Rights Caucus would seem issue focused and the Media
Caucus could be both.

Are there any differences as to organizational structure?

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net

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Elizabeth, et al,

I think the distinction is somewhat semantic and not particularly important.

In my mind, a caucus is USUALLY composed of a certain sector or sub-group
within civil society, i.e. the women's caucus, Indigenous Peoples Caucus,
the youth caucus, the trade union caucus. Whereas a working group is a set
of organizations working together on a particular ISSUE. I.e. the
scientific
information working group; Patents, Copyright and Trademarks WG; Environment
and ICTs WG.

In short, a caucus is a group of organizations united by common identity,
and a working group is a group or organizations united by common issue or
purpose. These are often interchangeable, i.e. an educators caucus versus
an educ ation working group. and there are of course lots of exceptions to
this.

But that is my understanding of the distinction.

In terms of a "Working Group on Health", I think that working group is the
best term rather than a caucus. Unless you would like to be "health care
workers caucus."

I hope that helps a little.

-- Rik Panganiban



By the way, I vote for not including the "(mental and physical)" addition
to the name of the working group. I think this should just be clarified
in a mission statement of the group.


>-- Original Message --
>From: "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" 
>To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
>Reply-To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:20:41 -0500
>
>
>Dear All,
>
>As some of you may be aware, I have started a Working Group on Health
>(Mental and Physical) and ICT and invite those with interest in the area
>of
>health to join.
>
>There has been some discussion as to the difference between a Working Group
>and Caucus and there does not seem to be any clear information as to the
>differences. Perhaps those who have formed either or who would know the
>differences, particularly with regard to procedures for forming and
function
>of the group, please share the information on the listserv. I would think
>others interested in forming new groups would also find the information
>helpful.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Dr. Elizabeth Carll
>Focal Point
>International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
>Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
>NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
>Tel: 1-631-754-2424
>Fax: 1-631-754-5032
>ecarll@optonline.net
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I think this is a quite important development. The CCD seems to be 
catching fire with new countries joining every few months. We should 
make efforts to support the Convention on Cultural Diversity and any 
other mechanisms to keep culture (which includes media sectors) out of 
so-called free trade agreements.

sc

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CCD Coalition Currents 5th issue - Dec 2003
CCD
Date 26.Dec.2003
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Highlights:

.As UNESCO Starts Work on the Cultural Diversity Convention, the 
Challenge Will be to Hold the Line on Culture in Trade Talks

.Breaking News: Four Central American Countries Reach Tentative Free 
Trade Deal With U.S.; Large-Scale Liberation Commitments Seen for 
Cultural Sector

.Australia: Mobilizing to Meet the Challenge to Culture in FTA

.Korea?s Screen Quota Remains in the Cross-Hairs of Investment Treaty 
Talks With U.S.

.Organizations of professionals from the Moroccan cultural milieu poised 
to form a coalition for cultural diversity to demand culture be excluded 
from the United States-Morocco free trade agreement

.Creation in Burkina Faso of the 10th coalition for cultural diversity

.Towards the Convention on Cultural Diversity: UNESCO Director General 
Convenes First Meeting of Experts Committee

.Culture Ministers Network Continues Work In Support of Convention on 
Cultural Diversity with December Meeting in Paris

.La Francophonie Secretary General Abdou Diouf meets with delegation of 
representatives of coalitions for cultural diversity

.Coalition Representatives Take Part in Guadalajara Conference on 
Cultural Diversity

.Brazilian Cinema Sector Turns Its Attention to the Cultural Diversity 
Movement; Supports Convention on Cultural Diversity at UNESCO

.Franco-German roundtable on cultural diversity - Sarrebruck, November 
20 and 21, 2003

.The Dakar International Book Fair Unfolds Under the Theme of Cultural 
Diversity - Representatives of the Senegalese, Chilean and Canadian 
Coalitions Take Part



* Vol. 1, No. 5, December 2003

As UNESCO Starts Work on the Cultural Diversity Convention, the 
Challenge Will be to Hold the Line
on Culture in Trade Talks

In this final issue of Coalition Currents for 2003, we shift our 
attention back to one of the major threats to cultural 
diversity&#8212;the growing pressure on countries to give in during 
trade negotiations and give up their right to have cultural policies.

UNESCO?s decision this past October to take on the development of an 
international convention on cultural diversity was a major victory for 
the cultural diversity movement. The UNESCO decision holds out hope that 
within two years a genuine international convention&#8212;a 
treaty&#8212;could be developed and adopted that would serve as a 
counterweight to international trade agreements by providing a legal 
foundation in international law for the sovereign right of countries to 
develop, implement and maintain their own cultural policies.

In the months ahead there will be much work for organizations 
representing cultural professionals in countries around the world to 
ensure their country supports the convention&#8212;and to push to ensure 
that the end result is a true convention equal in weight to trade 
agreements such as the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

But while the treaty is being developed it will be critical that the 
organizations representing artists and all cultural professionals 
mobilize to ensure that the battle is not lost in the meantime at the 
trade bargaining table.

Because it is clear that in pursuit of its ultimate goal of achieving a 
completely liberalized cultural sector&#8212;of having cultural goods 
and services treated in exactly the same way as lumber, or auto 
parts&#8212;the United States has been following a clear strategy of 
proliferating bilateral and smaller-scale regional trade or investment 
negotiations.

In all, the United States has such trade talks underway or announced 
with more than 20 countries.

In the past year, the United States has concluded agreements with Chile 
and Singapore, and has reached the late stages of negotiations for Free 
Trade Agreements (FTA) with Australia, Morocco and the Central America 
Free Trade Area (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and 
Nicaragua), and for a Bilateral Investment Treaty with Korea. FTA 
negotiations are also in advanced stages with the Southern African 
Customs Union (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland).

In light of the WTO Doha Round impasse at Cancun in September and the 
negligible progress in the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations, 
the U.S. has responded by increasing its emphasis on bilateral agreements.

On November 18, the U.S. announced talksfor bilateral FTAs with the 
Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, followed three 
days later by the announcement of plans for a Bilateral Investment 
Treaty with Uruguay. Intentions to undertake an FTA with Thailand and 
Bahrain have also been announced.

With the ?entertainment? sector of film, television, books and music 
being the single largest exporter in its economy, the United States 
views cultural production in strictly economic terms. Accordingly, it is 
aggressively seeking to conclude agreements in which its trading 
partners accede to demands that the sector be liberalized&#8212;meaning 
they forego the right to have culture policies designed to ensure a 
space for domestic production, including measures to support the 
development of national cultural industries.

This is a battle to see that countries do not mortgage their future by 
giving up the right to introduce new cultural policies or adjust 
existing ones in response to changing circumstances. Protecting this 
capacity to introduce new policies in the future is a critical issue for 
all countries, but in particular for developing countries which in many 
cases do not yet have a comprehensive set of cultural policies in place 
but aspire to do so.

With the WTO talks all but stalled, the clear objective of the U.S. is 
to establish enough bilateral precedents&#8212;10, 15 or more&#8212;in 
which countries agree to liberalize their cultural sectors, and then 
attempt to impose this model as a fait accompli when broader WTO talks 
and larger regional negotiations eventually resume.

For this reason, each bilateral negotiation takes on relevance as a 
potential precedent other countries will have to contend with at the 
bargaining table. With this in mind, in the articles that follow we look 
at three negotiations entering the home stretch, how culture has come 
under pressure in these talks, and what the organizations representing 
artists and other cultural professionals in each country have been doing 
to meet this challenge.

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Breaking News: Four Central American Countries Reach
Tentative Free Trade Deal With U.S.; Large-Scale
Liberation Commitments Seen for Cultural Sector

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua appear to have made 
significant liberalization commitments pertaining to the audiovisual 
sector and new digital media in Free Trade Agreement tentatively reached 
with the United States on December 17.

A United States Trade Representative news release stated that the 
"Central American countries will accord substantial market access across 
their entire services regime, offering new access in sectors such as 
telecommunications (?) audiovisual and entertainment."

With respect to digital media, the USTR said that "non-discriminatory 
treatment" will be provided for digital products such as music, text and
videos.

Full details of the tentative agreement, which will have to be formally 
ratified by the legislatures of the signatory countries, were not yet 
available.

Five countries originally began the regional negotiation with the United 
States. Costa Rica was the only country to stand back from the deal for 
the time being.

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Australia: Mobilizing to Meet the Challenge
to Culture in FTA

When the 2003 AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards were televised on 
national television this past November, actors and filmmakers 
&#8211;from Toni Collette (Japanese Story, Muriel?s Wedding) to director 
George Miller (Babe, Mad Max) to Geoffrey Rush (Shine)&#8212;took the 
opportunity to warn Australians about the negative consequences if their 
government gives up its right to have cultural policies during its 
current round of trade talks.

"I think we?re heading for a disaster. I think we?ll look back on in 10 
years and say my God, how could we have been so gullible", said George 
Miller.

Best actor winner David Winham told the audience that he felt "extremely 
privileged to accept this award for playing a character with an 
Australian accent, in an Australian setting, in an Australian film. And 
I do hope, I do hope Australian culture has been championed in the 
current negotiations with the U.S., so that our voices, our characters, 
and our unique stories will continue to be heard and seen on screens 
large and small for all generations to come. And the only way that 
that?s going to be achieved is if culture, culture, the thing that 
defines us as being Australians is taken off the negotiation table."

The orchestration of a televised awards evening as a platform for 
getting the word out about risk to culture from the trade negotiations 
was simply the most publicly visible element of a broad-based campaign 
that was put in motion a year ago when 17 organizations representing 
artists and cultural professionals from all major sectors of Australian 
culture&#8212;books, music, theatre, film, television and new 
media&#8212;joined together to establish the Australian Coalition for 
Cultural Diversity (ACCD).

The mobilization of Australia?s cultural sector to establish the ACCD 
and to undertake a campaign to defend their country?s right to maintain 
cultural policies began almost exactly a year ago at almost the precise 
moment talks were launched between Australia and the United States for a 
Free Trade Agreement.

Faced with a government seemingly single-minded in its desire to secure 
greater access to the American market for its agricultural products and 
in the process prepared to contemplate concessions on culture--in 
particular, prepared to entertain "standstill" commitments whereby it 
would renounce its prerogative to introduce policies covering new media 
of the future&#8212;the member organizations of the ACCD have carried 
out an exemplary campaign to build political, media and public awareness 
and support for the position that culture should be exempted outright 
from the FTA. Their campaign has included:

Regular meetings with the Australia?s trade negotiators as well as with 
officials in the country?s trade and culture ministries.

Presentations and written briefs to Senate committees and other 
legislative bodies reviewing the Australian position in the negotiations

Presentations and written briefs to Senate committees and other 
legislative bodies reviewing the Australian position in the negotiations

Letters to and meetings with members of Parliament, opposition leaders 
and key figures in the Australian government including Trade Minister 
Mark Vaile and Prime Minister John Howard.

Membership communication campaigns designed to make individual artists 
and cultural professionals aware of the issues and to mobilize them to 
raise the issue with their local politicians and media.

Media communications drawing on the profile of respected artists such as 
actors Brian Brown and Geoffrey Rush and director Gillian Armstrong to 
build broad public awareness regarding what is at stake in the trade 
negotiations.

Initiatives to obtain support from cultural professionals around the 
world, including declarations obtained from the international 
affiliations representing directors and screenwriters, as well as 
individual letters of support from actors, writers and broad coalitions 
of artists and cultural professionals from Canada, Chile, the United 
Kingdom and many other countries around the world.
At the time of this writing, the talks had not yet been concluded and 
the final outcome for culture remains unclear. While the talks had been 
placed on a fast track negotiators for the two countries were unable to 
meet their objective of concluding an agreement during talks in early 
December. As a result, an additional round of talks has been scheduled 
for mid-January in Washington.

As with several other bilateral negotiations involving the United 
States, the longer the talks continue the greater the likelihood they 
could get caught up in the run-up to the U.S. elections next fall and 
postponed until 2005 as a result.

In the meantime, Australia?s cultural organizations remain on high 
alert, hoping they will ultimately be successful in persuading the 
Howard government of the importance of preserving Australia's capacity 
to adjust or introduce new cultural policies in the future to ensure 
there is a domestic space for Australian stories. Victory is by no means 
assured, by there is no denying that they have succeeded in placing the 
issue of cultural policies front and center in public, media and 
political discussions concerning the FTA. Only a few months into the 
campaign, a poll found that more than 70% of Australians would oppose 
the FTA if it meant that fewer Australian films and televisions programs 
were seen on their screens.

For more information on the ACCD campaign (and to access communications 
materials they have prepared), consult the following websites of three 
coalition member organizations:

- Australian Writers' Guild
- The Australian Society of Authors
- The Australian Screen Directors Association

Alternatively, go to Google News Australia and once connected to this 
site do a search using the keywords Australia U.S. Free Trade Agreement.

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Korea?s Screen Quota Remains in the Cross-Hairs
of Investment Treaty Talks With U.S.

Will Korea be able to resist pressure from the United States to commit 
to cutting its screen quota for domestic films? This question remains 
unanswered and while statements by President of Korea indicate there 
will be no immediate unilateral change, the Korean cultural film 
community is treating the latest debate as the most serious threat yet 
to the quota.

American insistence that Korea cut and ultimately eliminate its 40% 
screen quota for domestic films has been a major stumbling block to the 
two countries concluding a Bilateral Investment Treaty&#8212;a 
negotiation that has been underway since 1998 and which Korea has sought 
to revitalize its ailing economy by laying the groundwork for a Free 
Trade Agreement with the U.S.

In recent months, American negotiators and government officials have 
stepped up the pressure on Korea to seriously scale back or eliminate 
the quota outright, and public statements in late October by an advisor 
to President Moo Hyun Roh that the government was prepared to consider 
easing the quota triggered alarm within Korea?s cultural sector.

On November 19, representatives of the Korean film community met with 
President Roh for three hours to urge him to retain the quota. President 
Roh reportedly expressed his
belief that the film industry could achieve sustainable development 
without depending on the quota but stated that if the film industry 
strongly opposed changes then these would not be imposed unilaterally.

With Korea?s Centre for Diversity in Moving Images front and centre, the 
major organizations representing the Korean film community have moved to 
join the broader alliance of the "Committee Preventing Korea-U.S. BIT 
and to Protect Screen Quota" and are cooperating with civil groups from 
other sectors for joint activities.

The Committee has also sought to engage representatives of the Motion 
Picture Association of America in a discussion regarding the quota, and 
why it is so important to the Korean film industry, but the MPAA has 
consistently declined such overtures.

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Organizations of professionals from the Moroccan cultural milieu poised 
to form a coalition for cultural diversity to demand culture be excluded 
from the United States-Morocco free trade agreement

With free trade negotiations between the United States and Morocco 
nearing an end, the leading professional organizations from all cultural 
sectors were calling for an emergency meeting to be held during the week 
of December 15th.

At the top of this meeting's agenda was to be the creation of a Moroccan 
Coalition for Cultural Diversity, whose main mission would be to launch 
a major campaign calling for the exclusion of culture from the terms of 
the U.S.-Morocco trade deal, so as to ensure the preservation of 
Morocco's fundamental right to maintain its existing cultural policies 
and implement new policies that may prove necessary in the future.

The meeting was to include the directors of the following associations: 
the Groupement des auteurs, r&eacute;alisateurs et producteurs, the 
Syndicat national des professionnels du th&eacute;&acirc;tre, the Union 
des &eacute;crivains du Maroc, the Syndicat libre des musiciens 
marocains, the Syndicat national des artistes peintres et plasticiens, 
the Association marocaine des professionnels du livre, the Chambre 
marocaine des producteurs de films and the Association des 
r&eacute;alisateurs de la t&eacute;l&eacute;vision marocaine.

The negotiation of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Morocco and the 
United States was launched last January and normally should have wrapped 
up with the sixth round of talks held in Washington this past December 
1st to 8th. However, the Moroccan press report that it became clear by 
the conclusion of the sixth round that there still remained a number of 
differences of opinion between the Moroccan and U.S. negotiators, 
particularly on issues concerning agriculture and generic drugs. It 
appeared inevitable that a seventh round of negotiations will be held in 
January 2004 to settle these matters.

The professional organizations within the Moroccan Coalition plan to use 
this delay to implement a two-pronged action plan: first, to hold a 
series of meetings with political officials to obtain more information 
on the status of culture in the ongoing negotiations while expressing 
the position of professionals from the milieu that culture must be 
excluded from the deal; and, second, to carry out a media awareness 
campaign.

The professional organizations are hoping to meet with Communication 
Minister Nabil Benabdallah and Cultural Affairs Minister Mohammed 
Achaari, as well as with the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and 
Co-operation, Ta&iuml;eb Fassi Fihri, who heads Morocco's negotiating team.

During a visit to Casablanca from December 11th to 13th, Robert Pilon, 
Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Coalition for Cultural 
Diversity, met with several of the directors of the Moroccan 
professional organizations and assured them of the full support of the 
International Liaison Committee of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity in 
their fight.

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Creation in Burkina Faso of the 10th coalition
for cultural diversity

More than 20 organizations representing professionals from all of the 
cultural sectors in Burkina Faso gathered in Ouagadougo December 1st and 
2nd to found the Burkinabe Coalition for Cultural Diversity.

The Burkinabe Coalition is the 10th such coalition of professional 
organizations from the cultural milieu to be established world-wide, and 
the second in Africa. It joins Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, 
France, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand and Senegal on the International 
Liaison Committee of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity.

The official founding of the Burkinabe Coalition took place during the 
"Information workshop and establishment of a national coalition for 
cultural diversity", attended by nearly 100 representatives of 
professional associations from the cultural milieu and the government 
agencies concerned. The founding members of the coalition include the 
Association des Editeurs du Faso, the Syndicat national des Artistes 
Musiciens, the Union Nationale des Cin&eacute;astes du Burkina, the 
F&eacute;d&eacute;ration des festivals et Manifestations Culturelles du 
Burkina Faso, the Syndicat National Autonome des Com&eacute;diens du 
Burkina, and the Association Nationale des Professionnels des Arts 
Plastiques.

The professional organizations adopted the statutes of the Burkinabe 
Coalition, which stipulate among other things that the coalition is an 
association of organizations (of legal entities and not individuals) 
representing all categories of professionals (authors, artists, 
producers, promoters, broadcasters, distributors, etc.) from every 
cultural sector in Burkina Faso (music, visual and living arts, 
cinematography, audio-visual, cybernetics, literature, festivals and 
cultural events, etc.).

The Coalition's statutes also set out the following international 
objectives: "To affirm the right of States to take the necessary 
measures to safeguard and promote their culture; to refuse that cultural 
products be treated as mere commodities; to mobilize support for the 
adoption of the International Convention on Cultural Diversity by 
UNESCO; (?) to work to ensure that bilateral and multilateral cultural 
co-operation agreements take into account the specific needs of 
developing countries, particularly as concerns strengthening human, 
technical and financial capacity."

The organizations present at the workshop also elected the members of 
the Coalition's Executive Committee. Rasman&eacute; Ou&eacute;draogo, 
head of the Syndicat National Autonome des com&eacute;diens du Burkina, 
was elected Chairman of the new Executive. A locally- and 
internationally-recognized film actor, he starred in Burkinabe filmmaker 
Idrissa Ou&eacute;draogo's most recent film, La Col&egrave;re des dieux 
(2003), and served as a member of the jury of the Festival International 
du Film francophone de Namur (Belgium) this past October.

The opening ceremony of this workshop was presided by Burkina Faso's 
Minister of Culture, Arts and Tourism, Mr. Mahamoudou Ou&eacute;draogo. 
In his speech, Minister Ou&eacute;draogo affirmed that "every State has 
the right and the duty to implement the cultural policy of its choice, 
without external constraints and in the full respect of human rights and 
freedom of expression." (our translation) He noted his active 
involvement in the International Network on Cultural Policy (a network 
that brings together more than 50 ministers of culture from around the 
world) and his country's support of the International Convention on 
Cultural Diversity in the process of being developed at UNESCO.

Robert Pilon, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Coalition for 
Cultural Diversity, was invited as a representative of the International 
Liaison Committee of coalitions to deliver a talk on "Cultural 
Diversity: battlegrounds, stakes and actions to be taken". He informed 
the participants of the latest developments concerning the draft 
convention at UNESCO and ongoing trade negotiations, and stressed the 
inherent danger of allowing culture to be included in bilateral trade 
agreements. Robert Pilon was also able to meet with the minister of 
Culture, Mahamoudou Ou&eacute;draogo.

Burkina Faso, a key West-African country with more than 12 million 
inhabitants, will play host to the next Summit of Heads of State and of 
Government of La Francophonie from November 23-27, 2004.

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Towards the Convention on Cultural Diversity:
UNESCO Director General Convenes First Meeting of Experts Committee

In the wake of the UNESCO General Conference decision mandating him to 
develop a convention on diversity of cultural content and artistic 
expression, Director General Ko&iuml;chiro Matsuura has initiated this 
process by appointing an experts committee that began its work in Paris 
with a four-day meeting starting December 17.

The names of the experts have not been formally announced but the 
committee is believed to number 15 experts from around the world, and 
according to the Montreal daily newspaper
Le Devoir the committee includes professor Ivan Bernier, a Quebec City 
(Canada)-based expert in international law who has been one of the 
leading thinkers in articulating possible legal frameworks for an 
eventual convention.

In opening the experts meeting, Director General Matsuura stated that 
their initial work will concentrate on defining the aims and scope of 
the international convention, as well as exploring its potential 
relationship to other international instruments, including the WTO?s 
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the Agreement on 
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), as well 
as mechanisms for cooperation and international assistance.

In a press release regarding the meeting, Matsuura is quoted as saying 
that the next phase, once authorized by UNESCO?s Executive Board, would 
be "an inter-governmental discussion where all member states would be 
invited to bring their views and participate in the actual drafting of 
the preliminary text of the convention."

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Culture Ministers Network Continues Work In Support
of Convention on Cultural Diversity with December Meeting in Paris

Officials representing 15 member countries of the International Network 
on Cultural Policy (INCP)gathered December 11-12 in Paris to take part 
in an informal meeting of the INCP's Working Group on Cultural Diversity 
and Globalization.

The goal of the meeting was to consider appropriate activities for the 
year ahead consistent with the mandate set out by the culture ministers 
during their annual meeting in Opatija, Croatia, this past 
October--notably as set out in the statement issued by the ministers at 
the conclusion of the meeting.

Characterized as a brainstorming session, the Paris meeting set the 
stage for a more formal meeting set for late January 2004 and hosted in 
Switzerland by the Swiss Ministry of Culture to finalize the 2004 work 
plan leading up to the 7th Annual Ministerial Meeting, to be hosted by 
China next fall.

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La Francophonie Secretary General Abdou Diouf meets
with delegation of representatives
of coalitions for cultural diversity

A delegation of the International Liaison Committee of Coalitions for 
Cultural Diversity consisting of eight representatives of the French, 
Canadian and Senegalese coalitions met with the Secretary General of the 
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Abdou Diouf, at 
the organization's headquarters in Paris on November 26, 2003.

The purpose of the meeting, which proved to be highly fruitful, was to 
discuss the evolution of the culture/international trade issue in the 
wake of last October's decision by the UNESCO General Conference to 
proceed with the development of an international convention on cultural 
diversity.

The OIF, with its 56 French-speaking member nations, has played a 
decisive role in the outstanding progress made in recent years in the 
cultural diversity file. In this regard, it is particularly important to 
note that the final declarations of the last two summits of Francophonie 
heads of state and of government, the first held in Moncton, Canada, in 
September 1999 and the subsequent one in Beirut, Lebanon, in October 
2002, strongly endorsed the creation of a new binding international 
instrument on cultural diversity and issued an urgent call to all member 
states to refrain from making any liberalization commitments on culture 
within the framework of international trade negotiations. The next 
Francophonie Summit will be held in Burkina Faso, in Africa, from 
November 23 to 27, 2004.

Mr. Diouf, who as served as President of Senegal from 1981 to 2000, took 
over as Secretary General of the OIF in 2002. Through his many speeches 
to international forums and his meetings with the political officials of 
OIF member states, Mr. Diouf was instrumental in persuading a large 
number of countries last October to support the resolution to involve 
UNESCO in the development of the convention on cultural diversity.

During his meeting with the Liaison Committee representatives, the 
Secretary General was apprised of the three main priorities they intend 
to pursue between now and the next UNESCO General Conference in fall 
2005: to promote to UNESCO the position of organizations representing 
professionals from the cultural milieu on the content of the future 
convention; to actively work to rally the support, through every 
relevant forum, of the two-thirds majority of UNESCO member states 
needed to adopt the convention; and, finally, to systematically pursue 
efforts to persuade countries engaged in trade negotiations to refrain 
from making any liberalization commitments on culture.

For his part, Secretary General Diouf expressed his pleasure at the fact 
that 10 coalitions for cultural diversity have already been created and 
urged the Liaison Committee representatives to encourage the creation of 
similar coalitions in the greatest possible number of countries. The 
Secretary General also implored the coalitions to be even more vigorous 
in their efforts to promote the position of professionals from the 
cultural milieu with respect to the content of the convention. Lastly, 
he urged them to be especially vigilant regarding liberalization 
commitments on culture in ongoing and upcoming trade negotiations.

France's Comit&eacute; de Vigilance pour la diversit&eacute; culturelle 
was represented by Olivier Carmet, Executive Director of the SACD, 
Gilles Katz of the French producers' union, Jean-Pierre Moreux of 
France's actors' union, Catherine Blache of the national publishers' 
union, and D&eacute;bora Abramowicz, the SADC's Director of 
International Affairs; Canada's Coalition for Cultural Diversity was 
represented by Pierre Curzi, President of l?Union des Artistes and the 
coalition's Co-Chair, and Robert Pilon, Executive Vice-President of the 
Coalition; the Senegalese Coalition for Cultural Diversity was 
represented by its Secretary General, Ndiar Mboup of Senegal's 
Association des m&eacute;tiers de la musique.

For the OIF, Secretary General Abdou Diouf was accompanied by Roger 
Dehaybe, Chief Executive of the Intergovernmental Agency of La 
Francophonie (the main operating agency of the OIF), Catherine Tasca, 
Special State Advisor, as well as Bernard Petterson, Director of Culture 
and Heritage, Patrice Burel, Special Advisor and Christopher Malone, 
Co-operation Advisor in the office of Secretary General Diouf.

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Coalition Representatives Take Part in Guadalajara
Conference on Cultural Diversity

Representatives of coalitions for cultural diversity in Argentina, 
Chile, Mexico and Canada featured prominently in a two-day conference on 
cultural diversity held November 30-December 1 in Guadalajara, Mexico, 
as part of that city?s International Book Fair, the largest in Latin 
America.

The conference was hosted by the book fair and the government of Quebec 
(Quebec was the featured guest at this year?s book fair).

Quebec?s Minister of Culture and Communications, Line Beauchamp, spoke 
at the conference?s closing ceremonies and used the occasion to 
emphasize that it was important "to ask countries engaged in trade 
negotiations to be vigilant and preserve their capacity to intervene in 
support of culture, while we await the adoption of a convention by 
UNESCO by 2005." (our translation)

Coalition representatives taking part in panel discussions on the 
cultural diversity campaign and the role of cultural professional 
organizations in the debate included Gabriel Larrea Richerand of Mexico, 
Julio Raffo of Argentina, Juan Carlos Saez Contreras of Chile, and 
Quebec publisher Gilles Pellerin and Pierre Curzi, co-chair of the 
Coalition for Cultural Diversity (Canada).

In their statements, the coalition representatives emphasized the 
following points:

The importance of securing a strong international convention on cultural 
diversity through UNESCO that is a true convention having a proper 
articulation with other existing international agreements, such as WTO 
trade agreements.

The need for organizations representing artists and all cultural 
professionals to be fully consulted in the process of developing the treaty.

The critical importance that countries refrain from making commitments 
on culture in trade agreements while the convention is being developed.

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Brazilian Cinema Sector Turns Its Attention
to the Cultural Diversity Movement;
Supports Convention on Cultural Diversity at UNESCO

Brazil?s role in the cultural diversity debate was one of the key themes 
of the Fifth Congress of Brazilian Cinema, held in Fortaleza on the 
northern coast of Brazil November30 - December 3.

The Congress, which brings together more than 40 professional 
organizations from Brazil?s cinema industry, is held every two years and 
this year brought together approximately 100 industry professionals 
along with key industry officials and representatives from the country?s 
culture ministry.

On December 1, the Congress held a seminar focused on the process now 
underway to develop a convention on cultural diversity at UNESCO, the 
ongoing pressures on the audiovisual sector arising from trade 
negotiations, and the implications for Brazilian cinema.
Edgard Telles Ribeiro, director of the ministry of external relations?s 
culture directorate, and Leopoldo Nunes, chief of staff for culture 
minister Gilberto Gil, took part in the panel on behalf of the Brazilian 
government. They were joined by Jom Tom Azulay, superintendent of 
strategic planning with the Brazilian state film agency Ancine, Marcio 
Guimaraes of France?s consulate, and independent producer Debora Peters, 
all members of the CBC?s working group on cultural diversity. Jim McKee 
of the Canadian Coalition also took part, speaking on behalf of the 
International Liaison Committee of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity.

Brazil?s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil also spoke during the closing 
ceremonies of the Congress, and reiterated his strong support for the 
cultural diversity movement.

Led by Gil, Brazil was a strong supporter of the convention for cultural 
diversity during the debate on this question during last October?s 
UNESCO General Conference, and by virtue of its position as a leader 
within both South America and the developing world can be expected to 
play a key role in the coming debate.

This is all the more the case given that Brazil is a major producer of 
audiovisual works&#8212;notably of television but recently its cinema 
has been in the ascendancy as well.

In its closing declaration, the CBC emphasized the importance of the 
question in the following terms:

"Considering the necessity of Brasil to align definitively with the 
policy supported by the European Union, the iberoamerican countries and 
others such as Canada, in regards to the defense of Cultural Diversity 
in multilateral commerce forums such as the WTO and the negotiations 
underway for the FTAA, the Fifth Congress of Brazilian Cinema reafirms 
the necessity of actions of the Ministry of Culture together with the 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order for Brazil to consolidate its 
position of abstention of market access offers, as well as of demands 
for opening up of other markets, until the International Treaty on 
Cultural Diversity at UNESCO is concluded, as those countries are 
requesting."

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Franco-German roundtable on cultural diversity
Sarrebruck, November 20 and 21, 2003

On the 40th anniversary of the &Eacute;lys&eacute;e Treaty celebrating 
French and German co-operation, the governments of the two countries 
have decided to work in close conjunction on the development of an 
international convention on cultural diversity within UNESCO. With a 
goal to advancing the joint reflection process, promoting Franco-German 
positions and bringing political representatives and members of the 
civil society in both countries together, the French and German 
governments co-organized a roundtable on cultural diversity on November 
20 and 21, 2003, in Sarrebruck. The event, attended by Christina Weiss, 
the German Minister of State for Culture and the Media, and Jean-Jacques 
Aillagon, French Minister of Culture and Communications, featured three 
thematic workshops:

- Cultural diversity and cultural heritage, chaired by Mounir 
Bouchenaki, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Culture;
- Cultural diversity and European integration, chaired by Nele Hertling, 
President of the Franco-German High Council for Cultural Affairs;
- Cultural diversity and mastering globalization, chaired by Jean 
Musitelli, State Advisor and former permanent delegate of France to UNESCO.

In the presence of the 100 or so participants, rich and fruitful 
discussion extolled Franco-German co-operation in this area. 
Hans-Heinrich Wrede, Germany's permanent delegate to UNESCO and the new 
Chairman of the organization's Executive Board, assured both governments 
that he will closely monitor the development of the convention on 
cultural diversity to ensure that it is ready for adoption by the 
General Conference in 2005.

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The Dakar International Book Fair
Unfolds Under the Theme of Cultural Diversity
- Representatives of the Senegalese,
Chilean and Canadian Coalitions Take Part

The 9th Foire internationale du livre et du mat&eacute;riel didactique 
de Dakar (FILDAK) took place December 4th to 9th under the theme of 
"Literature of Nations and Cultural Diversity".

The official opening of FILDAK, one of Africa's largest book fairs, was 
presided by Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade. Government ministers, 
among them Senegal's Minister of Foreign Affairs Cheik Tijane Gadio and 
Culture Minister Safiatou Ndiaye Diop, chaired a number of the event's 
forums and round tables.

At the invitation of event organizers, three representatives of national 
coalitions for cultural diversity, including Sawalo Ciss&eacute;, 
President of the Senegal Coalition, Paulo Slachevsky, President of the 
Chilean Association of Independent Publishers and of the Chilean 
Coalition, and Robert Pilon, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian 
Coalition, took part in an international round table on December 5th.

Two other representatives of the Senegalese Coalition's member 
associations, Alioune Badara B&egrave;ye, President of the Association 
des Ecrivains s&eacute;n&eacute;galais, and Madieyna Ndiaye, President 
of The Association s&eacute;n&eacute;galaise des Editeurs, participated 
in another round-table discussion on "Publishing, co-publishing and 
distribution".

During his stay in Dakar, Robert Pilon, representing the International 
Liaison Committee of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity, also met with, 
among others, Culture Minister Safiatou Ndiaye Diop, the Minister's 
Technical Advisor Moustapha Tambadou, Abdou Aziz Dieng, President of the 
Association des M&eacute;tiers de la Musique du S&eacute;n&eacute;gal, 
Clarence Delgado of the organization Cin&eacute;astes 
S&eacute;n&eacute;galais associ&eacute;s, and Ndiawar Mboup, Secretary 
General of Senegal's National Coalition for Cultural Diversity, to 
discuss the evolution of the cultural diversity file.

From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Mon Jan  5 20:51:27 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between Working Group and Caucus
In-Reply-To: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAGEPJGHAA.ecarll@optonline.net>
Message-ID: <20040105205127.8094.qmail@web60705.mail.yahoo.com>

Thanks,
Waitting for further information
Best regards
Djilali
--- "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net>
wrote:
> Djilali,
> 
> Welcome to the Health and ITC WG or Caucus.  WE will
> determine final name
> shortly as I have just read Amali's comment and she
> raises an interesting
> point.
> 
> I will send some information directly to you.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
> Dr. Elizabeth Carll
> Focal Point
> International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
> Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
> NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
> Tel: 1-631-754-2424
> Fax: 1-631-754-5032
> ecarll@optonline.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
> [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
> Behalf Of djilali benamrane
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:01 AM
> To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between
> Working Group and
> Caucus
> 
> 
> OK, Elizabeth, i do agree with your relevant
> proposal... I shall see if there is other colleagues
> from BPEM/Santi who would like to attend your Health
> and ITC WG or Caucus. In fact have already choice
> the
> label ?
> Friendly
> Djilali
> --- "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net>
> wrote:
> > Dear Djilali,
> >
> > Thank you for your interest in the Health and ICT
> > Working Group.  We would
> > be most happy to have you join, however, as we are
> > just starting up, we do
> > not as of yet have someone who is fluent in French
> > and would be able to
> > translate.  I would suggest if it is not too
> > laborious for you to
> > communicate in English, to join and, hopefully, in
> > the near future we will
> > have members who are bilingual in French/English
> to
> > help translate any
> > documents and written material from those who are
> > not fluent in English.   I
> > had no difficulty understanding your post.
> > Therefore this is something for
> > you to perhaps consider.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Elizabeth
> >
> > Dr. Elizabeth Carll
> > Focal Point
> > International Society for Traumatic Stress
> Studies;
> > Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
> > NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
> > Tel: 1-631-754-2424
> > Fax: 1-631-754-5032
> > ecarll@optonline.net
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
> > [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
> > Behalf Of djilali benamrane
> > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 12:43 PM
> > To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> > Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Difference between
> > Working Group and
> > Caucus
> >
> >
> > Dear Elizabeth,
> > Congratulation for your initiative and hope you
> will
> > be ready with relevant proposals for the Tinis'
> > Summit.
> > If your discussion Group Working Group or Caucus
> > will
> > accpet contribution in French, i shall be very
> happy
> > to participate in regard with Health and
> > public/private approach. I am member of an
> > Association
> > Biens Publics ` l'Echelle Mondiale (World Public
> > Common Goods)which application to the Health
> sector
> > (science, training, medecines, druggs, access to
> > health structures etc...)
> > All the best
> > Djilali
> > --- "Elizabeth Carll, PhD" <ecarll@optonline.net>
> > wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > As some of you may be aware,  I have started a
> > > Working Group on Health
> > > (Mental and Physical) and ICT and invite those
> > with
> > > interest in the area of
> > > health to join.
> > >
> > > There has been some discussion as to the
> > difference
> > > between a Working Group
> > > and Caucus and there does not seem to be any
> clear
> > > information as to the
> > > differences.  Perhaps those who have formed
> either
> > > or who would know the
> > > differences, particularly with regard to
> > procedures
> > > for forming and function
> > > of the group, please share the information on
> the
> > > listserv.  I would think
> > > others interested in forming new groups would
> also
> > > find the information
> > > helpful.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Dr. Elizabeth Carll
> > > Focal Point
> > > International Society for Traumatic Stress
> > Studies;
> > > Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
> > > NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
> > > Tel: 1-631-754-2424
> > > Fax: 1-631-754-5032
> > > ecarll@optonline.net
> > >
> > >
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From jerodrigue at cantv.net  Mon Jan  5 21:31:41 2004
From: jerodrigue at cantv.net (Jesus Rodriguez Espinoza)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Coalition for Cultural Diversity (CCD)
References: <3FF9B167.70901@riseup.net>
Message-ID: <079d01c3d3d3$4f0e8e20$3fa011ac@mct.gov.ve>

Hello Friends
A wish you the best for this new year and I want to thank on behalf of
Aporrea.org all your help and time during WSIS.
In Venezuela we?ve got lot of experiences in confronting FTA (specially FTAA
or ALCA in Spanish) and a real infowar laboratory (which we suffer and fight
every day since December 2002). The next Monterey Summit will be very
important to present new strategies.
Best regards and be should of our interest in cooperating with all the
initiatives that recognizes the right of minorities to express and to get
heard and those initiatives that underline the sovereignty of nation to
decide what economic or trade model best fit the interest of the majorities.
JRE
www.aporrea.org

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Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:48 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Coalition for Cultural Diversity (CCD)


> I think this is a quite important development. The CCD seems to be
> catching fire with new countries joining every few months. We should
> make efforts to support the Convention on Cultural Diversity and any
> other mechanisms to keep culture (which includes media sectors) out of
> so-called free trade agreements.
>
> sc
>
> ---
> CCD Coalition Currents 5th issue - Dec 2003
> CCD
> Date 26.Dec.2003
> Read 8
> File Attach 2003.12 5th issue.htm 67.3857421875Kb
> Highlights:
>
> .As UNESCO Starts Work on the Cultural Diversity Convention, the
> Challenge Will be to Hold the Line on Culture in Trade Talks
>
> .Breaking News: Four Central American Countries Reach Tentative Free
> Trade Deal With U.S.; Large-Scale Liberation Commitments Seen for
> Cultural Sector
>
> .Australia: Mobilizing to Meet the Challenge to Culture in FTA
>
> .Korea?s Screen Quota Remains in the Cross-Hairs of Investment Treaty
> Talks With U.S.
>
> .Organizations of professionals from the Moroccan cultural milieu poised
> to form a coalition for cultural diversity to demand culture be excluded
> from the United States-Morocco free trade agreement
>
> .Creation in Burkina Faso of the 10th coalition for cultural diversity
>
> .Towards the Convention on Cultural Diversity: UNESCO Director General
> Convenes First Meeting of Experts Committee
>
> .Culture Ministers Network Continues Work In Support of Convention on
> Cultural Diversity with December Meeting in Paris
>
> .La Francophonie Secretary General Abdou Diouf meets with delegation of
> representatives of coalitions for cultural diversity
>
> .Coalition Representatives Take Part in Guadalajara Conference on
> Cultural Diversity
>
> .Brazilian Cinema Sector Turns Its Attention to the Cultural Diversity
> Movement; Supports Convention on Cultural Diversity at UNESCO
>
> .Franco-German roundtable on cultural diversity - Sarrebruck, November
> 20 and 21, 2003
>
> .The Dakar International Book Fair Unfolds Under the Theme of Cultural
> Diversity - Representatives of the Senegalese, Chilean and Canadian
> Coalitions Take Part
>
>
>
> * Vol. 1, No. 5, December 2003
>
> As UNESCO Starts Work on the Cultural Diversity Convention, the
> Challenge Will be to Hold the Line
> on Culture in Trade Talks
>
> In this final issue of Coalition Currents for 2003, we shift our
> attention back to one of the major threats to cultural
> diversity&#8212;the growing pressure on countries to give in during
> trade negotiations and give up their right to have cultural policies.
>
> UNESCO?s decision this past October to take on the development of an
> international convention on cultural diversity was a major victory for
> the cultural diversity movement. The UNESCO decision holds out hope that
> within two years a genuine international convention&#8212;a
> treaty&#8212;could be developed and adopted that would serve as a
> counterweight to international trade agreements by providing a legal
> foundation in international law for the sovereign right of countries to
> develop, implement and maintain their own cultural policies.
>
> In the months ahead there will be much work for organizations
> representing cultural professionals in countries around the world to
> ensure their country supports the convention&#8212;and to push to ensure
> that the end result is a true convention equal in weight to trade
> agreements such as the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
>
> But while the treaty is being developed it will be critical that the
> organizations representing artists and all cultural professionals
> mobilize to ensure that the battle is not lost in the meantime at the
> trade bargaining table.
>
> Because it is clear that in pursuit of its ultimate goal of achieving a
> completely liberalized cultural sector&#8212;of having cultural goods
> and services treated in exactly the same way as lumber, or auto
> parts&#8212;the United States has been following a clear strategy of
> proliferating bilateral and smaller-scale regional trade or investment
> negotiations.
>
> In all, the United States has such trade talks underway or announced
> with more than 20 countries.
>
> In the past year, the United States has concluded agreements with Chile
> and Singapore, and has reached the late stages of negotiations for Free
> Trade Agreements (FTA) with Australia, Morocco and the Central America
> Free Trade Area (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and
> Nicaragua), and for a Bilateral Investment Treaty with Korea. FTA
> negotiations are also in advanced stages with the Southern African
> Customs Union (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland).
>
> In light of the WTO Doha Round impasse at Cancun in September and the
> negligible progress in the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations,
> the U.S. has responded by increasing its emphasis on bilateral agreements.
>
> On November 18, the U.S. announced talksfor bilateral FTAs with the
> Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, followed three
> days later by the announcement of plans for a Bilateral Investment
> Treaty with Uruguay. Intentions to undertake an FTA with Thailand and
> Bahrain have also been announced.
>
> With the ?entertainment? sector of film, television, books and music
> being the single largest exporter in its economy, the United States
> views cultural production in strictly economic terms. Accordingly, it is
> aggressively seeking to conclude agreements in which its trading
> partners accede to demands that the sector be liberalized&#8212;meaning
> they forego the right to have culture policies designed to ensure a
> space for domestic production, including measures to support the
> development of national cultural industries.
>
> This is a battle to see that countries do not mortgage their future by
> giving up the right to introduce new cultural policies or adjust
> existing ones in response to changing circumstances. Protecting this
> capacity to introduce new policies in the future is a critical issue for
> all countries, but in particular for developing countries which in many
> cases do not yet have a comprehensive set of cultural policies in place
> but aspire to do so.
>
> With the WTO talks all but stalled, the clear objective of the U.S. is
> to establish enough bilateral precedents&#8212;10, 15 or more&#8212;in
> which countries agree to liberalize their cultural sectors, and then
> attempt to impose this model as a fait accompli when broader WTO talks
> and larger regional negotiations eventually resume.
>
> For this reason, each bilateral negotiation takes on relevance as a
> potential precedent other countries will have to contend with at the
> bargaining table. With this in mind, in the articles that follow we look
> at three negotiations entering the home stretch, how culture has come
> under pressure in these talks, and what the organizations representing
> artists and other cultural professionals in each country have been doing
> to meet this challenge.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Breaking News: Four Central American Countries Reach
> Tentative Free Trade Deal With U.S.; Large-Scale
> Liberation Commitments Seen for Cultural Sector
>
> El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua appear to have made
> significant liberalization commitments pertaining to the audiovisual
> sector and new digital media in Free Trade Agreement tentatively reached
> with the United States on December 17.
>
> A United States Trade Representative news release stated that the
> "Central American countries will accord substantial market access across
> their entire services regime, offering new access in sectors such as
> telecommunications (?) audiovisual and entertainment."
>
> With respect to digital media, the USTR said that "non-discriminatory
> treatment" will be provided for digital products such as music, text and
> videos.
>
> Full details of the tentative agreement, which will have to be formally
> ratified by the legislatures of the signatory countries, were not yet
> available.
>
> Five countries originally began the regional negotiation with the United
> States. Costa Rica was the only country to stand back from the deal for
> the time being.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Australia: Mobilizing to Meet the Challenge
> to Culture in FTA
>
> When the 2003 AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards were televised on
> national television this past November, actors and filmmakers
> &#8211;from Toni Collette (Japanese Story, Muriel?s Wedding) to director
> George Miller (Babe, Mad Max) to Geoffrey Rush (Shine)&#8212;took the
> opportunity to warn Australians about the negative consequences if their
> government gives up its right to have cultural policies during its
> current round of trade talks.
>
> "I think we?re heading for a disaster. I think we?ll look back on in 10
> years and say my God, how could we have been so gullible", said George
> Miller.
>
> Best actor winner David Winham told the audience that he felt "extremely
> privileged to accept this award for playing a character with an
> Australian accent, in an Australian setting, in an Australian film. And
> I do hope, I do hope Australian culture has been championed in the
> current negotiations with the U.S., so that our voices, our characters,
> and our unique stories will continue to be heard and seen on screens
> large and small for all generations to come. And the only way that
> that?s going to be achieved is if culture, culture, the thing that
> defines us as being Australians is taken off the negotiation table."
>
> The orchestration of a televised awards evening as a platform for
> getting the word out about risk to culture from the trade negotiations
> was simply the most publicly visible element of a broad-based campaign
> that was put in motion a year ago when 17 organizations representing
> artists and cultural professionals from all major sectors of Australian
> culture&#8212;books, music, theatre, film, television and new
> media&#8212;joined together to establish the Australian Coalition for
> Cultural Diversity (ACCD).
>
> The mobilization of Australia?s cultural sector to establish the ACCD
> and to undertake a campaign to defend their country?s right to maintain
> cultural policies began almost exactly a year ago at almost the precise
> moment talks were launched between Australia and the United States for a
> Free Trade Agreement.
>
> Faced with a government seemingly single-minded in its desire to secure
> greater access to the American market for its agricultural products and
> in the process prepared to contemplate concessions on culture--in
> particular, prepared to entertain "standstill" commitments whereby it
> would renounce its prerogative to introduce policies covering new media
> of the future&#8212;the member organizations of the ACCD have carried
> out an exemplary campaign to build political, media and public awareness
> and support for the position that culture should be exempted outright
> from the FTA. Their campaign has included:
>
> Regular meetings with the Australia?s trade negotiators as well as with
> officials in the country?s trade and culture ministries.
>
> Presentations and written briefs to Senate committees and other
> legislative bodies reviewing the Australian position in the negotiations
>
> Presentations and written briefs to Senate committees and other
> legislative bodies reviewing the Australian position in the negotiations
>
> Letters to and meetings with members of Parliament, opposition leaders
> and key figures in the Australian government including Trade Minister
> Mark Vaile and Prime Minister John Howard.
>
> Membership communication campaigns designed to make individual artists
> and cultural professionals aware of the issues and to mobilize them to
> raise the issue with their local politicians and media.
>
> Media communications drawing on the profile of respected artists such as
> actors Brian Brown and Geoffrey Rush and director Gillian Armstrong to
> build broad public awareness regarding what is at stake in the trade
> negotiations.
>
> Initiatives to obtain support from cultural professionals around the
> world, including declarations obtained from the international
> affiliations representing directors and screenwriters, as well as
> individual letters of support from actors, writers and broad coalitions
> of artists and cultural professionals from Canada, Chile, the United
> Kingdom and many other countries around the world.
> At the time of this writing, the talks had not yet been concluded and
> the final outcome for culture remains unclear. While the talks had been
> placed on a fast track negotiators for the two countries were unable to
> meet their objective of concluding an agreement during talks in early
> December. As a result, an additional round of talks has been scheduled
> for mid-January in Washington.
>
> As with several other bilateral negotiations involving the United
> States, the longer the talks continue the greater the likelihood they
> could get caught up in the run-up to the U.S. elections next fall and
> postponed until 2005 as a result.
>
> In the meantime, Australia?s cultural organizations remain on high
> alert, hoping they will ultimately be successful in persuading the
> Howard government of the importance of preserving Australia's capacity
> to adjust or introduce new cultural policies in the future to ensure
> there is a domestic space for Australian stories. Victory is by no means
> assured, by there is no denying that they have succeeded in placing the
> issue of cultural policies front and center in public, media and
> political discussions concerning the FTA. Only a few months into the
> campaign, a poll found that more than 70% of Australians would oppose
> the FTA if it meant that fewer Australian films and televisions programs
> were seen on their screens.
>
> For more information on the ACCD campaign (and to access communications
> materials they have prepared), consult the following websites of three
> coalition member organizations:
>
> - Australian Writers' Guild
> - The Australian Society of Authors
> - The Australian Screen Directors Association
>
> Alternatively, go to Google News Australia and once connected to this
> site do a search using the keywords Australia U.S. Free Trade Agreement.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Korea?s Screen Quota Remains in the Cross-Hairs
> of Investment Treaty Talks With U.S.
>
> Will Korea be able to resist pressure from the United States to commit
> to cutting its screen quota for domestic films? This question remains
> unanswered and while statements by President of Korea indicate there
> will be no immediate unilateral change, the Korean cultural film
> community is treating the latest debate as the most serious threat yet
> to the quota.
>
> American insistence that Korea cut and ultimately eliminate its 40%
> screen quota for domestic films has been a major stumbling block to the
> two countries concluding a Bilateral Investment Treaty&#8212;a
> negotiation that has been underway since 1998 and which Korea has sought
> to revitalize its ailing economy by laying the groundwork for a Free
> Trade Agreement with the U.S.
>
> In recent months, American negotiators and government officials have
> stepped up the pressure on Korea to seriously scale back or eliminate
> the quota outright, and public statements in late October by an advisor
> to President Moo Hyun Roh that the government was prepared to consider
> easing the quota triggered alarm within Korea?s cultural sector.
>
> On November 19, representatives of the Korean film community met with
> President Roh for three hours to urge him to retain the quota. President
> Roh reportedly expressed his
> belief that the film industry could achieve sustainable development
> without depending on the quota but stated that if the film industry
> strongly opposed changes then these would not be imposed unilaterally.
>
> With Korea?s Centre for Diversity in Moving Images front and centre, the
> major organizations representing the Korean film community have moved to
> join the broader alliance of the "Committee Preventing Korea-U.S. BIT
> and to Protect Screen Quota" and are cooperating with civil groups from
> other sectors for joint activities.
>
> The Committee has also sought to engage representatives of the Motion
> Picture Association of America in a discussion regarding the quota, and
> why it is so important to the Korean film industry, but the MPAA has
> consistently declined such overtures.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Organizations of professionals from the Moroccan cultural milieu poised
> to form a coalition for cultural diversity to demand culture be excluded
> from the United States-Morocco free trade agreement
>
> With free trade negotiations between the United States and Morocco
> nearing an end, the leading professional organizations from all cultural
> sectors were calling for an emergency meeting to be held during the week
> of December 15th.
>
> At the top of this meeting's agenda was to be the creation of a Moroccan
> Coalition for Cultural Diversity, whose main mission would be to launch
> a major campaign calling for the exclusion of culture from the terms of
> the U.S.-Morocco trade deal, so as to ensure the preservation of
> Morocco's fundamental right to maintain its existing cultural policies
> and implement new policies that may prove necessary in the future.
>
> The meeting was to include the directors of the following associations:
> the Groupement des auteurs, r&eacute;alisateurs et producteurs, the
> Syndicat national des professionnels du th&eacute;&acirc;tre, the Union
> des &eacute;crivains du Maroc, the Syndicat libre des musiciens
> marocains, the Syndicat national des artistes peintres et plasticiens,
> the Association marocaine des professionnels du livre, the Chambre
> marocaine des producteurs de films and the Association des
> r&eacute;alisateurs de la t&eacute;l&eacute;vision marocaine.
>
> The negotiation of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Morocco and the
> United States was launched last January and normally should have wrapped
> up with the sixth round of talks held in Washington this past December
> 1st to 8th. However, the Moroccan press report that it became clear by
> the conclusion of the sixth round that there still remained a number of
> differences of opinion between the Moroccan and U.S. negotiators,
> particularly on issues concerning agriculture and generic drugs. It
> appeared inevitable that a seventh round of negotiations will be held in
> January 2004 to settle these matters.
>
> The professional organizations within the Moroccan Coalition plan to use
> this delay to implement a two-pronged action plan: first, to hold a
> series of meetings with political officials to obtain more information
> on the status of culture in the ongoing negotiations while expressing
> the position of professionals from the milieu that culture must be
> excluded from the deal; and, second, to carry out a media awareness
> campaign.
>
> The professional organizations are hoping to meet with Communication
> Minister Nabil Benabdallah and Cultural Affairs Minister Mohammed
> Achaari, as well as with the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and
> Co-operation, Ta&iuml;eb Fassi Fihri, who heads Morocco's negotiating
team.
>
> During a visit to Casablanca from December 11th to 13th, Robert Pilon,
> Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Coalition for Cultural
> Diversity, met with several of the directors of the Moroccan
> professional organizations and assured them of the full support of the
> International Liaison Committee of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity in
> their fight.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Creation in Burkina Faso of the 10th coalition
> for cultural diversity
>
> More than 20 organizations representing professionals from all of the
> cultural sectors in Burkina Faso gathered in Ouagadougo December 1st and
> 2nd to found the Burkinabe Coalition for Cultural Diversity.
>
> The Burkinabe Coalition is the 10th such coalition of professional
> organizations from the cultural milieu to be established world-wide, and
> the second in Africa. It joins Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile,
> France, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand and Senegal on the International
> Liaison Committee of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity.
>
> The official founding of the Burkinabe Coalition took place during the
> "Information workshop and establishment of a national coalition for
> cultural diversity", attended by nearly 100 representatives of
> professional associations from the cultural milieu and the government
> agencies concerned. The founding members of the coalition include the
> Association des Editeurs du Faso, the Syndicat national des Artistes
> Musiciens, the Union Nationale des Cin&eacute;astes du Burkina, the
> F&eacute;d&eacute;ration des festivals et Manifestations Culturelles du
> Burkina Faso, the Syndicat National Autonome des Com&eacute;diens du
> Burkina, and the Association Nationale des Professionnels des Arts
> Plastiques.
>
> The professional organizations adopted the statutes of the Burkinabe
> Coalition, which stipulate among other things that the coalition is an
> association of organizations (of legal entities and not individuals)
> representing all categories of professionals (authors, artists,
> producers, promoters, broadcasters, distributors, etc.) from every
> cultural sector in Burkina Faso (music, visual and living arts,
> cinematography, audio-visual, cybernetics, literature, festivals and
> cultural events, etc.).
>
> The Coalition's statutes also set out the following international
> objectives: "To affirm the right of States to take the necessary
> measures to safeguard and promote their culture; to refuse that cultural
> products be treated as mere commodities; to mobilize support for the
> adoption of the International Convention on Cultural Diversity by
> UNESCO; (?) to work to ensure that bilateral and multilateral cultural
> co-operation agreements take into account the specific needs of
> developing countries, particularly as concerns strengthening human,
> technical and financial capacity."
>
> The organizations present at the workshop also elected the members of
> the Coalition's Executive Committee. Rasman&eacute; Ou&eacute;draogo,
> head of the Syndicat National Autonome des com&eacute;diens du Burkina,
> was elected Chairman of the new Executive. A locally- and
> internationally-recognized film actor, he starred in Burkinabe filmmaker
> Idrissa Ou&eacute;draogo's most recent film, La Col&egrave;re des dieux
> (2003), and served as a member of the jury of the Festival International
> du Film francophone de Namur (Belgium) this past October.
>
> The opening ceremony of this workshop was presided by Burkina Faso's
> Minister of Culture, Arts and Tourism, Mr. Mahamoudou Ou&eacute;draogo.
> In his speech, Minister Ou&eacute;draogo affirmed that "every State has
> the right and the duty to implement the cultural policy of its choice,
> without external constraints and in the full respect of human rights and
> freedom of expression." (our translation) He noted his active
> involvement in the International Network on Cultural Policy (a network
> that brings together more than 50 ministers of culture from around the
> world) and his country's support of the International Convention on
> Cultural Diversity in the process of being developed at UNESCO.
>
> Robert Pilon, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Coalition for
> Cultural Diversity, was invited as a representative of the International
> Liaison Committee of coalitions to deliver a talk on "Cultural
> Diversity: battlegrounds, stakes and actions to be taken". He informed
> the participants of the latest developments concerning the draft
> convention at UNESCO and ongoing trade negotiations, and stressed the
> inherent danger of allowing culture to be included in bilateral trade
> agreements. Robert Pilon was also able to meet with the minister of
> Culture, Mahamoudou Ou&eacute;draogo.
>
> Burkina Faso, a key West-African country with more than 12 million
> inhabitants, will play host to the next Summit of Heads of State and of
> Government of La Francophonie from November 23-27, 2004.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Towards the Convention on Cultural Diversity:
> UNESCO Director General Convenes First Meeting of Experts Committee
>
> In the wake of the UNESCO General Conference decision mandating him to
> develop a convention on diversity of cultural content and artistic
> expression, Director General Ko&iuml;chiro Matsuura has initiated this
> process by appointing an experts committee that began its work in Paris
> with a four-day meeting starting December 17.
>
> The names of the experts have not been formally announced but the
> committee is believed to number 15 experts from around the world, and
> according to the Montreal daily newspaper
> Le Devoir the committee includes professor Ivan Bernier, a Quebec City
> (Canada)-based expert in international law who has been one of the
> leading thinkers in articulating possible legal frameworks for an
> eventual convention.
>
> In opening the experts meeting, Director General Matsuura stated that
> their initial work will concentrate on defining the aims and scope of
> the international convention, as well as exploring its potential
> relationship to other international instruments, including the WTO?s
> General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the Agreement on
> Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), as well
> as mechanisms for cooperation and international assistance.
>
> In a press release regarding the meeting, Matsuura is quoted as saying
> that the next phase, once authorized by UNESCO?s Executive Board, would
> be "an inter-governmental discussion where all member states would be
> invited to bring their views and participate in the actual drafting of
> the preliminary text of the convention."
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Culture Ministers Network Continues Work In Support
> of Convention on Cultural Diversity with December Meeting in Paris
>
> Officials representing 15 member countries of the International Network
> on Cultural Policy (INCP)gathered December 11-12 in Paris to take part
> in an informal meeting of the INCP's Working Group on Cultural Diversity
> and Globalization.
>
> The goal of the meeting was to consider appropriate activities for the
> year ahead consistent with the mandate set out by the culture ministers
> during their annual meeting in Opatija, Croatia, this past
> October--notably as set out in the statement issued by the ministers at
> the conclusion of the meeting.
>
> Characterized as a brainstorming session, the Paris meeting set the
> stage for a more formal meeting set for late January 2004 and hosted in
> Switzerland by the Swiss Ministry of Culture to finalize the 2004 work
> plan leading up to the 7th Annual Ministerial Meeting, to be hosted by
> China next fall.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> La Francophonie Secretary General Abdou Diouf meets
> with delegation of representatives
> of coalitions for cultural diversity
>
> A delegation of the International Liaison Committee of Coalitions for
> Cultural Diversity consisting of eight representatives of the French,
> Canadian and Senegalese coalitions met with the Secretary General of the
> Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Abdou Diouf, at
> the organization's headquarters in Paris on November 26, 2003.
>
> The purpose of the meeting, which proved to be highly fruitful, was to
> discuss the evolution of the culture/international trade issue in the
> wake of last October's decision by the UNESCO General Conference to
> proceed with the development of an international convention on cultural
> diversity.
>
> The OIF, with its 56 French-speaking member nations, has played a
> decisive role in the outstanding progress made in recent years in the
> cultural diversity file. In this regard, it is particularly important to
> note that the final declarations of the last two summits of Francophonie
> heads of state and of government, the first held in Moncton, Canada, in
> September 1999 and the subsequent one in Beirut, Lebanon, in October
> 2002, strongly endorsed the creation of a new binding international
> instrument on cultural diversity and issued an urgent call to all member
> states to refrain from making any liberalization commitments on culture
> within the framework of international trade negotiations. The next
> Francophonie Summit will be held in Burkina Faso, in Africa, from
> November 23 to 27, 2004.
>
> Mr. Diouf, who as served as President of Senegal from 1981 to 2000, took
> over as Secretary General of the OIF in 2002. Through his many speeches
> to international forums and his meetings with the political officials of
> OIF member states, Mr. Diouf was instrumental in persuading a large
> number of countries last October to support the resolution to involve
> UNESCO in the development of the convention on cultural diversity.
>
> During his meeting with the Liaison Committee representatives, the
> Secretary General was apprised of the three main priorities they intend
> to pursue between now and the next UNESCO General Conference in fall
> 2005: to promote to UNESCO the position of organizations representing
> professionals from the cultural milieu on the content of the future
> convention; to actively work to rally the support, through every
> relevant forum, of the two-thirds majority of UNESCO member states
> needed to adopt the convention; and, finally, to systematically pursue
> efforts to persuade countries engaged in trade negotiations to refrain
> from making any liberalization commitments on culture.
>
> For his part, Secretary General Diouf expressed his pleasure at the fact
> that 10 coalitions for cultural diversity have already been created and
> urged the Liaison Committee representatives to encourage the creation of
> similar coalitions in the greatest possible number of countries. The
> Secretary General also implored the coalitions to be even more vigorous
> in their efforts to promote the position of professionals from the
> cultural milieu with respect to the content of the convention. Lastly,
> he urged them to be especially vigilant regarding liberalization
> commitments on culture in ongoing and upcoming trade negotiations.
>
> France's Comit&eacute; de Vigilance pour la diversit&eacute; culturelle
> was represented by Olivier Carmet, Executive Director of the SACD,
> Gilles Katz of the French producers' union, Jean-Pierre Moreux of
> France's actors' union, Catherine Blache of the national publishers'
> union, and D&eacute;bora Abramowicz, the SADC's Director of
> International Affairs; Canada's Coalition for Cultural Diversity was
> represented by Pierre Curzi, President of l?Union des Artistes and the
> coalition's Co-Chair, and Robert Pilon, Executive Vice-President of the
> Coalition; the Senegalese Coalition for Cultural Diversity was
> represented by its Secretary General, Ndiar Mboup of Senegal's
> Association des m&eacute;tiers de la musique.
>
> For the OIF, Secretary General Abdou Diouf was accompanied by Roger
> Dehaybe, Chief Executive of the Intergovernmental Agency of La
> Francophonie (the main operating agency of the OIF), Catherine Tasca,
> Special State Advisor, as well as Bernard Petterson, Director of Culture
> and Heritage, Patrice Burel, Special Advisor and Christopher Malone,
> Co-operation Advisor in the office of Secretary General Diouf.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Coalition Representatives Take Part in Guadalajara
> Conference on Cultural Diversity
>
> Representatives of coalitions for cultural diversity in Argentina,
> Chile, Mexico and Canada featured prominently in a two-day conference on
> cultural diversity held November 30-December 1 in Guadalajara, Mexico,
> as part of that city?s International Book Fair, the largest in Latin
> America.
>
> The conference was hosted by the book fair and the government of Quebec
> (Quebec was the featured guest at this year?s book fair).
>
> Quebec?s Minister of Culture and Communications, Line Beauchamp, spoke
> at the conference?s closing ceremonies and used the occasion to
> emphasize that it was important "to ask countries engaged in trade
> negotiations to be vigilant and preserve their capacity to intervene in
> support of culture, while we await the adoption of a convention by
> UNESCO by 2005." (our translation)
>
> Coalition representatives taking part in panel discussions on the
> cultural diversity campaign and the role of cultural professional
> organizations in the debate included Gabriel Larrea Richerand of Mexico,
> Julio Raffo of Argentina, Juan Carlos Saez Contreras of Chile, and
> Quebec publisher Gilles Pellerin and Pierre Curzi, co-chair of the
> Coalition for Cultural Diversity (Canada).
>
> In their statements, the coalition representatives emphasized the
> following points:
>
> The importance of securing a strong international convention on cultural
> diversity through UNESCO that is a true convention having a proper
> articulation with other existing international agreements, such as WTO
> trade agreements.
>
> The need for organizations representing artists and all cultural
> professionals to be fully consulted in the process of developing the
treaty.
>
> The critical importance that countries refrain from making commitments
> on culture in trade agreements while the convention is being developed.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Brazilian Cinema Sector Turns Its Attention
> to the Cultural Diversity Movement;
> Supports Convention on Cultural Diversity at UNESCO
>
> Brazil?s role in the cultural diversity debate was one of the key themes
> of the Fifth Congress of Brazilian Cinema, held in Fortaleza on the
> northern coast of Brazil November30 - December 3.
>
> The Congress, which brings together more than 40 professional
> organizations from Brazil?s cinema industry, is held every two years and
> this year brought together approximately 100 industry professionals
> along with key industry officials and representatives from the country?s
> culture ministry.
>
> On December 1, the Congress held a seminar focused on the process now
> underway to develop a convention on cultural diversity at UNESCO, the
> ongoing pressures on the audiovisual sector arising from trade
> negotiations, and the implications for Brazilian cinema.
> Edgard Telles Ribeiro, director of the ministry of external relations?s
> culture directorate, and Leopoldo Nunes, chief of staff for culture
> minister Gilberto Gil, took part in the panel on behalf of the Brazilian
> government. They were joined by Jom Tom Azulay, superintendent of
> strategic planning with the Brazilian state film agency Ancine, Marcio
> Guimaraes of France?s consulate, and independent producer Debora Peters,
> all members of the CBC?s working group on cultural diversity. Jim McKee
> of the Canadian Coalition also took part, speaking on behalf of the
> International Liaison Committee of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity.
>
> Brazil?s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil also spoke during the closing
> ceremonies of the Congress, and reiterated his strong support for the
> cultural diversity movement.
>
> Led by Gil, Brazil was a strong supporter of the convention for cultural
> diversity during the debate on this question during last October?s
> UNESCO General Conference, and by virtue of its position as a leader
> within both South America and the developing world can be expected to
> play a key role in the coming debate.
>
> This is all the more the case given that Brazil is a major producer of
> audiovisual works&#8212;notably of television but recently its cinema
> has been in the ascendancy as well.
>
> In its closing declaration, the CBC emphasized the importance of the
> question in the following terms:
>
> "Considering the necessity of Brasil to align definitively with the
> policy supported by the European Union, the iberoamerican countries and
> others such as Canada, in regards to the defense of Cultural Diversity
> in multilateral commerce forums such as the WTO and the negotiations
> underway for the FTAA, the Fifth Congress of Brazilian Cinema reafirms
> the necessity of actions of the Ministry of Culture together with the
> Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order for Brazil to consolidate its
> position of abstention of market access offers, as well as of demands
> for opening up of other markets, until the International Treaty on
> Cultural Diversity at UNESCO is concluded, as those countries are
> requesting."
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Franco-German roundtable on cultural diversity
> Sarrebruck, November 20 and 21, 2003
>
> On the 40th anniversary of the &Eacute;lys&eacute;e Treaty celebrating
> French and German co-operation, the governments of the two countries
> have decided to work in close conjunction on the development of an
> international convention on cultural diversity within UNESCO. With a
> goal to advancing the joint reflection process, promoting Franco-German
> positions and bringing political representatives and members of the
> civil society in both countries together, the French and German
> governments co-organized a roundtable on cultural diversity on November
> 20 and 21, 2003, in Sarrebruck. The event, attended by Christina Weiss,
> the German Minister of State for Culture and the Media, and Jean-Jacques
> Aillagon, French Minister of Culture and Communications, featured three
> thematic workshops:
>
> - Cultural diversity and cultural heritage, chaired by Mounir
> Bouchenaki, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Culture;
> - Cultural diversity and European integration, chaired by Nele Hertling,
> President of the Franco-German High Council for Cultural Affairs;
> - Cultural diversity and mastering globalization, chaired by Jean
> Musitelli, State Advisor and former permanent delegate of France to
UNESCO.
>
> In the presence of the 100 or so participants, rich and fruitful
> discussion extolled Franco-German co-operation in this area.
> Hans-Heinrich Wrede, Germany's permanent delegate to UNESCO and the new
> Chairman of the organization's Executive Board, assured both governments
> that he will closely monitor the development of the convention on
> cultural diversity to ensure that it is ready for adoption by the
> General Conference in 2005.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The Dakar International Book Fair
> Unfolds Under the Theme of Cultural Diversity
> - Representatives of the Senegalese,
> Chilean and Canadian Coalitions Take Part
>
> The 9th Foire internationale du livre et du mat&eacute;riel didactique
> de Dakar (FILDAK) took place December 4th to 9th under the theme of
> "Literature of Nations and Cultural Diversity".
>
> The official opening of FILDAK, one of Africa's largest book fairs, was
> presided by Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade. Government ministers,
> among them Senegal's Minister of Foreign Affairs Cheik Tijane Gadio and
> Culture Minister Safiatou Ndiaye Diop, chaired a number of the event's
> forums and round tables.
>
> At the invitation of event organizers, three representatives of national
> coalitions for cultural diversity, including Sawalo Ciss&eacute;,
> President of the Senegal Coalition, Paulo Slachevsky, President of the
> Chilean Association of Independent Publishers and of the Chilean
> Coalition, and Robert Pilon, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian
> Coalition, took part in an international round table on December 5th.
>
> Two other representatives of the Senegalese Coalition's member
> associations, Alioune Badara B&egrave;ye, President of the Association
> des Ecrivains s&eacute;n&eacute;galais, and Madieyna Ndiaye, President
> of The Association s&eacute;n&eacute;galaise des Editeurs, participated
> in another round-table discussion on "Publishing, co-publishing and
> distribution".
>
> During his stay in Dakar, Robert Pilon, representing the International
> Liaison Committee of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity, also met with,
> among others, Culture Minister Safiatou Ndiaye Diop, the Minister's
> Technical Advisor Moustapha Tambadou, Abdou Aziz Dieng, President of the
> Association des M&eacute;tiers de la Musique du S&eacute;n&eacute;gal,
> Clarence Delgado of the organization Cin&eacute;astes
> S&eacute;n&eacute;galais associ&eacute;s, and Ndiawar Mboup, Secretary
> General of Senegal's National Coalition for Cultural Diversity, to
> discuss the evolution of the cultural diversity file.
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From amcgee at virtualidentity.org  Tue Jan  6 08:49:14 2004
From: amcgee at virtualidentity.org (Art McGee)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [CRIS Chat] Coalition for Cultural Diversity (CCD)
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> CCD Coalition Currents 5th issue - Dec 2003

