Here is my endorsement:
Name : Leelangi Wanasundera
Organization : Centre for Women's Research
Country : Sri Lanka
>Email : leelangi@itmin.com
At 02:16 PM 2/15/03 +0900, you wrote:
>Dear Sacha and contents working group members,
>
>Thanks for your effort to finalize our statement.
>I updated the documents in our website. And when the endorsement lists are
finished,
>I will update it again. Below is one more endorsement from South Korea.
>
>If I get more endorsement, I will send them before Monday, 17:00.
>
>Best Regards,
>PatchA
>
>Endorsement:
>Name : Jang Ik-su
>Organization or Individual : PeaceNet
>Country : Korea
>Email : isjang@peacenet.or.kr
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sacha Jotisalikorn [mailto:sacha@forumasia.org]
>Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 8:10 PM
>To: communication@wsisasia.org
>Subject: [communication 532] Tokyo statement--calling for remaining
endorsements
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>On behalf of the Content Group please find attached the final revised
>Tokyo statement. Thanks to those who gave specific suggestions for
>revisions: Patcha, Adam, Izumi, Chat, Guarab, Leelangi, Sakiyama. And
>thanks to all who have contributed comments and thoughts to the ongoing
>discussions related to point 13.
>
>We have in some way or another incorporated almost all those other
>revisions that are not related to point 13. We have also reworked the
>preamble a bit to make it read better.
>
>Regarding point 13 we took all the proposals into consideration and
>narrowed it down to the original wording (Chun/Patcha) and Izumi's
>suggested modification, since these both these proposals received
>support from others. We also like the formulations we used in our
>Bangkok and CONGO statements and for which have already received wide
>endorsement. Therefore we have decided to incorporate some of those
>wordings and then lead into what we have from Tokyo. To try to make a
>constructive resolution to our impasse we suggest to use both "threaten"
>and "compromise" together. They don't contradict each other and can
>complement each other. So it would be "threaten/compromise."
>
>So for point 13:
>
>"13. Surveillance on people by governments, consumers by entrepreneurs,
>employees by employers, by utilizing new information and communication
>technologies are a severe threat to human rights. We call on all parties
>to
>take appropriate measures to protect the right to privacy including
>freedom
>from surveillance at all levels of information society. We are opposed
>to any
>kind of censorship imposed by anyone which restricts freedom of
>expression.
>
>Privacy and personal security should be ensured in the information
>society
>when promoting ICTs. Values of human rights, democracy, and freedom of
>expression should never be threatened/compromised by any kind of
>surveillance
>and censorship."
>
>
>I hope everyone can live with that since this is not a legal document
>and we are not drafting legal statutes.
>
>Yes, point 13 raises issues but we are not in a position to discuss them
>fully in this statement. These implications--how can we support our
>basic stand on freedom of expression, right to privacy and freedom from
>surveillance while acknowledging that we have concerns about incitement
>to hatred, or acts/threats of deliberate harm, slander etc and how we
>can address it--have popped up before in discussions in the Bangkok
>meetings and Tokyo and will likely come up again in future occasions.
>
>I guess we should try to find more venues to discuss this and if we are
>lucky come up with some common position on it in new statements or
>papers.
>
>We hope that now we can continue to add remaining endorsements. Could
>you please send your endorsement back to me as soon as possible--Monday
>17 5:00 pm Bangkok time latest. We would like to have as many more
>endorsements as possible by then so that those going to P2 can take the
>statement and endorsements with them. We don't want to encourage late
>arriving endorsements but we will add them later and send updates to our
>friends at P2, if that's the case.
>
>Those going to P2 (or already there) could you please let me know who
>you are so that we can send you any updates on this Tokyo statement via
>email and our website.
>
>In case some of those who have already endorsed are not on this mail
>list I will forward this to endorsers in a separate message.
>
>All best regards,
>
>Sacha Jotisalikorn
>On behalf of the Content Group
>
>
>
>
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