From cafec3m at yahoo.fr  Mon Oct  1 10:41:37 2007
From: cafec3m at yahoo.fr (CAFEC)
Date: Mon Oct  1 10:41:46 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Closure of ICTRC - Petition
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2007/9/29, CAFEC <cafec3m@yahoo.fr>:
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From slc at publicus.net  Tue Oct  2 14:51:48 2007
From: slc at publicus.net (Steven Clift)
Date: Tue Oct  2 15:13:32 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS bracketing format?
Message-ID: <47024CF4.8030200@publicus.net>


I recall in Geneva a fairly useful drafting format which showed in 
bracketed text the alternate phrases yet to be negotiated. Does anyone 
recall what that style is officially called and are the rules described 
somewhere?

I'd like to use the format in the next round or E-Democracy.Org rule 
revisions via our wiki to point out possible options. If others know of 
polling software which could be used to allow readers to vote or rate 
alternative phrases that would be interesting as well.

Steven Clift
http://e-democracy.org
From mclauglm at muohio.edu  Tue Oct  2 16:08:00 2007
From: mclauglm at muohio.edu (McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr.)
Date: Tue Oct  2 17:14:37 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS bracketing format?
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Hi Steven,

The term is "square brackets." Here's how the UN defines the action within the context of drafting procedures:

"Square brackets: Typographical symbols placed around text under negotiation to indicate that the language enclosed is being discussed but has not yet been agreed upon. It is possible to have square brackets within square brackets, as there may be disagreement about both the general provision and the specific language."

I think that the orginal source is the General Assembly rules of procedure for drafting documents.

Regards,

Lisa



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I recall in Geneva a fairly useful drafting format which showed in
bracketed text the alternate phrases yet to be negotiated. Does anyone
recall what that style is officially called and are the rules described
somewhere?

I'd like to use the format in the next round or E-Democracy.Org rule
revisions via our wiki to point out possible options. If others know of
polling software which could be used to allow readers to vote or rate
alternative phrases that would be interesting as well.

Steven Clift
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From vivek at itforchange.net  Wed Oct  3 06:06:49 2007
From: vivek at itforchange.net (Vivek Vaidyanathan)
Date: Wed Oct  3 06:06:57 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist
	Network on Gender,
	Development and Information Society Policies - October 5th - 7th,
	2007
Message-ID: <20071003050652.36A67249644@mail.gn.apc.org>

Dear All,

 

Apologies for cross posting.

 

Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender, Development
and Information Society Policies - October 5th - 7th, 2007, Bangalore 

 

A Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender, Development
and Information Society Policies will be held on October 5-7, 2007 in
Bangalore, India. The workshop is being co-organised by IT for Change, the
Association for Progressive Communications, the International Women's
Tribune Centre, ISIS International, and Gloria Bonder, the General
Coordinator of the Regional UNESCO Chair Women, Science and Technology in
Latin America.

 

The goal of the meeting will be to a) conduct a gender analysis of the
policy ecology of the information society and the approaches of critical
institutional players b) evolve an action plan for research and advocacy and
c) develop the structure and processes that facilitate and strengthen the
work of the network.

 

This workshop is by invitation only.

 

Best regards

Vivek

 

Vivek Vaidyanathan

IT for Change (ITfC)

Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities

Tel:(+91 80) 26654134, 26536890

Fax:(+91 80) 41461055

 <http://www.ITforChange.net> www.ITforChange.net

 

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From vivek at itforchange.net  Wed Oct  3 06:34:35 2007
From: vivek at itforchange.net (Vivek Vaidyanathan)
Date: Wed Oct  3 06:34:58 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Addendum to posting on 'Strategy Planning
	Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender,
	Development and Information Society Policies - October 5th - 7th,
	2007'
Message-ID: <20071003053448.2EE0D1D7B8E@mail.gn.apc.org>

Dear All,

 

This is an addendum to my earlier posting on the 'Strategy Workshop of the
Feminist Network on Gender, Development and Information Society Policies -
October 5th - 7th, 2007' being held in Bangalore.

 

More information on the workshop can be found at
http://gdispwiki.itforchange.net/

 

Best regards

Vivek

 

Vivek Vaidyanathan

IT for Change (ITfC)

Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities

Tel :( +91 80) 26654134, 26536890

Fax :( +91 80) 41461055

 <http://www.ITforChange.net> www.ITforChange.net

  _____  

From: Vivek Vaidyanathan [mailto:vivek@itforchange.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:37 AM
To: 'plenary@wsis-cs.org'
Subject: Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender,
Development and Information Society Policies - October 5th - 7th, 2007

 

Dear All,

 

Apologies for cross posting.

 

Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender, Development
and Information Society Policies - October 5th - 7th, 2007, Bangalore 

 

A Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender, Development
and Information Society Policies will be held on October 5-7, 2007 in
Bangalore, India. The workshop is being co-organised by IT for Change, the
Association for Progressive Communications, the International Women's
Tribune Centre, ISIS International, and Gloria Bonder, the General
Coordinator of the Regional UNESCO Chair Women, Science and Technology in
Latin America.

 

The goal of the meeting will be to a) conduct a gender analysis of the
policy ecology of the information society and the approaches of critical
institutional players b) evolve an action plan for research and advocacy and
c) develop the structure and processes that facilitate and strengthen the
work of the network.

 

This workshop is by invitation only.

 

Best regards

Vivek

 

Vivek Vaidyanathan

IT for Change (ITfC)

Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities

Tel:(+91 80) 26654134, 26536890

Fax:(+91 80) 41461055

 <http://www.ITforChange.net> www.ITforChange.net

 

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From laina at getit.org  Thu Oct  4 06:59:01 2007
From: laina at getit.org (Laina Raveendran Greene)
Date: Thu Oct  4 07:14:48 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Take a Stand for Peace in Burma!
Message-ID: <200710032256181.SM02308@travellaptop>

 


Subject: Take a Stand for Peace in Burma!

 

Dear Friends,

Please find below, Kunzang Palyul Choling ("KPC") Buddhist Temple's
activities on "Buddhist Relief". Among other things, we intend to serve as a
Clearinghouse. We welcome any and all information on the dire situation in
Burma. 

Today, there was a Senate Hearing on "Burma's Saffron Revolution" by the
Committee on Foreign Relations. Presiding at the Hearing, Senator Barbara
Boxer (D-CA) said that 'words are going to spread, and the photos will not
go away'. All of us have the power to communicate and express our stand for
and with the people of Burma in this time of need. 

Please take the liberty of forwarding the invitation below to as many people
you know, all over the world. Thank you.

Regards,

Buddhist Relief





 
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KPC Announces Buddhist Relief Website





 
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<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=rpfpffcab.0.vz6tffcab.nrstkvbab.701&ts=S0290&p=http
%3A%2F%2Fwww.tara.org%2FBuddhistReliefHome.htm> A River of Red Robes
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%3A%2F%2Fwww.tara.org%2FBuddhistReliefHome.htm> 

We're Taking a Stand for Peace in Burma 

 

The world was transfixed by the tender picture:  a river of red robes,
banked by protective lines of lay people.  Last week the monks and nuns of
Burma led their countrymen and women in a series of peaceful demonstrations,
asserting their demand for basic human rights for all people in Burma.  

 

How can we tolerate this new picture:  the rivers of Burma awash with
murdered monks?  

 

We grieve for the Burmese people: for the murdered monks and for the
murderers.  For the people of Yangon, cowering in their homes, afraid to
take to the streets.   For the
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=rpfpffcab.0.vz6tffcab.nrstkvbab.701&ts=S0290&p=http
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<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=rpfpffcab.0.vz6tffcab.nrstkvbab.701&ts=S0290&p=http
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break into their dwellings, beat them, and arrest them.  We grieve for a
world in which such causes for future suffering are being created. 

 

Because We Can't Stand It. . . !

 

We are taking a stand in solidarity with the Burmese monks, nuns, and lay
people who have bravely asserted their basic human rights.  

 

We urge you to visit our newly established
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=rpfpffcab.0.vz6tffcab.nrstkvbab.701&ts=S0290&p=http
%3A%2F%2Fwww.tara.org%2FBuddhistReliefHome.htm> Buddhist Relief page on our
website, tara.org.  Click on the blog:
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=rpfpffcab.0.wz6tffcab.nrstkvbab.701&ts=S0290&p=http
%3A%2F%2Fbuddhistrelief.blogspot.com%2F> By My Hand and Heart Alone, and
find out how you can use your liberty to help restore theirs.  

 

We pledge to keep you updated about opportunities to take a stand.  And we
implore you, now more than ever, to use the power of prayer to create the
causes for peace. 

 

We are not separate.  Not from the monks, not from the murderers, not from
all who suffer.  

 

 


What You Can Do in the Washington, D.C. Area 

 

Meditate for Peace and Democracy in Burma

Thursday, October 4, 2007

5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

In Front of the Embassy of Myanmar

2300 S Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20008

 

For more information about this event,
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mocracy-in.html> click here.  

 

For options in other areas,
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%3A%2F%2Fwww.tara.org%2FBuddhistRelief-Embassies.htm> click here. 

 

Please use the "Forward email" button, below, to send this message on!


 




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From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Thu Oct  4 17:46:27 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] General overviews and resources on WSIS follow up
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From laina at getit.org  Thu Oct  4 18:35:50 2007
From: laina at getit.org (Laina Raveendran Greene)
Date: Thu Oct  4 18:33:15 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] your support needed
Message-ID: <200710041033884.SM02484@travellaptop>

Dear friends, this was again submitted to me by a dear friend, and I am
really touched and would like to rally support.

Laina

 


 

Dear friends, 

Today, our petition to China and the UN Security Council to stop the brutal
crackdown on peaceful Burmese protesters is being delivered to the world in
a full page ad in the Financial Times worldwide -- but the ad was rejected
by other newspapers like the South China Morning Post and the Singapore
Straits Times. Our message is an invitation to China to do the right thing
in Burma, not an attack -- yet even that seemed too much for media that fear
Chinese reprisals. 

We won't let our voice be silenced like this. We're taking our message to
the streets, in an international day of action on Saturday -- details are on
our petition page, and below. And we're redoubling our efforts to make our
voice louder: our petition is approaching 600,000 signatures, closing fast
on our 1 million goal.The petition link is below - send this email to all
your friends and family and help us reach 1 million voices by Saturday! 

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/w.php
<http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/w.php?cl=27496833>  

To organize an event for the global day of action, just follow the steps
below. To attend an event, scroll down our petition page at the link above
for a list of events around the world. Here's some simple steps for
organizers: 

*  Choose a public place or landmark in your town, and organize friends to
go there all wearing the same maroon red clothing as the Burmese monks. Tell
local media about your plans, and email the details and contact information
to dayofaction@avaaz.org -- we will try to advertise your event on our
petition page. 

*  Ask people attending your event to share their feelings on this crisis
and the need for action, and then tie a red ribbon or piece of cloth around
fences or trees to leave a more lasting sign of your support for the
Burmese. 
The worldwide outcry to save Burma's peaceful monks and protesters is one
more sign of how the world is getting closer, feeling increasingly
responsible to each other, and for each other as human beings. We're
bringing a voice of humanity to this desperate situation, and we must not be
silenced. 

With hope and determination, 

Ricken, Paul, Graziela, Ben, Sarah, Iain, Galit, Pascal, Milena and the
whole Avaaz Team. 

PS - Here are some great links for local reporting on the current situation
in Burma: 

http://www.irrawaddy.org 

http://www.mizzima.com  <http://www.mizzima.com> 

_____________________________________

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You are getting this message because you signed "Stand with the Burmese
<http://www.avaaz.org/stand_with_burma>  Protesters" on 2007-09-26 using the
email address laina@getit.org. To change your email address, language
settings, or other personal information, go
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Please add avaaz@avaaz.org to your address book to make sure you keep
receiving emails from Avaaz, or go
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98&v=933<=en>  here to unsubscribe.

Avaaz.org is staffed by a global team of campaigners operating on 3
continents. We have administrative offices in London, New York, and Rio de
Janeiro. Please direct mail to our NY office at 260 Fifth Avenue, 9th floor,
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From hamidur_ict4d at hotmail.com  Fri Oct  5 10:31:26 2007
From: hamidur_ict4d at hotmail.com (Hamidur Rahman)
Date: Fri Oct  5 10:32:35 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Be aware the Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha(SSS) an
 NGO from Bangladesh ,Fals and Contradiction
Message-ID: <BAY106-W164F6B9D891EA6647FA91DD0A90@phx.gbl>


Be aware the Shidhulai Swanirvar      Sangstha(SSS) an NGO from BangladeshFals and Contradiction
 
 Swm ReportOn August 17, 2007 SWM's cover story focussed on the 'Boat School' project of Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha. When we first learned about the project we were told that the NGO had 88 boats in the Chalanbeel area and 88,000 families were being benefitted from its various activities, which included floating primary schools, libraries, computer training centres and agriculture training centres which were fully equipped with computers with Internet connection and multimedia projectors. After talking to its founder AHM Rezwan he arranged for a field visit accompanied by him to Gurudashpur in Natore, his homeland, where the project also has an office.

 
On August 4 we visited the project site along with Rezwan. During the four-hour trip up and down the Chalanbeel we saw three boats, as was featured in our cover story. In one boat a first grade class was taking place, with the aid of a computer.
In another boat about eight to ten SSC students reading books from the library, while others were learning basic computer skills and Internet browsing in four personal computers. In yet another boat an instructor was training men and women, with the help of a multimedia projector, how to avoid using pesticides and the session included video-conferencing. All the boats had solar panels on top and batteries were being charged which were used for power for the computers and for Portable Solar Home Systems (PSHS).
 
On our way back we visited two homes, which used these PSHS for two lights in their homes which did not have electricity. At one home the battery was not working and the residents complained they had been asking for replacements for some time but did not get any. At this Rezwan directed his staff to replace the batteries immediately. The residents also said that the lamps were extremely helpful for the two students in the house, who earlier had to read by candle or hurricane light. At the other home the lights were working and two little girls confirmed that they studied in the 'Boat School', although the parents complained that the school had refused to take the boys.
 
Later in an interview Rezwan detailed about how  atched every year students dropping out of school during the monsoon season when they had to stop going to school for three months because the schools went under water and the paths leading to the schools were also submerged. He also added that many girls were deprived from going to school because of the closed society. Add to that global warming and the environmentalists' warnings that Bangladesh was high up in the list of countries most likely to go under water this project was innovative, practical and very relevant for a country like ours. Rezwan has won him several international awards mentionable among which were the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Access to Learning Award 2005, UNDP's Equator Prize 2006 and the Ashden Awards 2007. Rezwan also added that his next project was to build floating homes which could be used as flood shelters. Asked about exactly how many boats he had, he replied that at the beginning of the year there were 88 boats (as was reported by many major daily newspapers) but they had recently "merged some of their projects" and the number had come down to 35. He did not clarify what he exactly meant by that.
 
Following several corruption allegations raised by a group of ICT journalists who had been investigating the organisation's work for almost a year we revisited Gurudashpur on August 23. According to Muhammad Yakub Ali, the Assistant Education Officer of the Government Education Department there were 49 government primary schools, 29 registered primary non-government schools, 3 community schools and 64 NGO-run schools, most of which belonged to BRAC. They did not have any information regarding Shidhulai's schools. BRAC had their statements with the education office but Shidhulai did not. The presence of schools was apparent on our trip through the Chalanbeel later on too. On our two-hour trip upstream we found at least 10 schools on either side of the Chalanbeel. Water had already gone down by at least five feet since our last visit just a couple of weeks ago and none of the schools were under water. The presence of BRAC schools was also clear all over Gurudashpur Thana throughout our rickshaw-van trip.
The Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Gurudashpur Sk Mohammad Moniruzzaman also said that he knew that Shidhulai ran their boat schools in that area and they had given statements with the office about their activities but had never thoroughly inspected the work of the NGO. "The UNO's work is to investigate whether the NGOs are working outside public interest or not," says Moniruzzaman, "but when I wanted to see the project for myself they did not show me." Moniruzzaman also said that he had no idea about the syllabus they followed and although the term exams were going on in all other primary schools, Shidhulai did not present any papers regarding any exams. In fact when we visited the two boat schools we found that the teachers were reading out from their books, indicating that no exams were going on. "I don't have a very good impression about the project. And it's absurd if anyone says that their children can't go to school because of the water," says Moniruzzaman, "if someone actually said that we would have to make the arrangements so that they can."
 
According to the fact sheet submitted to the UNO office of Gurudashpur, Shidhulai has seven schools in the Gurudashpur upazila where 203 students study, they also have a 'Human Rights Programme' conducted at nine centres were there were almost 400 beneficiaries. When we asked the UNO about the kind of human rights programmes carried out here, he admitted his complete ignorance about it. The factsheet also claimed that there were almost 600 beneficiaries of their 'Health and Wellbeing' Programme in Gurudashpur alone.
An official at the Education Department said that officials of the project do not show outsiders the boats without an appointment. In all the boats that we went to in our second visit the caretakers of the boats tried to prevent us from taking photos. 
 
We went back through the same trail of the Chalanbeel that we had earlier taken to see for ourselves how the schools were faring. After about half an hour we came across a library belonging to Shidhulai. Only the caretaker of the boat was inside and there were three shelves full of books and no computers. The few computer tables were all empty. When we went there it was around 11AM and asked where everyone was, the caretaker said that they would come after a couple of hours for the computer classes. Locals said that there were computer classes held on the boat and they were quite happy with it. We saw two schools, one was conducting classes for the first grade and the other was conducting classes for the third grade. The classes were quite full and the children in the third grade concurred that they had been studying here for three years. But neither of these boats had any computers in them. We found another empty boat, which the caretaker said had a leak. We saw another boat just taking off from a point and talked to the locals there. They assured that classes were regularly held at the boat school and the teacher had just conducted a one-and-a-half-hour-long class of first grade. We asked the locals though whether they were enrolled into the boat school because they could not go to the other primary schools for some reason. Everyone said that they would have enrolled into the primary schools anyway, but the authorities at the boat school had asked them to join their school instead.
 
On August 26 we asked AHM Rezwan to come to The Daily Star office to clarify his position. In all the earlier reports that came out on the newspapers Rezwan mentions that he has 88 boats where Shidhulai's activities were carried out. The breakdown of which is given on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation website - 15 boats were floating classrooms, 24 boats were floating libraries with 1500 books and four PV-powered computers with Internet access in each, 10 boats were 'mobile education and information centres' with Internet access and DVD/CD players and projector also used as agriculture training centres and 30 boats were dedicated battery charging stations, and nine boats had healthcare and 'other services'. According to members of BIJF (Bangladesh ICT Journalists' Forum) on July 27, 2007 Rezwan had met with them and the letter had challenged him that he did not have 88 boats at all. Rezwan said that he would prove to them in seven days that he had 88 boats. When we interviewed him on August 4, 2007 for our cover story Rezwan said that 'earlier in the year' he did have 88 boats but had 'merged' some of the projects and brought the number of boats down to 35. The breakdown he gave proved unsatisfactory: 12 libraries, 9 floating schools, 4 agriculture training centres and 10 other boats were used for transportation and 'solid waste management' activities. He did not elaborate what 'solid waste management' activities were carried out on the boats.
 
On September 5 the editor and publisher of The Daily Star asked Rezwan how soon he would be able to show us the 35 boats, all in one place. Although he refused to give an exact date he said he would do so within days. Till the filing of this report on September 25 he has not contacted us.
 
SWM also got in touch with some people in leading positions in that area and this is what they had to say about his project:
Shahadat Hossain, Chamari UP Chairman said that he didn't know anything about the project. Since the office of the NGO is near his house he just saw some people going in and out of the office but had never seen any of their work with his own eyes.
Farhadul Alam, the Headmaster of Mohishmari Govt Primary School said that he had seen all the work done at the boats. He also said that they had about '60 to 70' boats for their project.
Shariful Islam Bulbul, Dahia UP Chairman said he did not know much about their project although he had heard about it. 
 
Sarker Emdadul Haque, Moshinda UP Chairman said that their claim to work in the whole chalanbeel area was overestimated. He also said he had heard about the project but not seen any of their work. 
Abdul Aziz, Dharabarsha UP Chairman, who said that he had been a chairman since 1992, did not see much of their work. He said they probably did not have more than four of five boats and they did not do any work in his union.
 
Ehsan Kabir, the Deputy Commissioner of Natore said he saw the boats for the first time when he went to see the flood condition recently and knew only what he saw about their project on a TV programme. He also asked Rezwan to show him all the boats together at the same time a week earlier to when we talked to him and has not heard from Rezwan since.
 
SWM decided to do a cover story on Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha because we thought it was a pioneering attempt to bring education and technology to the poor villagers of northern Bangladesh. The use of solar power made the project seem even more innovative. On our first visit when we were accompanied by Rezwan, the project activities shown to the SWM reporter and photographer were impressive and lived up to the claims made. Because of allegations of corruption put forward by some journalists the SWM decided to visit the area again. The second investigation found that some of Sidhulai's claims were exaggerated or not substantiated. His claim of having 35 boats for the project was contradicted by his own statement when he gave the breakdown of the boats that included 10 boats that were used for ferrying people and 'waste management', and his further avoidance to show the boats together, to the ICT journalists and then to us. 

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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Fri Oct  5 15:08:25 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Fri Oct  5 15:07:54 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on CSTD (CSTD Intersession panel in Kuala
	Lumpur, 28-30/11/2007)
Message-ID: <200710051407.l95E7iii012666@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

CSTD Intersession Panel

This is to inform you that the dates on the up coming CSTD intersession
panel have been set up for 28-30 November 2007, in Kuala Lumpur.

 

Regarding issues related to the WSIS follow up process, the inter-sessional
panel will address the first theme of the multi-year programme of work, as
agreed in last May: "Development-oriented policies for socio-economic
inclusive information society, including access, infrastructure and an
enabling environment".

 

Find the preliminary information at
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=2068
<http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=2068&lang=1&m=13906&y
ear=2007&month=11> &lang=1&m=13906&year=2007&month=11. 

More information, including registration modalities and the panel's
programme, will be circulated soon.

 

A regularly up-dated calendar of post-WSIS related meetings in the UN system
is still available at http://www.csbureau.info/posttunis.htm. 

 

WSIS accreditation and ECOSOC Consultative Status 

The CSTD Secretariat prepared two information notes - one for WSIS
accredited civil society entities and one for private sector entities - on
the status of non State Stakeholders in the work of the CSTD. Nothing really
new from the information we previously circulated in May, but it might help
clarifying some points. 