For those who want a URL to reference:

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From mavic at isiswomen.org  Wed Jan  7 04:25:17 2004
From: mavic at isiswomen.org (Mavic)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] comments - article on RFIDs at the Summit
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Hi Adam and all!

Thanks so much for this valuable information. I think we need to discuss 
this very seriously in the light of civil society participation in Tunis. 
Talk of privacy and security issues.

I completely agree with Jean-Louis' observation that it was an "obedient" 
CS  that we saw in the WSIS and its processes. We normally are more 
vigilant in other spaces.

Happy New Year everyone,

Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
Isis International-Manila

At 02:44 PM 1/5/04 +0100, you wrote:
>Happy and successful New year Adam and all
>
>A special thank to Adam for this revealing but worrying identity badge story.
>Yet the fundamentals of this non glorious swiss technology achievement was 
>known by a number of CS members, especially those very clever in 
>"security/internet issues", they used to deal with daily in specialised CS 
>circles (caucuses, working groups, lobbying groups). But nobody raised any 
>appropriated protest during our CS meetings, nor were there any fears 
>transmitted to the CS Secretariate. Instead, some zealous CS members urged 
>us to sent the CS Secretariate all our thanks for the "brilliant job" they 
>did ! A very obedient and curious CS indeed !
>
>Best regards
>Jean-Louis Fullsack
>CSDPTT
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:ajp@glocom.ac.jp>Adam Peake
>To: <mailto:plenary@wsis-cs.org>plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Cc: <mailto:aep@it.kth.se>aep@it.kth.se
>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:38 PM
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] comments - article on RFIDs at the Summit
>
>Story below from the Washington Times about the identity badges we were 
>required to used during the Summit. I've annotated with comment/additional 
>information in {italics} (if your email only takes plain text, just look 
>for the curly brackets).  Thanks to Alberto for checking my notes.
>
>Security of course important, but so are the concerns this issue raises.
>
>And a very Happy new year to all!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Adam
>
>
>
>
>
>Summit group confirms use of ID chip
>By Audrey Hudson and Betsy Pisik
>THE WASHINGTON TIMES
>Published December 18, 2003
><http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20031217-115051-5373r>
>
>Organizers of the World Summit on the Information Society yesterday 
>confirmed that badges worn by high-level attendees were affixed with 
>identification chips some say were unknown to the forum's participants.
>
>{That RFIDs were used was not disclosed publicly before the Summit began, 
>or to my knowledge, announced during the Summit.}
>
>However, a spokesman for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), 
>which was the host of the three-day event in Geneva last week, scoffed at 
>concerns by privacy advocates that the technology could monitor an 
>individual's movement or that the data it collects could be misused.
>
>{The RFID was in the name badge, and associated with a database that 
>contained all the information about the badge owner that the person 
>submitted during pre-registration. That information was a minimum of name, 
>position, affiliation, email address, nationality and date of birth. Much 
>more information was requested as optional, from passport number and place 
>of issue, to arrival and departure dates, hotel, and so on. Potential then 
>is to associate this information with other data: for example the Summit 
>secretariat helped with visa applications and applications for fellowships 
>which contain far more detail -- note *potential*, not saying it actually 
>happened. When the badge was used at a check-point this pre-registered 
>information along with a corresponding picture was displayed on the 
>operators screen. Of course there were (are?) opportunities for misuse.}
>
>Three European researchers who discovered the chips in their badges, first 
>reported by The Washington Times on Sunday, said participants were not 
>told about the chips.
>
>{Correct, Summit participants were not told.}
>
>ITU spokesman Gary Fowlie confirmed during an interview from Geneva that 
>radio frequency identification chips (RFIDs) were embedded in the passes 
>and that data readers were in place to record information transmitted by 
>the chip.
>
>Mr. Fowlie disputed that RFIDs have long-range tracking capability, and 
>called The Times story "really off base."
>"Transmission distance is 1 to 2 centimeters. You have to put your badge 
>right up to the screen," he said.
>{This comment seems to have the technology back to front. A card was 
>analyzed in another country and was found to have a range of 70 cm to 1 
>meter. As analysis was made only on a limited number of cards, so we can't 
>be sure that all chips had the same properties: ITU spokesperson may be 
>correct, however it seems unlikely. The card reader at the checkpoint may 
>have required the badge to be pressed close against it, the chip itself 
>was much stronger. i.e. it had the potential to be read by sensors not 
>obvious to those passing by. *I am not saying that such sensors existed* 
>but that they could is the point.}
>
>But U.S. and European privacy advocates and critics of RFID technology 
>said the story was on target, and that the use of the chips at the summit 
>has caused an uproar in the United States and Europe.
>"It sent off a shot heard round the world," said Katherine Albrecht, 
>director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering 
>(CASPIAN), a leading opponent of RFID technology.
>
>"We're rolling in e-mails on this thing. It's confirmation this is real, 
>it is here, and it's being abused already."
>
>Last week's summit, which was partly organized by the United Nations, 
>focused on Internet governance and access, security, intellectual-property 
>rights and privacy. The badges were worn by more than 50 prime ministers, 
>presidents and other high-level officials from 174 countries, including a 
>representative from the United States, John Marburger, head of the White 
>House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
>
>In a lengthy statement to The Times yesterday, summit officials said 
>participants were notified some personal information would appear on the 
>Internet, but declined to say whether participants were told of the 
>embedded technology.
>
>{We were asked during registration if we would like our email addresses to 
>be included in the publicly available list of participants. It had been 
>usual for WSIS preparatory meetings (PrepComs), etc., for participants to 
>be listed both on paper and online: name, position and affiliation, with 
>email optional. No mention was made of "embedded technology".}
>
>The passes were intended "to facilitate identification by security at 
>entry checkpoints," and participants had to swipe the badges across the 
>readers to gain access to the summit and meeting rooms, the statement said.
>{This is correct and the system worked quite well. Although at least one 
>person did obtain a govt. card after forging some credentials.}
>
>"Readers were quite prominently displayed and were only placed at entry 
>checkpoints," WSIS spokeswoman Francine Lambert said. "The data stored on 
>our servers do not and cannot monitor movement."
>
>{Of course the data collected could monitor movement. There was a 
>chronological log of when a badge-holder passed through a checkpoint. 
>Theses records would show that I went into the hall a number of times each 
>day (there was no apparent monitoring on the way out). And database could 
>also potentially (and easily) be searched to see who went in at the same 
>time as me. Me plus Joe one time: so what. Me plus Joe seven times and 
>someone might wonder if they see a pattern?}
>
>U.S. companies use RFID chips to track inventory from the factory to 
>stores. Manufactures also are testing a system that tracks products 
>leaving the shelves and alerts employees to restock.
>
>EZ Pass, used at toll booths, uses RFID technology. Authorities 
>investigating the murder of federal prosecutor Jonathan P. Luna learned 
>that he had made repeated trips to Philadelphia during the past six months 
>by tracking electronic data gathered at toll booths in Pennsylvania and 
>Delaware.
>
>The Defense Department is requiring its top 100 suppliers to implement 
>RFID technology by 2005 to track inventory. The remainder of its 43,000 
>suppliers must ship items RFID-ready by 2006.
>
>But privacy advocates say the technology Mr. Fowlie described in use at 
>the summit can be used on humans.
>
>"It's going to be used to track us," said Barry Steinhardt, director of 
>the technology and liberty program for the American Civil Liberties Union 
>in New York.
>
>The ACLU said it has received complaints from Europeans concerned about 
>how data collected at the summit will be used at the 2005 summit, where 
>Tunisia plays host.
>"There is a lot of concern this data will be transferred to Tunisia and 
>used to punish citizens or residents, or to keep tabs on the participants 
>who are coming there, perhaps deny entry," Mr. Steinhardt said. "There is 
>a lot of concern that this data will be transferred to a 
>less-than-democratic nation."
>{This concern was expressed strongly in Geneva. Many are opposed to 
>holding a Summit on information society in a country that does not respect 
>universal human rights. The problem is not so much in the actual data 
>gathered in Geneva, all that happened in Geneva was probably harmless. The 
>concern is that data gathered for one reasonable purpose could be passed 
>to a regime that might use it in ways that could be harmful. e.g. While 
>Geneva may never think to track who I stood in line with, another 
>government might be interested to identify who associated with a 
>participant they know to be hostile to their regime. That "hostile" person 
>might not go to the Tunis Summit --for example-- but their previously 
>anonymous associates might.}
>
>Ms. Lambert said the data was stored for one day on the readers and 
>erased, but did not say how long data was stored on the database or if it 
>was ever erased.
>{Hard to tell if all the data collected is still in the ITU database. I 
>can access the first level of information for people that were in GLOCOM's 
>delegation. I cannot make changes. But this is the same information that 
>would be in the conference participants list that has usually been 
>available. Perhaps the more detailed information has already been deleted?}
>"The actual data submitted by participants was stored on ITU-secured 
>servers that were not accessible by any other party than the [ITU, United 
>Nations, and WSIS executive secretariat ], and the data has not been 
>communicated to any other party," she said.
>
>The personal data was obtained from visa applications.
>
>"This has tremendous value for intelligence gathering," said Alberto 
>Escudero-Pascual, a researcher in computer security and privacy at the 
>Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
>The chips were discovered by Mr. Escudero-Pascual, Stephane Koch, 
>president of Internet Society Geneva, and George Danezis, a researcher of 
>privacy-enhancing technologies and computer security at Cambridge University.
>
>{Alberto Escudero-Pascual arrived at the Summit a couple of days early, 
>had his picture taken while registering and as the operator's screen was 
>turned slightly towards him, was able to see his personal information 
>flash on the screen as the photo was taken. He realized the photo was 
>going to be used to identify him in security checks in the halls --of 
>course, it's a high level, head of state Summit, strong security is all 
>fine and good. If it is sensibly applied. But Alberto wonders how it would 
>work? And so the story of the RFID chip and data gathering begins to emerge.}
>
>When the card containing an RFID chip is swiped onto the reader, the 
>location information is sent via the chip's antenna to a database that 
>contains information on the subject.
>
>Mr. Escudero-Pascual said he witnessed the data collected by the summit 
>when his information flashed on a computer screen at an entry point. The 
>information included a picture of the participant, name, occupation, 
>organization, a time stamp of all main entry points and each time the 
>participant passed a line into a room.
>
>The data is stored in chronological order, allowing readers to determine 
>when, where and which participants are walking into the room.
>"They might want to know, 'Who has Alberto been queuing with for the last 
>few days?' and they can basically see who Alberto is working with or 
>talking to by who he enters with," Mr. Escudero-Pascual said.
>
>"This is not a conspiracy theory. We use these systems in our daily lives 
>to open garages, but people are not aware" of other ways the technology 
>can be used, he said.
>
>RFID chips are embedded in many "smart card" systems used for access to 
>military bases, airports, gated communities, hospitals, state parks and 
>country clubs. RFID chips also can alert government agencies to a host of 
>law-breaking activities, such as expired insurance policies or license plates.
>
>But tagging participants in a political summit raises privacy and security 
>issues, and privacy advocates think the summit's organizers might have 
>broken laws by not disclosing the chips' presence.
>At least one of the researchers said it violates the Swiss Federal Law on 
>Data Protection of June 1992.
>{Yes, opinion seems to be that it violates Swiss law, and would normally 
>be illegal in Geneva. Except the UN is in some cases exempt from data 
>protection laws. So while on Swiss soil but under the auspices of the UN, 
>it's likely that no violation occurred. However, some UN data protection 
>guidelines were ignored <http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/71.htm> Wonder 
>if the ITU database is also protected? ITU has an unusual status in the UN 
>System. Alberto Escudero-Pascual has contacted most EU member states' Data 
>Protection Agencies and is seeking support from any individuals and 
>organizations in order to get a statement from ITU and the Swiss 
>Delegation in WSIS concerning the data collection practises and the system 
>in Tunisia.}
>"They may be exempt from those laws, but they certainly violated the 
>spirit of the law by collecting highly personal information without their 
>knowledge or consent," Mr. Steinhardt said.
>END
>
>
>
>
>
>
>--


From opetrov at worldbank.org  Wed Jan  7 09:45:32 2004
From: opetrov at worldbank.org (Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development]  Special Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the Role of ICT in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Message-ID: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCEECCDBAA.opetrov@worldbank.org>

Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!

The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) took
place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for
harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration, through
cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private sector and
government. It also sought to chart a path towards the Summit?s second
phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in its draft plan of action.
The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the global
community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development and
the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals, sanctioned at
the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified by countries around
the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the
developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the potential
of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.

+ See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp

+ Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp

DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature on ICT
and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the message
it seeks to deliver to the world.

+ See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT or
directly at:
http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=815843

The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11, on the
topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of the World
Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the Millennium Development
Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7
regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri Lanka to
Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from developing
and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees in Geneva.  The
participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico (8 sites), Romania,
Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa Clara, and Washington,
D.C. The videoconference began with the introduction of participating sites
and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming remarks.
It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos Braga,
Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank; Nagy Hanna,
Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO, Sri Lanka ICT
Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute for Information
Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson, Professor, University of
Maryland and others. The discussions focused on the role of the donor
community, how to operationalize the e-development agenda, the role of
multi-stakeholder partnerships, e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and
Sri Lanka's comprehensive approach to e-development. The meeting was also
broadcast live through the Development Gateway website and an online
discussion component allowed webcast viewers from around the world to engage
in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look out
for our special feature on the videoconference (including video clips,
photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up highlight in the
upcoming weeks.

+ You can learn more about it at:
http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc

John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over the last
several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These are
compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length presentation titled
?Information and Communications Technology Applied to the Millennium
Development Goals.?

+ Read John's essay at:
http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840982

The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which moves
beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific projects,
towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by coordinated ICT
investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor of
e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview with our editors, describes
the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.

+ Read it at:
http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840917

+ Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.htm

+ See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411

+  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis

+ Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS Follow-up.
Feel free to contribute!

+ Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:

"The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information and
Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up to the
February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents the latest
information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have mainstreamed ICTs
in their development assistance programmes in order to more effectively and
efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium
Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the World
Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative input from
the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix and other related
documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This CD-ROM
will also be available free of charge through our website
www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable
information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a wider
audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science & Technology,
Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email  ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"

+ See the Matrix at:
http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf

+  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in Eurasia
In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development community on
the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program Officer at the
American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues that "over the past
decade information and communication technology (ICT), in particular the
advent of the Internet, has presented new opportunities and models for
health professionals to access the most current information and update their
skills?especially in countries where economic and financial conditions have
prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to journals. This
article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact health,
drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here, referring to
the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union)."
Date: Dec. 2003.
http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_id=3727
83&version_id=225719

+  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
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Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced earlier this year
at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn, Germany.
The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development Gateway Forum, in
2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit
www.dgfoundation.org/prize

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From: claudia.padovani at unipd.it (Claudia Padovani)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
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Ciao to all and best wishes for the new year.
As I keep going with my content analysis work on WSIS documents, I am trying
to find the different Declarations that were mentioned in the Closing
sesssion in Geneva (on the 12th afternoon). As only the Civil Society
Declaration of Dec 8th is available from the official website, what about
Lyon, the indigenous people, and disabled people? I would be grateful if
somebody could forward to me those texts: interesting to see how many voices
(and faces) civil society has brought into the process... and maybe get some
insights on how to be effective towards Tunis.
thanks
claudia padovani
Department of Historical and Political Studies
University of Padova


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From: "Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez"
<opetrov@worldbank.org>
To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development] Special
Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the Role of ICT
in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals


> Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!
>
> The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
took
> place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for
> harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology
(ICT)
> to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration, through
> cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private sector and
> government. It also sought to chart a path towards the Summit?s second
> phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in its draft plan of
action.
> The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the
global
> community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development and
> the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals, sanctioned at
> the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified by countries
around
> the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the
> developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the
potential
> of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.
>
> + See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
>
> + Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp
>
> DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature on
ICT
> and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the
message
> it seeks to deliver to the world.
>
> + See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT or
> directly at:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=815843
>
> The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals for
> Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11, on the
> topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of the World
> Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the Millennium
Development
> Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7
> regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri Lanka
to
> Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from developing
> and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees in Geneva.  The
> participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico (8 sites), Romania,
> Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa Clara, and Washington,
> D.C. The videoconference began with the introduction of participating
sites
> and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming
remarks.
> It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos Braga,
> Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank; Nagy Hanna,
> Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO, Sri Lanka ICT
> Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute for Information
> Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson, Professor, University of
> Maryland and others. The discussions focused on the role of the donor
> community, how to operationalize the e-development agenda, the role of
> multi-stakeholder partnerships, e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and
> Sri Lanka's comprehensive approach to e-development. The meeting was also
> broadcast live through the Development Gateway website and an online
> discussion component allowed webcast viewers from around the world to
engage
> in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look out
> for our special feature on the videoconference (including video clips,
> photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up highlight in
the
> upcoming weeks.
>
> + You can learn more about it at:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc
>
> John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over the
last
> several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These are
> compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length presentation titled
> ?Information and Communications Technology Applied to the Millennium
> Development Goals.?
>
> + Read John's essay at:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840982
>
> The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which moves
> beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific projects,
> towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by coordinated ICT
> investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor of
> e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview with our editors,
describes
> the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.
>
> + Read it at:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840917
>
> + Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.htm
>
> + See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
> http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411
>
> +  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
> http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis
>
> + Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS
Follow-up.
> Feel free to contribute!
>
> + Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:
>
> "The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information and
> Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up to the
> February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents the latest
> information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have mainstreamed
ICTs
> in their development assistance programmes in order to more effectively
and
> efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium
> Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the World
> Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative input from
> the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix and other
related
> documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This CD-ROM
> will also be available free of charge through our website
> www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable
> information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a wider
> audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science & Technology,
> Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email  ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"
>
> + See the Matrix at:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf
>
> +  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in Eurasia
> In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development community on
> the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program Officer at the
> American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues that "over the past
> decade information and communication technology (ICT), in particular the
> advent of the Internet, has presented new opportunities and models for
> health professionals to access the most current information and update
their
> skills?especially in countries where economic and financial conditions
have
> prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to journals.
This
> article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact
health,
> drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here, referring
to
> the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union)."
> Date: Dec. 2003.
>
http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_id=3727
> 83&version_id=225719
>
> +  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
> Nominate the individual or organization that has had the greatest impact
in
> the field of ICT for development for the 100,000 Euro Petersberg Prize.
> Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced earlier this
year
> at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn, Germany.
> The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development Gateway Forum,
in
> 2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit
> www.dgfoundation.org/prize
>
> Our Editorial Team would like to wish our members
>
> A Very Happy New Year!!!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> You received this message because you are one of the 5659 DG members who
> have selected to receive broadcasts on ICT for Development from the
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From sinikka.sipila at fla.fi  Thu Jan  8 12:28:43 2004
From: sinikka.sipila at fla.fi (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Sinikka_Sipil=E4?=)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: VS: [WSIS CS-Plenary] asking for little help
In-Reply-To: <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>
Message-ID: <PEEKIMFLHNFPLMAPCMJEGEPGCDAA.sinikka.sipila@fla.fi>

Dear Claudia Padovani

Here is a link to the Lyon Declaration.
http://www.cities-lyon.org/en/declaration

With best regards

Sinikka Sipila
Secretary General
Finnish Library Association
Vuorikatu 22 A 18
00100 Helsinki
FINLAND
tel. 358 9 6221 399
fax. 358 9 6221 466
Mobile 358 400 659 363
sinikka.sipila@fla.fi
www.fla.fi


-----Alkuper?inen viesti-----
L?hett?j?: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
[mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]Puolesta Claudia Padovani
L?hetetty: 8. tammikuuta 2004 14:17
Vastaanottaja: plenary@wsis-cs.org; wsis
Aihe: [WSIS CS-Plenary] asking for little help


Ciao to all and best wishes for the new year.
As I keep going with my content analysis work on WSIS documents, I am trying
to find the different Declarations that were mentioned in the Closing
sesssion in Geneva (on the 12th afternoon). As only the Civil Society
Declaration of Dec 8th is available from the official website, what about
Lyon, the indigenous people, and disabled people? I would be grateful if
somebody could forward to me those texts: interesting to see how many voices
(and faces) civil society has brought into the process... and maybe get some
insights on how to be effective towards Tunis.
thanks
claudia padovani
Department of Historical and Political Studies
University of Padova


----- Original Message -----
From: "Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez"
<opetrov@worldbank.org>
To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development] Special
Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the Role of ICT
in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals


> Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!
>
> The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
took
> place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for
> harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology
(ICT)
> to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration, through
> cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private sector and
> government. It also sought to chart a path towards the Summit?s second
> phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in its draft plan of
action.
> The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the
global
> community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development and
> the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals, sanctioned at
> the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified by countries
around
> the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the
> developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the
potential
> of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.
>
> + See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
>
> + Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp
>
> DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature on
ICT
> and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the
message
> it seeks to deliver to the world.
>
> + See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT or
> directly at:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=815843
>
> The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals for
> Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11, on the
> topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of the World
> Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the Millennium
Development
> Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7
> regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri Lanka
to
> Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from developing
> and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees in Geneva.  The
> participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico (8 sites), Romania,
> Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa Clara, and Washington,
> D.C. The videoconference began with the introduction of participating
sites
> and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming
remarks.
> It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos Braga,
> Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank; Nagy Hanna,
> Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO, Sri Lanka ICT
> Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute for Information
> Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson, Professor, University of
> Maryland and others. The discussions focused on the role of the donor
> community, how to operationalize the e-development agenda, the role of
> multi-stakeholder partnerships, e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and
> Sri Lanka's comprehensive approach to e-development. The meeting was also
> broadcast live through the Development Gateway website and an online
> discussion component allowed webcast viewers from around the world to
engage
> in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look out
> for our special feature on the videoconference (including video clips,
> photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up highlight in
the
> upcoming weeks.
>
> + You can learn more about it at:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc
>
> John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over the
last
> several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These are
> compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length presentation titled
> ?Information and Communications Technology Applied to the Millennium
> Development Goals.?
>
> + Read John's essay at:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840982
>
> The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which moves
> beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific projects,
> towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by coordinated ICT
> investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor of
> e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview with our editors,
describes
> the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.
>
> + Read it at:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840917
>
> + Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.htm
>
> + See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
> http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411
>
> +  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
> http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis
>
> + Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS
Follow-up.
> Feel free to contribute!
>
> + Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:
>
> "The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information and
> Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up to the
> February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents the latest
> information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have mainstreamed
ICTs
> in their development assistance programmes in order to more effectively
and
> efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium
> Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the World
> Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative input from
> the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix and other
related
> documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This CD-ROM
> will also be available free of charge through our website
> www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable
> information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a wider
> audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science & Technology,
> Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email  ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"
>
> + See the Matrix at:
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf
>
> +  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in Eurasia
> In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development community on
> the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program Officer at the
> American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues that "over the past
> decade information and communication technology (ICT), in particular the
> advent of the Internet, has presented new opportunities and models for
> health professionals to access the most current information and update
their
> skills?especially in countries where economic and financial conditions
have
> prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to journals.
This
> article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact
health,
> drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here, referring
to
> the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union)."
> Date: Dec. 2003.
>
http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_id=3727
> 83&version_id=225719
>
> +  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
> Nominate the individual or organization that has had the greatest impact
in
> the field of ICT for development for the 100,000 Euro Petersberg Prize.
> Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced earlier this
year
> at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn, Germany.
> The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development Gateway Forum,
in
> 2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit
> www.dgfoundation.org/prize
>
> Our Editorial Team would like to wish our members
>
> A Very Happy New Year!!!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> You received this message because you are one of the 5659 DG members who
> have selected to receive broadcasts on ICT for Development from the
> Development Gateway. To subscribe, unsubscribe, add your bio and photo to
> your personal profile or change how often you receive email from the
Gateway
> (e.g. hourly, daily, weekly or bimonthly) go to
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/pvt and change the settings under "My
> interests" and click on "Update" at the bottom of the page. Our community
> now consists of 6109 members in over 170 countries who have shared about
> 6012 knowledge resources as of December 30, 2003. Further distribution of
> this message is encouraged. Did you know, that by posting materials on the
> ICT for Development portal of the Gateway you are reaching a targeted
> audience of over 5806 ICT4D professionals? Learn more about us!
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/blob?pid=2851
>
>
>
> _______________________________________
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From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Thu Jan  8 12:47:24 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] asking for little help
In-Reply-To: <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>
References: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCEECCDBAA.opetrov@worldbank.org>
 <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>
Message-ID: <p05100309bc2301a9f27c@[192.168.1.225]>

People with disabilities document sent by email direct.

Adam


>Ciao to all and best wishes for the new year.
>As I keep going with my content analysis work on WSIS documents, I am trying
>to find the different Declarations that were mentioned in the Closing
>sesssion in Geneva (on the 12th afternoon). As only the Civil Society
>Declaration of Dec 8th is available from the official website, what about
>Lyon, the indigenous people, and disabled people? I would be grateful if
>somebody could forward to me those texts: interesting to see how many voices
>(and faces) civil society has brought into the process... and maybe get some
>insights on how to be effective towards Tunis.
>thanks
>claudia padovani
>Department of Historical and Political Studies
>University of Padova
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez"
><opetrov@worldbank.org>
>To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:45 AM
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development] Special
>Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the Role of ICT
>in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
>
>
>>  Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!
>>
>>  The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
>took
>>  place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for
>>  harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology
>(ICT)
>>  to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration, through
>>  cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private sector and
>>  government. It also sought to chart a path towards the Summit?s second
>>  phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in its draft plan of
>action.
>>  The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the
>global
>>  community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development and
>>  the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals, sanctioned at
>>  the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified by countries
>around
>>  the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the
>  > developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the
>potential
>  > of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.
>  >
>  > + See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
>>  http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
>>
>>  + Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
>>  http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp
>>
>>  DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature on
>ICT
>>  and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the
>message
>>  it seeks to deliver to the world.
>>
>>  + See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT or
>>  directly at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=815843
>>
>>  The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals for
>>  Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11, on the
>>  topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of the World
>>  Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the Millennium
>Development
>>  Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7
>>  regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri Lanka
>to
>>  Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from developing
>>  and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees in Geneva.  The
>>  participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico (8 sites), Romania,
>>  Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa Clara, and Washington,
>>  D.C. The videoconference began with the introduction of participating
>sites
>>  and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming
>remarks.
>>  It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos Braga,
>>  Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank; Nagy Hanna,
>>  Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO, Sri Lanka ICT
>  > Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute for Information
>>  Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson, Professor, University of
>>  Maryland and others. The discussions focused on the role of the donor
>>  community, how to operationalize the e-development agenda, the role of
>>  multi-stakeholder partnerships, e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and
>>  Sri Lanka's comprehensive approach to e-development. The meeting was also
>>  broadcast live through the Development Gateway website and an online
>>  discussion component allowed webcast viewers from around the world to
>engage
>>  in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look out
>>  for our special feature on the videoconference (including video clips,
>>  photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up highlight in
>the
>>  upcoming weeks.
>>
>>  + You can learn more about it at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc
>>
>>  John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over the
>last
>>  several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These are
>>  compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length presentation titled
>>  ?Information and Communications Technology Applied to the Millennium
>>  Development Goals.?
>>
>>  + Read John's essay at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840982
>>
>>  The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which moves
>>  beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific projects,
>>  towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by coordinated ICT
>>  investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor of
>>  e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview with our editors,
>describes
>>  the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.
>>
>>  + Read it at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840917
>>
>>  + Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.htm
>>
>>  + See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411
>>
>>  +  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis
>>
>>  + Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS
>Follow-up.
>>  Feel free to contribute!
>>
>>  + Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:
>>
>>  "The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information and
>>  Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up to the
>>  February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents the latest
>>  information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have mainstreamed
>ICTs
>>  in their development assistance programmes in order to more effectively
>and
>>  efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium
>>  Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the World
>>  Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative input from
>>  the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix and other
>related
>>  documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This CD-ROM
>>  will also be available free of charge through our website
>>  www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable
>>  information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a wider
>>  audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science & Technology,
>>  Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email  ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"
>>
>>  + See the Matrix at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf
>>
>>  +  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in Eurasia
>>  In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development community on
>>  the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program Officer at the
>>  American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues that "over the past
>>  decade information and communication technology (ICT), in particular the
>>  advent of the Internet, has presented new opportunities and models for
>>  health professionals to access the most current information and update
>their
>>  skills?especially in countries where economic and financial conditions
>have
>>  prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to journals.
>This
>>  article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact
>health,
>>  drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here, referring
>to
>>  the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union)."
>>  Date: Dec. 2003.
>>
>http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_id=3727
>>  83&version_id=225719
>>
>>  +  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
>>  Nominate the individual or organization that has had the greatest impact
>in
>>  the field of ICT for development for the 100,000 Euro Petersberg Prize.
>>  Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced earlier this
>year
>>  at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn, Germany.
>>  The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development Gateway Forum,
>in
>>  2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit
>>  www.dgfoundation.org/prize
>>
>>  Our Editorial Team would like to wish our members
>>
>>  A Very Happy New Year!!!
>>
>>  Sincerely,
>>
>>  Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez
>>
>>  ----------------------------------------------------------
>>  You received this message because you are one of the 5659 DG members who
>>  have selected to receive broadcasts on ICT for Development from the
>>  Development Gateway. To subscribe, unsubscribe, add your bio and photo to
>>  your personal profile or change how often you receive email from the
>Gateway
>>  (e.g. hourly, daily, weekly or bimonthly) go to
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/pvt and change the settings under "My
>>  interests" and click on "Update" at the bottom of the page. Our community
>>  now consists of 6109 members in over 170 countries who have shared about
>>  6012 knowledge resources as of December 30, 2003. Further distribution of
>>  this message is encouraged. Did you know, that by posting materials on the
>>  ICT for Development portal of the Gateway you are reaching a targeted
>>  audience of over 5806 ICT4D professionals? Learn more about us!
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/blob?pid=2851
>>
>>
>>
>>  _______________________________________
>>  WSIS mailing list
>>  WSIS@lists.sn.apc.org
>>  http://lists.sn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/wsis
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>>  Plenary mailing list
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>>  http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>
>_______________________________________________
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From marie at mondes.info  Thu Jan  8 12:54:31 2004
From: marie at mondes.info (marie@mondes.info)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] more declarations and action plans
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Dear Claudia and all,

All the best for 2004

Some more declarations and questions...

- Geneva Declaration on Accessible Information Society (disabled people)
http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/topics/public_awareness/12-12-03_gendec.htm

- Aboriginal people
http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/international.html
(no declaration, just a report till now)

- Swiss platform for the information society (Swiss Civil Society)
http://www.cooperation.net/comunicach/info/107317.html

- The WEMF also announces an action plan :
Cf. http://www.wemfmedia.org/
"The conclusions and recommendations from the WEMF interactive sessions
and workshops will form the basis of a final report that constitutes an
action plan for broadcasters in the run up to, and during, the Tunis phase
of the WSIS in 2005. The complete final report will be available in print
after January"

- Is there also be a specific Youth Declaration ?

Bises
Marie

>
> Dear Claudia Padovani
>
> Here is a link to the Lyon Declaration.
> http://www.cities-lyon.org/en/declaration
>
> With best regards
>
> Sinikka Sipila
> Secretary General
> Finnish Library Association
> Vuorikatu 22 A 18
> 00100 Helsinki
> FINLAND
> tel. 358 9 6221 399
> fax. 358 9 6221 466
> Mobile 358 400 659 363
> sinikka.sipila@fla.fi
> www.fla.fi
>
>
> -----Alkuper?inen viesti-----
> L?hett?j?: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
> [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]Puolesta Claudia Padovani
> L?hetetty: 8. tammikuuta 2004 14:17
> Vastaanottaja: plenary@wsis-cs.org; wsis
> Aihe: [WSIS CS-Plenary] asking for little help
>
>
> Ciao to all and best wishes for the new year.
> As I keep going with my content analysis work on WSIS documents, I am
> trying to find the different Declarations that were mentioned in the
> Closing sesssion in Geneva (on the 12th afternoon). As only the Civil
> Society Declaration of Dec 8th is available from the official website,
> what about Lyon, the indigenous people, and disabled people? I would be
> grateful if somebody could forward to me those texts: interesting to see
> how many voices (and faces) civil society has brought into the
> process... and maybe get some insights on how to be effective towards
> Tunis.
> thanks
> claudia padovani
> Department of Historical and Political Studies
> University of Padova
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez"
> <opetrov@worldbank.org>
> To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:45 AM
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development]
> Special Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the
> Role of ICT in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
>
>
>> Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!
>>
>> The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society
>> (WSIS)
> took
>> place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for
>> harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology
> (ICT)
>> to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration,
>> through cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private
>> sector and government. It also sought to chart a path towards the
>> Summit?s second phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in its
>> draft plan of
> action.
>> The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the
> global
>> community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development
>> and the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals,
>> sanctioned at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified
>> by countries
> around
>> the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the
>> developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the
> potential
>> of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.
>>
>> + See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
>> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
>>
>> + Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
>> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp
>>
>> DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature
>> on
> ICT
>> and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the
> message
>> it seeks to deliver to the world.
>>
>> + See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT or
>> directly at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=815843
>>
>> The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals for
>> Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11, on
>> the topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of the
>> World Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the Millennium
> Development
>> Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7
>> regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri
>> Lanka
> to
>> Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from
>> developing and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees
>> in Geneva.  The participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico
>> (8 sites), Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa
>> Clara, and Washington, D.C. The videoconference began with the
>> introduction of participating
> sites
>> and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming
> remarks.
>> It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos
>> Braga, Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank;
>> Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO,
>> Sri Lanka ICT Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute
>> for Information Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson,
>> Professor, University of Maryland and others. The discussions focused
>> on the role of the donor community, how to operationalize the
>> e-development agenda, the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships,
>> e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and Sri Lanka's comprehensive
>> approach to e-development. The meeting was also broadcast live through
>> the Development Gateway website and an online discussion component
>> allowed webcast viewers from around the world to
> engage
>> in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look
>> out for our special feature on the videoconference (including video
>> clips, photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up
>> highlight in
> the
>> upcoming weeks.
>>
>> + You can learn more about it at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc
>>
>> John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over
>> the
> last
>> several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These
>> are compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length presentation
>> titled ?Information and Communications Technology Applied to the
>> Millennium Development Goals.?
>>
>> + Read John's essay at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840982
>>
>> The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which
>> moves beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific
>> projects, towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by
>> coordinated ICT investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna, Senior
>> Advisor of e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview with our
>> editors,
> describes
>> the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.
>>
>> + Read it at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840917
>>
>> + Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.htm
>>
>> + See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411
>>
>> +  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis
>>
>> + Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS
> Follow-up.
>> Feel free to contribute!
>>
>> + Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:
>>
>> "The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information
>> and Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up
>> to the February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents
>> the latest information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have
>> mainstreamed
> ICTs
>> in their development assistance programmes in order to more
>> effectively
> and
>> efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium
>> Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the
>> World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative
>> input from the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix
>> and other
> related
>> documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This
>> CD-ROM will also be available free of charge through our website
>> www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable
>> information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a
>> wider audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science &
>> Technology, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email
>> ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"
>>
>> + See the Matrix at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf
>>
>> +  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in
>> Eurasia In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development
>> community on the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program
>> Officer at the American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues
>> that "over the past decade information and communication technology
>> (ICT), in particular the advent of the Internet, has presented new
>> opportunities and models for health professionals to access the most
>> current information and update
> their
>> skills?especially in countries where economic and financial conditions
> have
>> prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to
>> journals.
> This
>> article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact
> health,
>> drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here,
>> referring
> to
>> the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
>> Union)." Date: Dec. 2003.
>>
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_id=3727
>> 83&version_id=225719
>>
>> +  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
>> Nominate the individual or organization that has had the greatest
>> impact
> in
>> the field of ICT for development for the 100,000 Euro Petersberg
>> Prize. Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced
>> earlier this
> year
>> at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn,
>> Germany. The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development
>> Gateway Forum,
> in
>> 2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit
>> www.dgfoundation.org/prize
>>
>> Our Editorial Team would like to wish our members
>>
>> A Very Happy New Year!!!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez
>>
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From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Thu Jan  8 12:47:24 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS THETHA] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] asking for little help
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People with disabilities document sent by email direct.

Adam


>Ciao to all and best wishes for the new year.
>As I keep going with my content analysis work on WSIS documents, I am trying
>to find the different Declarations that were mentioned in the Closing
>sesssion in Geneva (on the 12th afternoon). As only the Civil Society
>Declaration of Dec 8th is available from the official website, what about
>Lyon, the indigenous people, and disabled people? I would be grateful if
>somebody could forward to me those texts: interesting to see how many voices
>(and faces) civil society has brought into the process... and maybe get some
>insights on how to be effective towards Tunis.
>thanks
>claudia padovani
>Department of Historical and Political Studies
>University of Padova
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez"
><opetrov@worldbank.org>
>To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:45 AM
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development] Special
>Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the Role of ICT
>in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
>
>
>>  Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!
>>
>>  The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
>took
>>  place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for
>>  harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology
>(ICT)
>>  to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration, through
>>  cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private sector and
>>  government. It also sought to chart a path towards the Summit?s second
>>  phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in its draft plan of
>action.
>>  The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the
>global
>>  community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development and
>>  the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals, sanctioned at
>>  the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified by countries
>around
>>  the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the
>  > developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the
>potential
>  > of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.
>  >
>  > + See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
>>  http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
>>
>>  + Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
>>  http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp
>>
>>  DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature on
>ICT
>>  and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the
>message
>>  it seeks to deliver to the world.
>>
>>  + See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT or
>>  directly at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=815843
>>
>>  The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals for
>>  Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11, on the
>>  topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of the World
>>  Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the Millennium
>Development
>>  Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7
>>  regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri Lanka
>to
>>  Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from developing
>>  and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees in Geneva.  The
>>  participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico (8 sites), Romania,
>>  Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa Clara, and Washington,
>>  D.C. The videoconference began with the introduction of participating
>sites
>>  and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming
>remarks.
>>  It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos Braga,
>>  Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank; Nagy Hanna,
>>  Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO, Sri Lanka ICT
>  > Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute for Information
>>  Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson, Professor, University of
>>  Maryland and others. The discussions focused on the role of the donor
>>  community, how to operationalize the e-development agenda, the role of
>>  multi-stakeholder partnerships, e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and
>>  Sri Lanka's comprehensive approach to e-development. The meeting was also
>>  broadcast live through the Development Gateway website and an online
>>  discussion component allowed webcast viewers from around the world to
>engage
>>  in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look out
>>  for our special feature on the videoconference (including video clips,
>>  photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up highlight in
>the
>>  upcoming weeks.
>>
>>  + You can learn more about it at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc
>>
>>  John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over the
>last
>>  several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These are
>>  compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length presentation titled
>>  ?Information and Communications Technology Applied to the Millennium
>>  Development Goals.?
>>
>>  + Read John's essay at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840982
>>
>>  The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which moves
>>  beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific projects,
>>  towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by coordinated ICT
>>  investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor of
>>  e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview with our editors,
>describes
>>  the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.
>>
>>  + Read it at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840917
>>
>>  + Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.htm
>>
>>  + See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411
>>
>>  +  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis
>>
>>  + Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS
>Follow-up.
>>  Feel free to contribute!
>>
>>  + Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:
>>
>>  "The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information and
>>  Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up to the
>>  February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents the latest
>>  information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have mainstreamed
>ICTs
>>  in their development assistance programmes in order to more effectively
>and
>>  efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium
>>  Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the World
>>  Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative input from
>>  the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix and other
>related
>>  documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This CD-ROM
>>  will also be available free of charge through our website
>>  www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable
>>  information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a wider
>>  audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science & Technology,
>>  Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email  ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"
>>
>>  + See the Matrix at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf
>>
>>  +  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in Eurasia
>>  In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development community on
>>  the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program Officer at the
>>  American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues that "over the past
>>  decade information and communication technology (ICT), in particular the
>>  advent of the Internet, has presented new opportunities and models for
>>  health professionals to access the most current information and update
>their
>>  skills?especially in countries where economic and financial conditions
>have
>>  prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to journals.
>This
>>  article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact
>health,
>>  drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here, referring
>to
>>  the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union)."
>>  Date: Dec. 2003.
>>
>http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_id=3727
>>  83&version_id=225719
>>
>>  +  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
>>  Nominate the individual or organization that has had the greatest impact
>in
>>  the field of ICT for development for the 100,000 Euro Petersberg Prize.
>>  Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced earlier this
>year
>>  at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn, Germany.
>>  The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development Gateway Forum,
>in
>>  2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit
>>  www.dgfoundation.org/prize
>>
>>  Our Editorial Team would like to wish our members
>>
>>  A Very Happy New Year!!!
>>
>>  Sincerely,
>>
>>  Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez
>>
>>  ----------------------------------------------------------
>>  You received this message because you are one of the 5659 DG members who
>>  have selected to receive broadcasts on ICT for Development from the
>>  Development Gateway. To subscribe, unsubscribe, add your bio and photo to
>>  your personal profile or change how often you receive email from the
>Gateway
>>  (e.g. hourly, daily, weekly or bimonthly) go to
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/pvt and change the settings under "My
>>  interests" and click on "Update" at the bottom of the page. Our community
>>  now consists of 6109 members in over 170 countries who have shared about
>>  6012 knowledge resources as of December 30, 2003. Further distribution of
>>  this message is encouraged. Did you know, that by posting materials on the
>>  ICT for Development portal of the Gateway you are reaching a targeted
>>  audience of over 5806 ICT4D professionals? Learn more about us!
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/blob?pid=2851
>>
>>
>>
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From dcogburn at umich.edu  Thu Jan  8 13:10:02 2004
From: dcogburn at umich.edu (Derrick L. Cogburn)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] more declarations and action plans
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Many thanks Marie and Adam.  These are all very helpful.

DLC

Derrick L. Cogburn, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor of Information 
and African Studies 
The University of Michigan
Website: http://www.si.umich.edu/~dcogburn 
Blog: http://cogburn.blogspot.com/
WSIS Online: http://www.wsis-online.net 




-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org] On
Behalf Of marie@mondes.info
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:55 AM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] more declarations and action plans


Dear Claudia and all,

All the best for 2004

Some more declarations and questions...

- Geneva Declaration on Accessible Information Society (disabled people)
http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/topics/public_awareness/12-12-03_gendec.
htm

- Aboriginal people http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/international.html
(no declaration, just a report till now)

- Swiss platform for the information society (Swiss Civil Society)
http://www.cooperation.net/comunicach/info/107317.html

- The WEMF also announces an action plan :
Cf. http://www.wemfmedia.org/
"The conclusions and recommendations from the WEMF interactive sessions
and workshops will form the basis of a final report that constitutes an
action plan for broadcasters in the run up to, and during, the Tunis
phase of the WSIS in 2005. The complete final report will be available
in print after January"

- Is there also be a specific Youth Declaration ?

Bises
Marie

>
> Dear Claudia Padovani
>
> Here is a link to the Lyon Declaration. 
> http://www.cities-lyon.org/en/declaration
>
> With best regards
>
> Sinikka Sipila
> Secretary General
> Finnish Library Association
> Vuorikatu 22 A 18
> 00100 Helsinki
> FINLAND
> tel. 358 9 6221 399
> fax. 358 9 6221 466
> Mobile 358 400 659 363
> sinikka.sipila@fla.fi
> www.fla.fi
>
>
> -----Alkuper?inen viesti-----
> L?hett?j?: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org 
> [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]Puolesta Claudia Padovani
> L?hetetty: 8. tammikuuta 2004 14:17
> Vastaanottaja: plenary@wsis-cs.org; wsis
> Aihe: [WSIS CS-Plenary] asking for little help
>
>
> Ciao to all and best wishes for the new year.
> As I keep going with my content analysis work on WSIS documents, I am 
> trying to find the different Declarations that were mentioned in the 
> Closing sesssion in Geneva (on the 12th afternoon). As only the Civil 
> Society Declaration of Dec 8th is available from the official website,

> what about Lyon, the indigenous people, and disabled people? I would 
> be grateful if somebody could forward to me those texts: interesting 
> to see how many voices (and faces) civil society has brought into the 
> process... and maybe get some insights on how to be effective towards 
> Tunis. thanks
> claudia padovani
> Department of Historical and Political Studies
> University of Padova
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez" 
> <opetrov@worldbank.org>
> To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:45 AM
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development] 
> Special Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the

> Role of ICT in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
>
>
>> Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!
>>
>> The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society
>> (WSIS)
> took
>> place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for

>> harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology
> (ICT)
>> to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration, 
>> through cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private 
>> sector and government. It also sought to chart a path towards the 
>> Summit?s second phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in 
>> its draft plan of
> action.
>> The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the
> global
>> community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development

>> and the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals, 
>> sanctioned at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified

>> by countries
> around
>> the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the 
>> developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the
> potential
>> of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.
>>
>> + See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
>> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
>>
>> + Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
>> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp
>>
>> DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature 
>> on
> ICT
>> and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the
> message
>> it seeks to deliver to the world.
>>
>> + See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT 
>> + or
>> directly at: 
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=81584
>> 3
>>
>> The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals 
>> for Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11,

>> on the topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of 
>> the World Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the 
>> Millennium
> Development
>> Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7

>> regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri 
>> Lanka
> to
>> Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from 
>> developing and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees 
>> in Geneva.  The participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico 
>> (8 sites), Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa

>> Clara, and Washington, D.C. The videoconference began with the 
>> introduction of participating
> sites
>> and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming
> remarks.
>> It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos 
>> Braga, Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank; 
>> Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO, 
>> Sri Lanka ICT Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute 
>> for Information Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson, 
>> Professor, University of Maryland and others. The discussions focused

>> on the role of the donor community, how to operationalize the 
>> e-development agenda, the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships, 
>> e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and Sri Lanka's comprehensive 
>> approach to e-development. The meeting was also broadcast live 
>> through the Development Gateway website and an online discussion 
>> component allowed webcast viewers from around the world to
> engage
>> in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look
>> out for our special feature on the videoconference (including video 
>> clips, photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up 
>> highlight in
> the
>> upcoming weeks.
>>
>> + You can learn more about it at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc
>>
>> John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over 
>> the
> last
>> several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These

>> are compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length 
>> presentation titled ?Information and Communications Technology 
>> Applied to the Millennium Development Goals.?
>>
>> + Read John's essay at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=84098
>> 2
>>
>> The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which 
>> moves beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific 
>> projects, towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by 
>> coordinated ICT investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna, 
>> Senior Advisor of e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview 
>> with our editors,
> describes
>> the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.
>>
>> + Read it at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=84091
>> 7
>>
>> + Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.h
>> tm
>>
>> + See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411
>>
>> +  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis
>>
>> + Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS
> Follow-up.
>> Feel free to contribute!
>>
>> + Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:
>>
>> "The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information 
>> and Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up 
>> to the February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents 
>> the latest information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have 
>> mainstreamed
> ICTs
>> in their development assistance programmes in order to more 
>> effectively
> and
>> efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium 
>> Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the 
>> World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative

>> input from the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix

>> and other
> related
>> documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This 
>> CD-ROM will also be available free of charge through our website 
>> www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable

>> information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a 
>> wider audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science & 
>> Technology, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email 
>> ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"
>>
>> + See the Matrix at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf
>>
>> +  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in
>> Eurasia In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development

>> community on the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program

>> Officer at the American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues 
>> that "over the past decade information and communication technology 
>> (ICT), in particular the advent of the Internet, has presented new 
>> opportunities and models for health professionals to access the most 
>> current information and update
> their
>> skills?especially in countries where economic and financial 
>> conditions
> have
>> prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to 
>> journals.
> This
>> article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact
> health,
>> drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here, 
>> referring
> to
>> the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet 
>> Union)." Date: Dec. 2003.
>>
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_i
> d=3727
>> 83&version_id=225719
>>
>> +  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
>> Nominate the individual or organization that has had the greatest 
>> impact
> in
>> the field of ICT for development for the 100,000 Euro Petersberg 
>> Prize. Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced 
>> earlier this
> year
>> at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn, 
>> Germany. The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development 
>> Gateway Forum,
> in
>> 2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit

>> www.dgfoundation.org/prize
>>
>> Our Editorial Team would like to wish our members
>>
>> A Very Happy New Year!!!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez
>>
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From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Thu Jan  8 12:47:24 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS THETHA] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] asking for little help
In-Reply-To: <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>
References: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCEECCDBAA.opetrov@worldbank.org>
 <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>
Message-ID: <p05100309bc2301a9f27c@[192.168.1.225]>

People with disabilities document sent by email direct.

