<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Rik:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13.3333px;">I think having the president of the first phase preparatory process speak on behalf of Civil Society </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13.3333px;">at the tunis summit is strange and quite problematic.<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 12px;"></SPAN> Is he not a cabinet member of the Malian government?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Please not as well, that I do not see any of the names of Canadians I posted to the plenary list last week. Below is a copy of the message with the names and bios. I hope they can be considered. I am of the personal opinion that it would be great if a spot could be given to <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate;">Derrick de Kerckhove, the director of the McLuhan program at the University of Toronto.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></DIV><DIV>regards, </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Robert<BR><DIV><BR><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="">From: Robert Guerra <<A href="mailto:rguerra@lists.privaterra.org">rguerra@lists.privaterra.org</A>></DIV><DIV style="">Date: September 29, 2005 6:52:03 PM GMT+02:00</DIV><DIV style="">To: wsis-cs-plenary Plenary <<A href="mailto:plenary@wsis-cs.org">plenary@wsis-cs.org</A>></DIV><DIV style="">Subject: Nomination - Canada - Nominations</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><DIV style="">Following a quick ad-hoc consultation with Canadians attending PrepCom3, I would like to put forward the following nominations as speakers - from Canada - for the opening ceremony and/or high level panel.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">They are HIGH level Canadians who not only have a long, well known experience in information society issues but also have participated in one or more WSIS related events (prepcoms and/or summit).</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">The names, bios and URLs for additional information is below for the review and consideration of the committee.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">additional names will be forthcoming.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">regards</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Robert</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">--</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Derrick de Kerckhove</DIV><DIV style="">Charles Taylor</DIV><DIV style="">Peter Leuprecht</DIV><DIV style="">Jean-Louis Roy</DIV><DIV style="">Jennifer Corriero</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Derrick de Kerckhove</DIV><DIV style="">(opening ceremony)</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_de_Kerchove">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_de_Kerchove</A></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Derrick de Kerckhove is the Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">He edited Understanding 1984 (UNESCO, 1984) and co-edited with Amilcare Iannucci, McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell'uomo (Bulzoni, 1984) two collections of essays on McLuhan, culture, technology and biology. He also co-edited with Charles Lumsden The Alphabet and the Brain (Springer Verlag, 1988), a book which scientifically assesses the impact of the Western alphabet on the physiology and the psychology of human cognition. Another publication, La civilisation vidéo-chrétienne appeared in France in December, 1990 and in Italy the following year (Feltrinelli, 1991). Brainframes: Technology, Mind and Business (Bosch & Keuning, 1991) addresses the differences between the effects of television, computers and hypermedia on corporate culture, business practices and economic markets. The Skin of Culture (Somerville Press, 1995) is a collection of essays on the new electronic reality which stayed on Canadian best-sellers lists for several months. It was translated into a dozen languages including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Polish and Slovenian. Connected Intelligence (Somerville, 1997) introduced his research on new media and cognition. His latest book, The Architecture of Intelligence, was first issued in Dutch in December 2000, and in English (June 2001), Italian and German in September 2001. It was later translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. He collaborated with Mark Federman on McLuhan for Managers: New Tools for New Thinking, published in September 2003. de Kerckhove is also contracted to work on a book about the history of stage performance from early Greek theatre to modern Opera, in collaboration with Francesco Monico.</DIV><DIV style="">[edit]</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Other work</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">de Kerckhove has offered connected intelligence workshops worldwide, and now offers this innovative approach to business, government and academe to help small groups to think together in a disciplined and effective way while using digital technologies. In the same line, he has contributed to the architecture of Hypersession, a collaborative software now being developed by Emitting Media and used for various educational situations.