 

Remember indeed that WSIS accredited CS entities could participate in the
2007 and 2008 sessions of the CSTD. For the 2009 session on wards, NGOs will
have to be in consultative status with ECOSOC. Note that the ECOSOC
requested the ECOSOC Committee on NGOs (which review NGO applications for
consultative status) to consider applications from WSIS accredited CS
entities "as expeditiously as possible". 

 

See those notes at the following links:

-          Note for Civil Society: http://stdev.unctad.org/docs/ngo.pdf.

-          Note for business sector entities:
http://stdev.unctad.org/docs/business.pdf. 

 

All the best, 

 

Philippe

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> wsis@ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

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

 

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From bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de  Fri Oct  5 15:25:11 2007
From: bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Ralf Bendrath)
Date: Fri Oct  5 15:40:30 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS bracketing format?
In-Reply-To: <47024CF4.8030200@publicus.net>
References: <47024CF4.8030200@publicus.net>
Message-ID: <47064947.8010005@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

Steven Clift schrieb:
> If others know of polling software which could be used to allow readers
> to vote or rate alternative phrases that would be interesting as well.
A software like this was developed and tested in Germany 2001, for a
conference on education by the Heinrich B?ll Foundation.
More is here, but only in German: http://www.bildung2010.de/eManifest/

Not sure if it was ever used again.

You might want to ask Claudia Bremer who did the technical design and
moderation: http://www.bremer.cx/
From ocaproce_internationale at hotmail.com  Fri Oct  5 23:07:11 2007
From: ocaproce_internationale at hotmail.com (ocaproce internationale)
Date: Fri Oct  5 23:08:08 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] URGENT - Closure of the NGO ICTRC Office
	inTehran - Last c
Message-ID: <BAY109-F38F136727C2A002B11E82E89A90@phx.gbl>

Bonjour Philippe,

La signature de OCAPROCE Internationale est faite, doc ci-joint.


Princesse Micheline MAKOU DJOUMA
Presidente




>From: "CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam" <wsis@ngocongo.org>
>Reply-To: Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
>To: "'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'" <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] URGENT - Closure of the NGO ICTRC Office 
>inTehran - Last call for signature (deadline: 24 September)
>Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:21:40 +0200
>
>[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. 
>Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
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>Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of 
>this message!
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>


>Dear all,
>
>
>
>As you know, the attached petition letter is circulated among NGOs having
>participated in WSIS in support to the NGO ICTRC, whose offices in Tehran
>have been closed down and the staff prevented to work more than 6 months
>ago.
>
>
>
>The coordinators of this initiative are now willing to address this letter
>soon to the authorities.
>
>Send the signature of your organisation or if preferred in your personal
>capacity at wsis@ngocongo.org.
>
>Deadline: 24 September 2007.
>
>
>
>We received a number of signatures so far, but much more is needed from
>among those who worked with Mr. Amir Barmaki and Mr. Sohrab Razzaghi
>throughout the WSIS process.
>
>
>
>And feel free to circulate this petition to other interested NGOs.
>
>
>
>All the best,
>
>
>
>Philippe
>
>
>
>   _____
>
>De : CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org]
>Envoy? : jeudi, 30. ao?t 2007 18:20
>? : plenary@wsis-cs.org; bureau@wsis-cs.org; governance@lists.cpsr.org
>Cc : rbloem@ngocongo.org; 'CONGO - Philippe Dam'
>Objet : RE: Closure of ICTRC Office in Tehran - Letter for support open for
>signature
>
>
>
>Dear all,
>
>
>
>In follow up to our previous exchanges in the regards, note that the NGO
>support letter against the closure of the ICTRC Offices in Tehran has been
>changed in accordance with the various suggestions made on the Plenary 
>List.
>Find the updated letter and the provisional list of signatures received 
>from
>this list attached.
>
>
>
>We understood that the situation for ICTRC staff has not evolved since the
>last up date.
>
>
>
>NGOs involved in the WSIS process are encouraged to consider signing this
>letter ASAP. Individuals involved in WSIS are also encouraged to add their
>support to our colleagues from the ICTRC, even if they are not up to
>engaging their organisation.
>
>
>
>All the best,
>
>
>
>Ph
>
>
>
>   _____
>
>De : CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org]
>Envoy? : mercredi, 11. juillet 2007 18:53
>? : 'plenary@wsis-cs.org'; 'bureau@wsis-cs.org'; 
>'governance@lists.cpsr.org'
>Cc : 'rbloem@ngocongo.org'; 'CONGO - Philippe Dam'
>Objet : Closure of ICTRC Office in Tehran - Letter for support open for
>signature
>Importance : Haute
>
>
>
>Dear all,
>
>
>
>A couple of months ago, I forwarded an e-mail received from our WSIS
>colleague Mr. Sohrab Razzaghi, announcing that the office of the NGO he is
>the Executive Director of was closed and sealed by the Revolutionary Court
>without any legal justification or accusations. Apparently the situation 
>has
>not evolved and that the staff was prevented to work.
>
>
>
>This is of particular concern for all of us because the focal points for
>West Asia and the Middle East within the Civil Society Bureau during the
>WSIS preparatory phase were member of the ICTRC.
>
>
>
>A group of NGOs have drafted a support letter regretting the closure of the
>ICTRC office and asking for clarification to the Iranian Authorities.
>
>You are invited to consider signing this support letter. I particularly
>encourage all formerly CSB members to look into it, in support for our
>partners during the WSIS process.
>
>
>
>I?ll be happy to forward your signatures to the coordinators of this
>initiative.
>
>All the best,
>
>
>
>Philippe
>
>Philippe Dam
>CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat
>11, Avenue de la Paix
>CH-1202 Geneva
>Tel: +41 22 301 1000
>Fax: +41 22 301 2000
>E-mail:  <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> wsis@ngocongo.org
>Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org
>
>
>
>The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
>that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
>decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
>presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
>Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
>website at  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> www.ngocongo.org
>
>
>
>
>


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From hamidur_ict4d at hotmail.com  Sat Oct  6 11:01:36 2007
From: hamidur_ict4d at hotmail.com (Hamidur Rahman)
Date: Sat Oct  6 11:02:33 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] (no subject)
Message-ID: <BAY106-W3540E9D56DA9125EFE9F2ED0AA0@phx.gbl>


 
Beaware the Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha, this BANGLADESHI NGO cheated more than $1. 29 million in the name of ICT4D Project
 
 
For this case study we can start with Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha, this BANGLADESHI NGO cheated more than $1. 29 million award money known so far to me which I learn from Media and Internet, but used only may be max $100,000 (one hundred thousand) for the School boat project so far in my estimate. I am going to compile all the wrongdoing of this corrupt NGO of Bangladesh for Bill Gates Foundation and Washington post, to show them How this NGO used award money.   
 
 
I am requesting those Bangladeshi corrupt journalist who promoted this Corrupt NGO shamelessly without verifying the Fact, from now on, not to promote this corrupt NGO any more. It's time for finding the TRUTH.  
 
My all out support to Shahidul Shuvera from Independent News for his courageous journalism. We need to work together to find those corrupt Journalist and Corrupt NGO. Stay tune and Truth will prevail. 
 
 
To ensure transparency and accountability in the BANGLADESH NGO sector as many NGOs got involved in corruption, I request to present CTG take stern action against this Corrupt  Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha NGO. I am ready to provide all my evidence how this Corrupt NGO Cheated Foreign award money. 
 
Regards
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From: ceo at bnnrc.net (BNNRC)
Date: Sat Oct  6 16:07:27 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Seeking insight for the study on e-governance and
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From hamidur_ict4d at hotmail.com  Mon Oct  8 12:33:23 2007
From: hamidur_ict4d at hotmail.com (Hamidur Rahman)
Date: Mon Oct  8 12:33:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Beaware the Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha,
 this BANGLADESHI NGO cheated more than $1. 29 million in th
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Beaware the Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha(SSS), this BANGLADESHI NGO cheated more than $1. 29 million in the name of ICT for Development Project through International Award 
 
"Sayeed Rahman" banglait@gmail.com
 
 
For this case study we can start with Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha, this BANGLADESHI NGO cheated more than $1. 29 million award money known so far to me which I learn from Media and Internet, but used only may be max $100,000 (one hundred thousand) for the School boat project so far in my estimate. I am going to compile all the wrongdoing of this corrupt NGO of Bangladesh for Bill Gates Foundation and Washington post, to show them How this NGO used award money.   
 
 
I am requesting those Bangladeshi corrupt journalist who promoted this Corrupt NGO shamelessly without verifying the Fact, from now on, not to promote this corrupt NGO any more. It's time for finding the TRUTH.  
 
My all out support to Shahidul Shuvera from Independent News for his courageous journalism. We need to work together to find those corrupt Journalist and Corrupt NGO. Stay tune and Truth will prevail. 
 
 
To ensure transparency and accountability in the BANGLADESH NGO sector as many NGOs got involved in corruption, I request to present CTG take stern action against this Big Corrupt  Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha NGO. I am ready to provide all my evidence how this Corrupt NGO Cheated Foreign award money. 
 
Now Time to ACT!
 
Regards
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From motamar at gmail.com  Mon Oct  8 17:21:11 2007
From: motamar at gmail.com (malik khan)
Date: Mon Oct  8 17:21:18 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Beaware the Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha,
	this BANGLADESHI NGO cheated more than $1. 29 million in th
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Dear Hamidur Rehman
Assalam U Alaikum
 This always happens when things are not set right. If you look in to it I
am sure you will find ?Why this happened
it is very unfortunate. That is why you need good team . There must be some
body behind it.
 Dr Malik Khan


On 10/8/07, Hamidur Rahman <hamidur_ict4d@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
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>
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>
>
>
>
>   *Beaware the Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha(SSS), this BANGLADESHI NGO
> cheated more than $1. 29 million in the name of ICT for Development Project
> through International Award *
>
> *"Sayeed Rahman" banglait@gmail.com*
>
>
> For this case study we can start with Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha, this
> BANGLADESHI NGO cheated more than $1. 29 million award money known so far
> to me which I learn from Media and Internet, but used only may be max $100,000
> (one hundred thousand) for the School boat project so far in my estimate.
> I am going to compile all the wrongdoing of this corrupt NGO of Bangladesh
> for Bill Gates Foundation and Washington post, to show them How this NGO
> used award money.
>
>
> I am requesting those Bangladeshi corrupt journalist who promoted this
> Corrupt NGO shamelessly without verifying the Fact, from now on, not to
> promote this corrupt NGO any more. It's time for finding the TRUTH.
>
> My all out support to Shahidul Shuvera from Independent News for his
> courageous journalism. We need to work together to find those corrupt
> Journalist and Corrupt NGO. Stay tune and Truth will prevail.
>
>
> To ensure transparency and accountability in the BANGLADESH NGO sector as
> many NGOs got involved in corruption, I request to present CTG take stern
> action against this Big Corrupt  Shidulai Swanirvar Sangstha NGO. I am ready
> to provide all my evidence how this Corrupt NGO Cheated Foreign award money.
>
>
> Now Time to ACT!
>
> Regards
> Sayeed Rahman
> Founder BANGLA IT
> *http://www.banglait.org* <http://www.banglait.org/>
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From: hellstrom.johan at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Hellstr=F6m?=)
Date: Mon Oct  8 21:02:40 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] General overviews and resources on WSIS follow
	up and implementation process
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Dear All,
Thank you Phillippe for this post-WSIS update, very timely indeed. I am
about to go to Kigali and the ITU and GAID organised Connect Africa Summit
end of this month. Will there be any organised civil society
involvement/attendance? It is supposed to be an informal process with the
GAID aim to provide "a platform for an open, inclusive, multi-stakeholder
cross-sectoral policy dialogue", still the format of the conference seems to
be something else, ie following a traditional, exclusive high level panel
debate format where most of the issues are already discussed and decided.
Anyone who knows more about this or CS role in this process?
Best regards, Johan


On 10/4/07, CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam <wsis@ngocongo.org> wrote:
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>  Dear all,
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>
>
> Some weeks ago, it was asked on the Plenary list to bring some
> clarifications on the structures and articulations between the various
> post-WSIS institutional processes. Find below and attached some elements of
> answers and clarification:
>
>
>
> -          *Power-point presentation* on the WSIS implementation and
> follow up process: this document is used by Mr. Charles Geiger (Special
> Advisor to the UN CSTD and Former WSIS Executive Director) to present the
> post WSIS architecture within the UN system (see attached);
>
>
>
> -          An updated version of the *post WSIS chart*, together with an
> explanatory one-pager, prepared by CONGO (see attached; also available on
> line on the CONGO website:
> http://www.ngocongo.org/files/chart_on_post_wsis.pdf).
>
>
>
> -          I also suggest the reading of the chapter on *"WSIS in Review",
> * from the Global Information Society Watch 2007 Report, which provides
> relevant clarification on the matter (
> http://www.globaliswatch.org/download).
>
>
>
> I hope this can help! Feel free to indicate other resources on this issue.
>
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> All the best,
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> Ph
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From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Tue Oct  9 19:31:43 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the GAID Steering Committeemeeting (NY,
	19 September 2007)
In-Reply-To: <200709141842.l8EIgw5W007125@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <200710091830.l99IURIK017460@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

Before the official summary of the GAID Steering Committee (19 September
2007) meeting is released by the GAID Secretariat, find below some
preliminary information on the progress made during the discussion. 

 

Communities of Expertise

The Steering took a more flexible approach than proposed by the GAID
Secretariat, and only discontinued one CoE which already had unilaterally
terminated its activities.

 

All other CoEs are continued, and members of those CoEs not active enough
will be contacted by the GAID Secretariat; those CoEs will be looked at and
supported for better progress. 

 

Connect Africa

Dr Hamadoun Tour?, ITU SG, gave an update on the organisation of the Summit
?Connect Africa? (Kigali, Rwanda, 29-30 October 2007), organised by the ITU,
the African Union, the World Bank and GAID. This meeting is planned to be
done in a result oriented nature, with the support of the presence of the
ITU SG and a number of Heads of States in Africa. 

 

GAID Business Plan for 2008

Comments made on the CS Plenary List were forwarded to the Steering
Committee. The two additional proposed focus themes (Connectivity and Access
and Financing for Development). On FfD, the main comment focused on how GAID
can have a specific value in the Follow up Conference on FfD to review the
implementation of Monterrey Consensus (Doha, 2008) and to the UNGA High
Level Segment on Financing for Development (New York, 23-24 October 2007).
The need to consider not only innovative ways, but also traditional and
additional ways of financing mechanisms for ICT4D was also stressed, as well
as the need for both quantity and quality of aid.

 

The Flagship Partnership Initiative ?Open training platform? proposed by
UNESCO was supported by the Steering Committee. See proposal paper attached.


 

An additional idea discussed was that Switzerland expressed the wish to act
to connect all schools free. ITU expressed the interest to take as one of
its operational points so that a focal point will be set up on that at the
ITU.

 

Budget

The Steering Committee reiterated its call for contribution to the GAID
budget to all members of the Strategy Council and Steering Committee (except
civil society). There was an agreement that fundraising strategies should be
linked with GAID specific activities and that all contribution made should
be published. 

 

Renewal of GAID structures membership

It was agreed that more consultation was needed within the various
stakeholders groups in the process of renewing the membership of the
Steering Committee and the Strategy Council. Therefore the deadlines for the
nominations and appointment processes are as follows:

 


 

GAID Steering Committee

GAID Strategy Council


Deadline for new nominations for membership 

 

30 November 2007

 

30 November 2007


Announcement of the Appointment of new members

 

End of December 2007

 

End of December 2007


Office taking of the new members

 

1 April 2008

 

1 April 2008


Date of the GAID structure with its renewed membership

May 2008

Kuala Lumpur

May 2008

Kuala Lumpur

 

Next GAID meetings

The Steering Committee supported the invitation by the Government of
Malaysia to host the next GAID Strategy Council and Global Forum meeting in
May 2008, in conjunction with the World Congress on Information Technology
(18-22 May 2008). The dates of the Steering Committee meeting will be
confirmed soon, even though it was recognised that there is a risk of
conflicting with some ALF meetings in Geneva.

 

 

We will of course forward you any documentation coming from GAID in this
regard.

Feel free to get back to us for any other question.

 

Philippe

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> wsis@ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

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

  _____  

De : plenary-bounces@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces@wsis-cs.org] De la
part de CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam
Envoy? : vendredi, 14. septembre 2007 19:44
? : plenary@wsis-cs.org; governance@lists.cpsr.org
Objet : [WSIS CS-Plenary] Preparations for the next GAID Steering
Committeemeeting (NY, 19 September 2007)
Importance : Haute

 

Dear all, 

 

This is to remind you the up-coming GAID Steering Committee meeting taking
place in New York on 19 September 2007. As you know, Renate will participate
in this Steering Committee meeting, and we would be happy to forward your
view and feedback on some of the issues to be discussed, in particular:

- New focus themes of GAID to be included in the 2008 GAID Business Plan
(Connectivity and Financing for Development);

- Preparations for the GAID Strategy Council and Global Forum in 2008;

- Updates on the GAID Strategy Council and Steering Committee membership
renewal;

- Up dates on the GAID outreach and media strategy.

 

 

Business plan of GAID in 2008:

Proposed focus on Connectivity and access and Financing for ICT4D

 

 

The current proposal of the GAID Business Plan for 2008 is mainly to update
the 2007 Business Plan. Among the noticeable changes, it is proposed to add,
in addition to the existing focuses on Education, Health, Entrepreneurship
and Governance, a focus on:

 

- Connectivity and Access: this follows the agreement at the Santa Clara
meeting (February 2008) to have a stronger focus on Connectivity (in
particular in Africa). The Steering Committee will therefore discuss how
GAID should develop its activities in this area. (Fyi, the draft text to be
added in the 2008 Business Plan reads as follows: ?It was decided at the
February 2007 meeting of the Steering Committee in Santa Clara, that, in
2008, significant attention will be paid to the topics of connectivity and
access, with special consideration given to Africa, with the intention of
taking a global view of connectivity issues in developing regions in the
following period?). 

 

- Innovative mechanisms for financing for ICT for Development: in the
context of the 5-year review of the UN Monterrey Conference on Financing for
Development, to be held in Doha (August 2008), such a GAID focus would help
to feed into the preparations of the Doha Review Conference. (Fyi, the draft
text to be added in the 2008 Business Plan reads as follows: ?Specifically,
GAID could make an important contribution in the area of innovative
mechanisms of financing, including microfinance. Members may note that in
August 2008, a major conference ? a five-year review of the Monterrey
Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) ? will be held in Doha, Qatar.
Innovative mechanisms of financing will be one of the important issues on
the agenda, as significant initiatives in this area have been taken by
several countries as well as by other stakeholders. Some of these
initiatives also pertain to innovative financing mechanisms for ICT for
development. This issue will be a significant theme at the 2008 session of
the Strategy Council. The outcomes of these deliberations will be fed into
the preparations for the Doha review conference on FfD as a contribution of
GAID?)

 

We would be happy to have some feedback from you on those two proposals,
based on the proposed inclusions to be included in the 2008 Business Plan.

 

 

Next Strategy Council and GAID Global Forum meeting (May 2008)

 

 

It is proposed that the next Strategy Council and Steering Committee meeting
will be held in Kuala Lumpur in May 2008, following an offer by the
Government of Malaysia. This would take place in conjunction with the World
Congress on Information Technology (WCIT).

 

Find attached the preliminary concept paper outlining the proposed format
and content of the two meetings. It was proposed in Santa Clara that the 2nd
GAID Global Forum in 2008 would focus on the issue of Connectivity.

 

We will of course stress the need to find financial support for a number of
grassroots NGO representatives to join these meetings. We will also call for
a needed coordination with the CSTD Secretariat and the Secretariats of
international organisations involved in WSIS implementation, to avoid
conflicting dates with the IS week in Geneva! 

 

Please send us some comments and feedback that could be forwarded to the
Steering Committee meetings.

 

 

Renewal of GAID Strategy Council and Steering Committee membership:

Postponement of the deadlines for new nominations

 

 

It seems that the various categories of stakeholder had difficulties to
reply to the GAID Secretariat summer call for candidates. Therefore, it is
currently proposed that the deadlines for nominations and consultations
within stakeholders? groups be extended until 30 November 2007.

 

This would give CS constituencies a chance to engage in a timely
self-selection process between now and 30 November. The new membership of
both the Steering Committee and the Strategy Council would be announced by
the UN SG in December this year and would enter in function in April 2008
(before the May 2008 proposed meetings).

 

Any comment on that?

 

Let me remind you here that the deadline for current members of the Strategy
Council to announce their interest to serve in the Council is 1 October
2007.

 

 

Progress Report:

Review the progress of Flagship Partnership Initiatives and Communities of
Expertise

 

 

The Steering Committee will consider looking at the work achieved by the
various GAID Communities of Expertise, and see whether some inactive CoEs
should be disconnected from GAID.

 

The GAID Steering Committee might at this stage consider only discontinuing
those CoEs having announced to the GAID Secretariat that they are not
willing or not able to continue their engagement.

 

 

GAID Media Strategy and Outreach

 

 

Find attached also a draft note on GAID outreach activities. 

We did not yet consider it, but would also be interested in getting your
feedback in this regard.

 

 

 

Feel free to ask us any question in this regard.

Attached documents:

            - Draft Agenda of the Steering Committee meeting.

            - Preliminary concept paper on the proposed next GAID Strategy
Council and Global Forum.

            - Draft note on GAID outreach activities

 

Sorry for the rather long message


 

Philippe

 

 

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> wsis@ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

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

 

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From parminder at itforchange.net  Wed Oct 10 06:36:43 2007
From: parminder at itforchange.net (Parminder)
Date: Wed Oct 10 06:37:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [Gov 89] Update on the GAID Steering
	Committeemeeting (NY, 19 September 2007)
In-Reply-To: <200710091830.l99IURIK017460@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <20071010053714.90EAE1DC81C@mail.gn.apc.org>

Thanks Philippe, I see some useful progress in the following text.

 

>GAID Business Plan for 2008

>Comments made on the CS Plenary List were forwarded to the Steering
Committee. The two additional proposed focus themes (Connectivity and Access
and Financing >for Development). On FfD, the main comment focused on how
GAID can have a specific value in the Follow up Conference on FfD to review
the implementation of >Monterrey Consensus (Doha, 2008) and to the UNGA High
Level Segment on Financing for Development (New York, 23-24 October 2007).
The need to consider not >only innovative ways, but also traditional and
additional ways of financing mechanisms for ICT4D was also stressed, as well
as the need for both quantity and quality of >aid.