Adam


>Ciao to all and best wishes for the new year.
>As I keep going with my content analysis work on WSIS documents, I am trying
>to find the different Declarations that were mentioned in the Closing
>sesssion in Geneva (on the 12th afternoon). As only the Civil Society
>Declaration of Dec 8th is available from the official website, what about
>Lyon, the indigenous people, and disabled people? I would be grateful if
>somebody could forward to me those texts: interesting to see how many voices
>(and faces) civil society has brought into the process... and maybe get some
>insights on how to be effective towards Tunis.
>thanks
>claudia padovani
>Department of Historical and Political Studies
>University of Padova
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez"
><opetrov@worldbank.org>
>To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:45 AM
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development] Special
>Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the Role of ICT
>in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
>
>
>>  Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!
>>
>>  The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
>took
>>  place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for
>>  harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology
>(ICT)
>>  to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration, through
>>  cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private sector and
>>  government. It also sought to chart a path towards the Summit?s second
>>  phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in its draft plan of
>action.
>>  The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the
>global
>>  community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development and
>>  the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals, sanctioned at
>>  the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified by countries
>around
>>  the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the
>  > developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the
>potential
>  > of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.
>  >
>  > + See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
>>  http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
>>
>>  + Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
>>  http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp
>>
>>  DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature on
>ICT
>>  and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the
>message
>>  it seeks to deliver to the world.
>>
>>  + See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT or
>>  directly at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=815843
>>
>>  The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals for
>>  Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11, on the
>>  topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of the World
>>  Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the Millennium
>Development
>>  Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7
>>  regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri Lanka
>to
>>  Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from developing
>>  and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees in Geneva.  The
>>  participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico (8 sites), Romania,
>>  Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa Clara, and Washington,
>>  D.C. The videoconference began with the introduction of participating
>sites
>>  and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming
>remarks.
>>  It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos Braga,
>>  Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank; Nagy Hanna,
>>  Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO, Sri Lanka ICT
>  > Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute for Information
>>  Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson, Professor, University of
>>  Maryland and others. The discussions focused on the role of the donor
>>  community, how to operationalize the e-development agenda, the role of
>>  multi-stakeholder partnerships, e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and
>>  Sri Lanka's comprehensive approach to e-development. The meeting was also
>>  broadcast live through the Development Gateway website and an online
>>  discussion component allowed webcast viewers from around the world to
>engage
>>  in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look out
>>  for our special feature on the videoconference (including video clips,
>>  photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up highlight in
>the
>>  upcoming weeks.
>>
>>  + You can learn more about it at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc
>>
>>  John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over the
>last
>>  several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These are
>>  compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length presentation titled
>>  ?Information and Communications Technology Applied to the Millennium
>>  Development Goals.?
>>
>>  + Read John's essay at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840982
>>
>>  The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which moves
>>  beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific projects,
>>  towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by coordinated ICT
>>  investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor of
>>  e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview with our editors,
>describes
>>  the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.
>>
>>  + Read it at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840917
>>
>>  + Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.htm
>>
>>  + See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411
>>
>>  +  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis
>>
>>  + Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS
>Follow-up.
>>  Feel free to contribute!
>>
>>  + Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:
>>
>>  "The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information and
>>  Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up to the
>>  February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents the latest
>>  information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have mainstreamed
>ICTs
>>  in their development assistance programmes in order to more effectively
>and
>>  efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium
>>  Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the World
>>  Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative input from
>>  the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix and other
>related
>>  documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This CD-ROM
>>  will also be available free of charge through our website
>>  www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable
>>  information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a wider
>>  audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science & Technology,
>>  Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email  ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"
>>
>>  + See the Matrix at:
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf
>>
>>  +  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in Eurasia
>>  In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development community on
>>  the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program Officer at the
>>  American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues that "over the past
>>  decade information and communication technology (ICT), in particular the
>>  advent of the Internet, has presented new opportunities and models for
>>  health professionals to access the most current information and update
>their
>>  skills?especially in countries where economic and financial conditions
>have
>>  prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to journals.
>This
>>  article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact
>health,
>>  drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here, referring
>to
>>  the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union)."
>>  Date: Dec. 2003.
>>
>http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_id=3727
>>  83&version_id=225719
>>
>>  +  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
>>  Nominate the individual or organization that has had the greatest impact
>in
>>  the field of ICT for development for the 100,000 Euro Petersberg Prize.
>>  Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced earlier this
>year
>>  at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn, Germany.
>>  The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development Gateway Forum,
>in
>>  2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit
>>  www.dgfoundation.org/prize
>>
>>  Our Editorial Team would like to wish our members
>>
>>  A Very Happy New Year!!!
>>
>>  Sincerely,
>>
>>  Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez
>>
>>  ----------------------------------------------------------
>>  You received this message because you are one of the 5659 DG members who
>>  have selected to receive broadcasts on ICT for Development from the
>>  Development Gateway. To subscribe, unsubscribe, add your bio and photo to
>>  your personal profile or change how often you receive email from the
>Gateway
>>  (e.g. hourly, daily, weekly or bimonthly) go to
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>>  interests" and click on "Update" at the bottom of the page. Our community
>>  now consists of 6109 members in over 170 countries who have shared about
>>  6012 knowledge resources as of December 30, 2003. Further distribution of
>>  this message is encouraged. Did you know, that by posting materials on the
>>  ICT for Development portal of the Gateway you are reaching a targeted
>>  audience of over 5806 ICT4D professionals? Learn more about us!
>>  http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/blob?pid=2851
>>
>>
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From rguerra at cpsr.org  Thu Jan  8 15:28:19 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] asking for little help
In-Reply-To: <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>
References: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCEECCDBAA.opetrov@worldbank.org>
 <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>
Message-ID: <2147483647.1073557699@[192.168.0.56]>

Claudia:

Here's links i could find on the  Indigenous IS Forum held in geneva...

WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY  The Global Forum of Indigenous 
Peoples and the Information Society  8 ? 11 December  Geneva

Final report available at:
<http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/pfii/PFII3/documents/FinalReportUNSPFII200
3.pdf>

regards

Robert




--On Thursday, January 8, 2004 1:16 PM +0100 Claudia Padovani 
<claudia.padovani@unipd.it> wrote:

> Ciao to all and best wishes for the new year.
> As I keep going with my content analysis work on WSIS documents, I am
> trying to find the different Declarations that were mentioned in the
> Closing sesssion in Geneva (on the 12th afternoon). As only the Civil
> Society Declaration of Dec 8th is available from the official website,
> what about Lyon, the indigenous people, and disabled people? I would
> be grateful if somebody could forward to me those texts: interesting
> to see how many voices (and faces) civil society has brought into the
> process... and maybe get some insights on how to be effective towards
> Tunis.
> thanks
> claudia padovani
> Department of Historical and Political Studies
> University of Padova
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez"
> <opetrov@worldbank.org>
> To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:45 AM
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development]
> Special Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the
> Role of ICT in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
>
>
>> Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!
>>
>> The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society
>> (WSIS)
> took
>> place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for
>> harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology
> (ICT)
>> to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration,
>> through cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private
>> sector and government. It also sought to chart a path towards the
>> Summit?s second phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in
>> its draft plan of
> action.
>> The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the
> global
>> community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development
>> and the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals,
>> sanctioned at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified
>> by countries
> around
>> the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the
>> developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the
> potential
>> of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.
>>
>> + See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
>> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
>>
>> + Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
>> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp
>>
>> DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature
>> on
> ICT
>> and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the
> message
>> it seeks to deliver to the world.
>>
>> + See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT or
>> directly at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=815843
>>
>> The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals for
>> Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11, on
>> the topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of the
>> World Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the Millennium
> Development
>> Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7
>> regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri
>> Lanka
> to
>> Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from
>> developing and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees
>> in Geneva.  The participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico
>> (8 sites), Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa
>> Clara, and Washington, D.C. The videoconference began with the
>> introduction of participating
> sites
>> and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming
> remarks.
>> It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos
>> Braga, Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank;
>> Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO,
>> Sri Lanka ICT Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute
>> for Information Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson,
>> Professor, University of Maryland and others. The discussions focused
>> on the role of the donor community, how to operationalize the
>> e-development agenda, the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships,
>> e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and Sri Lanka's comprehensive
>> approach to e-development. The meeting was also broadcast live
>> through the Development Gateway website and an online discussion
>> component allowed webcast viewers from around the world to
> engage
>> in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look
>> out for our special feature on the videoconference (including video
>> clips, photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up
>> highlight in
> the
>> upcoming weeks.
>>
>> + You can learn more about it at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc
>>
>> John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over
>> the
> last
>> several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These
>> are compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length
>> presentation titled ?Information and Communications Technology
>> Applied to the Millennium Development Goals.?
>>
>> + Read John's essay at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840982
>>
>> The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which
>> moves beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific
>> projects, towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by
>> coordinated ICT investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna,
>> Senior Advisor of e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview
>> with our editors,
> describes
>> the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.
>>
>> + Read it at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840917
>>
>> + Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.h
>> tm
>>
>> + See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411
>>
>> +  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis
>>
>> + Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS
> Follow-up.
>> Feel free to contribute!
>>
>> + Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:
>>
>> "The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information
>> and Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up
>> to the February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents
>> the latest information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have
>> mainstreamed
> ICTs
>> in their development assistance programmes in order to more
>> effectively
> and
>> efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium
>> Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the
>> World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative
>> input from the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix
>> and other
> related
>> documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This
>> CD-ROM will also be available free of charge through our website
>> www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable
>> information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a
>> wider audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science &
>> Technology, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email
>> ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"
>>
>> + See the Matrix at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf
>>
>> +  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in
>> Eurasia In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development
>> community on the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program
>> Officer at the American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues
>> that "over the past decade information and communication technology
>> (ICT), in particular the advent of the Internet, has presented new
>> opportunities and models for health professionals to access the most
>> current information and update
> their
>> skills?especially in countries where economic and financial conditions
> have
>> prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to
>> journals.
> This
>> article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact
> health,
>> drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here,
>> referring
> to
>> the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
>> Union)." Date: Dec. 2003.
>>
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_i
> d=3727
>> 83&version_id=225719
>>
>> +  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
>> Nominate the individual or organization that has had the greatest
>> impact
> in
>> the field of ICT for development for the 100,000 Euro Petersberg
>> Prize. Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced
>> earlier this
> year
>> at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn,
>> Germany. The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development
>> Gateway Forum,
> in
>> 2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit
>> www.dgfoundation.org/prize
>>
>> Our Editorial Team would like to wish our members
>>
>> A Very Happy New Year!!!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> You received this message because you are one of the 5659 DG members
>> who have selected to receive broadcasts on ICT for Development from
>> the Development Gateway. To subscribe, unsubscribe, add your bio and
>> photo to your personal profile or change how often you receive email
>> from the
> Gateway
>> (e.g. hourly, daily, weekly or bimonthly) go to
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/pvt and change the settings under
>> "My interests" and click on "Update" at the bottom of the page. Our
>> community now consists of 6109 members in over 170 countries who have
>> shared about 6012 knowledge resources as of December 30, 2003.
>> Further distribution of this message is encouraged. Did you know,
>> that by posting materials on the ICT for Development portal of the
>> Gateway you are reaching a targeted audience of over 5806 ICT4D
>> professionals? Learn more about us!
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/blob?pid=2851
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________
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>> http://lists.sn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/wsis
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From mciver at albany.edu  Thu Jan  8 16:05:12 2004
From: mciver at albany.edu (Bill McIver)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] GNU Marks its 20th Birthday
Message-ID: <3FFD7FB8.4070403@albany.edu>

All,

We should note that Richard Stallman has marked
the 20th anniversary of GNU.

Thank you Richard!
I remember using first Emacs on a DEC-20 in the mid 80s.

He has written an article on this occassion.

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/05/1231254


WJM
-- 

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

e-mail: mciver@albany.edu
URL: http://www.albany.edu/~mciver



From rguerra at cpsr.org  Thu Jan  8 15:28:19 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS THETHA] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] asking for little help
In-Reply-To: <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>
References: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCEECCDBAA.opetrov@worldbank.org>
 <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>
Message-ID: <2147483647.1073557699@[192.168.0.56]>

Claudia:

Here's links i could find on the  Indigenous IS Forum held in geneva...

WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY  The Global Forum of Indigenous 
Peoples and the Information Society  8 ? 11 December  Geneva

Final report available at:
<http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/pfii/PFII3/documents/FinalReportUNSPFII200
3.pdf>

regards

Robert




--On Thursday, January 8, 2004 1:16 PM +0100 Claudia Padovani 
<claudia.padovani@unipd.it> wrote:

> Ciao to all and best wishes for the new year.
> As I keep going with my content analysis work on WSIS documents, I am
> trying to find the different Declarations that were mentioned in the
> Closing sesssion in Geneva (on the 12th afternoon). As only the Civil
> Society Declaration of Dec 8th is available from the official website,
> what about Lyon, the indigenous people, and disabled people? I would
> be grateful if somebody could forward to me those texts: interesting
> to see how many voices (and faces) civil society has brought into the
> process... and maybe get some insights on how to be effective towards
> Tunis.
> thanks
> claudia padovani
> Department of Historical and Political Studies
> University of Padova
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez"
> <opetrov@worldbank.org>
> To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:45 AM
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development]
> Special Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the
> Role of ICT in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
>
>
>> Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!
>>
>> The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society
>> (WSIS)
> took
>> place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for
>> harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology
> (ICT)
>> to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration,
>> through cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private
>> sector and government. It also sought to chart a path towards the
>> Summit?s second phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in
>> its draft plan of
> action.
>> The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the
> global
>> community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development
>> and the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals,
>> sanctioned at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified
>> by countries
> around
>> the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the
>> developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the
> potential
>> of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.
>>
>> + See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
>> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
>>
>> + Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
>> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp
>>
>> DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature
>> on
> ICT
>> and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the
> message
>> it seeks to deliver to the world.
>>
>> + See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT or
>> directly at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=815843
>>
>> The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals for
>> Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11, on
>> the topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of the
>> World Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the Millennium
> Development
>> Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7
>> regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri
>> Lanka
> to
>> Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from
>> developing and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees
>> in Geneva.  The participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico
>> (8 sites), Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa
>> Clara, and Washington, D.C. The videoconference began with the
>> introduction of participating
> sites
>> and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming
> remarks.
>> It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos
>> Braga, Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank;
>> Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO,
>> Sri Lanka ICT Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute
>> for Information Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson,
>> Professor, University of Maryland and others. The discussions focused
>> on the role of the donor community, how to operationalize the
>> e-development agenda, the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships,
>> e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and Sri Lanka's comprehensive
>> approach to e-development. The meeting was also broadcast live
>> through the Development Gateway website and an online discussion
>> component allowed webcast viewers from around the world to
> engage
>> in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look
>> out for our special feature on the videoconference (including video
>> clips, photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up
>> highlight in
> the
>> upcoming weeks.
>>
>> + You can learn more about it at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc
>>
>> John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over
>> the
> last
>> several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These
>> are compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length
>> presentation titled ?Information and Communications Technology
>> Applied to the Millennium Development Goals.?
>>
>> + Read John's essay at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840982
>>
>> The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which
>> moves beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific
>> projects, towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by
>> coordinated ICT investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna,
>> Senior Advisor of e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview
>> with our editors,
> describes
>> the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.
>>
>> + Read it at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840917
>>
>> + Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.h
>> tm
>>
>> + See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411
>>
>> +  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis
>>
>> + Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS
> Follow-up.
>> Feel free to contribute!
>>
>> + Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:
>>
>> "The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information
>> and Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up
>> to the February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents
>> the latest information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have
>> mainstreamed
> ICTs
>> in their development assistance programmes in order to more
>> effectively
> and
>> efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium
>> Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the
>> World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative
>> input from the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix
>> and other
> related
>> documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This
>> CD-ROM will also be available free of charge through our website
>> www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable
>> information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a
>> wider audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science &
>> Technology, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email
>> ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"
>>
>> + See the Matrix at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf
>>
>> +  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in
>> Eurasia In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development
>> community on the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program
>> Officer at the American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues
>> that "over the past decade information and communication technology
>> (ICT), in particular the advent of the Internet, has presented new
>> opportunities and models for health professionals to access the most
>> current information and update
> their
>> skills?especially in countries where economic and financial conditions
> have
>> prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to
>> journals.
> This
>> article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact
> health,
>> drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here,
>> referring
> to
>> the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
>> Union)." Date: Dec. 2003.
>>
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_i
> d=3727
>> 83&version_id=225719
>>
>> +  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
>> Nominate the individual or organization that has had the greatest
>> impact
> in
>> the field of ICT for development for the 100,000 Euro Petersberg
>> Prize. Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced
>> earlier this
> year
>> at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn,
>> Germany. The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development
>> Gateway Forum,
> in
>> 2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit
>> www.dgfoundation.org/prize
>>
>> Our Editorial Team would like to wish our members
>>
>> A Very Happy New Year!!!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> You received this message because you are one of the 5659 DG members
>> who have selected to receive broadcasts on ICT for Development from
>> the Development Gateway. To subscribe, unsubscribe, add your bio and
>> photo to your personal profile or change how often you receive email
>> from the
> Gateway
>> (e.g. hourly, daily, weekly or bimonthly) go to
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/pvt and change the settings under
>> "My interests" and click on "Update" at the bottom of the page. Our
>> community now consists of 6109 members in over 170 countries who have
>> shared about 6012 knowledge resources as of December 30, 2003.
>> Further distribution of this message is encouraged. Did you know,
>> that by posting materials on the ICT for Development portal of the
>> Gateway you are reaching a targeted audience of over 5806 ICT4D
>> professionals? Learn more about us!
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/blob?pid=2851
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________
>> WSIS mailing list
>> WSIS@lists.sn.apc.org
>> http://lists.sn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/wsis
>> _______________________________________________
>> Plenary mailing list
>> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


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From rguerra at cpsr.org  Thu Jan  8 15:28:19 2004
From: rguerra at cpsr.org (Robert Guerra)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS THETHA] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] asking for little help
In-Reply-To: <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>
References: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCEECCDBAA.opetrov@worldbank.org>
 <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>
Message-ID: <2147483647.1073557699@[192.168.0.56]>

Claudia:

Here's links i could find on the  Indigenous IS Forum held in geneva...

WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY  The Global Forum of Indigenous 
Peoples and the Information Society  8 ? 11 December  Geneva

Final report available at:
<http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/pfii/PFII3/documents/FinalReportUNSPFII200
3.pdf>

regards

Robert




--On Thursday, January 8, 2004 1:16 PM +0100 Claudia Padovani 
<claudia.padovani@unipd.it> wrote:

> Ciao to all and best wishes for the new year.
> As I keep going with my content analysis work on WSIS documents, I am
> trying to find the different Declarations that were mentioned in the
> Closing sesssion in Geneva (on the 12th afternoon). As only the Civil
> Society Declaration of Dec 8th is available from the official website,
> what about Lyon, the indigenous people, and disabled people? I would
> be grateful if somebody could forward to me those texts: interesting
> to see how many voices (and faces) civil society has brought into the
> process... and maybe get some insights on how to be effective towards
> Tunis.
> thanks
> claudia padovani
> Department of Historical and Political Studies
> University of Padova
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez"
> <opetrov@worldbank.org>
> To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:45 AM
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development]
> Special Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the
> Role of ICT in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
>
>
>> Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!
>>
>> The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society
>> (WSIS)
> took
>> place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for
>> harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology
> (ICT)
>> to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration,
>> through cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private
>> sector and government. It also sought to chart a path towards the
>> Summit?s second phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in
>> its draft plan of
> action.
>> The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the
> global
>> community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development
>> and the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals,
>> sanctioned at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified
>> by countries
> around
>> the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the
>> developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the
> potential
>> of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.
>>
>> + See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
>> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
>>
>> + Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
>> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp
>>
>> DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature
>> on
> ICT
>> and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the
> message
>> it seeks to deliver to the world.
>>
>> + See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT or
>> directly at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=815843
>>
>> The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals for
>> Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11, on
>> the topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of the
>> World Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the Millennium
> Development
>> Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7
>> regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri
>> Lanka
> to
>> Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from
>> developing and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees
>> in Geneva.  The participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico
>> (8 sites), Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa
>> Clara, and Washington, D.C. The videoconference began with the
>> introduction of participating
> sites
>> and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming
> remarks.
>> It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos
>> Braga, Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank;
>> Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO,
>> Sri Lanka ICT Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute
>> for Information Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson,
>> Professor, University of Maryland and others. The discussions focused
>> on the role of the donor community, how to operationalize the
>> e-development agenda, the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships,
>> e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and Sri Lanka's comprehensive
>> approach to e-development. The meeting was also broadcast live
>> through the Development Gateway website and an online discussion
>> component allowed webcast viewers from around the world to
> engage
>> in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look
>> out for our special feature on the videoconference (including video
>> clips, photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up
>> highlight in
> the
>> upcoming weeks.
>>
>> + You can learn more about it at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc
>>
>> John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over
>> the
> last
>> several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These
>> are compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length
>> presentation titled ?Information and Communications Technology
>> Applied to the Millennium Development Goals.?
>>
>> + Read John's essay at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840982
>>
>> The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which
>> moves beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific
>> projects, towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by
>> coordinated ICT investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna,
>> Senior Advisor of e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview
>> with our editors,
> describes
>> the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.
>>
>> + Read it at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840917
>>
>> + Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.h
>> tm
>>
>> + See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411
>>
>> +  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis
>>
>> + Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS
> Follow-up.
>> Feel free to contribute!
>>
>> + Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:
>>
>> "The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information
>> and Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up
>> to the February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents
>> the latest information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have
>> mainstreamed
> ICTs
>> in their development assistance programmes in order to more
>> effectively
> and
>> efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium
>> Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the
>> World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative
>> input from the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix
>> and other
> related
>> documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This
>> CD-ROM will also be available free of charge through our website
>> www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable
>> information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a
>> wider audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science &
>> Technology, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email
>> ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"
>>
>> + See the Matrix at:
>> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf
>>
>> +  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in
>> Eurasia In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development
>> community on the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program
>> Officer at the American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues
>> that "over the past decade information and communication technology
>> (ICT), in particular the advent of the Internet, has presented new
>> opportunities and models for health professionals to access the most
>> current information and update
> their
>> skills?especially in countries where economic and financial conditions
> have
>> prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to
>> journals.
> This
>> article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact
> health,
>> drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here,
>> referring
> to
>> the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
>> Union)." Date: Dec. 2003.
>>
> http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_i
> d=3727
>> 83&version_id=225719
>>
>> +  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
>> Nominate the individual or organization that has had the greatest
>> impact
> in
>> the field of ICT for development for the 100,000 Euro Petersberg
>> Prize. Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced
>> earlier this
> year
>> at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn,
>> Germany. The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development
>> Gateway Forum,
> in
>> 2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit
>> www.dgfoundation.org/prize
>>
>> Our Editorial Team would like to wish our members
>>
>> A Very Happy New Year!!!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
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From bchaffers at bic.org  Fri Jan  9 16:15:58 2004
From: bchaffers at bic.org (Bahiyyih Chaffers)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Briefing yesterday in New York
Message-ID: <IEELKMLAPGGFMKFDNABAEEBECBAA.bchaffers@bic.org>

Hi everybody,

The United Nations Association-USA had a briefing yesterday in New York on
the WSIS entitled "The WSIS: What happened and Where Do We Go From Here?"
Participants included UN staff, government reps and NGO reps.

It was interesting to hear the different views of whether WSIS was a
success.  Some put forward that the Summit was a success as it is the first
time that the use of information technology for development has been put on
the map and an agenda is now set to address the issues globally.  Others
expressed distress about the political wrangling that took place and
wondered whether it would be possible to turn things around for Tunis.

What was clear is that it is critical to spend more time reflecting on our
experience.  What would be constructive would be to assess what were the
achievements and challenges during the Summit process.  Once we have an
understanding of where there was success, we can focus on how to strengthen
those areas and how to adjust for the weak spots.

What is incredibly empowering about the experience is the realization that
it is just part of the learning process of learning to work together as a
global community.  The process needs to be challenging to force us to learn
from each other and find common ground.

Warm wishes for the New Year,

Bahiyyih Chaffers
--
Representative to the United Nations
Baha'i International Community
United Nations Office, New York


P.s  This new journal looks interesting!

Subject: Information Technologies and International Development
Quarterly - WSIS

After the first phase of the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society,
Dec.10-12, 2003 in Geneva),  a new initiative has been launched :

Information Technologies and International Development will be the premier
journal in its field, focusing on the intersection of information and
communication technologies (ICT) with international development. It aims to
create a networked community of leading thinkers and strategists to discuss
the critical issues of ICT and development, an epistemic community that
crosses disciplines (especially technologists and social scientists),
national boundaries, and the North and South hemispheres. The audience for
Information Technologies and International Development will come from
academia, the private sector, NGOs, and government.

It will attract readers interested in the "other four billion" - the share
of the world population
whose countries are not yet widely connected to the Internet nor widely
considered in the design of new information technologies. The journal will
be informative, lively, and provocative. The MIT Press will publish this
exciting new quarterly periodical from Fall 2003.

For the Special Call for Papers on this  World Summit in Reflection, go to :
http://mitpress.mit.edu/ITID   or contact for add'l info:  Ernest Wilson :
ejw@itid.umd.edu






From claupad at libero.it  Fri Jan  9 10:50:22 2004
From: claupad at libero.it (Claudia Padovani)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] more declarations and action plans
References: <005c01c3d5e1$4f6ff100$712ea293@padovani>        <PEEKIMFLHNFPLMAPCMJEGEPGCDAA.sinikka.sipila@fla.fi> <2390.80.11.58.229.1073566471.squirrel@ssl.ouvaton.coop>
Message-ID: <019601c3d6a5$1388b4a0$291b1e97@Claudiacompaq>

Thanks to those of you who replied to my note.
I was referring to the declarations mentioned by the different speakers at
the Closing session in Geneva:
youth, there is a short document (available on the WSIS website) from
Telecom 2003, young people.
indigenous people: they did mention a declaration, not sure this is already
finalized
I did not know about WEMF report though to be "a Plan of Action", thanks
anything else you are aware of?
ciao
claudia

----- Original Message -----
From: <marie@mondes.info>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:54 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] more declarations and action plans


> Dear Claudia and all,
>
> All the best for 2004
>
> Some more declarations and questions...
>
> - Geneva Declaration on Accessible Information Society (disabled people)
>
http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/topics/public_awareness/12-12-03_gendec.htm
>
> - Aboriginal people
> http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/international.html
> (no declaration, just a report till now)
>
> - Swiss platform for the information society (Swiss Civil Society)
> http://www.cooperation.net/comunicach/info/107317.html
>
> - The WEMF also announces an action plan :
> Cf. http://www.wemfmedia.org/
> "The conclusions and recommendations from the WEMF interactive sessions
> and workshops will form the basis of a final report that constitutes an
> action plan for broadcasters in the run up to, and during, the Tunis phase
> of the WSIS in 2005. The complete final report will be available in print
> after January"
>
> - Is there also be a specific Youth Declaration ?
>
> Bises
> Marie
>
> >
> > Dear Claudia Padovani
> >
> > Here is a link to the Lyon Declaration.
> > http://www.cities-lyon.org/en/declaration
> >
> > With best regards
> >
> > Sinikka Sipila
> > Secretary General
> > Finnish Library Association
> > Vuorikatu 22 A 18
> > 00100 Helsinki
> > FINLAND
> > tel. 358 9 6221 399
> > fax. 358 9 6221 466
> > Mobile 358 400 659 363
> > sinikka.sipila@fla.fi
> > www.fla.fi
> >
> >
> > -----Alkuper?inen viesti-----
> > L?hett?j?: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
> > [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]Puolesta Claudia Padovani
> > L?hetetty: 8. tammikuuta 2004 14:17
> > Vastaanottaja: plenary@wsis-cs.org; wsis
> > Aihe: [WSIS CS-Plenary] asking for little help
> >
> >
> > Ciao to all and best wishes for the new year.
> > As I keep going with my content analysis work on WSIS documents, I am
> > trying to find the different Declarations that were mentioned in the
> > Closing sesssion in Geneva (on the 12th afternoon). As only the Civil
> > Society Declaration of Dec 8th is available from the official website,
> > what about Lyon, the indigenous people, and disabled people? I would be
> > grateful if somebody could forward to me those texts: interesting to see
> > how many voices (and faces) civil society has brought into the
> > process... and maybe get some insights on how to be effective towards
> > Tunis.
> > thanks
> > claudia padovani
> > Department of Historical and Political Studies
> > University of Padova
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez"
> > <opetrov@worldbank.org>
> > To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:45 AM
> > Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [DG ICT for Development]
> > Special Feature on the World Summit on the Information Society and the
> > Role of ICT in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
> >
> >
> >> Dear Members of the ICT for Development community on the Gateway!
> >>
> >> The first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society
> >> (WSIS)
> > took
> >> place in Geneva on December 10-12, 2003, and discussed mechanisms for
> >> harnessing the potential of Information and Communications Technology
> > (ICT)
> >> to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration,
> >> through cooperative efforts among the donor community, the private
> >> sector and government. It also sought to chart a path towards the
> >> Summit?s second phase, scheduled for 2005 in Tunis, as outlined in its
> >> draft plan of
> > action.
> >> The Summit is an important event, symbolizing the recognition by the
> > global
> >> community of the role ICT can play in social and economic development
> >> and the reduction of poverty. The Millennium Development Goals,
> >> sanctioned at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and ratified
> >> by countries
> > around
> >> the world, set ambitious targets for improving people?s lives in the
> >> developing world, and policy makers are increasingly realizing the
> > potential
> >> of ICT in furthering their progress towards these targets.
> >>
> >> + See the Declaration of Principles from WSIS:
> >> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
> >>
> >> + Review the Plan of Action from the WSIS:
> >> http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp
> >>
> >> DG ICT4D editorial team has produced a comprehensive special feature
> >> on
> > ICT
> >> and the Millennium Development Goals in support of WSIS, and of the
> > message
> >> it seeks to deliver to the world.
> >>
> >> + See all the materials here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT or
> >> directly at:
> >> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=815843
> >>
> >> The Development Gateway in partnership with Computer Professionals for
> >> Social Responsibility organized a videoconference on December 11, on
> >> the topic ?Geneva and Beyond: Operationalizing Recommendations of the
> >> World Summit on the Information Society to help achieve the Millennium
> > Development
> >> Goals?. The videoconference connected  16 sites in 8 countries from 7
> >> regions, over 250  participants, and spanned 14 time zones from Sri
> >> Lanka
> > to
> >> Silicon Valley, and allowed civil society representatives from
> >> developing and transition countries to connect with Summit attendees
> >> in Geneva.  The participating sites were from India, Lebanon, Mexico
> >> (8 sites), Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and in the USA - Santa
> >> Clara, and Washington, D.C. The videoconference began with the
> >> introduction of participating
> > sites
> >> and Mohamed Muhsin's (World Bank Vice-President and CIO) welcoming
> > remarks.
> >> It was followed by several brief presentations delivered by Carlos
> >> Braga, Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank;
> >> Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor, ISG, World Bank; Manju Haththotuwa, CEO,
> >> Sri Lanka ICT Agency; Tatiana Ershova, Exeutive Director, Institute
> >> for Information Society Development - Russia; and Ernest Wilson,
> >> Professor, University of Maryland and others. The discussions focused
> >> on the role of the donor community, how to operationalize the
> >> e-development agenda, the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships,
> >> e-leadership in operationalizing WSIS, and Sri Lanka's comprehensive
> >> approach to e-development. The meeting was also broadcast live through
> >> the Development Gateway website and an online discussion component
> >> allowed webcast viewers from around the world to
> > engage
> >> in the discussion by posting questions for speakers in Geneva.   Look
> >> out for our special feature on the videoconference (including video
> >> clips, photos and summary of discussion) as part of WSIS follow-up
> >> highlight in
> > the
> >> upcoming weeks.
> >>
> >> + You can learn more about it at:
> >> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/221947/WSIS-Invitation.doc
> >>
> >> John Daly, one of our editors, has produced a series of essays over
> >> the
> > last
> >> several months on the role of ICT in meeting each of the Goals. These
> >> are compiled in our first feature into a monograph-length presentation
> >> titled ?Information and Communications Technology Applied to the
> >> Millennium Development Goals.?
> >>
> >> + Read John's essay at:
> >> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840982
> >>
> >> The World Bank is currently testing an e-Development framework which
> >> moves beyond the incorporation of ICT segments in sector specific
> >> projects, towards e-development projects that achieve synergies by
> >> coordinated ICT investments in a number of sectors. Nagy Hanna, Senior
> >> Advisor of e-Development at the World Bank, in an interview with our
> >> editors,
> > describes
> >> the e-Development approach and relates it to WSIS and MDGs.
> >>
> >> + Read it at:
> >> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=840917
> >>
> >> + Review our collection of WSIS, ICT and MDG Links:
> >> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222180/MDG_Links_revised.htm
> >>
> >> + See DG Knowledge Base on WSIS:
> >> http://www.developmentgateway.com/ict/browser/?keyword_list=481411
> >>
> >> +  Link to DG WSIS cross-topic special:
> >> http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis
> >>
> >> + Upcoming special features: ICT in Korea, ICT in Sri Lanka, WSIS
> > Follow-up.
> >> Feel free to contribute!
> >>
> >> + Note from our advisor Mr. Ichiro Tambo:
> >>
> >> "The OECD has produced an updated version of the "Donor Information
> >> and Communication Technology Strategies Matrix"  this is a follow up
> >> to the February 2001 and February 2003 versions. The Matrix presents
> >> the latest information on how bilateral and multilateral donors have
> >> mainstreamed
> > ICTs
> >> in their development assistance programmes in order to more
> >> effectively
> > and
> >> efficiently achieve development goals, particularly the Millennium
> >> Development Goals(MDGs). This updated version was contributed to the
> >> World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process as a collaborative
> >> input from the development community. A CD-ROM containing this Matrix
> >> and other
> > related
> >> documents was distributed during the WSIS and Summit events. This
> >> CD-ROM will also be available free of charge through our website
> >> www.oecd.org/dac/ict. We believe that this Matrix contains invaluable
> >> information on donor programmes  and it needs to be shared with a
> >> wider audience. With best wishes, Ichiro. Advisor on Science &
> >> Technology, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD. Email
> >> ichiro.tambo@oecd.org"
> >>
> >> + See the Matrix at:
> >> http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/220519/Fullmatrix.pdf
> >>
> >> +  ICT for Health : A Survey of Activities and Opportunities in
> >> Eurasia In his feature article contributed to the ICT for Development
> >> community on the Gateway, one of our advisors, Mark Storey, a Program
> >> Officer at the American International Health Alliance (AIHA), argues
> >> that "over the past decade information and communication technology
> >> (ICT), in particular the advent of the Internet, has presented new
> >> opportunities and models for health professionals to access the most
> >> current information and update
> > their
> >> skills?especially in countries where economic and financial conditions
> > have
> >> prevented medical libraries from maintaining subscriptions to
> >> journals.
> > This
> >> article will survey many of the ways that ICT can potentially impact
> > health,
> >> drawing upon several specific examples from the Eurasia (here,
> >> referring
> > to
> >> the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
> >> Union)." Date: Dec. 2003.
> >>
> >
http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_id=3727
> >> 83&version_id=225719
> >>
> >> +  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PETERSBERG PRIZE FOR ICT AND DEVELOPMENT -
> >> Nominate the individual or organization that has had the greatest
> >> impact
> > in
> >> the field of ICT for development for the 100,000 Euro Petersberg
> >> Prize. Nominations are due by February 1 for the Prize, announced
> >> earlier this
> > year
> >> at the Development Gateway's inaugural Forum in Petersberg/Bonn,
> >> Germany. The Prize will be awarded at the second annual Development
> >> Gateway Forum,
> > in
> >> 2004. For full information, rules, and nomination forms, please visit
> >> www.dgfoundation.org/prize
> >>
> >> Our Editorial Team would like to wish our members
> >>
> >> A Very Happy New Year!!!
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> Oleg Petrov, Nadia Afrin, John Daly and Rafael Hernandez
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------
> >> You received this message because you are one of the 5659 DG members
> >> who have selected to receive broadcasts on ICT for Development from
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> >> community now consists of 6109 members in over 170 countries who have
> >> shared about 6012 knowledge resources as of December 30, 2003. Further
> >> distribution of this message is encouraged. Did you know, that by
> >> posting materials on the ICT for Development portal of the Gateway you
> >> are reaching a targeted audience of over 5806 ICT4D professionals?
> >> Learn more about us!
> >> http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/blob?pid=2851
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> >>
> >>
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From ecarll at optonline.net  Fri Jan  9 16:35:59 2004
From: ecarll at optonline.net (Elizabeth Carll, PhD)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Briefing yesterday in New York
In-Reply-To: <IEELKMLAPGGFMKFDNABAEEBECBAA.bchaffers@bic.org>
Message-ID: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAEEFLGIAA.ecarll@optonline.net>

Bahiyyih Chaffers has posted an excellent brief synopsis of the discussions.
I also attended the  United Nations Association-USA briefing and found the
briefing and comments from the audience interesting.  I would like to add
that there was mention of the CS Declaration by one of the speakers, who
described it as much more comprehensive than the WSIS Principles and Plan of
Action and commended the CS Declaration's focus on emphasizing people and
human rights.  While no document can capture all the issues perfectly, it
was nice to see the appreciation for the CS Declaration as a first step in
attempting to address the many issues.

It is always good to be able to provide positive feedback to those who
invested much time and effort over this lengthy and involved process to
develop and draft the CS Declaration. While I was a relative newcomer to the
process, it is apparent that long term focused efforts can produce results.

Best regards,

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net


-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of Bahiyyih Chaffers
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:16 AM
To: Plenary@Wsis-Cs. Org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Briefing yesterday in New York


Hi everybody,

The United Nations Association-USA had a briefing yesterday in New York on
the WSIS entitled "The WSIS: What happened and Where Do We Go From Here?"
Participants included UN staff, government reps and NGO reps.

It was interesting to hear the different views of whether WSIS was a
success.  Some put forward that the Summit was a success as it is the first
time that the use of information technology for development has been put on
the map and an agenda is now set to address the issues globally.  Others
expressed distress about the political wrangling that took place and
wondered whether it would be possible to turn things around for Tunis.

What was clear is that it is critical to spend more time reflecting on our
experience.  What would be constructive would be to assess what were the
achievements and challenges during the Summit process.  Once we have an
understanding of where there was success, we can focus on how to strengthen
those areas and how to adjust for the weak spots.

What is incredibly empowering about the experience is the realization that
it is just part of the learning process of learning to work together as a
global community.  The process needs to be challenging to force us to learn
from each other and find common ground.

Warm wishes for the New Year,

Bahiyyih Chaffers
--
Representative to the United Nations
Baha'i International Community
United Nations Office, New York


P.s  This new journal looks interesting!

Subject: Information Technologies and International Development
Quarterly - WSIS

After the first phase of the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society,
Dec.10-12, 2003 in Geneva),  a new initiative has been launched :

Information Technologies and International Development will be the premier
journal in its field, focusing on the intersection of information and
communication technologies (ICT) with international development. It aims to
create a networked community of leading thinkers and strategists to discuss
the critical issues of ICT and development, an epistemic community that
crosses disciplines (especially technologists and social scientists),
national boundaries, and the North and South hemispheres. The audience for
Information Technologies and International Development will come from
academia, the private sector, NGOs, and government.

It will attract readers interested in the "other four billion" - the share
of the world population
whose countries are not yet widely connected to the Internet nor widely
considered in the design of new information technologies. The journal will
be informative, lively, and provocative. The MIT Press will publish this
exciting new quarterly periodical from Fall 2003.

For the Special Call for Papers on this  World Summit in Reflection, go to :
http://mitpress.mit.edu/ITID   or contact for add'l info:  Ernest Wilson :
ejw@itid.umd.edu





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From ecarll at optonline.net  Fri Jan  9 17:19:21 2004
From: ecarll at optonline.net (Elizabeth Carll, PhD)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Briefing yesterday in New York
In-Reply-To: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAEEFLGIAA.ecarll@optonline.net>
Message-ID: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAKEFMGIAA.ecarll@optonline.net>

In clarification,  the reference, below, to "one of the speakers" may not
have been clear.   I was referring to one of the 3 key speakers/presenters
at the briefing, who were providing an overview of WSIS,  commended the CS
Declaration.

-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of Elizabeth Carll, PhD
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:36 AM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Briefing yesterday in New York


Bahiyyih Chaffers has posted an excellent brief synopsis of the discussions.
I also attended the  United Nations Association-USA briefing and found the
briefing and comments from the audience interesting.

I would like to add
that there was mention of the CS Declaration by one of the speakers, who
described it as much more comprehensive than the WSIS Principles and Plan of
Action and commended the CS Declaration's focus on emphasizing people and
human rights.  While no document can capture all the issues perfectly, it
was nice to see the appreciation for the CS Declaration as a first step in
attempting to address the many issues.

It is always good to be able to provide positive feedback to those who
invested much time and effort over this lengthy and involved process to
develop and draft the CS Declaration. While I was a relative newcomer to the
process, it is apparent that long term focused efforts can produce results.

Best regards,

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net


-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of Bahiyyih Chaffers
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:16 AM
To: Plenary@Wsis-Cs. Org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Briefing yesterday in New York


Hi everybody,

The United Nations Association-USA had a briefing yesterday in New York on
the WSIS entitled "The WSIS: What happened and Where Do We Go From Here?"
Participants included UN staff, government reps and NGO reps.

It was interesting to hear the different views of whether WSIS was a
success.  Some put forward that the Summit was a success as it is the first
time that the use of information technology for development has been put on
the map and an agenda is now set to address the issues globally.  Others
expressed distress about the political wrangling that took place and
wondered whether it would be possible to turn things around for Tunis.

What was clear is that it is critical to spend more time reflecting on our
experience.  What would be constructive would be to assess what were the
achievements and challenges during the Summit process.  Once we have an
understanding of where there was success, we can focus on how to strengthen
those areas and how to adjust for the weak spots.

What is incredibly empowering about the experience is the realization that
it is just part of the learning process of learning to work together as a
global community.  The process needs to be challenging to force us to learn
from each other and find common ground.

Warm wishes for the New Year,

Bahiyyih Chaffers
--
Representative to the United Nations
Baha'i International Community
United Nations Office, New York


P.s  This new journal looks interesting!

Subject: Information Technologies and International Development
Quarterly - WSIS

After the first phase of the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society,
Dec.10-12, 2003 in Geneva),  a new initiative has been launched :

Information Technologies and International Development will be the premier
journal in its field, focusing on the intersection of information and
communication technologies (ICT) with international development. It aims to
create a networked community of leading thinkers and strategists to discuss
the critical issues of ICT and development, an epistemic community that
crosses disciplines (especially technologists and social scientists),
national boundaries, and the North and South hemispheres. The audience for
Information Technologies and International Development will come from
academia, the private sector, NGOs, and government.

It will attract readers interested in the "other four billion" - the share
of the world population
whose countries are not yet widely connected to the Internet nor widely
considered in the design of new information technologies. The journal will
be informative, lively, and provocative. The MIT Press will publish this
exciting new quarterly periodical from Fall 2003.

For the Special Call for Papers on this  World Summit in Reflection, go to :
http://mitpress.mit.edu/ITID   or contact for add'l info:  Ernest Wilson :
ejw@itid.umd.edu





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From ljeffrey at ecommons.net  Fri Jan  9 17:14:43 2004
From: ljeffrey at ecommons.net (Liss Jeffrey)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Briefing yesterday in New York
In-Reply-To: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAEEFLGIAA.ecarll@optonline.net>
References: <IEELKMLAPGGFMKFDNABAEEBECBAA.bchaffers@bic.org>
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040109120405.03dccbc0@141.117.45.50>


Just wanted to chime in and thank all of those who are reporting on 
particular reflections and follow up meetings and reports.
These actions really help all of us develop a more comprehensive world 
view, as we shift focus from Geneva to Tunis.
In Canada, the Canadian Commission on Unesco has arranged a civil society 
debriefing for those who went to Geneva, on Friday, January 23rd in Ottawa.
If anyone on list has not yet received their invitation, please let me know 
as I am adding to the list of participants.
We will post results from this meeting, and continue discussions among the 
Canadian civil society groups next week on the web space C2C that 
eCommons/agora is hosting:
http://wsis.ecommons.ca
http://smsi.agora-electronique.ca

Marc Raboy has agreed to post an essay he is doing on the role of global 
civil society on the site, and we will host a discussion once that happens.
Plus my seminar at McLuhan program University of Toronto, New media and 
policy: Canada in global context, will be adding materials and brain 
storming specific topics (such as the indicators and framework for 
evaluating the Plan of Action) between January 12 and April 4th. We will 
let the list know about major events (a few netcasts and forums are 
planned) and summary reports that will be prepared from time to time.

Again, many thanks to those who are taking time to use this web instrument 
to help us witness the aftermath of the WSIS SMSI process. We all know that 
WSIS is a work in progress, and now we can get on with the task in our own 
neighbourhoods (local and global) while staying alert to actions at a distance.
Cheers
Liss Jeffrey
Director, eCommons/agora project


At 11:35 AM 09/01/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>Bahiyyih Chaffers has posted an excellent brief synopsis of the discussions.
>I also attended the  United Nations Association-USA briefing and found the
>briefing and comments from the audience interesting.  I would like to add
>that there was mention of the CS Declaration by one of the speakers, who
>described it as much more comprehensive than the WSIS Principles and Plan of
>Action and commended the CS Declaration's focus on emphasizing people and
>human rights.  While no document can capture all the issues perfectly, it
>was nice to see the appreciation for the CS Declaration as a first step in
>attempting to address the many issues.
>
>It is always good to be able to provide positive feedback to those who
>invested much time and effort over this lengthy and involved process to
>develop and draft the CS Declaration. While I was a relative newcomer to the
>process, it is apparent that long term focused efforts can produce results.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Elizabeth
>
>Dr. Elizabeth Carll
>Focal Point
>International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
>Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
>NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
>Tel: 1-631-754-2424
>Fax: 1-631-754-5032
>ecarll@optonline.net
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
>Behalf Of Bahiyyih Chaffers
>Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:16 AM
>To: Plenary@Wsis-Cs. Org
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Briefing yesterday in New York
>
>
>Hi everybody,
>
>The United Nations Association-USA had a briefing yesterday in New York on
>the WSIS entitled "The WSIS: What happened and Where Do We Go From Here?"
>Participants included UN staff, government reps and NGO reps.
>
>It was interesting to hear the different views of whether WSIS was a
>success.  Some put forward that the Summit was a success as it is the first
>time that the use of information technology for development has been put on
>the map and an agenda is now set to address the issues globally.  Others
>expressed distress about the political wrangling that took place and
>wondered whether it would be possible to turn things around for Tunis.
>
>What was clear is that it is critical to spend more time reflecting on our
>experience.  What would be constructive would be to assess what were the
>achievements and challenges during the Summit process.  Once we have an
>understanding of where there was success, we can focus on how to strengthen
>those areas and how to adjust for the weak spots.
>
>What is incredibly empowering about the experience is the realization that
>it is just part of the learning process of learning to work together as a
>global community.  The process needs to be challenging to force us to learn
>from each other and find common ground.
>
>Warm wishes for the New Year,
>
>Bahiyyih Chaffers
>--
>Representative to the United Nations
>Baha'i International Community
>United Nations Office, New York
>
>
>P.s  This new journal looks interesting!
>
>Subject: Information Technologies and International Development
>Quarterly - WSIS
>
>After the first phase of the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society,
>Dec.10-12, 2003 in Geneva),  a new initiative has been launched :
>
>Information Technologies and International Development will be the premier
>journal in its field, focusing on the intersection of information and
>communication technologies (ICT) with international development. It aims to
>create a networked community of leading thinkers and strategists to discuss
>the critical issues of ICT and development, an epistemic community that
>crosses disciplines (especially technologists and social scientists),
>national boundaries, and the North and South hemispheres. The audience for
>Information Technologies and International Development will come from
>academia, the private sector, NGOs, and government.
>
>It will attract readers interested in the "other four billion" - the share
>of the world population
>whose countries are not yet widely connected to the Internet nor widely
>considered in the design of new information technologies. The journal will
>be informative, lively, and provocative. The MIT Press will publish this
>exciting new quarterly periodical from Fall 2003.
>
>For the Special Call for Papers on this  World Summit in Reflection, go to :
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/ITID   or contact for add'l info:  Ernest Wilson :
>ejw@itid.umd.edu
>
>
>
>
>
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From rikp at bluewin.ch  Sat Jan 10 06:26:23 2004
From: rikp at bluewin.ch (Rik Panganiban)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Briefing yesterday in New York
In-Reply-To: <IEELKMLAPGGFMKFDNABAEEBECBAA.bchaffers@bic.org>
Message-ID: <E91DE31E-4335-11D8-8515-000A95EA981E@bluewin.ch>

Dear colleagues,

Apparently DPI in New York is organizing an NGO briefing on Feb 12 on 
the WSIS as well.  I believe its at 10am in the Dag Hammerskjald 
auditorium.

Regards,

Rik Panganiban
WFM

On Friday, January 9, 2004, at 05:15 PM, Bahiyyih Chaffers wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> The United Nations Association-USA had a briefing yesterday in New 
> York on
> the WSIS entitled "The WSIS: What happened and Where Do We Go From 
> Here?"
> Participants included UN staff, government reps and NGO reps.
>
> It was interesting to hear the different views of whether WSIS was a
> success.  Some put forward that the Summit was a success as it is the 
> first
> time that the use of information technology for development has been 
> put on
> the map and an agenda is now set to address the issues globally.  
> Others
> expressed distress about the political wrangling that took place and
> wondered whether it would be possible to turn things around for Tunis.
>
> What was clear is that it is critical to spend more time reflecting on 
> our
> experience.  What would be constructive would be to assess what were 
> the
> achievements and challenges during the Summit process.  Once we have an
> understanding of where there was success, we can focus on how to 
> strengthen
> those areas and how to adjust for the weak spots.
>
> What is incredibly empowering about the experience is the realization 
> that
> it is just part of the learning process of learning to work together 
> as a
> global community.  The process needs to be challenging to force us to 
> learn
> from each other and find common ground.
>
> Warm wishes for the New Year,
>
> Bahiyyih Chaffers
> --
> Representative to the United Nations
> Baha'i International Community
> United Nations Office, New York
>
>
> P.s  This new journal looks interesting!
>
> Subject: Information Technologies and International Development
> Quarterly - WSIS
>
> After the first phase of the WSIS (World Summit on the Information 
> Society,
> Dec.10-12, 2003 in Geneva),  a new initiative has been launched :
>
> Information Technologies and International Development will be the 
> premier
> journal in its field, focusing on the intersection of information and
> communication technologies (ICT) with international development. It 
> aims to
> create a networked community of leading thinkers and strategists to 
> discuss
> the critical issues of ICT and development, an epistemic community that
> crosses disciplines (especially technologists and social scientists),
> national boundaries, and the North and South hemispheres. The audience 
> for
> Information Technologies and International Development will come from
> academia, the private sector, NGOs, and government.
>
> It will attract readers interested in the "other four billion" - the 
> share
> of the world population
> whose countries are not yet widely connected to the Internet nor widely
> considered in the design of new information technologies. The journal 
> will
> be informative, lively, and provocative. The MIT Press will publish 
> this
> exciting new quarterly periodical from Fall 2003.
>
> For the Special Call for Papers on this  World Summit in Reflection, 
> go to :
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/ITID   or contact for add'l info:  Ernest 
> Wilson :
> ejw@itid.umd.edu
>
>
>
>
>
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From mciver at albany.edu  Sat Jan 10 21:24:52 2004
From: mciver at albany.edu (Bill McIver)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS -- CS Declaration -- Thank you
Message-ID: <40006DA4.2070007@albany.edu>

My WSIS Comrades*,

I've been planning this note for quite some time.
Please forgive the delay.

--

I have just hung the WSIS "flag" that you gave me at the Summit.

Thank you to everyone for allowing me to
be a part of the effort to create the CS Declaration.

I was deeply honored to be given the task to present it in the Plenary
on behalf of all of you worked on it and endorsed it.

Thank you to everyone who contributed in all of the
myriad ways to the realization of our declaration.

Thank you also to Louise and Alain for their efforts.

Special thanks go to my co-coordinator, Sally Burch.
She really provided most of the coordination "energy" between the two of us.
Not many people within CS have her experience and knowledge
in operating within this realm and we should all feel very
fortunate to have had her.

--

Chris Nichol and Claudia Padovani wrote
on my flag (not to overlook what others wrote :-\ ):

     "It was worth it" and "Let's keep going," respectively.


I agree!  ?La lucha sigue!


Best,

WJM

* For the  U.S. State Department filter.
-- 

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

e-mail: mciver@albany.edu
URL: http://www.albany.edu/~mciver



From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Sun Jan 11 09:38:58 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS -- CS Declaration -- Thank you
In-Reply-To: <40006DA4.2070007@albany.edu>
Message-ID: <20040111093858.50793.qmail@web60705.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear Bill,
As I feel it during my visit to the Summit, indeed,
You, Sally and other colleagues, especially from Cris
and Communica CH you what you did was great. Signing
your flag and the Sally's flag put a little problem :
some of us, was not so happy of how the Civil Society
has been considered duting the Summit. Really we don't
feel as partners in the participation to the Summit
activities. But it was true that somme person did the
best and more than the best.
We must absolutely discuss how to think our
participation differently for Tunis. More presence of
civil society in the preparatory phase.... More
presence of French and other languages... You must
believe that it was inacceptable how all no english
speaking has been non-considered.... We must be sure
that the South african civile society representatives
are really what they seem to be. As long as the
problem of the cost of their participation to any
event is not defined Govenments of the Noth and the
South, United Nations Agencies and Transnational
privite society will send to these events their
slaves.... Some big mouths are already pleading for a
big "Don't participate to Tunis round"... All
possibilities are opened to be discussed, but please
let's do it tunisian and african civil societies
representative and don't decide for them... and for
that let's help South civile society to be stronger
and able to defend her own vision... in French or in
arabic or in spanish or potugueese if any.
Let's start discussions using God English and each
time one other language... Thet is a proof that we
respect each other. When my english speaking friends
will do the same effort i am doing translating from
french to english, they will understand better what i
mean.
Cher Bill,
Comme je l'ai ressenti durant le Sommet, Vous, Sally
et d'autres collègues de CRIS et de Communica CH vous
avez beaucoup fait. A la signature du drapeau de
remerciement pour vous et pour Sally, cela n'a^pas
manqué de poser certains problèmes de conscience.
Certains d'entre nous n'étaient pas du tout content de
la façon dont la société civile a été condidérée
durant le Sommet. Vraiment nous n'avons pas été traité
comme des parteners durant le Sommet. mais certains
ont abattu un travail remarquable et méritaient notre
reconaissance.
Nous devrions absolument réfléchir sur comment
procéder différemment pour le prochain sommet de
Tunis.
Plus de presence (de force et de conviction de
propositions concertée) de la société civile durant la
phase préparatoire du Sommet....
Plus de présence du Français et des autres langues
officielles de l'ONU aux travaux de préparation et de
tenue du sommet... C'était tout simplement scandaleux
et humilinat comment les non englophone étaient
déconsidérés et humiliés durant le sommet de
Genève....
Nous devons nous assurer d'une présence représentative
de la société civile et non des alibis et escalves
payés par les Gouvernements, les agences onusiennes et
pire encore les multinationales pour participer au
sommet uniquement pour applaudir n'importe quoi et
pour cela le seul critère c'est de s'assurer comment
le coût de participation de cette dite société civile
du Sud (et peut-être du Nord aussi) est prise en
considération par les organisateurs !
Quelques grosses pointures que je salue sont déjà
parti à l'offensive pour disqualifier la tenue du
sommet à Tunis... Tout est discutable mais tout doit
rester ouvert aux débats et la société civile
tunisienne et africaine ont leur mot à dire
(souverainement et sans diktat de leurs amis du Nord)
et elle doit  pouvoir l'xprimer sans complexe en
francias, en arabe, en espagnol ou en portuguais...
aidons la à se fortifier et à s'exprimet et respectons
ses choix...
Faisons l'affort de rédiger nos message dans deux
langues au moins et nous nous comprendrons mieux....
Amitiés
Djilali          
--- Bill McIver <mciver@albany.edu> wrote:
> 
> My WSIS Comrades*,.....


=====
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From aileen at isiswomen.org  Tue Jan 13 07:28:13 2004
From: aileen at isiswomen.org (Aileen Familara)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ISIS MANILA TO HOST PANEL PRESENTATION ON THE INTERLINKAGES OF GLOBALISED MEDIA AND ICT SYSTEMS AT THE WSF 2004
Message-ID: <00a601c3d9a6$ce099980$0b00a8c0@isiswomen.org>

ISIS MANILA TO HOST PANEL PRESENTATION ON "THE INTERLINKAGES OF GLOBALISED
MEDIA AND ICT SYSTEMS" AT THE WSF 2004

Isis International Manila is organising the Panel Presentation "The
Interlinkages of Globalised Media and ICT Systems and Structures to Economic
Globalisation, Militarism and Fundamentalisms" as part of its active
participation at the World Social Forum 2004. This will be held on 18
January 2004 at the NESCO Grounds, Western Express Highway, Goreagon,
Mumbai, India.

Isis Manila will bring together a cross section of activists from different
regions and different struggles to contribute in the discourse of the
emerging and cutting-edge issues of globalised and corporatised media and
ICT (information and communication technology) systems, economic
globalisation, fundamentalisms and militarisms. By examining the
interrelationship of these issues through a panel discussion, Isis hopes to
help enhance the body of critical analyses of today's global information and
communication order. With a panel that includes activists from all regions,
Isis hopes to be able to broaden the scope of debate and discussion on the
issues and alternatives, to ensure the viewing of these issues from various
vantage points: Southern, feminist, geo-political, historical and in
relation to political economy.

While Isis International Manila is a feminist organisation, it will bring
together voices that are not necessarily feminist, though all are strongly
political, as a way of enhancing the dialogue and enriching the debate on
these issues through an encounter of different political vantage points.

Specifically, the panel aims to:

* Create a venue for more activists in the area of media and communications,
globalisation, miltarisms and fundamentalisms to present their positions and
raise their concerns on critical issues;

* Raise awareness amongst social justice activists who are well versed on
issues of social justice, and economic globalisation, but less aware of the
linkages between their issues to the political struggles of communications
and media activists;

* Strengthen the voices of activists seeking to radicalise the current IT
for Development discourse with incisive and a more critical analytical
framework on the relevance, impact and meaning of media and ICT systems and
structures for the South.

To find out more about the event, please write to Susanna George
<susanna@isiswomen.org> or Raijeli Nicole <raijeli@isiswomen.org> or call
(632) 435-3405 or 435-3408 or 436-0312 extension 107, or send a fax to (632)
924-1065. In Mumbai, they may be reached at Hotel Apollo, telephone nos.
(91-22) 202-0223  (91-22) 287-3312 or by mobile phone 0981-926-3686

This initiative is a continuation of an earlier dialogue between feminist
communicators from the South around the issues of "Globalised Media and ICT
Systems and its Intersection with Globalisation, Fundamentalism and
Militarism" organised by Isis Manila during the three-day World Summit on
the Information Society (WSIS) last 10 December 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland.



From mediatec at sangonet.org.za  Mon Jan 12 11:04:44 2004
From: mediatec at sangonet.org.za (Eric Muragana)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] Information Technologies and International Development Quarterly - WSIS
Message-ID: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCKEFKDBAA.mediatec@sangonet.org.za>

Subject: Information Technologies and International Development
Quarterly - WSIS

After the first phase of the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society,
Dec.10-12, 2003 in Geneva), a new initiative has been launched :

Information Technologies and International Development will be the premier
journal in its field, focusing on the intersection of information and
communication technologies (ICT) with international development. It aims to
create a networked community of leading thinkers and strategists to discuss
the critical issues of ICT and development, an epistemic community that
crosses disciplines (especially technologists and social scientists),
national boundaries, and the North and South hemispheres. The audience for
Information Technologies and International Development will come from
academia, the private sector, NGOs, and government.

It will attract readers interested in the "other four billion" - the share
of the world population
whose countries are not yet widely connected to the Internet nor widely
considered in the design of new information technologies. The journal will
be informative, lively, and provocative. The MIT Press will publish this
exciting new quarterly periodical from Fall 2003.

For the Special Call for Papers on this World Summit in Reflection, go to :
http://mitpress.mit.edu/ITID or contact for add'l info: Ernest Wilson :
ejw@itid.umd.edu

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From njenga at apc.org  Mon Jan 12 12:45:28 2004
From: njenga at apc.org (Emmanuel Njenga Njenga)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] Workshop on ICT Policy and Civil Society - WSF 2004 Mumbai
Message-ID: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCCEGCDBAA.njenga@apc.org>

Dear all,

This is to inform you of a Workshop on ICT Policy and Civil Society to be
held at the World Social Forum 2004 in Mumbai, India.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
The ICT Policy for Civil Society workshop builds the capacity of civil
society organisations to understand policy and regulation related to
information and communication technologies (ICT) so that they can begin to
engage and influence policy processes affecting ICT adoption and
implementation at national, regional and global levels.

FOCUS OF WORKSHOP:
During the WSF 2004, the workshop will focus on ADVOCACY, TACTICS AND
LOBBYING For civil society using
the case study of the World Summit on Information Society - WSIS.

You may obtain additional information about APC's Capacity building
programmes from the website link below:

http://www.apc.org/english/capacity/policy/curriculum.shtml

WHEN - WHERE?
The workshop will take place on Sunday the 18th July from 1.00 - 4.00 pm at
the designated venue by the WSF organizers. Full details will be forwarded
to you later.

You may register your details and interest to participate at this workshop
on the website link below.

http://www.wsfindia.org/event2004/more.php?myvar=390

For any additional information or enquiry, do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards,

Emmanuel Njenga Njenga
Association for Progressive Communications - APC
E-mail: njenga@apc.org or africa.rights@apc.org
URL: http://africa.rights.apc.org
Association for Progressive Communications
http://www.apc.org

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From PT at wacc.org.uk  Wed Jan 14 16:28:06 2004
From: PT at wacc.org.uk (Pradip Thomas)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Call: Project and Research Coordinator 'Global Governance & Communication Rights'
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From rbloem at ngocongo.org  Wed Jan 14 23:50:39 2004
From: rbloem at ngocongo.org (Renata BLOEM)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WG on Health  (Mental and Physical) - Invitation
In-Reply-To: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAOELNGGAA.ecarll@optonline.net>
Message-ID: <IBEGJNBEEELEANPJGINMKEJJDEAA.rbloem@ngocongo.org>

Dear Elizabeth,

The WG on Health will fill a need. There is great interest from here to
join, in particular Manjit Dosanjh from CERN (health focal point)
<Manjit.Dosanjh@cern.ch>, Anne Lindsay, Secretary of the NGO Forum for
Health <ann.lindsay@ngo-forum-health.ch> and Manoj Kurian <mku@wcc-coe.org>,
Medical Commission of WCC and Prsident of the NGO Forum for Health.
I will be in New York next week. Maybe we can talk.
Best,

Renate Bloem
President of the Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
________________________
E-mail: rbloem@ngocongo.org
Website: www.ngocongo.org


-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of Elizabeth Carll, PhD
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:03 AM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org; ct@wsis-cs.org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WG on Health (Mental and Physical) -
Invitation


Dear All,

I had the pleasure of meeting many people from diverse backgrounds and
interest groups at WSIS and was impressed by the extensive work done by many
to accomplish agreement on the CS Declaration by such a diverse group.

