<P>Federico wrote :</P>
<P>"the fascination with cool<BR>new toys may be causing some fellow caucus members lose sight of how bad<BR>an idea it is to move part of the debate to a realm in which people<BR>without broadband and fat machines cannot participate"<BR><BR>You are right and your comment would be perfect if you add : "high level skills in both hw and sw hadling and mastering"</P>
<P>We are lots of people who are just able to send e-mails and write documents with our "machine". But I stress that we have a lot of ideas and of commitment to share !</P>
<P>Isn't that the originanlity and the role of CS in the WSIS ?</P>
<P>I'd just remind to everybody that CS didn't have such sophisticated tools during phase 1 of the WSIS and hawever it happened to be present, active ant reactive. Far more than in the presnt phase!</P>
<P>Jean-Louis Fullsack</P>
<P>CSDPTT-France <BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #ff0000 2px solid">> Message du 14/04/05 01:58<BR>> De : "Federico Heinz" <FHEINZ@VIALIBRE.ORG.AR><BR>> A : plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR>> Copie à : <BR>> Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Collaboration software debate<BR>> <BR>> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:22 -0500, Taran Rampersad wrote:<BR>> > Who are you representing here, Federico?<BR>> <BR>> I am a member of this caucus, concerned that the fascination with cool<BR>> new toys may be causing some fellow caucus members lose sight of how bad<BR>> an idea it is to move part of the debate to a realm in which people<BR>> without broadband and fat machines cannot participate.<BR>> <BR>> > If you don't see a need for software, then I don't see the need for<BR>> > this discussion to continue<BR>> <BR>> You continue to ignore the issue, and I'm starting to hope that you are<BR>> doing it deliberately, because I'm running out of ways to explain it to<BR>> you. Certainly there are people and circumstances for which such<BR>> software would be useful. I'm just pointing out that the use of this<BR>> kind of tool for CS caucus' purposes would be a mistake, because it will<BR>> exclude people which could very well participate using the current<BR>> tools.<BR>> <BR>> > It's apparent to me that there is a need for software for<BR>> > online collaboration which meets the needs of the Civil Society plenary,<BR>> > and there has been such a need.<BR>> <BR>> Great! If it is so apparent to you, then it will be very easy for you to<BR>> substantiate this need. Please, do tell us.<BR>> <BR>> Fede<BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> GnuPG Public Key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-key BD02C6E0<BR>> Key Fingerprint: 04F4 08C5 14B7 2C3D DB21 ACF8 6CF5 0B0C BD02 C6E0<BR>> ><BR>> [ signature.asc (0.2 Ko) ]</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>ico wrote :</P>
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