 

The addition of ?traditional? ways of funding ? which stands for public
funding ? in addition to ?innovative? ways ? which mostly are about private
sector funding (though there is this important but under-explored area of
community funding and ownership, an area in which some civil society groups,
including my organization is working) is an important gain. 

 

I think we are seeing some shifts in the ?dominant? ICTD paradigm. 

 

This shift is also seen in how ICT access has begun to be seen as a public
good, and public infrastructure. There is already a flagship project under
GAID about free connectivity to schools, now the Swiss government seems to
re-emphasize this issue, and ITU is taking this idea under its wing. 

 

>An additional idea discussed was that Switzerland expressed the wish to act
to connect all schools free. ITU expressed the interest to take as one of
its operational >points so that a focal point will be set up on that at the
ITU.

 

It is important to note the far-reaching significance of such assertions,
and early policy directions. ICT infrastructure has hitherto been pushed in
developing countries either as a pre-dominantly business and commercial
infrastructure, and even if to be used for development, revenue models and
financial sustainability have been the first and foremost principle of every
ICTD project, distorting all other development objectives. This thinking is
now making some retreat, with the understanding that (1) ICTs are even more
importantly a social infrastructure and (2) they have such fundamental role
in many basic and valued social processes that their provision as  public
goods/ public infrastructure is something that policies should give serious
attention to. 

 

If schools/ students should have free Internet access, there is hardly much
of a conceptual jump to communities needing free Internet access for their
basic knowledge requirements, as well as access to and participation in
society?s governance, education, health, livelihood and all other systems.
So, well, we are making progress :-). Not being at a school cannot be a
disqualification for all these basic needs, entitlements and rights ? sooner
or later we all will see the absurdity of this notion. 

 

And good that civil society is explicitly excluded from ?financial
contribution norms?, which acknowledges the CS advocacy on this issue.

 

>The Steering Committee reiterated its call for contribution to the GAID
budget to all members of the Strategy Council and Steering Committee (except
civil society).

 

UNESCO?s initiative ?open training platform? is also an useful addition, as
promoting institutional forms of sharing knowledge on non-commercial open
basis.  

 

Parminder 

________________________________________________

Parminder Jeet Singh

IT for Change, Bangalore

Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 

Tel: (+91-80) 2665 4134, 2653 6890

Fax: (+91-80) 4146 1055

 <http://www.itforchange.net/> www.ITforChange.net 

  _____  

From: gov-bounces@wsis-gov.org [mailto:gov-bounces@wsis-gov.org] On Behalf
Of CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:01 AM
To: 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'; governance@lists.cpsr.org
Cc: gov@wsis-gov.org
Subject: [Gov 89] Update on the GAID Steering Committeemeeting (NY,19
September 2007)

 

Dear all, 

 

Before the official summary of the GAID Steering Committee (19 September
2007) meeting is released by the GAID Secretariat, find below some
preliminary information on the progress made during the discussion. 

 

Communities of Expertise

The Steering took a more flexible approach than proposed by the GAID
Secretariat, and only discontinued one CoE which already had unilaterally
terminated its activities.

 

All other CoEs are continued, and members of those CoEs not active enough
will be contacted by the GAID Secretariat; those CoEs will be looked at and
supported for better progress. 

 

Connect Africa

Dr Hamadoun Tour?, ITU SG, gave an update on the organisation of the Summit
?Connect Africa? (Kigali, Rwanda, 29-30 October 2007), organised by the ITU,
the African Union, the World Bank and GAID. This meeting is planned to be
done in a result oriented nature, with the support of the presence of the
ITU SG and a number of Heads of States in Africa. 

 

GAID Business Plan for 2008

Comments made on the CS Plenary List were forwarded to the Steering
Committee. The two additional proposed focus themes (Connectivity and Access
and Financing for Development). On FfD, the main comment focused on how GAID
can have a specific value in the Follow up Conference on FfD to review the
implementation of Monterrey Consensus (Doha, 2008) and to the UNGA High
Level Segment on Financing for Development (New York, 23-24 October 2007).
The need to consider not only innovative ways, but also traditional and
additional ways of financing mechanisms for ICT4D was also stressed, as well
as the need for both quantity and quality of aid.

 

The Flagship Partnership Initiative ?Open training platform? proposed by
UNESCO was supported by the Steering Committee. See proposal paper attached.


 

An additional idea discussed was that Switzerland expressed the wish to act
to connect all schools free. ITU expressed the interest to take as one of
its operational points so that a focal point will be set up on that at the
ITU.

 

Budget

The Steering Committee reiterated its call for contribution to the GAID
budget to all members of the Strategy Council and Steering Committee (except
civil society). There was an agreement that fundraising strategies should be
linked with GAID specific activities and that all contribution made should
be published. 

 

Renewal of GAID structures membership

It was agreed that more consultation was needed within the various
stakeholders groups in the process of renewing the membership of the
Steering Committee and the Strategy Council. Therefore the deadlines for the
nominations and appointment processes are as follows:

 


 

GAID Steering Committee

GAID Strategy Council


Deadline for new nominations for membership 

 

30 November 2007

 

30 November 2007


Announcement of the Appointment of new members

 

End of December 2007

 

End of December 2007


Office taking of the new members

 

1 April 2008

 

1 April 2008


Date of the GAID structure with its renewed membership

May 2008

Kuala Lumpur

May 2008

Kuala Lumpur

 

Next GAID meetings

The Steering Committee supported the invitation by the Government of
Malaysia to host the next GAID Strategy Council and Global Forum meeting in
May 2008, in conjunction with the World Congress on Information Technology
(18-22 May 2008). The dates of the Steering Committee meeting will be
confirmed soon, even though it was recognised that there is a risk of
conflicting with some ALF meetings in Geneva.

 

 

We will of course forward you any documentation coming from GAID in this
regard.

Feel free to get back to us for any other question.

 

Philippe

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> wsis@ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

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

  _____  

De : plenary-bounces@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces@wsis-cs.org] De la
part de CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam
Envoy? : vendredi, 14. septembre 2007 19:44
? : plenary@wsis-cs.org; governance@lists.cpsr.org
Objet : [WSIS CS-Plenary] Preparations for the next GAID Steering
Committeemeeting (NY, 19 September 2007)
Importance : Haute

 

Dear all, 

 

This is to remind you the up-coming GAID Steering Committee meeting taking
place in New York on 19 September 2007. As you know, Renate will participate
in this Steering Committee meeting, and we would be happy to forward your
view and feedback on some of the issues to be discussed, in particular:

- New focus themes of GAID to be included in the 2008 GAID Business Plan
(Connectivity and Financing for Development);

- Preparations for the GAID Strategy Council and Global Forum in 2008;

- Updates on the GAID Strategy Council and Steering Committee membership
renewal;

- Up dates on the GAID outreach and media strategy.

 

 

Business plan of GAID in 2008:

Proposed focus on Connectivity and access and Financing for ICT4D

 

 

The current proposal of the GAID Business Plan for 2008 is mainly to update
the 2007 Business Plan. Among the noticeable changes, it is proposed to add,
in addition to the existing focuses on Education, Health, Entrepreneurship
and Governance, a focus on:

 

- Connectivity and Access: this follows the agreement at the Santa Clara
meeting (February 2008) to have a stronger focus on Connectivity (in
particular in Africa). The Steering Committee will therefore discuss how
GAID should develop its activities in this area. (Fyi, the draft text to be
added in the 2008 Business Plan reads as follows: ?It was decided at the
February 2007 meeting of the Steering Committee in Santa Clara, that, in
2008, significant attention will be paid to the topics of connectivity and
access, with special consideration given to Africa, with the intention of
taking a global view of connectivity issues in developing regions in the
following period?). 

 

- Innovative mechanisms for financing for ICT for Development: in the
context of the 5-year review of the UN Monterrey Conference on Financing for
Development, to be held in Doha (August 2008), such a GAID focus would help
to feed into the preparations of the Doha Review Conference. (Fyi, the draft
text to be added in the 2008 Business Plan reads as follows: ?Specifically,
GAID could make an important contribution in the area of innovative
mechanisms of financing, including microfinance. Members may note that in
August 2008, a major conference ? a five-year review of the Monterrey
Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) ? will be held in Doha, Qatar.
Innovative mechanisms of financing will be one of the important issues on
the agenda, as significant initiatives in this area have been taken by
several countries as well as by other stakeholders. Some of these
initiatives also pertain to innovative financing mechanisms for ICT for
development. This issue will be a significant theme at the 2008 session of
the Strategy Council. The outcomes of these deliberations will be fed into
the preparations for the Doha review conference on FfD as a contribution of
GAID?)

 

We would be happy to have some feedback from you on those two proposals,
based on the proposed inclusions to be included in the 2008 Business Plan.

 

 

Next Strategy Council and GAID Global Forum meeting (May 2008)

 

 

It is proposed that the next Strategy Council and Steering Committee meeting
will be held in Kuala Lumpur in May 2008, following an offer by the
Government of Malaysia. This would take place in conjunction with the World
Congress on Information Technology (WCIT).

 

Find attached the preliminary concept paper outlining the proposed format
and content of the two meetings. It was proposed in Santa Clara that the 2nd
GAID Global Forum in 2008 would focus on the issue of Connectivity.

 

We will of course stress the need to find financial support for a number of
grassroots NGO representatives to join these meetings. We will also call for
a needed coordination with the CSTD Secretariat and the Secretariats of
international organisations involved in WSIS implementation, to avoid
conflicting dates with the IS week in Geneva! 

 

Please send us some comments and feedback that could be forwarded to the
Steering Committee meetings.

 

 

Renewal of GAID Strategy Council and Steering Committee membership:

Postponement of the deadlines for new nominations

 

 

It seems that the various categories of stakeholder had difficulties to
reply to the GAID Secretariat summer call for candidates. Therefore, it is
currently proposed that the deadlines for nominations and consultations
within stakeholders? groups be extended until 30 November 2007.

 

This would give CS constituencies a chance to engage in a timely
self-selection process between now and 30 November. The new membership of
both the Steering Committee and the Strategy Council would be announced by
the UN SG in December this year and would enter in function in April 2008
(before the May 2008 proposed meetings).

 

Any comment on that?

 

Let me remind you here that the deadline for current members of the Strategy
Council to announce their interest to serve in the Council is 1 October
2007.

 

 

Progress Report:

Review the progress of Flagship Partnership Initiatives and Communities of
Expertise

 

 

The Steering Committee will consider looking at the work achieved by the
various GAID Communities of Expertise, and see whether some inactive CoEs
should be disconnected from GAID.

 

The GAID Steering Committee might at this stage consider only discontinuing
those CoEs having announced to the GAID Secretariat that they are not
willing or not able to continue their engagement.

 

 

GAID Media Strategy and Outreach

 

 

Find attached also a draft note on GAID outreach activities. 

We did not yet consider it, but would also be interested in getting your
feedback in this regard.

 

 

 

Feel free to ask us any question in this regard.

Attached documents:

            - Draft Agenda of the Steering Committee meeting.

            - Preliminary concept paper on the proposed next GAID Strategy
Council and Global Forum.

            - Draft note on GAID outreach activities

 

Sorry for the rather long message


 

Philippe

 

 

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> wsis@ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
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From: mmasmoudi10 at yahoo.fr (masmoudi mustapha)
Date: Wed Oct 10 10:47:02 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the GAID Steering Committeemeeting
	(NY, 19 September 2007)
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Je vous annonce la cr?ation officielle du r?seau TIC pour la soci?t? civile arabe ICT Arab Association for Civil Society  ( la rabta).
  Ce m?canisme da la shabaka prend la relais du Caucus arabe qui a accompagn? le processus du SMSI.
  Pri?re nous communiquer le calendrier des prochaines r?unions de la soci?t? civile concern?e par les TICs et auxquelles il serait opportun d?assurer la pr?sence de ce nouveau r?seau. 
   
  Coordinateur  de caucus arabe
  Facil?tateur du r?seau arabe
  Mustapha Masmoudi.


CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam <wsis@ngocongo.org> a ?crit :  [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]

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      v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}        st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                Dear all, 
   
  Before the official summary of the GAID Steering Committee (19 September 2007) meeting is released by the GAID Secretariat, find below some preliminary information on the progress made during the discussion. 
   
  Communities of Expertise
  The Steering took a more flexible approach than proposed by the GAID Secretariat, and only discontinued one CoE which already had unilaterally terminated its activities.
   
  All other CoEs are continued, and members of those CoEs not active enough will be contacted by the GAID Secretariat; those CoEs will be looked at and supported for better progress. 
   
  Connect Africa
  Dr Hamadoun Tour?, ITU SG, gave an update on the organisation of the Summit ?Connect Africa? (Kigali, Rwanda, 29-30 October 2007), organised by the ITU, the African Union, the World Bank and GAID. This meeting is planned to be done in a result oriented nature, with the support of the presence of the ITU SG and a number of Heads of States in Africa. 
   
  GAID Business Plan for 2008
  Comments made on the CS Plenary List were forwarded to the Steering Committee. The two additional proposed focus themes (Connectivity and Access and Financing for Development). On FfD, the main comment focused on how GAID can have a specific value in the Follow up Conference on FfD to review the implementation of Monterrey Consensus (Doha, 2008) and to the UNGA High Level Segment on Financing for Development (New York, 23-24 October 2007). The need to consider not only innovative ways, but also traditional and additional ways of financing mechanisms for ICT4D was also stressed, as well as the need for both quantity and quality of aid.
   
  The Flagship Partnership Initiative ?Open training platform? proposed by UNESCO was supported by the Steering Committee. See proposal paper attached. 
   
  An additional idea discussed was that Switzerland expressed the wish to act to connect all schools free. ITU expressed the interest to take as one of its operational points so that a focal point will be set up on that at the ITU.
   
  Budget
  The Steering Committee reiterated its call for contribution to the GAID budget to all members of the Strategy Council and Steering Committee (except civil society). There was an agreement that fundraising strategies should be linked with GAID specific activities and that all contribution made should be published. 
   
  Renewal of GAID structures membership
  It was agreed that more consultation was needed within the various stakeholders groups in the process of renewing the membership of the Steering Committee and the Strategy Council. Therefore the deadlines for the nominations and appointment processes are as follows:
   
           
    GAID Steering Committee
    GAID Strategy Council
      Deadline for new nominations for membership 
     
  30 November 2007
     
  30 November 2007
      Announcement of the Appointment of new members
     
  End of December 2007
     
  End of December 2007
      Office taking of the new members
     
  1 April 2008
     
  1 April 2008
      Date of the GAID structure with its renewed membership
    May 2008
  Kuala Lumpur
    May 2008
  Kuala Lumpur
   
  Next GAID meetings
  The Steering Committee supported the invitation by the Government of Malaysia to host the next GAID Strategy Council and Global Forum meeting in May 2008, in conjunction with the World Congress on Information Technology (18-22 May 2008). The dates of the Steering Committee meeting will be confirmed soon, even though it was recognised that there is a risk of conflicting with some ALF meetings in Geneva.
   
   
  We will of course forward you any documentation coming from GAID in this regard.
  Feel free to get back to us for any other question.
   
  Philippe
    Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail: wsis@ngocongo.org
Website: www.ngocongo.org 
   
  The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our website at www.ngocongo.org

      
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  De : plenary-bounces@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces@wsis-cs.org] De la part de CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam
Envoy? : vendredi, 14. septembre 2007 19:44
? : plenary@wsis-cs.org; governance@lists.cpsr.org
Objet : [WSIS CS-Plenary] Preparations for the next GAID Steering Committeemeeting (NY, 19 September 2007)
Importance : Haute

   
  Dear all, 
   
  This is to remind you the up-coming GAID Steering Committee meeting taking place in New York on 19 September 2007. As you know, Renate will participate in this Steering Committee meeting, and we would be happy to forward your view and feedback on some of the issues to be discussed, in particular:
  - New focus themes of GAID to be included in the 2008 GAID Business Plan (Connectivity and Financing for Development);
  - Preparations for the GAID Strategy Council and Global Forum in 2008;
  - Updates on the GAID Strategy Council and Steering Committee membership renewal;
  - Up dates on the GAID outreach and media strategy.
   
     
  Business plan of GAID in 2008:
  Proposed focus on Connectivity and access and Financing for ICT4D
   

   
  The current proposal of the GAID Business Plan for 2008 is mainly to update the 2007 Business Plan. Among the noticeable changes, it is proposed to add, in addition to the existing focuses on Education, Health, Entrepreneurship and Governance, a focus on:
   
  - Connectivity and Access: this follows the agreement at the Santa Clara meeting (February 2008) to have a stronger focus on Connectivity (in particular in Africa). The Steering Committee will therefore discuss how GAID should develop its activities in this area. (Fyi, the draft text to be added in the 2008 Business Plan reads as follows: ?It was decided at the February 2007 meeting of the Steering Committee in Santa Clara, that, in 2008, significant attention will be paid to the topics of connectivity and access, with special consideration given to Africa, with the intention of taking a global view of connectivity issues in developing regions in the following period?). 
   
  - Innovative mechanisms for financing for ICT for Development: in the context of the 5-year review of the UN Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development, to be held in Doha (August 2008), such a GAID focus would help to feed into the preparations of the Doha Review Conference. (Fyi, the draft text to be added in the 2008 Business Plan reads as follows: ?Specifically, GAID could make an important contribution in the area of innovative mechanisms of financing, including microfinance. Members may note that in August 2008, a major conference ? a five-year review of the Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) ? will be held in Doha, Qatar. Innovative mechanisms of financing will be one of the important issues on the agenda, as significant initiatives in this area have been taken by several countries as well as by other stakeholders. Some of these initiatives also pertain to innovative financing mechanisms for ICT for development. This issue will be a
 significant theme at the 2008 session of the Strategy Council. The outcomes of these deliberations will be fed into the preparations for the Doha review conference on FfD as a contribution of GAID?)
   
  We would be happy to have some feedback from you on those two proposals, based on the proposed inclusions to be included in the 2008 Business Plan.
   
     
  Next Strategy Council and GAID Global Forum meeting (May 2008)
   

   
  It is proposed that the next Strategy Council and Steering Committee meeting will be held in Kuala Lumpur in May 2008, following an offer by the Government of Malaysia. This would take place in conjunction with the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT).
   
  Find attached the preliminary concept paper outlining the proposed format and content of the two meetings. It was proposed in Santa Clara that the 2nd GAID Global Forum in 2008 would focus on the issue of Connectivity.
   
  We will of course stress the need to find financial support for a number of grassroots NGO representatives to join these meetings. We will also call for a needed coordination with the CSTD Secretariat and the Secretariats of international organisations involved in WSIS implementation, to avoid conflicting dates with the IS week in Geneva! 
   
  Please send us some comments and feedback that could be forwarded to the Steering Committee meetings.
   
     
  Renewal of GAID Strategy Council and Steering Committee membership:
  Postponement of the deadlines for new nominations
   

   
  It seems that the various categories of stakeholder had difficulties to reply to the GAID Secretariat summer call for candidates. Therefore, it is currently proposed that the deadlines for nominations and consultations within stakeholders? groups be extended until 30 November 2007.
   
  This would give CS constituencies a chance to engage in a timely self-selection process between now and 30 November. The new membership of both the Steering Committee and the Strategy Council would be announced by the UN SG in December this year and would enter in function in April 2008 (before the May 2008 proposed meetings).
   
  Any comment on that?
   
  Let me remind you here that the deadline for current members of the Strategy Council to announce their interest to serve in the Council is 1 October 2007.
   
     
  Progress Report:
  Review the progress of Flagship Partnership Initiatives and Communities of Expertise
   

   
  The Steering Committee will consider looking at the work achieved by the various GAID Communities of Expertise, and see whether some inactive CoEs should be disconnected from GAID.
   
  The GAID Steering Committee might at this stage consider only discontinuing those CoEs having announced to the GAID Secretariat that they are not willing or not able to continue their engagement.
   
     
  GAID Media Strategy and Outreach
   

   
  Find attached also a draft note on GAID outreach activities. 
  We did not yet consider it, but would also be interested in getting your feedback in this regard.
   
   
   
  Feel free to ask us any question in this regard.
  Attached documents:
              - Draft Agenda of the Steering Committee meeting.
              - Preliminary concept paper on the proposed next GAID Strategy Council and Global Forum.
              - Draft note on GAID outreach activities
   
  Sorry for the rather long message

   
  Philippe
   
   
    Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail: wsis@ngocongo.org
Website: www.ngocongo.org 
   
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From: avri at acm.org (Avri Doria)
Date: Wed Oct 10 23:45:04 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [Gov 89] Update on the GAID Steering
	Committeemeeting (NY, 19 September 2007)
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Hi,

While i agree with you - especially as i believe education is a life  
long process and that there are many places where just because   
someone is an adult does not mean they should not be brought out of  
illiteracy, at this point I will be very happy to see the ITU  
seriously take on the commitment to see that _all_  schools  
_everywhere_  are connected to the Internet.

a.