In discussing the omission of any reference to the utilization of ICT for
access to and dissemination of mental health information in the WSIS
Principles and Plan of Action,  it became apparent that much needed to be
done to highlight this  important area.  Fortunately we were able to include
language in the CS Declaration as to the important role of ICT to mental
health.

As a result of the need to continue to highlight the importance of a
comprehensive view of health care, as often mental health is seen as
disconnected from physical health care, the formation of a Health Working
Group/Network was recommended with the goal of having both mental and
physical health information made available to all people via ICT and
integrated in the outcome processes leading to WSIS Phase Two.  All those
interested in health issues are invited to join to exchange information and
strategies.

Mental health is fundamental to overall health and productivity and is the
foundation for learning, thinking, communicating, self-esteem, resilience,
as well as successful functioning in one's work, family, community, and
society. Yet the majority of the world's people do not receive treatment for
diagnosable mental disorders as mental health is often viewed as
disconnected from health services.

While physical health information is recognized as needing to be accessed
via ICT, mental health information needs to be made available, especially to
developing countries, in the following important areas:

1.  Prevention and treatment of  mental disorders - More than 400 million
people are known to suffer from mental and brain disorders and these numbers
are expected to rise sharply over the next few decades, particularly among
people in the developing world.  Despite, the enormous social and economic
burden, more than 40% of the world's countries have no articulated mental
health policy, and over 30% have no mental health programs.

2.  Access to mental health expertise and scientific knowledge to benefit
traumatized populations - survivors of war, oppression, violations of human
rights, terrorism, and other traumatizing life events, as well as
underserved communities or those without services due to dangerous
circumstances, will be able to receive support and maximize coping.  An
important component would  include the development of effective risk
communications strategies to disseminate necessary information and also help
alleviate fear and anxiety in the wake of traumatic community events.

3.  Promotion and protection of mental health -such as information about
normal psychological development of children needs to be made available to
health care professionals as well as the public, particularly women who are
the main health providers in families, to help foster health and resilience.
Access to information is also necessary about the psychological impact of
catastrophic and chronic diseases such as AIDS, cancer, heart disease.
Research and information needs to be made available as to the psychology of
behavioral change approaches to foster treatment compliance and best
practices to limit spread of diseases such as AIDS.

If you are interested in joining Working Group on Health (Mental and
Physical) and/or have suggestions regarding issues, please contact me.

Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all,

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net

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From ecarll at optonline.net  Thu Jan 15 02:00:25 2004
From: ecarll at optonline.net (Elizabeth Carll, PhD)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WG on Health  (Mental and Physical) - Invitation
In-Reply-To: <IBEGJNBEEELEANPJGINMKEJJDEAA.rbloem@ngocongo.org>
Message-ID: <JAEAIHOFJNJNGOMHHMDAIENAGIAA.ecarll@optonline.net>

Dear Renate,

It is great to hear your perspective on the need for  the WG on Health.  It
would be wonderful to have them join as their expertise will certainly
enhance the WG on Health and the potential initiatives that are possible.  I
will email you in order that we may work out the time to be able to discuss
further.

Best regards,

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net

-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of Renata BLOEM
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:51 PM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org; ct@wsis-cs.org
Cc: Ann Lindsay; Manoj Kurian; Manjit Dosanjh
Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WG on Health (Mental and Physical) -
Invitation


Dear Elizabeth,

The WG on Health will fill a need. There is great interest from here to
join, in particular Manjit Dosanjh from CERN (health focal point)
<Manjit.Dosanjh@cern.ch>, Anne Lindsay, Secretary of the NGO Forum for
Health <ann.lindsay@ngo-forum-health.ch> and Manoj Kurian <mku@wcc-coe.org>,
Medical Commission of WCC and Prsident of the NGO Forum for Health.
I will be in New York next week. Maybe we can talk.
Best,

Renate Bloem
President of the Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
________________________
E-mail: rbloem@ngocongo.org
Website: www.ngocongo.org


-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of Elizabeth Carll, PhD
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:03 AM
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org; ct@wsis-cs.org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WG on Health (Mental and Physical) -
Invitation


Dear All,

I had the pleasure of meeting many people from diverse backgrounds and
interest groups at WSIS and was impressed by the extensive work done by many
to accomplish agreement on the CS Declaration by such a diverse group.

In discussing the omission of any reference to the utilization of ICT for
access to and dissemination of mental health information in the WSIS
Principles and Plan of Action,  it became apparent that much needed to be
done to highlight this  important area.  Fortunately we were able to include
language in the CS Declaration as to the important role of ICT to mental
health.

As a result of the need to continue to highlight the importance of a
comprehensive view of health care, as often mental health is seen as
disconnected from physical health care, the formation of a Health Working
Group/Network was recommended with the goal of having both mental and
physical health information made available to all people via ICT and
integrated in the outcome processes leading to WSIS Phase Two.  All those
interested in health issues are invited to join to exchange information and
strategies.

Mental health is fundamental to overall health and productivity and is the
foundation for learning, thinking, communicating, self-esteem, resilience,
as well as successful functioning in one's work, family, community, and
society. Yet the majority of the world's people do not receive treatment for
diagnosable mental disorders as mental health is often viewed as
disconnected from health services.

While physical health information is recognized as needing to be accessed
via ICT, mental health information needs to be made available, especially to
developing countries, in the following important areas:

1.  Prevention and treatment of  mental disorders - More than 400 million
people are known to suffer from mental and brain disorders and these numbers
are expected to rise sharply over the next few decades, particularly among
people in the developing world.  Despite, the enormous social and economic
burden, more than 40% of the world's countries have no articulated mental
health policy, and over 30% have no mental health programs.

2.  Access to mental health expertise and scientific knowledge to benefit
traumatized populations - survivors of war, oppression, violations of human
rights, terrorism, and other traumatizing life events, as well as
underserved communities or those without services due to dangerous
circumstances, will be able to receive support and maximize coping.  An
important component would  include the development of effective risk
communications strategies to disseminate necessary information and also help
alleviate fear and anxiety in the wake of traumatic community events.

3.  Promotion and protection of mental health -such as information about
normal psychological development of children needs to be made available to
health care professionals as well as the public, particularly women who are
the main health providers in families, to help foster health and resilience.
Access to information is also necessary about the psychological impact of
catastrophic and chronic diseases such as AIDS, cancer, heart disease.
Research and information needs to be made available as to the psychology of
behavioral change approaches to foster treatment compliance and best
practices to limit spread of diseases such as AIDS.

If you are interested in joining Working Group on Health (Mental and
Physical) and/or have suggestions regarding issues, please contact me.

Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all,

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll@optonline.net

.





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From claudia.padovani at unipd.it  Thu Jan 15 12:01:31 2004
From: claudia.padovani at unipd.it (Claudia Padovani)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WEMF report
Message-ID: <002e01c3db5f$5097af40$712ea293@padovani>

Dear all, thanks for your information on WSIS final documents .
I have managed to get the files of and strat working on:
official Declaration and Action Plan,
Civil Society Declaration
Lyon Declaration
indigenous people declaration and action plan
declaration on accessible info society
youth forum Declaration
swiss coalition declaration and action plan

I am trying to obtain a copy of the World Electronic Media Forum report, which is considered to be an action plan towards Tunis, but is not yet available on the website. Does anyone of you have a draft version? or is in touch with somebody who could help, quickly, so that we can continute our analysis?

Any other documents I may not be aware of that can be considered an outcome of the WSIS phase one?
best wishes and thanks again
claudia padovani
Dip. Studi Storici e Politici
Universit? di Padova
via del Santo, 35100 Padova
Italy
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From emem_o at yahoo.com  Thu Jan 15 15:04:52 2004
From: emem_o at yahoo.com (Emem Okon)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] Workshop on ICT Policy and Civil Society - WSF 2004 Mumbai
In-Reply-To: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCCEGCDBAA.njenga@apc.org>
Message-ID: <20040115150452.68275.qmail@web11501.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi,
I am interested in this workshop.

Emem

--- Emmanuel Njenga Njenga <njenga@apc.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> This is to inform you of a Workshop on ICT Policy
> and Civil Society to be
> held at the World Social Forum 2004 in Mumbai,
> India.
> 
> ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
> The ICT Policy for Civil Society workshop builds the
> capacity of civil
> society organisations to understand policy and
> regulation related to
> information and communication technologies (ICT) so
> that they can begin to
> engage and influence policy processes affecting ICT
> adoption and
> implementation at national, regional and global
> levels.
> 
> FOCUS OF WORKSHOP:
> During the WSF 2004, the workshop will focus on
> ADVOCACY, TACTICS AND
> LOBBYING For civil society using
> the case study of the World Summit on Information
> Society - WSIS.
> 
> You may obtain additional information about APC's
> Capacity building
> programmes from the website link below:
> 
>
http://www.apc.org/english/capacity/policy/curriculum.shtml
> 
> WHEN - WHERE?
> The workshop will take place on Sunday the 18th July
> from 1.00 - 4.00 pm at
> the designated venue by the WSF organizers. Full
> details will be forwarded
> to you later.
> 
> You may register your details and interest to
> participate at this workshop
> on the website link below.
> 
> http://www.wsfindia.org/event2004/more.php?myvar=390
> 
> For any additional information or enquiry, do not
> hesitate to contact me.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Emmanuel Njenga Njenga
> Association for Progressive Communications - APC
> E-mail: njenga@apc.org or africa.rights@apc.org
> URL: http://africa.rights.apc.org
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> APC, and share the APC
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> to the creative potential of information and
> communication technologies
> (ICTs) to improve their lives and create more
> democratic and egalitarian
> societies.
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From ljeffrey at ecommons.net  Thu Jan 15 15:11:33 2004
From: ljeffrey at ecommons.net (Liss Jeffrey)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] Workshop on ICT Policy and
  Civil Society - WSF 2004 Mumbai
In-Reply-To: <20040115150452.68275.qmail@web11501.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCCEGCDBAA.njenga@apc.org>
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040115100914.03be9b88@141.117.45.50>


Dear All:
Should this not be January 18th, and not July?
(July may be what we call "wishful thinking" here in snowed-under eastern 
Canada).
Cheers
Liss Jeffrey
http://wsis.ecommons.ca
http://smsi.agora-electronique.ca
PS Look forward to any report on this event.

{snip}


> >
> > WHEN - WHERE?
> > The workshop will take place on Sunday the 18th July
> > from 1.00 - 4.00 pm at
> > the designated venue by the WSF organizers. Full
> > details will be forwarded
> > to you later.
From rkoven at compuserve.com  Thu Jan 15 16:07:24 2004
From: rkoven at compuserve.com (Ronald Koven)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WEMF report
Message-ID: <200401151107_MC3-1-6670-D564@compuserve.com>

Dear Ms. Padovani --

The WEMF "report" you refer to is a joint platform of the European and
World Broadcasting Unions and the International Association of
Broadcasting, outlining the joint concerns of public and private
broadcasters.

It is available from EBU and/or IAB. Jacques Briquemont at EBU probably has
it handy in electronic form. His e-mal address is:
INTERNET:briquemont@ebu.ch

Best, Rony Koven, World Press Freedom Committee

From claudia.padovani at unipd.it  Thu Jan 15 16:57:54 2004
From: claudia.padovani at unipd.it (Claudia Padovani)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WEMF report
References: <200401151107_MC3-1-6670-D564@compuserve.com>
Message-ID: <00e901c3db88$b81f4c80$712ea293@padovani>

Thanks Ronald, I actually did get in touch with EBU but the reply was the
report will not be finalized before the end of january. I will then wait and
see if any good news comes in otherwise I will proceed with the materials I
have
best wishes
claudia padovani
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald Koven" <rkoven@compuserve.com>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:07 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WEMF report


Dear Ms. Padovani --

The WEMF "report" you refer to is a joint platform of the European and
World Broadcasting Unions and the International Association of
Broadcasting, outlining the joint concerns of public and private
broadcasters.

It is available from EBU and/or IAB. Jacques Briquemont at EBU probably has
it handy in electronic form. His e-mal address is:
INTERNET:briquemont@ebu.ch

Best, Rony Koven, World Press Freedom Committee
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From schock at riseup.net  Fri Jan 16 05:18:40 2004
From: schock at riseup.net (Sasha Costanza-Chock)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [fwd]I Guess You Had to Have Been There: A Reflection on Not Going
 to WSIS
Message-ID: <40077430.10708@riseup.net>

apologies for cross-posts

While I think that in fact some efforts were made, by various parties, 
in the direction mentioned by mr. Gurstein, it's worth thinking about 
what a more radical opening of the space could look like.

sc

--


Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:44:12 -0500
From: "Michael Gurstein" <mgurst@vcn.bc.ca>
Subject: <nettime> I Guess You Had to Have Been There: A Reflection on 
Not Going to WSIS

A Reflection on Not Going to WSIS

I've been following the discussions around WSIS now for more than two
years.

Reading and occasionally contributing to the e-lists, following the
documents as they tumble one after the other into the electronic spaces,
saving trees (one assumes) but overloading bandwidths.

I never had the opportunity (obligation) to attend any of the
formal/semi-formal (PrepCon) events leading up to the Summit nor the
Summit itself.

So I have been in a rather singular position (although I'm assuming that
there are many many others in a similar situation), of being informed,
knowledgeable, having something to contribute, perhaps wanting to take
something away, but in the end being presented with an event where apart
from the occasional creaky attempts at "sharing the experience" through
one or another streaming media event, WSIS might just as well for me,
sitting a half a world away, have been the World Summit on the
Incunablia Society, with aged and bent scholars discussing learned texts
in hushed and darkened rooms cloistered from the hurly burly (the hoi
poloi...

Where, in the midst of the all the to-ing and fro-ing of the WSIS, was
there (apart from fairly heroic efforts on the part of the CRIS and
Civil Society folks) any attempt to actually use Information Technology
in a way that would include/engage "the world" (it was a "World Summit"
after all) in the discussions/deliberations.

And now of course, the sum ups are saying that nothing much was
accomplished and from this side of the telescope, that seems correct.

Certainly, the fact that the WSIS process was not thrown open to the
digital on-line ICT enabled world is what could have been expected from
the ITU and the countries looking to maintain their prerogatives. But I
think that Civil Society lost a major major opportunity, perhaps a once
for all opportunity, to insist, to use all of their efforts and
influence to force open the process. To get those organizing and
implementing the Summit to use some of the technologies that those many
folks assembled to pontificate about, to actually engage the people who
are living/working/evolving with it day by day and to develop processes
for enabling broader ICT-enabled participation including among those
without direct access.

Surely if Quake can handle several hundred thousand people
simultaneously building imaginary worlds, the UN, the Swiss Government
and Uncle Tom Cobbly and all could have done something equally
interesting and useful in giving similar or even greater numbers of
people the opportunity to contribute to building a real world.

Had "Civil Society" lead the charge around this at WSIS then they could
have begun the process of once for all answering the rather
uncomfortable but not illegitimate questions about their
representativeness and accountability.  By not doing so, and by allowing
themselves to be dragged into the unending and spirit destroying process
of arguing over square brackets and misplaced commas, "Civil Society"
unfortunately seemed ever more the representative of Christmas's past,
than Christmas's yet come.

Yes Marshall, the Medium is the Message.

Mike Gurstein

From alalegre at fma.ph  Fri Jan 16 06:14:59 2004
From: alalegre at fma.ph (Alan G. Alegre)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] From IPS: WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Non-Governmental Diplomacy by Mario Osava
References: <200401151107_MC3-1-6670-D564@compuserve.com> <00e901c3db88$b81f4c80$712ea293@padovani>
Message-ID: <006901c3dbf8$13b4e360$0d00a8c0@fma>

Hmmm... was WSIS a form of "novgovernmental diplomacy" for civil society?


> WORLD SOCIAL FORUM:
> Non-Governmental Diplomacy
>
> Mario Osava
>
>
> RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 13 (IPS) - Diplomacy is no longer an exclusive arena
> of governments, as proven in the past decade by the growing role of
> civil society organisations in the international debate -- and by the
> repeated successes of the World Social Forum, now in its fourth year.
>
> This process has been particularly evident since 1992, when the United
> Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio de
> Janeiro, also known as the Earth Summit, followed by other global
> summits on social issues, which included the active participation of
> non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
>
> The definition of this "non-governmental diplomacy", the context of its
> development, its objectives and limitations will be the theme of a
> seminar during the Fourth World Social Forum (WSF), to take place Jan.
> 16-21 in Mumbai, India's largest city and economic centre.
>
> The three previous WSF were held in the southern Brazilian city of Porto
> Alegre, emerging as a sort of counterweight to the World Economic Forum,
> which held its annual meeting of government leaders, business executives
> and financiers at the same time in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos.
>
> Times of purely inter-governmental relations have ended, says a document
> by Henri Rouill? d'Orfeuil, president of the France-based Coordination
> SUD, and Jorge Eduardo Durao, head of the Brazilian Association of NGOs
> (ABONG), that will serve as the basis for a WSF seminar, promoted by
> these groups as well as the Volunteer Action Network India (VANI).
>
> It is no coincidence that the three are all national federations of
> NGOs. Creating collective civil society organisations at the national,
> regional or international level, and defining common positions,
> proposals and demands are necessary if non-governmental diplomacy is to
> be effective, say D'Orfeuil and Durao.
>
> This compensates for the "weaknesses" of the NGOs, which come under
> criticisms in terms of their legitimacy and representativity in speaking
> on behalf of civil society, they argue. Furthermore, the groups have to
> overcome the great differences in their focuses as well as
> contradictions between their missions.
>
> The "construction of a world in solidarity", with international rules
> that are more just and sustainable, is the aim of their actions.
>
> And that attitude does not necessarily contradict the policies and
> actions of governments.
>
> ABONG president Durao said in an IPS interview that the fact that the
> WSF is being held this year in Mumbai reveals "a certain parallelism"
> between the non-governmental diplomacy and the official diplomacy of
> Brazil, India and South Africa, which in June created the Group of
> Three, an alliance of the developing world's leaders to strengthen their
> stance in international negotiations.
>
> In the weeks leading up to the latest ministerial conference of the
> World Trade Organisation (WTO), held in September in the Mexican resort
> of Canc?n, the Group of 20 (G20) developing countries emerged,
> consolidating their stance against farm protectionism and subsidies in
> the industrialised world. Brazil, India and South Africa serve as the
> leaders of that group.
>
> The non-governmental diplomatic battles are unfolding on four fronts. In
> talks on social problems, for example, NGOs are pushing industrialised
> countries to contribute 0.7 percent of their gross domestic product to
> development aid -- a promise not kept -- and to take effective steps
> towards achieving what are known as the Millennium Development Goals.
>
> The millennium goals, agreed by the world's heads of state and of
> government in 2000, aim to cut in half by 2015 infant mortality rates,
> the number of children not enrolled in school, the 800 million people
> facing hunger and the populations without access to clean water, among
> other variables that are the product of poverty and social exclusion.
>
> The other fronts, say D'Orfeuil and Durao, are the environment, economy,
> trade, and also geopolitical questions, particularly as they relate to
> the multilateral system.
>
> The global order will be a constant item of discussion in the major
> conferences and panels of the WSF in Mumbai, where an estimated 75,000
> people are to gather this week.
>
> "Global governance", "Militarism, war and peace" and "International
> trade" are some of the central themes to be taken up by the thousands of
> participants.
>
> "Combating unilateralism and reforming the United Nations" is the topic
> of a debate organised by the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic
> Analyses (IBASE) and NGOs from other countries.
>
> There is consensus against unilateralism, but the U.N. is an
> uncomfortable issue that divides opinions, says C?ndido Grzybowski,
> IBASE director-general.
>
> The WSF is a meeting of civil society, while the U.N. is an organisation
> of governments, which even excludes parliaments, he adds.
>
> Expanding the membership of the U.N. Security Council, where Brazil,
> India and South Africa each want a permanent seat, or dismantling it
> because it is an anti-democratic body in which only the United States,
> Britain, China, France and Russia hold veto power, is a polemic
> afflicting the U.N.
>
> According to Francisco Whitaker, a Brazilian member of the WSF
> International Council, alongside Grzybowski and Durao, civil society no
> longer just exerts pressure and makes demands, but rather is beginning
> to take direct action.
>
> One example of this is the peace initiative for Israel and Palestine,
> presented several weeks ago in Geneva by groups without ties to
> government. Spokespersons from these Israeli and Palestinian NGOs are to
> speak at the closing session of the WSF on Jan. 21.
>
> The great contribution of the WSF is a new way of "doing politics". It
> is a new method of "articulating organisations and social movements
> horizontally, without a command structure or a hierarchical pyramid,"
> Whitaker, representative of the Brazilian Catholic Church's Justice and
> Peace Commission, told IPS.
>
> This approach is key both for international and domestic relations. The
> WSF is "an historic experience" of unity for India, providing a space
> for overcoming political and caste divisions, he said.
>
> The "untouchables" of the lowest caste, numbering 170 million people
> (slightly fewer than the population of Brazil), are organising and will
> participate in the World Social Forum alongside their fellow Indian
> citizens "and treated as equals," says Whitaker.




From steve at commedia.org.uk  Fri Jan 16 16:06:29 2004
From: steve at commedia.org.uk (Steve Buckley)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] From Geneva to Mumbai...
Message-ID: <4.3.1.20040116160452.00a61430@pop.gn.apc.org>

*PRESS RELEASE - COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE - COMUNICADO DE PRENSA*

Version fran?aise ci-bas / Version en espa?ol debajo

- English -

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

16 January 2004

Another communication is possible!
----------------------------------

Civil society voices at the World Social Forum 2004 took to the airwaves 
today from Mumbai, India, with the message "Another communication is 
possible!"

Community broadcasters from all continents of the world are collaborating 
on the joint broadcast organised by the World Association of Community 
Radio Broadcasters (AMARC).

They include producers from Radio Lora (Switzerland), Radio Tierra (Chile), 
Simbani Africa News Service, AmmanNet (Jordan), Sri Lankan Association of 
Community Broadcasters, Mass Line Media (Bangladesh), Sheffield Live! (UK), 
Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, Radio  Sagarmatha and 
Radio Lumbini (Nepal) and Voices (India).

The World Social Forum 2004 has adopted "media, culture and knowledge" as 
one of its nine core themes highlighted in conferences, practical workshops 
and cultural events.

Alongside the five day broadcast, the World Association of Community Radio 
Broadcasters (AMARC) and other civil society organisations are holding a 
conference at the World Social Forum to showcase civil society media, 
information and communications initiatives.

The conference will reflect on the results of civil society involvement in 
the recent World Summit on the Information Society and consider strategies 
for strengthening the movement for communication rights.

"Whose Information Society? Communication Rights and Media Alternatives" 
will be held at the World Social Forum on 20 January 2004, from 9.00 - 
12.00am in Mumbai, India. It has been organised by AMARC in cooperation 
with Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Agencia 
Latinoamericana de Informacion (ALAI), Isis International and others.

- End -

Notes

"Whose Information Society? Communication Rights and Media Alternatives"
World Social Forum, 20 January 2004, 9.00 - 12.00
Venue D134, NESCO Grounds, Mumbai

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
AMARC, International Secretariat
Email : amarc@amarc.org
Web : www.amarc.org
+1-514-982-0351

- Fran?ais -

Communiqu? de Presse

POUR DIFFUSION IMMEDIATE

16 Janvier, 2004

Une autre communication est possible!
----------------------------------

La soci?t? civil du monde, r?uni a Mumbai, Inde a l'occasion du Forum 
Social Mondial 2004, a pris les ondes radiales aujourd'hui pour transmettre 
le message : "Une autre communication est possible!"

Les journalistes des radios communautaires des quatre coins du monde 
collaborent ? une ?mission collective en direct coordonn?e  par 
l'Association mondiale de radiodiffuseurs communautaires, AMARC.

L'?quipe de l'?mission inclut les producteurs et journalistes de la Radio 
Lora (Suisse), la Radio Tierra (Chile), l'Agence Africaine de nouvelles 
Simbani, AmmanNet (Jordan), l'Association de radiodiffuseurs communautaires 
de Sri Lanka, Mass Line Media (Bangladesh), Sheffield Live! (RU), 
l'Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires de l'Australie, la 
Radio  Sagarmatha et la Radio Lumbini (N?pal) et Voices (Inde).

Le Forum Social Mondial 2004 a adopt? le th?me "m?dias, culture et  savoir" 
comme un des th?mes centraux autour desquels se d?rouleront les diff?rentes 
conf?rences, ateliers pratiques et activit?s culturelles pendant le Forum.

En plus des cinq  journ?es d'?mission, l'Association mondiale de 
radiodiffuseurs communautaires, AMARC, en coop?ration avec d'autres 
organisations sociales, organisent une conf?rence qui portera sur le r?le 
des m?dias de la soci?t? civile, ainsi que sur les initiatives 
d'information et de communication alternatives.

Les participants discuteront des r?sultats de la participation de la 
soci?t? civile au r?cent Sommet Mondial de la Soci?t? de l'information et 
recueilleront  des recommandations  pour planifier les strat?gies  qui 
contribueront ? la consolidation du droit ? la communication.

"La soci?t? de l'information pour qui? Le droit a la communication et les 
m?dias alternatifs" aura lieu pendant le Forum Social Mondial le 20 
Janvier, 2004 de 9.00h a 12.00h  Mumbai, Inde.

La conf?rence est organis?e par l'AMARC en coop?ration avec 
l'APC  (Association pour la Communication Progressive) l'Agence 
Latino-am?ricaine d'Information (ALAI) et Isis International.

- Fin -

Notes:

"?La soci?t? de l'information pour qui? Le droit a la communication et les 
m?dias alternatifs" Forum Social Mondial, 20 Janvier 2004, 9.00 - 12.00
Salle D134, NESCO Grounds, Mumbai

POUR PLUS D'INFORMATIONS:
AMARC, Secr?tariat International
Courriel : amarc@amarc.org
Internet : www.amarc.org
+1-514-982-0351

- Espa?ol -

Comunicado de prensa

PARA DIFUSION INMEDIATO

16 de Enero, 2004

?Otra Comunicaci?n es posible!
----------------------------------

La sociedad civil reunida en ocasi?n del Foro Social Mundial  2004 
en  Mumbai, India tom? las ondas radiales hoy con el mensaje "?Otra 
comunicaci?n es posible!"

Periodistas de radios comunitarias de todo el mundo colaboran en un 
esfuerzo conjunto para transmitir una emisi?n coordinada por la Asociaci?n 
Mundial de Radios Comunitarias, AMARC desde la sede del FSM.

El equipo de transmisi?n  incluye productores y periodistas de Radio Lora 
(Suiza), Radio Tierra (Chile), Simbani Africa News Service, AmmanNet 
(Jord?n), Sri Lankan Associatonion of Community Broadcasters, Mass Line 
Media (Bangladesh), Sheffield Live! (RU), Community Broadcasting 
Association of Australia, Radio  Sagarmatha y Radio Lumbini (Nepal) y 
Voices (India).

El Foro Social Mundial 2004 ha adoptado el tema de "medios de comunicaci?n, 
cultura y conocimiento" como uno de
los temas centrales en los que se enfocar?n las diferentes conferencias, 
talleres pr?cticos y eventos culturales.

Adem?s de los cinco d?as de transmisi?n, la Asociaci?n Mundial de Radios 
Comunitarias, AMARC, y  otras  organizaciones sociales llevar?n a cabo una 
conferencia que pondr? en relieve la importancia de los medios de 
comunicaci?n de la sociedad civil as? como iniciativas de informaci?n y 
comunicaci?n alternativas.

La conferencia evaluarla los resultados de la participaci?n de la sociedad 
civil en la reciente Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la informaci?n en 
Ginebra adem?s de recoger recomendaciones y planear estrategias para el 
fortalecimiento del derecho a la comunicaci?n.

"?Sociedad de la Informaci?n para qui?n? El derecho a la comunicaci?n y los 
medios alternativos" tendr? lugar durante  el Foro Social Mundial el 20 de 
Enero del 2004, de las 9am a las 12.00pm en Mumbai, India.

La conferencia ha sido organizada por AMARC con el apoyo de la Asociaci?n 
para el progreso de las comunicaciones (APC), la Agencia Latinoamericana de 
Informaci?n (ALAI) y Isis International.

- Fin -

Notas:

"?Sociedad de la Informaci?n para qui?n? El derecho a la comunicaci?n y los 
medios alternativos" Foro Social Mundial, 20 de Enero del 2004, 9.00-12.00
Sala D134, NESCO Grounds, Mumbai

PARA MAS INFORMACION:
Secretariado Internacional de la AMARC
Correo : amarc@amarc.org
Internet : www.amarc.org
Tel: +1-514-982-0351


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            steve@commedia.org.uk
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         http://www.commedia.org.uk
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From beatriz at maxmedia.com.ar  Fri Jan 16 19:41:03 2004
From: beatriz at maxmedia.com.ar (Beatriz Busaniche)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: noticias desde el FSM
Message-ID: <40083E4F.9070205@maxmedia.com.ar>

(sorry! just spanish!!).

amig@s, reenvio algunas noticias desde el Foro Social Mundial.
Por ahora son dos cr?nicas de Nuria del Rio, del grupo de Hipatia 
(www.hipatia.info) que est? all?. (seguri? mandando apenas lleguen!
Saludos
Beatriz


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: noticias desde el FSM
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:23:59 +0100 (CET)
From: ostraperlera <ostraperlera@laboratorio3.net>
Reply-To: ostraperlera@laboratorio3.net
To: coordinadores-hipatia@hipatia.info, press@hipatia.info


Hola,

acabo de publicar dos cr?nicas que me ha enviado Nuria desde Bombay en
noticias.hipatia.info, las teneis m?s o menos por aqu?

http://noticias.hipatia.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1470&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
http://noticias.hipatia.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1471&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

bss

maria


.


From w.taylor at cqu.edu.au  Thu Jan 15 21:42:49 2004
From: w.taylor at cqu.edu.au (Wallace Taylor)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Interesting community technology and networking conference- Brighton(UK) April 2004
Message-ID: <C73A42308A9E56438DEDD76DB6FFC90ABC63C5@executor.cqu.edu.au>

FYI,
Wal Taylor
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Day [mailto:p.day@btinternet.com]
Sent: Friday, 16 January 2004 5:57 AM
To: cpsr-cn@lists.cpsr.org; CIResearchers@vcn.bc.ca; CIRN-ADMIN@VANCOUVERCOMMUNITY.NET; communityinformatics@VANCOUVERCOMMUNITY.NET; gcnp@globalcn.tc.ca
Subject: [gcnp] Interesting community technology and networking conference


Dear all
 
Please distribute to lists as appropriate:
 

The Committee of the "Building & Bridging Community Networks: Knowledge, Innovation & Diversity through Communication" conference issues a call for your participation in an exciting opportunity to network with others engaged in community networking, community informatics and community technology research, practice and policy. The conference, which forms part of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) research project (RES-328-25-0012), funded through the People at the Centre of Communication and Information Technology (PACCIT) research programme, is intended to act as a catalyst for creating communication and knowledge linkages between those involved in community networking.

 

Conference & project website  <http://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/research/seake/cna/> http://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/research/seake/cna/

 

In order to create synergy and understanding between practitioners, researchers and policy, it is important that knowledge of the issues and problems surrounding community networking be identified, articulated, recorded and shared in the form of a dynamic and ongoing community networking knowledgebase. To this end the conference welcomes contributions from practitioners, researchers and policy-makers in the following areas:

 

?        Community networking case studies

?        Community network analysis as a methodology and theory

?        Community Informatics as an emerging research agenda

?        The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the role of Civil Society

?        Communication and Development - theory and practice

?        A human-centred approach to community technology - moving beyond causality to purposiveness

?        Indigenous knowledge and cultural diversity

?        Grass-roots community innovation and action

 

These subjects are timely because in addition to the recent World Summit on the Information Society event in Geneva, the period between March and September, 2004 will see a number of important conferences taking place on the subject of community network or related areas. The Canadian Research Alliance for Community Information Networks (CRACIN) will be launched in the form of an International Workshop in May, 2004. The eighth biennial Participatory Design Conference will be held between July 27-31, 2004 at the University of Toronto, Canada and will have a strong community networking component. The second international colloquium of the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) is being convened in Prato, Italy at the end of September.

 

The Brighton conference provides an excellent opportunity for community networkers - researchers, practitioners and policy makers alike - to establish links and share experiences and knowledge with people, groups and organisations engaged in the excitingly diverse activities that constitute community networking.

 

We are looking to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy
makers to discuss/summarize/theorize/and draw conclusions or lessons learned
from some ten years of practical work and research experience in applying information and communications technology to enabling and empowering communities of all kinds.

Our conference will also provide an opportunity for researchers,
practitioners, and policy-makers to reflect on and draw conclusions from
a range of currently relevant areas, fields and practices. 

 

Submissions for this conference can take the form of extended abstracts, position papers or full papers.  Extended abstracts and position papers should be no more than 1500 words. Full papers including citations, tables, diagrams and references should be no more than 5000 words. Harvard citation style is mandatory and the conference language is English. The Conference Committee will decide, through a refereeing process, which contributions will be presented at conference. 

 

Send submissions to: p.day@btinternet.com

 

Important Dates: 


Conference: 31st  March - 2nd April, 2004
Venue: Old Ship Hotel, Brighton, East Sussex, England



Extended abstracts, position papers and full papers must be submitted by 15th February, 2004.  All submissions will be blind peer reviewed by two referees. Late submissions will not be accepted.

 

Notifications of acceptance/rejection will be sent by 25th February, 2004

 

All amended submissions must be received by 15th March, 2004

 

All successful extended abstracts, position papers and full papers will appear in the conference proceedings.  It is also anticipated that an edited book and various journal publications will result as an outcome of the conference. 

 

Conference Costs:

 

Conference registration fee 31st March - 2nd April                                 ?150:00

 

Conference day rate                                                                               ?50:00

 

Conference Dinner                                                                                 ?30:00

 

3 days accommodation at conference hotel                                             ?300:00(including all meals)                                                  

Per day                                                                                                  ?100:00

 

 

Current Conference Committee

Peter Day, SEAKE Centre, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton

Jon Dron, SEAKE Centre, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton

Karamjit Gill, Professor, SEAKE Centre, University of Brighton 
Michael Gurstein, (Visiting) Professor, School of Management New Jersey
Institute of Technology
Graeme Johanson, School of Information Management and Systems/Centre for
Community Networking Research, Monash University 

Leigh Keeble, CIRA, University of Teeside

Brian Loader, CIRA, University of Teeside

Michel Menou, CoVITALC, Latin America & Caribbean

Stewart Marshall, Professor, Faculty of Informatics & Communication, Central Queensland University

Scott S. Robinson, Depto. De Antropologia, Universidad Metropologia, Mexico

Don Schauder, Professor, School of Information Management and Systems,
Monash University
Doug Schuler, The Evergreen State College, Washington

Larry Stillman, School of Information Management and Systems/Centre for
Community Networking Research, Monash University

Wal Taylor,  Faculty of Informatics & Communication, Central Queensland University

 
 

**************************************************************************************************
Dr. Peter Day
School of Computing, Mathematical & Information Sciences
Faculty of Management & Information Sciences
Watts Building
Moulescoomb
University of Brighton
Brighton & Hove
East Sussex
England
BN2 4GJ
 
Tel: + 44 1273 642550 (work)
Tel: + 44 1323 509043 (home)
Fax: +44 1273 642405
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From sean at aitecafrica.com  Thu Jan 15 21:24:19 2004
From: sean at aitecafrica.com (Sean Moroney)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] Implementing the WSIS Action Plan, Nairobi, 25-26 March 2004
References: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCCEGCDBAA.njenga@apc.org>
Message-ID: <041801c3dbb0$8d4ff360$0200a8c0@toshibauser>

Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation
Implementing the WSIS Action Plan
A unique conference for policy-makers, ICT activists and action-oriented
private sector organizations

Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, 25-26 March 2004





Following the hectic pace and overwhelming volume of activities at WSIS
Geneva, it is important that organizations take time to reassess the vast
amount of outputs and project themes. The CTO conference will act as a
follow-up to WSIS, focusing on "Implementation and Best Practices".
Following a three-month gestation period, we should be able to make more
sense of WSIS outputs, by focusing on specific key topics in the relative
serenity of a comfortable resort on the outskirts of Nairobi. You will be
able to deliberate, plan and share common areas of interest. This event is
aimed at facilitating the journey to WSIS 2005 in a creative, constructive
way.



The conference will have the following objectives:



? Understanding and reviewing leading thinking and strategies on best
practices, which can be shared between key member groups. Review how other
stakeholders are going to approach similar goals and strategic objectives.

? How to develop action plans which cascade through the supply chain.

? Reviewing the role of stakeholder alliances between government, not for
profit organizations/NGOs and the private sector, reviewing key case studies
materials throughout the world, including a focus on procurement and the
supply chain.

? Uncover the challenges and opportunities of developing Private Finance
Initiatives.

? Assess how joint cross-border initiatives like skills and capacity
building can work. Is there a common roadmap to developing "e-citizen"
communities.

? Share common challenges on modernizing Government agendas in relation to
WSIS. Assess what external tools and resources exist which can support
stakeholders in this endeavour.

? How to enhance private sector investor commitment.



The programme will include the following sessions:



  1.. Implementing the WSIS Action Plan: The Challenge for Policy-Makers -
Ministers, deputy ministers and leading technocrats present latest policy
and project proposals. How can effective co-ordination be achieved across
all ministries involved in ICT implementation.


  2.. Implementing the WSIS Action Plan: The Challenge for Regulators -
Regulators and private sector operators share knowledge on best practices to
facilitate rapid roll-out of telecommunication services.


  3.. Implementing the WSIS Action Plan: The Challenge for Development
Partners - How can multilateral and bilateral institutions best respond to
the project and development opportunities currently multiplying in the
market?
  4.. Implementing the WSIS Action Plan: The Challenge for the Private
Sector: How can the private sector best respond to the lack of
communications infrastructure development, retarding Africa's participation
in the world economic system. The African Internet Service Providers
Association (AfrISPA) will lead this forum for private sector players to
develop a strategy for the development of affordable and efficient Internet
infrastructural development in Africa.


  5.. Implementing the WSIS Action Plan: The Role of Civil Society - NGOs,
church organizations, media, academia all have a vital role to play in
implementing the WSIS programme. How can diverse initiatives be effectives
co-ordinated in order to achieve optimum results?


  6.. Financing the WSIS Action Plan: The Role of Private Financial
Institutions and the Capital Markets; leveraging state funding to mobilise
private sector investment


  7.. Implementing the WSIS Action Plan across the Region: Understanding the
confluence of national and regional ICT projects and how they can best be
co-ordinated


Speaking Opportunities
Presentation proposals are invited, covering the topics outlined above.
Proposals should be sent to Sean Moroney, AITEC Africa
(sean@aitecafrica.com), including a brief outline and the presenter's CV
summary.



Sponsorship Opportunities

The CTO conference provides a unique opportunity to make a marketing impact
on leading policy-makers, regulators and government and private sector
decision-makers through the exclusive sponsorship opportunities available at
the conference. For details contact your AITEC representative.



Kenya National ICT Convention
The conference will coincide with the Kenya ICT National Convention over
22-26 March which is intended to develop a detailed consensus between
government, civil society and the private sector on the country's national
ICT policy. In addition, the Convention with showcase East African national
and regional ICT projects in order to attract donor support or private
sector investment, this conference is not limited to region or country.



The conference and the Convention will be opened with a combined plenary
session on the morning of 22 March. Other combined activities will be a
welcoming cocktail party on 22 March and a dinner on 23 March.



Safari Park Hotel provides a five-star residential conference facility with
a relaxed environment in a semi-bush setting (see www.safaripark-hotel.com).
AITEC Africa has been appointed by CTO to organise the conference. For
further details, contact Sean Moroney, +44-1480-495595; sean@aitecafrica.com

To register as a delegate log on to www.aitecafrica.com

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From communication at femnet.or.ke  Mon Jan 19 13:46:21 2004
From: communication at femnet.or.ke (FEMNET)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Change of email address
Message-ID: <HIEOICMKDOCKEOAGKGBLEEMBDHAA.communication@femnet.or.ke>

Dear Colleagues

Greetings from FEMNET.

Kindly note that the Communication's e-mail address has been changed from
MUNYUA@FEMNET.OR.KE  to COMMUNICATION@FEMNET.OR.KE.

Please adjust your databases.

We wish you all the best in the new year.

Regards.


Programme Officer, Communication
African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)
R?seau de D?veloppement et de Communications des Femmes Africaines
 P O Box 54562, Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel: +254 20 3741301/20
Fax: +254 20 3742927
E-mail: munyua@femnet.or.ke
	admin@femnet.or.ke
Website: http://www.femnet.or.ke

FEMNET aims to strengthen the role and contribution of African NGO's
focussing on women's development equality and other human rights, through
communications, networking, training and advocacy.

FEMNET vise ? renforcer le r?le et la contribution des ONG des femmes
Africaines en mettant l'accent sur le d?veloppemnt, l'?galit? et d'autres
droits humains de femmes par le moyen des communications, travail de r?seau,
formation et plaidoyer.


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From rikp at bluewin.ch  Mon Jan 19 16:59:20 2004
From: rikp at bluewin.ch (Rik Panganiban)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Itsumi - internet gov mtg on 26-27 Feb in Geneva
Message-ID: <D33919E7-4AA0-11D8-BE1C-000A95EA981E@bluewin.ch>

Dear Colleagues,

The Secretary General of the WSIS and the ITU, Yoshio Utsumi, has 
posted a general message to the WSIS website.  He announces in this 
message a meeting on internet governance taking place from 26 - 27 
February in Geneva, which will provide a "forum for exchanging views on 
definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet 
governance."

Below is the entire message.

Rik Panganiban
WFM

..................................


Message from Mr. Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary General of ITU and Secretary 
General of the World Summit on the Information Society

As we look back to the Geneva phase of the World Summit on the 
Information Society attended by 11,000 participants including 44 Heads 
of state or government and vice-presidents, we can be proud of our 
collective accomplishments. The Geneva phase clearly placed the issue 
of ICTs on the agenda of world leaders and produced consensus on the 
importance of shaping the Information Society in a constructive manner 
beneficial to all citizens. Leaders also agreed on the importance of 
ICTs in addressing many of the major social, political and economical 
problems and the important role that ICTs can play as an essential tool 
in reaching many of the goals expressed in the Millennium Declaration. 
The Action Plan sets forth a firm commitment to meet concrete targets 
to "connect the world' and bring the benefits of ICTs to all nations.

In addition, many multi-stakeholder partnership initiatives were 
announced during the Summit. Cisco and ITU signed a Memorandum of 
Understanding to open 20 more Internet Training Centres in developing 
countries. Microsoft, working with UNDP, will create a billion dollar 
program to bring ICT skills to underserved communities. The UN ICT Task 
Force with Ireland, Sweden, Canada and Switzerland announced the global 
e-school project to connect schools and communities in the developing 
world. And at the very close of the Summit, the cities of Geneva and 
Lyon and the Government of Senegal announced contributions totaling 
about 1 million euros to fund ICT projects in developing countries, 
representing the first payments towards the Digital Solidarity Fund.

I would like to thank the many participants in the process. In 
particular, I thank the host country of the Geneva phase, Switzerland, 
for their substantial efforts and contributions. As well, I am grateful 
to Mr. Adama Samassekou, the PrepCom President of the Geneva phase, for 
his energy and commitment to this process. A special thanks also goes 
to those who made financial or organizational contributions to the 
Summit.

Together, we are now faced with the challenge of transforming the 
vision and plans endorsed in the Geneva phase into concrete action. The 
Geneva Summit called for a preparatory meeting to be held in the first 
half of 2004 to establish the structure of the Tunis phase. As 
preparation for that meeting has been entrusted to the Bureau for the 
Tunis phase, the establishment of the Bureau for the Tunis phase is one 
of the most urgent matters requiring attention. The two ex officio 
members of the Bureau, Tunisia and Switzerland, are expected to play a 
key role in this process. I sincerely hope that the new Bureau members 
will meet informally at the beginning of February to commence their 
task.

The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved under 
the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet governance and 
financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion on Internet 
governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27 February in Geneva, 
which provides a forum for exchanging views on definitions, viewpoints, 
visions and analytical studies on Internet governance .

I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in this 
exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased to 
begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the second 
phase as we prepare for November 2005.?

Mr. Yoshio Utsumi
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
  Rik Panganiban             email: rikp@bluewin.ch
  Special Adviser            Mobile: +41 76 473 3274
  World Federalist Movement  www.wfm.org
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From: ljeffrey at ecommons.net (Liss Jeffrey)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Itsumi - internet gov mtg
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From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Just Published- Unity & Diversity in Development Ideas
Message-ID: <20040119205201.44316.qmail@web21326.mail.yahoo.com>

Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas
Perspectives from the UN Regional Commissions 
Edited by Yves Berthelot

The ideas and experience of the UN's five regional commissions. 
Contributors are Adebayo Adedeji, Yves Berthelot, Leelananda de Silva, Blandine Destremau, Paul Rayment, and Gert Rosenthal. 
 
This second volume from the United Nations Intellectual History Project surveys the history of the UN's regional commissions and the ideas they have developed over the last 40 years. Each essay is devoted to one of the five regional commissions—Europe, Asia and the Far East, Latin America, Africa, and Western Asia—and how they have approached their mission of assessing the condition of regional economies and making prognoses about future conditions. The essays describe how each commission has added local perspectives to global debates over economic development and brought an authentic regional voice to the UN. 
 
Indiana Press: http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-34335-6.shtml
 
United Nations Intellectual History Project Web Site -  http://www.unhistory.org/
 
 
This volume has just been published.
 
Thank you,
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell




Amali De Silva-Mitchell MSc.

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From: yjpark at myepark.com (YJ Park)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Itsumi - internet gov mtg on 26-27 Feb in Geneva
References: <D33919E7-4AA0-11D8-BE1C-000A95EA981E@bluewin.ch>
Message-ID: <001801c3deea$e9646450$99213b18@YJ>

Thank you, Rik, for passing this info to the plenary.

WSIS Internet Governance Caucus has discussed ITU's Internet Governance workshop since Jan. 8th and I personally feel enormous challenges in building coalitions within WSIS civil society and collecting WSIS civil society's positions about Internet governance down this road until 2005 Nov WSIS.

When Internet Governance caucus was set up back in 2003 February during PrepCom II by Wolfgang and myself, it was one of twenty or so WSIS civil society caucuses or working groups. It started with three or four people back then and has evolved to a bigger group composed of around 50 in the maling list but it is still a small part of WSIS civil society. 

The upcoming ITU Internet Governance workshop's participation is known to be restricted "only" to ITU's member states and sector members. It excludes many WSIS civil society members and WSIS Internet governance caucus was notified only two or three people from the caucus can attend the meeting. At this moment, it is 'not" still clear whether civil society members can attend the workshop without "invitation". 

WSIS civil society together with Internet Governance caucus has to make a request that ITU's Internet Governance Workshop should be open to civil society members. It will be a very bad precedent in the Internet Governance history. We have to remember that the controversial US agency model, ICANN, allows civil society groups to participate in policy-making process with voting rights. 

It is time for WSIS Plenary to discuss what WSIS civil society should do in terms of "Internet Governance" in association with "Internet Governance Caucus" within civil society.
YJ  

  Dear Colleagues,

  The Secretary General of the WSIS and the ITU, Yoshio Utsumi, has posted a general message to the WSIS website. He announces in this message a meeting on internet governance taking place from 26 - 27 February in Geneva, which will provide a "forum for exchanging views on definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet governance."

  Below is the entire message.

  Rik Panganiban
  WFM

  ..................................


  Message from Mr. Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary General of ITU and Secretary General of the World Summit on the Information Society

  As we look back to the Geneva phase of the World Summit on the Information Society attended by 11,000 participants including 44 Heads of state or government and vice-presidents, we can be proud of our collective accomplishments. The Geneva phase clearly placed the issue of ICTs on the agenda of world leaders and produced consensus on the importance of shaping the Information Society in a constructive manner beneficial to all citizens. Leaders also agreed on the importance of ICTs in addressing many of the major social, political and economical problems and the important role that ICTs can play as an essential tool in reaching many of the goals expressed in the Millennium Declaration. The Action Plan sets forth a firm commitment to meet concrete targets to "connect the world' and bring the benefits of ICTs to all nations.

  In addition, many multi-stakeholder partnership initiatives were announced during the Summit. Cisco and ITU signed a Memorandum of Understanding to open 20 more Internet Training Centres in developing countries. Microsoft, working with UNDP, will create a billion dollar program to bring ICT skills to underserved communities. The UN ICT Task Force with Ireland, Sweden, Canada and Switzerland announced the global e-school project to connect schools and communities in the developing world. And at the very close of the Summit, the cities of Geneva and Lyon and the Government of Senegal announced contributions totaling about 1 million euros to fund ICT projects in developing countries, representing the first payments towards the Digital Solidarity Fund.

  I would like to thank the many participants in the process. In particular, I thank the host country of the Geneva phase, Switzerland, for their substantial efforts and contributions. As well, I am grateful to Mr. Adama Samassekou, the PrepCom President of the Geneva phase, for his energy and commitment to this process. A special thanks also goes to those who made financial or organizational contributions to the Summit.

  Together, we are now faced with the challenge of transforming the vision and plans endorsed in the Geneva phase into concrete action. The Geneva Summit called for a preparatory meeting to be held in the first half of 2004 to establish the structure of the Tunis phase. As preparation for that meeting has been entrusted to the Bureau for the Tunis phase, the establishment of the Bureau for the Tunis phase is one of the most urgent matters requiring attention. The two ex officio members of the Bureau, Tunisia and Switzerland, are expected to play a key role in this process. I sincerely hope that the new Bureau members will meet informally at the beginning of February to commence their task.

  The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved under the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet governance and financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion on Internet governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27 February in Geneva, which provides a forum for exchanging views on definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet governance .

  I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in this exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased to begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the second phase as we prepare for November 2005. 

  Mr. Yoshio Utsumi
  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
  Rik Panganiban email: rikp@bluewin.ch
  Special Adviser Mobile: +41 76 473 3274 
  World Federalist Movement www.wfm.org 
  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Itsumi - internet gov mtg on 26-27 Feb in Geneva
In-Reply-To: <001801c3deea$e9646450$99213b18@YJ>
Message-ID: <20040120012732.14005.qmail@web21323.mail.yahoo.com>

Should Civil Society Plenary / CT / IG caucus put together a position paper / concept paper to be circulated to all government delegations well before the ITU Internet Governance Work Shop ? This document could be presented by the IG caucus on behalf of CS at the work-shop itself.
 
Each caucus could work on the impact / relevance / importanance  /  themes / "must have" s etc of  aspects of IG for their particular area. 
 
 
Amali De Silva - Mitchell
 
Vancouver Community Network, Canada
 
YJ Park <yjpark@myepark.com> wrote:
Thank you, Rik, for passing this info to the plenary.
 
WSIS Internet Governance Caucus has discussed ITU's Internet Governance workshop since Jan. 8th and I personally feel enormous challenges in building coalitions within WSIS civil society and collecting WSIS civil society's positions about Internet governance down this road until 2005 Nov WSIS.
 
When Internet Governance caucus was set up back in 2003 February during PrepCom II by Wolfgang and myself, it was one of twenty or so WSIS civil society caucuses or working groups. It started with three or four people back then and has evolved to a bigger group composed of around 50 in the maling list but it is still a small part of WSIS civil society. 
 
The upcoming ITU Internet Governance workshop's participation is known to be restricted "only" to ITU's member states and sector members. It excludes many WSIS civil society members and WSIS Internet governance caucus was notified only two or three people from the caucus can attend the meeting. At this moment, it is 'not" still clear whether civil society members can attend the workshop without "invitation". 
 
WSIS civil society together with Internet Governance caucus has to make a request that ITU's Internet Governance Workshop should be open to civil society members. It will be a very bad precedent in the Internet Governance history. We have to remember that the controversial US agency model, ICANN, allows civil society groups to participate in policy-making process with voting rights. 
 
It is time for WSIS Plenary to discuss what WSIS civil society should do in terms of "Internet Governance" in association with "Internet Governance Caucus" within civil society.
YJ  
 
Dear Colleagues,

The Secretary General of the WSIS and the ITU, Yoshio Utsumi, has posted a general message to the WSIS website. He announces in this message a meeting on internet governance taking place from 26 - 27 February in Geneva, which will provide a "forum for exchanging views on definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet governance."

Below is the entire message.

Rik Panganiban
WFM

..................................


Message from Mr. Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary General of ITU and Secretary General of the World Summit on the Information Society

As we look back to the Geneva phase of the World Summit on the Information Society attended by 11,000 participants including 44 Heads of state or government and vice-presidents, we can be proud of our collective accomplishments. The Geneva phase clearly placed the issue of ICTs on the agenda of world leaders and produced consensus on the importance of shaping the Information Society in a constructive manner beneficial to all citizens. Leaders also agreed on the importance of ICTs in addressing many of the major social, political and economical problems and the important role that ICTs can play as an essential tool in reaching many of the goals expressed in the Millennium Declaration. The Action Plan sets forth a firm commitment to meet concrete targets to "connect the world' and bring the benefits of ICTs to all nations.

In addition, many multi-stakeholder partnership initiatives were announced during the Summit. Cisco and ITU signed a Memorandum of Understanding to open 20 more Internet Training Centres in developing countries. Microsoft, working with UNDP, will create a billion dollar program to bring ICT skills to underserved communities. The UN ICT Task Force with Ireland, Sweden, Canada and Switzerland announced the global e-school project to connect schools and communities in the developing world. And at the very close of the Summit, the cities of Geneva and Lyon and the Government of Senegal announced contributions totaling about 1 million euros to fund ICT projects in developing countries, representing the first payments towards the Digital Solidarity Fund.

I would like to thank the many participants in the process. In particular, I thank the host country of the Geneva phase, Switzerland, for their substantial efforts and contributions. As well, I am grateful to Mr. Adama Samassekou, the PrepCom President of the Geneva phase, for his energy and commitment to this process. A special thanks also goes to those who made financial or organizational contributions to the Summit.

Together, we are now faced with the challenge of transforming the vision and plans endorsed in the Geneva phase into concrete action. The Geneva Summit called for a preparatory meeting to be held in the first half of 2004 to establish the structure of the Tunis phase. As preparation for that meeting has been entrusted to the Bureau for the Tunis phase, the establishment of the Bureau for the Tunis phase is one of the most urgent matters requiring attention. The two ex officio members of the Bureau, Tunisia and Switzerland, are expected to play a key role in this process. I sincerely hope that the new Bureau members will meet informally at the beginning of February to commence their task.

The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved under the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet governance and financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion on Internet governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27 February in Geneva, which provides a forum for exchanging views on definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet governance .

I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in this exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased to begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the second phase as we prepare for November 2005. 

Mr. Yoshio Utsumi
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Rik Panganiban email: rikp@bluewin.ch
Special Adviser Mobile: +41 76 473 3274 
World Federalist Movement www.wfm.org 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=



Amali De Silva-Mitchell MSc.

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

 

 

 





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Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Change of email address
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*PRESS RELEASE - COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE - COMUNICADO DE PRENSA*

Version fran?aise ci-bas / Version en espa?ol debajo

- English -

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

16 January 2004

Another communication is possible!
----------------------------------

Civil society voices at the World Social Forum 2004 took to the airwaves
today from Mumbai, India, with the message "Another communication is
possible!"

Community broadcasters from all continents of the world are collaborating
on the joint broadcast organised by the World Association of Community
Radio Broadcasters (AMARC).

They include producers from Radio Lora (Switzerland), Radio Tierra (Chile),
Simbani Africa News Service, AmmanNet (Jordan), Sri Lankan Association of
Community Broadcasters, Mass Line Media (Bangladesh), Sheffield Live! (UK),
Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, Radio  Sagarmatha and
Radio Lumbini (Nepal) and Voices (India).

The World Social Forum 2004 has adopted "media, culture and knowledge" as
one of its nine core themes highlighted in conferences, practical workshops
and cultural events.

Alongside the five day broadcast, the World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters (AMARC) and other civil society organisations are holding a
conference at the World Social Forum to showcase civil society media,
information and communications initiatives.

The conference will reflect on the results of civil society involvement in
the recent World Summit on the Information Society and consider strategies
for strengthening the movement for communication rights.

"Whose Information Society? Communication Rights and Media Alternatives"
will be held at the World Social Forum on 20 January 2004, from 9.00 -
12.00am in Mumbai, India. It has been organised by AMARC in cooperation
with Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Agencia
Latinoamericana de Informacion (ALAI), Isis International and others.

- End -

Notes

"Whose Information Society? Communication Rights and Media Alternatives"
World Social Forum, 20 January 2004, 9.00 - 12.00
Venue D134, NESCO Grounds, Mumbai

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
AMARC, International Secretariat
Email : amarc@amarc.org
Web : www.amarc.org
+1-514-982-0351

- Fran?ais -

Communiqu? de Presse

POUR DIFFUSION IMMEDIATE

16 Janvier, 2004

Une autre communication est possible!
----------------------------------

La soci?t? civil du monde, r?uni a Mumbai, Inde a l'occasion du Forum
Social Mondial 2004, a pris les ondes radiales aujourd'hui pour transmettre
le message : "Une autre communication est possible!"

Les journalistes des radios communautaires des quatre coins du monde
collaborent ? une ?mission collective en direct coordonn?e  par
l'Association mondiale de radiodiffuseurs communautaires, AMARC.

L'?quipe de l'?mission inclut les producteurs et journalistes de la Radio
Lora (Suisse), la Radio Tierra (Chile), l'Agence Africaine de nouvelles
Simbani, AmmanNet (Jordan), l'Association de radiodiffuseurs communautaires
de Sri Lanka, Mass Line Media (Bangladesh), Sheffield Live! (RU),
l'Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires de l'Australie, la
Radio  Sagarmatha et la Radio Lumbini (N?pal) et Voices (Inde).

Le Forum Social Mondial 2004 a adopt? le th?me "m?dias, culture et  savoir"
comme un des th?mes centraux autour desquels se d?rouleront les diff?rentes
conf?rences, ateliers pratiques et activit?s culturelles pendant le Forum.

En plus des cinq  journ?es d'?mission, l'Association mondiale de
radiodiffuseurs communautaires, AMARC, en coop?ration avec d'autres
organisations sociales, organisent une conf?rence qui portera sur le r?le
des m?dias de la soci?t? civile, ainsi que sur les initiatives
d'information et de communication alternatives.

Les participants discuteront des r?sultats de la participation de la
soci?t? civile au r?cent Sommet Mondial de la Soci?t? de l'information et
recueilleront  des recommandations  pour planifier les strat?gies  qui
contribueront ? la consolidation du droit ? la communication.

"La soci?t? de l'information pour qui? Le droit a la communication et les
m?dias alternatifs" aura lieu pendant le Forum Social Mondial le 20
Janvier, 2004 de 9.00h a 12.00h  Mumbai, Inde.

La conf?rence est organis?e par l'AMARC en coop?ration avec
l'APC  (Association pour la Communication Progressive) l'Agence
Latino-am?ricaine d'Information (ALAI) et Isis International.

- Fin -

Notes:

"?La soci?t? de l'information pour qui? Le droit a la communication et les
m?dias alternatifs" Forum Social Mondial, 20 Janvier 2004, 9.00 - 12.00
Salle D134, NESCO Grounds, Mumbai

POUR PLUS D'INFORMATIONS:
AMARC, Secr?tariat International
Courriel : amarc@amarc.org
Internet : www.amarc.org
+1-514-982-0351

- Espa?ol -

Comunicado de prensa

PARA DIFUSION INMEDIATO

16 de Enero, 2004

?Otra Comunicaci?n es posible!
----------------------------------

La sociedad civil reunida en ocasi?n del Foro Social Mundial  2004
en  Mumbai, India tom? las ondas radiales hoy con el mensaje "?Otra
comunicaci?n es posible!"

Periodistas de radios comunitarias de todo el mundo colaboran en un
esfuerzo conjunto para transmitir una emisi?n coordinada por la Asociaci?n
Mundial de Radios Comunitarias, AMARC desde la sede del FSM.

El equipo de transmisi?n  incluye productores y periodistas de Radio Lora
(Suiza), Radio Tierra (Chile), Simbani Africa News Service, AmmanNet
(Jord?n), Sri Lankan Associatonion of Community Broadcasters, Mass Line
Media (Bangladesh), Sheffield Live! (RU), Community Broadcasting
Association of Australia, Radio  Sagarmatha y Radio Lumbini (Nepal) y
Voices (India).

