<DIV>Since Consumer Federation of America does not have travel funds for the Paris meeting, we would appreciate surveillance notes and be most greatful to whoever agrees to make and distribute them.</DIV>
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<DIV>Mark Silbergeld</DIV>
<DIV>Senior Fellow</DIV>
<DIV>Director of International Issues</DIV>
<DIV>Consumer Federation of America<BR><BR><B><I>"Alan G. Alegre" <alalegre@fma.ph></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Dear all</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>This is a wonderful suggestion from our Korean colleagues. Though I will not be in Paris, I think this is important from the perspective of Internet Rights, and would be interested in participating in sourcing and managing this info even beyond the intersessional meeting.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>As I assume many will also not be in Paris next week, maybe through this list country assessments could still be submitted online, and pursued as an ongoing project by all civil society groups/country stakeholders. Concretely I am suggesting that:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>1) The Surveillance Status Report session be docoumented and translated and shared online to all of us not there.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>2) Someone (Korean Civil Society Network? APC Internet Rights people?) suggest a short outline or framework of national situationers/status reports. This could facilitate uniformity of formats for documentation and comparison purposes. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>3) All reports received could then be put into a database or uploaded into a website (ideally both), which could be the repository of all of this. (AT least the regional data for Asia-Pacific could be uploaded to the WSIS CS Asia site?)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>4) <FONT face=Arial>Link up with other people doing similar surveys (APC again, Reporters San Frontieres, etc.) so that info could be shared.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>4) One of the CS "families" adopt this as a project, that could be integrated in the planned Communication Rights Summit parallel to WSIS. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thoughts?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Al</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=yjpark@myepark.com href="mailto:yjpark@myepark.com">YJ Park</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=plenary@wsis-cs.org href="mailto:plenary@wsis-cs.org">plenary@wsis-cs.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=ct@wsis-cs.org href="mailto:ct@wsis-cs.org">ct@wsis-cs.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 09, 2003 8:52 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [WSIS CS-Plenary] [Proposal] Surveillance Society Status Report Session in Paris meeting</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Hello all,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Despite time constraint we face before Paris meeting, a consensus </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">was reached yesterday among </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">Korea Civil Society Network(KCSN) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">that civil societies in the WSIS should have an opportunity to exchange</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">"Surveillance Status Report" of each country. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Civil society groups in the WSIS can have better understanding </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">about </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">various </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">legal or institutional initiatives by many governements </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">through </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">this session. </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Looking forward to your participation...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Best,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">YJ</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">------------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">To: Civil Socities in the WSIS Intersessional meeting in Paris</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">From: Korea Civil Society Network(KCSN)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Re: To hold "Surveillance Society Status Report" session on July 16 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Information Society has brought Internet users </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">hopes and dreams </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">for better life as a human being; equal rights </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">among the users(or nodes), </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">participatory or democratic political </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">systems, open source, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">international cooperation etc.. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">On the other hand, each individual's or Internet uer's privacy </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">has been seriously threatened by the fast growing database </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">empires worldwide, governments and multi-national businesses </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">who have resources to put the data together for the sake of </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">their own governance in the name of efficient management. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Civil Society Groups including NGOs have not been effective</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">to respond to these well-designed attempts of the Big-Brothers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Therefore, Korea Civil Society Network(KCSN) proposes here </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Civil Socities in the WSIS especially during Paris Intersessional</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">meeting share each country's status. We understand the following </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">threats in Korea become real threats in other countries, too. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">-National ID card experience</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">-Real name registration in the online activity [proposal]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">-Bio Data/DNA data recognition [proposal]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">-NEIS, Education administration database network setup [proposal] </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">-etc</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">If you are interested in this proposal, please join this effort</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">to organize the "Surveillance Society Status Report" session. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Regards, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">KCSN</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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