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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear
all,</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Chris
asked:</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>></span></font><font
face="Comic Sans MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Would</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>someone</span></font><span lang=EN-GB> </span><font
face="Comic Sans MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>please
tell us where we are supposed to send or post our comments?</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>When
I look at the WGIG page, it says that “Governments and all stakeholders
are invited to </span><a href="http://wgig.org/WGIG-Report.html"><span
lang=EN-GB>comment</span></a></font><span lang=EN-GB>, “linking through
to a second page, </span><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a
href="http://wgig.org/WGIG-Report.html">http://wgig.org/WGIG-Report.html</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>and when you go there,
you see that “</span></font><span lang=EN-GB>Governments and all
stakeholders are invited to comment on these papers, preferably by making use
of this </span><a href="http://wgig.org/docs/CommentTemplate.pdf"><span
lang=EN-GB>template</span></a><span lang=EN-GB>,” <a
href="http://wgig.org/docs/CommentTemplate.pdf">http://wgig.org/docs/CommentTemplate.pdf</a></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Comments should be sent by email to” </span><a
href="mailto:wgig@unog.ch"><span lang=EN-GB>wgig@unog.ch</span></a></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Best,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thomas</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:PersonName><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>Thomas Ruddy</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
color=navy><span lang=EN-GB style='color:navy'>, </span></font><font
color=navy><span lang=EN-GB style='color:navy'>Switzerland</span></font><font
color=navy><span lang=EN-GB style='color:navy'>, convenor of <a
href="http://www.wsis.ethz.ch">http://www.wsis.ethz.ch</a> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
[mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf
Of </span></b></span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>zielinskic@who.int</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Monday,
February 07, 2005</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>11:40
AM</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> plenary@wsis-cs.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [WSIS CS-Plenary] Trying
to respond to the position papers - defininig Universal Access</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>Friends,</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>Well, my</span></font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>earlier</span></font> <font
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>comment seems to
have</span></font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>stirred</span></font>
<font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>a fair
amount of</span></font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>correspondence, but it still hasn't</span></font> <font
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>elicited a way
of</span></font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>responding</span></font>
<font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>to the
position papers.</span></font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Would</span></font> <font
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>someone</span></font>
<font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>please
tell us where we are supposed to send or post our comments?</span></font> </p>
<p><font size=3 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>While recognizing that it's going to get disorganized</span></font>
<font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>if we do
it through this list, I am offering below a short corrective to the</span></font>
<font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>definition
used in the</span></font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>Universal Access paper.</span></font> <font
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>I'll withhold
more detailed comments until</span></font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>someone answers the</span></font> <font
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>above question,
though.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>----------</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>The Unesco</span></font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Recommendation concerning the Promotion and
Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace</span></font> <font
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>(<a
href="http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13475&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html"
target="_blank">http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13475&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html</a></span></font>
<font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>) has an
excellent definition of "universal access", which includes not just
access to the technology but also access to content, both of which are included
in the rest of the WGIG paper, but not in the definition offered on the first
page. I suggest we use it:</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>"Universal access to cyberspace is equitable and
affordable access by all citizens to information infrastructure (notably to the
Internet) and to information and knowledge essential to collective and
individual human development".</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>Note also that WSIS-CT has already worked in this area for
previous statements, and much of this is absent from the present text. I append
a text we prepared a couple of years ago (!)below.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>----------</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>Chris</span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-weight:bold'>Chris Zielinski</span></font></b>
</p>
<p><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>STP, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research</span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>RPC/EIP, World Health Organization </span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS"'>Avenue Appia, CH1211,</span></font> <font size=2
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Geneva,
Switzerland </span></font></p>
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"Comic Sans MS"'>----------</span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>Universal access</span></font></b></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In
an equitable information society, everyone must have universal and equitable
access to the infrastructure and knowledge available. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Technological
access requires enough of the right kind of infrastructure. It is the
responsibility of governments to ensure that the necessary backbone
infrastructure is built and maintained, and to ensure that there is an enabling
policy and regulatory environment that encourages communities, the private
sector, local government and civil society to provide value-added services and
to expand this infrastructure in locally relevant ways. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Public
investment in infrastructure, and market imperatives in the private sector,
should not result in wealthier urban populations being wired while poorer rural
communities are left untouched. The digital inclusion of the few must not be
allowed to perpetuate the social and economic exclusion of the many.</span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Equally,
technological access does not merely mean the ability to download information
and advertising, it implies the ability to upload information with sufficient
bandwidth for two-way communication.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Access
should be provided particularly to community organizations and other
constituencies that can have a high impact in terms of distributing benefits of
access. The needs of women and of specific communities such as the disabled
should be met. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Expanding
technological access to the Internet demands an expansion of the</span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>available
address space under IPv6, mindful of the societal and ethical risks to privacy
and personal security of increased penetration of the Internet into society.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Transparent,
accountable governance structures and equitable legal and regulatory frameworks
must be established, which are able to provide socially responsible governance
in a world that becomes increasingly dependent on the Internet. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Finally,
universal access must be provided to information essential for human
development. Without access to such information and knowledge, there can be no
Information Society. This goes beyond the right of access to information in the
public domain, and includes all knowledge that is needed for basic survival.
Equitable access should be provided to information from all sources, whether
from developing or industrialized countries.</span></font></p>
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