On 10 okt 2007, at 07.36, Parminder wrote:

>
>
>
> >An additional idea discussed was that Switzerland expressed the  
> wish to act to connect all schools free. ITU expressed the interest  
> to take as one of its operational >points so that a focal point  
> will be set up on that at the ITU.
>
>
>
> It is important to note the far-reaching significance of such  
> assertions, and early policy directions. ICT infrastructure has  
> hitherto been pushed in developing countries either as a pre- 
> dominantly business and commercial infrastructure, and even if to  
> be used for development, revenue models and financial  
> sustainability have been the first and foremost principle of every  
> ICTD project, distorting all other development objectives. This  
> thinking is now making some retreat, with the understanding that  
> (1) ICTs are even more importantly a social infrastructure and (2)  
> they have such fundamental role in many basic and valued social  
> processes that their provision as  public goods/ public  
> infrastructure is something that policies should give serious  
> attention to.
>
>
>
> If schools/ students should have free Internet access, there is  
> hardly much of a conceptual jump to communities needing free  
> Internet access for their basic knowledge requirements, as well as  
> access to and participation in society?s governance, education,  
> health, livelihood and all other systems. So, well, we are making  
> progress J. Not being at a school cannot be a disqualification for  
> all these basic needs, entitlements and rights ? sooner or later we  
> all will see the absurdity of this notion.
>
>
>
> And good that civil society is explicitly excluded from ?financial  
> contribution norms?, which acknowledges the CS advocacy on this issue.
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From: ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es (Lady Murrugarra)
Date: Thu Oct 11 01:25:49 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Foro : REDES DE APRENDIZAJE y APRENDIZAJE EN RED
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From: hamidur_ict4d at hotmail.com (Hamidur Rahman)
Date: Thu Oct 11 07:52:49 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] 
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Spine chilling BIJF?s report on 
Shidhulai Swnirvar Sangstha( Bangladesh)Shahidul K K ShuvraEvery tool of info-tech is attached to transparency and it is one of the shields to protect society from the invasion of corruption. Many IT pioneers often have roundtable discussions favouring eGovernance for urging the nation to be corruption free. They regularly express determination against wrongdoing via ICTs. Unfortunately, some recent news make us doubt on the sincerity of a few IT organisations. So far IT journalists, who have computer background, besides practice of journa! lism, are eagerly promoting the ICT sector. Some fantastic reports by them brought blessings to many IT bodies. But the current scenario is not the same as it was once. The tone of info-tech writers has been changing strikingly.Some promising IT journalists from different daily Bangla and English newspapers, IT magazines and agency made a body in 2002 called Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum (BIJF). All of members are young but talented in the boarder perspective. Now they have developed professional skills in the new field of journalism, which is popularly known as IT journalism.    Members of BIJF are committed to keep their pen inviolate against corruption. So a few months ago almost every member got a letter from a member of BASIS. A few days before a meeting of BASIS that gentleman attached Bangla and English files with his well-written letter of request to the journalists. As a witness he narrated how the software think tank has been involved in corruption. A simple cashier cannot illegally channel out 20 lakh Taka gradually without help of BASIS board of directors. He also informed the journalists about the misappropriation of EEF fund of Bangladesh Bank by some unscrupulous members of the software trade body. He requested the journalists to carry out an investigation of the manipulation of the EEF fund and how it made some unscrupulous IT entrepreneurs rich instead enriching our software industry.Another hot topic over the Net was an informative discussion on SHIDHULAI SWNIRVAR SANGSTHA. Debates and discussions of several yahoo groups inspired the six members of BIJF to visit the project sites of the NGO in three groups. After the massive investigation, they released a 2,726 word report to the IT newsmen of all newspapers as well as info-tech based organisations. The investigative report surprised me a lot. I was reading the report with hair rising suspense.     I knew the executive director of SHIDHULAI  SWNIRVAR SANGSTHA had won three international prestigious awards for outstanding contribution in teaching under privileged students how to use the computer. One award was from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) named Equator Prize and another prize was given by Ashden Trust called Ashden Award, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (SFCT), UK. The executive director received one of the awards from ex-vice president of US Al Gore.  Prize money of the awards was more than one million dollars. In the context of Bangladesh the money is not a joke. How much tax did the award winner pay? What is the National Board of Revenue doing?    The winning of several international awards drew attention of many ICT related organisations as well as ICT journalists. I think receiving such awards was suicidal for the NGO because it pushed the people to see what the NGO is actually doing. By receiving many covetous awards the NGO itself opened the Pandora box to the people.       According to the claim of the NGO 88 boats are delivering its services. Among the 88 boats, 15 boats are been using as floating classrooms; 24 boats have library facilities, 10 boats are serving mobile education and information centres, 30 boats include charging stations which can charge 60-120 batteries for small solar-home-systems (SHS), and 60 to 120 portable solar lanterns and nine boats are used for health care and many more services.But BIJF investigation found the NGO had highly exaggerated its activities. It did nothing compared to its superficial claims. People of the NGO project area of Chalanbeel do not know much about its functions. Details are narrated exclusively in the BIJF report. News and columns on the basis of the report were published in some newspaper and also posted over the Net. Thanks to the members of BIJF who visited every nook and cranny of the NGO?s project periphery.Blame should be also shared by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Ashden Trust, the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (SFCT), UK because inefficiently they selected the wrong man for the awards. How can they only rely on a few newspaper reports for awarding people? They should have monitoring team even at the grass root levels for selecting the right person for an award. Actually giving recognition to a dishonest man is one of the great hindrances to our development. Real organisations or persons cannot get a chance to go to funding, charity and other developing bodies while some of the dishonest men somehow set up good connection with them.           So far the outcome from ICT sector is not satisfactory, even after some contribution of a small number of individuals and organisations. Since 1990s we were expecting many success stories from the sector. But still the sector is lagging behind for some problems. So checking corruption is very much needed for the benefits of ICT sector.Caption- Members of BIJF found three underconstruction boats and one boat, which was locked.   
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From: hamidur_ict4d at hotmail.com (Hamidur Rahman)
Date: Thu Oct 11 07:59:11 2007
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Spine chilling BIJF?s report on Shidhulai Swnirvar Sangstha( Bangladesh)Shahidul K K ShuvraEvery tool of info-tech is attached to transparency and it is one of the shields to protect society from the invasion of corruption. Many IT pioneers often have roundtable discussions favouring eGovernance for urging the nation to be corruption free. They regularly express determination against wrongdoing via ICTs. Unfortunately, some recent news make us doubt on the sincerity of a few IT organisations. So far IT journalists, who have computer background, besides practice of journa! lism, are eagerly promoting the ICT sector. Some fantastic reports by them brought blessings to many IT bodies. But the current scenario is not the same as it was once. The tone of info-tech writers has been changing strikingly.Some promising IT journalists from different daily Bangla and English newspapers, IT magazines and agency made a body in 2002 called Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum (BIJF). All of members are young but talented in the boarder perspective. Now they have developed professional skills in the new field of journalism, which is popularly known as IT journalism.    Members of BIJF are committed to keep their pen inviolate against corruption. So a few months ago almost every member got a letter from a member of BASIS. A few days before a meeting of BASIS that gentleman attached Bangla and English files with his well-written letter of request to the journalists. As a witness he narrated how the software think tank has been involved in corruption. A simple cashier cannot illegally channel out 20 lakh Taka gradually without help of BASIS board of directors. He also informed the journalists about the misappropriation of EEF fund of Bangladesh Bank by some unscrupulous members of the software trade body. He requested the journalists to carry out an investigation of the manipulation of the EEF fund and how it made some unscrupulous IT entrepreneurs rich instead enriching our software industry.Another hot topic over the Net was an informative discussion on SHIDHULAI SWNIRVAR SANGSTHA. Debates and discussions of several yahoo groups inspired the six members of BIJF to visit the project sites of the NGO in three groups. After the massive investigation, they released a 2,726 word report to the IT newsmen of all newspapers as well as info-tech based organisations. The investigative report surprised me a lot. I was reading the report with hair rising suspense.     I knew the executive director of SHIDHULAI  SWNIRVAR SANGSTHA had won three international prestigious awards for outstanding contribution in teaching under privileged students how to use the computer. One award was from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) named Equator Prize and another prize was given by Ashden Trust called Ashden Award, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (SFCT), UK. The executive director received one of the awards from ex-vice president of US Al Gore.  Prize money of the awards was more than one million dollars. In the context of Bangladesh the money is not a joke. How much tax did the award winner pay? What is the National Board of Revenue doing?    The winning of several international awards drew attention of many ICT related organisations as well as ICT journalists. I think receiving such awards was suicidal for the NGO because it pushed the people to see what the NGO is actually doing. By receiving many covetous awards the NGO itself opened the Pandora box to the people.       According to the claim of the NGO 88 boats are delivering its services. Among the 88 boats, 15 boats are been using as floating classrooms; 24 boats have library facilities, 10 boats are serving mobile education and information centres, 30 boats include charging stations which can charge 60-120 batteries for small solar-home-systems (SHS), and 60 to 120 portable solar lanterns and nine boats are used for health care and many more services.But BIJF investigation found the NGO had highly exaggerated its activities. It did nothing compared to its superficial claims. People of the NGO project area of Chalanbeel do not know much about its functions. Details are narrated exclusively in the BIJF report. News and columns on the basis of the report were published in some newspaper and also posted over the Net. Thanks to the members of BIJF who visited every nook and cranny of the NGO?s project periphery.Blame should be also shared by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Ashden Trust, the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (SFCT), UK because inefficiently they selected the wrong man for the awards. How can they only rely on a few newspaper reports for awarding people? They should have monitoring team even at the grass root levels for selecting the right person for an award. Actually giving recognition to a dishonest man is one of the great hindrances to our development. Real organisations or persons cannot get a chance to go to funding, charity and other developing bodies while some of the dishonest men somehow set up good connection with them.           So far the outcome from ICT sector is not satisfactory, even after some contribution of a small number of individuals and organisations. 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From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu Oct 11 12:11:00 2007
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[Message envoy? ? des listes en lien avec le SMSI et le FGI,  
auxquelles participent des organisations de la soci?t? civile.  
Veuillez excuser d'?ventuelles r?ceptions multiples]

Chers tous,

Je vous transmets cette annonce de la declaration de la F?d?ration  
europ?enne EDRI (European Digital Rights), accompagn?e d'un appel ?  
signature en soutien, ? propos d'une nouvelle Recommandation du  
Conseil de l'Europe sur ? la promotion de la libert? d?expression et  
d?information dans le nouvel environnement de l?information et de la  
communication ?.

Dans cette d?claration, EDRI exprime ses profondes pr?occupations ?  
propos de cette Recommandation. Selon EDRI, cet instrument  
nouvellement adopt? promeut une ? auto-r?gulation ? opaque et  
d'autres instruments de ? droit mou ? (soft law) favoris?s par les  
int?r?ts priv?s et mis en oeuvre par des m?canismes techniques,  
notamment de labellisation et filtrage de contenus. EDRI consid?re  
cette Recommandation pr?judiciable et r?gressive pour la libert?  
d'expression et la libert? de presse dans l'environnement en ligne.  
EDRI s'inqui?te s?rieusement de la possibilit? que de tels  
instruments soient utilis?s pour l?gitimer de subtils modes de  
censure, ? travers la censure priv?e et les mesures de protection  
contre des contenus dits offensants.

Sachant que d'autres textes sont actuellement en pr?paration par le  
Conseil de l'Europe sur des sujets connexes, EDRI appelle les ONG et  
autres collectifs des pays du Conseil de l'Europe comme ceux d'autres  
r?gions ? apporter leurs signatures en soutien ? la d?claration  
d'EDRI, et ? mener d'autres actions pour tenter d'?viter le risque de  
pr?judices additionnels ? la libert? d'expression et d'information en  
ligne.

Nous esp?rons que votre organisation ou collectif apportera sa  
signature et contribuera ? sensibiliser d'autres organisations ?  
cette action d'EDRI.

La d?claration d'EDRI, l'appel ? signatures et autres actions, ainsi  
que plus d'informations sont disponibles ?:
- (HTML) http://www.edri.org/coerec200711
- (PDF) http://www.edri.org/files/EDRI-coerec200711.pdf

Des traductions de la d?claration d'EDRI dans d'autres langues sont  
en cours.

EDRI (ONG f?d?rant 28 associations de 17 pays europ?ens promouvant  
les droits civils dans la soci?t? de l'information) est un  
observateur ind?pendant du Groupe de sp?cialistes sur les droits de  
l'homme dans la soci?t? de l'information du Conseil de l'Europe (MC-S- 
IS). EDRI a tent? de faire valoir ses pr?occupations au sein du  
groupe MC-S-IS depuis les premi?res discussions sur le projet de  
Recommandation, ainsi qu'au cours de chaque r?union du MC-S-IS o? le  
texte a ?t? d?battu. Dans les derni?res ?tapes, EDRI a aussi fourni  
au groupe par ?crit des suggestions d'amendements. Malheureusement,  
seule une infime partie de ces amendements ont ?t? pris en compte.

Bien cordialement,
Meryem Marzouki (EDRI et IRIS - Co-coordinatrice pendant le SMSI du  
caucus de la soci?t? civile pour les droits de l'homme)

--
Meryem Marzouki - EDRI - http://www.edri.org
IRIS - Imaginons un r?seau Internet solidaire
http://www.iris.sgdg.org
40 rue de la Justice - 75020 Paris, France
From marzouki at ras.eu.org  Thu Oct 11 11:51:57 2007
From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu Oct 11 12:25:48 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Please Sign - EDRI Statement And Call For Action
	On New CoE Rec. Failing To Uphold FoE
Message-ID: <68D1B86F-158E-4994-8704-38BA0C8C4C7F@ras.eu.org>

[Message sent to lists related to WSIS and IGF, where CS  
organizations are participating. Please excuse possible duplicates]

Dear all,

I'm forwarding to you this announcement of European Digital Rights  
(EDRI) statement and call for action on a recent Council of Europe  
Recommendation on 'promoting freedom of expression and information in  
the new information and communications environment'.

In this statement, EDRI expresses its serious concerns over this  
Recommendation. According to EDRI, the newly adopted instrument  
promotes opaque "self-regulation" and other soft law instruments  
driven by private interests and implemented through technical  
mechanisms, such as content rating and filtering mechanisms. EDRI  
considers this Recommendation to be damaging and a retrograde step  
for freedom of expression and freedom of the press in the online  
world. EDRI is deeply concerned that such instruments will be used to  
legitimize subtle means of censorship, through privatised censorship  
and measures to protect against so-called harmful content.

As other related instruments are currently in preparation by the  
Council of Europe, EDRI calls for NGOs and groups from all over the  
world to sign up in support of EDRI statement and take further action  
to help avoid the risk of more damages to freedom of expression and  
information in the online world.

We hope your organization or group will consider adding its  
signature, and spread the word to other organizations.

EDRI statement, call for action, and background information: 'New  
Council of Europe Recommendation fails to uphold online freedom of  
expression' (10.10.2007) is available at:
- (HTML) http://www.edri.org/coerec200711
- (PDF) http://www.edri.org/files/EDRI-coerec200711.pdf

Translations into other languages are in progress.

EDRI (an association of 28 members organizations from 17 European  
countries promoting civil rights in the information society) is an  
independent NGO observer to the Council of Europe Group of  
Specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society (MC-S-IS). It  
tried to raise its concerns inside the MC-S-IS group since the  
earliest discussions on the Recommendation draft as well as during  
each meeting of the group where the text has been debated. At the  
latest steps, it has also sent written suggestions for amendments to  
the group. Unfortunately, very few of these amendments have been  
taken into account.

Best,
Meryem Marzouki (EDRI and IRIS - Civil Society Human Rights Caucus co- 
coordinator at WSIS)

--
Meryem Marzouki - EDRI - http://www.edri.org
IRIS - Imaginons un r?seau Internet solidaire
http://www.iris.sgdg.org
40 rue de la Justice - 75020 Paris, France

From wsis at ngocongo.org  Thu Oct 11 16:20:46 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Thu Oct 11 16:20:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] General overviews and resources on WSIS
	follow-up and implementation process
In-Reply-To: <2453a1e50710081302y753a9564u297da4bafcb087a5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <200710111520.l9BFK55M025469@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>

Dear Johan and all, 

 

Thanks for highlighting this Summit.

This Summit is actually mainly an ITU event and whose organisation was
almost fully managed by the ITU. Other partners, including the World Bank
and GAID, joined and supported the initiative later in the process. ITU
mainly focused its outreach and invitation efforts to Governments (at the
highest level possible), international organisations, ITU sector members and
business companies, who would be able to finance additional projects in
terms of network infrastructures and access. The meeting will therefore
primarily follow ITU practices. But CS representatives who duly registered
will be provided an access badge, as far as I was confirmed.

 

As regards the format of the 6 sessions scheduled in the Summit
<http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/connect/africa/2007/summit/programme.html> ?s
programme, it seems it will be held on a quite informal way, on the WEF
model, with a number of main speakers and interactions with the audience. I
have no idea of the names of the speakers at this time, but my guess is that
they would mainly come from the ministerial level and from the corporate
sector. Such as all other participants, CS representatives and other
stakeholder will have opportunities to ask for the floor. 

 

More information: 

            ? http://www.un-gaid.org/fr/node/718

            ? http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/connect/africa/2007/index.html

 

Are there other CS representatives planning to participate in this Summit?
What about the involvement of the ACSIS or other African NGOs?

 

Best, 

 

Philippe 

 

  _____  

De : plenary-bounces@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces@wsis-cs.org] De la
part de Johan Hellstr?m
Envoy? : lundi, 8. octobre 2007 21:03
? : Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] General overviews and resources on WSIS
followup and implementation process

 

Dear All,
Thank you Phillippe for this post-WSIS update, very timely indeed. I am
about to go to Kigali and the ITU and GAID organised Connect Africa Summit
end of this month. Will there be any organised civil society
involvement/attendance? It is supposed to be an informal process with the
GAID aim to provide "a platform for an open, inclusive, multi-stakeholder
cross-sectoral policy dialogue", still the format of the conference seems to
be something else, ie following a traditional, exclusive high level panel
debate format where most of the issues are already discussed and decided.
Anyone who knows more about this or CS role in this process? 
Best regards, Johan



On 10/4/07, CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam <wsis@ngocongo.org> wrote:

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Dear all,

 

Some weeks ago, it was asked on the Plenary list to bring some
clarifications on the structures and articulations between the various
post-WSIS institutional processes. Find below and attached some elements of
answers and clarification:

 

-          Power-point presentation on the WSIS implementation and follow up
process: this document is used by Mr. Charles Geiger (Special Advisor to the
UN CSTD and Former WSIS Executive Director) to present the post WSIS
architecture within the UN system (see attached);

 

-          An updated version of the post WSIS chart, together with an
explanatory one-pager, prepared by CONGO (see attached; also available on
line on the CONGO website:
http://www.ngocongo.org/files/chart_on_post_wsis.pdf). 

 

-          I also suggest the reading of the chapter on "WSIS in Review",
from the Global Information Society Watch 2007 Report, which provides
relevant clarification on the matter
(http://www.globaliswatch.org/download). 

 

I hope this can help! Feel free to indicate other resources on this issue.

 

All the best,

 

Ph

Philippe Dam 
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> wsis@ngocongo.org 
Website: www.ngocongo.org 

 


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From marzouki at ras.eu.org  Thu Oct 11 19:14:28 2007
From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu Oct 11 19:14:36 2007
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_[WSIS_CS-Plenary]_Appel_=E0_signatures_-_D=E9?=
	=?ISO-8859-1?Q?claration_d'EDRI_au_sujet_d'une_Recommandation_du?=
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References: <DB1F0822-DC1A-437C-B94A-E15B84AA5375@ras.eu.org>
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Bonjour,

La d?claration d'EDRI, l'appel ? signatures et autres actions, ainsi  
que plus d'informations sont d?sormais disponibles en Fran?ais ? :
http://www.iris.sgdg.org/info-debat/EDRI-coerec200711-fr.html (on  
peut signer ? partir de cette page).
Meryem

Le 11 oct. 07 ? 12:53, Meryem Marzouki a ?crit :

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> [Message envoy? ? des listes en lien avec le SMSI et le FGI,  
> auxquelles participent des organisations de la soci?t? civile.  
> Veuillez excuser d'?ventuelles r?ceptions multiples]
>
> Chers tous,
>
> Je vous transmets cette annonce de la declaration de la F?d?ration  
> europ?enne EDRI (European Digital Rights), accompagn?e d'un appel ?  
> signature en soutien, ? propos d'une nouvelle Recommandation du  
> Conseil de l'Europe sur ? la promotion de la libert? d?expression  
> et d?information dans le nouvel environnement de l?information et  
> de la communication ?.
>
> Dans cette d?claration, EDRI exprime ses profondes pr?occupations ?  
> propos de cette Recommandation. Selon EDRI, cet instrument  
> nouvellement adopt? promeut une ? auto-r?gulation ? opaque et  
> d'autres instruments de ? droit mou ? (soft law) favoris?s par les  
> int?r?ts priv?s et mis en oeuvre par des m?canismes techniques,  
> notamment de labellisation et filtrage de contenus. EDRI consid?re  
> cette Recommandation pr?judiciable et r?gressive pour la libert?  
> d'expression et la libert? de presse dans l'environnement en ligne.  
> EDRI s'inqui?te s?rieusement de la possibilit? que de tels  
> instruments soient utilis?s pour l?gitimer de subtils modes de  
> censure, ? travers la censure priv?e et les mesures de protection  
> contre des contenus dits offensants.
>
> Sachant que d'autres textes sont actuellement en pr?paration par le  
> Conseil de l'Europe sur des sujets connexes, EDRI appelle les ONG  
> et autres collectifs des pays du Conseil de l'Europe comme ceux  
> d'autres r?gions ? apporter leurs signatures en soutien ? la  
> d?claration d'EDRI, et ? mener d'autres actions pour tenter  
> d'?viter le risque de pr?judices additionnels ? la libert?  
> d'expression et d'information en ligne.
>
> Nous esp?rons que votre organisation ou collectif apportera sa  
> signature et contribuera ? sensibiliser d'autres organisations ?  
> cette action d'EDRI.
>
> La d?claration d'EDRI, l'appel ? signatures et autres actions,  
> ainsi que plus d'informations sont disponibles ?:
> - (HTML) http://www.edri.org/coerec200711
> - (PDF) http://www.edri.org/files/EDRI-coerec200711.pdf
>
> Des traductions de la d?claration d'EDRI dans d'autres langues sont  
> en cours.
>
> EDRI (ONG f?d?rant 28 associations de 17 pays europ?ens promouvant  
> les droits civils dans la soci?t? de l'information) est un  
> observateur ind?pendant du Groupe de sp?cialistes sur les droits de  
> l'homme dans la soci?t? de l'information du Conseil de l'Europe (MC- 
> S-IS). EDRI a tent? de faire valoir ses pr?occupations au sein du  
> groupe MC-S-IS depuis les premi?res discussions sur le projet de  
> Recommandation, ainsi qu'au cours de chaque r?union du MC-S-IS o?  
> le texte a ?t? d?battu. Dans les derni?res ?tapes, EDRI a aussi  
> fourni au groupe par ?crit des suggestions d'amendements.  
> Malheureusement, seule une infime partie de ces amendements ont ?t?  
> pris en compte.
>
> Bien cordialement,
> Meryem Marzouki (EDRI et IRIS - Co-coordinatrice pendant le SMSI du  
> caucus de la soci?t? civile pour les droits de l'homme)
>
> --
> Meryem Marzouki - EDRI - http://www.edri.org
> IRIS - Imaginons un r?seau Internet solidaire
> http://www.iris.sgdg.org
> 40 rue de la Justice - 75020 Paris,  
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From apisan at servidor.unam.mx  Thu Oct 11 22:29:23 2007
From: apisan at servidor.unam.mx (Alejandro Pisanty)
Date: Thu Oct 11 22:53:27 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] General overviews and resources on WSIS
	follow-up and implementation process
In-Reply-To: <200710111520.l9BFK55M025469@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>
References: <200710111520.l9BFK55M025469@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0710112128540.30328@cuarentena.correo.unam.mx>

Philippe,

thanks for so clearly charting what has become of multi-stakeholderism...