El Foro Social Mundial 2004 ha adoptado el tema de "medios de comunicaci?n,
cultura y conocimiento" como uno de
los temas centrales en los que se enfocar?n las diferentes conferencias,
talleres pr?cticos y eventos culturales.

Adem?s de los cinco d?as de transmisi?n, la Asociaci?n Mundial de Radios
Comunitarias, AMARC, y  otras  organizaciones sociales llevar?n a cabo una
conferencia que pondr? en relieve la importancia de los medios de
comunicaci?n de la sociedad civil as? como iniciativas de informaci?n y
comunicaci?n alternativas.

La conferencia evaluarla los resultados de la participaci?n de la sociedad
civil en la reciente Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la informaci?n en
Ginebra adem?s de recoger recomendaciones y planear estrategias para el
fortalecimiento del derecho a la comunicaci?n.

"?Sociedad de la Informaci?n para qui?n? El derecho a la comunicaci?n y los
medios alternativos" tendr? lugar durante  el Foro Social Mundial el 20 de
Enero del 2004, de las 9am a las 12.00pm en Mumbai, India.

La conferencia ha sido organizada por AMARC con el apoyo de la Asociaci?n
para el progreso de las comunicaciones (APC), la Agencia Latinoamericana de
Informaci?n (ALAI) y Isis International.

- Fin -

Notas:

"?Sociedad de la Informaci?n para qui?n? El derecho a la comunicaci?n y los
medios alternativos" Foro Social Mundial, 20 de Enero del 2004, 9.00-12.00
Sala D134, NESCO Grounds, Mumbai

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From wolfgang at imv.au.dk  Tue Jan 20 09:19:59 2004
From: wolfgang at imv.au.dk (wolfgang@imv.au.dk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: AW: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Itsumi - internet gov mtg on 26-27 Feb in Geneva
Message-ID: <E1Ais3D-0006Dr-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>

Dear all,

we agreed (more or less) in Geneva that we will start something like an "on-line publication series" of the Caucus ("CS Internet ICT Governance Caucus Papers"). The subjects of papers should be chosen mainly from the issues which will pop up from the agenda of the new WG which Kofi Annan has to establish. The main issue here is at the moment "definition of internet governance" and "interdependence and/or relationship between political and technical aspects of IG". 

We have three options now: 

Option One is to start a discussion for a "joint statement" (which would be more a political paper) and could be a common interpretation of Article 48ff. of the WSIS declaration and C6 13 of the WSIS Action Plan by the Caucus. This paper could be also the send to the CS Plenary for endorsement, so that this paper would be the position of the CS Plenary. 

Option Two is that individual Caucus members write short papers (one or two pages) to various aspects of the two governmental WSIS documents (multistakeholder approach, openess, inclusive, multiligualism, stable and secure functioning of the Internet, regional root serves, facilitating role of intergovernmental organisation, important role of civil society organisations on community level , important role of private sector in technical and economic fields, sovereign rights of states in internet related public policy issues etc.) Pratically, each single word of Articles 48, 49 and 50 and C6, 13 b., c., and d. could be the subject of a short paper. 

Option Three is to start a discussion on a "definition". I propose that Jeanette and Adam, as the two candidates for overtaking the facilitating role of the caucus, draft a "Request for Comment". On the basis of such a "CS IG RFC" a definition can evolve bottom up. 

Hopefully some results can be presented already in the ITU Geneva Workshop, the ICANN Rome meeting (the week after the ITU Workshop) and the UN ICT Taks Force Meeting (two weeks later on March 25 - 29, 2004) in New York. 

One opportunity to prepare this in a F2F meeting, at least for people living in Geneva, Switzerland, Austria and Germany could be the ICANN Studienkreis Meeting (now Domain Pulse) in Zuerich, February, 5 - 6, 2004. 


Best wishes

wolfgang



-- Original Nachricht--
Von: Amali De Silva <amalidesilva@yahoo.com>
An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Senden: 09:45 AM
Betreff: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Itsumi - internet gov mtg on 26-27 Feb in Geneva

Should Civil Society Plenary / CT / IG caucus put together a position paper / concept paper to be circulated to all government delegations well before the ITU Internet Governance Work Shop?? This document could be presented by the IG caucus on behalf of CS at the work-shop itself.
?
Each caucus?could work on the impact / relevance / importanance ?/ ?themes / "must have" s etc of? aspects of IG for their particular area. 
?
?
Amali De Silva - Mitchell
?
Vancouver Community Network, Canada
?
YJ Park <yjpark@myepark.com> wrote:






From lachapelle at openwsis.org  Tue Jan 20 12:39:12 2004
From: lachapelle at openwsis.org (Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Internet governance : roles of plenary and governance lists
Message-ID: <200401201239.BAK49395@ms7.verisignmail.com>

Dear all,

The WSIS Action plan requests the UN SG to set up a WG on 
Internet Governance.

Ensuring participation of civil society in this process and 
making sure it has a voice is a priority, be it only to set 
a positive pattern in the WSIS follow-up. 

This will trigger a lot of exchanges and online discussions 
within civil society that will make the plenary list 
unmanageable if it receives all postings. For that issue as 
well as for other thematic issues, the Plenary mailing list 
should be freed from the thematic debates that can be 
conducted on caucusses lists. 

For the CS Internet governance caucus, a mailing list has 
been set up for some time (see 
https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance). It is the 
natural space to conduct discussion and debate on these 
issues and prepare the CS participation in the various 
consultation processes taking place in the coming months. I 
therefore suggest all CS discussions related to the UN SG 
Working group on Internet governance to be conducted on the 
governance mailing list.

Interested members of civil society who want to contribute 
are invited to register on that list. Those who want to 
simply follow the debate are invited to subscribe as well to 
be able to visit the archives when they want but disable 
mail delivery in the subscription options page. 

The plenary mailing list would therefore be used to : 
-	announce the launch of specific consultations
-	report regularly on progress
-	sollicit comments or support from the plenary on 
draft positions 
-	communicate interesting information gathered within 
the thematic list to a wider audience

Hope this will facilitate work.

Cheers

Bertrand


From yjpark at myepark.com  Tue Jan 20 14:40:29 2004
From: yjpark at myepark.com (YJ Park)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Priority for WSIS Civil Soiciety
References: <E1Ais3D-0006Dr-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <009b01c3df63$64a7f0f0$99213b18@YJ>

There have been three proposals so far how we can move forward within WSIS
civil society in terms of WSIS "Internet Governance" issue both caucus level
and plenary level.

The main challenge of Internet Governance debate during Geneva WSIS was to
initiate a momentum of creating international forum to discuss Internet
Governance in the global level.
Like it or not, we, civil society, should understand "civil society's roles"
in the Internet policy decision-making process was not recognized seriously.
They gave some credits to Internet Governance caucus but not to WSIS civil
society in general. If I remind you of WSIS recommendation, it invited again
only governments to discuss following issues.

f) Governments are invited to:
i)facilitate the establishment of national and regional Internet Exchange
Centres;
ii)manage or supervise, as appropriate, their respective country code
top-level domain name (ccTLD);
iii)promote awareness of the Internet.


But Internet Governance caucus itself cannot make difference to ensure civil
society's voices in the Internet policy making process. WSIS Civil Society
should go along with it. The main challenge of Internet Governance debate
from now on until Tunisia WSIS is to build a consensus in the WSIS plenary
that civil society should equally participate in open, transparent, and
bottom-up decision-making process like our counterparts, governments and
private sector members.


This may generate more traffics in the plenary list as Bertrand is
concerned, we have to live with it until WSIS civil society is ready for
presenting our collective position to various platforms including ITU
proposed by Amali de Silva.

YJ




From richardjordan at lycos.com  Tue Jan 20 15:23:24 2004
From: richardjordan at lycos.com (richard t jordan)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Priority for WSIS Civil Soiciety
Message-ID: <NDAAOGBJIEEBHFAA@mailcity.com>

--Hi, YJ and others, Thanks for these emails. Being an old hand at UN Summits and General Assembly Special Sessions, etc., let me say that little inroads are important. They may not seem to be so, but they are.

What happened in 2000 at the Millennium NGO Forum held 22-26 May at UN Headquarters was that an 18-page NGO Declaration was issued that covered six areas covered in the governmental Millennium Summit statement. This NGO document was then issued by the Secretary-General as an actual UN document, something that in my knowledge has never happened before or since.

The difference was that we outlined steps that NGOs thought that governments should take, what the UN system could do, and what NGOs could do.

Declarations are worth the paper they are printed on. The importance are strategies, alliances and partnerships that can make differences. 

The Millennium NGO document, from all sides, remains unimplemented, but that does not mean that aspects of it are not being implemented.

Our NGO was able to make some significant impacts for current and future work because of the Prep Com and Summit processes because we were always looking toward Tunis right from the start.

It's up to Civil Society to figure out how to proceed to Tunis and beyond, but from my vantage point, I think creative use of collective visions can move everyone forward.

Richard J.



--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:40:29
From: "YJ Park" <yjpark@myepark.com>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>, " Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
Cc: 

>There have been three proposals so far how we can move forward within WSIS
>civil society in terms of WSIS "Internet Governance" issue both caucus level
>and plenary level.
>
>The main challenge of Internet Governance debate during Geneva WSIS was to
>initiate a momentum of creating international forum to discuss Internet
>Governance in the global level.
>Like it or not, we, civil society, should understand "civil society's roles"
>in the Internet policy decision-making process was not recognized seriously.
>They gave some credits to Internet Governance caucus but not to WSIS civil
>society in general. If I remind you of WSIS recommendation, it invited again
>only governments to discuss following issues.
>
>f) Governments are invited to:
>i)facilitate the establishment of national and regional Internet Exchange
>Centres;
>ii)manage or supervise, as appropriate, their respective country code
>top-level domain name (ccTLD);
>iii)promote awareness of the Internet.
>
>
>But Internet Governance caucus itself cannot make difference to ensure civil
>society's voices in the Internet policy making process. WSIS Civil Society
>should go along with it. The main challenge of Internet Governance debate
>from now on until Tunisia WSIS is to build a consensus in the WSIS plenary
>that civil society should equally participate in open, transparent, and
>bottom-up decision-making process like our counterparts, governments and
>private sector members.
>
>
>This may generate more traffics in the plenary list as Bertrand is
>concerned, we have to live with it until WSIS civil society is ready for
>presenting our collective position to various platforms including ITU
>proposed by Amali de Silva.
>
>YJ
>
>
>
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>Plenary@wsis-cs.org
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From wolfgang at imv.au.dk  Tue Jan 20 15:25:38 2004
From: wolfgang at imv.au.dk (wolfgang@imv.au.dk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Priority for WSIS Civil Soiciety
Message-ID: <E1Aixl4-0005zd-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>

Like it or not, we, civil society, should understand "civil society's
roles" in the Internet policy decision-making process was not recognized seriously. They gave some credits to Internet Governance caucus but not to WSIS civil society in general. If I remind you of WSIS recommendation, it invited again only governments to discuss following issues.
f) Governments are invited to:
i)facilitate the establishment of national and regional Internet Exchange
Centres;
ii)manage or supervise, as appropriate, their respective country code
top-level domain name (ccTLD);
iii)promote awareness of the Internet.


Dear YJ

I disagree with you evaluation. The points f.i. in 13 of the Action Plan are specific recommendaitons for governments. You have to read both the declaration and the action plan in all its parts and this signals a different story. The overriding text (where 13 f & i is included) is: 
Article 48: "The internaitonal management of the internet should be multilateral, transparent and democratic with the full involvment of the governments, the private sector, civil society and internaitonal organisations".

Furthermore, Article 50 says, that the working group on IG  should be organized as "an open and inclusive process that ensures a mechanism for the full and active participation of governments, the private sector and civil society both from developed and developing countries".

I would welcome if you could contribute to the Caucus debate by writing a paper "What means "multilateral, transparent and democratic" in Global Internet Governance?". The paper soud be no longer than 4 - 6 pages. It could become a good platform for further discussions. 

Best wishes

wolfgang

 
* What are the differences between 
But Internet Governance caucus itself cannot make difference to ensure civil
society's voices in the Internet policy making process. WSIS Civil Society
should go along with it. The main challenge of Internet Governance debate
from now on until Tunisia WSIS is to build a consensus in the WSIS plenary
that civil society should equally participate in open, transparent, and
bottom-up decision-making process like our counterparts, governments and
private sector members.


This may generate more traffics in the plenary list as Bertrand is
concerned, we have to live with it until WSIS civil society is ready for
presenting our collective position to various platforms including ITU
proposed by Amali de Silva.

YJ



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Plenary@wsis-cs.org
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From rkoven at compuserve.com  Tue Jan 20 15:45:53 2004
From: rkoven at compuserve.com (Ronald Koven)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Priority for WSIS Civil Soiciety
Message-ID: <200401201046_MC3-1-6797-B036@compuserve.com>

Dear All --

I would like to make a serious plea that "Richard J." and all others on the
list please sign their full names. There are constantly messages on the
list with nothing but initials or first names. One cannot possibly keep in
mind everyone involved in civil society in that way. In the interests of
full disclosure, all those using the list should be required to sign their
full names so that one knows where things are coming from.

Thanks in advance on this seemingly minor point that nonetheless
significantly diminishes the usefulness of the list to those of us without
an encyclopedic memory of everyone who has ever taken part in civil society
discussions.

And a Happy New Year to all!

Ronald Koven

From veni at veni.com  Tue Jan 20 15:52:18 2004
From: veni at veni.com (Veni Markovski)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Priority for WSIS Civil Soiciety
In-Reply-To: <200401201046_MC3-1-6797-B036@compuserve.com>
References: <200401201046_MC3-1-6797-B036@compuserve.com>
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040120175116.02bdadc8@198.111.183.129>

>I would like to make a serious plea that "Richard J." and all others on the
>list please sign their full names. There are constantly messages on the

I'd rather put it differently - his name is written in the field "From", so 
the signature is not really required. I am always signing with just "Veni", 
but my full name is in the "From" field.

regards,
v.

(oops, just noticed that I even sign with "v.")



From veni at veni.com  Tue Jan 20 15:53:33 2004
From: veni at veni.com (Veni Markovski)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Priority for WSIS Civil Soiciety
In-Reply-To: <E1Aixl4-0005zd-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
References: <E1Aixl4-0005zd-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040120175226.02cc4788@198.111.183.129>

Wolfgang,
I support your proposal, although I wouldn't dare to ask YJ to writeh a 
paper;)

I'd like to draw the attention of the CS to the fact that the governments 
have different agenda and we have to make them listen to us!

v.

At 16:25 20.01.2004 '?.'  +0100, wolfgang@imv.au.dk wrote:

>Like it or not, we, civil society, should understand "civil society's
>roles" in the Internet policy decision-making process was not recognized 
>seriously. They gave some credits to Internet Governance caucus but not to 
>WSIS civil society in general. If I remind you of WSIS recommendation, it 
>invited again only governments to discuss following issues.
>f) Governments are invited to:


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From aizu at anr.org  Tue Jan 20 16:20:54 2004
From: aizu at anr.org (AIZU)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [governance] AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Priority for WSIS Civil
  Soiciety
In-Reply-To: <E1Aixl4-0005zd-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
References: <E1Aixl4-0005zd-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.20.2.20040121011627.05bbbe78@anr.org>

I support Wolfgang's assesment of this Internet Governance WG process.

And, it would be nice to try to write a "joint-paper"  as option One,
but in reality, we should first write different papers by those who can,
and then, if there is good synthesis, let's make it into one paper but
we don't have to agree on everything and it is sometimes better
to show the "diversity", as civil society from all over the globe.

Frankly, I prefer multiple approach even within CS governance group
at least at this stage.

best,

izumi


At 16:25 04/01/20 +0100, you wrote:

>Like it or not, we, civil society, should understand "civil society's
>roles" in the Internet policy decision-making process was not recognized 
>seriously. They gave some credits to Internet Governance caucus but not to 
>WSIS civil society in general. If I remind you of WSIS recommendation, it 
>invited again only governments to discuss following issues.
>f) Governments are invited to:
>i)facilitate the establishment of national and regional Internet Exchange
>Centres;
>ii)manage or supervise, as appropriate, their respective country code
>top-level domain name (ccTLD);
>iii)promote awareness of the Internet.
>
>
>Dear YJ
>
>I disagree with you evaluation. The points f.i. in 13 of the Action Plan 
>are specific recommendaitons for governments. You have to read both the 
>declaration and the action plan in all its parts and this signals a 
>different story. The overriding text (where 13 f & i is included) is:
>Article 48: "The internaitonal management of the internet should be 
>multilateral, transparent and democratic with the full involvment of the 
>governments, the private sector, civil society and internaitonal organisations".
>
>Furthermore, Article 50 says, that the working group on IG  should be 
>organized as "an open and inclusive process that ensures a mechanism for 
>the full and active participation of governments, the private sector and 
>civil society both from developed and developing countries".
>
>I would welcome if you could contribute to the Caucus debate by writing a 
>paper "What means "multilateral, transparent and democratic" in Global 
>Internet Governance?". The paper soud be no longer than 4 - 6 pages. It 
>could become a good platform for further discussions.
>
>Best wishes
>
>wolfgang
>
>
>* What are the differences between
>But Internet Governance caucus itself cannot make difference to ensure civil
>society's voices in the Internet policy making process. WSIS Civil Society
>should go along with it. The main challenge of Internet Governance debate
>from now on until Tunisia WSIS is to build a consensus in the WSIS plenary
>that civil society should equally participate in open, transparent, and
>bottom-up decision-making process like our counterparts, governments and
>private sector members.
>
>
>This may generate more traffics in the plenary list as Bertrand is
>concerned, we have to live with it until WSIS civil society is ready for
>presenting our collective position to various platforms including ITU
>proposed by Amali de Silva.
>
>YJ
>


From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Wed Jan 21 06:55:04 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance : roles of plenary and
 governance lists
In-Reply-To: <200401201239.BAK49395@ms7.verisignmail.com>
References: <200401201239.BAK49395@ms7.verisignmail.com>
Message-ID: <p05100308bc33a959a061@[192.168.1.218]>

Bertrand, these are good suggestions. A practical addition would be 
to open the governance caucus mailing list archives so that anyone 
can easily take a look rather than going through the subscription 
process.

One of the tasks Jeanette and I have talked about recently was to 
ensure communication with other parts of civil society. You're right 
to encourage people to join the governance caucus, and you are right 
that the plenary list is the means to inform CS at large, but we also 
think there needs to be a more regular communication channel with 
other caucuses, not just the notice board of the plenary.

The work of the secretary general's task force on Internet governance 
will be one of the focuses of WSIS from now until Tunis. Civil 
society must be involved and able to participate, and the governance 
caucus can only assume a representative role in a legitimate way if 
it is able to present the broad view of civil society.

Some other issues we think need to be addressed:

*A letter to Annan (his office) expressing the caucus' desire to 
contribute to the new task force.

*A letter to Utsumi (Richard Hill/Bob Shaw) with names of people the 
caucus would like to be respectfully invited to the ITU workshop. 
This is now urgent, should be sent before the end of this week.

*Inform/remind others -- UNICT Task Force, WSIS secretariat, for 
example-- that the governance caucus exists and wishes to contribute 
to work they are preparing.

*Let other caucuses know what we're doing, ask for their advice, tell 
them how to get in touch, etc.

*And I guess it's not too early to start thinking about the next 
phase of the prepcom process.  A first prepcom is expected sometime 
in the summer, is that right?

And I'm sure there's more (soliciting contributions, informing 
organizations likely to be interested in what's going on but not yet 
part of the WSIS work, etc.)

Thanks,

Adam, and on behalf of Jeanette


Adam Peake
Jeanette Hofmann



At 1:39 PM +0100 1/20/04, Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>The WSIS Action plan requests the UN SG to set up a WG on
>Internet Governance.
>
>Ensuring participation of civil society in this process and
>making sure it has a voice is a priority, be it only to set
>a positive pattern in the WSIS follow-up.
>
>This will trigger a lot of exchanges and online discussions
>within civil society that will make the plenary list
>unmanageable if it receives all postings. For that issue as
>well as for other thematic issues, the Plenary mailing list
>should be freed from the thematic debates that can be
>conducted on caucusses lists.
>
>For the CS Internet governance caucus, a mailing list has
>been set up for some time (see
>https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance). It is the
>natural space to conduct discussion and debate on these
>issues and prepare the CS participation in the various
>consultation processes taking place in the coming months. I
>therefore suggest all CS discussions related to the UN SG
>Working group on Internet governance to be conducted on the
>governance mailing list.
>
>Interested members of civil society who want to contribute
>are invited to register on that list. Those who want to
>simply follow the debate are invited to subscribe as well to
>be able to visit the archives when they want but disable
>mail delivery in the subscription options page.
>
>The plenary mailing list would therefore be used to :
>-	announce the launch of specific consultations
>-	report regularly on progress
>-	sollicit comments or support from the plenary on
>draft positions
>-	communicate interesting information gathered within
>the thematic list to a wider audience
>
>Hope this will facilitate work.
>
>Cheers
>
>Bertrand
>
>_______________________________________________
>governance mailing list
>governance@lists.cpsr.org
>https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance


-- 

From wolfgang at imv.au.dk  Wed Jan 21 08:23:05 2004
From: wolfgang at imv.au.dk (wolfgang@imv.au.dk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance : roles of plenary and governance lists
Message-ID: <E1AjDdh-0003CQ-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>

Thanks Adam & Jeanette,

this is good step forward.

What do you think about a Caucus Website? We can link the discussion of the Caucus to this website and can have different discussion sections like "definition", "public polciy aspects" or "multilinguism" and "root server" ? 

I repeat also my proposal to start a Publication Series (On Line Papers). I will try to produce something in connection with the Zuerich ICANN Studienkreis meeting in early February. It would be good to have soon also some short papers from Jeanette, Milton, Adam, Izumi, Bill, Veni, Bertrand, YJ, Paul Wilson, Marc Hollitscher, Hans Klein and other well recognized experts with academic reputation. 

I think the letter to Kofi Annan?s office is as urgent as a letter to Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft? The letter could have the "Governance section" from the WSIS CS Declaration as Annex. 

Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in this letter (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in their personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As far as I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially. I also got the day before yesterday an official invitation by Utsumi to write a short paper. Who else?

We should make use of all the three tickets. The Geneva meeting is just before the ICANN Rom meeting. People going to Rome could probably consider to have a stop over in Geneva.    

Best wishes

wolfgang

 -- Original Nachricht--
Von: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
An: Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE <lachapelle@openwsis.org>,plenary@wsis-cs.org,Governance <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
Senden: 07:54 AM
Betreff: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance : roles of plenary and governance lists

Bertrand, these are good suggestions. A practical addition would be 
to open the governance caucus mailing list archives so that anyone 
can easily take a look rather than going through the subscription 
process.

One of the tasks Jeanette and I have talked about recently was to 
ensure communication with other parts of civil society. You're right 
to encourage people to join the governance caucus, and you are right 
that the plenary list is the means to inform CS at large, but we also 
think there needs to be a more regular communication channel with 
other caucuses, not just the notice board of the plenary.

The work of the secretary general's task force on Internet governance 
will be one of the focuses of WSIS from now until Tunis. Civil 
society must be involved and able to participate, and the governance 
caucus can only assume a representative role in a legitimate way if 
it is able to present the broad view of civil society.

Some other issues we think need to be addressed:

*A letter to Annan (his office) expressing the caucus' desire to 
contribute to the new task force.

*A letter to Utsumi (Richard Hill/Bob Shaw) with names of people the 
caucus would like to be respectfully invited to the ITU workshop. 
This is now urgent, should be sent before the end of this week.

*Inform/remind others -- UNICT Task Force, WSIS secretariat, for 
example-- that the governance caucus exists and wishes to contribute 
to work they are preparing.

*Let other caucuses know what we're doing, ask for their advice, tell 
them how to get in touch, etc.

*And I guess it's not too early to start thinking about the next 
phase of the prepcom process.  A first prepcom is expected sometime 
in the summer, is that right?

And I'm sure there's more (soliciting contributions, informing 
organizations likely to be interested in what's going on but not yet 
part of the WSIS work, etc.)

Thanks,

Adam, and on behalf of Jeanette


Adam Peake
Jeanette Hofmann



At 1:39 PM +0100 1/20/04, Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>The WSIS Action plan requests the UN SG to set up a WG on
>Internet Governance.
>
>Ensuring participation of civil society in this process and
>making sure it has a voice is a priority, be it only to set
>a positive pattern in the WSIS follow-up.
>
>This will trigger a lot of exchanges and online discussions
>within civil society that will make the plenary list
>unmanageable if it receives all postings. For that issue as
>well as for other thematic issues, the Plenary mailing list
>should be freed from the thematic debates that can be
>conducted on caucusses lists.
>
>For the CS Internet governance caucus, a mailing list has
>been set up for some time (see
>https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance). It is
the
>natural space to conduct discussion and debate on these
>issues and prepare the CS participation in the various
>consultation processes taking place in the coming months. I
>therefore suggest all CS discussions related to the UN SG
>Working group on Internet governance to be conducted on the
>governance mailing list.
>
>Interested members of civil society who want to contribute
>are invited to register on that list. Those who want to
>simply follow the debate are invited to subscribe as well to
>be able to visit the archives when they want but disable
>mail delivery in the subscription options page.
>
>The plenary mailing list would therefore be used to :
>-	announce the launch of specific consultations
>-	report regularly on progress
>-	sollicit comments or support from the plenary on
>draft positions
>-	communicate interesting information gathered within
>the thematic list to a wider audience
>
>Hope this will facilitate work.
>
>Cheers
>
>Bertrand
>
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>governance@lists.cpsr.org
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From aizu at anr.org  Tue Jan 20 16:28:18 2004
From: aizu at anr.org (AIZU)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [governance] AW: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Utsumi
  -internet gov mtg on 26-27 Feb in Geneva
In-Reply-To: <E1Ais3D-0006Dr-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
References: <E1Ais3D-0006Dr-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.20.2.20040121012147.05bd49e8@anr.org>

What would be our best mode to participate ITU workshop as our governance caucus?

As Jeanette cannot attend, perhaps Adam could so that one of our possible new
coordinators would also be there.   I support him to go and will try to push.

But in case Adam cannot, too, which might be the case,  I would be happy to try
and squeeze time to attend and report back to the constituency (I can be on 
the way
to Rome for ICANN).

I think it's important that we have someone from Asia Pacific there, in addition
to folks from Europe,  who has been involved in these issues, and we are in
the early stages of planning some  Asia Pacific region outreach on this
governance work.

We are organizing a meeting at coming APRICOT in Kuala Lumpur, end of Feb
just before ITU/ICANN meetings.

ICANN ALAC also plans to organize WSIS workshop in Rome.

best,

izumi

PS. ITU DG is "Utusmi", not "Itsumi" - and I am "izumi" (as you know),
please do not mix me up with him ... ;-)


At 10:19 04/01/20 +0100, wolfgang@imv.au.dk wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>we agreed (more or less) in Geneva that we will start something like an 
>"on-line publication series" of the Caucus ("CS Internet ICT Governance 
>Caucus Papers"). The subjects of papers should be chosen mainly from the 
>issues which will pop up from the agenda of the new WG which Kofi Annan 
>has to establish. The main issue here is at the moment "definition of 
>internet governance" and "interdependence and/or relationship between 
>political and technical aspects of IG".
>
>We have three options now:
>
>Option One is to start a discussion for a "joint statement" (which would 
>be more a political paper) and could be a common interpretation of Article 
>48ff. of the WSIS declaration and C6 13 of the WSIS Action Plan by the 
>Caucus. This paper could be also the send to the CS Plenary for 
>endorsement, so that this paper would be the position of the CS Plenary.
>
>Option Two is that individual Caucus members write short papers (one or 
>two pages) to various aspects of the two governmental WSIS documents 
>(multistakeholder approach, openess, inclusive, multiligualism, stable and 
>secure functioning of the Internet, regional root serves, facilitating 
>role of intergovernmental organisation, important role of civil society 
>organisations on community level , important role of private sector in 
>technical and economic fields, sovereign rights of states in internet 
>related public policy issues etc.) Pratically, each single word of 
>Articles 48, 49 and 50 and C6, 13 b., c., and d. could be the subject of a 
>short paper.
>
>Option Three is to start a discussion on a "definition". I propose that 
>Jeanette and Adam, as the two candidates for overtaking the facilitating 
>role of the caucus, draft a "Request for Comment". On the basis of such a 
>"CS IG RFC" a definition can evolve bottom up.
>
>Hopefully some results can be presented already in the ITU Geneva 
>Workshop, the ICANN Rome meeting (the week after the ITU Workshop) and the 
>UN ICT Taks Force Meeting (two weeks later on March 25 - 29, 2004) in New York.
>
>One opportunity to prepare this in a F2F meeting, at least for people 
>living in Geneva, Switzerland, Austria and Germany could be the ICANN 
>Studienkreis Meeting (now Domain Pulse) in Zuerich, February, 5 - 6, 2004.
>
>
>Best wishes
>
>wolfgang
>
>
>
>-- Original Nachricht--
>Von: Amali De Silva <amalidesilva@yahoo.com>
>An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Senden: 09:45 AM
>Betreff: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Itsumi - internet gov mtg on 
>26-27 Feb in Geneva
>
>Should Civil Society Plenary / CT / IG caucus put together a position 
>paper / concept paper to be circulated to all government delegations well 
>before the ITU Internet Governance Work Shop ? This document could be 
>presented by the IG caucus on behalf of CS at the work-shop itself.
>
>Each caucus could work on the impact / relevance / importanance  / 
>themes / "must have" s etc of  aspects of IG for their particular area.
>
>
>Amali De Silva - Mitchell
>
>Vancouver Community Network, Canada
>
>YJ Park <yjpark@myepark.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
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From vb at bertola.eu.org  Wed Jan 21 10:04:03 2004
From: vb at bertola.eu.org (Vittorio Bertola)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance :
 roles of	plenary and governance lists
In-Reply-To: <E1AjDdh-0003CQ-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
References: <E1AjDdh-0003CQ-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <400E4E93.7090702@bertola.eu.org>

wolfgang@imv.au.dk ha scritto:
> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
> 
> this is good step forward.
> 
> What do you think about a Caucus Website? 

Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I have started 
working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain name went 
nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered on his 
own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by the next 
weekend. At least, I hope so.

> I think the letter to Kofi Annan?s office is as urgent as a letter to Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?

Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda and get 
deliverables done :)

> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in this letter (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in their personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As far as I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially. 

I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday evening. (So I don't 
need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)

An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited experts are 
supposed to express their preference on whether they would like "to
either introduce their contributions, make presentations and/or
participate in panel discussions". I think we should coordinate ourselves 
so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making 
presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I think we 
should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming that the 
organizers will agree, of course...)
-- 
.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
http://bertola.eu.org/    <-- Vecchio sito, nuovo toblog!


From aizu at anr.org  Wed Jan 21 12:02:42 2004
From: aizu at anr.org (AIZU)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
  :roles of	plenary and governance lists
In-Reply-To: <400E4E93.7090702@bertola.eu.org>
References: <E1AjDdh-0003CQ-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
 <400E4E93.7090702@bertola.eu.org>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.20.2.20040121210128.0c4b24b8@211.125.95.185>

I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
am trying to modify my schedule to go.

I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our participation.

izumi


At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
 >wolfgang@imv.au.dk ha scritto:
 >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
 >> this is good step forward.
 >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
 >
 >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I have started 
working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain name went 
nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered on his 
own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by the next 
weekend. At least, I hope so.
 >
 >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as urgent as a letter to 
Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
 >
 >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda and get 
deliverables done :)
 >
 >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in this letter 
(and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in their 
personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As far as 
I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
 >
 >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday evening. (So I don't 
need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
 >
 >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited experts are 
supposed to express their preference on whether they would like "to
 >either introduce their contributions, make presentations and/or
 >participate in panel discussions". I think we should coordinate ourselves 
so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making 
presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I think we 
should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming that the 
organizers will agree, of course...)
 >--
 >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
 >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
 >http://bertola.eu.org/    <-- Vecchio sito, nuovo toblog!
 >
 >_______________________________________________
 >Plenary mailing list
 >Plenary@wsis-cs.org
 >http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
 > 


From ralf.bendrath at sfb597.uni-bremen.de  Fri Jan 23 11:05:51 2004
From: ralf.bendrath at sfb597.uni-bremen.de (Ralf Bendrath)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Why WSIS-05 May Not Hold in Tunisia
Message-ID: <4011000F.DFF69897@sfb597.uni-bremen.de>

http://allafrica.com/stories/200401220684.html

Why WSIS-05 May Not Hold in Tunisia

Daily Champion (Lagos)
January 22, 2004
Remmy Nweke, Lagos

AS the campaign to cushion the lapses witnessed in the first-phase of
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) hots up, and the Tunisian
Government warms up for the preparation of the second phase of WSIS in
2005, press freedom groups may scuttle the plans.

This is coming in the wake of alleged human rights and press freedom
abuses by the government of Tunisia.

The Press Freedom groups under the aegis of World Association of
Newspapers (WAN), Journaliste en danger (JED), along with World Press
Freedom Committee, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Inter American
Press Association, International Association of Broadcasting,
International Federation of the Periodical Press, International Press
Institute and the North American Broadcasters Association are urging
summit organizers to cancel plans to hold the 2005 follow-up summit in
Tunisia.

According to them, "The second phase of the WSIS should not be held
there because of the country's serious human rights abuses," a statement
issued by the groups said.

"The Tunisian press is censored, journalists are jailed along with
hundreds of other political prisoners, and organsiation of the Tunis
summit has been assigned to a military general alleged to be responsible
for the torture of political prisoners," the groups added.

They also called for the 2005 meeting to be either held in a country
known for respecting press freedom or be put-off.

WAN which is leading the campaign, added that unless the Tunisian
government improves its human rights records, holding WSIS-05 in the
country would bring the WSIS process into disrepute.,This, the groups
maintained would "completely undermine WSIS declaration's reaffirmation
on the principles of free information and free expression".

Meanwhile, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last weekend, accused the
Tunisian authorities of blocking the development of an independent press
in the country after journalist Sihem Bensedrine failed in her attempt
to register the weekly newspaper "Kalima".

Bensedrine was turned away when she tried to begin the registration
process for the bilingual publication at the Interior Ministry's offices
on 13 January 2004.,"This latest unsuccessful attempt to publish the
newspaper 'Kalima' provides additional evidence of the Tunisian
authorities' determination to keep the press under control," said RSF
Secretary-General, Mr. Robert M?nard.

"President Ben Ali has publicly declared his support for freedom of
information but deliberately prevents the creation of an independent
press. Against this backdrop, the holding of the second phase of the
World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005 is a scandal,"
M?nard added.,This is the third time since 1999 that Bensedrine has
attempted to file a "preliminary statement" for "Kalima" with the
Interior Ministry. A home-produced version of the newspaper is currently
published on an irregular basis and distributed unofficially. "Kalima"'s
website, which is hosted abroad, continues to be blocked within Tunisia. 

Anticipating a setback at the ministry's offices, Bensedrine decided to
invite witnesses to observe her request for registration. "Kalima"'s
editorial committee, her lawyer, Member of Parliament Mokhtar Djalali
and Tunisian Human Rights League President Mokhtar Trifi accompanied the
journalist. 

She was once again able to show proof of President Zine el-Abidine Ben
Ali's refusal to liberalise the press in Tunisia, RSF noted. On January
14, Bensedrine was subjected to a particularly thorough search at Tunis
airport before boarding a flight to Germany, while a copy of "Kalima"
was confiscated from her as well as three CD-ROMs containing personal
data.

From karenb at gn.apc.org  Fri Jan 23 12:49:03 2004
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS and human rights and Tunisia
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20040123124831.02907c30@pop.gn.apc.org>

forwarded for Diana Bronson

karen


http://allafrica.com/stories/200401220684.html

Diana Bronson
Rights and Democracy/Droits et D?mocratie
www.ichrdd.ca

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From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Fri Jan 23 21:51:23 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of	plenary and governance lists
References: <E1AjDdh-0003CQ-00@smtp.imv.au.dk> <400E4E93.7090702@bertola.eu.org> <6.0.0.20.2.20040121210128.0c4b24b8@211.125.95.185>
Message-ID: <001b01c3e1fb$0cafe200$0a00000a@default>

Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his interlocutors. This is
unacceptable for the Civil Society.
If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously about the
content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we -the
CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no "welcome" for
Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT


----- Original Message -----
From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>; "Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
:roles of plenary and governance lists


> I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
> am trying to modify my schedule to go.
>
> I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our participation.
>
> izumi
>
>
> At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>  >wolfgang@imv.au.dk ha scritto:
>  >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
>  >> this is good step forward.
>  >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
>  >
>  >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I have started
> working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain name went
> nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered on his
> own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by the next
> weekend. At least, I hope so.
>  >
>  >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as urgent as a
letter to
> Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
>  >
>  >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda and get
> deliverables done :)
>  >
>  >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in this letter
> (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in their
> personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As far as
> I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
>  >
>  >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday evening. (So I don't
> need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
>  >
>  >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited experts are
> supposed to express their preference on whether they would like "to
>  >either introduce their contributions, make presentations and/or
>  >participate in panel discussions". I think we should coordinate
ourselves
> so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
> presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I think we
> should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming that the
> organizers will agree, of course...)
>  >--
>  >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
>  >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
>  >http://bertola.eu.org/    <-- Vecchio sito, nuovo toblog!
>  >
>  >_______________________________________________
>  >Plenary mailing list
>  >Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>  >http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>  >
>
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From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Fri Jan 23 22:10:52 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Why WSIS-05 May Not Hold in Tunisia
References: <4011000F.DFF69897@sfb597.uni-bremen.de>
Message-ID: <003101c3e1fd$c5528180$0a00000a@default>

Thanks Ralf for these very serious information.
This stresses the close and continuous attention CS has to pay for the
tunisian phase of the Summit, and even envisage its boycott. Anyway, CS has
to maintain a permanent pressure on tunisian officials as well as WSIS
organisers having in mind human rights respect and freedom of expression as
unconditional prerequisites to its participation.
However our decision should be made in accordance with the tunisian NGOs and
mainly those involved in defending human rights and basic liberties.
After all, there are some african countries that do their best in terms of
HR respects. So let's give them the chance to organise the final Summit.
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT - France


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralf Bendrath" <ralf.bendrath@sfb597.uni-bremen.de>
To: "wsis-cs-plenary" <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:05 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Why WSIS-05 May Not Hold in Tunisia


> http://allafrica.com/stories/200401220684.html
>
> Why WSIS-05 May Not Hold in Tunisia
>
> Daily Champion (Lagos)
> January 22, 2004
> Remmy Nweke, Lagos
>
> AS the campaign to cushion the lapses witnessed in the first-phase of
> World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) hots up, and the Tunisian
> Government warms up for the preparation of the second phase of WSIS in
> 2005, press freedom groups may scuttle the plans.
>
> This is coming in the wake of alleged human rights and press freedom
> abuses by the government of Tunisia.
>
> The Press Freedom groups under the aegis of World Association of
> Newspapers (WAN), Journaliste en danger (JED), along with World Press
> Freedom Committee, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Inter American
> Press Association, International Association of Broadcasting,
> International Federation of the Periodical Press, International Press
> Institute and the North American Broadcasters Association are urging
> summit organizers to cancel plans to hold the 2005 follow-up summit in
> Tunisia.
>
> According to them, "The second phase of the WSIS should not be held
> there because of the country's serious human rights abuses," a statement
> issued by the groups said.
>
> "The Tunisian press is censored, journalists are jailed along with
> hundreds of other political prisoners, and organsiation of the Tunis
> summit has been assigned to a military general alleged to be responsible
> for the torture of political prisoners," the groups added.
>
> They also called for the 2005 meeting to be either held in a country
> known for respecting press freedom or be put-off.
>
> WAN which is leading the campaign, added that unless the Tunisian
> government improves its human rights records, holding WSIS-05 in the
> country would bring the WSIS process into disrepute.,This, the groups
> maintained would "completely undermine WSIS declaration's reaffirmation
> on the principles of free information and free expression".
>
> Meanwhile, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last weekend, accused the
> Tunisian authorities of blocking the development of an independent press
> in the country after journalist Sihem Bensedrine failed in her attempt
> to register the weekly newspaper "Kalima".
>
> Bensedrine was turned away when she tried to begin the registration
> process for the bilingual publication at the Interior Ministry's offices
> on 13 January 2004.,"This latest unsuccessful attempt to publish the
> newspaper 'Kalima' provides additional evidence of the Tunisian
> authorities' determination to keep the press under control," said RSF
> Secretary-General, Mr. Robert M?nard.
>
> "President Ben Ali has publicly declared his support for freedom of
> information but deliberately prevents the creation of an independent
> press. Against this backdrop, the holding of the second phase of the
> World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005 is a scandal,"
> M?nard added.,This is the third time since 1999 that Bensedrine has
> attempted to file a "preliminary statement" for "Kalima" with the
> Interior Ministry. A home-produced version of the newspaper is currently
> published on an irregular basis and distributed unofficially. "Kalima"'s
> website, which is hosted abroad, continues to be blocked within Tunisia.
>
> Anticipating a setback at the ministry's offices, Bensedrine decided to
> invite witnesses to observe her request for registration. "Kalima"'s
> editorial committee, her lawyer, Member of Parliament Mokhtar Djalali
> and Tunisian Human Rights League President Mokhtar Trifi accompanied the
> journalist.
>
> She was once again able to show proof of President Zine el-Abidine Ben
> Ali's refusal to liberalise the press in Tunisia, RSF noted. On January
> 14, Bensedrine was subjected to a particularly thorough search at Tunis
> airport before boarding a flight to Germany, while a copy of "Kalima"
> was confiscated from her as well as three CD-ROMs containing personal
> data.
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From wolfgang at imv.au.dk  Sat Jan 24 10:48:19 2004
From: wolfgang at imv.au.dk (wolfgang@imv.au.dk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
Message-ID: <E1AkLKt-0005G4-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>

I understand Jean Louis points, but we should make a difference between "informal discussions" and "formal negotiations". 

At this point and in this workshop there is no need to speak with "one voice" as "official representative" of a "stakeholder" group. The participating governments will have many different voices (united to a high degree by their understanding of "state sovereignty"), the participating private sector members will have different voices (united to a high degree by their understanding of "free market") and so "civil society" will have different voices (united to a high degree by their understandiong of "bottom up", "openess" and "transparency"). 

The problem with the ITU workshop is that ITU has only governments and private sector as members. There is no category of civil society membership. Probably the ITU Workshop is a good opportunity, to invite ITU, to start a discussion on the introduction of a new category of membership in the organisation (afzer WSIS has more or less officially recognized civil society as an "important stakeholder"" / Article 49 of the WSIS Declaration). 

I remmeber the long debate before Kyodo 1994, when the concept of the "big M?s" (governments) and "small M?s" (private sector) was developed. It was further developped by Minneapolis 1998. After Marrakesh 2002, governments and private secor are de facto rather equal in the ITU. 

With the next ITU Plenipotentiary two years away (2006), this could be a right moment to challenge the limited openess of ITU, to propose a change of the ITU constitution and to introduce a third category of ITU membership for CSOs. 

And do not forget, the ITU workshop is only one event in an exploding long series of official or semi-official positioning seminars around the globe to prepare for the "big thing", the Kofi Annan IG Group. 

Best wishes

wolfgang

Original Nachricht--
Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Senden: 23.01.2004
Betreff: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists

Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his interlocutors. This is
unacceptable for the Civil Society.
If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously about
the
content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we -the
CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no
"welcome" for
Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT


----- Original Message -----
From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>;
"Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
:roles of plenary and governance lists


> I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
> am trying to modify my schedule to go.
>
> I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our
participation.
>
> izumi
>
>
> At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>  >wolfgang@imv.au.dk
ha scritto:
>  >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
>  >> this is good step forward.
>  >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
>  >
>  >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I have
started
> working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain name
went
> nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered on
his
> own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by the
next
> weekend. At least, I hope so.
>  >
>  >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as urgent as
a
letter to
> Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
>  >
>  >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda and
get
> deliverables done :)
>  >
>  >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in this
letter
> (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in
their
> personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As far
as
> I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
>  >
>  >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday evening.
(So I don't
> need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
>  >
>  >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited experts
are
> supposed to express their preference on whether they would like
"to
>  >either introduce their contributions, make presentations and/or
>  >participate in panel discussions". I think we should
coordinate
ourselves
> so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
> presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I think
we
> should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming that
the
> organizers will agree, of course...)
>  >--
>  >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
>  >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
>  >http://bertola.eu.org/    <-- Vecchio sito, nuovo
toblog!
>  >
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From wdrake at ictsd.ch  Sat Jan 24 13:10:53 2004
From: wdrake at ictsd.ch (William Drake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of	plenary and governance lists
In-Reply-To: <001b01c3e1fb$0cafe200$0a00000a@default>
Message-ID: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOIEHFCNAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>

Hi Jean-Louis,

Perhaps it would be helpful by way of background to pass along a message sent yesterday to the governance list.  
Bottom line, it's an ITU meeting, not a WSIS meeting, subject to ITU procedures.  I've inquired about whether some invites can be allocated for CS 'stakeholder representation,' which is not the model they're following in relation to non-members.  We'll see what happens.  Of course, it would be good to know when asking for this if in fact there are people who would actually be prepared to attend, given that there's no budget for travel support....?

Best,

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: William Drake [mailto:wdrake@ictsd.ch]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:04 PM
To: governance@lists.cpsr.org
Subject: CS Participation in ITU's Internet Governance Workshop

Hi,

Had a call this morning from Bob Shaw at ITU about their upcoming event http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04/index.html.  We had a useful and lengthy conversation from which several points of local interest emerged.

1.  Focus.  There has been debate on this list about the scope of governments' intentions and thinking with respect to 'Internet governance' and, in consequence, what we should be focusing on as a group.  It sounds like the ITU's reading of its members' interests is consistent with what I had thought was the rather unambiguous language of the summit declaration, and indeed the whole preparatory process.  They are not equating 'Internet governance' with just the activities of ICANN, and the workshop is not about just ICANN and whether ITU should be taking over its management of identifiers etc (although of course these issues are inevitably a key part of the mix).  Taking into account the landscape of international arrangements that impact Internet infrastructure, services, communication and commerce, the goal is to define Internet governance broadly and identify those aspects thereof  that could require national and global public policies (implicitly, the latter might be areas ITU could have a lead role in).  So it's fairly open ended, and could entail anything from interconnection/ICAIS to taxation to whatever.  Indeed, Bob noted that ITU is organizing a workshop in the spring on spam that is understood to build directly on this event.

2.  Relation to WSIS/Invitation Process.  While the WSIS process gives rise to the meeting, this is an ITU event, to "initiate a process to prepare ITU's inputs and position" vis-a-vis the UN working group.  As such, it is the rules and organizational culture of ITU that apply here, not those of WSIS.  This goes directly to how they have been approaching the matter of invitations to participate.  They have been following a top down model in which the secretariat reaches out to selected individual experts to round out a meeting that will be overwhelmingly populated by the governments and businesses that are the ITU's paying members and sector members, respectively.  They were not thinking of civil society organizations as an fixed constituency that should be 'represented' per se and thus should have a right to nominate representatives on a bottom up basis.  Moreover, the secretariat people involved are generally speaking not quite up to speed on the whole WSIS CS process and apparatus.  Bob for example had no idea how we are organized---bureau, plenary, CT, families/caucuses/WGs etc---and have made decisions, and hence didn't know how to respond when various individuals started writing to say they represented xyz CS grouping and hence would like to attend, expenses paid please.  I should add that, contrary to something I conjectured about previously, he says the line-up of participants will definitely include plenty of critics of the ITU.

3.  Participation of the Caucus.  In fact, the caucus will be almost disproportionately well represented, with (if I recall correctly) at a minimum Vittorio, Izumi, Milton, Bertrand, Wolfgang, and myself in attendance.  But we are invited as individual experts, not as caucus representatives (he didn't know much about the caucus).  Per the invite letter, we are asked as individuals to consider writing something.  I asked whether it would be ok if, should the caucus get it together to write a joint statement, this could be presented by someone as part of the program.  He said sure, why not, we can have a slot for this somewhere in sessions 1-4.  So as I think others have suggested, we should move on both tracks, individual and collective inputs, to ensure non-government/business thinking is well represented.

The above begs two questions:

a.  While the process discussions have at times been made unnecessarily unpleasant, we clearly need to make final decision on the caucus name, coordinators, and website.  We obviously cannot issue a joint statement etc. without doing these things.

b.  We need to figure out how we are going to coordinate with the larger WSIS CS structure.  We can adopt a joint statement as a caucus, but should we also be seeking a broader endorsement thereof?  Or should we even be thinking of something that would not be a caucus statement, but rather a statement that would be done with and endorsed by the much broader range of organizations that have devoted time and energy to WSIS?  As I said in a message on Dec. 19, I personally think we should not assume that by default this group 'owns' any issue that arises related to 'Internet governance,' and that we should actively engage others.

4.  Participation of WSIS CSOs More Generally.  Finally, while ITU was not thinking of constituency representation, I urged Bob to start.  In particular, I asked that he consult with his colleagues and see if it wouldn't be possible to reserve a block of invitations, like maybe ten, for people who could be nominated from the larger assemblage of CS groups in WSIS, even though this isn't a WSIS event.  He said that would be tough because they have a limited number of bodies they can accommodate and the governments and businesses involved in ITU will want to provide most of them; indeed, rather interestingly, he noted that he'd heard from some businesses that they wanted slots because they'd heard the CSO people were getting slots!  Anyway, we'll see if anything can be done.  He noted that no matter what's decided on this score, there's no money to fly people in etc.

So that's that.

Best,

Bill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
> [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On Behalf Of Fullsack Jean-Louis
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:51 PM
> To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Cc: bjaffre@csdptt.org
> Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
> governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>
> Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
> Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his
> interlocutors. This is
> unacceptable for the Civil Society.
> If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
> discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously about the
> content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we -the
> CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
> No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no
> "welcome" for
> Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
> CSDPTT
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
> To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>; "Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
> Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
> :roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>
> > I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
> > am trying to modify my schedule to go.
> >
> > I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our participation.
> >
> > izumi
> >
> >
> > At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> >  >wolfgang@imv.au.dk ha scritto:
> >  >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
> >  >> this is good step forward.
> >  >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
> >  >
> >  >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I have started
> > working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain name went
> > nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam
> registered on his
> > own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site
> by the next
> > weekend. At least, I hope so.
> >  >
> >  >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as urgent as a
> letter to
> > Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
> >  >
> >  >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda and get
> > deliverables done :)
> >  >
> >  >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in this letter
> > (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in their
> > personal capacity as experts and than propose three other
> names. As far as
> > I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
> >  >
> >  >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday evening.
> (So I don't
> > need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
> >  >
> >  >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited
> experts are
> > supposed to express their preference on whether they would like "to
> >  >either introduce their contributions, make presentations and/or
> >  >participate in panel discussions". I think we should coordinate
> ourselves
> > so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
> > presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I think we
> > should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming that the
> > organizers will agree, of course...)
> >  >--
> >  >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
> >  >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
> >  >http://bertola.eu.org/    <-- Vecchio sito, nuovo toblog!
> >  >
> >  >_______________________________________________
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From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:24 2007
Subject: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
 governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
In-Reply-To: <E1AkLKt-0005G4-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
References: <E1AkLKt-0005G4-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <p05100307bc3821ea83cf@[192.168.0.2]>

>I understand Jean Louis points, but we should make a difference 
>between "informal discussions" and "formal negotiations".


Wolfgang,

With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is 
likely being disadvantaged.

I would not go so far as to suggest that people should not 
participate in the ITU workshop, of course not! And I've no doubts 
that the civil society participants invited as individuals will 
continue to represent the same guiding principles we we agreed 
collectively. And I fully understand that a scholar or some expert (I 
am not sure of how to describe "expert") invited to a specialist 
meeting would not want to pretend that their work represents the 
views of a broader group, and nor would they wish to compromise their 
personal intellectual enterprise in some misguided effort to reach a 
consensus with others, and in the context it would be as 
inappropriate of us to ask. ("misguided" because Internet Governance 
is not like many of the other thematic issues CS is concerned with, 
we have no base agreement even among ourselves on what it means.)

But I think we are also missing a very important opportunity to make 
clear that civil society is an equal player (partner/stakeholder) in 
all events organized as official/semi-official events of WSIS. It is 
just wrong to dismiss this workshop as some minor event that does not 
matter in the WSIS process, that civil society can somehow skip it. 
Utsumi is Secretary General of WSIS, ITU the lead agency and 
secretariat. Utsumi has called this workshop to begin to address one 
of the two main outcomes of the Geneva Summit. Writing as Secretary 
General of the ITU and Secretary General of WSIS, he says this quite 
clearly in a recent letter discussing the state of WSIS, from the 
success Geneva to our hopes for Tunis (etc etc.)  (on the Summit 
website <http://www.itu.int/wsis/utsumi2.html>) He wrote:

    "The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved 
under the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet 
governance and financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion 
on Internet governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27 
February in Geneva, which provides a forum for exchanging views on 
definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet 
governance .

    I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in 
this exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased 
to begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the second 
phase as we prepare for November 2005.

Mr. Yoshio Utsumi"


Civil society needs to be represented at this meeting, by people 
selected by us, and I hope that you will help us try think how we can 
achieve this. Of course money is a problem.

Note, the first prepcom for the Tunis phase will be held in the first 
half of this year, 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1164.asp>

Thanks,

Adam



>At this point and in this workshop there is no need to speak with 
>"one voice" as "official representative" of a "stakeholder" group. 
>The participating governments will have many different voices 
>(united to a high degree by their understanding of "state 
>sovereignty"), the participating private sector members will have 
>different voices (united to a high degree by their understanding of 
>"free market") and so "civil society" will have different voices 
>(united to a high degree by their understandiong of "bottom up", 
>"openess" and "transparency").
>
>The problem with the ITU workshop is that ITU has only governments 
>and private sector as members. There is no category of civil society 
>membership. Probably the ITU Workshop is a good opportunity, to 
>invite ITU, to start a discussion on the introduction of a new 
>category of membership in the organisation (afzer WSIS has more or 
>less officially recognized civil society as an "important 
>stakeholder"" / Article 49 of the WSIS Declaration).
>
>I remmeber the long debate before Kyodo 1994, when the concept of 
>the "big M?s" (governments) and "small M?s" (private sector) was 
>developed. It was further developped by Minneapolis 1998. After 
>Marrakesh 2002, governments and private secor are de facto rather 
>equal in the ITU.
>
>With the next ITU Plenipotentiary two years away (2006), this could 
>be a right moment to challenge the limited openess of ITU, to 
>propose a change of the ITU constitution and to introduce a third 
>category of ITU membership for CSOs.
>
>And do not forget, the ITU workshop is only one event in an 
>exploding long series of official or semi-official positioning 
>seminars around the globe to prepare for the "big thing", the Kofi 
>Annan IG Group.
>
>Best wishes
>
>wolfgang
>
>Original Nachricht--
>Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
>An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Senden: 23.01.2004
>Betreff: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet 
>governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
>Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his interlocutors. This is
>unacceptable for the Civil Society.
>If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
>discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously about
>the
>content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we -the
>CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
>No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no
>"welcome" for
>Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
>Jean-Louis Fullsack
>CSDPTT
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
>To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>;
>"Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
>Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
>:roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>
>>  I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
>>  am trying to modify my schedule to go.
>>
>>  I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our
>participation.
>>
>>  izumi
>>
>>
>>  At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>>   >wolfgang@imv.au.dk
>ha scritto:
>>   >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
>>   >> this is good step forward.
>>   >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
>>   >
>>   >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I have
>started
>>  working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain name
>went
>>  nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered on
>his
>>  own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by the
>next
>>  weekend. At least, I hope so.
>>   >
>>   >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as urgent as
>a
>letter to
>>  Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
>>   >
>>   >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda and
>get
>>  deliverables done :)
>>   >
>>   >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in this
>letter
>>  (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in
>their
>>  personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As far
>as
>>  I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
>>   >
>>   >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday evening.
>(So I don't
>>  need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
>>   >
>>   >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited experts
>are
>>  supposed to express their preference on whether they would like
>"to
>>   >either introduce their contributions, make presentations and/or
>>   >participate in panel discussions". I think we should
>coordinate
>ourselves
>>  so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
>>  presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I think
>we
>>  should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming that
>the
>>  organizers will agree, of course...)
>>   >--
>>   >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
>>   >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
>>   >http://bertola.eu.org/    <-- Vecchio sito, nuovo
>toblog!
>>   >
>>   >_______________________________________________
>>   >Plenary mailing list
>>   >Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>>   >http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>>   >
>>
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From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Sun Jan 25 10:06:56 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of	plenary and governance lists
References: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOIEHFCNAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>
Message-ID: <008b01c3e32a$f8c99d40$0a00000a@default>

Hi William

Besides the unilateral designation (by the ITU), lack of travel (and staying) support is the best filter to prevent CS "activits" from expressing their views and opinons. They may disturb the "one-way thinking" of the organisers ! 
What nice auspices for the transition to Tunis are they preparing for us !
Best regards
Jean-Louis Fullsack 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: William Drake 
  To: plenary@wsis-cs.org 
  Cc: bjaffre@csdptt.org 
  Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 2:10 PM
  Subject: RE: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance :roles of plenary and governance lists


  Hi Jean-Louis,

  Perhaps it would be helpful by way of background to pass along a message sent yesterday to the governance list.  
  Bottom line, it's an ITU meeting, not a WSIS meeting, subject to ITU procedures.  I've inquired about whether some invites can be allocated for CS 'stakeholder representation,' which is not the model they're following in relation to non-members.  We'll see what happens.  Of course, it would be good to know when asking for this if in fact there are people who would actually be prepared to attend, given that there's no budget for travel support....?

  Best,

  Bill

  -----Original Message-----
  From: William Drake [mailto:wdrake@ictsd.ch]
  Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:04 PM
  To: governance@lists.cpsr.org
  Subject: CS Participation in ITU's Internet Governance Workshop

  Hi,

  Had a call this morning from Bob Shaw at ITU about their upcoming event http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04/index.html.  We had a useful and lengthy conversation from which several points of local interest emerged.

  1.  Focus.  There has been debate on this list about the scope of governments' intentions and thinking with respect to 'Internet governance' and, in consequence, what we should be focusing on as a group.  It sounds like the ITU's reading of its members' interests is consistent with what I had thought was the rather unambiguous language of the summit declaration, and indeed the whole preparatory process.  They are not equating 'Internet governance' with just the activities of ICANN, and the workshop is not about just ICANN and whether ITU should be taking over its management of identifiers etc (although of course these issues are inevitably a key part of the mix).  Taking into account the landscape of international arrangements that impact Internet infrastructure, services, communication and commerce, the goal is to define Internet governance broadly and identify those aspects thereof  that could require national and global public policies (implicitly, the latter might be areas ITU could have a lead role in).  So it's fairly open ended, and could entail anything from interconnection/ICAIS to taxation to whatever.  Indeed, Bob noted that ITU is organizing a workshop in the spring on spam that is understood to build directly on this event.

  2.  Relation to WSIS/Invitation Process.  While the WSIS process gives rise to the meeting, this is an ITU event, to "initiate a process to prepare ITU's inputs and position" vis-a-vis the UN working group.  As such, it is the rules and organizational culture of ITU that apply here, not those of WSIS.  This goes directly to how they have been approaching the matter of invitations to participate.  They have been following a top down model in which the secretariat reaches out to selected individual experts to round out a meeting that will be overwhelmingly populated by the governments and businesses that are the ITU's paying members and sector members, respectively.  They were not thinking of civil society organizations as an fixed constituency that should be 'represented' per se and thus should have a right to nominate representatives on a bottom up basis.  Moreover, the secretariat people involved are generally speaking not quite up to speed on the whole WSIS CS process and apparatus.  Bob for example had no idea how we are organized---bureau, plenary, CT, families/caucuses/WGs etc---and have made decisions, and hence didn't know how to respond when various individuals started writing to say they represented xyz CS grouping and hence would like to attend, expenses paid please.  I should add that, contrary to something I conjectured about previously, he says the line-up of participants will definitely include plenty of critics of the ITU.

  3.  Participation of the Caucus.  In fact, the caucus will be almost disproportionately well represented, with (if I recall correctly) at a minimum Vittorio, Izumi, Milton, Bertrand, Wolfgang, and myself in attendance.  But we are invited as individual experts, not as caucus representatives (he didn't know much about the caucus).  Per the invite letter, we are asked as individuals to consider writing something.  I asked whether it would be ok if, should the caucus get it together to write a joint statement, this could be presented by someone as part of the program.  He said sure, why not, we can have a slot for this somewhere in sessions 1-4.  So as I think others have suggested, we should move on both tracks, individual and collective inputs, to ensure non-government/business thinking is well represented.