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">As a consultant in media, cultural interests, and related policies, de Kerckhove has participated in the preparation and brainstorming sessions for the plans for: the Ontario Pavilion at Expo '92 in Seville, the Canada in Space exhibit, and the Toronto Broadcast Centre for the CBC. He was involved in plans for a major exhibit on Canada and Modernism at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie in Paris for 2004 and was a member of the cultural committee of Toronto's bid for the Olympics in 2008. He was a member of several government task forces on developing a telecommunications policy for Ontario, designing a cultural policy for the francophone community in Ontario, and also appeared before the CRTC Public Hearing Committee on the Information Highway. A World Economic Forum Fellow, de Kerckhove is also an active member of the Vivendi Institut de prospective where he is in charge of investigating the future technological and business development of the new technologies. He was decorated by the Government of France with the order of "Les Palmes académiques" and has been a member of the Club of Rome since 1995. de Kerckhove is, most recently, the holder of the Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Charles Taylor</DIV><DIV style=""><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(philosopher">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(philosopher</A>)</DIV><DIV style=""><A href="http://www.uni.ca/taylor_f.html">http://www.uni.ca/taylor_f.html</A></DIV><DIV style=""><A href="http://agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Charles_Taylor">http://agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Charles_Taylor</A></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Charles Taylor, CC, BA, MA, Ph.D, FRSC (born November 5, 1931) is a Canadian philosopher known for his viewpoints on morality and modern western identity of individuals and groups. He is often classified as a communitarian.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">His principal philosophical standpoint is that of "exclusive humanism"—a humanism without reference to the transcendent, especially as it relates to cultural, social, or political life.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Taylor was educated at the McGill University (B.A. in History in 1952) and at Oxford (B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 1955, M.A. in 1960, Ph.D in 1961).</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">He was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University and was for a long time Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he is now professor emeritus. Taylor is now Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern University.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">In 1995 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Noted books</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""> * The Explanation of Behavior (1964)</DIV><DIV style=""> * Hegel (1975)</DIV><DIV style=""> * Hegel and Modern Society (1979)</DIV><DIV style=""> * Philosophical Papers (2 volumes, 1985)</DIV><DIV style=""> * Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity (1989)</DIV><DIV style=""> * The Malaise of Modernity (1991; the published version of Taylor's Massey Lectures, reprinted in the U.S. as The Ethics of Authenticity (1992)</DIV><DIV style=""> * Philosophical Arguments (1995)</DIV><DIV style=""> * Modern Social Imaginaries (2004)</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""> Peter Leuprecht</DIV><DIV style=""><A href="http://www.pdhre.org/people/leuprechtbio.html">http://www.pdhre.org/people/leuprechtbio.html</A></DIV><DIV style=""><A href="http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sirp/com/04-202.htm">http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sirp/com/04-202.htm</A> [Français]</DIV><DIV style=""><A href="http://www.law.mcgill.ca/faculty/bio_display-en.htm?bio_id=49&state=Print_List">http://www.law.mcgill.ca/faculty/bio_display-en.htm?bio_id=49&state=Print_List</A></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Professor Leuprecht was Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1999 to 2003. He teaches theories of justice and conducts research in the field of international law and human rights. In August of 2000, he was appointed UN Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia. Author of numerous publications, Dean Leuprecht has taught at the Universities of Strasbourg and Nancy (France), at the European Academy of Law in Florence (Italy) and at the Département des sciences juridiques de l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Professor Leuprecht served as Director of Human Rights at the Council of Europe, and was elected Deputy Secretary General in 1993. He left his post before the end of his term because of his disagreement with the dilution of Council of Europe standards. Awarded the Prix du civisme européen in 1991, he was a member of a committee of four Sages asked to prepare a human rights agenda for the European Union for the year 2000.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Peter Leuprecht a enseigné aux Universités de Strasbourg et de Nancy ainsi qu'à l'Académie de droit européen de Florence. Professeur invité au Département des sciences juridiques de l'UQAM et professeur à la Faculté de droit de l'Université McGill dont il a été le doyen de 1999 à 2003, monsieur Leuprecht possède des qualifications et une expérience exceptionnelles dans les domaines du droit international et des droits de la personne. Dès 1961, le jeune diplômé de l'Université d'Innsbruck (Autriche) amorce une brillante carrière au Conseil de l'Europe. Il y restera jusqu'en 1997 après avoir été, entre autres, secrétaire du Comité des ministres, directeur des Droits de l'Homme et Secrétaire général adjoint (poste électif). Conseiller au Ministère canadien de la Justice de 1997 à 1999, membre du Comité des « Sages » qui a préparé le programme d'action sur les droits de la personne pour l'Union européenne de l'an 2000, monsieur Leuprecht est aussi représentant spécial du Secrétaire général des Nations Unies pour les droits de la personne au Cambodge depuis août 2000.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Peter Leuprecht est lauréat du Prix du civisme européen (1991) et du Human Rights Award of the Lord Reading Law Society (2001).