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:20:46 +0200
> From: CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam <wsis@ngocongo.org>
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> To: 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space' <plenary@wsis-cs.org>,
>     governance@lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] General overviews and resources on WSIS
>     	follow-up and implementation process
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From emem_o at yahoo.com  Sat Oct 13 01:56:06 2007
From: emem_o at yahoo.com (Emem Okon)
Date: Sat Oct 13 01:56:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist
	Network on Gender,
	Development and Information Society Policies - October 5th - 7th, 2007
In-Reply-To: <20071003050652.36A67249644@mail.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <600694.30482.qm@web54606.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Dear friends,
I will like to join the Feminist network on Gender,
development & information society.

I am

Emem J. Okon
Executive Director
Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre
Nigeria

--- Vivek Vaidyanathan <vivek@itforchange.net> wrote:

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> > Dear All,
> 
>  
> 
> Apologies for cross posting.
> 
>  
> 
> Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network
> on Gender, Development
> and Information Society Policies - October 5th -
> 7th, 2007, Bangalore 
> 
>  
> 
> A Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network
> on Gender, Development
> and Information Society Policies will be held on
> October 5-7, 2007 in
> Bangalore, India. The workshop is being co-organised
> by IT for Change, the
> Association for Progressive Communications, the
> International Women's
> Tribune Centre, ISIS International, and Gloria
> Bonder, the General
> Coordinator of the Regional UNESCO Chair Women,
> Science and Technology in
> Latin America.
> 
>  
> 
> The goal of the meeting will be to a) conduct a
> gender analysis of the
> policy ecology of the information society and the
> approaches of critical
> institutional players b) evolve an action plan for
> research and advocacy and
> c) develop the structure and processes that
> facilitate and strengthen the
> work of the network.
> 
>  
> 
> This workshop is by invitation only.
> 
>  
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Vivek
> 
>  
> 
> Vivek Vaidyanathan
> 
> IT for Change (ITfC)
> 
> Bridging Development Realities and Technological
> Possibilities
> 
> Tel:(+91 80) 26654134, 26536890
> 
> Fax:(+91 80) 41461055
> 
>  <http://www.ITforChange.net> www.ITforChange.net
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From mmasmoudi10 at yahoo.fr  Mon Oct 15 10:40:15 2007
From: mmasmoudi10 at yahoo.fr (masmoudi mustapha)
Date: Mon Oct 15 10:40:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] la rabta arabe
Message-ID: <209451.75479.qm@web26607.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Je vous annonce la cr?ation officielle du r?seau TIC pour la soci?t? civile arabe ICT Arab Association for Civil Society  ( la rabta).
  Ce m?canisme da la shabaka prend la relais du Caucus arabe qui a accompagn? le processus du SMSI.
  Pri?re nous communiquer le calendrier des prochaines r?unions de la soci?t? civile concern?e par les TICs et auxquelles il serait opportun d?assurer la pr?sence de ce nouveau r?seau. 
   
  Coordinateur  de caucus arabe
  Facil?tateur du r?seau arabe
  Mustapha Masmoudi.

       
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From Petra.Stammen at CAMECO.ORG  Mon Oct 15 10:44:40 2007
From: Petra.Stammen at CAMECO.ORG (Petra Stammen)
Date: Mon Oct 15 10:42:36 2007
Subject: Antw: [WSIS CS-Plenary] la rabta arabe
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I will be out of office from October 9th until November 5th. For urgent matters, please contact my colleague, Michel Philippart. Michel.Philippart@cameco.org or cameco@cameco.org
Many thanks!


Ich bin vom 9. Oktober bis zum 5. November nicht im B?ro.
In dringenden F?llen wenden Sie sich bitte an meinen Kollegen, Herrn Michel Philippart: Michel.Philippart@cameco.org oder cameco@cameco.org
Vielen Dank!
From Bruno.Salgues at int-edu.eu  Mon Oct 15 10:50:26 2007
From: Bruno.Salgues at int-edu.eu (Bruno SALGUES)
Date: Mon Oct 15 11:55:13 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] la rabta arabe
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Merci de cette information

seriez vous present a rio

bruno

Selon masmoudi mustapha <mmasmoudi10@yahoo.fr>:

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From correia.rui at gmail.com  Tue Oct 16 08:40:11 2007
From: correia.rui at gmail.com (Rui Correia)
Date: Tue Oct 16 08:40:25 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Scam conference announcemt
Message-ID: <ec8caada0710160040v77e0ef5bpbcb72bfc9cf3d0f3@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All

Please be wary of this scam, doing the rounds again, just with new dates. I
have also notified the real "Joan Kroc" Foundation of this use of their
name.

This scam has been circulated with different contact details and names of
the organising institution: the Richard Dolls Foundation, the Alpha
Foundation, etc. It is invariably circulated to NGO communities - lists,
forums etc, a few examples below:.

http://www.ong.md/index.php?mod=home&hmod=postbyid&id=854
http://www.nabble.com/PARTICIPATE-IN-OUR-2007-INTERNATIONAL-CONFERENCE-OF-NGO's-(APPLY-NOW)-t4446911.html
http://community.telecentre.org/en-tc/node/41345
http://www.ngo.by/en/announce1/ec95eeacf0296d4e.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-cryptsetup-devel/2007-August.txt.gz
http://www.canetads.com/view/adId/32243.html
http://www.civicus.org/new/media/e-CIVICUS-350.pdf
http://www.mladiuobrenovcu.info/seminari-razmene/international-conference-of-ngos-london-10.html
http://www.womensnet.org.za/calendar.shtml?AA_SL_Session=b27f62be189eef22434abb4fa77dffdc&x=5910

etc etc etc etc
it has been identified as a scam/ fraud here:
http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11374951/posts/default/5665490144004638866
http://ideceive.blogspot.com/2007/07/advance-fee-fraud-richard-dolls.html
http://www.joewein.net/419/419-fake-conferences.htm


Best regards,

Rui Correia

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: JUAN KROC RESEARCH FOUNDATION <krocfoundation@yahoo.com>
Date: 15 Oct 2007 20:58
Subject: call to participate
To: corzoluz@hotmail.com

Hello Delegate,
This is a Call for Participation in an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NGOs
holding from 24th November till the 4th of december  2007 in London, United
Kingdom where as many as 200 participants from across the world including
Health Practitioners, Professionals in relevant fields, Lawyers,
Psychologists, Women and Youth Development Groups, Government Officials,
Donor Agencies and participating NGOs will meet to discuss issues pertaining
to the Welfare of NGOs...and also to meet others like yourself; to learn,
teach, inspire and being inspired. This event will be exploring the
potential of a practical approach that will unleash and nurture the human
capacity to create, collaborate and change positively, the world at large.
What are the objectives of this meeting? The meeting will provide a medium
where participating individuals and NGOs will convene to address and discuss
ways of improving key Humanitarian issues and topics with much emphasis on
Human Rights, Gender Equality, Peace and Security, Social and Economic
Development, Youth and Children, Health Education, Ethics and Value and
Environmental Protection. Participating NGOs will have direct access to
grants by International Donor Agencies.
The opening Lecture will be held by Dr Mrs Artemisa Franco who is the
President of the Center for Human Rights Research and Development, Maputo -
Mozambique.The program will include:

* Thought-provoking plenaries
* In-depth breakout and dinner sessions for strategy-development
* Capacity and skills-building sessions; and
* Debates to stimulate discussion.
In addition to the main program, the meeting will also host book launches,
artistic and cultural activities, exhibitions, plenty of space and
opportunity for informal networking and alliance building.
All plenaries and selected breakout sessions will have interpretation into
English, Spanish and French.

Who can participate? What happens if more than 200 participants apply?
Anyone who is a member of an NGO, Professionals in related fields, Students
Unions, Lecturers of Universities and Community based organizations, the
Clergy as well as women and youth development groups can apply to
participate.
If more than 200 people apply (as we anticipate), a global selection
committee will select a representative 200 from among the applicants. This
committee will ensure that the participants at the meeting are truly
international and represent a diverse range of interests, issues, and
regions.

The events shall commence on the 24th November till the 4th of december
2007 in London at Abba Queens Gate Hotel London.
I can't afford the cost - Can you help? Juan kroc foundation Foundation has
set up an Access Fund to support the travel costs for all qualified
participants.

How do I apply, and when is the deadline? All Interested organizations
should send an email to the Local Organizing Committee. Participants MUST be
a group of 1-3 persons to qualify for registration.

Contact Person: Rev. George Solomon


Email: info_juankroc2@yahoo.com

Regards,
Local Organizing Committee
juan kroc foundation

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From: invite+m131vj1d at facebookmail.com (Taran Rampersad)
Date: Thu Oct 18 06:56:52 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] I've added you as a friend on Facebook...
Message-ID: <0108d69d1ce846de6be10fe5e8c2997c@register.facebook.com>

I've requested to add you as a friend on Facebook.  You can use Facebook to see the profiles of the people around you, share photos, and connect with friends.

Thanks,
Taran

Here's the link:
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From: correia.rui at gmail.com (Rui Correia)
Date: Thu Oct 18 07:14:48 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] I've added you as a friend on Facebook...
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You've added the whole of the WSIS-plenary list to your face book? How nice
of you! if 10% accept your invite, I hope you have 72-hour days!

Rui

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>
> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
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> has:
> 191 friends
> 124 wall posts
> 41 groups   I've added you as a friend on Facebook...I've requested to add
> you as a friend on Facebook. You can use Facebook to see the profiles of the
> people around you, share photos, and connect with friends.
>
> Thanks,
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> Here's the link:
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From: Sylvia.Caras at gmail.com (Sylvia Caras)
Date: Thu Oct 18 20:23:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] survey: personal health records
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From kristin at ncra.ca  Fri Oct 19 15:39:02 2007
From: kristin at ncra.ca (Kristin Schwartz)
Date: Fri Oct 19 16:15:39 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [Amarc-info] Community radio doc "The Ravaging of
	Africa" - followup
Message-ID: <61248.76.68.75.117.1192804742.squirrel@www.ncra.ca>

Dear friends in AMARC-Africa:

I sent this message before but could not receive any replies because of a
problem with our email server. If you replied earlier, please write back
again!


My name is Kristin Schwartz and I am a community radio producer from
Toronto, Canada. My colleague Asad Ismi is an award-winning writer on
international politics. Together we produced a four-part radio documentary
series called "The Ravaging of Africa". It is about the destructive impact
of U.S. imperialism on Africa, featuring voices of African activists
interviewed at the 2007 World Social Forum held in Nairobi, Kenya.

Please consider broadcasting this series on your station. We want to share
our work with you and allow the voices of the impressive and dedicated
people we interviewed to be heard throughout the continent.

The series is available online for free download at these sites:
http://wsf.amarc.org/
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=23508
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=57759
http://www.getmedia.org.uk/index.php?cat=Internationaldevelopment

We can mail CD copies to broadcasters who are unable to download the files.

The series will be broadcast in part on "Making Contact", the U.S.
National Radio Project's public affairs program heard on over 200 radio
stations in the U.S., Canada, South Africa and Ireland. In addition, 26
U.S. and Canadian radio stations have aired or committed to air the
documentary.

For more information about the series, and the excellent reviews it has
received, please read below. We look forward to hearing from you!

In solidarity,

Kristin Schwartz


THE RAVAGING OF AFRICA

Part 1, "Militarizing Africa" describes how the United States has fomented
the devastating war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as
taken part in and engineered the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia.
Part 2, "Economic War" focuses on the World Bank's and IMF's decimation of
the economies and social sectors of Guinea, Zambia, Kenya and South
Africa.
Part 3, "Corporate Plunder" details the disastrous effects of Royal Dutch
Shell's operations in Nigeria and those of Canada's Tiomin Resources in
Kenya. Also highlighted is the massive tax looting of Africa by Western
corporations.
Part 4, "African Resistance" celebrates the liberation of Southern Africa,
the defeat of U.S. aims in the Congo and Somalia, as well as the diverse
non-military struggles against U.S. domination that were represented at
the World Social Forum.

REVIEWS

1. A must-hear documentary, especially for those entities (both in and
outside Africa) whose role it is to chart a sustainable course for the
continent?s future. It?s also a powerful tool for those individuals and
groups that are actively involved in challenging the Western
bastardization of the African continent. This well-researched documentary
provides credible evidence of how the Western European nations and the
United States have for many years been devastating the African continent
through the plundering of its precious resources, as well as by their
continuing support for and instigations of military wars.  The documentary
successfully highlights some of the serious problems that nations in
Africa continue to face as they struggle against the United States?
selfish determination to dominate their turf. This documentary cannot be
ignored by anyone who cares about Africa?s economic, social, and political
emancipation from the bondage of neo-colonialism.
--Maria Mboono Nghidinwa, Ex-combatant of South West Africa People?s
Organization (SWAPO), the former liberation movement of Namibia. Ph.D.,
Mass Communication and Media Studies, Howard University, Washington D.C.
[SWAPO is presently the ruling political party in Namibia].

2. "A great project. 'The Ravaging of Africa' can be of enormous
educational importance in reinforcing African perceptions of the sources
of their current predicaments, and in educating those searching for ways
out of their present desperate straits.  Warm thanks for your efforts."
--Professor Dennis Brutus, Honorary Professor, Centre for Civil Society
University of Kwazulu-Natal Durban s.a. Professor Emeritus, Department of
Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh (U.S.).

3. " 'The Ravaging of Africa' must count as one of the very best set of
podcasts available about the way in which Africa has been looted by
multinational corporations and U.S. imperialism. The recordings of the 
voices of African militants were prepared during the Nairobi World Social
Forum. What is remarkable is that there is a coherent political analysis
that enables the listener to have a clear context for the perspectives
provided by African activists. We can only hope that the producers will
continue to publish further series of these outstanding podcasts. These
are vital listening for all those committed to social justice in Africa."
--Firoze Manji, Editor, Pambazuka News; Director, Fahamu - Networks for
Social Justice. www.pambazuka.org [Pambazuka News is a leading African
electronic newsletter and website
focused on social justice].

4. "An excellent series that really gets to the heart of the matter and
lets you listen to those radical African voices you won't hear anywhere
else."
--Roberto Nieto, Media activist and radio-host, CKUT Radio 90.3 fm at
McGill University, Montreal.

5. "A fantastic series. We air tons of good programming, but "The Ravaging
of Africa" really stood out, because it tied together the various ways
Africa is impacted by the imperial project, something you usually don't
get in a single program or news report. I really appreciated the rich
production as well."
--Leigh Robartes, News Director, KRFP / Radio Free Moscow 92.5 fm, Moscow,
Idaho (U.S.)[Pacifica Radio Affiliate]

6. "Thanks for the excellent programming. So many Americans are unaware of
how people live and struggle in other parts of the world. This program
provides vital information about Africa and its people."
--Cathy Murillo, News and Public Affairs Director, KCSB  91.9 FM at
University of California-Santa Barbara, CA [Pacifica Radio Affiliate]

7. "'The Ravaging of Africa' is a compelling and timely new media
presentation of the over 500 years of the West's pillaging of Africa. The
body of work is firmly ensconced in the tradition of Walter Rodney's 'How
Europe Underdeveloped  Africa' and Patrick Bond's 'The Looting of Africa'.
 'The Ravaging of Africa' deserves the widest possible distribution as it
does a tremendous job of sharing with the public a critical prism through
which Africa's relations with the West ought to be viewed and analysed.
--Maurice Carney, Executive Director, Friends of the Congo (U.S.),
www.friendsofthecongo.org/index.php

8. "The unprecedented affluence we enjoy in the Global North is directly
dependent on the violent plunder of resource-rich nations across the
Global South -- particularly the nations of Africa. 'The Ravaging of
Africa' provides both the historical overview and the illuminating details
we need to make sense of this crime-in-progress, and gives prominent place
to the voices of front-line African activists leading the resistance." 
--Dave Oswald Mitchell, Editor of Briarpatch Magazine


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From correia.rui at gmail.com  Sat Oct 20 06:30:35 2007
From: correia.rui at gmail.com (Rui Correia)
Date: Sat Oct 20 06:31:02 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
In-Reply-To: <LYRIS-66272-12187-2007.10.19-18.50.55--correia.rui#gmail.com@newsletter.truthout.org>
References: <LYRIS-66272-12187-2007.10.19-18.50.55--correia.rui#gmail.com@newsletter.truthout.org>
Message-ID: <ec8caada0710192230o3194b028wb04a2f2bc0bc98cf@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All

I thought this is pertinent on these forums.

Regards,

Rui

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From: t r u t h o u t <messenger@truthout.org>
Date: 20 Oct 2007 01:50
Subject: Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
To: correia.rui@gmail.com

t r u t h o u t | 10.19

Go directly to our issues page: http://www.truthout.org/issues.shtml

Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101907R.shtml
Peter Svensson, reporting for The Associated Press, writes: "Comcast Corp.
actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet
subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition
of treating all types of Net traffic equally. The interference, which The
Associated Press confirmed through nationwide tests, is the most drastic
example yet of data discrimination by a US Internet service provider."



Comcast interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet
subscribers to share files online; J. Sri Raman writes on the return of
Benazir Bhutto; enormous problems in management lead to criminal probe into
Iraq construction of US embassy; power plant rejected over carbon dioxide in
Kansas for first time in US history; historic bill in Senate to fight
warming affecting every major segment of the nation's economy; Bush aide
rejects climate goal; Guatemala union heads killed; Carolyn Maloney writes
on battling the birth control price hike; Marie Cocco of Truthdig on
Medicare; Tom Philpott of Grist.org interviews Michael Pollan; and more ...
Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org



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From: ceo at bnnrc.net (BNNRC)
Date: Sat Oct 20 08:50:42 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WASH Media Awards 2007-2008 Announcement
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From dina_hov2007 at yahoo.com  Sat Oct 20 14:59:37 2007
From: dina_hov2007 at yahoo.com (Dina Hov)
Date: Sat Oct 20 14:59:47 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] I've added you as a friend on Facebook...
In-Reply-To: <0108d69d1ce846de6be10fe5e8c2997c@register.facebook.com>
Message-ID: <314048.9370.qm@web45209.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Dear Taran ,
  Why do you think that is very strange ?-at least you could explain it why you  guess I can't join.,
  I am member of <wsis@ngocongo.org>and WSIS Internet Governance Caucus" governance@lists.cpsr.org So if you think that it has come to me by mistake  it is not  but I wanted very much to join in facebook and I wanted you know that we have filtering for every thing .Iran has signed for WSIS  but they do nothing for Information society
  Kindest regards
  Dina


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From muguet at mdpi.org  Sat Oct 20 21:43:59 2007
From: muguet at mdpi.org (Dr. Francis MUGUET)
Date: Sat Oct 20 21:31:47 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
In-Reply-To: <ec8caada0710192230o3194b028wb04a2f2bc0bc98cf@mail.gmail.com>
References: <LYRIS-66272-12187-2007.10.19-18.50.55--correia.rui#gmail.com@newsletter.truthout.org>
	<ec8caada0710192230o3194b028wb04a2f2bc0bc98cf@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <471A688F.1030407@mdpi.org>

Dear Rui
>
> Dear All
>
> I thought this is pertinent on these forums.
Indeed, it seems justified to bring this very important issue to the 
plenary.

see also
# Comcast blocks some Internet traffic 
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21376597/> ( Oct. 19, 2007 )
# Comcast really does block BitTorrent traffic after all 
<http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9800629-38.html> ( Oct. 19, 2007 )

I fully concur with you
There are two questions at stake there :
  1/  *Internet Neutrality *is under attack in the US
  2/  *Privacy. * 
In order to stop the P2P Bittorent, the technique ( I read a technical 
article about it,
 some weeks ago ) involve replacing your own answer to the tracker,
 by a* forged answer *telling that you are quitting the swarm.

This is quite unbelievable...  first interception of your answer, and 
then replacing
 a yes for a no.

Internet Neutrality is also under further attack in the US

# 3rd Circuit Upholds FCC's Deregulation of High-Speed Internet Access 
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1192525413109> ( October 17, 2007 )

What can be seen that, under the pressure of different illegitimate 
commercial
or industrial lobbies, freedom
is now increasingly put in jeopardy

Best

Francis

>
> Regards,
>
> Rui
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *t r u t h o u t* <messenger@truthout.org 
> <mailto:messenger@truthout.org>>
> Date: 20 Oct 2007 01:50
> Subject: Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
> To: correia.rui@gmail.com <mailto:correia.rui@gmail.com>
>
> t r u t h o u t | 10.19
>
> Go directly to our issues page: http://www.truthout.org/issues.shtml
>
> Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
> http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101907R.shtml
> Peter Svensson, reporting for The Associated Press, writes: "Comcast 
> Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed 
> Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter 
> to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally. The 
> interference, which The Associated Press confirmed through nationwide 
> tests, is the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a US 
> Internet service provider."
>
>
>
> Comcast interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet 
> subscribers to share files online; J. Sri Raman writes on the return 
> of Benazir Bhutto; enormous problems in management lead to criminal 
> probe into Iraq construction of US embassy; power plant rejected over 
> carbon dioxide in Kansas for first time in US history; historic bill 
> in Senate to fight warming affecting every major segment of the 
> nation's economy; Bush aide rejects climate goal; Guatemala union 
> heads killed; Carolyn Maloney writes on battling the birth control 
> price hike; Marie Cocco of Truthdig on Medicare; Tom Philpott of 
> Grist.org <http://Grist.org> interviews Michael Pollan; and more ... 
> Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org
>
>  
>
> -- 
> ________________________________________________
>
>
> Rui Correia
> Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Consultant
> 2 Cutten St
> Horison
> Roodepoort-Johannesburg,
> South Africa
> Tel/ Fax (+27-11) 766-4336
> Cell (+27) (0) 84-498-6838
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From confirm+m131vj1d at facebookmail.com  Sat Oct 20 22:38:08 2007
From: confirm+m131vj1d at facebookmail.com (Facebook)
Date: Sat Oct 20 22:38:14 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Bruno Salgues confirmed you as a friend on
	Facebook...
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Bruno confirmed you as a friend on Facebook.