  The above begs two questions:

  a.  While the process discussions have at times been made unnecessarily unpleasant, we clearly need to make final decision on the caucus name, coordinators, and website.  We obviously cannot issue a joint statement etc. without doing these things.

  b.  We need to figure out how we are going to coordinate with the larger WSIS CS structure.  We can adopt a joint statement as a caucus, but should we also be seeking a broader endorsement thereof?  Or should we even be thinking of something that would not be a caucus statement, but rather a statement that would be done with and endorsed by the much broader range of organizations that have devoted time and energy to WSIS?  As I said in a message on Dec. 19, I personally think we should not assume that by default this group 'owns' any issue that arises related to 'Internet governance,' and that we should actively engage others.

  4.  Participation of WSIS CSOs More Generally.  Finally, while ITU was not thinking of constituency representation, I urged Bob to start.  In particular, I asked that he consult with his colleagues and see if it wouldn't be possible to reserve a block of invitations, like maybe ten, for people who could be nominated from the larger assemblage of CS groups in WSIS, even though this isn't a WSIS event.  He said that would be tough because they have a limited number of bodies they can accommodate and the governments and businesses involved in ITU will want to provide most of them; indeed, rather interestingly, he noted that he'd heard from some businesses that they wanted slots because they'd heard the CSO people were getting slots!  Anyway, we'll see if anything can be done.  He noted that no matter what's decided on this score, there's no money to fly people in etc.

  So that's that.

  Best,

  Bill


  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
  > [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On Behalf Of Fullsack Jean-Louis
  > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:51 PM
  > To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
  > Cc: bjaffre@csdptt.org
  > Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
  > governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
  >
  >
  > Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
  > Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his
  > interlocutors. This is
  > unacceptable for the Civil Society.
  > If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
  > discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously about the
  > content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we -the
  > CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
  > No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no
  > "welcome" for
  > Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
  > Jean-Louis Fullsack
  > CSDPTT
  >
  >
  > ----- Original Message -----
  > From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
  > To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>; "Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
  > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
  > Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
  > :roles of plenary and governance lists
  >
  >
  > > I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
  > > am trying to modify my schedule to go.
  > >
  > > I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our participation.
  > >
  > > izumi
  > >
  > >
  > > At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
  > >  >wolfgang@imv.au.dk ha scritto:
  > >  >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
  > >  >> this is good step forward.
  > >  >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
  > >  >
  > >  >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I have started
  > > working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain name went
  > > nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam
  > registered on his
  > > own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site
  > by the next
  > > weekend. At least, I hope so.
  > >  >
  > >  >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as urgent as a
  > letter to
  > > Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
  > >  >
  > >  >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda and get
  > > deliverables done :)
  > >  >
  > >  >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in this letter
  > > (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in their
  > > personal capacity as experts and than propose three other
  > names. As far as
  > > I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
  > >  >
  > >  >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday evening.
  > (So I don't
  > > need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
  > >  >
  > >  >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited
  > experts are
  > > supposed to express their preference on whether they would like "to
  > >  >either introduce their contributions, make presentations and/or
  > >  >participate in panel discussions". I think we should coordinate
  > ourselves
  > > so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
  > > presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I think we
  > > should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming that the
  > > organizers will agree, of course...)
  > >  >--
  > >  >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
  > >  >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
  > >  >http://bertola.eu.org/    <-- Vecchio sito, nuovo toblog!
  > >  >
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From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
References: <E1AkLKt-0005G4-00@smtp.imv.au.dk> <p05100307bc3821ea83cf@[192.168.0.2]>
Message-ID: <009301c3e32c$f9f5af40$0a00000a@default>

Thanks Adam for your support and particularly for clarifying the issues on
stake.

Moreover, Wolgang commits some approximations with the ITU rules (they are
based on its Constitution and Convention). Never forget they are decided
upon only by Members of States and not by Sector Members. At least up to now
!
If you want some complementary information you can find it on CSDPTT's
website www.csdptt.org (in french), under "Documents".
Of course I fully support your suggestions.

Friendly yours
Jean-Louis Fullsack


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Peake" <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Cc: <wolfgang@imv.au.dk>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
governance :roles of plenary and governance lists


>I understand Jean Louis points, but we should make a difference
>between "informal discussions" and "formal negotiations".


Wolfgang,

With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
likely being disadvantaged.

I would not go so far as to suggest that people should not
participate in the ITU workshop, of course not! And I've no doubts
that the civil society participants invited as individuals will
continue to represent the same guiding principles we we agreed
collectively. And I fully understand that a scholar or some expert (I
am not sure of how to describe "expert") invited to a specialist
meeting would not want to pretend that their work represents the
views of a broader group, and nor would they wish to compromise their
personal intellectual enterprise in some misguided effort to reach a
consensus with others, and in the context it would be as
inappropriate of us to ask. ("misguided" because Internet Governance
is not like many of the other thematic issues CS is concerned with,
we have no base agreement even among ourselves on what it means.)

But I think we are also missing a very important opportunity to make
clear that civil society is an equal player (partner/stakeholder) in
all events organized as official/semi-official events of WSIS. It is
just wrong to dismiss this workshop as some minor event that does not
matter in the WSIS process, that civil society can somehow skip it.
Utsumi is Secretary General of WSIS, ITU the lead agency and
secretariat. Utsumi has called this workshop to begin to address one
of the two main outcomes of the Geneva Summit. Writing as Secretary
General of the ITU and Secretary General of WSIS, he says this quite
clearly in a recent letter discussing the state of WSIS, from the
success Geneva to our hopes for Tunis (etc etc.)  (on the Summit
website <http://www.itu.int/wsis/utsumi2.html>) He wrote:

    "The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved
under the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet
governance and financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion
on Internet governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27
February in Geneva, which provides a forum for exchanging views on
definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet
governance .

    I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in
this exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased
to begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the second
phase as we prepare for November 2005.

Mr. Yoshio Utsumi"


Civil society needs to be represented at this meeting, by people
selected by us, and I hope that you will help us try think how we can
achieve this. Of course money is a problem.

Note, the first prepcom for the Tunis phase will be held in the first
half of this year,
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1164.asp>

Thanks,

Adam



>At this point and in this workshop there is no need to speak with
>"one voice" as "official representative" of a "stakeholder" group.
>The participating governments will have many different voices
>(united to a high degree by their understanding of "state
>sovereignty"), the participating private sector members will have
>different voices (united to a high degree by their understanding of
>"free market") and so "civil society" will have different voices
>(united to a high degree by their understandiong of "bottom up",
>"openess" and "transparency").
>
>The problem with the ITU workshop is that ITU has only governments
>and private sector as members. There is no category of civil society
>membership. Probably the ITU Workshop is a good opportunity, to
>invite ITU, to start a discussion on the introduction of a new
>category of membership in the organisation (afzer WSIS has more or
>less officially recognized civil society as an "important
>stakeholder"" / Article 49 of the WSIS Declaration).
>
>I remmeber the long debate before Kyodo 1994, when the concept of
>the "big M?s" (governments) and "small M?s" (private sector) was
>developed. It was further developped by Minneapolis 1998. After
>Marrakesh 2002, governments and private secor are de facto rather
>equal in the ITU.
>
>With the next ITU Plenipotentiary two years away (2006), this could
>be a right moment to challenge the limited openess of ITU, to
>propose a change of the ITU constitution and to introduce a third
>category of ITU membership for CSOs.
>
>And do not forget, the ITU workshop is only one event in an
>exploding long series of official or semi-official positioning
>seminars around the globe to prepare for the "big thing", the Kofi
>Annan IG Group.
>
>Best wishes
>
>wolfgang
>
>Original Nachricht--
>Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
>An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Senden: 23.01.2004
>Betreff: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
>governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
>Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his interlocutors. This is
>unacceptable for the Civil Society.
>If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
>discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously about
>the
>content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we -the
>CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
>No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no
>"welcome" for
>Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
>Jean-Louis Fullsack
>CSDPTT
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
>To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>;
>"Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
>Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
>:roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>
>>  I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
>>  am trying to modify my schedule to go.
>>
>>  I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our
>participation.
>>
>>  izumi
>>
>>
>>  At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>>   >wolfgang@imv.au.dk
>ha scritto:
>>   >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
>>   >> this is good step forward.
>>   >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
>>   >
>>   >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I have
>started
>>  working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain name
>went
>>  nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered on
>his
>>  own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by the
>next
>>  weekend. At least, I hope so.
>>   >
>>   >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as urgent as
>a
>letter to
>>  Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
>>   >
>>   >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda and
>get
>>  deliverables done :)
>>   >
>>   >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in this
>letter
>>  (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in
>their
>>  personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As far
>as
>>  I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
>>   >
>>   >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday evening.
>(So I don't
>>  need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
>>   >
>>   >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited experts
>are
>>  supposed to express their preference on whether they would like
>"to
>>   >either introduce their contributions, make presentations and/or
>>   >participate in panel discussions". I think we should
>coordinate
>ourselves
>>  so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
>>  presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I think
>we
>>  should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming that
>the
>>  organizers will agree, of course...)
>>   >--
>>   >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
>>   >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
>>   >http://bertola.eu.org/    <-- Vecchio sito, nuovo
>toblog!
>>   >
>>   >_______________________________________________
>>   >Plenary mailing list
>>   >Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>>   >http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>>   >
>>
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From wolfgang at imv.au.dk  Sun Jan 25 11:45:33 2004
From: wolfgang at imv.au.dk (wolfgang@imv.au.dk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
Message-ID: <E1Akihp-0005zG-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>

Dear all,

to avoid more misunderstandings, let me clarify what I wanted to say:

1. it is certainly important that the Caucus gets an Image as a "Unit" able to act on behalf of one of the main three stakeholders, the civil society. Insofar the Caucus has to issue statements which make this clear to the two other main stakeholders group, to private sector and governments. The other stakeholders want to know basically what "CS" is thinking and not what individuals are suggesting. 

2. Among members of the "governmental stakeholder group" and members of the "private sector stakeholder group" there are numerous differences. And so it is within the "CS stakeholder group". While CS is interested to know not only the "governmental consensus", as reflected in the WSIS declaration, but also what the positions of different governments (here China there USA, here South Africa there France, here Brazil and there Australia etc.) other stakeholders are also intersted what individual members of the CS are thinking. BTW, such a multidimensional and multilateral positioning and exchange of ideas paves the way for potential "rainbow coalitions" on certain issues, that is to escape from "cold war constellations". 

3. For individual members of the CS IG/ICT Caucus it is important that, while they make statements as "indiviuduals" they also make visible their relationship to the Caucus. Ohter stakeholders should know, that the CS with its diversifeid constituencies, are - after WSIS I - structured, organized and have their representative body (like the govenrments have the GAC and the private sector has the BICC). 

4. I do not underestimate the importance of the forthcoming ITU workshop. In contrary, I see it like Adam, as an direct move from ITU to get something like the leadership in the new process. And no doubt that Utsumis voice is much more heard by Kofi Annan that the voice of the ICC, of ICANN or of one of the Co-Chairs of the CS IG ICT Caucus. But i do not believe that the ITU plan will work without problems. The ICANN meeting in Roma (in particular the meeting of the GAC with ALAC, two days after the Geneva ITU meetingon Sunday) is as important as the ITU meeting. And the "IG Forum" on March 25 - 26, in New York (as part of the UN ICTTF meeting), which is NOT an ITU event, has a similar importance. CS and the Caucus should make the voice heard in all these meetings both by individual presentations (demonstrating knowledge, expertise, innovation etc.) and by joint statements of the Caucus (it would be great if always one of the two new co-chairs or a designated representative o
 f a co-chair could speak "on behalf" of the Caucus).

5. My proposal for a change of the ITU constitution (in 2006) is a proposal which could be considered as part of a long term strategy. ITU will remain one of the main players in the field. In the WSIS declaration the ITU role is fixed as a "facilitating role". What "facilitating role" means in this context is open for interpretation (and ITU itself tries to fill this with substance i.a. by the forthcoming workshop). For CS it is important to look into this direction. The problem here is, that the constitutional possibilities for CS in the ITU process are more than limited, or lets say, close to Zero. Only constitutional members can officially participate in processes (and eventually, without any negotiating or voting rights, invited individual experts). The proposal from some ITU folks, that CSOs should joint ITU under the "private sector membership clause" is unacceptable for CS for two reasons: a. CS is different from private sector and b. the exorbitant membership fees blo
 ck any broader CS participation. One "official proposal" to the ITU could be to add the status of "civil society sector member" in the ITU constitution with no or very low membership fee. But even under such a construction, Jean Louis is right, that legally binding decisions within ITU are made by govenments (member states) only. But to have such a status within ITU would be for CS a status quo plus.          


6. the main thing is that CS is positioning itself for the "Kofi Annan Group". We should make clear at a very early stage, that the composition of the group has to be balanced. We should quote again and again the wording of the WSIS Declaration , which says that the group should include "governments, private sector and civil society from developed and developing countries and intergovernmental and international organisations". Our proposal could be 6 (GOV):6 (PRIV):6 (CS) + 2 (IGO/ITU& WIPO):2 (IO/ICANN&ITEF) = 22 in total) This would mean 6 CS representatives, three from the North (America, Europa, Asia) and three from the South (Africa, Latin America and South Pacific/West Asia). If the group is composed along this lines (as a group of representatives of stakeholders) the Caucus has to play a crucial role. 

    
Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Senden: 11:24 AM
Betreff: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists


Thanks Adam for your support and particularly for clarifying the issues on
stake.

Moreover, Wolgang commits some approximations with the ITU rules (they are
based on its Constitution and Convention). Never forget they are decided
upon only by Members of States and not by Sector Members. At least up to now
!
If you want some complementary information you can find it on CSDPTT's
website www.csdptt.org (in french), under "Documents".
Of course I fully support your suggestions.

Friendly yours
Jean-Louis Fullsack


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Peake" <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Cc: <wolfgang@imv.au.dk>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
governance :roles of plenary and governance lists


>I understand Jean Louis points, but we should make a difference
>between "informal discussions" and "formal
negotiations".


Wolfgang,

With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
likely being disadvantaged.

I would not go so far as to suggest that people should not
participate in the ITU workshop, of course not! And I've no doubts
that the civil society participants invited as individuals will
continue to represent the same guiding principles we we agreed
collectively. And I fully understand that a scholar or some expert (I
am not sure of how to describe "expert") invited to a specialist
meeting would not want to pretend that their work represents the
views of a broader group, and nor would they wish to compromise their
personal intellectual enterprise in some misguided effort to reach a
consensus with others, and in the context it would be as
inappropriate of us to ask. ("misguided" because Internet
Governance
is not like many of the other thematic issues CS is concerned with,
we have no base agreement even among ourselves on what it means.)

But I think we are also missing a very important opportunity to make
clear that civil society is an equal player (partner/stakeholder) in
all events organized as official/semi-official events of WSIS. It is
just wrong to dismiss this workshop as some minor event that does not
matter in the WSIS process, that civil society can somehow skip it.
Utsumi is Secretary General of WSIS, ITU the lead agency and
secretariat. Utsumi has called this workshop to begin to address one
of the two main outcomes of the Geneva Summit. Writing as Secretary
General of the ITU and Secretary General of WSIS, he says this quite
clearly in a recent letter discussing the state of WSIS, from the
success Geneva to our hopes for Tunis (etc etc.)  (on the Summit
website <http://www.itu.int/wsis/utsumi2.html>) He wrote:

    "The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved
under the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet
governance and financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion
on Internet governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27
February in Geneva, which provides a forum for exchanging views on
definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet
governance .

    I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in
this exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased
to begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the second
phase as we prepare for November 2005.

Mr. Yoshio Utsumi"


Civil society needs to be represented at this meeting, by people
selected by us, and I hope that you will help us try think how we can
achieve this. Of course money is a problem.

Note, the first prepcom for the Tunis phase will be held in the first
half of this year,
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1164.asp>

Thanks,

Adam



>At this point and in this workshop there is no need to speak with
>"one voice" as "official representative" of a
"stakeholder" group.
>The participating governments will have many different voices
>(united to a high degree by their understanding of "state
>sovereignty"), the participating private sector members will have
>different voices (united to a high degree by their understanding of
>"free market") and so "civil society" will have
different voices
>(united to a high degree by their understandiong of "bottom
up",
>"openess" and "transparency").
>
>The problem with the ITU workshop is that ITU has only governments
>and private sector as members. There is no category of civil society
>membership. Probably the ITU Workshop is a good opportunity, to
>invite ITU, to start a discussion on the introduction of a new
>category of membership in the organisation (afzer WSIS has more or
>less officially recognized civil society as an "important
>stakeholder"" / Article 49 of the WSIS Declaration).
>
>I remmeber the long debate before Kyodo 1994, when the concept of
>the "big M?s" (governments) and "small M?s" (private
sector) was
>developed. It was further developped by Minneapolis 1998. After
>Marrakesh 2002, governments and private secor are de facto rather
>equal in the ITU.
>
>With the next ITU Plenipotentiary two years away (2006), this could
>be a right moment to challenge the limited openess of ITU, to
>propose a change of the ITU constitution and to introduce a third
>category of ITU membership for CSOs.
>
>And do not forget, the ITU workshop is only one event in an
>exploding long series of official or semi-official positioning
>seminars around the globe to prepare for the "big thing", the
Kofi
>Annan IG Group.
>
>Best wishes
>
>wolfgang
>
>Original Nachricht--
>Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
>An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>Senden: 23.01.2004
>Betreff: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
>governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
>Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his interlocutors. This
is
>unacceptable for the Civil Society.
>If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
>discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously
about
>the
>content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we
-the
>CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
>No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no
>"welcome" for
>Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
>Jean-Louis Fullsack
>CSDPTT
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
>To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>;
>"Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
>Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
>:roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>
>>  I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
>>  am trying to modify my schedule to go.
>>
>>  I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our
>participation.
>>
>>  izumi
>>
>>
>>  At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>>   >wolfgang@imv.au.dk
>ha scritto:
>>   >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
>>   >> this is good step forward.
>>   >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
>>   >
>>   >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I
have
>started
>>  working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain
name
>went
>>  nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered
on
>his
>>  own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by
the
>next
>>  weekend. At least, I hope so.
>>   >
>>   >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as
urgent as
>a
>letter to
>>  Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
>>   >
>>   >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda
and
>get
>>  deliverables done :)
>>   >
>>   >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in
this
>letter
>>  (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in
>their
>>  personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As
far
>as
>>  I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
>>   >
>>   >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday
evening.
>(So I don't
>>  need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
>>   >
>>   >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited
experts
>are
>>  supposed to express their preference on whether they would like
>"to
>>   >either introduce their contributions, make presentations
and/or
>>   >participate in panel discussions". I think we should
>coordinate
>ourselves
>>  so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
>>  presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I
think
>we
>>  should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming
that
>the
>>  organizers will agree, of course...)
>>   >--
>>   >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
>>   >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
>>   >http://bertola.eu.org/    <-- Vecchio sito, nuovo
>toblog!
>>   >
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From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Sun Jan 25 12:38:51 2004
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet 
 governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
In-Reply-To: <p05100307bc3821ea83cf@[192.168.0.2]>
References: <E1AkLKt-0005G4-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
 <p05100307bc3821ea83cf@[192.168.0.2]>
Message-ID: <p05100306bc39661fbdbd@[192.168.0.2]>

At 11:11 PM +0900 1/24/04, Adam Peake wrote:
>>I understand Jean Louis points, but we should make a difference
>>between "informal discussions" and "formal negotiations".
>
>
>Wolfgang,
>
>With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
>likely being disadvantaged.
>


Apologies -- seeing my note back through the list, my comments look a 
little pejorative.

Certainly did not mean to imply that Wolfgang or any of the people 
attending the ITU meeting were disadvantaging civil society!

Thanks,

Adam

-- 

From sacoura at pariswave.com  Sun Jan 25 12:37:21 2004
From: sacoura at pariswave.com (Yoshiko Kurisaki)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance 
	:roles of plenary and governance lists
In-Reply-To: <008b01c3e32a$f8c99d40$0a00000a@default>
Message-ID: <BC3976A1.25E9%sacoura@pariswave.com>

I wish to follow the point made by Jean-Louis.

Lack of the travel fund screens the meeting participants. People from
Asia-Pacific would suffer most due to high costs and long time for
travelling to come to Geneva.

It will reduce this handicap if the meeting will include an web-conferencing
system. Even a simple conference call system will largely facilitate people
who wish to participate from various parts of the world.

The inclusion of conference call in a regular face-to-face meeting works
well in practice. I combined a conference call to have a speaker from
Brisben (Australia) in the session I organised at the Pacific
Telecommunications Council (PTC) this month.   The speaker didn't have fund
to travel but could deliver speech and participated in discussion.

Would someone suggest to whom the Civil Society should request ITU to
include a tele-conferencing system in the forthcoming meeting?

Best regards,
Yoshiko

******************************
Yoshiko Kurisaki
Representative of Europe
Telecom for Basic Human Needs
www.bhn.co.jp
e-mail: kurisaki@bhn.or.jp
******************************





From wdrake at ictsd.ch  Sun Jan 25 13:19:26 2004
From: wdrake at ictsd.ch (William Drake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Civil society, Internet governance,  & the ITU
In-Reply-To: <E1Akihp-0005zG-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOMEHLCNAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>

Hi Wolfgang, et al,

Two thoughts.

I'm not quite sure how we should be proceeding with this conversation, so
it'd be good to hear from others on this.  On the one hand, given the
diversity of  substantive interests represented here, maybe everyone on the
plenary list doesn't want to be reading mail regarding Internet governance
that thus far has primarily been from people in the governance caucus, and
indeed if people don't we should probably keep this on the governance list.
On the other hand, the reality is that IG is one of the two issue clusters
that will be receiving the most attention in the second phase (one should
probably have even lower expectations regarding the digital solidarity fund
issue), everyone has a stake in the outcome, and we really have not begun to
address how to coordinate with/involve people who want to be informed and
ensure that CS participation reflects our larger shared objectives but who
aren't interested enough in the details to join the caucus.  To me at least,
we should be working to strengthen the larger CS network that formed in the
WSIS process, and the IG activities should be undertaken accordingly.  At a
minimum I'd think that means reporting on key developments, floating for
comment any joint caucus statements, pushing ITU/UNICT/et al to make space
for some more varied participation, etc.  What a higher level of
plenary/caucus engagement might mean is an open question.  Either way, what
I don't want to do is go down the road suggested by some where governance
caucus members see themselves as just independent experts and the caucus as
sort of a free-standing entity.  Our ability to create a group with
community recognition, submit documents in WSIS, have speakers in plenary
sessions, input language into the CS declaration and so on over the course
of the last year has been a function of our being part of a larger
collectivity.

On the ITU, I am all for calling for constitutional changes allowing special
CS participation rights, and think in doing so we should loudly repeat every
platitude Utsumi et al uttered in the WSIS context about how much the
organization appreciates and wants to promote CS engagement.  But let's keep
a few things in mind.  1st, Sean tried to push this a few years ago and
didn't get far, and ITU members (which call the shots, not the secretariat)
really have no interest in having us around.  2nd, to the secretariat, there
are administrative cost consequences we can't just wave away.  The
organization's in a major fiscal crisis and has to lay off over 100
staffers, so they are very "cost recovery" conscious.  The hundreds of
meetings ITU holds every year entail tons of paper and administration, and
on this narrow basis the secretariat's not keen on freebies for non-profits,
which are anyway an unknown world (one staffer protested to me the other day
that of course CS groups can be Associates, it's only about $6,000 US per
year to join a sector---not much understanding of the CS budgetary
environment).  Lastly, before demanding a right to participate, it'd make
sense to determine whether there's really the demand and ability on the part
of CS groups.  Probably not that many people would be prepared to come to
Geneva every couple of months to attend ITU-R SG3 meeting on radiowave
propagation or whatever.  At a minimum, the effort would have to be well
specified, i.e. which ITU bodies and activities are of interest to which
CSOs.

Cheers,

Bill Drake


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
> Behalf Of wolfgang@imv.au.dk
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 12:46 PM
> To: Fullsack Jean-Louis; plenary@wsis-cs.org; bjaffre@csdptt.org
> Subject: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
> governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> to avoid more misunderstandings, let me clarify what I wanted to say:
>
> 1. it is certainly important that the Caucus gets an Image as a
> "Unit" able to act on behalf of one of the main three
> stakeholders, the civil society. Insofar the Caucus has to issue
> statements which make this clear to the two other main
> stakeholders group, to private sector and governments. The other
> stakeholders want to know basically what "CS" is thinking and not
> what individuals are suggesting.
>
> 2. Among members of the "governmental stakeholder group" and
> members of the "private sector stakeholder group" there are
> numerous differences. And so it is within the "CS stakeholder
> group". While CS is interested to know not only the "governmental
> consensus", as reflected in the WSIS declaration, but also what
> the positions of different governments (here China there USA,
> here South Africa there France, here Brazil and there Australia
> etc.) other stakeholders are also intersted what individual
> members of the CS are thinking. BTW, such a multidimensional and
> multilateral positioning and exchange of ideas paves the way for
> potential "rainbow coalitions" on certain issues, that is to
> escape from "cold war constellations".
>
> 3. For individual members of the CS IG/ICT Caucus it is important
> that, while they make statements as "indiviuduals" they also make
> visible their relationship to the Caucus. Ohter stakeholders
> should know, that the CS with its diversifeid constituencies, are
> - after WSIS I - structured, organized and have their
> representative body (like the govenrments have the GAC and the
> private sector has the BICC).
>
> 4. I do not underestimate the importance of the forthcoming ITU
> workshop. In contrary, I see it like Adam, as an direct move from
> ITU to get something like the leadership in the new process. And
> no doubt that Utsumis voice is much more heard by Kofi Annan that
> the voice of the ICC, of ICANN or of one of the Co-Chairs of the
> CS IG ICT Caucus. But i do not believe that the ITU plan will
> work without problems. The ICANN meeting in Roma (in particular
> the meeting of the GAC with ALAC, two days after the Geneva ITU
> meetingon Sunday) is as important as the ITU meeting. And the "IG
> Forum" on March 25 - 26, in New York (as part of the UN ICTTF
> meeting), which is NOT an ITU event, has a similar importance. CS
> and the Caucus should make the voice heard in all these meetings
> both by individual presentations (demonstrating knowledge,
> expertise, innovation etc.) and by joint statements of the Caucus
> (it would be great if always one of the two new co-chairs or a
> designated representative o
>  f a co-chair could speak "on behalf" of the Caucus).
>
> 5. My proposal for a change of the ITU constitution (in 2006) is
> a proposal which could be considered as part of a long term
> strategy. ITU will remain one of the main players in the field.
> In the WSIS declaration the ITU role is fixed as a "facilitating
> role". What "facilitating role" means in this context is open for
> interpretation (and ITU itself tries to fill this with substance
> i.a. by the forthcoming workshop). For CS it is important to look
> into this direction. The problem here is, that the constitutional
> possibilities for CS in the ITU process are more than limited, or
> lets say, close to Zero. Only constitutional members can
> officially participate in processes (and eventually, without any
> negotiating or voting rights, invited individual experts). The
> proposal from some ITU folks, that CSOs should joint ITU under
> the "private sector membership clause" is unacceptable for CS for
> two reasons: a. CS is different from private sector and b. the
> exorbitant membership fees blo
>  ck any broader CS participation. One "official proposal" to the
> ITU could be to add the status of "civil society sector member"
> in the ITU constitution with no or very low membership fee. But
> even under such a construction, Jean Louis is right, that legally
> binding decisions within ITU are made by govenments (member
> states) only. But to have such a status within ITU would be for
> CS a status quo plus.
>
>
> 6. the main thing is that CS is positioning itself for the "Kofi
> Annan Group". We should make clear at a very early stage, that
> the composition of the group has to be balanced. We should quote
> again and again the wording of the WSIS Declaration , which says
> that the group should include "governments, private sector and
> civil society from developed and developing countries and
> intergovernmental and international organisations". Our proposal
> could be 6 (GOV):6 (PRIV):6 (CS) + 2 (IGO/ITU& WIPO):2
> (IO/ICANN&ITEF) = 22 in total) This would mean 6 CS
> representatives, three from the North (America, Europa, Asia) and
> three from the South (Africa, Latin America and South
> Pacific/West Asia). If the group is composed along this lines (as
> a group of representatives of stakeholders) the Caucus has to
> play a crucial role.
>
>
> Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
> An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Senden: 11:24 AM
> Betreff: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance]
> Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>
> Thanks Adam for your support and particularly for clarifying the issues on
> stake.
>
> Moreover, Wolgang commits some approximations with the ITU rules (they are
> based on its Constitution and Convention). Never forget they are decided
> upon only by Members of States and not by Sector Members. At
> least up to now
> !
> If you want some complementary information you can find it on CSDPTT's
> website www.csdptt.org (in french), under "Documents".
> Of course I fully support your suggestions.
>
> Friendly yours
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Peake" <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
> To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
> Cc: <wolfgang@imv.au.dk>
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:11 PM
> Subject: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
> governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>
> >I understand Jean Louis points, but we should make a difference
> >between "informal discussions" and "formal
> negotiations".
>
>
> Wolfgang,
>
> With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
> likely being disadvantaged.
>
> I would not go so far as to suggest that people should not
> participate in the ITU workshop, of course not! And I've no doubts
> that the civil society participants invited as individuals will
> continue to represent the same guiding principles we we agreed
> collectively. And I fully understand that a scholar or some expert (I
> am not sure of how to describe "expert") invited to a specialist
> meeting would not want to pretend that their work represents the
> views of a broader group, and nor would they wish to compromise their
> personal intellectual enterprise in some misguided effort to reach a
> consensus with others, and in the context it would be as
> inappropriate of us to ask. ("misguided" because Internet
> Governance
> is not like many of the other thematic issues CS is concerned with,
> we have no base agreement even among ourselves on what it means.)
>
> But I think we are also missing a very important opportunity to make
> clear that civil society is an equal player (partner/stakeholder) in
> all events organized as official/semi-official events of WSIS. It is
> just wrong to dismiss this workshop as some minor event that does not
> matter in the WSIS process, that civil society can somehow skip it.
> Utsumi is Secretary General of WSIS, ITU the lead agency and
> secretariat. Utsumi has called this workshop to begin to address one
> of the two main outcomes of the Geneva Summit. Writing as Secretary
> General of the ITU and Secretary General of WSIS, he says this quite
> clearly in a recent letter discussing the state of WSIS, from the
> success Geneva to our hopes for Tunis (etc etc.)  (on the Summit
> website <http://www.itu.int/wsis/utsumi2.html>) He wrote:
>
>     "The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved
> under the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet
> governance and financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion
> on Internet governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27
> February in Geneva, which provides a forum for exchanging views on
> definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet
> governance .
>
>     I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in
> this exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased
> to begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the second
> phase as we prepare for November 2005.
>
> Mr. Yoshio Utsumi"
>
>
> Civil society needs to be represented at this meeting, by people
> selected by us, and I hope that you will help us try think how we can
> achieve this. Of course money is a problem.
>
> Note, the first prepcom for the Tunis phase will be held in the first
> half of this year,
> <http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1164.asp>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> >At this point and in this workshop there is no need to speak with
> >"one voice" as "official representative" of a
> "stakeholder" group.
> >The participating governments will have many different voices
> >(united to a high degree by their understanding of "state
> >sovereignty"), the participating private sector members will have
> >different voices (united to a high degree by their understanding of
> >"free market") and so "civil society" will have
> different voices
> >(united to a high degree by their understandiong of "bottom
> up",
> >"openess" and "transparency").
> >
> >The problem with the ITU workshop is that ITU has only governments
> >and private sector as members. There is no category of civil society
> >membership. Probably the ITU Workshop is a good opportunity, to
> >invite ITU, to start a discussion on the introduction of a new
> >category of membership in the organisation (afzer WSIS has more or
> >less officially recognized civil society as an "important
> >stakeholder"" / Article 49 of the WSIS Declaration).
> >
> >I remmeber the long debate before Kyodo 1994, when the concept of
> >the "big M?s" (governments) and "small M?s" (private
> sector) was
> >developed. It was further developped by Minneapolis 1998. After
> >Marrakesh 2002, governments and private secor are de facto rather
> >equal in the ITU.
> >
> >With the next ITU Plenipotentiary two years away (2006), this could
> >be a right moment to challenge the limited openess of ITU, to
> >propose a change of the ITU constitution and to introduce a third
> >category of ITU membership for CSOs.
> >
> >And do not forget, the ITU workshop is only one event in an
> >exploding long series of official or semi-official positioning
> >seminars around the globe to prepare for the "big thing", the
> Kofi
> >Annan IG Group.
> >
> >Best wishes
> >
> >wolfgang
> >
> >Original Nachricht--
> >Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
> >An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> >Senden: 23.01.2004
> >Betreff: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
> >governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
> >
> >Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
> >Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his interlocutors. This
> is
> >unacceptable for the Civil Society.
> >If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
> >discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously
> about
> >the
> >content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we
> -the
> >CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
> >No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no
> >"welcome" for
> >Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
> >Jean-Louis Fullsack
> >CSDPTT
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
> >To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>;
> >"Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
> >Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
> >:roles of plenary and governance lists
> >
> >
> >>  I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
> >>  am trying to modify my schedule to go.
> >>
> >>  I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our
> >participation.
> >>
> >>  izumi
> >>
> >>
> >>  At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> >>   >wolfgang@imv.au.dk
> >ha scritto:
> >>   >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
> >>   >> this is good step forward.
> >>   >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
> >>   >
> >>   >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I
> have
> >started
> >>  working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain
> name
> >went
> >>  nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered
> on
> >his
> >>  own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by
> the
> >next
> >>  weekend. At least, I hope so.
> >>   >
> >>   >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as
> urgent as
> >a
> >letter to
> >>  Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
> >>   >
> >>   >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda
> and
> >get
> >>  deliverables done :)
> >>   >
> >>   >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in
> this
> >letter
> >>  (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in
> >their
> >>  personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As
> far
> >as
> >>  I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
> >>   >
> >>   >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday
> evening.
> >(So I don't
> >>  need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
> >>   >
> >>   >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited
> experts
> >are
> >>  supposed to express their preference on whether they would like
> >"to
> >>   >either introduce their contributions, make presentations
> and/or
> >>   >participate in panel discussions". I think we should
> >coordinate
> >ourselves
> >>  so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
> >>  presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I
> think
> >we
> >>  should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming
> that
> >the
> >>  organizers will agree, of course...)
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From richardjordan at lycos.com  Sun Jan 25 14:12:19 2004
From: richardjordan at lycos.com (richard t jordan)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Civil society, Internet governance,  & the ITU
Message-ID: <MCCPDEBFDFKLPJAA@mailcity.com>

--Hi, Richard Jordan from cold NYC here -- can anyone teletransport me to Rio?

I just lost a long email reply, so let me reconstruct.

A letter should be composed very soon and sent, inmy opinion, both to Mr. Figueres and to Mr. Sergei Kambalov of the UN ICT Task Force (and to the SG and to the Eminent Persons Panel on NGO participation in the UN), if we want to participate in the March 25-26 meeting referred to by Wolfgang. There are issues of access that are extremely important at UN Headquarters, and it is not so easy to operate even for those of us there each day.

If anyone wants me to draft something for re-editing, etc., I will.

Important modalities at UN Environment Programme, which for years had no NGO affiliation -- the only major UN system agency or programme that did not -- but through the opening up of ways to address the High Level Ministerial Segments of the UNEP Governing Council and through resolution adopted by the Governing Council, there are now about 100 NGOs so accredited officially.

HOW MANY civil society organizations are accredited for $6,000 and which ones are they? The UN is taking a decision to waive the $1,100 fee for NGOs to access the optical disc system.

The mantra that there are 1000s of NGOs, meetings will be overrun, are not grounded in fact. Many of us know this.

A brief white paper of some kind might be in order that could address the issues.

The newest UN High Level Panel will examine UN reform itself, and we have a briefing on this Thursday on the issue, with one of the panelists on that panel. Other possibilities involve getting word to the current GA President through an NGO working group that will prepare a paper for his consideration this May.

Multi-directional input is what I perceive to be needed. Maybe even to the focal point for the Chief Executives Board.

I'm happy to facilitate any delivery of letters, papers, etc. to folks on the UN end here in NY, even to the 38th floor.

And yes, budget is everything. Do we have an actual copy of the ITU budget, with core funding and I assume extrabudgetary outlined?

Cheers, Richard Jordan 


--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:19:26
From: "William Drake" <wdrake@ictsd.ch>
To: <bjaffre@csdptt.org>,"Fullsack Jean-Louis" <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>, <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Cc: 

>Hi Wolfgang, et al,
>
>Two thoughts.
>
>I'm not quite sure how we should be proceeding with this conversation, so
>it'd be good to hear from others on this.  On the one hand, given the
>diversity of  substantive interests represented here, maybe everyone on the
>plenary list doesn't want to be reading mail regarding Internet governance
>that thus far has primarily been from people in the governance caucus, and
>indeed if people don't we should probably keep this on the governance list.
>On the other hand, the reality is that IG is one of the two issue clusters
>that will be receiving the most attention in the second phase (one should
>probably have even lower expectations regarding the digital solidarity fund
>issue), everyone has a stake in the outcome, and we really have not begun to
>address how to coordinate with/involve people who want to be informed and
>ensure that CS participation reflects our larger shared objectives but who
>aren't interested enough in the details to join the caucus.  To me at least,
>we should be working to strengthen the larger CS network that formed in the
>WSIS process, and the IG activities should be undertaken accordingly.  At a
>minimum I'd think that means reporting on key developments, floating for
>comment any joint caucus statements, pushing ITU/UNICT/et al to make space
>for some more varied participation, etc.  What a higher level of
>plenary/caucus engagement might mean is an open question.  Either way, what
>I don't want to do is go down the road suggested by some where governance
>caucus members see themselves as just independent experts and the caucus as
>sort of a free-standing entity.  Our ability to create a group with
>community recognition, submit documents in WSIS, have speakers in plenary
>sessions, input language into the CS declaration and so on over the course
>of the last year has been a function of our being part of a larger
>collectivity.
>
>On the ITU, I am all for calling for constitutional changes allowing special
>CS participation rights, and think in doing so we should loudly repeat every
>platitude Utsumi et al uttered in the WSIS context about how much the
>organization appreciates and wants to promote CS engagement.  But let's keep
>a few things in mind.  1st, Sean tried to push this a few years ago and
>didn't get far, and ITU members (which call the shots, not the secretariat)
>really have no interest in having us around.  2nd, to the secretariat, there
>are administrative cost consequences we can't just wave away.  The
>organization's in a major fiscal crisis and has to lay off over 100
>staffers, so they are very "cost recovery" conscious.  The hundreds of
>meetings ITU holds every year entail tons of paper and administration, and
>on this narrow basis the secretariat's not keen on freebies for non-profits,
>which are anyway an unknown world (one staffer protested to me the other day
>that of course CS groups can be Associates, it's only about $6,000 US per
>year to join a sector---not much understanding of the CS budgetary
>environment).  Lastly, before demanding a right to participate, it'd make
>sense to determine whether there's really the demand and ability on the part
>of CS groups.  Probably not that many people would be prepared to come to
>Geneva every couple of months to attend ITU-R SG3 meeting on radiowave
>propagation or whatever.  At a minimum, the effort would have to be well
>specified, i.e. which ITU bodies and activities are of interest to which
>CSOs.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bill Drake
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
>> Behalf Of wolfgang@imv.au.dk
>> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 12:46 PM
>> To: Fullsack Jean-Louis; plenary@wsis-cs.org; bjaffre@csdptt.org
>> Subject: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
>> governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> to avoid more misunderstandings, let me clarify what I wanted to say:
>>
>> 1. it is certainly important that the Caucus gets an Image as a
>> "Unit" able to act on behalf of one of the main three
>> stakeholders, the civil society. Insofar the Caucus has to issue
>> statements which make this clear to the two other main
>> stakeholders group, to private sector and governments. The other
>> stakeholders want to know basically what "CS" is thinking and not
>> what individuals are suggesting.
>>
>> 2. Among members of the "governmental stakeholder group" and
>> members of the "private sector stakeholder group" there are
>> numerous differences. And so it is within the "CS stakeholder
>> group". While CS is interested to know not only the "governmental
>> consensus", as reflected in the WSIS declaration, but also what
>> the positions of different governments (here China there USA,
>> here South Africa there France, here Brazil and there Australia
>> etc.) other stakeholders are also intersted what individual
>> members of the CS are thinking. BTW, such a multidimensional and
>> multilateral positioning and exchange of ideas paves the way for
>> potential "rainbow coalitions" on certain issues, that is to
>> escape from "cold war constellations".
>>
>> 3. For individual members of the CS IG/ICT Caucus it is important
>> that, while they make statements as "indiviuduals" they also make
>> visible their relationship to the Caucus. Ohter stakeholders
>> should know, that the CS with its diversifeid constituencies, are
>> - after WSIS I - structured, organized and have their
>> representative body (like the govenrments have the GAC and the
>> private sector has the BICC).
>>
>> 4. I do not underestimate the importance of the forthcoming ITU
>> workshop. In contrary, I see it like Adam, as an direct move from
>> ITU to get something like the leadership in the new process. And
>> no doubt that Utsumis voice is much more heard by Kofi Annan that
>> the voice of the ICC, of ICANN or of one of the Co-Chairs of the
>> CS IG ICT Caucus. But i do not believe that the ITU plan will
>> work without problems. The ICANN meeting in Roma (in particular
>> the meeting of the GAC with ALAC, two days after the Geneva ITU
>> meetingon Sunday) is as important as the ITU meeting. And the "IG
>> Forum" on March 25 - 26, in New York (as part of the UN ICTTF
>> meeting), which is NOT an ITU event, has a similar importance. CS
>> and the Caucus should make the voice heard in all these meetings
>> both by individual presentations (demonstrating knowledge,
>> expertise, innovation etc.) and by joint statements of the Caucus
>> (it would be great if always one of the two new co-chairs or a
>> designated representative o
>>  f a co-chair could speak "on behalf" of the Caucus).
>>
>> 5. My proposal for a change of the ITU constitution (in 2006) is
>> a proposal which could be considered as part of a long term
>> strategy. ITU will remain one of the main players in the field.
>> In the WSIS declaration the ITU role is fixed as a "facilitating
>> role". What "facilitating role" means in this context is open for
>> interpretation (and ITU itself tries to fill this with substance
>> i.a. by the forthcoming workshop). For CS it is important to look
>> into this direction. The problem here is, that the constitutional
>> possibilities for CS in the ITU process are more than limited, or
>> lets say, close to Zero. Only constitutional members can
>> officially participate in processes (and eventually, without any
>> negotiating or voting rights, invited individual experts). The
>> proposal from some ITU folks, that CSOs should joint ITU under
>> the "private sector membership clause" is unacceptable for CS for
>> two reasons: a. CS is different from private sector and b. the
>> exorbitant membership fees blo
>>  ck any broader CS participation. One "official proposal" to the
>> ITU could be to add the status of "civil society sector member"
>> in the ITU constitution with no or very low membership fee. But
>> even under such a construction, Jean Louis is right, that legally
>> binding decisions within ITU are made by govenments (member
>> states) only. But to have such a status within ITU would be for
>> CS a status quo plus.
>>
>>
>> 6. the main thing is that CS is positioning itself for the "Kofi
>> Annan Group". We should make clear at a very early stage, that
>> the composition of the group has to be balanced. We should quote
>> again and again the wording of the WSIS Declaration , which says
>> that the group should include "governments, private sector and
>> civil society from developed and developing countries and
>> intergovernmental and international organisations". Our proposal
>> could be 6 (GOV):6 (PRIV):6 (CS) + 2 (IGO/ITU& WIPO):2
>> (IO/ICANN&ITEF) = 22 in total) This would mean 6 CS
>> representatives, three from the North (America, Europa, Asia) and
>> three from the South (Africa, Latin America and South
>> Pacific/West Asia). If the group is composed along this lines (as
>> a group of representatives of stakeholders) the Caucus has to
>> play a crucial role.
>>
>>
>> Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
>> An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>> Senden: 11:24 AM
>> Betreff: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance]
>> Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
>>
>>
>> Thanks Adam for your support and particularly for clarifying the issues on
>> stake.
>>
>> Moreover, Wolgang commits some approximations with the ITU rules (they are
>> based on its Constitution and Convention). Never forget they are decided
>> upon only by Members of States and not by Sector Members. At
>> least up to now
>> !
>> If you want some complementary information you can find it on CSDPTT's
>> website www.csdptt.org (in french), under "Documents".
>> Of course I fully support your suggestions.
>>
>> Friendly yours
>> Jean-Louis Fullsack
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Adam Peake" <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
>> To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
>> Cc: <wolfgang@imv.au.dk>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
>> governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
>>
>>
>> >I understand Jean Louis points, but we should make a difference
>> >between "informal discussions" and "formal
>> negotiations".
>>
>>
>> Wolfgang,
>>
>> With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
>> likely being disadvantaged.
>>
>> I would not go so far as to suggest that people should not
>> participate in the ITU workshop, of course not! And I've no doubts
>> that the civil society participants invited as individuals will
>> continue to represent the same guiding principles we we agreed
>> collectively. And I fully understand that a scholar or some expert (I
>> am not sure of how to describe "expert") invited to a specialist
>> meeting would not want to pretend that their work represents the
>> views of a broader group, and nor would they wish to compromise their
>> personal intellectual enterprise in some misguided effort to reach a
>> consensus with others, and in the context it would be as
>> inappropriate of us to ask. ("misguided" because Internet
>> Governance
>> is not like many of the other thematic issues CS is concerned with,
>> we have no base agreement even among ourselves on what it means.)
>>
>> But I think we are also missing a very important opportunity to make
>> clear that civil society is an equal player (partner/stakeholder) in
>> all events organized as official/semi-official events of WSIS. It is
>> just wrong to dismiss this workshop as some minor event that does not
>> matter in the WSIS process, that civil society can somehow skip it.
>> Utsumi is Secretary General of WSIS, ITU the lead agency and
>> secretariat. Utsumi has called this workshop to begin to address one
>> of the two main outcomes of the Geneva Summit. Writing as Secretary
>> General of the ITU and Secretary General of WSIS, he says this quite
>> clearly in a recent letter discussing the state of WSIS, from the
>> success Geneva to our hopes for Tunis (etc etc.)  (on the Summit
>> website <http://www.itu.int/wsis/utsumi2.html>) He wrote:
>>
>>     "The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved
>> under the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet
>> governance and financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion
>> on Internet governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27
>> February in Geneva, which provides a forum for exchanging views on
>> definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet
>> governance .
>>
>>     I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in
>> this exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased
>> to begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the second
>> phase as we prepare for November 2005.
>>
>> Mr. Yoshio Utsumi"
>>
>>
>> Civil society needs to be represented at this meeting, by people
>> selected by us, and I hope that you will help us try think how we can
>> achieve this. Of course money is a problem.
>>
>> Note, the first prepcom for the Tunis phase will be held in the first
>> half of this year,
>> <http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1164.asp>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>> >At this point and in this workshop there is no need to speak with
>> >"one voice" as "official representative" of a
>> "stakeholder" group.
>> >The participating governments will have many different voices
>> >(united to a high degree by their understanding of "state
>> >sovereignty"), the participating private sector members will have
>> >different voices (united to a high degree by their understanding of
>> >"free market") and so "civil society" will have
>> different voices
>> >(united to a high degree by their understandiong of "bottom
>> up",
>> >"openess" and "transparency").
>> >
>> >The problem with the ITU workshop is that ITU has only governments
>> >and private sector as members. There is no category of civil society
>> >membership. Probably the ITU Workshop is a good opportunity, to
>> >invite ITU, to start a discussion on the introduction of a new
>> >category of membership in the organisation (afzer WSIS has more or
>> >less officially recognized civil society as an "important
>> >stakeholder"" / Article 49 of the WSIS Declaration).
>> >
>> >I remmeber the long debate before Kyodo 1994, when the concept of
>> >the "big M´s" (governments) and "small M´s" (private
>> sector) was
>> >developed. It was further developped by Minneapolis 1998. After
>> >Marrakesh 2002, governments and private secor are de facto rather
>> >equal in the ITU.
>> >
>> >With the next ITU Plenipotentiary two years away (2006), this could
>> >be a right moment to challenge the limited openess of ITU, to
>> >propose a change of the ITU constitution and to introduce a third
>> >category of ITU membership for CSOs.
>> >
>> >And do not forget, the ITU workshop is only one event in an
>> >exploding long series of official or semi-official positioning
>> >seminars around the globe to prepare for the "big thing", the
>> Kofi
>> >Annan IG Group.
>> >
>> >Best wishes
>> >
>> >wolfgang
>> >
>> >Original Nachricht--
>> >Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
>> >An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>> >Senden: 23.01.2004
>> >Betreff: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
>> >governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
>> >
>> >Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
>> >Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his interlocutors. This
>> is
>> >unacceptable for the Civil Society.
>> >If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
>> >discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously
>> about
>> >the
>> >content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we
>> -the
>> >CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
>> >No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no
>> >"welcome" for
>> >Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
>> >Jean-Louis Fullsack
>> >CSDPTT
>> >
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
>> >To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>;
>> >"Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
>> >Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
>> >Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
>> >:roles of plenary and governance lists
>> >
>> >
>> >>  I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
>> >>  am trying to modify my schedule to go.
>> >>
>> >>  I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our
>> >participation.
>> >>
>> >>  izumi
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>> >>   >wolfgang@imv.au.dk
>> >ha scritto:
>> >>   >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
>> >>   >> this is good step forward.
>> >>   >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
>> >>   >
>> >>   >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I
>> have
>> >started
>> >>  working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain
>> name
>> >went
>> >>  nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered
>> on
>> >his
>> >>  own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by
>> the
>> >next
>> >>  weekend. At least, I hope so.
>> >>   >
>> >>   >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as
>> urgent as
>> >a
>> >letter to
>> >>  Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
>> >>   >
>> >>   >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda
>> and
>> >get
>> >>  deliverables done :)
>> >>   >
>> >>   >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in
>> this
>> >letter
>> >>  (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in
>> >their
>> >>  personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As
>> far
>> >as
>> >>  I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
>> >>   >
>> >>   >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday
>> evening.
>> >(So I don't
>> >>  need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
>> >>   >
>> >>   >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited
>> experts
>> >are
>> >>  supposed to express their preference on whether they would like
>> >"to
>> >>   >either introduce their contributions, make presentations
>> and/or
>> >>   >participate in panel discussions". I think we should
>> >coordinate
>> >ourselves
>> >>  so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
>> >>  presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I
>> think
>> >we
>> >>  should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming
>> that
>> >the
>> >>  organizers will agree, of course...)
>> >>   >--
>> >>   >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
>> >>   >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
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From: yjpark at myepark.com (YJ Park)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Priority for WSIS Civil Soiciety
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Dear all,

First of all, it's a good step for WSIS Civil Society plenary to start to be
engaged with Internet Governance debate in conjunction with Internet
Governance caucus.

Wolfgang wrote;

> I disagree with you evaluation. The points f.i. in 13 of the Action Plan
are specific recommendaitons for governments. You have to read both the
declaration and the action plan in all its parts and this signals a
different story. The overriding text (where 13 f & i is included) is:
> Article 48: "The internaitonal management of the internet should be
multilateral, transparent and democratic with the full involvment of the
governments, the private sector, civil society and internaitonal
organisations".
>
> Furthermore, Article 50 says, that the working group on IG  should be
organized as "an open and inclusive process that ensures a mechanism for the
full and active participation of governments, the private sector and civil
society both from developed and developing countries".

I respectfully disagree with your interpretation about WSIS declaration.
WSIS has been coordinated by mainly ITU who expressed their eagerness for
Internet Governance players. ITU held country code top level domain(ccTLD)
workshop last year early March and ITU has already coordinated ENUM
allocation etc. Now after controversial WSIS debate on Internet Governance,
ITU announed to the world that ITU is going to host Internet Governance
workshop ignoring WSIS Civil Society. The workshop will be "restrcitedly"
open to ITU's member states and sector members. And ITU handpicked so-called
"experts" as an individual.

We are not talking about the individuals who were invited by ITU. We, Civil
Society, should talk about where "Civil Society" is in that process which we
believed it would be "multilateral, transparent and democratic" as you
highlighted as below. This is not a good start at all for Civil Society.

> I would welcome if you could contribute to the Caucus debate by writing a
paper "What means "multilateral, transparent and democratic" in Global
Internet Governance?". The paper soud be no longer than 4 - 6 pages. It
could become a good platform for further discussions.

Wolfgang, writing a paper is one thing as an individual member of Internet
Governance caucus but collecting papers and presentng the views on behalf of
Civil Society in this process is another thing.

YJ
>
>
> * What are the differences between
> But Internet Governance caucus itself cannot make difference to ensure
civil
> society's voices in the Internet policy making process. WSIS Civil Society
> should go along with it. The main challenge of Internet Governance debate
> from now on until Tunisia WSIS is to build a consensus in the WSIS plenary
> that civil society should equally participate in open, transparent, and
> bottom-up decision-making process like our counterparts, governments and
> private sector members.
>
>
> This may generate more traffics in the plenary list as Bertrand is
> concerned, we have to live with it until WSIS civil society is ready for
> presenting our collective position to various platforms including ITU
> proposed by Amali de Silva.
>
> YJ
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From yjpark at myepark.com  Sun Jan 25 15:01:26 2004
From: yjpark at myepark.com (YJ Park)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Priority for WSIS Civil Soiciety
References: <NDAAOGBJIEEBHFAA@mailcity.com>
Message-ID: <016d01c3e354$1bfb2df0$99213b18@YJ>

Hello Richard and all,

Thank you for sharing 2000 experiences.

> The Millennium NGO document, from all sides, remains unimplemented, but
that does not mean that aspects of it are not being implemented.

It is going to be a long way to ensure those principles in the document
implemented.

> Our NGO was able to make some significant impacts for current and future
work because of the Prep Com and Summit processes because we were always
looking toward Tunis right from the start.
>
> It's up to Civil Society to figure out how to proceed to Tunis and beyond,
but from my vantage point, I think creative use of collective visions can
move everyone forward.

Sometimes vintage points work out! Let's move forward.
YJ

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> DATE: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:40:29
> From: "YJ Park" <yjpark@myepark.com>
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> Cc:
>
> >There have been three proposals so far how we can move forward within
WSIS
> >civil society in terms of WSIS "Internet Governance" issue both caucus
level
> >and plenary level.
> >
> >The main challenge of Internet Governance debate during Geneva WSIS was
to
> >initiate a momentum of creating international forum to discuss Internet
> >Governance in the global level.
> >Like it or not, we, civil society, should understand "civil society's
roles"
> >in the Internet policy decision-making process was not recognized
seriously.
> >They gave some credits to Internet Governance caucus but not to WSIS
civil
> >society in general. If I remind you of WSIS recommendation, it invited
again
> >only governments to discuss following issues.
> >
> >f) Governments are invited to:
> >i)facilitate the establishment of national and regional Internet Exchange
> >Centres;
> >ii)manage or supervise, as appropriate, their respective country code
> >top-level domain name (ccTLD);
> >iii)promote awareness of the Internet.
> >
> >
> >But Internet Governance caucus itself cannot make difference to ensure
civil
> >society's voices in the Internet policy making process. WSIS Civil
Society
> >should go along with it. The main challenge of Internet Governance debate
> >from now on until Tunisia WSIS is to build a consensus in the WSIS
plenary
> >that civil society should equally participate in open, transparent, and
> >bottom-up decision-making process like our counterparts, governments and
> >private sector members.
> >
> >
> >This may generate more traffics in the plenary list as Bertrand is
> >concerned, we have to live with it until WSIS civil society is ready for
> >presenting our collective position to various platforms including ITU
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From muguet at noos.fr  Sun Jan 25 15:57:16 2004
From: muguet at noos.fr (muguet@noos.fr)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] NYTimes.com Article: The Tyranny of Copyright?
Message-ID: <20040125155716.3CEC035042@web38t.prvt.nytimes.com>

This article from NYTimes.com 
has been sent to you by muguet@noos.fr.



Hello everybody

A pretty good article in the New York Times
over the issue of Copyrights and
Free Speech. 

More generally, we can notice now a propensity towards private
justices with the legal tools provided by a decadent state. 
This is was happened at the fall of the Roman Empire and the birth of the middle age. 
The Internet Access Provider are forced to become overlords of their virtual domain, and to render private justice under the pressure of any group 

Will the internet age be feudal ?

At the WSIS, I tried to introduce such a carefully worded reocmmandation:

#  No implicit or explicit delegation of judicial power should be given or imposed on Internet Services Providers ISPs ( Connection, site hosting ) to the effect that the ISPs have to reach a conclusion on the nature and content of any information, whereever said information is stored, however the said information is transmitted. No exemption to this rule shall be allowed, even in the case of an alledged obviousness.

but it was discarded.

Have a good reading

Francis


muguet@noos.fr


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The Tyranny of Copyright?

January 25, 2004
 By ROBERT S. BOYNTON 



 

Last fall, a group of civic-minded students at Swarthmore
College received a sobering lesson in the future of
political protest. They had come into possession of some
15,000 e-mail messages and memos -- presumably leaked or
stolen -- from Diebold Election Systems, the largest maker
of electronic voting machines in the country. The memos
featured Diebold employees' candid discussion of flaws in
the company's software and warnings that the computer
network was poorly protected from hackers. In light of the
chaotic 2000 presidential election, the Swarthmore students
decided that this information shouldn't be kept from the
public. Like aspiring Daniel Ellsbergs with their would-be
Pentagon Papers, they posted the files on the Internet,
declaring the act a form of electronic whistle-blowing. 

Unfortunately for the students, their actions ran afoul of
the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (D.M.C.A.), one
of several recent laws that regulate intellectual property
and are quietly reshaping the culture. Designed to protect
copyrighted material on the Web, the act makes it possible
for an Internet service provider to be liable for the
material posted by its users -- an extraordinary burden
that providers of phone service, by contrast, do not share.
Under the law, if an aggrieved party (Diebold, say)
threatens to sue an Internet service provider over the
content of a subscriber's Web site, the provider can avoid
liability simply by removing the offending material. Since
the mere threat of a lawsuit is usually enough to scare
most providers into submission, the law effectively gives
private parties veto power over much of the information
published online -- as the Swarthmore students would soon
learn. 

Not long after the students posted the memos, Diebold sent
letters to Swarthmore charging the students with copyright
infringement and demanding that the material be removed
from the students' Web page, which was hosted on the
college's server. Swarthmore complied. The question of
whether the students were within their rights to post the
memos was essentially moot: thanks to the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, their speech could be silenced
without the benefit of actual lawsuits, public hearings,
judges or other niceties of due process. 

After persistent challenges by the students -- and a
considerable amount of negative publicity for Diebold -- in
November the company agreed not to sue. To the delight of
the students' supporters, the memos are now back on their
Web site. But to proponents of free speech on the Internet,
the story remains a chilling one. 

Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media scholar at New York University,
calls anecdotes like this ''copyright horror stories,'' and
there have been a growing number of them over the past few
years. Once a dry and seemingly mechanical area of the
American legal system, intellectual property law can now be
found at the center of major disputes in the arts, sciences
and -- as in the Diebold case -- politics. Recent cases
have involved everything from attempts to force the Girl
Scouts to pay royalties for singing songs around campfires
to the infringement suit brought by the estate of Margaret
Mitchell against the publishers of Alice Randall's book
''The Wind Done Gone'' (which tells the story of Mitchell's
''Gone With the Wind'' from a slave's perspective) to
corporations like Celera Genomics filing for patents for
human genes. The most publicized development came in
September, when the Recording Industry Association of
America began suing music downloaders for copyright
infringement, reaching out-of-court settlements for
thousands of dollars with defendants as young as 12. And in
November, a group of independent film producers went to
court to fight a ban, imposed this year by the Motion
Picture Association of America, on sending DVD's to those
who vote for annual film awards. 

Not long ago, the Internet's ability to provide instant,
inexpensive and perfect copies of text, sound and images
was heralded with the phrase ''information wants to be
free.'' Yet the implications of this freedom have
frightened some creators -- particularly those in the
recording, publishing and movie industries -- who argue
that the greater ease of copying and distribution increases
the need for more stringent intellectual property laws. The
movie and music industries have succeeded in lobbying
lawmakers to allow them to tighten their grips on their
creations by lengthening copyright terms. The law has also
extended the scope of copyright protection, creating what
critics have called a ''paracopyright,'' which prohibits
not only duplicating protected material but in some cases
even gaining access to it in the first place. In addition
to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the most
significant piece of new legislation is the 1998 Copyright
Term Extension Act, which added 20 years of protection to
past and present copyrighted works and was upheld by the
Supreme Court a year ago. In less than a decade, the
much-ballyhooed liberating potential of the Internet seems
to have given way to something of an intellectual land
grab, presided over by legislators and lawyers for the
media industries. 

