<div>Its a bit disheartening to see that there is only a nomination issue rather than a discussion of what the state is of what is happening and what the views are on what it would be good to see happening.</div>
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<div>It would be more appropriate to think of nominations coming out of a process of some serious discussion.</div>
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<div>Just yesterday I asked the General Assembly President at a press briefing at the UN about what was happening as the follow up to WSIS.</div>
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<div>The 2nd committee has a resolution to be taken up today asking for a report on the state of affairs since the World Summit activities in Geneva and Tunis.</div>
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<div>Resolutions A/C.2/62/L.28 and A/C.2/62/L.35 are draft resolutions for the General Assembly 2nd commmittee on "Information and communication technologies for development" which are to be taken up this afternoon in the 2nd committee.
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<div>They essentially call for a report "on the status of implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society."</div>
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<div>Otherwise very little attention and activity is in general being given to the issues that were raised in the WSIS despite the fact there was lots of excitement during the Geneva and Tunis events. </div>
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<div>One issue I see as important is a serious discussion over whether the problem of spreading the Internet is merely a problem of lack of resources or is it that the way the problem is being framed is not appropriate.</div>
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<div>In my research and writing about the history and impact of the Internet I have seen that the early efforts at spreading the Internet was generally a question of a research and development group doing the work to apply the knowledge to the particular circumstances of the situation.
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<div>In general the more people interested in development issues know of this background and history the more they can learn from and build on what has been done.</div>
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<div>Yet in the current activity regarding spreading the Internet in development situations it seems that emphasis instead is on how to get business involved.</div>
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<div>This seems to assume that the knowledge of what is appropriate for development is already understood and only a matter of getting the proper products to this new market.</div>
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<div>With regard to the continuing spread of the Internet I was to propose this is a detour from what is a more appropriate direction forward.</div>
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<div>with best wishes</div>
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<div>Ronda</div>
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<div>See for example the articles on the spread of Unix in</div>
<div><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook">http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook</a><br><br> </div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dear all, </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is to remind you the on going CS self-nomination process to the GAID Strategy Council. Now that the IGF has come to an end, I would like to encourage you once more to volunteer for the Nominations Committee, as well as nominate valuable candidates.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">So far <b>we have only 9 volunteers</b> for the NomCom – much less than half way to go since we would need 25 to make the random selection process really random.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">More critically we have a very small number of candidates. I think I <b>only have 2</b>.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">De :</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org" target="_blank">
wsis@ngocongo.org</a>] <br><b>Envoyé :</b> mercredi 7 novembre 2007 16:15<br><b>À :</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.cpsr.org
</a><br><b>Objet :</b> [governance] On line information on the CS self-nomination process for GAID Strategy Council</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dear all, </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Note that we created an information page on the CS Self Nomination process for the GAID Strategy Council Membership:</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462" target="_blank">
http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462</a></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, is published <b><i><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463" target="_blank">
HERE</a></i></b>.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We have <b>6 volunteers so far</b> (all men! Not gender balanced at all…), we would need 25 to make the selection process really random.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Let me remind you the calendar of this process:</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">20 November 2006: deadline for volunteering to the Nomination Committee</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">21 November 2006: random selection of the Nom Com members</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">25 November 2006: deadline for candidatures to the CS NomCom for membership to the GA Strategy Council </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">25-30 November 2006: on-line work on the nomination committee</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">30 November 2006: submission on the CS Nom Com recommendation the GAID Secretariat</span></p>
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