</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Bob Carty</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Bob Carty est un producteur et documentariste pour les émissions The Sunday Edition et The Current sur CBC Radio One. Avant de s’engager dans le journalisme, Bob Carty a oeuvré dans les domaines des droits de la personne et du développement international, plus particulièrement en Amérique centrale. En 1981, il joint les rangs de la CBC à titre de chef du service étranger et, plus tard, comme producteur senior du programme radio Sunday Morning. Il a également travaillé pour les programmes radio de la CBC As it Happens, Commentary et Morningside. À la fin des années 1980, et pendant cinq ans, il couvre la situation des droits humains, les conflits militaires ainsi que les questions de développement et d’environnement en Amérique centrale pour la CBC, la National Public Radio, le Monitor Radio et le Globe and Mail. Il participe également à des projets spéciaux de journalisme d’enquête avec CBC Radio News et CBC Television.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Les documentaires radio de Bob Carty ont reçu de nombreux prix dont le prestigieux Peabody Award et le Gabriel Award. Parmi les autres prix, mentionnons le New York International Radio Festival Gold Award and Grand Award, le prix de l’Association canadienne des journalistes pour son travail de journalisme d’enquête, le prix de l’Association canadienne des rédacteurs scientifiques et le prix d’Amnistie internationale du Canada pour ses informations sur les droits de la personne. L’Organisation des Nations Unies lui a de plus exprimé une reconnaissance spéciale pour son programme radio prônant les valeurs du système onusien. En 2004, il s’est vu remettre le prix Online Journalism Award décerné par le Online News Association pour son reportage sur les réactions indésirables aux médicaments. Il a été également mis en nomination au Canada pour le prix Michener.</DIV><DIV style="">Bob Carty est membre du International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Ardent défenseur de la liberté d’expression, il est membre du conseil d’administration de Journalistes canadiens pour la liberté d’expression (JCLE) et l’un des fondateurs de Échange international de la liberté d’expression (IFEX)</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">[english]</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Bob Carty is a documentary producer for The Sunday Edition and The Current on CBC Radio One. Prior to entering journalism Mr. Carty worked in the field of human rights and international development focussing on Latin America. In 1981 he joined the CBC becoming foreign editor and later senior producer for the radio programme Sunday Morning. He also worked for shorter periods for the CBC Radio programmes As It Happens, Commentary and as senior producer of Morningside. In the late 1980s, he spent five years in Central America covering military conflicts, human rights, development and ecological issues throughout Latin America for the CBC, National Public Radio, Monitor Radio and the Globe and Mail. Returning to Canada in 1993, Carty resumed full-time documentary work for Sunday Morning and later for the new CBC current affairs programme This Morning (now The Sunday Edition and The Current respectively). He also participates in special investigative projects with CBC Radio News and CBC Television.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Bob Carty's radio documentaries have won numerous awards including a prestigious Peabody Award and a Gabriel Award. Other prizes include the New York International Radio Festival Gold Award and Grand Award, the Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Investigative Journalism, the Canadian Science Writers’ award, Amnesty International of Canada’s award for human rights reporting, and a special United Nations recognition for programming which reinforces the values of the U.N. system. Recent team reporting on issues of adverse drug reactions won the Online Journalism Award (2004) given by the Online News Association, and in Canada was also nominated for a Michener Award.</DIV><DIV style="">Mr. Carty is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). He is active in freedom of expression issues as a board member of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and he is one of the founders of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Jean-Louis Roy</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><A href="http://www.ichrdd.ca/francais/apropos/jeanLouisRoyBio.html">http://www.ichrdd.ca/francais/apropos/jeanLouisRoyBio.html</A></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Jean-Louis Roy was appointed President of Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development) in June and took up his post on August 19, 2002.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">A former Director of the Montreal daily Le Devoir, Mr. Roy was Secretary General of the Agence de la Francophonie in Paris from 1990 to 1998. He was responsible for promoting cooperation between the 49 member states of the Francophonie and for the implementation of political, economic and social programmes agreed upon at summit meetings of Heads of State and Governments.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Since then Mr. Roy has served in an advisory capacity on related issues and was a visiting professor at York University, in Ontario and at the University of Moncton in New Brunswick. In 2001, he was appointed Chancellor of the University of Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">He holds a PhD in history from McGill University where he was Director of the Centre for French Canadian Studies from 1971 to 1981. He was Director of Le Devoir from 1981 to 1986 until he was named Québec Delegate General in Paris and Delegate to Francophone Multilateral Affairs, a post he held until 1990.