In response to these developments, a protest movement is
forming, made up of lawyers, scholars and activists who
fear that bolstering copyright protection in the name of
foiling ''piracy'' will have disastrous consequences for
society -- hindering the ability to experiment and create
and eroding our democratic freedoms. This group of
reformers, which Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Stanford
Law School, calls the ''free culture movement,'' might also
be thought of as the ''Copy Left'' (to borrow a term
originally used by software programmers to signal that
their product bore fewer than the usual amount of copyright
restrictions). Lawyers and professors at the nation's top
universities and law schools, the members of the Copy Left
aren't wild-eyed radicals opposed to the use of copyright,
though they do object fiercely to the way copyright has
been distorted by recent legislation and manipulated by
companies like Diebold. Nor do they share a coherent
political ideology. What they do share is a fear that the
United States is becoming less free and ultimately less
creative. While the American copyright system was designed
to encourage innovation, it is now, they contend, being
used to squelch it. They see themselves as fighting for a
traditional understanding of intellectual property in the
face of a radical effort to turn copyright law into a tool
for hoarding ideas. ''The notion that intellectual property
rights should never expire, and works never enter the
public domain -- this is the truly fanatical and
unconstitutional position,'' says Jonathan Zittrain, a
co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
at Harvard Law School, the intellectual hub of the Copy
Left. 

Thinkers like Lessig and Zittrain promote a vision of a
world in which copyright law gives individual creators the
exclusive right to profit from their intellectual property
for a brief, limited period -- thus providing an incentive
to create while still allowing successive generations of
creators to draw freely on earlier ideas. They stress that
borrowing and collaboration are essential components of all
creation and caution against being seduced by the romantic
myth of ''the author'': the lone garret-dwelling poet,
creating masterpieces out of thin air. ''No one writes from
nothing,'' says Yochai Benkler, a professor at Yale Law
School. ''We all take the world as it is and use it, remix
it.'' 

Where does the Copy Left believe a creation ought to go
once its copyright has lapsed? Into the public domain, or
the ''cultural commons'' -- a shared stockpile of ideas
where the majority of America's music and literature would
reside, from which anyone could partake without having to
pay or ask permission. James Boyle, a professor at Duke Law
School, notes that the public domain is a necessity for
social and cultural progress, not some sort of socialist
luxury. ''Our art, our culture, our science depend on this
public domain,'' he has written, ''every bit as much as
they depend on intellectual property.'' 

In opposition to the cultural commons stands the
''permission culture,'' an epithet the Copy Left uses to
describe the world it fears our current copyright law is
creating. Whereas you used to own the CD or book you
purchased, in the permission culture it is more likely that
you'll lease (or ''license'') a song, video or e-book, and
even then only under restrictive conditions: read your
e-book, but don't copy and paste any selections; listen to
music on your MP3 player, but don't burn it onto a CD or
transfer it to your stereo. The Copy Left sees innovations
like iTunes, Apple's popular online music store, as the
first step toward a society in which much of the cultural
activity that we currently take for granted -- reading an
encyclopedia in the public library, selling a geometry
textbook to a friend, copying a song for a sibling -- will
be rerouted through a system of micropayments in return for
which the rights to ever smaller pieces of our culture are
doled out. ''Sooner or later,'' predicts Miriam Nisbet, the
legislative counsel for the American Library Association,
''you'll get to the point where you say, 'Well, I guess
that 25 cents isn't too much to pay for this sentence,' and
then there's no hope and no going back.'' 

There is a growing sense of urgency among the members of
the Copy Left. They worry that if they do not raise
awareness of what is happening to copyright law, Americans
will be stuck forever with the consequences of decisions
now being made -- and laws being passed -- in the name of
preventing piracy. ''We are at a moment in our history at
which the terms of freedom and justice are up for grabs,''
Benkler says. He notes that each major innovation in the
history of communications -- the printing press, radio,
telephone -- was followed by a brief period of openness
before the rules of its usage were determined and
alternatives eliminated. ''The Internet,'' he says, ''is in
that space right now.'' 


America has always had an ambivalent attitude toward the
notion of intellectual property. Thomas Jefferson, for one,
considered copyright a necessary evil: he favored providing
just enough incentive to create, nothing more, and
thereafter allowing ideas to flow freely as nature
intended. ''If nature has made any one thing less
susceptible than all others of exclusive property,'' he
wrote, ''it is the action of the thinking power called an
idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long
as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged,
it forces itself into the possession of everyone.'' His
conception of copyright was enshrined in Article 1, Section
8 of the Constitution, which gives Congress the authority
to ''promote the progress of science and useful arts, by
securing for limited times to authors and inventors the
exclusive right to their respective writings and
discoveries.'' 

But Jefferson's vision has not fared well. As the country's
economy developed from agrarian to industrial to
''information,'' ideas took on greater importance, and the
demand increased for stronger copyright laws. In 1790,
copyright protection lasted for 14 years and could be
renewed just once before the work entered the public
domain. Between 1831 and 1909, the maximum term was
increased from 28 to 56 years. Today, copyright protection
for individuals lasts for 70 years after the death of the
author; for corporations, it's 95 years after publication.
Over the past three decades, the flow of material entering
the public domain has slowed to a trickle: in 1973,
according to Lessig, more than 85 percent of copyright
owners chose not to renew their copyrights, allowing their
ideas to become common coin; since the 1998 Copyright Term
Extension Act lengthened present and past copyrights for an
additional 20 years, little material will enter the public
domain any time soon. 

Some of the changes that expanded copyright protection were
made with an understanding of their effects; what also
troubles the Copy Left, however, are the unintended
consequences of seemingly innocuous tweaks in copyright
legislation. In particular, two laws that were passed years
before the creation of the Internet helped set the stage
for today's copyright bonanza. Before the 1909 Copyright
Act, copyright was construed as the exclusive right to
''publish'' a creation; but the 1909 law changed the
wording to prohibit others from ''copying'' one's creation
-- a seemingly minor change that thereafter linked
copyright protection to the copying technology of the day,
whether that was the pen, the photocopy machine, the VCR or
the Internet. In 1976, a revision to the law dispensed with
the requirement of formally registering or renewing a
copyright in order to comply with international copyright
standards. Henceforth, everything -- from e-mail messages
to doodles on a napkin -- was automatically copyrighted the
moment it was ''fixed in a tangible medium.'' 

The true significance of these two laws didn't become
apparent until the arrival of the Internet, when every work
became automatically protected by copyright and every use
of a work via the Internet constituted a new copy. ''Nobody
realized that eliminating those requirements would create a
nightmare of uncertainty and confusion about what content
is available to use,'' Lessig explains, ''which is a
crucial question now that the Internet is the way we gain
access to so much content. It was a kind of oil spill in
the free culture.'' 

Lessig is one of the most prominent and eloquent defenders
of the Copy Left's belief that copyright law should return
to its Jeffersonian roots. ''We are invoking ideas that
should be central to the American tradition, such as that a
free society is richer than a control society,'' he says.
''But in the cultural sphere, big media wants to build a
new Soviet empire where you need permission from the
central party to do anything.'' He complains that Americans
have been reduced to ''an Oliver Twist-like position,'' in
which they have to ask, ''Please, sir, may I?'' every time
we want to use something under copyright -- and then only
if we are fortunate enough to have the assistance of a
high-priced lawyer. 

In October 2002, Lessig argued before the Supreme Court in
Eldred v. Ashcroft, which concerned a challenge to the
Copyright Term Extension Act. On behalf of the plaintiffs,
Lessig argued that perpetually extending the term of
copyright was a violation of the Constitution's requirement
that copyright exist for ''a limited time.'' The court
responded that although perhaps unwise on policy grounds,
granting such extensions was within Congress's power. It
was a major setback for the Copy Left. Given the Eldred
decision, there is nothing to stop a future Congress from
extending copyright's term again and again. 

Lessig's efforts haven't been limited to the courtroom. In
2001, he was part of a group that founded an organization
called Creative Commons, which offers individual creators
the ability to carefully calibrate the level of control
they wish to maintain over their works. The organization
services the needs of, say, musicians who want rappers and
D.J.'s to be able to download and remix their music without
legal trouble or of writers who want their works
republished without charge, but only by nonprofit
publications. The Commons has developed a software
application for the Web that allows copyright holders who
do not want to exercise all of the restrictions of
copyright law to dedicate their work to the public domain
or license it on terms that allow copying and creative
reuses. The aim of Creative Commons is not only to increase
the sum of raw source material online but also to make it
cheaper and easier for other creators to locate and access
that material. This will enable people to use the Internet
to find, for example, photographs that are free to be
altered or reused or texts that may be copied, distributed
or sampled -- all by their authors' permission. The
Creative Commons now has a presence in 10 countries,
including Brazil, whose minister of culture, the musician
Gilberto Gil, plans to release some of his songs under the
Creative Commons license so that others may freely borrow
from them. Creative Commons is currently talking to Amazon
and others about a plan to release out-of-print books under
Creative Commons licenses. 


One of the central ideas of the Copy Left is that the
Internet has been a catalyst for re-engaging with the
culture -- for interacting with the things we read and
watch and listen to, as opposed to just sitting back and
absorbing them. This vision of how culture works stands in
contrast to what the Copy Left calls the ''broadcast
model'' -- the arrangement in which a small group of
content producers disseminate their creations (television,
movies, music) through controlled routes (cable, theaters,
radio-TV stations) to passive consumers. Yochai Benkler,
the law professor at Yale, argues that people want to be
more engaged in their culture, despite the broadcast
technology, like television, that he says has narcotized
us. ''People are users,'' he says. ''They are producers,
storytellers, consumers, interactors -- complex, varied
beings, not just people who go to the store, buy a packaged
good off the shelf and consume.'' 

A few weeks ago, I met Benkler in his loft in downtown New
York. He stroked his beard while explicating his ideas with
the care of a man parsing a particularly knotty question of
Scripture. Benkler was born in Tel Aviv in 1964, and while
in his 20's, he helped found a remote desert kibbutz in an
attempt to recapture the Zionist movement's original
socialist spirit. The challenges of creating a community in
isolation from the rest of society ultimately proved
overwhelming. ''After a few years,'' he said, ''we realized
that at the rate we were going we wouldn't attend college
until we were in our 50's.'' It was a hard lesson in the
difficulty of producing anything -- a community, a work of
art -- in isolation. 

But Benkler's belief in the importance of creating things
in common rests on more than anecdotal evidence. What makes
his argument more than wishful thinking, he said, is that
he has some economic evidence for his view. ''Let's compare
a few numbers,'' he said. ''How much do people pay the
recording industry to listen to music versus how much
people pay the telephone industry to talk to their friends
and family? The recording industry is a $12 billion a year
business, compared with the telephone business, which is a
more than $250 billion a year business. That is what
economists call a 'revealed willingness to pay,' a clear
preference for a technology that allows you to participate
in work, socializing and interaction in general, over a
technology that allows you to be a passive consumer of a
packaged good. Is that a study of human nature? No. Is it
an economic measure that would suggest there is a lot of
demand out there for speaking and listening to others?
Yes.'' 

According to Benkler, the cultural commons not only offers
a better model for creativity; it makes good economic
sense. Like Lessig and other members of the Copy Left, he
takes his bearings from the free software movement and
views the success of products like Linux and services like
Google as evidence of a viable collaborative (or ''peer to
peer'') model for producing and sharing ideas -- a model
that will augment and, in some cases, replace the current
model. (He concedes that some products, like novels and
blockbuster movies, will never be produced peer to peer,
though they will draw on the work of artists before them.) 

Benkler predicts that the recording industry will be one
of the first businesses to go. ''All it does is package and
sell goods,'' he said, ''which is technically an unfeasible
way of continuing. They are trying their best to legislate
the environment to change, but that doesn't mean we have to
let them.'' 


The battle between the Copy Left and its opponents is as
much a clash of worldviews as of legal doctrine. Aligned
against the Copy Left are those who sympathize with the
romantic notion of authorship and view the culture as a
market in which everything of value should be owned by
someone or other. Jane Ginsburg, a professor at Columbia
Law School who specializes in copyright law, fears that in
the Copy Left's rush to secure the public domain, it gives
short shrift to the author. A self-described ''copyright
enthusiast,'' Ginsburg considers the author the moral
center of copyright law and questions equating copyright
control with corporate greed. ''Copyright cannot be
understood merely as a grudgingly tolerated way station on
the road to the public domain,'' she writes in a recent
article titled ''The Concept of Authorship in Comparative
Copyright Law.'' ''Because copyright arises out of the act
of creating a work, authors have moral claims that neither
corporate intermediaries nor consumer end-users can
(straightfacedly) assert.'' 

Ginsburg and others embrace many elements of the
''permission society'' demonized by the Copy Left and cite
developments like the iTunes store as a sign of greater
consumer choice and freedom. In his book ''Copyright's
Highway,'' Paul Goldstein, a professor at Stanford Law
School, writes that ''the logic of property rights dictates
their extension into every corner in which people derive
enjoyment and value from literary and artistic works.'' He
characterizes the permission society as a ''celestial
jukebox'' in which access to every creation -- music,
literature, movies, art -- is available to anyone for a
price. 

An entire ''digital rights management'' industry has arisen
to bring this vision to fruition, each company calibrating
a particular license through a system of micropayments --
play a song on your computer for one price; transfer it to
your MP3 player for a slightly higher fee. Goldstein argues
that the scheme of a business like iTunes is actually more
efficient and democratic than the commons model championed
by the Copy Left. ''The problem with the commons is that it
doesn't take into consideration the direction of the
payment; it doesn't reveal what kind of culture gets used
and what kind doesn't,'' he says. ''I think it is good to
have a price tag attached to each use because it tells
producers what consumers want; it lets them vote with their
purchase for the kinds of culture they want.'' 

But the Copy Left is convinced that there is a better way
for the entertainment industry to adapt to the Internet age
while still paying its artists their due. William Fisher,
director of the Berkman Center, has spent the last three
years devising an alternative compensation system that
would enable the entertainment industry to restructure its
business model without resorting to cumbersome
micropayments. He has worked out a modified version of the
system that artists' advocacy groups currently use to make
sure that composers are paid when their music is performed
or recorded. According to Fisher's plan, all works capable
of being transmitted online would be registered with a
central office (whether government or independent is
unclear). The central office would then monitor how
frequently a work is used and compensate the creators on
that basis. The money would come from a tax on various
content-related devices, like DVD burners, blank CD's or
digital recorders. It is a brave proposal in a political
culture that is allergic to taxes and uncomfortable with
complex solutions. Still, if his numbers do indeed add up,
Fisher's proposal might be the best thing that ever
happened to the cultural commons: the creators would be
paid, while every individual would have unlimited access to
every cultural creation. 

Fisher and Charles Nesson, his colleague at Harvard Law
School, have showed this proposal to movie executives and
lawyers for several media conglomerates. Fisher says that
his ideas have been received with great interest by the
very industries -- music, home video -- that see their
business models disintegrating before their eyes. 

When asked whether he thinks his ambitious scheme has a
chance, Fisher says that the likeliest possibility would be
for it to be adopted in countries that are neither so
developed that they have signed on to international
copyright protocols nor so undeveloped that they are
desperate to do so. Only second-world countries, like
Croatia or Brazil, he speculates, are unfettered enough to
try something new. ''The hope is in the rain forest,'' he
says, in countries that ''are more like the United States
was before 1890, when we were a 'pirate' nation.'' 

And in the United States, is there any future for this sort
of payment system? Perhaps when the various current schemes
fail, Fisher's plan will seem more attractive, he says.
''What is involved here is nothing less than the shape of
our culture and the way we think of ourselves as
citizens,'' he adds. He describes a recent letter he
received from a supporter of his work. ''When they come for
my guns and my music, they'd better bring an army,'' it
read. ''People are used to being creatively engaged with
the culture,'' Fisher explains. ''They won't let someone
legislate that away.'' 

The future of the Copy Left's efforts is still an open
question. James Boyle has likened the movement's efforts to
establish a cultural commons to those of the environmental
movement in its infancy. Like Rachel Carson in the years
before Earth Day, the Copy Left today is trying to raise
awareness of the intellectual ''land'' to which they
believe we ought to feel entitled and to propose policies
and laws that will preserve it. Just as the idea of
environmentalism became viable in the wake of the last
century's advances in industrial production, the growth of
this century's information technologies, Boyle argues, will
force the country to address the erosion of the cultural
commons. ''The environmentalists helped us to see the world
differently,'' he writes, ''to see that there was such a
thing as 'the environment' rather than just my pond, your
forest, his canal. We need to do the same thing in the
information environment. We have to 'invent' the public
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From yjpark at myepark.com  Sun Jan 25 16:11:53 2004
From: yjpark at myepark.com (YJ Park)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
References: <E1Akihp-0005zG-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <01d201c3e35d$ffcb67d0$99213b18@YJ>

Wolfgang,

Based on what you said, Internet Governance issue should not be handled by a
group of so-called experts or individuals from now on. Yes, it can be
handled by experts or individuals but I have doubts about that approach in
the long term for Civil Society. It is time for WSIS CS to organize more
agreeable representation and position in forwarding it to the relevant fora
like the upcoming ITU meeting and UN ICT Task Force meeting.

As you emphasized "stakeholder" approaches, we, Civil Society, as
independent stakeholder in this Internet Governance debate process should
not be arbitrarily abused upon the situation. We, civil society, should have
ability to decide on our own whether we are going to attend or participate
in this debate like our counterparts, governmnets and private sector
stakeholders, instead of being decided and told by some authority, ITU in
this context, whether we can attend or cannot attend upon their situations.

Civil Society in the WSIS was welcomed and encouraged to participate in the
WSIS debate.
Civil Society in the WSIS was invited to the upcoming UN Internet Governance
WG debate.

And then why all of sudden, only limited "invitees" can attend the critical
meetings like ITU and UN ICT Take Force meeting which will map out the
upcoming UN Internet Governance WG. To be consistent about Civil Society's
role in this whole process from WSIS I to WSIS II, we have to express our
concerns in this upcoming meeting.

YJ

> Dear all,
>
> to avoid more misunderstandings, let me clarify what I wanted to say:
>
> 1. it is certainly important that the Caucus gets an Image as a "Unit"
able to act on behalf of one of the main three stakeholders, the civil
society. Insofar the Caucus has to issue statements which make this clear to
the two other main stakeholders group, to private sector and governments.
The other stakeholders want to know basically what "CS" is thinking and not
what individuals are suggesting.
>
> 2. Among members of the "governmental stakeholder group" and members of
the "private sector stakeholder group" there are numerous differences. And
so it is within the "CS stakeholder group". While CS is interested to know
not only the "governmental consensus", as reflected in the WSIS declaration,
but also what the positions of different governments (here China there USA,
here South Africa there France, here Brazil and there Australia etc.) other
stakeholders are also intersted what individual members of the CS are
thinking. BTW, such a multidimensional and multilateral positioning and
exchange of ideas paves the way for potential "rainbow coalitions" on
certain issues, that is to escape from "cold war constellations".
>
> 3. For individual members of the CS IG/ICT Caucus it is important that,
while they make statements as "indiviuduals" they also make visible their
relationship to the Caucus. Ohter stakeholders should know, that the CS with
its diversifeid constituencies, are - after WSIS I - structured, organized
and have their representative body (like the govenrments have the GAC and
the private sector has the BICC).
>
> 4. I do not underestimate the importance of the forthcoming ITU workshop.
In contrary, I see it like Adam, as an direct move from ITU to get something
like the leadership in the new process. And no doubt that Utsumis voice is
much more heard by Kofi Annan that the voice of the ICC, of ICANN or of one
of the Co-Chairs of the CS IG ICT Caucus. But i do not believe that the ITU
plan will work without problems. The ICANN meeting in Roma (in particular
the meeting of the GAC with ALAC, two days after the Geneva ITU meetingon
Sunday) is as important as the ITU meeting. And the "IG Forum" on March 25 -
26, in New York (as part of the UN ICTTF meeting), which is NOT an ITU
event, has a similar importance. CS and the Caucus should make the voice
heard in all these meetings both by individual presentations (demonstrating
knowledge, expertise, innovation etc.) and by joint statements of the Caucus
(it would be great if always one of the two new co-chairs or a designated
representative o
>  f a co-chair could speak "on behalf" of the Caucus).
>
> 5. My proposal for a change of the ITU constitution (in 2006) is a
proposal which could be considered as part of a long term strategy. ITU will
remain one of the main players in the field. In the WSIS declaration the ITU
role is fixed as a "facilitating role". What "facilitating role" means in
this context is open for interpretation (and ITU itself tries to fill this
with substance i.a. by the forthcoming workshop). For CS it is important to
look into this direction. The problem here is, that the constitutional
possibilities for CS in the ITU process are more than limited, or lets say,
close to Zero. Only constitutional members can officially participate in
processes (and eventually, without any negotiating or voting rights, invited
individual experts). The proposal from some ITU folks, that CSOs should
joint ITU under the "private sector membership clause" is unacceptable for
CS for two reasons: a. CS is different from private sector and b. the
exorbitant membership fees blo
>  ck any broader CS participation. One "official proposal" to the ITU could
be to add the status of "civil society sector member" in the ITU
constitution with no or very low membership fee. But even under such a
construction, Jean Louis is right, that legally binding decisions within ITU
are made by govenments (member states) only. But to have such a status
within ITU would be for CS a status quo plus.
>
>
> 6. the main thing is that CS is positioning itself for the "Kofi Annan
Group". We should make clear at a very early stage, that the composition of
the group has to be balanced. We should quote again and again the wording of
the WSIS Declaration , which says that the group should include
"governments, private sector and civil society from developed and developing
countries and intergovernmental and international organisations". Our
proposal could be 6 (GOV):6 (PRIV):6 (CS) + 2 (IGO/ITU& WIPO):2
(IO/ICANN&ITEF) = 22 in total) This would mean 6 CS representatives, three
from the North (America, Europa, Asia) and three from the South (Africa,
Latin America and South Pacific/West Asia). If the group is composed along
this lines (as a group of representatives of stakeholders) the Caucus has to
play a crucial role.
>
>
> Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
> An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Senden: 11:24 AM
> Betreff: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>
> Thanks Adam for your support and particularly for clarifying the issues on
> stake.
>
> Moreover, Wolgang commits some approximations with the ITU rules (they are
> based on its Constitution and Convention). Never forget they are decided
> upon only by Members of States and not by Sector Members. At least up to
now
> !
> If you want some complementary information you can find it on CSDPTT's
> website www.csdptt.org (in french), under "Documents".
> Of course I fully support your suggestions.
>
> Friendly yours
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Peake" <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
> To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
> Cc: <wolfgang@imv.au.dk>
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:11 PM
> Subject: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
> governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>
> >I understand Jean Louis points, but we should make a difference
> >between "informal discussions" and "formal
> negotiations".
>
>
> Wolfgang,
>
> With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
> likely being disadvantaged.
>
> I would not go so far as to suggest that people should not
> participate in the ITU workshop, of course not! And I've no doubts
> that the civil society participants invited as individuals will
> continue to represent the same guiding principles we we agreed
> collectively. And I fully understand that a scholar or some expert (I
> am not sure of how to describe "expert") invited to a specialist
> meeting would not want to pretend that their work represents the
> views of a broader group, and nor would they wish to compromise their
> personal intellectual enterprise in some misguided effort to reach a
> consensus with others, and in the context it would be as
> inappropriate of us to ask. ("misguided" because Internet
> Governance
> is not like many of the other thematic issues CS is concerned with,
> we have no base agreement even among ourselves on what it means.)
>
> But I think we are also missing a very important opportunity to make
> clear that civil society is an equal player (partner/stakeholder) in
> all events organized as official/semi-official events of WSIS. It is
> just wrong to dismiss this workshop as some minor event that does not
> matter in the WSIS process, that civil society can somehow skip it.
> Utsumi is Secretary General of WSIS, ITU the lead agency and
> secretariat. Utsumi has called this workshop to begin to address one
> of the two main outcomes of the Geneva Summit. Writing as Secretary
> General of the ITU and Secretary General of WSIS, he says this quite
> clearly in a recent letter discussing the state of WSIS, from the
> success Geneva to our hopes for Tunis (etc etc.)  (on the Summit
> website <http://www.itu.int/wsis/utsumi2.html>) He wrote:
>
>     "The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved
> under the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet
> governance and financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion
> on Internet governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27
> February in Geneva, which provides a forum for exchanging views on
> definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet
> governance .
>
>     I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in
> this exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased
> to begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the second
> phase as we prepare for November 2005.
>
> Mr. Yoshio Utsumi"
>
>
> Civil society needs to be represented at this meeting, by people
> selected by us, and I hope that you will help us try think how we can
> achieve this. Of course money is a problem.
>
> Note, the first prepcom for the Tunis phase will be held in the first
> half of this year,
> <http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1164.asp>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> >At this point and in this workshop there is no need to speak with
> >"one voice" as "official representative" of a
> "stakeholder" group.
> >The participating governments will have many different voices
> >(united to a high degree by their understanding of "state
> >sovereignty"), the participating private sector members will have
> >different voices (united to a high degree by their understanding of
> >"free market") and so "civil society" will have
> different voices
> >(united to a high degree by their understandiong of "bottom
> up",
> >"openess" and "transparency").
> >
> >The problem with the ITU workshop is that ITU has only governments
> >and private sector as members. There is no category of civil society
> >membership. Probably the ITU Workshop is a good opportunity, to
> >invite ITU, to start a discussion on the introduction of a new
> >category of membership in the organisation (afzer WSIS has more or
> >less officially recognized civil society as an "important
> >stakeholder"" / Article 49 of the WSIS Declaration).
> >
> >I remmeber the long debate before Kyodo 1994, when the concept of
> >the "big M?s" (governments) and "small M?s" (private
> sector) was
> >developed. It was further developped by Minneapolis 1998. After
> >Marrakesh 2002, governments and private secor are de facto rather
> >equal in the ITU.
> >
> >With the next ITU Plenipotentiary two years away (2006), this could
> >be a right moment to challenge the limited openess of ITU, to
> >propose a change of the ITU constitution and to introduce a third
> >category of ITU membership for CSOs.
> >
> >And do not forget, the ITU workshop is only one event in an
> >exploding long series of official or semi-official positioning
> >seminars around the globe to prepare for the "big thing", the
> Kofi
> >Annan IG Group.
> >
> >Best wishes
> >
> >wolfgang
> >
> >Original Nachricht--
> >Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
> >An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> >Senden: 23.01.2004
> >Betreff: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
> >governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
> >
> >Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
> >Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his interlocutors. This
> is
> >unacceptable for the Civil Society.
> >If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
> >discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously
> about
> >the
> >content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we
> -the
> >CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
> >No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no
> >"welcome" for
> >Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
> >Jean-Louis Fullsack
> >CSDPTT
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
> >To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>;
> >"Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
> >Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
> >:roles of plenary and governance lists
> >
> >
> >>  I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
> >>  am trying to modify my schedule to go.
> >>
> >>  I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our
> >participation.
> >>
> >>  izumi
> >>
> >>
> >>  At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> >>   >wolfgang@imv.au.dk
> >ha scritto:
> >>   >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
> >>   >> this is good step forward.
> >>   >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
> >>   >
> >>   >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I
> have
> >started
> >>  working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain
> name
> >went
> >>  nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered
> on
> >his
> >>  own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by
> the
> >next
> >>  weekend. At least, I hope so.
> >>   >
> >>   >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as
> urgent as
> >a
> >letter to
> >>  Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
> >>   >
> >>   >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda
> and
> >get
> >>  deliverables done :)
> >>   >
> >>   >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in
> this
> >letter
> >>  (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in
> >their
> >>  personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As
> far
> >as
> >>  I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
> >>   >
> >>   >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday
> evening.
> >(So I don't
> >>  need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
> >>   >
> >>   >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited
> experts
> >are
> >>  supposed to express their preference on whether they would like
> >"to
> >>   >either introduce their contributions, make presentations
> and/or
> >>   >participate in panel discussions". I think we should
> >coordinate
> >ourselves
> >>  so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
> >>  presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I
> think
> >we
> >>  should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming
> that
> >the
> >>  organizers will agree, of course...)
> >>   >--
> >>   >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
> >>   >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
> >>   >http://bertola.eu.org/    <-- Vecchio sito, nuovo
> >toblog!
> >>   >
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From wdrake at ictsd.ch  Sun Jan 25 19:29:39 2004
From: wdrake at ictsd.ch (William Drake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Civil society, Internet governance,  & the ITU
In-Reply-To: <MCCPDEBFDFKLPJAA@mailcity.com>
Message-ID: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOOEHOCNAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>

Hi Richard,

I'd have to dig through files to be sure, but believe ITU has never had much
civil society involvement beyond the amateur radio people and some others
involved in spectrum/satellite stuff.   Today, ITU says it has 93 associate
members  ( 1 ITU-D, 14 ITU-R, 81 ITU-T) which includes a few university and
other research groups, but mostly businesses that register as Associates
rather than sector Members in order to pay the lower fee.  You can look on
the website;
http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mm/scripts/mm.list?_search=ASSOCIATES&_langu
ageid=1

It's not clear that anyone needs to be petitioning on the UNICT TF just yet.
The invitation letter says,

"The Global Forum organized in conjunction with the Sixth meeting of the
United Nations ICT Task Force will be an opportunity for all relevant
stakeholders - including those who are not members of the Task Force - to
engage in an open discussion of all aspects of Internet governance.

In the period leading up to the Global Forum, we shall organize an on-line
discussion of relevant issues to ensure as broad and comprehensive
representation of views, perspectives and recommendations as possible."

Probably the details of what that means are still being sorted out.  If the
GF is like the working group meetings, these have been pretty much open.

Best,

Bill Drake




> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
> Behalf Of richard t jordan
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 3:12 PM
> To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Civil society, Internet governance, & the
> ITU
>
>
>
> --Hi, Richard Jordan from cold NYC here -- can anyone
> teletransport me to Rio?
>
> I just lost a long email reply, so let me reconstruct.
>
> A letter should be composed very soon and sent, inmy opinion,
> both to Mr. Figueres and to Mr. Sergei Kambalov of the UN ICT
> Task Force (and to the SG and to the Eminent Persons Panel on NGO
> participation in the UN), if we want to participate in the March
> 25-26 meeting referred to by Wolfgang. There are issues of access
> that are extremely important at UN Headquarters, and it is not so
> easy to operate even for those of us there each day.
>
> If anyone wants me to draft something for re-editing, etc., I will.
>
> Important modalities at UN Environment Programme, which for years
> had no NGO affiliation -- the only major UN system agency or
> programme that did not -- but through the opening up of ways to
> address the High Level Ministerial Segments of the UNEP Governing
> Council and through resolution adopted by the Governing Council,
> there are now about 100 NGOs so accredited officially.
>
> HOW MANY civil society organizations are accredited for $6,000
> and which ones are they? The UN is taking a decision to waive the
> $1,100 fee for NGOs to access the optical disc system.
>
> The mantra that there are 1000s of NGOs, meetings will be
> overrun, are not grounded in fact. Many of us know this.
>
> A brief white paper of some kind might be in order that could
> address the issues.
>
> The newest UN High Level Panel will examine UN reform itself, and
> we have a briefing on this Thursday on the issue, with one of the
> panelists on that panel. Other possibilities involve getting word
> to the current GA President through an NGO working group that
> will prepare a paper for his consideration this May.
>
> Multi-directional input is what I perceive to be needed. Maybe
> even to the focal point for the Chief Executives Board.
>
> I'm happy to facilitate any delivery of letters, papers, etc. to
> folks on the UN end here in NY, even to the 38th floor.
>
> And yes, budget is everything. Do we have an actual copy of the
> ITU budget, with core funding and I assume extrabudgetary outlined?
>
> Cheers, Richard Jordan
>
>
> --------- Original Message ---------
>
> DATE: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:19:26
> From: "William Drake" <wdrake@ictsd.ch>
> To: <bjaffre@csdptt.org>,"Fullsack Jean-Louis"
> <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>, <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
> Cc:
>
> >Hi Wolfgang, et al,
> >
> >Two thoughts.
> >
> >I'm not quite sure how we should be proceeding with this conversation, so
> >it'd be good to hear from others on this.  On the one hand, given the
> >diversity of  substantive interests represented here, maybe
> everyone on the
> >plenary list doesn't want to be reading mail regarding Internet
> governance
> >that thus far has primarily been from people in the governance
> caucus, and
> >indeed if people don't we should probably keep this on the
> governance list.
> >On the other hand, the reality is that IG is one of the two
> issue clusters
> >that will be receiving the most attention in the second phase (one should
> >probably have even lower expectations regarding the digital
> solidarity fund
> >issue), everyone has a stake in the outcome, and we really have
> not begun to
> >address how to coordinate with/involve people who want to be informed and
> >ensure that CS participation reflects our larger shared
> objectives but who
> >aren't interested enough in the details to join the caucus.  To
> me at least,
> >we should be working to strengthen the larger CS network that
> formed in the
> >WSIS process, and the IG activities should be undertaken
> accordingly.  At a
> >minimum I'd think that means reporting on key developments, floating for
> >comment any joint caucus statements, pushing ITU/UNICT/et al to
> make space
> >for some more varied participation, etc.  What a higher level of
> >plenary/caucus engagement might mean is an open question.
> Either way, what
> >I don't want to do is go down the road suggested by some where governance
> >caucus members see themselves as just independent experts and
> the caucus as
> >sort of a free-standing entity.  Our ability to create a group with
> >community recognition, submit documents in WSIS, have speakers in plenary
> >sessions, input language into the CS declaration and so on over
> the course
> >of the last year has been a function of our being part of a larger
> >collectivity.
> >
> >On the ITU, I am all for calling for constitutional changes
> allowing special
> >CS participation rights, and think in doing so we should loudly
> repeat every
> >platitude Utsumi et al uttered in the WSIS context about how much the
> >organization appreciates and wants to promote CS engagement.
> But let's keep
> >a few things in mind.  1st, Sean tried to push this a few years ago and
> >didn't get far, and ITU members (which call the shots, not the
> secretariat)
> >really have no interest in having us around.  2nd, to the
> secretariat, there
> >are administrative cost consequences we can't just wave away.  The
> >organization's in a major fiscal crisis and has to lay off over 100
> >staffers, so they are very "cost recovery" conscious.  The hundreds of
> >meetings ITU holds every year entail tons of paper and
> administration, and
> >on this narrow basis the secretariat's not keen on freebies for
> non-profits,
> >which are anyway an unknown world (one staffer protested to me
> the other day
> >that of course CS groups can be Associates, it's only about $6,000 US per
> >year to join a sector---not much understanding of the CS budgetary
> >environment).  Lastly, before demanding a right to participate, it'd make
> >sense to determine whether there's really the demand and ability
> on the part
> >of CS groups.  Probably not that many people would be prepared to come to
> >Geneva every couple of months to attend ITU-R SG3 meeting on radiowave
> >propagation or whatever.  At a minimum, the effort would have to be well
> >specified, i.e. which ITU bodies and activities are of interest to which
> >CSOs.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Bill Drake
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On
> >> Behalf Of wolfgang@imv.au.dk
> >> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 12:46 PM
> >> To: Fullsack Jean-Louis; plenary@wsis-cs.org; bjaffre@csdptt.org
> >> Subject: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re:
> [governance] Internet
> >> governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> to avoid more misunderstandings, let me clarify what I wanted to say:
> >>
> >> 1. it is certainly important that the Caucus gets an Image as a
> >> "Unit" able to act on behalf of one of the main three
> >> stakeholders, the civil society. Insofar the Caucus has to issue
> >> statements which make this clear to the two other main
> >> stakeholders group, to private sector and governments. The other
> >> stakeholders want to know basically what "CS" is thinking and not
> >> what individuals are suggesting.
> >>
> >> 2. Among members of the "governmental stakeholder group" and
> >> members of the "private sector stakeholder group" there are
> >> numerous differences. And so it is within the "CS stakeholder
> >> group". While CS is interested to know not only the "governmental
> >> consensus", as reflected in the WSIS declaration, but also what
> >> the positions of different governments (here China there USA,
> >> here South Africa there France, here Brazil and there Australia
> >> etc.) other stakeholders are also intersted what individual
> >> members of the CS are thinking. BTW, such a multidimensional and
> >> multilateral positioning and exchange of ideas paves the way for
> >> potential "rainbow coalitions" on certain issues, that is to
> >> escape from "cold war constellations".
> >>
> >> 3. For individual members of the CS IG/ICT Caucus it is important
> >> that, while they make statements as "indiviuduals" they also make
> >> visible their relationship to the Caucus. Ohter stakeholders
> >> should know, that the CS with its diversifeid constituencies, are
> >> - after WSIS I - structured, organized and have their
> >> representative body (like the govenrments have the GAC and the
> >> private sector has the BICC).
> >>
> >> 4. I do not underestimate the importance of the forthcoming ITU
> >> workshop. In contrary, I see it like Adam, as an direct move from
> >> ITU to get something like the leadership in the new process. And
> >> no doubt that Utsumis voice is much more heard by Kofi Annan that
> >> the voice of the ICC, of ICANN or of one of the Co-Chairs of the
> >> CS IG ICT Caucus. But i do not believe that the ITU plan will
> >> work without problems. The ICANN meeting in Roma (in particular
> >> the meeting of the GAC with ALAC, two days after the Geneva ITU
> >> meetingon Sunday) is as important as the ITU meeting. And the "IG
> >> Forum" on March 25 - 26, in New York (as part of the UN ICTTF
> >> meeting), which is NOT an ITU event, has a similar importance. CS
> >> and the Caucus should make the voice heard in all these meetings
> >> both by individual presentations (demonstrating knowledge,
> >> expertise, innovation etc.) and by joint statements of the Caucus
> >> (it would be great if always one of the two new co-chairs or a
> >> designated representative o
> >>  f a co-chair could speak "on behalf" of the Caucus).
> >>
> >> 5. My proposal for a change of the ITU constitution (in 2006) is
> >> a proposal which could be considered as part of a long term
> >> strategy. ITU will remain one of the main players in the field.
> >> In the WSIS declaration the ITU role is fixed as a "facilitating
> >> role". What "facilitating role" means in this context is open for
> >> interpretation (and ITU itself tries to fill this with substance
> >> i.a. by the forthcoming workshop). For CS it is important to look
> >> into this direction. The problem here is, that the constitutional
> >> possibilities for CS in the ITU process are more than limited, or
> >> lets say, close to Zero. Only constitutional members can
> >> officially participate in processes (and eventually, without any
> >> negotiating or voting rights, invited individual experts). The
> >> proposal from some ITU folks, that CSOs should joint ITU under
> >> the "private sector membership clause" is unacceptable for CS for
> >> two reasons: a. CS is different from private sector and b. the
> >> exorbitant membership fees blo
> >>  ck any broader CS participation. One "official proposal" to the
> >> ITU could be to add the status of "civil society sector member"
> >> in the ITU constitution with no or very low membership fee. But
> >> even under such a construction, Jean Louis is right, that legally
> >> binding decisions within ITU are made by govenments (member
> >> states) only. But to have such a status within ITU would be for
> >> CS a status quo plus.
> >>
> >>
> >> 6. the main thing is that CS is positioning itself for the "Kofi
> >> Annan Group". We should make clear at a very early stage, that
> >> the composition of the group has to be balanced. We should quote
> >> again and again the wording of the WSIS Declaration , which says
> >> that the group should include "governments, private sector and
> >> civil society from developed and developing countries and
> >> intergovernmental and international organisations". Our proposal
> >> could be 6 (GOV):6 (PRIV):6 (CS) + 2 (IGO/ITU& WIPO):2
> >> (IO/ICANN&ITEF) = 22 in total) This would mean 6 CS
> >> representatives, three from the North (America, Europa, Asia) and
> >> three from the South (Africa, Latin America and South
> >> Pacific/West Asia). If the group is composed along this lines (as
> >> a group of representatives of stakeholders) the Caucus has to
> >> play a crucial role.
> >>
> >>
> >> Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
> >> An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> >> Senden: 11:24 AM
> >> Betreff: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance]
> >> Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks Adam for your support and particularly for clarifying
> the issues on
> >> stake.
> >>
> >> Moreover, Wolgang commits some approximations with the ITU
> rules (they are
> >> based on its Constitution and Convention). Never forget they
> are decided
> >> upon only by Members of States and not by Sector Members. At
> >> least up to now
> >> !
> >> If you want some complementary information you can find it on CSDPTT's
> >> website www.csdptt.org (in french), under "Documents".
> >> Of course I fully support your suggestions.
> >>
> >> Friendly yours
> >> Jean-Louis Fullsack
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Adam Peake" <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
> >> To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
> >> Cc: <wolfgang@imv.au.dk>
> >> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:11 PM
> >> Subject: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
> >> governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
> >>
> >>
> >> >I understand Jean Louis points, but we should make a difference
> >> >between "informal discussions" and "formal
> >> negotiations".
> >>
> >>
> >> Wolfgang,
> >>
> >> With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
> >> likely being disadvantaged.
> >>
> >> I would not go so far as to suggest that people should not
> >> participate in the ITU workshop, of course not! And I've no doubts
> >> that the civil society participants invited as individuals will
> >> continue to represent the same guiding principles we we agreed
> >> collectively. And I fully understand that a scholar or some expert (I
> >> am not sure of how to describe "expert") invited to a specialist
> >> meeting would not want to pretend that their work represents the
> >> views of a broader group, and nor would they wish to compromise their
> >> personal intellectual enterprise in some misguided effort to reach a
> >> consensus with others, and in the context it would be as
> >> inappropriate of us to ask. ("misguided" because Internet
> >> Governance
> >> is not like many of the other thematic issues CS is concerned with,
> >> we have no base agreement even among ourselves on what it means.)
> >>
> >> But I think we are also missing a very important opportunity to make
> >> clear that civil society is an equal player (partner/stakeholder) in
> >> all events organized as official/semi-official events of WSIS. It is
> >> just wrong to dismiss this workshop as some minor event that does not
> >> matter in the WSIS process, that civil society can somehow skip it.
> >> Utsumi is Secretary General of WSIS, ITU the lead agency and
> >> secretariat. Utsumi has called this workshop to begin to address one
> >> of the two main outcomes of the Geneva Summit. Writing as Secretary
> >> General of the ITU and Secretary General of WSIS, he says this quite
> >> clearly in a recent letter discussing the state of WSIS, from the
> >> success Geneva to our hopes for Tunis (etc etc.)  (on the Summit
> >> website <http://www.itu.int/wsis/utsumi2.html>) He wrote:
> >>
> >>     "The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved
> >> under the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet
> >> governance and financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion
> >> on Internet governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27
> >> February in Geneva, which provides a forum for exchanging views on
> >> definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet
> >> governance .
> >>
> >>     I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in
> >> this exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased
> >> to begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the second
> >> phase as we prepare for November 2005.
> >>
> >> Mr. Yoshio Utsumi"
> >>
> >>
> >> Civil society needs to be represented at this meeting, by people
> >> selected by us, and I hope that you will help us try think how we can
> >> achieve this. Of course money is a problem.
> >>
> >> Note, the first prepcom for the Tunis phase will be held in the first
> >> half of this year,
> >> <http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1164.asp>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Adam
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> >At this point and in this workshop there is no need to speak with
> >> >"one voice" as "official representative" of a
> >> "stakeholder" group.
> >> >The participating governments will have many different voices
> >> >(united to a high degree by their understanding of "state
> >> >sovereignty"), the participating private sector members will have
> >> >different voices (united to a high degree by their understanding of
> >> >"free market") and so "civil society" will have
> >> different voices
> >> >(united to a high degree by their understandiong of "bottom
> >> up",
> >> >"openess" and "transparency").
> >> >
> >> >The problem with the ITU workshop is that ITU has only governments
> >> >and private sector as members. There is no category of civil society
> >> >membership. Probably the ITU Workshop is a good opportunity, to
> >> >invite ITU, to start a discussion on the introduction of a new
> >> >category of membership in the organisation (afzer WSIS has more or
> >> >less officially recognized civil society as an "important
> >> >stakeholder"" / Article 49 of the WSIS Declaration).
> >> >
> >> >I remmeber the long debate before Kyodo 1994, when the concept of
> >> >the "big M4s" (governments) and "small M4s" (private
> >> sector) was
> >> >developed. It was further developped by Minneapolis 1998. After
> >> >Marrakesh 2002, governments and private secor are de facto rather
> >> >equal in the ITU.
> >> >
> >> >With the next ITU Plenipotentiary two years away (2006), this could
> >> >be a right moment to challenge the limited openess of ITU, to
> >> >propose a change of the ITU constitution and to introduce a third
> >> >category of ITU membership for CSOs.
> >> >
> >> >And do not forget, the ITU workshop is only one event in an
> >> >exploding long series of official or semi-official positioning
> >> >seminars around the globe to prepare for the "big thing", the
> >> Kofi
> >> >Annan IG Group.
> >> >
> >> >Best wishes
> >> >
> >> >wolfgang
> >> >
> >> >Original Nachricht--
> >> >Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
> >> >An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> >> >Senden: 23.01.2004
> >> >Betreff: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
> >> >governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
> >> >
> >> >Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
> >> >Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his
> interlocutors. This
> >> is
> >> >unacceptable for the Civil Society.
> >> >If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
> >> >discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously
> >> about
> >> >the
> >> >content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we
> >> -the
> >> >CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
> >> >No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no
> >> >"welcome" for
> >> >Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
> >> >Jean-Louis Fullsack
> >> >CSDPTT
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >----- Original Message -----
> >> >From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
> >> >To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>;
> >> >"Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
> >> >Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
> >> >Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
> governance
> >> >:roles of plenary and governance lists
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>  I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
> >> >>  am trying to modify my schedule to go.
> >> >>
> >> >>  I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our
> >> >participation.
> >> >>
> >> >>  izumi
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>  At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> >> >>   >wolfgang@imv.au.dk
> >> >ha scritto:
> >> >>   >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
> >> >>   >> this is good step forward.
> >> >>   >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
> >> >>   >
> >> >>   >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I
> >> have
> >> >started
> >> >>  working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain
> >> name
> >> >went
> >> >>  nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered
> >> on
> >> >his
> >> >>  own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by
> >> the
> >> >next
> >> >>  weekend. At least, I hope so.
> >> >>   >
> >> >>   >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as
> >> urgent as
> >> >a
> >> >letter to
> >> >>  Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
> >> >>   >
> >> >>   >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda
> >> and
> >> >get
> >> >>  deliverables done :)
> >> >>   >
> >> >>   >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in
> >> this
> >> >letter
> >> >>  (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in
> >> >their
> >> >>  personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As
> >> far
> >> >as
> >> >>  I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
> >> >>   >
> >> >>   >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday
> >> evening.
> >> >(So I don't
> >> >>  need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
> >> >>   >
> >> >>   >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited
> >> experts
> >> >are
> >> >>  supposed to express their preference on whether they would like
> >> >"to
> >> >>   >either introduce their contributions, make presentations
> >> and/or
> >> >>   >participate in panel discussions". I think we should
> >> >coordinate
> >> >ourselves
> >> >>  so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
> >> >>  presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I
> >> think
> >> >we
> >> >>  should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming
> >> that
> >> >the
> >> >>  organizers will agree, of course...)
> >> >>   >--
> >> >>   >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
> >> >>   >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
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From vb at bertola.eu.org  Sun Jan 25 18:36:13 2004
From: vb at bertola.eu.org (Vittorio Bertola)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
In-Reply-To: <p05100307bc3821ea83cf@[192.168.0.2]>
References: <E1AkLKt-0005G4-00@smtp.imv.au.dk> <p05100307bc3821ea83cf@[192.168.0.2]>
Message-ID: <nv1810lqpcm05qbf6o7iu0pco0gbk7ocig@4ax.com>

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:11:36 +0900, Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> wrote:

>With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is 
>likely being disadvantaged.

I agree with your considerations, but I also think we have to agree on a
realistic plan.

On one hand, you can't credibly go to an ITU internal meeting and try to
revert their internal working rules; if the only way we have to participate
in this event at this stage is to be invited as individuals, well, let's
take it. And by the way, I'm not even sure whether all civil society people
will be participating thanks to an invitation as individual expert, rather
than, for example, as accredited person from some governmental delegation,
as happened during the summit. Also, you can't force people who were invited
as individuals to go there and say something different from their individual
thought.

But on the other hand, we do have to coordinate so that our message is
effective, that the positions on which there is general agreement among us
are exposed loudly and repeated again and again, and that it is made clear
that those positions have the support of the civil society individuals and
organizations which participate in WSIS. This is the only way not to
disperse our strength.

I think that some of these agreeable positions might be easy to find: for
example, I think we should stress that the UN working group on Internet
Governance, as part of the WSIS process, should be equally composed by civil
society, private sector and government representatives; that Internet
Governance needs the full involvement of civil society organizations and
individual Internet users, as recognized by the Declaration of Principles;
that ITU itself, if willing to organize future events on this matter, should
ensure better and more open ways for participation by civil society, and
that, more generally, ITU should offer a viable way for NGOs to participate
in its activities; and that the Internet Governance caucus, as a subgroup of
the WSIS civil society plenary, is the right place to coordinate civil
society participation in the process.

So what we should propose to all those who were invited as "individual civil
society experts" is to go there, say what they want to say, and then add the
above message.
-- 
vb.               [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<------
http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Vecchio sito, nuovo tobl?g...

From izumi at anr.org  Mon Jan 26 02:13:10 2004
From: izumi at anr.org (Izumi Aizu)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance 
  :roles of plenary and governance lists
In-Reply-To: <nv1810lqpcm05qbf6o7iu0pco0gbk7ocig@4ax.com>
References: <E1AkLKt-0005G4-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
 <p05100307bc3821ea83cf@[192.168.0.2]>
 <nv1810lqpcm05qbf6o7iu0pco0gbk7ocig@4ax.com>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.20.2.20040126111441.032dc4a8@211.125.95.185>

Vittorio (and Wolfgang), I mostly agree with what you said.

I may add, as I will participate the coming ITU workshop:

I will make it clear that my participation is as and individual capacity 
only, not
"representing" any other groups, say Civil Society group or Internet Governance
caucus.

At the same time, I like to make it clear that I am "a member of" IG caucus and
the Civil Society group at WSIS and have mutual views and positions, especially
the importance of "multi-stakeholder" approach, that include the civil society as
an equal parpticipant with government and private sector gropus to the upcoming
WSIS II process and its Internet Governance Working Group activities.

I will try to write up my ideas on "Internet Governance" and present it
at the ITU workshop. I will try to share this, if possible in advance,
with other colleagues and if there are sufficient common parts,
I am more than willing to synchronize and synthesis or coordinate
into more coherent position.  I mean it will be "nice" if we could
come to produce one position paper and present it, but that maybe
not too easy, and even so we can present several different papers
in which we may find much common positions as well as remaining
differences.

Is this what we can mostly agree?  I hope so.

best,

izumi


At 19:36 04/01/25 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
 >On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:11:36 +0900, Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
 >
 >>With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
 >>likely being disadvantaged.
 >
 >I agree with your considerations, but I also think we have to agree on a
 >realistic plan.
 >
 >On one hand, you can't credibly go to an ITU internal meeting and try to
 >revert their internal working rules; if the only way we have to participate
 >in this event at this stage is to be invited as individuals, well, let's
 >take it. And by the way, I'm not even sure whether all civil society people
 >will be participating thanks to an invitation as individual expert, rather
 >than, for example, as accredited person from some governmental delegation,
 >as happened during the summit. Also, you can't force people who were invited
 >as individuals to go there and say something different from their individual
 >thought.
 >
 >But on the other hand, we do have to coordinate so that our message is
 >effective, that the positions on which there is general agreement among us
 >are exposed loudly and repeated again and again, and that it is made clear
 >that those positions have the support of the civil society individuals and
 >organizations which participate in WSIS. This is the only way not to
 >disperse our strength.
 >
 >I think that some of these agreeable positions might be easy to find: for
 >example, I think we should stress that the UN working group on Internet
 >Governance, as part of the WSIS process, should be equally composed by civil
 >society, private sector and government representatives; that Internet
 >Governance needs the full involvement of civil society organizations and
 >individual Internet users, as recognized by the Declaration of Principles;
 >that ITU itself, if willing to organize future events on this matter, should
 >ensure better and more open ways for participation by civil society, and
 >that, more generally, ITU should offer a viable way for NGOs to participate
 >in its activities; and that the Internet Governance caucus, as a subgroup of
 >the WSIS civil society plenary, is the right place to coordinate civil
 >society participation in the process.
 >
 >So what we should propose to all those who were invited as "individual civil
 >society experts" is to go there, say what they want to say, and then add the
 >above message.
 >--
 >vb.               [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<------


From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Mon Jan 26 08:02:09 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
References: <E1AkLKt-0005G4-00@smtp.imv.au.dk> <p05100307bc3821ea83cf@[192.168.0.2]> <nv1810lqpcm05qbf6o7iu0pco0gbk7ocig@4ax.com>
Message-ID: <000701c3e3e2$b3395960$0a00000a@default>

Bonjour ? tous

Another problem with this meeting is its ambivalence :
- is it an "ITU internal meeeting" , or
- is it a "WSIS informal meeting".
This ambivalence is based on the dual role of Utsumi : he is both the ITU SG
and the Head of WSIS organisation/structure.
Iin the first case the meeting is submitted to ITU rules, whereas in the
second it is compulsorily open to all WSIS "stakeholders", whatever its
nature may be (informal, restricted, specialized, ...).
It would be helpful to listen to the opinion of the CS Secretariat ... if
there is still one !
But it should also be the role of C&T group "co-chairs" Sally and Bill to
lead the way at least until it is clarified which type of meeting Utsumi is
preparing, unless a "chair of the CS Plenary" could be agreed upon by the
largest possible CS organisations involved in the WSIS process.

Best regards
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb@bertola.eu.org>
To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance :roles
of plenary and governance lists


On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:11:36 +0900, Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> wrote:

>With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
>likely being disadvantaged.

I agree with your considerations, but I also think we have to agree on a
realistic plan.

On one hand, you can't credibly go to an ITU internal meeting and try to
revert their internal working rules; if the only way we have to participate
in this event at this stage is to be invited as individuals, well, let's
take it. And by the way, I'm not even sure whether all civil society people
will be participating thanks to an invitation as individual expert, rather
than, for example, as accredited person from some governmental delegation,
as happened during the summit. Also, you can't force people who were invited
as individuals to go there and say something different from their individual

thought.

But on the other hand, we do have to coordinate so that our message is
effective, that the positions on which there is general agreement among us
are exposed loudly and repeated again and again, and that it is made clear
that those positions have the support of the civil society individuals and
organizations which participate in WSIS. This is the only way not to
disperse our strength.

I think that some of these agreeable positions might be easy to find: for
example, I think we should stress that the UN working group on Internet
Governance, as part of the WSIS process, should be equally composed by civil
society, private sector and government representatives; that Internet
Governance needs the full involvement of civil society organizations and
individual Internet users, as recognized by the Declaration of Principles;
that ITU itself, if willing to organize future events on this matter, should
ensure better and more open ways for participation by civil society, and
that, more generally, ITU should offer a viable way for NGOs to participate
in its activities; and that the Internet Governance caucus, as a subgroup of
the WSIS civil society plenary, is the right place to coordinate civil
society participation in the process.

So what we should propose to all those who were invited as "individual civil
society experts" is to go there, say what they want to say, and then add the
above message.
--
vb.               [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<------
http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Vecchio sito, nuovo tobl?g...
_______________________________________________
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From chun at peacenet.or.kr  Mon Jan 26 08:38:23 2004
From: chun at peacenet.or.kr (Chun Eung Hwi)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles
 of plenary and governance lists
In-Reply-To: <000701c3e3e2$b3395960$0a00000a@default>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401261733350.20003-100000@hjlee.ohmymokdong.or.kr>

Dear all,

So far as I know, it is definitely ITU workshop.
Refer to http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04/index.html

There, you can find out the following phrase.

"The workshop's goal is to initiate a process to prepare ITU's position
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    =
    =20
vis-a-vis the UN Secretary-General's Working Group on Internet Governance
to be established as a result of the World Summit on the Information
Society Declaration of Principles and Action Plan agreed on 12 December
2004."

And regarding attendee,

"Attendance is by invitation only to ITU Member States and Sector=20
Members."



On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Fullsack Jean-Louis wrote:

> Bonjour =E0 tous
>=20
> Another problem with this meeting is its ambivalence :
> - is it an "ITU internal meeeting" , or
> - is it a "WSIS informal meeting".
> This ambivalence is based on the dual role of Utsumi : he is both the ITU=
 SG
> and the Head of WSIS organisation/structure.
> Iin the first case the meeting is submitted to ITU rules, whereas in the
> second it is compulsorily open to all WSIS "stakeholders", whatever its
> nature may be (informal, restricted, specialized, ...).
> It would be helpful to listen to the opinion of the CS Secretariat ... if
> there is still one !
> But it should also be the role of C&T group "co-chairs" Sally and Bill to
> lead the way at least until it is clarified which type of meeting Utsumi =
is
> preparing, unless a "chair of the CS Plenary" could be agreed upon by the
> largest possible CS organisations involved in the WSIS process.
>=20
> Best regards
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
> CSDPTT
>=20
>=20
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb@bertola.eu.org>
> To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance :role=
s
> of plenary and governance lists
>=20
>=20
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:11:36 +0900, Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>=20
> >With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
> >likely being disadvantaged.
>=20
> I agree with your considerations, but I also think we have to agree on a
> realistic plan.
>=20
> On one hand, you can't credibly go to an ITU internal meeting and try to
> revert their internal working rules; if the only way we have to participa=
te
> in this event at this stage is to be invited as individuals, well, let's
> take it. And by the way, I'm not even sure whether all civil society peop=
le
> will be participating thanks to an invitation as individual expert, rathe=
r
> than, for example, as accredited person from some governmental delegation=
,
> as happened during the summit. Also, you can't force people who were invi=
ted
> as individuals to go there and say something different from their individ=
ual
>=20
> thought.
>=20
> But on the other hand, we do have to coordinate so that our message is
> effective, that the positions on which there is general agreement among u=
s
> are exposed loudly and repeated again and again, and that it is made clea=
r
> that those positions have the support of the civil society individuals an=
d
> organizations which participate in WSIS. This is the only way not to
> disperse our strength.
>=20
> I think that some of these agreeable positions might be easy to find: for
> example, I think we should stress that the UN working group on Internet
> Governance, as part of the WSIS process, should be equally composed by ci=
vil
> society, private sector and government representatives; that Internet
> Governance needs the full involvement of civil society organizations and
> individual Internet users, as recognized by the Declaration of Principles=
;
> that ITU itself, if willing to organize future events on this matter, sho=
uld
> ensure better and more open ways for participation by civil society, and
> that, more generally, ITU should offer a viable way for NGOs to participa=
te
> in its activities; and that the Internet Governance caucus, as a subgroup=
 of
> the WSIS civil society plenary, is the right place to coordinate civil
> society participation in the process.
>=20
> So what we should propose to all those who were invited as "individual ci=
vil
> society experts" is to go there, say what they want to say, and then add =
the
> above message.
> --
> vb.               [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----=
-
> http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Vecchio sito, nuovo tobl=F2g...
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>=20
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>=20

--=20
------------------------------------------------------------
Chun Eung Hwi
General Secretary, PeaceNet | phone:     (+82)  2-2166-2205
Seoul Yangchun P.O.Box 81   |   pcs:     (+82) 019-259-2667
Seoul, 158-600, Korea  =09    | eMail:   chun@peacenet.or.kr
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From rikp at bluewin.ch  Mon Jan 26 12:19:18 2004
From: rikp at bluewin.ch (Rik Panganiban)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] events, modalities for financing working group?
Message-ID: <DD0CB6F5-4FF9-11D8-9A53-000A95EA981E@bluewin.ch>

Dear Colleagues,

I have read several news items and heard rumors about the status of the 
WSIS ICT global governance working group, and the modalities for how 
these ICT governance issues are going to be addressed by governments 
and others (i.e. ITU, UN ICT Taskforce, etc). But I have heard nothing 
about the working group on financing.  Are there meetings being planned 
on ICT financing issues?   I wonder if the World Bank or UNDP for 
example are going to exert any leadership in this area?

I worry that ICT governance issues will take center stage and that the 
important issues of financing will be left in the cold. This would be a 
terrible tragedy since these issues are of principal concern to many of 
our civil society colleagues in the South, and Southern countries in 
general.

Regards,

Rik Panganiban
Special Adviser
WFM

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
  Rik Panganiban             email: rikp@bluewin.ch
                             Mobile: +41 76 473 3274
  ****   as of Feb 12, 2004, I can be reached at   ****
  ****          email: rikp@earthlink.net          ****
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From wdrake at ictsd.ch  Mon Jan 26 12:17:09 2004
From: wdrake at ictsd.ch (William Drake)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401261733350.20003-100000@hjlee.ohmymokdong.or.kr>
Message-ID: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOCEIGCNAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>

Hi,

Chun Eung Hwi, you're right.   As I said last week, it's an internal ITU
event, full stop, there is no ambiguity.  WSIS rules do not apply, and they
were not assuming any need to provide for CS constituency representation.  I
asked them to reconsider, but asking them to adhere to the principle that CS
as constituency has a right to be there would be odd if nobody other than
those invited as individuals actually wants to come.  Hence, we need to hear
from any interested parties ASAP in order to follow up while there's time,
as I imagine governments and businesses are quickly snapping up the
available, limited slots.

