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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Dear
Philippe and Divina,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We can extend the Educational Outreach
cooperation support to UN-GAID through SANTEC - Educational Technology for
Development <a href="http://www.santecnetwork.org/">http://www.santecnetwork.org</a>.
SANTEC started its operations in June 2003 and now have more than 1000 members
from across the world. SANTEC is an enabling network of educational technology
practitioners with an interest in educational technology in developing
environments. The aim of SANTEC is to be a community of practice that
facilitates and supports collaborative ventures and effects synergies amongst
members. SANTEC Membership is open to all. To view the members of the SANTEC
Board, kindly visit: <a href="http://www.santecnetwork.org/organisation.html">http://www.santecnetwork.org/organisation.html</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Purpose
of SANTEC <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The purpose of SANTEC is to provide an
enabling network of educational technology practitioners with an interest in
developing environments. The aim of SANTEC is to be a community of practice
that facilitates and supports collaborative ventures and effects synergies
amongst members. SANTEC draws together individuals, institutes of higher
education, private sector organizations and other institutions as a community
of practice in an ultimately financially sustainable programme of research, training
and professional services in educational technology thereby creating regional
connections and effecting synergies among members. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>The
rationale behind SANTEC <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>There is a great need now for cooperation
and collaboration among educational technology practitioners <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>1. International funding bodies
increasingly prefer to fund projects of networks rather than individual
institutional projects; SANTEC will be a recognized and trusted funding
intermediate.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2. There has been a growing interest and
various attempts towards using cutting edge educational technology in
developing countries in the last decade.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>3. There is an increasing acceptance of
the imperatives for the involvement of developing countries in modern
educational technologies. These imperatives include<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>- To prepare students for effective
participation in the workplace and the wider, global information society <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>- To use the connectivity of eLearning to
establish collegial networks, create new learning & research communities
nationally, regionally, continentally and internationally <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>- To leapfrog across the digital divide <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>- To use ICT to increase the success rate
and quality of learning of students <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>- To bridge geographical distances more
effectively. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>4. There are a limited number of
educational technologists in many developing environments. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>5. There are certain differentiating
factors and issues in developing environments that calls for contextualized
approaches.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>6. Educational Technology is a dynamic and
fast growing field making it difficult for individuals and institutions to keep
abreast of all developments.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>7. There is a growing need to develop
upcoming educational technologists through proper, contextualized education and
training programmes in the region and in other developing environments.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><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'>Regards<br>
-----------------------<br>
Fouad Riaz Bajwa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Board Member SANTEC<br>
<br>
</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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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>Meigs<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 02, 2006
1:45 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> bureau@wsis-cs.org; <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">plenary@wsis-cs.org</st1:PersonName>; Edu Mailinglist<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [CS Bureau] No FOSS?
RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Final draft of the business plan of the Global Alliance
for ICTs and Development</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Le 30/11/06 18:48, « Fouad Riaz Bajwa »
<bajwa@fossfp.org> a écrit :<br>
<br>
<br>
Dear Philippe and Renate</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>i have been looking at the global alliance plan and it
looks good. I was just wondering if the taskforce for education, academia and
research could be added to the stakeholders. A lot of the issues
mentioned in the part on education are exactly on par with the points we have
constantly been pushing at wsis (see our response to the political chapeau and
other interventions). <br>
<br>
Besides, I would like to reinforce the message by Fouad, about FOSS and
the whole free software and open cognition issue. Also what seems to be
missing in the plan is media education/literacy (and a major
contribution, in the form of a toolkit is coming out of unesco in december,
that I edited for Mentor, the international association for media
education) and OER (open education ressources, that are seriously being
considered by OECD and international associations that are members of the
education taskforce, like the long-distance and on-line education unions). Is
there any way to introduce these elements in the document? It would
facilitate transmission of knowledge in developing countries while allowing
them to express their own sense of knowledge worldwide.<br>
<br>
best<br>
Divina<br>
<br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Dear Philip, <br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><br>
Thank you for forwarding this document. Even though I have not been part of the
UN-GAID activities, but still as a stakeholder of the Information Society and
post WSIS action lines, I would still like to suggest the fact that
“Software For Humanitarian Social and Economic Development”,
“Software for Public Governance” and in particular “Free and
Open Source Software (FOSS)” is clearly missing from the UN-GAID business
plan and agenda. <br>
<br>
With respect to some initiatives in Pakistan, research was underway on the
various costing models for using software in Telecenters under a World Bank and
Government - Universal Service Funded activity whereby Microsoft proposed
US$185 per license (more than the yearly income of citizens) in Telecenters; it
was researched into the fact that Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) costs
significantly less almost to US$0 (zero) licensing costs significantly reducing
costs and enabling that fund to further enhance other badly needed Public and
Civic development projects or further enhance and extend the outreach of the
Telecenter initiative.<br>
<br>
Apart from helping nations by enabling ICT Production and Consumption, FOSS
provides open and inclusive freedoms to software copying, modification and
redistribution under protective and non-protective licensing. But money aside,
the strongest argument in favor of FOSS versus proprietary software is that
turnkey, commercial systems do little to help build local technical capacities.