To view Bruno's profile, follow the link below: 
http://www.facebook.com/n/?profile.php&id=608782004

Thanks,
The Facebook Team


From askatil at rediffmail.com  Sun Oct 21 04:51:34 2007
From: askatil at rediffmail.com (Amar Singh Katil)
Date: Sun Oct 21 05:19:49 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] I've added you as a friend on Facebook...
Message-ID: <20071021035134.2419.qmail@webmail54.rediffmail.com>

 ?
I signed the above packet. please accept my signature for further action on the matters

from

Mr Amar Singh Singh Sidhu
Secretary general
GGS Institute of Information Communication Technology
an GGS ICT UN NGO INDIA accredityation with United nations UNPFII Ludhiana Punjab India
+91 161 2301853 +91 98881 00299

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 Dina Hov wrote :
>[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
>Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!
>_______________________________________
>
>Dear Taran ,
>   Why do you think that is very strange ?-at least you could explain it why you  guess I can't join.,
>   I am member of <wsis@ngocongo.org>and WSIS Internet Governance Caucus" governance@lists.cpsr.org So if you think that it has come to me by mistake  it is not  but I wanted very much to join in facebook and I wanted you know that we have filtering for every thing .Iran has signed for WSIS  but they do nothing for Information society
>   Kindest regards
>   Dina
>
>
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From: hamidur_ict4d at hotmail.com (Hamidur Rahman)
Date: Sun Oct 21 06:55:28 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Regarding Beware of  Earth Foundation!
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Beware of  Earth Foundation! Bangladesh
Earth Foundation is the latest ploy of the controversial Khaled Hossain to swindle people and make millions. Already innumerable persons are being lured by lucrative offers and duped by dubious schemes. Without any government approval, Earth Foundation continues its underhand programmes. And one fine day it may simply close shop and disappear...
http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=3136
by ANWAR PARVEZ HALIM, Probe News
Hundreds of young men and women throng the Green Road-Panthapath intersection, lured by advertisements in the daily newspapers, offering attractive jobs for young and educated candidates. The prospective employer is none other than Earth Foundation (Earth being the acronym for Effective Assistance and Rehabilitation for Tormented Humanity).
Earth Foundation has opened office in several locations of the area, including a four-storeyed building at 69/G Panthapath, a number of floors of Chadrashila Tower and in a couple of other buildings of the vicinity.
In a matter of a year, Earth Foundation has created a sensation, offering employment for 35 thousand people, advertising for projects worth hundreds of crores of taka, all sorts of tenders and a host of other plans and programmes. Yet the foundation has no government approval for these massive schemes it has undertaken.
The head of this organisation is Khaled Hossain, a controversial character who has even been jailed on several occasions on charges of fraud and deception. And now he has spread a nationwide network, to cheat people further in a master plan of swindling and duplicity.
Already people are unwittingly stepping into his trap. They are signing up as members of Earth Foundation, paying large sums of money for membership. In fact, many prominent persons of society are working with Earth Foundation, enticed by fat salaries. They themselves are unaware of the actual character of Earth Foundation, its dubious aims and objectives. 
There is a fear though, particularly among more conscious groups, that at any given point of time, Khaled Hossain and his Earth Foundation may close shop and disappear, embezzling crores of taka of the public's money.
Not really an NGO
Earth Foundation is being projected as an NGO, but inquiries at the NGO Bureau reveal that there is no such organisation by this name registered there. It is registered under the Joint Stock Company's Society Act (1960) as a non-profit organisation.
Last March, PROBE News Magazine first published a report about the organisation: Earth Foundation: Million-dollar Dreams. [See PROBE Vol. 5, Issue 26]. At the time, Earth's directors Chaman Afroze, Mohiuddin Ahmed and Dr. Matiur Rahman said that Earth Foundation had various projects worth hundreds of crores of taka all over the 64 districts of the country. They said that they had no donors not did they have any specific funds. They said they relied on donations from their well-wishers.
The directors said that their programmes included family planning, training, public health, research, publications, micro and macro credit and more. They went as far as to say that that there would come a time when they would control the country's power and health sectors. They claimed that they would buy up Proshika and the other big NGOs of the country. These tall claims reeked with suspicion and now six months on, the suspicion is all the more tangible.
The organisation is now talking about Earth Foundation credit cards, joint investment schemes, a fisheries export zone and other ambitious projects. And newspapers, quite happy with the highly-paid advertisements, are regularly printing full page and half page colour ads regarding Earth Foundation's schemes. Some journalists are reportedly on their regular payroll. And Earth Foundation is doing its advertising though the advertising firm of the son of a major Bengali daily's editor. The fraud Khaled Hossain is thus planning to keep the media's mouth shut by dishing out these lucrative advertisements. Yet PROBE's investigations reveal that there are many serious allegations against Earth Foundation and its Chairman-cum-Executive Director.
Earth Foundation's head office has a staff of 233. At a field level it has employed 4000 persons. Once the appointments are complete, its total staff number will stand at 35 thousand. Till now it has been working in 14 districts. Within this month it will expand to 64 districts, according to Earth Foundation's Admin. Director Chaman Afroze. 
Chaman Afroze says that their Board of Advisors include former Secretary Abdullah Haroun Pasha, former cabinet Secretary Abdul Halim, Kamrul Islam Siddique, former Ambassador ATM Nazrul Islam, former Deputy Minister and Awami League leader Dhirendranath Shambhu and former Air Chief Air Vice Marshal (retd.) Rafiqul Islam.
Also, writer Emdadul Huq Milon, poet Asad Chowdhury and litterateur Ekhlasuddin Ahmmed are consultants for its publications and literature division.
On July 19 when Rafiqul Islam joined as an advisor,  news of his appionmtment was published in the form of a prominent coloured advertisement in the major Bengali dailies Ittefaq and Prothom Alo. It is said that the organisation is using the name of these prominent persons in society to pursue its vested interests. In the meantime, several officers of the foundation have resigned, finding themselves at odds with the organisations' controversial activities.
Earth Foundation's Chief Advisor and former Establishment Secretary Mohammed Mahe Alam resigned on July 12. According to sources, the Executive Director was pressuring him to obtain permission from the Health Directorate to set up 386 health clinics without any sort of required documents whatsoever. Mahe Alam refused and resigned, though his resignation letter states he resigned on personal grounds.
Other than this, Earth Foundation planned to take loans totalling 25 crore taka from the Social Investment Bank, Citi Bank, and PKSF. Arifur Rahman Majumdar of the Credit Division was given responsibility to prepare papers in this regard. This Arifur Rahman had previously been an officer with Eastern Bank. He left the bank to join Earth Foundation, enticed by a hugely attractive salary. Earth Foundation had neither the criteria nor the necessary documents to qualify for a 25 crore taka loan. But the Chairman's instructions were to create false documents if necessary for the purpose. Arifur Rahman did not dare to undertake such an underhand task. His conscience got the better of him and he resigned. 
Another director, Kazi Faruk Al Banna, similarly resigned, unwilling to carry out the unlawful directives of Khaled Hossain. Many officers of the head office are now in a dilemma after learning of these resignations.
Micro-credit scam
The Earth Foundation has targetted 58 districts for its micro-credit scheme. Though the permission of the concerned authorities is required to run any project, in September 2006 the foundation began this project without approval from Bangladesh Bank. Till June 30 this year, Earth Foundation has distributed loans of 49 lac taka in micro-credit in the three districts of Narail, Barguna and Barisal. Director Syed Mohiuddin Ahmed tells PROBE that they have managed to cover 14 districts so far. But PROBE's investigations reveal they actually haven't been able to cover 55 districts with their micro-credit programme.
Earth Foundation's sources state that it applied to Bangladesh Bank for permission for its micro-credit programme on February 25 this year, a day before the given time limit ended. Bangladesh Bank sources say that of giving the name of the organisation's Chairman as Mohammed Khaled Hossain on the application form, instead it was written Khan Mohammed K Hossain. The application form also asked for details if the applicant was ever accused in a criminal case, but the Chairman withheld that information too. The facts are that Mohammed Khaled Hossain was arrested and sent to jail several times within the period from 1986 till 2006. However, he didn't mention any of this on the application form.
Earth Foundation placed ads in various newspapers, inviting applications to 35 thousand vacant posts. The positions offered salaries ranging from 15,000 taka to one lac taka. So far 4000 employees have been appointed, without arrangements for salaries, offices, furniture and other facilities. In Pabna and Bogra, as well as in other districts, the officers and staff are not receiving their salaries. Office rent is pending. The head office staff are also not being paid regularly.
A certain officer who has resigned from Earth Foundation, on condition of anonymity has said that a total of 18 crore taka is required for the monthly salaries of 35 thousand staff members. No one knows the source of this money. He says, "Earth Foundation is simply cheating the people. They are making millions through various scams. All of this is an open secret. The government doesn't seem to be bothered."
Tender for 386 clinics
Without any permission from the Health Ministry or the Health Directorate, Earth Foundation has invited tenders for the constriction of buildings to set up 386 health clinics. The tender notice in the newspapers stated that the organisation's health welfare programme will be expanded to 64 districts within the year 2007. Advertisements for jobs in this regard are being published regularly in the newspaper.
Earth Foundation published an advertisement on July 17 in Prothom Alo, inviting tenders for the construction of 386 clinics. Schedules were sold till July 31. Project costs were estimated at 400 crore taka. The construction work was to carry on for four years. According to Earth Foundation sources, each schedule was sold for 5000 taka. And each schedule had to be submitted along with a bank draft or pay order of 2% earnest money in favour of Earth Foundation. Where will Earth Foundation get the land for such a huge project? Where will the funds come from? And how will the construction company be paid? Director (Admin.) Chaman Afroze has no reply to these questions. However, Director Syed Mohiuddin Ahmed says that 400 persons in various districts have agreed to donate land for this purpose to Earth Foundation. They will take bank loans against this land.
Former Establishment Secretary Mohammed Mahe Alam had been in charge of this project. Sensing the unethical activities of Earth Foundation's Chairman Khaled Hossain, Mahe Alam resigned. There is no certainty whether the project will eventually be implemented. Nevertheless, Earth Foundation has roped in crores of taka in earnest money through the tenders.
Earth Filter publicity and tender
On September 10, Samakal, The Daily Star and several other dailies carried full page advertisements for Earth Filter stating that Earth Foundation goes yet another step ahead. They claim that Earth Filter successfully frees water of arsenic contamination. Despite all sorts of details, nowhere has any name or picture of Khaled Hossain been used.
Next, on September 19, Prothom Alo and The Daily Star, carried tender notices for the purchase of five lac Earth Filters. It was stated that each schedule document would be sold for 2000 taka and this was non-refundable. Earnest money was 2%. According to Earth Foundation calculations, in earnest money alone it would be earning two crore taka. Yet the quality and standard of these filters could nor be ascertained, not was it ascertained if there was any certificate from the relevant government institution. Earth Foundation remained hazy about this in its advertisement.
 
Credit card scam
Earth Foundation had advertised in the newspapers for the distribution of credit cards so that the poor people of villages can purchase fertiliser, pesticides, life-saving drugs and other essentials on credit. They even signed an MOU with Eastern Bank in this regard. But Earth Foundation has portrayed this MOU as a signed and sealed agreement. Eastern Bank says it has not signed any such agreement with Earth Foundation. The bank has several conditions to be met before issuing a credit card. Necessary documents have to be submitted to the bank. If the conditions are met, only then will the bank take the matter into consideration. It was learnt that Earth Foundation had tried to initiate this process through one of their officers who had left Eastern Bank to join them. But they had differences and the officer left Earth Foundation. The project was shelved. But many innocent village persons seeing the advertisement in the newspaper have rushed to the various offices of the foundation.
In the name of flood relief
Day after day the major newspapers of the country have been publishing full page advertisements of Earth Foundation, calling for donations for their flood relief programme. They also set up a loudspeaker in front of their head office and called for donations in cash and kind for flood relief. But they have not been able to say how much money they have collected so far in this regard or how much they have spent on publicity for the purpose.
Money-making ploys
PROBE's investigations reveal that Earth Foundation is running various schemes to cheat people of their money. 
Appointments: Earth Foundation appointed 300 accountants to its various branch offices, taking a 5000 taka deposit from each of them. This added up to 15 lac taka. 
ESSP: In the name of its nationwide Social Security Programme (ESSP), it runs a DPS programme, having collected 16 lac taka from the poor people so far. It is still collecting money in this manner.
Training: It has collected about 10 lac taka for training purposes from the persons it has appointed. It provides training twice a week, sometimes thrice a week and sometimes even five days a week, to various staff members in exchange of 600 taka, 800 taka or even 1000 taka as fees. The training programme is on and the foundation's officers are the ones providing the training.
Shareholders: Earth Foundation projects lucrative dividends to potential shareholders and is selling 200 taka shares all over the country. Director Mohiuddin Ahmed tells PROBE, so far they have 10 lac shareholders. They then must have earned 20 crore taka in this sector alone. However, Mohiuddin Ahmed refused to reveal the actual amount they have made in this regard.
Mobile phones: Meanwhile, Earth Foundation has advertised that it will purchase 100 thousand mobile phones to distribute among the rural population and has invited tenders in this regard from established companies. This advertisement appeared in The Observer on May 20. As no company participated in the tender, the project has been shelved for the moment, says Director Chaman Afroze. If they reach successful negotiations with any company, they will revive the project, she says.
Consumer items: Chaman Afroze tells PROBE that Earth Foundation will so be releasing consumer items into the market. These include solar powered items, seed distribution schemes and more. They are also in the process of signing a 300 crore deal with the Bangladesh Machine and Tools Factory. "Under this deal," says Chaman Afroze, "they will provide us with power tillers and tractors. We will distribute these among farmers under a scheme of payment from their earnings."
On September 20, Earth Foundation and Advanced Chemical Industries (ACI) signed a 658 crore 11 lac 25 thousand taka agreement. This was for the supply of tractors, power tillers and seeds under a consumer credit scheme. This was also advertised in various newspapers on September 23. Conscious quarters ask, is Earth Foundation  commodities marketing firm? Before it takes up any programme, it goes out of its way to advertise this in a big way in the papers. Why? It all seems more than a mite mysterious. Interestingly, when the deal was signed with ACI, the advertisements had pictures of the various advisors and consultants, but nowhere was the name of Khaled Hossain mentioned. Nowhere did his photograph appear. People wonder why.
In the name of the army
It has been learnt that Earth Foundation Chairman Khaled Hossain has been using the army's name to carry out all these above mentioned schemes. He goes around saying that the Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed is very close to him.
Earth Foundation claims that Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed was the Chief Guest at a joint function of Earth Foundation and the Machine and Tools held on June 5 at Radisson Hotel and was also the Chief Guest at the Earth Filter launching programme. However,  it was later found out that no such programme took place at Radisson on June 5. Even on August 17 no such programme took place. So the question of the Army Chief being the Chief Guest does not even arise.
Too busy to talk
Earth Foundation Chairman and Executive Director Mohammed Khaled Hossain has been unavailable for comment regarding these controversial activities and the allegations against his organisation. Whenever attempts are made to contact him over the phone, his secretary says that he is busy in a meeting. The secretary took this correspondent's phone number and said, "Sir will contact you," but no contact was made. His mobile phone rings, but he does not reply. He never comes directly in front of the media. He pulls the strings from behind the scenes.
After January 11 this year, the country's overall situation has changed. The joint forces have cracked down on crime, corruption, extortion and the like. But the fraudulent Khaled Hossain and his Earth Foundation still remains out of reach. 
 
Khaled Hossain: The classic con man
Khan Mohammed K Hossain is the Chairman and Executive Director of Earth Foundation. Other than the directors, none of the 4000 staff members of the head office and at the field level  know the name of the Chairman. As for those who do know his name, they have been strictly instructed not to reveal it to anyone. Even his articles published in the newspaper identify him simply as 'Chairman' or 'Executive Director'. On September 23 an advertisement appeared in Ittefaq, Samakal, Amader Desh and other dailies, depicting the Earth Foundation's joint agreement being signed. The caption read "The Hon'ble Chairman was present at the programme." His name was not mentioned. Others were pictured in the advertisement, but not the Chairman. He has craftily remained invisible.
PROBE's investigations reveal that that Earth Foundation Chairman Khan Mohammed K Hossain's actual name is Mohammed Khaled Hossain. He is a cheat, a con man. He comes from Nayanpur of Gazipur.
In 1991 Khaled Hossain brought out a newspaper named Dainik Bhor. His office was at Dhanmondi. The paper closed down after four months and he did not pay any of his reporters or staff. In April when his staff began agitating for their dues, he hired hoodlums to attack his own office. That night he called upon Sheikh Hasina and said that fundamentalists had attacked his pro-Liberation War newspaper office.
He then began his cheating business in the name of the Liberation War. He organised a Muktijudda Mela, or gathering of freedom fighters. He collected massive amounts of rice and lentils from various traders for this fair. But what he ultimately did was simply re-sell this rice and lentils to other traders and make off with the money.
Three years after this he founded an organisation named Jhoom International. But soon a case was filed against him for cheating and he ran off. He was later arrested from 15/B Khilkhet where he was hiding along with his wife.
Next, during the Awami League rule, he brought out an underground newspaper, Dainik Shyambazar. He used the paper for extortion and blackmail purposes and made quite a sum of money, though many of the journalists who worked for the paper still have not been paid their dues. He gave cheques on March 15, 1999 to about 22 journalists as their due salaries. But when they went to cash these from the Kawran Bazar branch of National Bank (CD Account No. 33015439), they were not paid. Khaled Hossain had instructed the bank in advance not to make the payments. As a result, the journalists haven't been paid till date. The bank authorities on April 21 informed one of the journalists in writing about the matter.
In 2001 Khaled Hossain started up the Dainik Shyambazar newspaper in Mohakhali DOHS, renting the house of a retired Navy Chief. He chose the restricted DOHS area so that no one could easily access his office and raise a hue and cry about his controversial activities.
He has knack of using prominent persons of society for his wheeling and dealing. It was learnt that Khaled Hossain made 14 lac taka in the name of sending two relations of a certain lady to Europe. He used the money to set up his office in DOHS. The lady filed a case against him at the Gulshan police station and he even went to jail in this connection.
The fact that he has been to jail is all very clear in a book he authored, Bangladesh Karagar: Durniti o Protikar (Bangladesh Jail: Corruption and Cure). The book was published in August 2006 and in it Khaled Hossain says he had been imprisoned for 27 months at the Dhaka and Noakhali jails. He, however, avoided mentioning why he had been in prison. The book cover bears an Earth Bangladesh logo which has stark similarity with the Earth Foundation logo. The only difference is in the words 'Bangladesh' and 'Foundation'.
Investigations reveal that the Dainik Shyambazar has its office on the 14th floor of Mouchak Tower at 83/3 Siddeshwari (Malibagh), but Khaled Hossain does not attend office there. The Acting Editor of the paper is Ismail Miah Dulal. On July 10 the Information Ministry struck the paper off the media list as it was not brought out regularly and did not follow the regulations. The visit to the office found it under lock and key.
Khaled Hossain now attends office regularly as the Chairman and Executive Director of Earth Foundation on the 14th floor of the Suvastu-Chandrashila Tower on Panthapath. Despite the caretaker government's anti-corruption drive, he continues with his nefarious schemes unhindered. It has been learnt that there are four cases against Khaled Hossain under investigation of the Detective Branch of Police. 
It is alleged that he had been involved with Khushi Kabir's NGO Nijera Kori from where he misappropriated funds. He also goes around telling people that he is a close associate of Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed. He also claims to be a former official of the World Bank. 
 
 
 
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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Mon Oct 22 17:49:59 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Mon Oct 22 17:49:30 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [CS Bureau] civil society co-ordination
In-Reply-To: <BC40EF4E-E7DD-4155-8D98-C3DD2F2A7B71@traceynaughton.com>
Message-ID: <200710221649.l9MGnPY1000317@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

I allow myself to reply also to this message with CC to the CS Plenary list,
since it?s fully appropriate to have this discussion within a wider group of
CS partners.

 

Thanks Tracey for your message, to which I fully agree.

 

The issue of CS coordination and collective has already been raised a couple
of times on those various lists, but we did not come up with consolidated
solutions. We now have a clearer view of what will the post WSIS
architecture look like: the CSTD has almost finalised its institution
building process; a number of Action Line facilitation processes started to
deliver; and the GAID has now entered into a quite regular cycle of work.

 

CONGO has been doing some of the work (information sharing, early warning,
proposing statements, addressing UN Secretariat, encouraging joint
statements, liaising with international organisations
), but much more could
have been achieved if we would have been better organised in all areas, in
particular when it comes to more substantial issues.

 

The discussion so far has been blocked on the issue of Bureau or not Bureau.
We should go beyond and see which format would be more appropriate for a CS
structure in the post WSIS framework. In last May 2007, it has been proposed
that a more functional structure be established: One (or more) focal points
for each WSIS Action Line could help disseminating information, reporting,
following up and mobilizing actors working on this field. It would help
being more effective in the very decentralised implementation process by
action line, and at the end of the day, contribute to building more
coherence and better impact in the whole post-Tunis architecture
(implementation + follow up, but also GAID (through a GAID CS Network?) and,
to some extend, the IGF). 

 

In any event, considering this working frame should be our priority in the
up coming weeks. Our discussions in this regard in May 2007 were not really
successful.

 

Looking forward to reading you on this issue, 

 

All the best, 

 

Ph

 

Philippe Dam
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> wsis@ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

  _____  

De : bureau-bounces@wsis-cs.org [mailto:bureau-bounces@wsis-cs.org] De la
part de Tracey Naughton
Envoy? : vendredi, 19. octobre 2007 13:37
? : Civil Society Bureau, WSIS 
Objet : [CS Bureau] civil society co-ordination

 

Hello

 

There has been a new wave of messages on and off various lists about how
civil society requires co-ordination. The civil society bureau was deeply
unpopular among the people who have diligently continued working in various
fronts on follow up WSIS activities. Lately there has been a call for fresh
faces in those circles too. 

 

I remain of the view, that in acrimoniously killing off the civil society
bureau and hissing at its mention thereafter, we have all lost a mechanism
that could have continued to work on some, not all fronts to ensure that
spaces for civil society voices and diveristy of civil society voices,
increased. We had commitment, diversity and a clear sphere of activity.
Civil society remains short of the resources that are required for
participation - the CSB could have been well deployed on that area. 

