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Folks, I mentioned to some of you that I was going to attend a UNESCO=20
meeting in Paris to discuss the parameters of a civil society online=20
discussion which will be an official input to WSIS. There are seven=20
themes, all of which would be of interest to us.
The online discussion started yesterday and will continue until January=20
15th. I hope that some of you will participate in this online discussion=20
since it will go as an official input into the Prep Comm II=20
process. Following is the URL: wsisforum.unesco.org
Here is the press release regarding this:
>Delivered-To: susanna@isiswomen.org
>From: "Mastrangelo, Jean Gabriel" <jg.mastrangelo@unesco.org>
>To: "knmg.nl" <maxwell@chiliad.co.ukeja>, jgirardot@internews.org,
> agathe@internews.fr, susanna@isiswomen.org,
> lasocdig@montevideo.com.uy, info@penelopes.org,
> eddymark@mediaaction.org, broadcasting@misa.org.na,
> laurence_djolakian@mpaa.org, nct@wanadoo.fr, sean@nexus.ie,
> "noos.fr" <didier.fass@loria.frlcadoux>,
> myriam.horngren@oneworld.net, ken@oridev.org, fsylla@sentoo.sn
>Cc: "Plathe, Axel" <A.Plathe@unesco.org>
>Subject: WSIS Online Discussion Forum for Civil Society
>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 16:49:31 +0100
>X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
>
>For immediate release (Version fran=E7aise ci-dessous)
>
>UNESCO, 5/12/2002
>
>Online Forum for Civil Society's Preparation of World Summit on the
>Information Society
>
>An online discussion forum for non-governmental organizations and civil
>society to discuss their input in the Final Declarations of the World=
Summit
>of the Information Society (WSIS; Geneva 2003, Tunis 2005) will be held on
>UNESCO's website at http://wsisforum.unesco.org from 9 December 2002 to 15
>January 2003.
>The Forum that will be chaired by Monique Fouilhoux, President of the
>NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee, will discuss eight themes: General=
Discussion,
>Access, Development and Empowerment, Content Issues, Education, Training=
and
>Research, Rights, Future Developments of Information Technologies, Civil
>Society in WSIS and Beyond.
>The forum is open for all members of non-governmental organizations and
>civil society.
>Proposals to be included in the drafts of the WSIS Declaration of=
Principles
>and Plan of Action that result from the Forum will be transmitted to the
>WSIS Executive Secretariat for submission at Prepcom II (17-28 February
>2003).
>The decision to organize the Forum was taken by representatives of
>non-governmental organizations and civil society at a preparatory meeting=
at
>UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, on 27 and 28 November 2002.
>
>At the meeting, Adama Samass=E9kou, President of the WSIS Preparatory
>Committee, highlighted the essential contributions that non-governmental
>organizations and civil society can make to the Summit and its follow-up.
>
>Speaking at the Opening of the meeting, UNESCO Director-General Ko=EFchiro
>Matsuura said that UNESCO is well-positioned to bring quite diverse
>constituencies into the Summit process and, indeed, to act as a bridge
>linking civil society, governments, professional groups and users.
>
>UNESCO, he stated, wishes to ensure that the Summit addresses questions=
that
>go beyond 'access' in technical or infrastructural terms: "After all, the
>access in question is really about full access to society; more than this,
>it is about the capacity to influence the kind of society being generated=
by
>large-scale technological and economic forces". The desire to enlarge the
>Summit's agenda to take account of important issues of intellectual and
>ethical debate is something that UNESCO shares with civil society. "The
>narrowing of cultural as well as technological divides is something we must
>all strive for", said the Director-General.
>
>A banner of the Discussion forum for placing on your website can be
>downloaded at
><http://wsisforum.unesco.org/6/ubb.x?a=3Dtpc&s=3D5536002961&f=3D1526093371&=
m=3D22160
>73371>
>
>Related Links
>
>* World Summit on the Information Society
>http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.htm
>* UNESCO and the World Summit on the Information Society
><http://www.unesco.org/wsis>
>
>Contact
>
>Jean Gabriel Mastrangelo, UNESCO, Information Society Division,
>Tel: 01.45.68.44.13
>E-mail: jg.mastrangelo@unesco.org
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