FOSS, on the other hand, allows users to tinker with the technology (software)
and learn as they are doing so. <br>
<br>
Once I again, I certainly believe that Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
should be a significant part of this agenda. I would also like to refer the
committee working on the Business Plan to please consult the following
important United Nations documents on FOSS with out neglecting the significant
research that United Nations has already put into this issue and request to
make it part of the business plan, neglecting this would only result in
realizing FOSS potential returning to the same issue at some future point:<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>1. UNU-MERIT policy brief: Open Source and
Open Standards: A New Frontier for Economic Development? </span></b>is a United
Nations University Policy Brief that examines the economic benefits of open source
and open standards and outlines some issues that public organizations should
consider in developing policy guidelines in this area. <a
href="http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/pb/unu_pb_2006_01.pdf">http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/pb/unu_pb_2006_01.pdf</a><br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>2. General Assembly 59th Session Document
Clauses 18-19 on FOSS.</span></b> <a
href="http://www.unsystem.org/JIU/data/en/work_prog/Prog_work2004en.pdf">http://www.unsystem.org/JIU/data/en/work_prog/Prog_work2004en.pdf</a>
<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>3. Policies of United Nations System
Organizations towards the Use of Open Source Software (OSS) In the Secretariats
by Louis-Dominique Ouédraogo, Joint Inspection Unit, Geneva 2005.</span></b> <br>
This report in the framework of using information and communication
technologies (ICT) for development, to contribute in raising awareness on the
potential role of open source software (OSS) for the achievement of specific
objectives set in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Plan of
Action adopted in 2003 by the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).<br>
<a href="http://www.unsystem.org/jiu/data/reports/2005/en2005_3.pdf">http://www.unsystem.org/jiu/data/reports/2005/en2005_3.pdf</a>
<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>4. Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) and the
Millennium Development Goals (Mdgs):</span></b> Roles of Cities and Local
Authorities. Louis-Dominique Ouédraogo. <a
href="http://www.it4all-bilbao.org/ponentes/Louis_Dominique_Ouedraogo.pdf">http://www.it4all-bilbao.org/ponentes/Louis_Dominique_Ouedraogo.pdf</a>
<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>5. UNDP-APDIP-International Open Source
Network</span></b> – IOSN FOSS E-Primers: <a href="http://www.iosn.net">http://www.iosn.net</a>
<a href="http://www.iosn.net/"><http://www.iosn.net/></a> <br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>6. Telecenter Handbook (UNDP <st1:place
w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> & CIS). </span></b>Chapter Section:
Telecottage Software Pages 44-48 <br>
A practical guide to establishing a telecottage as well as a valuable source of
experiences and lessons learned, this report was prepared by members of the
telecottage movement. The Hungarian experience is used as a reference point
throughout the report's different themes and discussions. This publication is
intended for ICT professionals, community development practitioners and public
administrators who wish to improve social services delivery at a local level,
and who recognize that telecottages can be used in service of individual, local
and community poverty reduction. <br>
Issued by/Author: UNDP <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> and the CIS<br>
Published: June 2006<br>
<a
href="http://europeandcis.undp.org/?menu=p_cms/show&content_id=1EADFC88-F203-1EE9-B04E2BCA1E266BB8">http://europeandcis.undp.org/?menu=p_cms/show&content_id=1EADFC88-F203-1EE9-B04E2BCA1E266BB8</a>
<a
href="http://europeandcis.undp.org/?menu=p_cms/show&content_id=1EADFC88-F203-1EE9-B04E2BCA1E266BB8"><http://europeandcis.undp.org/?menu=p_cms/show&amp;content_id=1EADFC88-F203-1EE9-B04E2BCA1E266BB8></a>
<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>7. UNESCO: </span></b>Since the launch of its
free and open-source software portal in 2001, UNESCO has also been both a
practical and ideological leader in supporting the Free Open-source Software
(FOSS) development model. The development philosophy of FOSS 174 EX/33 –
page 9 encourages solidarity, collaboration and voluntary community work among
programmers, librarians, scientists, researchers and computer users. The portal
gives access to local and remote documents as well as to websites which are hosting
the most popular and useful FOSS software packages in UNESCO’s fields of
competence, notably the public sector, higher education and research
environment (www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft <a
href="http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft"><http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft></a>