 

It could also have been used as a co-ordinating mechanism, but the
resistance to it's existence meant that we could not hand on any potential
role. For me it was a classic case of civil society shooting itself in one
of its feet and limping stubbornly on while not seeing the value of the
tables we actually had our feet under. While Phillipe and Renate have
continued with follow up mechanisms, they don't have the global civil
society group that they might have had as a reference group that would have
served useful purposes. 

 

If there is anything I can do from afar, you know I will continue to do so. 

 

regards to all

 

Tracey

 

Tracey Naughton

tracey@traceynaughton.com

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From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Mon Oct 22 18:12:54 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Up date on renewal of GAID structures (Strategy
	Council and Steering Committee)
Message-ID: <200710221712.l9MHCkLr026028@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

As indicated in my previous e-mails, the renewal of the membership of GAID
structures was postponed, to allow for greater consultation among
stakeholders' groups. The deadline for nominations is 30 November 2007. We
therefore have until that date to come out with a CS self-organised
recommendation on the membership of both the Steering Committee and the
Strategy Council. Is there anyone among you willing to moderate any of these
self-nomination processes?

 

Our problem so far is that we have not yet any idea of who, among the
outgoing StratC and Steering Committee members, will be maintained and which
ones will go out. The GAID Secretariat had asked all outgoing members to
express their interest to continue. 

 

As regards the Steering Committee, I understood that both Titi and Renate
informed the GAID Secretariat of their interest to continue one more year.
But there is no more information so far on who would stay on Board. There
were also some discussions on whether the Steering Committee membership
should be increased to 12 members (currently 10), but there is not yet any
definite information on this (hopefully this would be one more for CS). 

 

As for the Strategy Council, it is understood that approximately one-third
of the membership should rotate. But I have very little information of who
expressed the willingness to continue. Out of 10 CS members so far, this
would mean that 3 or 4 new members should be identified. But the deadline
for expression of renewal by outgoing members is also 30 November, meaning
that we would not be able to know before 30 Nov. who would go out.

 

We would anyway need to have 2 parallel processes to go with by 30 November,
in identifying one individual for the Steering Committee membership. Any
process such as this one would approximately need one month to be finalised,
so that we need to start both no later that end October (next week!). 

 

A note by the GAID secretariat might be circulated soon, but I preferred to
forward you what we knew so far!

 

Let me remind that the deadlines for the nominations and appointment
processes are as follows:

 


 

GAID Steering Committee

GAID Strategy Council


Deadline for expression of renewal by outgoing members

 

15 August 2007

 

30 November 2007


Deadline for new nominations for membership 

 

30 November 2007

 

30 November 2007


Announcement of the Appointment of new members

 

End of December 2007

 

End of December 2007


Office taking of the new members

 

1 April 2008

 

1 April 2008


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From ca at rits.org.br  Mon Oct 22 18:31:53 2007
From: ca at rits.org.br (Carlos Afonso)
Date: Mon Oct 22 18:48:38 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
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The same happens in Brazil, albeit in a more sophisticated fashion.
Certain services might be totally blocked (like a ssh connection, or the
mx port 25 if you want to run a mail server in your home), or degraded
(like p2p and voip traffic). The big broadband operators recognize they
do it and say that, as they are the good and wonderful people they are,
they are doing this to protect us, their "valuable", dummy customers.
Anatel, our FCC, feels powerless to do anything on this (or is afraid
to), except in extreme cases, like when BR Telecom blocked Skype traffic
altogether.

So, user traffic is blocked, manipulated, degraded, or outrightly peeked
at (and selectively recorded at incredibly high speeds, like the
infamous AT&T+NSA practice denounced by EFF in the USA) in nearly all
countries. It seems fashionable to single out China, Cuba and a few
other countries (like the RSF list of baddies) as the villains, but the
USA and many other "democracies" are doing the same (with more or less
sophistication).

Net neutrality! Where? Where?

[] fraterno

--c.a.

Rui Correia wrote:

> Dear All
> 
> I thought this is pertinent on these forums.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rui
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: t r u t h o u t <messenger@truthout.org>
> Date: 20 Oct 2007 01:50
> Subject: Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
> To: correia.rui@gmail.com
> 
> t r u t h o u t | 10.19
> 
> Go directly to our issues page: http://www.truthout.org/issues.shtml
> 
> Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
> http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101907R.shtml
> Peter Svensson, reporting for The Associated Press, writes: "Comcast Corp.
> actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet
> subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition
> of treating all types of Net traffic equally. The interference, which The
> Associated Press confirmed through nationwide tests, is the most drastic
> example yet of data discrimination by a US Internet service provider."
> 
> 
> 
> Comcast interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet
> subscribers to share files online; J. Sri Raman writes on the return of
> Benazir Bhutto; enormous problems in management lead to criminal probe into
> Iraq construction of US embassy; power plant rejected over carbon dioxide in
> Kansas for first time in US history; historic bill in Senate to fight
> warming affecting every major segment of the nation's economy; Bush aide
> rejects climate goal; Guatemala union heads killed; Carolyn Maloney writes
> on battling the birth control price hike; Marie Cocco of Truthdig on
> Medicare; Tom Philpott of Grist.org interviews Michael Pollan; and more ...
> Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org

-- 
Carlos A. Afonso
diretor de planejamento
Rits - Rede de Informa??es para o Terceiro Setor
***************************************************************
Projeto Sacix - Apoio t?cnico a iniciativas de inclus?o digital
com software livre, mantido pela Rits em colabora??o com o
Coletivo Digital. Para mais informa??es:
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From mueller at syr.edu  Mon Oct 22 23:10:11 2007
From: mueller at syr.edu (Milton L Mueller)
Date: Mon Oct 22 23:10:18 2007
Subject: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: Comcast Blocks Some
	Internet Traffic
In-Reply-To: <471CDE89.8000700@rits.org.br>
References: <LYRIS-66272-12187-2007.10.19-18.50.55--correia.rui#gmail.com@newsletter.truthout.org>
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	<471CDE89.8000700@rits.org.br>
Message-ID: <7663C7E01D8E094989CA62F0B0D21CD9BA9E9E@SUEXCL-02.ad.syr.edu>

It's important to understand the distinction between net neutrality, which means nondiscriminatory access to internet resources, and bandwidth management. The two have gotten confused. Networks have a right to manage their bandwidth. They don't have a right to block access to specific sites or applications, based on the content or competition at the site.


Milton Mueller, Professor
Syracuse University 
School of Information Studies
------------------------------
Internet Governance Project:
http://internetgovernance.org
------------------------------
The Convergence Center:
http://www.digitalconvergence.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos Afonso [mailto:ca@rits.org.br] 
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 1:32 PM
To: Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
Cc: governance@lists.cpsr.org; africa@wsis-cs.org
Subject: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic

The same happens in Brazil, albeit in a more sophisticated fashion.
Certain services might be totally blocked (like a ssh connection, or the
mx port 25 if you want to run a mail server in your home), or degraded
(like p2p and voip traffic). The big broadband operators recognize they
do it and say that, as they are the good and wonderful people they are,
they are doing this to protect us, their "valuable", dummy customers.
Anatel, our FCC, feels powerless to do anything on this (or is afraid
to), except in extreme cases, like when BR Telecom blocked Skype traffic
altogether.

So, user traffic is blocked, manipulated, degraded, or outrightly peeked
at (and selectively recorded at incredibly high speeds, like the
infamous AT&T+NSA practice denounced by EFF in the USA) in nearly all
countries. It seems fashionable to single out China, Cuba and a few
other countries (like the RSF list of baddies) as the villains, but the
USA and many other "democracies" are doing the same (with more or less
sophistication).

Net neutrality! Where? Where?

[] fraterno

--c.a.

Rui Correia wrote:

> Dear All
> 
> I thought this is pertinent on these forums.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rui
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: t r u t h o u t <messenger@truthout.org>
> Date: 20 Oct 2007 01:50
> Subject: Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
> To: correia.rui@gmail.com
> 
> t r u t h o u t | 10.19
> 
> Go directly to our issues page: http://www.truthout.org/issues.shtml
> 
> Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
> http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101907R.shtml
> Peter Svensson, reporting for The Associated Press, writes: "Comcast Corp.
> actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet
> subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition
> of treating all types of Net traffic equally. The interference, which The
> Associated Press confirmed through nationwide tests, is the most drastic
> example yet of data discrimination by a US Internet service provider."
> 
> 
> 
> Comcast interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet
> subscribers to share files online; J. Sri Raman writes on the return of
> Benazir Bhutto; enormous problems in management lead to criminal probe into
> Iraq construction of US embassy; power plant rejected over carbon dioxide in
> Kansas for first time in US history; historic bill in Senate to fight
> warming affecting every major segment of the nation's economy; Bush aide
> rejects climate goal; Guatemala union heads killed; Carolyn Maloney writes
> on battling the birth control price hike; Marie Cocco of Truthdig on
> Medicare; Tom Philpott of Grist.org interviews Michael Pollan; and more ...
> Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org

-- 
Carlos A. Afonso
diretor de planejamento
Rits - Rede de Informa??es para o Terceiro Setor
***************************************************************
Projeto Sacix - Apoio t?cnico a iniciativas de inclus?o digital
com software livre, mantido pela Rits em colabora??o com o
Coletivo Digital. Para mais informa??es:
www.sacix.org.br   www.rits.org.br   www.coletivodigital.org.br
***************************************************************

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From ca at rits.org.br  Tue Oct 23 00:58:39 2007
From: ca at rits.org.br (Carlos Afonso)
Date: Tue Oct 23 01:03:42 2007
Subject: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: Comcast Blocks Some
	Internet Traffic
In-Reply-To: <7663C7E01D8E094989CA62F0B0D21CD9BA9E9E@SUEXCL-02.ad.syr.edu>
References: <LYRIS-66272-12187-2007.10.19-18.50.55--correia.rui#gmail.com@newsletter.truthout.org>
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	<471CDE89.8000700@rits.org.br>
	<7663C7E01D8E094989CA62F0B0D21CD9BA9E9E@SUEXCL-02.ad.syr.edu>
Message-ID: <471D392F.7030906@rits.org.br>

Milton, this distinction is not flip-flop -- it is hard to
really separate both. One example: you download flawlessly on http port 
80 and get bogged down in a p2p transfer, even when you know for sure 
both sides are well connected. This is not traffic management, or it is, 
with a purpose: exactly to go against net neutrality for reasons the 
user does not know about and/or have not been negotiated with him/her.

I have signed several broadband contracts, and I have never seen a 
clause which tells me they are entitled to prohibit me from using a 
certain port or protocol service from my home machine; they do say I am 
entitled to xxx Mb/s up and yyy Mb/s down, and this is as far as they 
should go in bandwidth management -- of course they go far beyond this.

They are just making sure you keep within what they estimate is the 
usage of their bandwidth resources which gives them the most money -- 
business as usual...

--c.a.

Milton L Mueller wrote:
> It's important to understand the distinction between net neutrality,
> which means nondiscriminatory access to internet resources, and
> bandwidth management. The two have gotten confused. Networks have a
> right to manage their bandwidth. They don't have a right to block
> access to specific sites or applications, based on the content or
> competition at the site.
> 
> 
> Milton Mueller, Professor Syracuse University School of Information
> Studies ------------------------------ Internet Governance Project: 
> http://internetgovernance.org ------------------------------ The
> Convergence Center: http://www.digitalconvergence.org
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Carlos Afonso
> [mailto:ca@rits.org.br] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 1:32 PM To:
> Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space Cc: governance@lists.cpsr.org;
> africa@wsis-cs.org Subject: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd:
> Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
> 
> The same happens in Brazil, albeit in a more sophisticated fashion. 
> Certain services might be totally blocked (like a ssh connection, or
> the mx port 25 if you want to run a mail server in your home), or
> degraded (like p2p and voip traffic). The big broadband operators
> recognize they do it and say that, as they are the good and wonderful
> people they are, they are doing this to protect us, their "valuable",
> dummy customers. Anatel, our FCC, feels powerless to do anything on
> this (or is afraid to), except in extreme cases, like when BR Telecom
> blocked Skype traffic altogether.
> 
> So, user traffic is blocked, manipulated, degraded, or outrightly
> peeked at (and selectively recorded at incredibly high speeds, like
> the infamous AT&T+NSA practice denounced by EFF in the USA) in nearly
> all countries. It seems fashionable to single out China, Cuba and a
> few other countries (like the RSF list of baddies) as the villains,
> but the USA and many other "democracies" are doing the same (with
> more or less sophistication).
> 
> Net neutrality! Where? Where?
> 
> [] fraterno
> 
> --c.a.
> 
> Rui Correia wrote:
> 
>> Dear All
>> 
>> I thought this is pertinent on these forums.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Rui
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: t r u t h o u t
>> <messenger@truthout.org> Date: 20 Oct 2007 01:50 Subject: Comcast
>> Blocks Some Internet Traffic To: correia.rui@gmail.com
>> 
>> t r u t h o u t | 10.19
>> 
>> Go directly to our issues page:
>> http://www.truthout.org/issues.shtml
>> 
>> Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic 
>> http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101907R.shtml Peter Svensson,
>> reporting for The Associated Press, writes: "Comcast Corp. actively
>> interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet 
>> subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the
>> tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally. The
>> interference, which The Associated Press confirmed through
>> nationwide tests, is the most drastic example yet of data
>> discrimination by a US Internet service provider."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Comcast interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet
>>  subscribers to share files online; J. Sri Raman writes on the
>> return of Benazir Bhutto; enormous problems in management lead to
>> criminal probe into Iraq construction of US embassy; power plant
>> rejected over carbon dioxide in Kansas for first time in US
>> history; historic bill in Senate to fight warming affecting every
>> major segment of the nation's economy; Bush aide rejects climate
>> goal; Guatemala union heads killed; Carolyn Maloney writes on
>> battling the birth control price hike; Marie Cocco of Truthdig on 
>> Medicare; Tom Philpott of Grist.org interviews Michael Pollan; and
>> more ... Browse our continually updating front page at
>> http://www.truthout.org
> 

From avri at acm.org  Tue Oct 23 15:42:58 2007
From: avri at acm.org (Avri Doria)
Date: Tue Oct 23 15:43:06 2007
Subject: [governance] Re: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: Comcast Blocks Some
	Internet Traffic
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On 22 okt 2007, at 18.55, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>
>> Networks have a right to manage their bandwidth.
>
> This is a very vague statement. Is tearing down BitTorrent connections
> (what Comcast does) "managing bandwidth"?
>

It depends.  If what they are selling is best effort service of a  
specific bandwidth then they need to treat all traffic within that  
service pipe equally.

sure they have a right to do traffic shaping in terms of balancing  
the expected use of best effort against the premium QoS services they  
sell - and if they don't want to resorts to over provisioning as  
their primary means of bandwidth control (as so many still do) they  
do need to do some shaping.  The problem comes in when they will bar  
traffic on certain ports or introduce latency in VoIP or Skype  or  
when they decide which hosts they will give preferential or  
detrimental treatment within the best-effort service (basic Internet)  
they sell to the regular users.

The issue of net neutrality has long been confounded by mistaking it  
as a QoS issue.  And is now being further confounded by bringing in  
Traffic Shaping.  As I understand it, the primary issue would be  
about how traffic is treating within the best-effort service that is  
the service that most of us buy when we pay for our home service.

So yes, blocking Bittorrent traffic or introducing latency into VoIP  
on a best effort pipe is counter to net neutrality as I understand  
it.  And while it could be called managing bandwidth, it would be  
doing so as an obfuscation and at the expense of Net neutrality.

a.

From Bill.McIver at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca  Tue Oct 23 18:13:19 2007
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Date: Tue Oct 23 18:28:11 2007
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From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Wed Oct 24 09:21:19 2007
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Dear friends

Below is some information about one of the 
workshops APC is leading in the IGF, along with 
LIRNE.NET and UNDP - on Regulatory frameworks for improving access

We're keen to get comments from as many of our 
colleagues as possible to feed into a dialogue in 
preparation for the workshop, and which may form key messages on the issue..

Spanish version follows the english..

many thanks
karen

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http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=5252920

"LIRNE.NET and APC invite internet and telecom 
practitioners, ICT policy and regulation experts, 
and other stakeholders to submit short (200-500 
words) statements on what they identify as the 
key issues and important factors currently facing 
regulators concerned with access to infrastructure. "

====

What key actions could telecom and ICT regulators 
undertake to promote access to infrastructure at 
local, national and regional levels? Send 
dialogue comment for posting to dialogue@regulateonline.org

?Regulatory Frameworks for Improving Access? ? 
Workshop presented by APC, IDRC, and LIRNE.NET

This dialogue is being undertaken in preparation 
for the ?Regulatory Frameworks for Improving 
Access? workshop co-hosted by the Canadian 
International Development Research Centre (IDRC), 
the Learning Initiatives on Reforms for Network 
Economies (LIRNE.NET), and the Association for 
Progressive Communications (APC), at this year?s 
IGF. The workshop will explore the key regulatory 
issues and imperatives in promoting equitable 
deployment and affordable access to internet 
(communications) infrastructure at local, national, regional and global levels.

Background

Regulation is how policies are put into practice. 
However, experience has shown that there is not 
necessarily a trouble-free transition from the 
conceptual to the real world. For telecom (and 
other sectors) despite expectations of market 
solutions to improve infrastructure development 
and deployment, there are still substantial 
access gaps beyond the reach of the market, especially in rural areas.

LIRNE.NET and APC invite internet and telecom 
practitioners, ICT policy and regulation experts, 
and other stakeholders to submit short (200-500 
words) statements on what they identify as the 
key issues and important factors currently facing 
regulators concerned with access to 
infrastructure. Statements can focus on local, 
national or regional access and can also 
highlight solutions that have been already 
implemented to resolve existing issues and 
challenges. Comments which address the following are particularly welcomed:

1. Whose jurisdiction? The role of regulation in 
addressing the international gap - international 
backbone infrastructure deployment and interconnection.
2. Issues and/or challenges in regulating 
regional (cross-national) communications infrastructure.
3. Trade-off or complementary objectives? 
Regulating for infrastructure investment and/or 
regulating for equitable access.
4. Access at the local level ? definition of 
universal access and mechanisms for attainment.

Internet Governance Forum (IGF)

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a medium for 
multi-stakeholder policy dialogue, was set up in 
2006 as a direct response to the deliberations of 
the World Summit of the Information Society 
(WSIS). The forum was created to (amongst other 
things) discuss public policy issues related to 
key elements of Internet governance in order to 
foster the sustainability, robustness, security, 
stability and development of the Internet. The 
second meeting of the IGF will be held in Rio de 
Janeiro, Brazil from 12 - 15 November 2007.

Association for Progressive Communications
http://www.apc.org

LIRNE.NET
http://www.lirne.net

IDRC
http://www.idrc.org

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http://www.apc.org/espanol/news/index.shtml?x=5253264

?Cu?les son los factores clave que influyen en la 
regulaci?n y acceso a la infraestructura en lo 
local, nacional y regional? Invitamos a enviar 
comentarios (de 200 a 500 palabras) a: dialogue@regulateonline.org

Antecedentes

La regulaci?n est? relacionada con c?mo las 
pol?ticas son puestas en pr?ctica. Sin embargo, 
la experiencia demuestra que la transici?n del 
mundo conceptual al mundo de los hechos no est? 
libre de conflictos. En telecomunicaciones (como 
otros sectores recientemente privatizados), pese 
a las expectativas de que las soluciones de 
mercado mejorar?an el desarrollo y despliegue de 
infraestructura, contin?an existiendo brechas de 
acceso sustanciales m?s all? del alcance del 
mercado, especialmente en las ?reas rurales.

LIRNE.NET y APC invitan a profesionales de 
internet y telecomunicaciones, expertos en 
pol?ticas de TIC y regulaci?n y otros actores a 
enviar un informe corto (200-500 palabras) sobre 
lo que ellos identifiquen como las cuestiones 
claves y los factores importantes que actualmente 
influyen en la regulaci?n y el acceso a la 
infraestructura de TIC y de telecomunicaciones. 
Los informes pueden centrarse tanto en el acceso 
local, nacional o regional como tambi?n destacar 
soluciones que hayan sido implementadas con para 
resolver problem?ticas y desaf?os existentes. 
Comentarios que aborden las siguientes cuestiones 
son particularmente bienvenidos:

1. ?Bajo la jurisdicci?n de qui?n? El rol de la 
regulaci?n en el abordaje de la brecha 
internacional: despliegue de infraestructura 
b?sica internacional e interconexi?n.
2. Temas o desaf?os en regulaci?n de 
infraestructura de comunicaciones regional (a trav?s de distintos pa?ses).
3. ?Beneficios u objetivos complementarios? La 
regulaci?n para la inversi?n en infraestructura o 
la regulaci?n para un acceso equitativo.
4. Acceso a nivel local: definici?n de acceso 
universal y mecanismos para alcanzar los resultados propuestos.

Asociaci?n APC ? IDRC ? LIRNE.NET

El Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para 
el Desarrollo (IDRC) de Canad?, la organizaci?n 
Learning Initiatives on Reforms for Network 
Economies (LIRNE.NET) y la Asociaci?n para el 
Progreso de las Comunicaciones estar?n 
presentando un taller en el Foro de gobernanza de 
internet de este a?o. El taller, titulado ?Marcos 
regulatorios para optimizar el acceso? explorar? 
las cuestiones claves en regulaci?n y los 
imperativos en promover el despliegue equitativo 
y el acceso asequible a la infraestructura de 
Internet (comunicaciones) a nivel local, nacional, regional y global.

Foro de gobernanza de internet

El Foro de gobernanza de internet, un espacio 
para el di?logo sobre pol?ticas p?blicas entre 
diferentes actores, fue establecido en 2006 como 
una respuesta directa a las deliberaciones de la 
Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Informaci?n 
(CMSI). El foro fue creado (entre otras cosas) 
para ?discutir cuestiones de pol?ticas publicas 
relacionadas a elementos claves de la gobernanza 
de internet a fin de promover la sustentabilidad, 
fortaleza, seguridad, estabilidad y desarrollo de 
internet. La segunda reuni?n del foro tendr? 
lugar en R?o de Janeiro, Brasil del 12 al 15 de noviembre de 2007.

Asociaci?n para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones
http://www.apc.org

LIRNE.NET
http://www.lirne.net

IDRC
http://www.idrc.org


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From: ronda.netizen at gmail.com (Ronda Hauben)
Date: Fri Oct 26 05:12:23 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] critique of "One Laptop Per Child" program and
	introducing new blog on Netizens and the New News
Message-ID: <ecb9aa080710252112v7129a10fwcd10c4cffce035af@mail.gmail.com>

I thought folks would find of interest some observations about the
one laptop per child program that Nicholas Negroponte is involved with. He
recently had a demonstration at the UN of the program.

http://taz.de/blogs/netizenblog/2007/10/24/one-laptop-per-child-can-it-become-a-reality/

Netizen Journalism and the New News
One Laptop Per Child - Can It Become a Reality?

