Picked up from the dotforce list....
Identifies himself (herself?) as a speaker. Do our Pacific island colleagues
know him/her?
----- Original Message -----
From: Ross Himona <rhimona@maorinews.com>
To: <dotforce-wsis@vancouvercommunity.net>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:49 AM
Subject: Re: Towards 2003--The Year of WSIS? sigh...
> Sigh indeed Michael
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> I've got a 10 -15 minute speaking slot on a "Cultural & Linguistic
Diversity
> Round Table" at the WSIS Asian Pre-Conference in Tokyo 13-15 January 2003.
> The round table itself is a UNESCO contribution. My brief is to stress the
> need of supporting local content creation.
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> I think the line I will take is the overwhelming imperative to FIND OUT
from
> local people what sort of content THEY would like to find, and to
facilitate
> their contribution to the network of network of networks. I add the extra
> network for grassroots communities, for this whole issue has been hijacked
> by eGlobalisation and eGovernment and eCommerce and eLearning - eCommunity
> doesn't get much of a look in.
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> I suspect that the content that "ordinary" people might be interested in
is
> neither raw information, nor knowledge, nor learning, and certainly not
> eGovernment and eCommerce. Rather it might be things like eEntertainment
> (e.g. music, sports, video, games) and eExpression (e.g. the arts, local
> media, soapboxing) and eNetworking.
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> Seems to me that Entertainment is what the masses most use the various
> technologies for, and that the concentration on ICT's omits the biggest
> single potential use of the technology by the "people". Should we think
> perhaps of IC&ET?
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> Ross Himona
> New Zealand
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