); <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Source:</span></b> <a
href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001437/143713e.pdf">http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001437/143713e.pdf</a>
<a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001437/143713e.pdf"><http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001437/143713e.pdf></a>
<br>
<br>
Also the plan requires further detail on its mission and particularly the
objectives with a transparent timeline indicating what will be achieved in the
short and long-term; and how many funds will be allocated; and who will be the
monitoring bodies for management of transparent activities. A business plan is
only a business plan when the objectives identified have clearly
devised-detailed financial forecasts. Also the indicators to measure success
and impact need to be added.<br>
<br>
Also ICT-Assistive Technology support through FOSS for the physically
disadvantaged/handicapped is still missing from the plan. I would also like to
suggest that still some expert members from the Free and Open Source Software
movement should be included in the UN-GAID committees for appropriate expert
level advice and direction whether they be from the UN System, from stakeholder
Governments or Civil Society. <br>
<br>
I hope my two cents on this topic will be useful for the concerned and I am
available for any further productive input on afore mentioned issues.<br>
<br>
</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Regards<br>
-----------------------<br>
Fouad Riaz Bajwa<br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>FOSS Advocate & ICT4D Advisor<br>
Member of the Board (for Asia) SANTEC : Educational Technology for Development <a
href="http://www.santecnetwork.org">http://www.santecnetwork.org</a> <a
href="http://www.santecnetwork.org/"><http://www.santecnetwork.org/></a>
<br>
Member BytesForAll Network South Asia <a href="http://www.bytesforall.net">http://www.bytesforall.net</a>
<a href="http://www.bytesforall.net/"><http://www.bytesforall.net/></a>
<br>
General Secretary FOSSFP: Free & Open Source Software Foundation of
Pakistan ® (Secretariat)<br>
URL: www.fossfp.org <a href="http://www.fossfp.org"><http://www.fossfp.org></a>
;</span></font><font size=1 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'> <br>
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font-family:Verdana'><br>
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This e-mail message is intended for its recipient only. If you have received
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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [<a href="mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org%5d">mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]</a>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">CONGO</st1:place></st1:country-region> -
Philippe Dam<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, November 30, 2006
4:41 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">plenary@wsis-cs.org</st1:PersonName>;
bureau@wsis-cs.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> 'Renata Bloem'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [WSIS CS-Plenary] Final
draft of the business plan of the Global Alliance for ICTs and Development<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear
all, <br>
<br>
Find attached the final draft of the Global Alliance business plan.<br>
It might be released by the end of this week.<br>
<br>
Feel free to forward us any comment in this regard.<br>
<br>
Philippe Dam<br>
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<b><font color=navy><span style='color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Philippe Dam<br>
Conference of NGOs (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">CONGO</st1:place></st1:country-region>)<br>
Program Officer - WSIS and Human Rights<br>
11, Avenue de la Paix<br>
CH-1202 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Geneva</st1:place></st1:City><br>
Tel: +41 22 301 1000<br>
Fax: +41 22 301 2000<br>
E-mail: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">wsis@ngocongo.org</st1:PersonName></span></font></b></span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> <a
href="mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org"><mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org></a> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Website: www.ngocongo.org</span></font></b><font
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>The Conference of NGOs (<st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">CONGO</st1:place></st1:country-region>) is an
international, membership association that facilitates the participation of
NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">CONGO</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s major
objective is to ensure the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's
governments and United Nations agencies on issues of global concern. For
more information see our website at www.ngocongo.org <blocked::<a
href="http://www.ngocongo.org/%3e">http://www.ngocongo.org/></a> <br>
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