Izumi, Vittorio, et al, beyond just saying we adhere to certain baseline CS
principles, wouldn't it be possible for us to agree on something like a
short benchmarks (I wouldn't say non-negotiables) document of general
principles on both process and substance?  They've expressed willingness to
make room in the program for someone to outline a shared position, and I
think it'd be a waste to let that opportunity slip away because some of us
variously disagree on specific details....

Bill



> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
> [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On Behalf Of Chun Eung Hwi
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:38 AM
> To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
> Cc: bjaffre@csdptt.org
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
> governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> So far as I know, it is definitely ITU workshop.
> Refer to http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04/index.html
>
> There, you can find out the following phrase.
>
> "The workshop's goal is to initiate a process to prepare ITU's position
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> vis-a-vis the UN Secretary-General's Working Group on Internet Governance
> to be established as a result of the World Summit on the Information
> Society Declaration of Principles and Action Plan agreed on 12 December
> 2004."
>
> And regarding attendee,
>
> "Attendance is by invitation only to ITU Member States and Sector
> Members."
>
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Fullsack Jean-Louis wrote:
>
> > Bonjour ?tous
> >
> > Another problem with this meeting is its ambivalence :
> > - is it an "ITU internal meeeting" , or
> > - is it a "WSIS informal meeting".
> > This ambivalence is based on the dual role of Utsumi : he is
> both the ITU SG
> > and the Head of WSIS organisation/structure.
> > Iin the first case the meeting is submitted to ITU rules, whereas in the
> > second it is compulsorily open to all WSIS "stakeholders", whatever its
> > nature may be (informal, restricted, specialized, ...).
> > It would be helpful to listen to the opinion of the CS
> Secretariat ... if
> > there is still one !
> > But it should also be the role of C&T group "co-chairs" Sally
> and Bill to
> > lead the way at least until it is clarified which type of
> meeting Utsumi is
> > preparing, unless a "chair of the CS Plenary" could be agreed
> upon by the
> > largest possible CS organisations involved in the WSIS process.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Jean-Louis Fullsack
> > CSDPTT
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb@bertola.eu.org>
> > To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 7:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
> governance :roles
> > of plenary and governance lists
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:11:36 +0900, Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
> >
> > >With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
> > >likely being disadvantaged.
> >
> > I agree with your considerations, but I also think we have to agree on a
> > realistic plan.
> >
> > On one hand, you can't credibly go to an ITU internal meeting and try to
> > revert their internal working rules; if the only way we have to
> participate
> > in this event at this stage is to be invited as individuals, well, let's
> > take it. And by the way, I'm not even sure whether all civil
> society people
> > will be participating thanks to an invitation as individual
> expert, rather
> > than, for example, as accredited person from some governmental
> delegation,
> > as happened during the summit. Also, you can't force people who
> were invited
> > as individuals to go there and say something different from
> their individual
> >
> > thought.
> >
> > But on the other hand, we do have to coordinate so that our message is
> > effective, that the positions on which there is general
> agreement among us
> > are exposed loudly and repeated again and again, and that it is
> made clear
> > that those positions have the support of the civil society
> individuals and
> > organizations which participate in WSIS. This is the only way not to
> > disperse our strength.
> >
> > I think that some of these agreeable positions might be easy to
> find: for
> > example, I think we should stress that the UN working group on Internet
> > Governance, as part of the WSIS process, should be equally
> composed by civil
> > society, private sector and government representatives; that Internet
> > Governance needs the full involvement of civil society organizations and
> > individual Internet users, as recognized by the Declaration of
> Principles;
> > that ITU itself, if willing to organize future events on this
> matter, should
> > ensure better and more open ways for participation by civil society, and
> > that, more generally, ITU should offer a viable way for NGOs to
> participate
> > in its activities; and that the Internet Governance caucus, as
> a subgroup of
> > the WSIS civil society plenary, is the right place to coordinate civil
> > society participation in the process.
> >
> > So what we should propose to all those who were invited as
> "individual civil
> > society experts" is to go there, say what they want to say, and
> then add the
> > above message.
> > --
> > vb.               [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a]
> bertola.eu.org]<------
> > http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Vecchio sito, nuovo tobl?...
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plenary mailing list
> > Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plenary mailing list
> > Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> >
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Chun Eung Hwi
> General Secretary, PeaceNet | phone:     (+82)  2-2166-2205
> Seoul Yangchun P.O.Box 81   |   pcs:     (+82) 019-259-2667
> Seoul, 158-600, Korea  	    | eMail:   chun@peacenet.or.kr
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>



From izumi at anr.org  Mon Jan 26 15:23:31 2004
From: izumi at anr.org (Izumi Aizu)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance 
  :roles of plenary and governance lists
In-Reply-To: <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOCEIGCNAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401261733350.20003-100000@hjlee.ohmymokdong.or.kr>
 <MABBIHAAPBEEGMLBDEGOCEIGCNAA.wdrake@ictsd.ch>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.20.2.20040127002223.030b0c58@211.125.95.185>

At 13:17 04/01/26 +0100, William Drake wrote:
 >
 >Izumi, Vittorio, et al, beyond just saying we adhere to certain baseline CS
 >principles, wouldn't it be possible for us to agree on something like a
 >short benchmarks (I wouldn't say non-negotiables) document of general
 >principles on both process and substance?  They've expressed willingness to
 >make room in the program for someone to outline a shared position, and I
 >think it'd be a waste to let that opportunity slip away because some of us
 >variously disagree on specific details....

Sure - trying to come up with that short benchmarks is fine,
unless it requires too much time to agree with among us;-).

izumi



 >
 >Bill
 >
 >
 >
 >> -----Original Message-----
 >> From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
 >> [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]On Behalf Of Chun Eung Hwi
 >> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:38 AM
 >> To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
 >> Cc: bjaffre@csdptt.org
 >> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
 >> governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
 >>
 >>
 >> Dear all,
 >>
 >> So far as I know, it is definitely ITU workshop.
 >> Refer to http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04/index.html
 >>
 >> There, you can find out the following phrase.
 >>
 >> "The workshop's goal is to initiate a process to prepare ITU's position
 >>
 >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >> vis-a-vis the UN Secretary-General's Working Group on Internet Governance
 >> to be established as a result of the World Summit on the Information
 >> Society Declaration of Principles and Action Plan agreed on 12 December
 >> 2004."
 >>
 >> And regarding attendee,
 >>
 >> "Attendance is by invitation only to ITU Member States and Sector
 >> Members."
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Fullsack Jean-Louis wrote:
 >>
 >> > Bonjour ?tous
 >> >
 >> > Another problem with this meeting is its ambivalence :
 >> > - is it an "ITU internal meeeting" , or
 >> > - is it a "WSIS informal meeting".
 >> > This ambivalence is based on the dual role of Utsumi : he is
 >> both the ITU SG
 >> > and the Head of WSIS organisation/structure.
 >> > Iin the first case the meeting is submitted to ITU rules, whereas in the
 >> > second it is compulsorily open to all WSIS "stakeholders", whatever its
 >> > nature may be (informal, restricted, specialized, ...).
 >> > It would be helpful to listen to the opinion of the CS
 >> Secretariat ... if
 >> > there is still one !
 >> > But it should also be the role of C&T group "co-chairs" Sally
 >> and Bill to
 >> > lead the way at least until it is clarified which type of
 >> meeting Utsumi is
 >> > preparing, unless a "chair of the CS Plenary" could be agreed
 >> upon by the
 >> > largest possible CS organisations involved in the WSIS process.
 >> >
 >> > Best regards
 >> > Jean-Louis Fullsack
 >> > CSDPTT
 >> >
 >> >
 >> > ----- Original Message -----
 >> > From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb@bertola.eu.org>
 >> > To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
 >> > Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 7:36 PM
 >> > Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
 >> governance :roles
 >> > of plenary and governance lists
 >> >
 >> >
 >> > On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:11:36 +0900, Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
 >> >
 >> > >With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
 >> > >likely being disadvantaged.
 >> >
 >> > I agree with your considerations, but I also think we have to agree on a
 >> > realistic plan.
 >> >
 >> > On one hand, you can't credibly go to an ITU internal meeting and try to
 >> > revert their internal working rules; if the only way we have to
 >> participate
 >> > in this event at this stage is to be invited as individuals, well, let's
 >> > take it. And by the way, I'm not even sure whether all civil
 >> society people
 >> > will be participating thanks to an invitation as individual
 >> expert, rather
 >> > than, for example, as accredited person from some governmental
 >> delegation,
 >> > as happened during the summit. Also, you can't force people who
 >> were invited
 >> > as individuals to go there and say something different from
 >> their individual
 >> >
 >> > thought.
 >> >
 >> > But on the other hand, we do have to coordinate so that our message is
 >> > effective, that the positions on which there is general
 >> agreement among us
 >> > are exposed loudly and repeated again and again, and that it is
 >> made clear
 >> > that those positions have the support of the civil society
 >> individuals and
 >> > organizations which participate in WSIS. This is the only way not to
 >> > disperse our strength.
 >> >
 >> > I think that some of these agreeable positions might be easy to
 >> find: for
 >> > example, I think we should stress that the UN working group on Internet
 >> > Governance, as part of the WSIS process, should be equally
 >> composed by civil
 >> > society, private sector and government representatives; that Internet
 >> > Governance needs the full involvement of civil society organizations and
 >> > individual Internet users, as recognized by the Declaration of
 >> Principles;
 >> > that ITU itself, if willing to organize future events on this
 >> matter, should
 >> > ensure better and more open ways for participation by civil society, and
 >> > that, more generally, ITU should offer a viable way for NGOs to
 >> participate
 >> > in its activities; and that the Internet Governance caucus, as
 >> a subgroup of
 >> > the WSIS civil society plenary, is the right place to coordinate civil
 >> > society participation in the process.
 >> >
 >> > So what we should propose to all those who were invited as
 >> "individual civil
 >> > society experts" is to go there, say what they want to say, and
 >> then add the
 >> > above message.
 >> > --
 >> > vb.               [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a]
 >> bertola.eu.org]<------
 >> > http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Vecchio sito, nuovo tobl?...
 >> > _______________________________________________
 >> > Plenary mailing list
 >> > Plenary@wsis-cs.org
 >> > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
 >> >
 >> > _______________________________________________
 >> > Plenary mailing list
 >> > Plenary@wsis-cs.org
 >> > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
 >> >
 >>
 >> --
 >> ------------------------------------------------------------
 >> Chun Eung Hwi
 >> General Secretary, PeaceNet | phone:     (+82)  2-2166-2205
 >> Seoul Yangchun P.O.Box 81   |   pcs:     (+82) 019-259-2667
 >> Seoul, 158-600, Korea            | eMail:   chun@peacenet.or.kr
 >> ------------------------------------------------------------
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >
 >
 >_______________________________________________
 >Plenary mailing list
 >Plenary@wsis-cs.org
 >http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary

                  >>> Izumi Aizu <<<
               Asia Network Research
                      www.anr.org
  GLOCOM /Institute for HyperNetwork Society
         << Writing the Future of the History >>


From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Mon Jan 26 16:04:33 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] events, modalities for financing working group?
References: <DD0CB6F5-4FF9-11D8-9A53-000A95EA981E@bluewin.ch>
Message-ID: <006701c3e426$1792e960$0a00000a@default>

Dear Rik and all

I cannot but fully support your worrying about the financing issue. But I do hope that the monitoring of the process that will be set-up won't be under Worldbank auspices. These people cannot be both "judge and party". And there are other big players in the field of developmemnt financing like the European Union whose ACP financing mechanisms could be considered as a good example, even in terms of gouvernance and participation. They just need somme more active input from ACP CS organisations. That's why I mentioned these mechanisms with some other proposals in my contribution to the CS Declaration (topic : financing). However and despite it was handed over to Bill in time (he still has my diskette) at the end of PC-3b my proposed wording isn't complete in our Declaration. Thus, in my opinion EU-ACP should be one of the leading stakeholders in whatever structure to be in place for development financing in the framework of the WSIS agenda.
 
>From the "Digital Solidarity Fund" (DSF) front there is no actual pressure set, at least apparently. I do hope our african colleagues are completing their study, because up to now we only heard and read about spending money but nobody ever told us about the necessary amount expected and the foreseen planning of the relevant (annual) investments. Moreover, we are still waiting for what kind of investments are to benefit from the DSF ! 
Therefore we should take profit to re-open the debate within the CS "virtual plenary" or C&T group and sollicit our colleagues from "the South", especially from Africa, to fully participate and contribute. At the end of this open and fair debate (without exclusives please !) the CS will be able to reach a common position upon DSF.  

I agree with you that the financing issue is the principal concern of people in the South aware of the needs and urgency of an efficient development financing process. Let's take our responsibilities as citizens of the world, in the North and in the South.
Best regards
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT   

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rik Panganiban 
  To: plenary@wsis-cs.org 
  Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 1:19 PM
  Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] events, modalities for financing working group?


  Dear Colleagues,

  I have read several news items and heard rumors about the status of the WSIS ICT global governance working group, and the modalities for how these ICT governance issues are going to be addressed by governments and others (i.e. ITU, UN ICT Taskforce, etc). But I have heard nothing about the working group on financing. Are there meetings being planned on ICT financing issues? I wonder if the World Bank or UNDP for example are going to exert any leadership in this area? 

  I worry that ICT governance issues will take center stage and that the important issues of financing will be left in the cold. This would be a terrible tragedy since these issues are of principal concern to many of our civil society colleagues in the South, and Southern countries in general. 

  Regards,

  Rik Panganiban
  Special Adviser 
  WFM

  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
  Rik Panganiban email: rikp@bluewin.ch
  Mobile: +41 76 473 3274 
  **** as of Feb 12, 2004, I can be reached at ****
  **** email: rikp@earthlink.net **** 

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From: amalidesilva at yahoo.com (Amali De Silva)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] events, modalities for financing working group?
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A bit of WSIS - CS history - fyi

btw - an on-line finance list and caucus was initiated at Prep Com 1.  Steve Buckley is / was the chair and I am the list owner / moderator ( CPSR hosted list ). There has been no activity on this list at all. 

Those who are interested can use this list as a forum for discussion. Let me know.

Amali




Amali De Silva-Mitchell MSc.

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

 

 

 





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From: mciver at albany.edu (Bill McIver)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
  :roles of plenary and governance lists
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All,

I agree with YJ in principle, but
it's clear from what Bill, Adam, and others
who know the ITU have said, that it's not
likely we can change processes and policies that
have a ~139 year legacy, at least not before the slots fill up
that could be occupied by people from CS.

I think that at minimum we
need to get CS people at the table.

I'm not sure that agree with Jean-Louis that
this is a Content and Themes function.

I think that this is for the governance caucus to work out, but
presumably they will consult the Plenary *if* they are agree
to send a group as representing CS, specifically the positions agreed 
upon in the
CS declaration.

Given the time frame, perhaps a mid term function (i.e. beyond this 
meeting)
for Content and Themes
would be to coordinate a response from Plenary and
the governance caucus on the issue of participation.



WJM

YJ Park wrote:

>Wolfgang,
>
>Based on what you said, Internet Governance issue should not be handled by a
>group of so-called experts or individuals from now on. Yes, it can be
>handled by experts or individuals but I have doubts about that approach in
>the long term for Civil Society. It is time for WSIS CS to organize more
>agreeable representation and position in forwarding it to the relevant fora
>like the upcoming ITU meeting and UN ICT Task Force meeting.
>
>As you emphasized "stakeholder" approaches, we, Civil Society, as
>independent stakeholder in this Internet Governance debate process should
>not be arbitrarily abused upon the situation. We, civil society, should have
>ability to decide on our own whether we are going to attend or participate
>in this debate like our counterparts, governmnets and private sector
>stakeholders, instead of being decided and told by some authority, ITU in
>this context, whether we can attend or cannot attend upon their situations.
>
>Civil Society in the WSIS was welcomed and encouraged to participate in the
>WSIS debate.
>Civil Society in the WSIS was invited to the upcoming UN Internet Governance
>WG debate.
>
>And then why all of sudden, only limited "invitees" can attend the critical
>meetings like ITU and UN ICT Take Force meeting which will map out the
>upcoming UN Internet Governance WG. To be consistent about Civil Society's
>role in this whole process from WSIS I to WSIS II, we have to express our
>concerns in this upcoming meeting.
>
>YJ
>
>  
>
>>Dear all,
>>
>>to avoid more misunderstandings, let me clarify what I wanted to say:
>>
>>1. it is certainly important that the Caucus gets an Image as a "Unit"
>>    
>>
>able to act on behalf of one of the main three stakeholders, the civil
>society. Insofar the Caucus has to issue statements which make this clear to
>the two other main stakeholders group, to private sector and governments.
>The other stakeholders want to know basically what "CS" is thinking and not
>what individuals are suggesting.
>  
>
>>2. Among members of the "governmental stakeholder group" and members of
>>    
>>
>the "private sector stakeholder group" there are numerous differences. And
>so it is within the "CS stakeholder group". While CS is interested to know
>not only the "governmental consensus", as reflected in the WSIS declaration,
>but also what the positions of different governments (here China there USA,
>here South Africa there France, here Brazil and there Australia etc.) other
>stakeholders are also intersted what individual members of the CS are
>thinking. BTW, such a multidimensional and multilateral positioning and
>exchange of ideas paves the way for potential "rainbow coalitions" on
>certain issues, that is to escape from "cold war constellations".
>  
>
>>3. For individual members of the CS IG/ICT Caucus it is important that,
>>    
>>
>while they make statements as "indiviuduals" they also make visible their
>relationship to the Caucus. Ohter stakeholders should know, that the CS with
>its diversifeid constituencies, are - after WSIS I - structured, organized
>and have their representative body (like the govenrments have the GAC and
>the private sector has the BICC).
>  
>
>>4. I do not underestimate the importance of the forthcoming ITU workshop.
>>    
>>
>In contrary, I see it like Adam, as an direct move from ITU to get something
>like the leadership in the new process. And no doubt that Utsumis voice is
>much more heard by Kofi Annan that the voice of the ICC, of ICANN or of one
>of the Co-Chairs of the CS IG ICT Caucus. But i do not believe that the ITU
>plan will work without problems. The ICANN meeting in Roma (in particular
>the meeting of the GAC with ALAC, two days after the Geneva ITU meetingon
>Sunday) is as important as the ITU meeting. And the "IG Forum" on March 25 -
>26, in New York (as part of the UN ICTTF meeting), which is NOT an ITU
>event, has a similar importance. CS and the Caucus should make the voice
>heard in all these meetings both by individual presentations (demonstrating
>knowledge, expertise, innovation etc.) and by joint statements of the Caucus
>(it would be great if always one of the two new co-chairs or a designated
>representative o
>  
>
>> f a co-chair could speak "on behalf" of the Caucus).
>>
>>5. My proposal for a change of the ITU constitution (in 2006) is a
>>    
>>
>proposal which could be considered as part of a long term strategy. ITU will
>remain one of the main players in the field. In the WSIS declaration the ITU
>role is fixed as a "facilitating role". What "facilitating role" means in
>this context is open for interpretation (and ITU itself tries to fill this
>with substance i.a. by the forthcoming workshop). For CS it is important to
>look into this direction. The problem here is, that the constitutional
>possibilities for CS in the ITU process are more than limited, or lets say,
>close to Zero. Only constitutional members can officially participate in
>processes (and eventually, without any negotiating or voting rights, invited
>individual experts). The proposal from some ITU folks, that CSOs should
>joint ITU under the "private sector membership clause" is unacceptable for
>CS for two reasons: a. CS is different from private sector and b. the
>exorbitant membership fees blo
>  
>
>> ck any broader CS participation. One "official proposal" to the ITU could
>>    
>>
>be to add the status of "civil society sector member" in the ITU
>constitution with no or very low membership fee. But even under such a
>construction, Jean Louis is right, that legally binding decisions within ITU
>are made by govenments (member states) only. But to have such a status
>within ITU would be for CS a status quo plus.
>  
>
>>6. the main thing is that CS is positioning itself for the "Kofi Annan
>>    
>>
>Group". We should make clear at a very early stage, that the composition of
>the group has to be balanced. We should quote again and again the wording of
>the WSIS Declaration , which says that the group should include
>"governments, private sector and civil society from developed and developing
>countries and intergovernmental and international organisations". Our
>proposal could be 6 (GOV):6 (PRIV):6 (CS) + 2 (IGO/ITU& WIPO):2
>(IO/ICANN&ITEF) = 22 in total) This would mean 6 CS representatives, three
>from the North (America, Europa, Asia) and three from the South (Africa,
>Latin America and South Pacific/West Asia). If the group is composed along
>this lines (as a group of representatives of stakeholders) the Caucus has to
>play a crucial role.
>  
>
>>Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
>>An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>>Senden: 11:24 AM
>>Betreff: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
>>    
>>
>governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
>  
>
>>Thanks Adam for your support and particularly for clarifying the issues on
>>stake.
>>
>>Moreover, Wolgang commits some approximations with the ITU rules (they are
>>based on its Constitution and Convention). Never forget they are decided
>>upon only by Members of States and not by Sector Members. At least up to
>>    
>>
>now
>  
>
>>!
>>If you want some complementary information you can find it on CSDPTT's
>>website www.csdptt.org (in french), under "Documents".
>>Of course I fully support your suggestions.
>>
>>Friendly yours
>>Jean-Louis Fullsack
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Adam Peake" <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
>>To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
>>Cc: <wolfgang@imv.au.dk>
>>Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:11 PM
>>Subject: Re: AW: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
>>governance :roles of plenary and governance lists
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I understand Jean Louis points, but we should make a difference
>>>between "informal discussions" and "formal
>>>      
>>>
>>negotiations".
>>
>>
>>Wolfgang,
>>
>>With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
>>likely being disadvantaged.
>>
>>I would not go so far as to suggest that people should not
>>participate in the ITU workshop, of course not! And I've no doubts
>>that the civil society participants invited as individuals will
>>continue to represent the same guiding principles we we agreed
>>collectively. And I fully understand that a scholar or some expert (I
>>am not sure of how to describe "expert") invited to a specialist
>>meeting would not want to pretend that their work represents the
>>views of a broader group, and nor would they wish to compromise their
>>personal intellectual enterprise in some misguided effort to reach a
>>consensus with others, and in the context it would be as
>>inappropriate of us to ask. ("misguided" because Internet
>>Governance
>>is not like many of the other thematic issues CS is concerned with,
>>we have no base agreement even among ourselves on what it means.)
>>
>>But I think we are also missing a very important opportunity to make
>>clear that civil society is an equal player (partner/stakeholder) in
>>all events organized as official/semi-official events of WSIS. It is
>>just wrong to dismiss this workshop as some minor event that does not
>>matter in the WSIS process, that civil society can somehow skip it.
>>Utsumi is Secretary General of WSIS, ITU the lead agency and
>>secretariat. Utsumi has called this workshop to begin to address one
>>of the two main outcomes of the Geneva Summit. Writing as Secretary
>>General of the ITU and Secretary General of WSIS, he says this quite
>>clearly in a recent letter discussing the state of WSIS, from the
>>success Geneva to our hopes for Tunis (etc etc.)  (on the Summit
>>website <http://www.itu.int/wsis/utsumi2.html>) He wrote:
>>
>>    "The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved
>>under the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet
>>governance and financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion
>>on Internet governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27
>>February in Geneva, which provides a forum for exchanging views on
>>definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet
>>governance .
>>
>>    I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in
>>this exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased
>>to begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the second
>>phase as we prepare for November 2005.
>>
>>Mr. Yoshio Utsumi"
>>
>>
>>Civil society needs to be represented at this meeting, by people
>>selected by us, and I hope that you will help us try think how we can
>>achieve this. Of course money is a problem.
>>
>>Note, the first prepcom for the Tunis phase will be held in the first
>>half of this year,
>><http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1164.asp>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Adam
>>
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>>>At this point and in this workshop there is no need to speak with
>>>"one voice" as "official representative" of a
>>>      
>>>
>>"stakeholder" group.
>>    
>>
>>>The participating governments will have many different voices
>>>(united to a high degree by their understanding of "state
>>>sovereignty"), the participating private sector members will have
>>>different voices (united to a high degree by their understanding of
>>>"free market") and so "civil society" will have
>>>      
>>>
>>different voices
>>    
>>
>>>(united to a high degree by their understandiong of "bottom
>>>      
>>>
>>up",
>>    
>>
>>>"openess" and "transparency").
>>>
>>>The problem with the ITU workshop is that ITU has only governments
>>>and private sector as members. There is no category of civil society
>>>membership. Probably the ITU Workshop is a good opportunity, to
>>>invite ITU, to start a discussion on the introduction of a new
>>>category of membership in the organisation (afzer WSIS has more or
>>>less officially recognized civil society as an "important
>>>stakeholder"" / Article 49 of the WSIS Declaration).
>>>
>>>I remmeber the long debate before Kyodo 1994, when the concept of
>>>the "big M?s" (governments) and "small M?s" (private
>>>      
>>>
>>sector) was
>>    
>>
>>>developed. It was further developped by Minneapolis 1998. After
>>>Marrakesh 2002, governments and private secor are de facto rather
>>>equal in the ITU.
>>>
>>>With the next ITU Plenipotentiary two years away (2006), this could
>>>be a right moment to challenge the limited openess of ITU, to
>>>propose a change of the ITU constitution and to introduce a third
>>>category of ITU membership for CSOs.
>>>
>>>And do not forget, the ITU workshop is only one event in an
>>>exploding long series of official or semi-official positioning
>>>seminars around the globe to prepare for the "big thing", the
>>>      
>>>
>>Kofi
>>    
>>
>>>Annan IG Group.
>>>
>>>Best wishes
>>>
>>>wolfgang
>>>
>>>Original Nachricht--
>>>Von: Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr>
>>>An: plenary@wsis-cs.org
>>>Senden: 23.01.2004
>>>Betreff: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet
>>>governance  :roles of plenary and governance lists
>>>
>>>Sorry, Wolfgang, Adam and others
>>>Once more the ITU Secretary general has selected his interlocutors. This
>>>      
>>>
>>is
>>    
>>
>>>unacceptable for the Civil Society.
>>>If the CS is to participate as a speeking partner in these "panel
>>>discussions" we -the CS Plenary- ought to be informed previously
>>>      
>>>
>>about
>>    
>>
>>>the
>>>content and rationale of the CS contributions and/or position. And we
>>>      
>>>
>>-the
>>    
>>
>>>CS Plenary- are to designate our representative(s) accordingly.
>>>No closed doors negociations on behalf of the CS and please no
>>>"welcome" for
>>>Utsumi's nominal "invitations".
>>>Jean-Louis Fullsack
>>>CSDPTT
>>>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "AIZU" <aizu@anr.org>
>>>To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>;
>>>"Governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>
>>>Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
>>>Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance
>>>:roles of plenary and governance lists
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>> I also received an invitation from ITU a few hours ago, and
>>>> am trying to modify my schedule to go.
>>>>
>>>> I fully agree with Vittorio that we should coordinate our
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>participation.
>>>      
>>>
>>>> izumi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At 11:04 04/01/21 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>>>>  >wolfgang@imv.au.dk
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>ha scritto:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>  >> Thanks Adam & Jeanette,
>>>>  >> this is good step forward.
>>>>  >> What do you think about a Caucus Website?
>>>>  >
>>>>  >Actually, I was tasked with preparing it in Geneva, and I
>>>>        
>>>>
>>have
>>    
>>
>>>started
>>>      
>>>
>>>> working. I stopped when the discussion on our name & domain
>>>>        
>>>>
>>name
>>    
>>
>>>went
>>>      
>>>
>>>> nowhere, but if we can accept to live with the name Adam registered
>>>>        
>>>>
>>on
>>    
>>
>>>his
>>>      
>>>
>>>> own (gov-net.org), I think I can come up with an initial site by
>>>>        
>>>>
>>the
>>    
>>
>>>next
>>>      
>>>
>>>> weekend. At least, I hope so.
>>>>  >
>>>>  >> I think the letter to Kofi Annan$B%((Bs office is as
>>>>        
>>>>
>>urgent as
>>    
>>
>>>a
>>>letter to
>>>      
>>>
>>>> Utsumi. It should be short letters. Could you write a first draft?
>>>>  >
>>>>  >Support. I think our new coordinators should manage the agenda
>>>>        
>>>>
>>and
>>    
>>
>>>get
>>>      
>>>
>>>> deliverables done :)
>>>>  >
>>>>  >> Concerning the letter to Utsumi, we should take note in
>>>>        
>>>>
>>this
>>    
>>
>>>letter
>>>      
>>>
>>>> (and welcome), that some Caucus members has been invited by him in
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>their
>>>      
>>>
>>>> personal capacity as experts and than propose three other names. As
>>>>        
>>>>
>>far
>>    
>>
>>>as
>>>      
>>>
>>>> I know Milton and Betrand has been invited officially.
>>>>  >
>>>>  >I got an "early notice of an invitation" yesterday
>>>>        
>>>>
>>evening.
>>    
>>
>>>(So I don't
>>>      
>>>
>>>> need a "ticket" from the caucus, I think.)
>>>>  >
>>>>  >An interesting note is that the invitation says that invited
>>>>        
>>>>
>>experts
>>    
>>
>>>are
>>>      
>>>
>>>> supposed to express their preference on whether they would like
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>"to
>>>      
>>>
>>>>  >either introduce their contributions, make presentations
>>>>        
>>>>
>>and/or
>>    
>>
>>>>  >participate in panel discussions". I think we should
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>coordinate
>>>ourselves
>>>      
>>>
>>>> so that CS people don't end up all in the panels or all making
>>>> presentations... The agenda is not clear yet, but, if we can, I
>>>>        
>>>>
>>think
>>    
>>
>>>we
>>>      
>>>
>>>> should try to get a CS person in every relevant panel (assuming
>>>>        
>>>>
>>that
>>    
>>
>>>the
>>>      
>>>
>>>> organizers will agree, of course...)
>>>>  >--
>>>>  >.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
>>>>  >Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu.org
>>>>  >http://bertola.eu.org/    <-- Vecchio sito, nuovo
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>toblog!
>>>      
>>>
>>>>  >
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School of Information Science and Policy
University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, New York 12222
USA

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From wolfgang at imv.au.dk  Tue Jan 27 08:34:31 2004
From: wolfgang at imv.au.dk (wolfgang@imv.au.dk)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Internet Governance in Davos
Message-ID: <E1AlOg3-0000k8-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>

Dear all, 

the World Economic Forum (WEF)in Davos discussed Internet Governance last week. The interesting point here is, that three different issues "Spam", "Technology Abuse (Cybercrime)" and "Internet Governance" has been packed into opne panel. The three questions for the Panel included as Question No. 3: "How the Internet should be governed on a global scale?" 

The composition of the Panel was also interesting: 
Stratton Sclavos, CEO from VeriSign, Kevoin Ryan, CEO from DoubleClick and Bradford Smith, Vice President of Microsoft, three "big fishes" from the Private Secor. Additionally, there was, obviously as an expert Prof. Stephen J. Kobrin from the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania, a business school, Gisele Yitamben  President Association pour le Soutien et l'Appui ? la Femme Entrepreneur (ASAFE) (??). Governments has been represented by the Jordanian Minister for Information, Fawaz Hatim Zu'bi
Moderator was a journalist from Fortune Magazine. 

Unfortunately the statements are not published and there is no audio or video file available from the discussion.

Other WEF issues, related to the WSIS agenda, included Open Source, Future of Wireless and Financing Digital Opportunities. 

Two other interesting panel had the title "Strategic Alliances between Business and NGOs" and "Can Civil Society contribute to Peace?"

The WEF is one of the main partners of WSIS and will produce the annual WSIS benchmark report in cooperation with two other institutions.    


Here is the text from the announcement for the Internet Governance Panel: 


The Curse of Spam, Technology Abuse and Internet Governance

Date: Wednesday, 21 Jan 2004 
Time: 20.00 

Everyone with e-mail access has received spam or suffered the inconvenience, or worse, caused by computer viruses. With new technology inevitably comes those who find a way to use it for obnoxious and nefarious purposes -- thus Internet governance issues are coming increasingly to the fore. 1) What are the costs to business of this 'social nuisance'? 2) What new 'abuses' are on the horizon? 3) How should the Internet be governed on a global scale?  
 






From claude.almansi at bluewin.ch  Sun Jan 25 21:33:24 2004
From: claude.almansi at bluewin.ch (Claude Almansi)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] Fw: Big Conference, Any Impact?
Message-ID: <216801c3e38b$046bf890$d793ca3e@nom00cl76thy97>

Bonsoir!

Les gens d'Harvard et du MIT s'int?ressent au suivi du SMSI... Alors si ?a
int?resse certains d'entre vous de participer ? leurs projets, d'abord
d'information puis d'action, ils ont une conception interactive de
l'information. Cf. ci-dessous (e-mail retransmis par Bonnie Bracey de la
fondation Benton)

Amiti?s

Claude

Claude Almansi
claude.almansi@bluewin.ch
www.adisi.ch


----- Original Message -----



In a message dated 1/23/04 4:52:09 PM, filter-editor@cyber.law.harvard.edu
writes:



* Big Conference, Any Impact?

Participants and international observers of the largest ever
conference on international Internet development - the World Summit on
the Information Society (WSIS) - are still trying to evaluate what
difference WSIS will have on the future of information and
communication technologies (ICTs).




The summit's official paper trail
consists of two documents and a counter-statement, but according to
many, the lasting impact of the 11,000-person summit is more subtle
and varied than these statements reflect.  Read more about the impact
of WSIS in this Berkman Briefing:
< http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/briefings/WSIS. >.

In collaboration with the Berkman Center, the journal of Information
Technologies and International Development (ITID) is producing a
special issue dedicated to WSIS and its aftermath.  Read more about
the journal and submission guidelines here:
< http://mitpress.mit.edu/ITID >

The official WSIS homepage:
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/>
WSIS declarations:
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi-en-1161|1160.asp>
The Daily Summit's blog of WSIS:
<http://www.dailysummit.net/>

_______________________________________
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WSIS@lists.sn.apc.org
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From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Tue Jan 27 12:35:06 2004
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Fullsack Jean-Louis)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Internet Governance in Davos
References: <E1AlOg3-0000k8-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <006001c3e4d1$ff3d2180$0a00000a@default>

Many Thanks Wolfgang for these revealing informations from our "WSIS partner
WEF".
I'll try to find what they told about "financing digital opportunities" and
who was there to tell about it.

Tsch?ss
Jean-Louis Fullsack

----- Original Message -----
From: <wolfgang@imv.au.dk>
To: "William Drake" <wdrake@ictsd.ch>; <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 9:34 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Internet Governance in Davos


> Dear all,
>
> the World Economic Forum (WEF)in Davos discussed Internet Governance last
week. The interesting point here is, that three different issues "Spam",
"Technology Abuse (Cybercrime)" and "Internet Governance" has been packed
into opne panel. The three questions for the Panel included as Question No.
3: "How the Internet should be governed on a global scale?"
>
> The composition of the Panel was also interesting:
> Stratton Sclavos, CEO from VeriSign, Kevoin Ryan, CEO from DoubleClick and
Bradford Smith, Vice President of Microsoft, three "big fishes" from the
Private Secor. Additionally, there was, obviously as an expert Prof. Stephen
J. Kobrin from the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania, a business
school, Gisele Yitamben  President Association pour le Soutien et l'Appui ?
la Femme Entrepreneur (ASAFE) (??). Governments has been represented by the
Jordanian Minister for Information, Fawaz Hatim Zu'bi
> Moderator was a journalist from Fortune Magazine.
>
> Unfortunately the statements are not published and there is no audio or
video file available from the discussion.
>
> Other WEF issues, related to the WSIS agenda, included Open Source, Future
of Wireless and Financing Digital Opportunities.
>
> Two other interesting panel had the title "Strategic Alliances between
Business and NGOs" and "Can Civil Society contribute to Peace?"
>
> The WEF is one of the main partners of WSIS and will produce the annual
WSIS benchmark report in cooperation with two other institutions.
>
>
> Here is the text from the announcement for the Internet Governance Panel:
>
>
> The Curse of Spam, Technology Abuse and Internet Governance
>
> Date: Wednesday, 21 Jan 2004
> Time: 20.00
>
> Everyone with e-mail access has received spam or suffered the
inconvenience, or worse, caused by computer viruses. With new technology
inevitably comes those who find a way to use it for obnoxious and nefarious
purposes -- thus Internet governance issues are coming increasingly to the
fore. 1) What are the costs to business of this 'social nuisance'? 2) What
new 'abuses' are on the horizon? 3) How should the Internet be governed on a
global scale?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


From karenb at gn.apc.org  Tue Jan 27 17:52:49 2004
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Internet Governance in Davos
In-Reply-To: <006001c3e4d1$ff3d2180$0a00000a@default>
References: <E1AlOg3-0000k8-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20040127175214.032dbb90@pop.gn.apc.org>

thanks wolfgang for this report..

> > The WEF is one of the main partners of WSIS and will produce the annual
>WSIS benchmark report in cooperation with two other institutions.

is further information about this available?

karen


From bchaffers at bic.org  Tue Jan 27 21:57:17 2004
From: bchaffers at bic.org (Bahiyyih Chaffers)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FW: [WSIS-CT] Inviting you to participate in PISTA 2004
Message-ID: <IEELKMLAPGGFMKFDNABAEECICBAA.bchaffers@bic.org>

PISTA 2004 conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and
Applications:

>> The Organizing Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Politics
>> and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA '04), is
>> pleased to invite you to participate in this international event
>that will be held in July 21-25, 2004, in Orlando, Florida, USA.
>>
>> Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are transforming our
>> societies, therefore papers about research results, solutions
>and problems of the applications of ICT in Politics and Society are highly
encouraged.
>>
>> You are also invited to organize a panel or an invited session. Panel
>> sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT researcher/practitioners
and
>> political consultants or politicians are highly encouraged.
>>
>> You can find more information about Pista '04, in our web site:
>> http://www.confinf.org/Pista04
>>
>> The best 10% of the papers will be published in the Journal of Systemics,
>> Cybernetics and Informatics (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp),
>> the hard copy version of which will be ready in about one month, and it
>> will be sent to the largest university libraries.
>>
>> Could you please deliver the Call for Papers I am including herein, to
>your
>> colleagues?
>>
>> If you consider that the deadlines are tight and you need more time,
>> please, let me know about a suitable timing for you and I will inform you
>> if it is feasible for us.
>>
>> This deadline is exclusively for the people who are being invited through
>> these letters hence, this deadline won't be published in our web site.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Professor Jose Vicente Carrasquero
>> General Chair PISTA 2004
>>
>> Call for Papers
>>
>>
>> 2nd International Conference on Politics and Information Systems:
>> Technologies and Applications (PISTA ?04)
>> July 21 - 25, 2004 - Orlando, Florida, USA
>>
>>
>> http://www.confinf.org/pista04
>>
>>
>>
>> PISTA '04 Organizing Committee invites authors to submit their original
>and unpublished works, innovations, ideas based on analogical thinking,
>> problems that require solutions, position papers, case studies, etc., in
>> the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
>> ICT researchers are invited to present their research results.
>> Practitioners and consultants are invited to present case study
>papers and
>> innovative solutions. Corporations are invited to present political
>> information systems and software based solutions. Public servers are
>> invited to present case studies, information systems developed for
>specific
>> purpose, and innovative ideas and designs. Political and social
>scientists
>> are invited to present research or position papers on the impact and the
>> future possibilities of ICT in Societal systems and political processes.
>> Politician and political consultants are invited to present problems that
>> might be solved by means of ICT, or solutions that might be improved by
>> different approaches and  design in ICT.
>>
>> All are invited to organize panel or invited sessions. Panel
>sessions with
>> panelists coming from both: ICT researcher/practitioners and political
>> consultants or politicians are highly encouraged.
>>
>> Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must
>not
>> be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed
>proceedings.
>>
>> You can find complete information about the conference in our web page
>> http://www.confinf.org/pista04
>>
>> PISTA '04 Organization
>> General Chair: Prof. Jose Vicente Carrasquero
>> Organizing Committee Chair: Prof. Angel Oropeza
>>
>>
>> Organized by the IIIS: The International Institute of Informatics and
>> Systemics
>>
>> Conference Areas
>> ? Informatics And Society
>> ? Informatics, Voting and Political Parties
>> ? Informatics And Government
>> ? Ethical and Legal Issues related to Informatics
>>
>> Abstracts and Paper Drafts Submission Form
>>
>> Papers might be submitted via web page
>> http://www.confinf.org/pista04/website/submission.asp, as extended
>> abstracts (500-1500 words) or as full papers drafts (2000-5000 words).
>>
>> Reviews will be done for both kinds of submissions.
>>
>> Invited Sessions proposals can be done filling the form given in the web
>> page http://www.confinf.org/pista04/invitedsession/organizer.asp
>>
>> More information about Invited Sessions Organization could be
>found at the
>> web http://www.confinf.org/pista04/website/ISOrganization.asp
>>
>> Important Dates
>> February  04th, 2003: Submission of extended abstracts
>(500-1500) words or
>> paper Drafts (2000-5000) words.
>>
>> February  04th, 2003: Invited session proposals.
>>
>> March  17th, 2004: Notifications of Acceptance.
>>
>> April  13th, 2004: Submission of final versions: hard copies and
>electronic
>> versions.
>>
>>
>> Some invited sessions might have a different timetable according to its
>> organizer and chair
>>
>> Papers Reviewing And Publication
>> Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers, which should not
>exceed
>> six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and
>> electronic proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must sign a copyright
>> release form.
>>
>> The Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics will publish, at
>> least, the best 10% of the papers presented at the conference.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

_______________________________________________
Ct mailing list
Ct@wsis-cs.org
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ct
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Content & Themes Documents:
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From armahleo at yahoo.co.uk  Wed Jan 28 10:33:18 2004
From: armahleo at yahoo.co.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Leopold=20Leslie=20Lanquaye=20Armah?=)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Africans Free Open Source Software Training in Ghana
In-Reply-To: <E1AlOg3-0000k8-00@smtp.imv.au.dk>
Message-ID: <20040128103318.72225.qmail@web25002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

 African Free and Open Source Software Training
March 1st - 28th, 2004 at FOSSREC, Accra, Ghana

http://www.fossfa.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=12

This is a Train-the Trainers Programme with the
objective of building high-end human capacity in
Africa on Open Source and Web technologies to
support the gradual integration of Free and Open
Source Software into the continent as a whole.

The focus of the training is in Open Source systems
administration and network management, productivity
solutions based on web and client/server technology
and platform integration via TCP/IP.

Focusing on groups of sub-regional technology experts
that can map out a strategy for Open Source solutions
to benefit NGOs and Civil Society.

This practical training workshop will, for the first
time, will help advocate Free and Open Source Software
(FOSS) across Africa.

This course aims to impart a sound knowledge of system
administration of Linux systems, train young men and
women to become programmers. 

Areas covered include user administration, storage and
the file system, network services (Web service, FTP,
file sharing, LDAP, etc) and security. 

On completion, attendees should have the skills and
resources required to manage a Linux-based server
system with minimal 
supervision.
..
Visit also http://www.ghana.net/fossrec for more
information or send an
email to fossrec@ghana.net



________________________________________________________________________
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From thomruddy at yahoo.com  Wed Jan 28 15:41:39 2004
From: thomruddy at yahoo.com (Thomas Ruddy)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FW: [WSIS-CT] Inviting you to participate in PISTA 2004
Message-ID: <20040128154139.4152.qmail@web41508.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear all,
I published a paper last year on WSIS at PISTA 2003.
If someone else wants to do so for PISTA 2004, I might
be able to provide some information you would like to
have.
Regards,
Thomas Ruddy

--- Bahiyyih Chaffers <bchaffers@bic.org> wrote:
> From: "Bahiyyih Chaffers" <bchaffers@bic.org>
> To: "Plenary@Wsis-Cs. Org" <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FW: [WSIS-CT] Inviting
> you to participate in PISTA 2004
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:57:17 -0500
> 
> PISTA 2004 conference on Politics and Information
> Systems: Technologies and
> Applications:
> 
> >> The Organizing Committee of the 2nd International
> Conference on Politics
> >> and Information Systems: Technologies and
> Applications (PISTA '04), is
> >> pleased to invite you to participate in this
> international event
> >that will be held in July 21-25, 2004, in Orlando,
> Florida, USA.
> >>
> >> Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
> are transforming our
> >> societies, therefore papers about research
> results, solutions
> >and problems of the applications of ICT in Politics
> and Society are highly
> encouraged.
> >>
> >> You are also invited to organize a panel or an
> invited session. Panel
> >> sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT
> researcher/practitioners
> and
> >> political consultants or politicians are highly
> encouraged.
> >>
> >> You can find more information about Pista '04, in
> our web site:
> >> http://www.confinf.org/Pista04
> >>
> >> The best 10% of the papers will be published in
> the Journal of Systemics,
> >> Cybernetics and Informatics
> (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp),
> >> the hard copy version of which will be ready in
> about one month, and it
> >> will be sent to the largest university libraries.
> >>
> >> Could you please deliver the Call for Papers I am
> including herein, to
> >your
> >> colleagues?
> >>
> >> If you consider that the deadlines are tight and
> you need more time,
> >> please, let me know about a suitable timing for
> you and I will inform you
> >> if it is feasible for us.
> >>
> >> This deadline is exclusively for the people who
> are being invited through
> >> these letters hence, this deadline won't be
> published in our web site.
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >>
> >> Professor Jose Vicente Carrasquero
> >> General Chair PISTA 2004
> >>
> >> Call for Papers
> >>
> >>
> >> 2nd International Conference on Politics and
> Information Systems:
> >> Technologies and Applications (PISTA ´04)
> >> July 21 - 25, 2004 - Orlando, Florida, USA
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.confinf.org/pista04
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> PISTA '04 Organizing Committee invites authors to
> submit their original
> >and unpublished works, innovations, ideas based on
> analogical thinking,
> >> problems that require solutions, position papers,
> case studies, etc., in
> >> the fields of Information and Communication
> Technologies (ICT).
> >> ICT researchers are invited to present their
> research results.
> >> Practitioners and consultants are invited to
> present case study
> >papers and
> >> innovative solutions. Corporations are invited to
> present political
> >> information systems and software based solutions.
> Public servers are
> >> invited to present case studies, information
> systems developed for
> >specific
> >> purpose, and innovative ideas and designs.
> Political and social
> >scientists
> >> are invited to present research or position
> papers on the impact and the
> >> future possibilities of ICT in Societal systems
> and political processes.
> >> Politician and political consultants are invited
> to present problems that
> >> might be solved by means of ICT, or solutions
> that might be improved by
> >> different approaches and  design in ICT.
> >>
> >> All are invited to organize panel or invited
> sessions. Panel
> >sessions with
> >> panelists coming from both: ICT
> researcher/practitioners and political
> >> consultants or politicians are highly encouraged.
> >>
> >> Submitted papers must describe work not
> previously published. They must
> >not
> >> be submitted concurrently to another conference
> with refereed
> >proceedings.
> >>
> >> You can find complete information about the
> conference in our web page
> >> http://www.confinf.org/pista04
> >>
> >> PISTA '04 Organization
> >> General Chair: Prof. Jose Vicente Carrasquero
> >> Organizing Committee Chair: Prof. Angel Oropeza
> >>
> >>
> >> Organized by the IIIS: The International
> Institute of Informatics and
> >> Systemics
> >>
> >> Conference Areas
> >> · Informatics And Society
> >> · Informatics, Voting and Political Parties
> >> · Informatics And Government
> >> · Ethical and Legal Issues related to Informatics
> >>
> >> Abstracts and Paper Drafts Submission Form
> >>
> >> Papers might be submitted via web page
> >>
>
http://www.confinf.org/pista04/website/submission.asp,
> as extended
> >> abstracts (500-1500 words) or as full papers
> drafts (2000-5000 words).
> >>
> >> Reviews will be done for both kinds of
> submissions.
> >>
> >> Invited Sessions proposals can be done filling
> the form given in the web
> >> page
>
http://www.confinf.org/pista04/invitedsession/organizer.asp
> >>
> >> More information about Invited Sessions
> Organization could be
> >found at the
> >> web
>
http://www.confinf.org/pista04/website/ISOrganization.asp
> >>
> >> Important Dates
> >> February  04th, 2003: Submission of extended
> abstracts
> >(500-1500) words or
> >> paper Drafts (2000-5000) words.
> >>
> >> February  04th, 2003: Invited session proposals.
> >>
> >> March  17th, 2004: Notifications of Acceptance.
> >>
> >> April  13th, 2004: Submission of final versions:
> hard copies and
> >electronic
> >> versions.
> >>
> >>
> >> Some invited sessions might have a different
> timetable according to its
> >> organizer and chair
> >>
> >> Papers Reviewing And Publication
> >> Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted
> papers, which should not
> >exceed
> >> six single-spaced typed pages, will be published
> by means of paper and
> >> electronic proceedings. Authors of accepted
> papers must sign a copyright
> >> release form.
> >>
> >> The Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and
> Informatics will publish, at
> >> least, the best 10% of the papers presented at
> the conference.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ct mailing list
> Ct@wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ct
> Civil Society Plenary: http://www.wsis-cs.org/
> Content & Themes Documents:
>
http://mboom.draper.albany.edu/~mciver/WSIS/CSDeclaration/
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary@wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary


From ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es  Thu Jan 29 20:45:02 2004
From: ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?L.Murrugarra?=)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TICs en America Latina y el Caribe
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20040123124831.02907c30@pop.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <20040129204502.72466.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com>


"Frente a la pantalla"
TICs en America Latina y el Caribe - Un viaje visual"
"Facing the Screen: ICTs in Latin America and the Caribbean - A visual journey". This photo book was launched on GKP DAY (11-Dec) in the ICT4D Platform @ WSIS 2003. http://www.facingthescreen.org/


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From: lucho at aler.org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Luis_D=E1vila?=)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Favor sacasrme de la lista
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A quien corresponda:
De la manera m?s comedida solicito me borren de la lista.
Muchas gracias.
Lucho


From dbarnard at sangonet.org.za  Thu Jan 29 15:00:26 2004
From: dbarnard at sangonet.org.za (David Barnard)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] THETHA - "ICT Policy Organisations and Processes"
Message-ID: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCIEHLDCAA.dbarnard@sangonet.org.za>

THETHA - THE SANGONeT ICT DISCUSSION FORUM

Organised by SANGONeT and the Open Knowledge Network

"ICT Policy Organisations and Processes"

11 February 2004

There are many official organisations and processes around policy on
Information & Communications Technology (ICT) ? and it all can be quite
confusing for anyone who would like to become involved in these initiatives.

Do you know your acronyms - PNC-ISAD, GCIS MPCC, USA,DoC, Convergence,
ICASA, WSIS, etc.?

This meeting will seek to explain the range of national ICT organisations
and processes, and work towards a network for
sharing information between civil society organisations to become more
engaged in this regard. The aim is to exchange information, and if possible,
coordinate fuller involvement of civil society organisations in ICT
processes.

The focus of the meeting will be based on the findings of a research project
which was funded by the Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (NiZA),
and coordinated by the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) and National
Community Radio Forum (NCRF).

The meeting will also include feedback from the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) which was held from 10-12
December 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland.

DATE:	Wednesday, 11 February 2004
TIME: 09h00 ? 13h00
VENUE: Classroom F, LINK Centre, Campus of Wits
Business School, cnr St Andrews & St Davids Road, Parktown,
Johannesburg.

Background documentation will be circulated to interested organisations.

This meeting forms part of Thetha - The SANGONeT ICT  Discussion Forum, and
is organised in conjunction with the Open
Knowledge Network (OKN).

If you are interested in participating in this Thetha, please contact Malefu
Thibedi at SANGONeT before 9 February 2004 on:

Tel: (011) 403-4935 / E-mail: malefut@sangonet.org.za or
thetha@sangonet.org.za

Participation in the Thetha is free of charge.

For more information on Thetha - The SANGONeT ICT Discussion Forum, please
visit the SANGONeT website at -
http://www.sangonet.org.za

For more information on the Open Knowledge Network (OKN), please visit -
http://www.openknowledge.net

"Come Thetha with us"


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From dbenamrane at yahoo.com  Sat Jan 31 17:28:07 2004
From: dbenamrane at yahoo.com (djilali benamrane)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Why WSIS-05 May Not Hold in Tunisia
In-Reply-To: <4011000F.DFF69897@sfb597.uni-bremen.de>
Message-ID: <20040131172807.88776.qmail@web60703.mail.yahoo.com>

Thanks for this analysis and proposals.
We discussed this item during the Geneva WSIS phase
with some participants, especially from Civile Society
and also from Tunisian Civile Society pro and against
the Tunisian Government.
Our conviction is : we don't help Tunisian People in
proposing to replace Tinis by another African Capitale
or ever else to held the phase WSIS 2005. It is the
best manner to stop any discussion regarding the
necessary promotion of the Democracy and free
expression in Tunisia.
We must gather our efforts to help the Tunisian people
to win the battle of the Democracy. Imagine if it was
decided to located the Summit in Algiers, Rabat, or
Ouagadougou or Bamako or Jobourg... All the medis will
concentrate their thinking out off Tunisia.
And why haven't discuss on the pertinence of Geneva as
the first phase of WSIS ? It has been demonstrated
that even Geneva was not the best model of Democracy
and free expression during the Summit ! and at that
time Geneva was not member of the United nations
Organization (even if it is the case now).
Let's mobilize our enegy and our discussions in
identifying condition to facilitate the organization
of the Summit in Tunis and we have 2 years to bring
support to the Tunisian people in order to make him
benefit of the Summit. If at the end of the process
things are not acceptable we can propose a counter
Summit somewhere.
Let's work with the Tunisian civile society in Tunisia
and out Tunisia and in Africa and let's leave to them
the leadership in the final decision on what are the
condition for accepting the Summit in Tunisia... Let's
try to discuss in French from time to time and so we
shall avoid the domination of English as we faced it
in Geneva. And please let's have more modesty in our
proposals.
Best regards
Djilali  
--- Ralf Bendrath <ralf.bendrath@sfb597.uni-bremen.de>
wrote:
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200401220684.html
> 
> Why WSIS-05 May Not Hold in Tunisia
> 
> Daily Champion (Lagos)
> January 22, 2004
> Remmy Nweke, Lagos
> 
> AS the campaign to cushion the lapses witnessed in
> the first-phase of
> World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) hots
> up, and the Tunisian
> Government warms up for the preparation of the
> second phase of WSIS in
> 2005, press freedom groups may scuttle the plans.
> 
> This is coming in the wake of alleged human rights
> and press freedom
> abuses by the government of Tunisia.
> 
> The Press Freedom groups under the aegis of World
> Association of
> Newspapers (WAN), Journaliste en danger (JED), along
> with World Press
> Freedom Committee, the Committee to Protect
> Journalists, Inter American
> Press Association, International Association of
> Broadcasting,
> International Federation of the Periodical Press,
> International Press
> Institute and the North American Broadcasters
> Association are urging
> summit organizers to cancel plans to hold the 2005
> follow-up summit in
> Tunisia.
> 
> According to them, "The second phase of the WSIS
> should not be held
> there because of the country's serious human rights
> abuses," a statement
> issued by the groups said.
> 
> "The Tunisian press is censored, journalists are
> jailed along with
> hundreds of other political prisoners, and
> organsiation of the Tunis
> summit has been assigned to a military general
> alleged to be responsible
> for the torture of political prisoners," the groups
> added.
> 
> They also called for the 2005 meeting to be either
> held in a country
> known for respecting press freedom or be put-off.
> 
> WAN which is leading the campaign, added that unless
> the Tunisian
> government improves its human rights records,
> holding WSIS-05 in the
> country would bring the WSIS process into
> disrepute.,This, the groups
> maintained would "completely undermine WSIS
> declaration's reaffirmation
> on the principles of free information and free
> expression".
> 
> Meanwhile, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last
> weekend, accused the
> Tunisian authorities of blocking the development of
> an independent press
> in the country after journalist Sihem Bensedrine
> failed in her attempt
> to register the weekly newspaper "Kalima".
> 
> Bensedrine was turned away when she tried to begin
> the registration
> process for the bilingual publication at the
> Interior Ministry's offices
> on 13 January 2004.,"This latest unsuccessful
> attempt to publish the
> newspaper 'Kalima' provides additional evidence of
> the Tunisian
> authorities' determination to keep the press under
> control," said RSF
> Secretary-General, Mr. Robert Ménard.
> 
> "President Ben Ali has publicly declared his support
> for freedom of
> information but deliberately prevents the creation
> of an independent
> press. Against this backdrop, the holding of the
> second phase of the
> World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in
> 2005 is a scandal,"
> Ménard added.,This is the third time since 1999 that
> Bensedrine has
> attempted to file a "preliminary statement" for
> "Kalima" with the
> Interior Ministry. A home-produced version of the
> newspaper is currently
> published on an irregular basis and distributed
> unofficially. "Kalima"'s
> website, which is hosted abroad, continues to be
> blocked within Tunisia. 
> 
> Anticipating a setback at the ministry's offices,
> Bensedrine decided to
> invite witnesses to observe her request for
> registration. "Kalima"'s
> editorial committee, her lawyer, Member of
> Parliament Mokhtar Djalali
> and Tunisian Human Rights League President Mokhtar
> Trifi accompanied the
> journalist. 
> 
> She was once again able to show proof of President
> Zine el-Abidine Ben
> Ali's refusal to liberalise the press in Tunisia,
> RSF noted. On January
> 14, Bensedrine was subjected to a particularly
> thorough search at Tunis
> airport before boarding a flight to Germany, while a
> copy of "Kalima"
> was confiscated from her as well as three CD-ROMs
> containing personal
> data.
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From sean at aitecafrica.com  Thu Jan 29 15:42:32 2004
From: sean at aitecafrica.com (Sean Moroney)
Date: Thu Jul 26 18:18:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [WSIS THETHA] THETHA - "ICT Policy Organisations and Processes"
References: <NHBBLPBHOLLJIKPHBOMCIEHLDCAA.dbarnard@sangonet.org.za>
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We would welcome input from this event into the Commonwealth
Telecommunications Organisation conference on Implementing the WSIS Action
Plan, to be held in Nairobi over 25-26 March. Full details are available at
http://www.aitecafrica.com/Kenya/cto.htm

Sean Moroney
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AITEC Exhibitions & Conferences
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Barnard" <dbarnard@sangonet.org.za>
To: "wsis" <wsis@lists.sn.apc.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:00 AM
Subject: [WSIS THETHA] THETHA - "ICT Policy Organisations and Processes"


> THETHA - THE SANGONeT ICT DISCUSSION FORUM
>
> Organised by SANGONeT and the Open Knowledge Network
>
> "ICT Policy Organisations and Processes"
>
> 11 February 2004
>
> There are many official organisations and processes around policy on
> Information & Communications Technology (ICT) - and it all can be quite
> confusing for anyone who would like to become involved in these
initiatives.
>
> Do you know your acronyms - PNC-ISAD, GCIS MPCC, USA,DoC, Convergence,
> ICASA, WSIS, etc.?
>
> This meeting will seek to explain the range of national ICT organisations
> and processes, and work towards a network for
> sharing information between civil society organisations to become more
> engaged in this regard. The aim is to exchange information, and if
possible,
> coordinate fuller involvement of civil society organisations in ICT
> processes.
>
> The focus of the meeting will be based on the findings of a research
project
> which was funded by the Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (NiZA),
> and coordinated by the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) and National
> Community Radio Forum (NCRF).
>
> The meeting will also include feedback from the World Summit on the
> Information Society (WSIS) which was held from 10-12
> December 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland.
>
> DATE: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
> TIME: 09h00 - 13h00
> VENUE: Classroom F, LINK Centre, Campus of Wits
> Business School, cnr St Andrews & St Davids Road, Parktown,
> Johannesburg.
>
> Background documentation will be circulated to interested organisations.
>
> This meeting forms part of Thetha - The SANGONeT ICT  Discussion Forum,
and
> is organised in conjunction with the Open
> Knowledge Network (OKN).
>
> If you are interested in participating in this Thetha, please contact
Malefu
> Thibedi at SANGONeT before 9 February 2004 on:
>
> Tel: (011) 403-4935 / E-mail: malefut@sangonet.org.za or
> thetha@sangonet.org.za
>
> Participation in the Thetha is free of charge.
>
> For more information on Thetha - The SANGONeT ICT Discussion Forum, please
> visit the SANGONeT website at -
> http://www.sangonet.org.za
>
> For more information on the Open Knowledge Network (OKN), please visit -
> http://www.openknowledge.net
>
> "Come Thetha with us"
>
>
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