Date:  Tue, 10 Dec 2002 00:18:59 +0900 (JST)
From:  toshimaru ogura <ogr@nsknet.or.jp>
Subject:  [communication 105] Draft agenda for NGO side event at UNU at WSIS Tokyo
To:  ogr@nsknet.or.jp
Cc:  sacha@forumasia.org, anoop@focusweb.org, patcha@patcha.jinbo.net,	antiropy@www.jinbo.net, alalegre@fma.ph, ehchun@peacenet.or.kr,	communication@wsisasia.org, taratta@jca.or.jp
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Dear all, 

I would like to have your suggestion regarding NGO meeting at
UNU. JCA-NET and JCAFE intend to have a meeting at UNU for NGOs from
Asia and Japan. 

Following is a draft agenda. After a couple of days for suggestion, I
will post revised agenda to communication_list. Unfortunately we
cannot cover travel from Asia. 

Also please let me know how to treat the draft of statement.

best regards,

toshi
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toshimaru ogura
ogr@nsknet.or.jp
toshi@jca.apc.org
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Draft Proposal of NGOs Forum

Intention: Based on communication rights as human rights and
human security, we will discuss how to tackle with exclusion from communication
access and violation of privacy and civil liberty by governments and
private sectors.

Goal: Sharing understanding regarding dark side of ICT and exchange the
knowledge how to struggle against them and propose alternative policy
based on community and ordinary people.

Date and place: January 12, 2003 at UNU in Tokyo (not yet reserved)
Capacity of venue: 100 person
Organizer: JCA-NET/APC
Co-organizer: JCAFE
Contact person: Toshi Ogura ogr@nsknet.or.jp

Agenda
*Session 1: Struggle against exclusion from communication access
Thematic lists
  Gender discrimination in Information Society
  Exclusion by intellectual property regime
  Communication rights in workplace
  Present situation and its problems of public access
  English domination and exclusion from decision making process
  Internet for minority groups
  Against political exclusion: Internet for peaceful alliance among
                     people in North-South Korea, China, and Japan.

*Reports from NGOs: Internet is not yet enough for human security
  East Timor and Internet: from NGO experience in Japan
  Human aid project for North Korean people and Internet: From NGO
                                             experience in Japan

*Session 2: Privacy and civil liberty in crisis under communication
society
Thematic lists
  ID card and resident recognition network system under e-government
     policy
  Cybercrime Convention and civil rights
  Data bases by commercial sectors and privacy
  Civil liberty and privacy after September 11
  Freedom of speech, censorship and political regulation in Internet
  Internet for activists against globalization
  Media literacy for civil society

Japanese organizers intend to invite the persons from domestic groups
including lawyers, journalists, activists, academics and so on who
collaborate with us without pay.