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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">On 10 Nov 2003 at 2:06, Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Hi all, </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Hi, Bertrand,</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I'd like to speak against your proposal. While I share your strategic
thoughts I don't follow your conclusions. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">First of all, I don't agree that information society is built around the
worldwideweb. The WWW is just one of many services running on
the Internet. Email, for example, is more popular and widespread than
WWW. It is only in the developed world with plenty of bandwidth that
people confuse the Internet with the Web. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Second, I don't see how the Web was invented by civil society.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Third, I don't see in what respect the </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">World
Wide Web Consortium is
</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">an innovative multi-takeholder body. Unlike the Internet Engineering
Task Force, a standard developing body, which is open for everybody,
membership in the W3C is really expensive and, if I am not mistaken,
confined to the Internet industry. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">In sum, I'd prefer if we picked a speaker who makes the point for
human rights in information society in a credible and charismatic way. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Best, jeanette </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Choosing who will speak in the opening ceremony is important </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> to be sure our views are faithfully expressed and to enhance </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> media coverage. But it is also about strategically </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> ESTABLISHING THE RIGHT FOR CIVIL SOCIETY TO NOMINATE WHO </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> WILL REPRESENT IT.  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Therefore, as the goal is to set a precedent upon which we </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> can build later, we need to choose someone reflecting CS </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> views on the Information Society that cannot be rebuffed or </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> refused by any government.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> For these reasons, why not invite for the opening ceremony </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> speech Tim Berners-Lee, THE inventor of the World Wide Web </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> and the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ? </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> This would present many advantages, reminding participants </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> and in particular governments :</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> - that the Information Society they keep talking about is </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> fundamentally organized around the World Wide Web, which was </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> invented by civil society (indeed a single human : how more </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> civil society can you be ?)</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> -  that without wanting to protect or patent his invention, </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Berners-Lee made it a gift to the whole world, showing that </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> if legal protection can help innovation, it is not always a </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> necessity;</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> - that the creation of this global commons (an open </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> standard) has triggerd a multi-trillion dollar industry and </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> impacted society in a way similar only to the printing press </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> or electricity</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> - that new frontiers are being explored (the so-</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> called "Semantic web" of the highest importance for cultural </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> and linguistic diversity).</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Beyond singlehandedly inventing the Web, Tim Berners-lee </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> also designed the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C), an </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> innovative multi-stakeholder decision-making and standard-</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> setting process dedicated to addressing the issues raised by </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> its development.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> In a nutshel, TBL did not only promote the values we defend </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> (global commons, open architectures and standards, flexible </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> frameworks for dialogue involving a wide variety of </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> stakeholders, access to information, transparency, non-</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> profit approach,  ...); he also implemented them in </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> everything he did. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> The very success of what he created is the best proof that </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> those principles do work. Nobody is in a better position </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> (credibility) to expose the present attacks against some of </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> the founding principles of the Internet and the Web that CS </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> cares about.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Other advantage : no government in its sane mind can take </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> the risk of the public ridicule of refusing the floor in a </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> summit on the Information Society to the very man who, more </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> than anyone, helped it happen. Should Civil Society agree on </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> his nomination through the present process (and provided of </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> course he can and wants to participate), his name could be </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> given with no alternative option, thereby establishing CS </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> right to nominating its own speakers. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> I hope you will find this suggestion useful and capable of </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> triggering a rapid consensus. Many things can be added.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> But as my view may be biased, I encourage suggestions, </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> comments and critics on this one. In particular, I recognize </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> TBL, as a white male living in the US, does not help on the </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> criterias of gender and geographical balance. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Should a decision be taken among us, I am sure many of you </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> are in a position to help contact TBL if necessary and we </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> should select the best channel . </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Cheers to all</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Bertrand</span></font></div>
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