BTW I have just begun a blog "Netizen Journalism and the New News"
"Exploring the impact of the net and the netizen on journalism and toward
a more participatory form of citizenship."
http://taz.de/blogs/netizenblog/

I welcome comments, discussion, posts on related issues etc.



-- 
Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook
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From karenb at gn.apc.org  Sun Oct 28 09:10:00 2007
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Sun Oct 28 09:10:18 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] APC publication: Multi-stakeholder partnerships
 in ICTs for development
Message-ID: <20071028091005.11BEE2746E5@mail.gn.apc.org>

Dear all

Please find below information about a new 
publication from APC on multi-stakeholder 
partnerships, based largely on our experience of 
the CATIA initiative (catalying access to ICTs in africa), funded by UK DfiD.

Together with ISOC, PANOS, infoDev and the UK 
Gov, APC will be hosting a best practice forum in Rio at the 2nd IGF.

The publication will be made available in french 
and english on-site and we welcome all who are 
attending the IGF to join us on Nov 13th at 
1800-1930 fcor the workshop "Moving Beyond the Talk: Partnerships in Practice"
http://www.intgovforum.org/BPP2.php?went=38

thanks
karen
====

[Version fran?aise suit]

New Publication from APC: ?Frequently Asked 
Questions about Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in 
ICTs for Development ? A Guide for National ICT Policy Animators?

Recent years have seen significant interest in 
the development of multi-stakeholder partnerships 
and multi-stakeholder processes that aim to 
address various developmental challenges. Despite 
this growth in interest, partnerships between the 
public sector, the private sector and 
particularly civil society in promoting 
information and communication technology (ICT) 
policy are still relatively new and not always fully understood.


In response to the growing demand for information 
on multi-stakeholder processes in ICT policy, 
this guide seeks to contribute to the existing 
body of knowledge and experience on the subject. 
Drawing on the practical experiences encountered 
during the three-year CATIA (Catalyzing Access to 
ICTs in Africa) programme on ICT policy advocacy, 
it presents guidelines that may assist national 
ICT policy facilitators in coming to grips with 
the complexities of multi-stake- holder 
relationships and the attainment of common goals 
and objectives. It also considers practical 
issues for the establishment of a 
multi-stakeholder process for ICT policy and 
looks at how multi-stakeholder partnerships work, 
what has been successful and what has not, and 
offers some practical suggestions on how to make them more effective.

Download full versions in English or French.

http://rights.apc.org/documents/catia_ms_guide_EN.pdf
http://rights.apc.org/documents/catia_ms_guide_FR.pdf

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

Nouvelle Publication d?APC : ?Foire aux questions 
sur les partenariats multipartites en mati?re de 
TIC pour le d?veloppement ? Guide a l?intention 
pour des animateurs d?ateliers sur les politiques nationales de TIC?

Depuis quelques ann?es, la cr?ation de 
partenariats et de processus multipartites visant 
? relever diff?rents d?fis en mati?re de 
d?veloppement suscite un int?r?t marqu?. Malgr? 
cet int?r?t croissant, les partenariats entre le 
secteur public, le secteur priv? et en 
particulier la soci?t? civile pour la promotion 
de politiques de technologies de l?information et 
de la communication (TIC), sont encore 
relativement nouveaux et pas toujours bien compris.

Ce guide tente d?apporter de nouvelles 
connaissances et exp?riences sur les processus et 
les partenariats multipartites ? partir des 
exp?riences concr?tes acquises pendant les trois 
ans qu?a dur? le programme CATIA (Dynamiser 
l?acc?s aux TIC en Afrique) sur le plaidoyer pour 
les politiques de TIC. Il contient des lignes 
directrices susceptibles d?aider les 
facilitateurs des politiques nationales de TIC ? 
mieux comprendre la complexit? des liens entre 
les parties prenantes et de l?atteinte des buts 
et des objectifs communs. On y examine les 
aspects pratiques de la cr?ation d?un processus 
multipartite pour les politiques de TIC, le 
fonctionnement des partenariats multipartites et 
leurs r?sultats positifs et n?gatifs obtenus; des 
moyens de les rendre plus efficaces sont ?galement sugg?r?s.

T?l?chargez le manuel en anglais ou en fran?ais :

http://rights.apc.org/documents/catia_ms_guide_EN.pdf
http://rights.apc.org/documents/catia_ms_guide_FR.pdf


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are or have been involved in collaboration with 
APC, and share the APC vision - a world in which 
all people have easy, equal and affordable access 
to the creative potential of information and 
communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives and create more
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From karenb at gn.apc.org  Mon Oct 29 18:24:26 2007
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Mon Oct 29 18:24:30 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [APC Forum] Press release: Connect Africa Summit
 -- Civil
 society calls for new governance to make internet accessible to
 Africans
Message-ID: <20071029182427.BBB0E2714D8@mail.gn.apc.org>

Dear all

A joint statement  follows

== recommending 12 improvements  to stimulate the 
development of internet and ICT infrastructure ni Africa ==

issued on behalf of the Association for 
Progressive Communications (APC), the Open 
Society Institute for West Africa (OSIWA), 
Collaboration for ICT Policy in Eastern and 
Southern Africa (CIPESA), the Kenyan ICT Action 
Network (KICTANet), the African Internet Service 
Providers Associations (AfrISPA), and the Rwanda 
Research and Education Network (RERN)

at the civil society pre-event to the ITU-GAID 
Connect Africa summit in Kigali, Rwanda, 29/10/07.

Please join APC and partners at the following 
workshops on the theme of 'access' at the IGF in Rio.

Regulatory Frameworks for improving access  [ WS 3 (ACC) ]
Monday Nov 12th, 1310-1500
http://info.intgovforum.org/yoppy.php?poj=36

and

Access: the local challenge [ WS 7 (ACC) ]
Monday Nov 12th, 1730:1900
http://info.intgovforum.org/yoppy.php?poj=68

and review the IGF programme for other workshops 
on access on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th november.

karen
====

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE DISSEMINATION

Civil society calls for new governance to make internet accessible to Africans

KIGALI, Rwanda, 29 October 2007 ? Convened by the 
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) 
on the 28th of October 2007, civil society groups 
have called for new forms of corporate governance 
to develop the ICT infrastructure in Africa. 
These new forms should "ensure the interests of 
all stakeholders, but above all, the interest of 
African consumers and citizens", the statement insists.

The Kigali statement by African civil society 
delegates, academicians, researchers, consumer 
interest groups, and internet service providers 
is made in light of the Connect Africa Summit 
taking place in that same city on the 29th and 30th of October 2007.

Gathered to discuss the issue of connectivity to 
international, regional and national information 
and communication technology (ICT) networks in 
Africa, the participants recognised that private 
investment and public private partnerships play a 
key role in the deployment of infrastructure in Africa.

The African civil society welcomes the continued 
investment but asserts that it needs to be 
further encouraged through the implementation of 
a stable policy environment that protects the public interest.

The statement recommends twelve improvements to 
stimulate the development of internet and ICT 
infrastructure. Among  them, it calls for 
governments to support the harmonisation of 
policy and regulation to develop and implement 
cross border connectivity. This means giving 
equal priority to the deployment of national 
backhaul networks and international access networks.

The Kigali participants mention the importance of 
the Universal Access principle and specify that 
"such access can only be sustainable if it is not 
only supply driven, but more demand driven and 
responsive to the expressed needs of target 
communities." Civil society therefore upholds 
that governments need to ensure the participation of all relevant groups
from civil society, communities and the private 
sector in defining and implementing ICT infrastructure.

The statement encourages governments to commit to 
supporting the development of national data, 
citizen-centred services and applications by 
themselves becoming key providers of content and 
implementing initiatives that attract 
organisations engaged in content and application 
development that improve access to education and healthcare.

The joint statement was issued on behalf of the 
Association for Progressive Communications (APC), 
the Open Society Institute for West Africa 
(OSIWA), Collaboration for ICT Policy in Eastern 
and Southern Africa (CIPESA), the Kenyan ICT 
Action Network (KICTANet), the African Internet 
Service Providers Associations (AfrISPA), and the 
Rwanda Research and Education Network (RERN).

The Association for Progressive Communications is 
an international network of civil society 
organisations dedicated to empowering and 
supporting groups and individuals through the 
strategic use of information and communication 
technologies, especially internet-technologies founded in 1990.
http://www.apc.org

Read the full Statement from participants in the 
???Civil Society Workshop on Open Access to ICT infrastructure in Africa???:
http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=5262405

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For more information and media inquiries, please contact:
Anriette Esterhuysen, APC executive director, anriette@apc.org
Tel: +27 834 563 224
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From rbloem at ngocongo.org  Mon Oct 29 19:41:42 2007
From: rbloem at ngocongo.org (Renate Bloem)
Date: Mon Oct 29 20:44:08 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [governance] [APC Forum] Press release:
	Connect Africa Summit -- Civil society calls for new
	governance to make internet accessible to Africans
In-Reply-To: <20071029182427.BBB0E2714D8@mail.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <200710291944.l9TJixRA013101@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

Karen,

 

I am so very, very pleased to hear about your CS initiative. I had pleaded at the recent GAID Steering Committee and Dr. Tour??s  Briefing in New York that the Kigali Summit should hear loud and clear such a message.

Thanks

Renate

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

 

Renate Bloem
President of the Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:rbloem@ngocongo.org> rbloem@ngocongo.org
Website:  <http://www.ngocongo.org/> www.ngocongo.org 

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

  _____  

De : karen banks [mailto:karenb@gn.apc.org] 
Envoy? : lundi, 29. octobre 2007 19:24
? : plenary@wsis-cs.org; governance@lists.cpsr.org; Building Communication Opportunities
Objet : [governance] [APC Forum] Press release: Connect Africa Summit -- Civil society calls for new governance to make internet accessible to Africans

 

Dear all

A joint statement  follows

== recommending 12 improvements  to stimulate the development of internet and ICT infrastructure ni Africa == 

issued on behalf of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), the Open Society Institute for West Africa (OSIWA), Collaboration for ICT Policy in Eastern and Southern Africa (CIPESA), the Kenyan ICT Action Network (KICTANet), the African Internet Service Providers Associations (AfrISPA), and the Rwanda Research and Education Network (RERN) 

at the civil society pre-event to the ITU-GAID Connect Africa summit in Kigali, Rwanda, 29/10/07.

Please join APC and partners at the following workshops on the theme of 'access' at the IGF in Rio.

Regulatory Frameworks for improving access  [ WS 3 (ACC) ]
Monday Nov 12th, 1310-1500 
http://info.intgovforum.org/yoppy.php?poj=36

and

Access: the local challenge [ WS 7 (ACC) ]
Monday Nov 12th, 1730:1900
http://info.intgovforum.org/yoppy.php?poj=68

and review the IGF programme for other workshops on access on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th november.

karen
====

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE DISSEMINATION

Civil society calls for new governance to make internet accessible to Africans

KIGALI, Rwanda, 29 October 2007 ? Convened by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) on the 28th of October 2007, civil society groups have called for new forms of corporate governance to develop the ICT infrastructure in Africa. These new forms should "ensure the interests of all stakeholders, but above all, the interest of African consumers and citizens", the statement insists.

The Kigali statement by African civil society delegates, academicians, researchers, consumer interest groups, and internet service providers is made in light of the Connect Africa Summit taking place in that same city on the 29th and 30th of October 2007.

Gathered to discuss the issue of connectivity to international, regional and national information and communication technology (ICT) networks in Africa, the participants recognised that private investment and public private partnerships play a key role in the deployment of infrastructure in Africa.

The African civil society welcomes the continued investment but asserts that it needs to be further encouraged through the implementation of a stable policy environment that protects the public interest.

The statement recommends twelve improvements to stimulate the development of internet and ICT infrastructure. Among  them, it calls for governments to support the harmonisation of policy and regulation to develop and implement cross border connectivity. This means giving equal priority to the deployment of national backhaul networks and international access networks.

The Kigali participants mention the importance of the Universal Access principle and specify that "such access can only be sustainable if it is not only supply driven, but more demand driven and responsive to the expressed needs of target communities." Civil society therefore upholds that governments need to ensure the participation of all relevant groups
from civil society, communities and the private sector in defining and implementing ICT infrastructure.

The statement encourages governments to commit to supporting the development of national data, citizen-centred services and applications by themselves becoming key providers of content and implementing initiatives that attract organisations engaged in content and application development that improve access to education and healthcare.

The joint statement was issued on behalf of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), the Open Society Institute for West Africa (OSIWA), Collaboration for ICT Policy in Eastern and Southern Africa (CIPESA), the Kenyan ICT Action Network (KICTANet), the African Internet Service Providers Associations (AfrISPA), and the Rwanda Research and Education Network (RERN).

The Association for Progressive Communications is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals through the strategic use of information and communication technologies, especially internet-technologies founded in 1990.
http://www.apc.org <http://www.apc.org/> 

Read the full Statement from participants in the ???Civil Society Workshop on Open Access to ICT infrastructure in Africa???:
http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=5262405

- 30 -

For more information and media inquiries, please contact:
Anriette Esterhuysen, APC executive director, anriette@apc.org
Tel: +27 834 563 224
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From pimienta at funredes.org  Mon Oct 29 21:23:16 2007
From: pimienta at funredes.org (Daniel Pimienta)
Date: Mon Oct 29 21:23:26 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] New FUNREDES publication on "paradigmatic divide"
Message-ID: <200710292123.l9TLNKlE025044@funredes.org>

Glad to share with you the last product of FUNREDES Think Tank gathering
years of field experiences and thinking:
"Digital Divide, Social Divide, Paradigmatic Divide"
Daniel Pimienta, FUNREDES, July 2007 (translated from Spanish)

ABSTRACT
The digital divide is nothing other than the 
reflection of the social divide in the digital 
world. The use of ICT for human development does 
offer opportunities to reduce the social divide 
for individual beings or communities; yet there 
exists a series of obstacles to overcome to make 
it possible for ICT use to bring the 
opportunities closer to these people and these 
groups of people. The very lack of existence of 
an infrastructure for connectivity is only the 
first obstacle, although it often receives an 
exclusive focus, due to the lack of an holistic 
approach. Offering an access to ICT does not 
necessarily imply that the people who benefit 
from the technologies can thus access 
opportunities for human development; education, 
more specifically a digital and information 
literacy, plays an essential part in the process. 
Telecommunication systems, computer hardware and 
software are predictable prerequisites; however, 
the true pillars of human-focused information 
societies (or societies of shared knowledge) are 
education, ethics, and participation, interacting 
together as a systemic process. As long as 
decision makers in the field of public policies 
or of ICT4D projects are not ready to consider 
these issues, and keep on favoring a mere 
technological vision, we will suffer from the 
most dangerous divide in terms of impact: the paradigmatic divide.

Keywords: ICT, ICT4D, Internet, digital divide, 
ownership, development, human development, information literacy

Any resemblance to characters, projects, or 
policies in real life IS quite intentional.
=========

Full text: 
http://funredes.org/mistica/english/cyberlibrary/thematic/Paradigmatic_Divide.pdf 
(over 10 MB)

Versi?n en espa?ol (original): 
http://funredes.org/mistica/castellano/ciberoteca/tematica/brecha_paradigmatica.pdf

Version en fran?ais (traduit de l'espagnol): 
http://funredes.org/mistica/francais/cyberotheque/thematique/fracture_paradigmatique.pdf

From ronda.netizen at gmail.com  Tue Oct 30 03:31:35 2007
From: ronda.netizen at gmail.com (Ronda Hauben)
Date: Tue Oct 30 03:31:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] [APC Forum] Press release:
	Connect Africa Summit -- Civil society calls for new
	governance to make internet accessible to Africans
In-Reply-To: <200710291944.l9TJixRA013101@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
References: <20071029182427.BBB0E2714D8@mail.gn.apc.org>
	<200710291944.l9TJixRA013101@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <ecb9aa080710292031w63e5b808uf1c3f1883e11f18b@mail.gmail.com>

I listed to a few minutes of the forum in Kigali Summit today and was amazed
at the misconceptions that abound.

They said the technology to spread the Internet is there.

I disagree. The technology to spread the Internet still needs to be the
subject of research and scientific work.

It's not that some magic formula of the 'market' and getting rid of
government regulations is going to solve the problem of the lack of Internet
access in Africa.

The Summit made me think of how the discussion on all this is  being kept
within very narrow confines in official circles and that this is a serious
failure.

My article on the talk by Nicholas Negroponte refers to this problem, and
the Summit seems to be the reinforcement of the problem.

The url for my article is

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=380774&rel_no=1

One excerpt which perhaps helps to point to the problem:

"One lesson from how the Internet was developed and spread around the world
is that there was the necessary scientific and technical research to
identify the crucial problems and then the collaboration among researchers
from a number of countries to solve these problems. (5) This was how, for
example, UNIX and then Linux, were developed. This is how TCP/IP, as the
basis for the Internet, was developed. Negroponte said that he was not doing
his program to make money, but neither has he demonstrated that he is
fostering the needed research methodology to solve the difficult technical
and social problem of providing Internet access for all."

How to get the off the wrong tracks and pointed in a useful direction is a
serious challenge.

best wishes

Ronda

On 10/29/07, Renate Bloem <rbloem@ngocongo.org> wrote:
>
>  Karen,
>
>
>
> I am so very, very pleased to hear about your CS initiative. I had pleaded
> at the recent GAID Steering Committee and Dr. Tour?'s  Briefing in New York
> that the Kigali Summit should hear loud and clear such a message.
>
> Thanks
>
> Renate
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
>
>
> *Renate Bloem*
> *President of the Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail: **rbloem@ngocongo.org* <rbloem@ngocongo.org>*
> **Website: **www.ngocongo.org* <http://www.ngocongo.org/>
>
> *The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership
> association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations
> debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure
> the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
> Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  **For more information see
> our website at **www.ngocongo.org* <http://www.ngocongo.org/>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *De :* karen banks [mailto:karenb@gn.apc.org]
> *Envoy? :* lundi, 29. octobre 2007 19:24
> *? :* plenary@wsis-cs.org; governance@lists.cpsr.org; Building
> Communication Opportunities
> *Objet :* [governance] [APC Forum] Press release: Connect Africa Summit --
> Civil society calls for new governance to make internet accessible to
> Africans
>
>
>
> Dear all
>
> A joint statement  follows
>
> == recommending 12 improvements  to stimulate the development of internet
> and ICT infrastructure ni Africa ==
>
> issued on behalf of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC),
> the Open Society Institute for West Africa (OSIWA), Collaboration for ICT
> Policy in Eastern and Southern Africa (CIPESA), the Kenyan ICT Action
> Network (KICTANet), the African Internet Service Providers Associations
> (AfrISPA), and the Rwanda Research and Education Network (RERN)
>
> at the civil society pre-event to the ITU-GAID Connect Africa summit in
> Kigali, Rwanda, 29/10/07.
>
> Please join APC and partners at the following workshops on the theme of
> 'access' at the IGF in Rio.
>
> Regulatory Frameworks for improving access  [ WS 3 (ACC) ]
> Monday Nov 12th, 1310-1500
> http://info.intgovforum.org/yoppy.php?poj=36
>
> and
>
> Access: the local challenge [ WS 7 (ACC) ]
> Monday Nov 12th, 1730:1900
> http://info.intgovforum.org/yoppy.php?poj=68
>
> and review the IGF programme for other workshops on access on Monday 12th
> and Tuesday 13th november.
>
> karen
> ====
>
> PRESS RELEASE
> FOR IMMEDIATE DISSEMINATION
>
> Civil society calls for new governance to make internet accessible to
> Africans
>
> KIGALI, Rwanda, 29 October 2007 ? Convened by the Association for
> Progressive Communications (APC) on the 28th of October 2007, civil society
> groups have called for new forms of corporate governance to develop the ICT
> infrastructure in Africa. These new forms should "ensure the interests of
> all stakeholders, but above all, the interest of African consumers and
> citizens", the statement insists.
>
> The Kigali statement by African civil society delegates, academicians,
> researchers, consumer interest groups, and internet service providers is
> made in light of the Connect Africa Summit taking place in that same city on
> the 29th and 30th of October 2007.
>
> Gathered to discuss the issue of connectivity to international, regional
> and national information and communication technology (ICT) networks in
> Africa, the participants recognised that private investment and public
> private partnerships play a key role in the deployment of infrastructure in
> Africa.
>
> The African civil society welcomes the continued investment but asserts
> that it needs to be further encouraged through the implementation of a
> stable policy environment that protects the public interest.
>
> The statement recommends twelve improvements to stimulate the development
> of internet and ICT infrastructure. Among  them, it calls for governments to
> support the harmonisation of policy and regulation to develop and implement
> cross border connectivity. This means giving equal priority to the
> deployment of national backhaul networks and international access networks.
>
> The Kigali participants mention the importance of the Universal Access
> principle and specify that "such access can only be sustainable if it is not
> only supply driven, but more demand driven and responsive to the expressed
> needs of target communities." Civil society therefore upholds that
> governments need to ensure the participation of all relevant groups
> from civil society, communities and the private sector in defining and
> implementing ICT infrastructure.
>
> The statement encourages governments to commit to supporting the
> development of national data, citizen-centred services and applications by
> themselves becoming key providers of content and implementing initiatives
> that attract organisations engaged in content and application development
> that improve access to education and healthcare.
>
> The joint statement was issued on behalf of the Association for
> Progressive Communications (APC), the Open Society Institute for West Africa
> (OSIWA), Collaboration for ICT Policy in Eastern and Southern Africa
> (CIPESA), the Kenyan ICT Action Network (KICTANet), the African Internet
> Service Providers Associations (AfrISPA), and the Rwanda Research and
> Education Network (RERN).
>
> The Association for Progressive Communications is an international network
> of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups
> and individuals through the strategic use of information and communication
> technologies, especially internet-technologies founded in 1990.
> http://www.apc.org
>
> Read the full Statement from participants in the ???Civil Society Workshop
> on Open Access to ICT infrastructure in Africa?? :
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=5262405
>
> - 30 -
>
> For more information and media inquiries, please contact:
> Anriette Esterhuysen, APC executive director, anriette@apc.org
> Tel: +27 834 563 224
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