</DIV><DIV style="">President of the Ligue des droits et libertés du Québec (Quebec's Civil Liberties' Union) from 1976 to 1978, he was a member of the Commission des droits et libertés de la personne du Québec (Québec's Human Rights Commission) and in 2000, was awarded the Prix Droits et Libertés (Human Rights Prize) of the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse du Québec (Québec Human Rights and Rights of Youth Commission).</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Mr. Roy has written several books including: A Guide to the European Economic Community Charter; La Francophonie : Le Projet communautaire and Une Nouvelle Afrique à l'aube du XX1e siècle. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sainte Anne in 1985, and an Honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Moncton in 1992</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Jennifer Corriero</DIV><DIV style=""><A href="http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/jenergy">http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/jenergy</A></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Jennifer Corriero is an innovator and leader, bringing tremendous insight into understanding, reaching and motivating youth. Jennifer's experience includes developing and driving youth programs related to technology, collaboration and entrepreneurship. Jennifer has been selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (2005) and Global Leader for Tomorrow (2002).</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">In 1999, Jennifer co-founded TakingITGlobal, a non-profit social venture which connects and supports over 75,000 members across 200 countries to create positive change. TakingITGlobal.org is the world's premier global online community for youth interested in making a difference, receiving more than 1.4 million hits per day. TIG partners with five UN agencies, and is supported by several corporations and philanthropic foundations.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Jennifer is an Organizing Committee member for the Youth Employment Summit Campaign, and was a member of the Canadian government delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society. She has presented at events including the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the 5th Stockholm Challenge Global Forum in Sweden, the 2nd Global Knowledge Conference in Malaysia, the Hague International Model United Nations, and the 2003 UNESCO Youth Forum in Paris.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">In 2000, Jennifer spent six months in Redmond advising Microsoft on various aspects of the next generation of workers (often referred to as the "Net Generation"). Jennifer has also worked on various consulting projects for companies such as MDS, Xerox, VanCity Credit Union, Bootlegger, J. Walter Thompson, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, TD Bank, Royal Bank, Nike, D-Code, Swatch, McDonalds and HP.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Jennifer has a BA (Liberal Studies) with a focus on 'Business, Communications, Technology and Culture' and is currently pursing her Masters at York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies. Her area of concentration is 'Youth Engagement and Capacity-Building Across Cultures'.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Jennifer has served on the youth board of YouthFluence, was an International Youth Ambassador for the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research, she coordinated the Ontario Science Centre's Online Youth Advisory Team (for the Innovation Project), and is a Youth Champion for Pollution Probe, an environmental non-profit organization. She also serves as an advisor to the Global Youth Action Network and Chat the Planet.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">In 1998, Jennifer was the project manager for a website funded by a Canadian philanthropist dedicated to promoting Canadian women's history. She attended the Shad Valley Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship summer program and was a student at the Ontario Science Centre Science School where she studied OAC Chemistry, Physics and Science & Society.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Jennifer has served as a digital dignitary for 3Com's Planet Project, the largest Internet-based poll of the human race, and was featured in articles in Fast Company and TIME Magazine; was named as one of the "Shapers of Our Future" in the area of technology and education by Converge Magazine; was the 2001 Wired Woman Young Woman of the Year; has been recognized by the National Congress of Italian Canadians as a Youth Achievement Award winner; and was an award winner for McGill University's Management Achievement Award.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">Jennifer is available for speaking engagements through The Lavin Agency.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">"I like keeping it real and staying true to what drives me. I love to create beautiful things and share them with the world...whether it be ideas, artwork, energy...the universe speaks through me, as it does you -- and when this connection is made, the rewards are awe-inspiring!"</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">"I think that with each moment we live, and each decision we make, we have an impact on our own lives, and the lives of those around us. Most of the time, we are unconscious of the impact that we have. I think that the first way for 'others to make an impact' is to become more conscious and aware of the decisions we make and the choices we have. Once this happens, we are able to critically examine our own lives, and imagine new possibilities for ourselves and the world. There are an infinite number of ways to affect change and have an impact - the question we should ask ourselves should center around what contribution we want to make, what kind of experiences we want to have, and what kind of world we want to live in."</DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style=""><BR style=""></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>