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<DIV><SPAN class=718130717-23122005>Hi Bill,</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=718130717-23122005>Excellent suggestion. In addition, if
someone drafts a press release, I would be happy to help review it if help is
needed in between Christmas activities/holiday. Unless someone was on top
of it and went out today, probably best to release it after Christmas and
Chanukah holiday not on the day since it is less than 2 days
away.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=718130717-23122005>Elizabeth</SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
[mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>McIver,
Bill<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 23, 2005 11:01 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
plenary@wsis-cs.org; wsis-cs-plenary; WSIS-CT; CONGO - Philippe Dam; CONGO -
Alejandra Mendoza; Hiroshi Kawamura<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary]
WSIS Civil Society Statement - revision 1 (final final final
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<P><FONT size=2>Ralf / All,<BR><BR>Thanks for working on this.<BR><BR>An
e-mail list of government delegations was prepared for Ms. Ebadi's
nomination.<BR><BR>We should consider using it for distributing the final
version (along with the other plans).<BR><BR><BR><BR>WJM<BR>---<BR>Bill
McIver (via web mail)<BR>National Research Council Canada
Institute for Information Technology<BR>e-mail:
bill.mciver@nrc.gc.ca <BR><A
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Message-----<BR>From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org on behalf of Ralf
Bendrath<BR>Sent: Fri 12/23/2005 11:48 AM<BR>To: wsis-cs-plenary; WSIS-CT;
CONGO - Philippe Dam; CONGO - Alejandra Mendoza; Hiroshi Kawamura<BR>Subject:
[WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS Civil Society Statement - revision 1 (final final final
version)<BR><BR>Dear all,<BR><BR>a the Disability Caucus has submitted a
chapter on Universal Design and<BR>Assistive Technologies for our statement, I
was happy to include it in a<BR>revised version. (I had to copy-edit it a bit,
but this happened to every<BR>submission.)<BR><BR>The attached version is now
the really final text of the statement that<BR>will be submitted to the WSIS
Executive Secretariat.<BR><BR>As the disability caucus now has its own
chapter, I have included the<BR>phrase "physical and mental health" in the
health information chapter<BR>again. I think this is fair, as every
perspective is now included. (And<BR>please don't start the whole health
discussion again on all lists).<BR><BR>I assume our friends from CONGO will
update the translations accordingly.<BR><BR>All documents will be available at
www.worldsummit2005.org, at<BR>www.ngocongo.org and (hopefully) at
www.wsis.org, in different formats and<BR>in English, French, and Spanish.
Other translations are welcome - Arabic,<BR>anyone?<BR><BR>I wish you all
happy holidays and a good start into
2006.<BR><BR>Ralf<BR><BR><BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>