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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear Karen,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Just out of hospital myself, I join all in
sympathy and grief for the passing away of Chris. We will all carry forward his
courage and passionate humanity and miss him deeply.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Renata<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
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plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>William Drake<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> jeudi, 1. septembre 2005
20:41<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">plenary@wsis-cs.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] *
APC Tribute to Chris Nicol *</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"'>Karen,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"'>I'm really sorry to hear this. At the APC party during the last
prepcom he seemed to be holding up reasonably well and in decent spirits,
despite the outlook. I too didn't know him very well or in life beyond
WSIS, but he was clearly a great person and will be missed.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"'>Bill</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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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><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Rik Panganiban</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 01, 2005
7:09 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">plenary@wsis-cs.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] *
APC Tribute to Chris Nicol *</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I did not know Chris
well, but always appreciated his keen insights, common sense and good humor.
His ICT primer was personally very helpful to me and certainly to many many
others.<br>
<br>
My thoughts and prayers go to his family and friends.<br>
<br>
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Rik Panganiban</st1:PersonName><br>
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On Sep 1, 2005, at 12:58 PM, karen banks wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Dear all on plenary,<br>
<br>
With great sadness and heavy of heart, i have to share news that our dear sweet
friend - chris nicol - died on August 29th after battling with cancer for over
a year.<br>
<br>
Many of you will not have met chris, some of you have, and those that have will
know that chris was one of the most deeply committed and passionate social
activists, who dedicated his life to creating a more just and equitable world -
and the WSIS Process was one where he fought some tough battles working towards
achieving that goal, with many of us.<br>
<br>
Our tribute to chris is below in english, and i will post spanish and
portuguese versions in the next messages.<br>
<br>
If you feel it appropriate, please share this tribute with your own caucuses
and working groups.<br>
<br>
regards to all<br>
karen banks, on behalf of the APC.<br>
<br>
~~~~~<br>
<br>
online tribute and other links: http://www.apc.org/english/index.shtml<br>
<br>
30 August 2005<br>
<br>
To all in the APC community and to our many friends and partners:<br>
<br>
TRIBUTE TO OUR FRIEND, COUNCIL AND BOARD MEMBER, CHRIS NICOL<br>
<br>
On Monday 29 August 2005 the APC network lost someone who was a colleague, a
leader and a friend.<br>
<br>
Chris Nicol, member of the APC council and also of the APC executive board,
died in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Barcelona</st1:place></st1:City>
after more than a year of struggling against cancer. For much of the time
during this battle Chris was winning, continuing to work, travel and network
when the difficult cycle of surgery and treatment left him with any spare time.<br>
<br>
Chris was an Australian who had been living in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Barcelona</st1:place></st1:City> for around 25 years. He also spent
time in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nicaragua</st1:place></st1:country-region>
in the period just after the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza dictatorship.
Chris worked in the British Council in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Barcelona</st1:place></st1:City>
for many years, he taught English and set down roots in Catalunya in many ways
- politically, culturally, socially and through his long relationship with his
partner Chenchy. Chris was also active in the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Barcelona</st1:place></st1:City> solidarity movement with the
Zapatistas, organising, raising funds, helping out where he could. And he loved
music, wine, and nature. Chris was deeply committed to justice, to humanity. He
was a real activist who also threw himself into practical and concrete tasks
with energy and humour.<br>
<br>
Chris became part of the APC community in 1995. His organisation, Pangea, was
part of an association of Spanish internet activist organisations which
together applied for APC membership. In 2000 Pangea (www.pangea.org) became a
member of APC in its own right. Chris was part of Pangea from its first days,
working sometimes as a volunteer and sometimes as staff, but always giving
heart and soul to the organisation.<br>
<br>
He first attended an APC council meeting in 1997 in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region> although many APC
people had already met him by then. Chris was first elected onto the APC
executive board at the APC council meeting in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Uruguay</st1:place></st1:country-region> in 2001 and at the time of
his death he was APC treasurer. He worked tirelessly at a recent executive
board meeting in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South
Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region> in April even though he had only just
finished another gruelling round of treatment.<br>
<br>
For all of us in APC it is very hard to express how much Chris meant in the
network. His was always an active voice, supportive and sometimes critical.<br>
<br>
He was deeply committed to APC strengthening its advocacy role, to being more
than a provider of member services. He was one of the first people in APC to
raise the issue of free software, to start using GNU/Linux on his desktop, and
to develop projects to support organisations in migrate their desktop
environments to free and open source software.<br>
<br>
Chris made two contributions to APC's work recently which will live on for a
long time. He was the editor and compiler of "ICT policy: a beginner's
handbook" (http://www.apc.org/books) which we published in English in late
2003 and in Spanish this year. This book will be updated with a new version
going online on a wiki so that it can remain a living and growing testimony to
Chris' work. And, earlier this year, he drafted the outline of a free software
initiative for the APC network which we have been building on and which will be
presented to APC members later this year.<br>
<br>
Chris was a permanently engaged member of the APC team participating in the
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process, from its inception in
2002 through to the latest PrepCom in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Geneva</st1:place></st1:City>,
February 2005, one of his last work related trips. In many ways, he was a
compass ­ always pointing to those actions that were necessary, just and
not always easy - whether it was in solidarity around redressing unjust
distribution of resources, the fierce battles around intellectual property and
free software, or insisting that the APC team met to communicate and strategise
regularly in the hustle and bustle of the United Nations conferences.<br>
<br>
Every moment was precious to Chris, precious in that he felt one should never
be wasted - whether the moment was spent drafting, lobbying, meeting,
demonstrating, or talking with friends and colleagues.<br>
<br>
Chris was always there, whenever we needed him, and was a constant reminder of
our message and vision - to create "a world in which all people have easy,
equal and affordable access to the creative potential of ICTs to improve their
lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies" (the APC vision).<br>
<br>
All of us in the APC community want to share our love and support of Chris with
his family and his friends, with Chenchy and with Chris' mother and sister in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, with
his colleagues in Pangea.<br>
<br>
APC will not forget Chris and will be honouring and remembering Chris Nicol
through an initiative that will reflect his passion and committment to creating
a more socially just world, and inspire others to continue the battle to do so.<br>
<br>
We will share more news about this initiative shortly, but at this time, we
warmly welcome all of those who knew or knew of Chris and his life work, to
share messages on the editable website we have created in his honour.<br>
<br>
http://actionapps.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=APC+messages+to+Chris+Nicol<br>
<br>
Association for Progressive Communications members and staff<br>
30 August 2005<br>
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<st1:PersonName w:st="on"><tt><font face="Courier New">Rik Panganiban</font></tt></st1:PersonName><tt><font
face="Courier New"> email: rikp@earthlink.net</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">UN Reporting & Advocacy tel: (+1) 917-710-5524</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Civil Society Organizer web: http://rikomatic.com </font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">** My book on e-Democracy and the United Nations</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">can be downloaded at
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