Al,
 
Thank you for your suggestions.
 
This session was designed to raise awareness about the upcoming
"Surveillance Society" everywhere among the civil society groups in
the WSIS targeting a more formal workshop on "Surveillance Society"
during PrepCom III in September.
 
Until then, a brief summary of Surveillance Society can be available
based on the presentations in the proposed 'Status Report' session
hoping more organizations or people can join the September workshop
during PrepCom III.
 
As you suggested, this can be one of Communication Rights Summit
tracks and that possiblity can be discussed both Intersessional meeting
and PrepCom III observing how this session and workshop go.
 
Best,
YJ
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan G. Alegre
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Cc: wsis-asia
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: [communication 720] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [Proposal] Surveillance Society Status Report Session in Paris meeting

Dear all
 
This is a wonderful suggestion from our Korean colleagues. Though I will not be in Paris, I think this is important from the perspective of Internet Rights, and would be interested in participating in sourcing and managing this info even beyond the intersessional meeting.
 
As I assume many will also not be in Paris next week, maybe through this list country assessments could still be submitted online, and pursued as an ongoing project by all civil society groups/country stakeholders. Concretely I am suggesting that:
 
1) The Surveillance Status Report session be docoumented and translated and shared online to all of us not there.
 
2) Someone (Korean Civil Society Network? APC Internet Rights people?) suggest a short outline or framework of national situationers/status reports. This could facilitate uniformity of formats for documentation and comparison purposes.
 
3) All reports received could then be put into a database or uploaded into a website (ideally both), which could be the repository of all of this. (AT least the regional data for Asia-Pacific could be uploaded to the WSIS CS Asia site?)
 
4) Link up with other people doing similar surveys (APC again, Reporters San Frontieres, etc.) so that info could be shared.
 
4) One of the CS "families" adopt this as a project, that could be integrated in the planned Communication Rights Summit parallel to WSIS.
 
Thoughts?
 
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: YJ Park
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
Cc: ct@wsis-cs.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 8:52 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [Proposal] Surveillance Society Status Report Session in Paris meeting

Hello all,
 
Despite time constraint we face before Paris meeting, a consensus
was reached yesterday among Korea Civil Society Network(KCSN)
that civil societies in the WSIS should have an opportunity to exchange
"Surveillance Status Report" of each country.
 
Civil society groups in the WSIS can have better understanding about 
various legal or institutional initiatives by many governements through
this session.  
 
Looking forward to your participation...
 
Best,
YJ
 
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To: Civil Socities in the WSIS Intersessional meeting in Paris
From: Korea Civil Society Network(KCSN)
Re: To hold "Surveillance Society Status Report" session on July 16 
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Information Society has brought Internet users hopes and dreams
for better life as a human being; equal rights among the users(or nodes), 
participatory or democratic political systems, open source, 
international cooperation etc.. 
 
On the other hand, each individual's or Internet uer's privacy 
has been seriously threatened by the fast growing database
empires worldwide, governments and multi-national businesses
who have resources to put the data together for the sake of
their own governance in the name of efficient management.
 
Civil Society Groups including NGOs have not been effective
to respond to these well-designed attempts of the Big-Brothers.
 
Therefore, Korea Civil Society Network(KCSN) proposes here
Civil Socities in the WSIS especially during Paris Intersessional
meeting share each country's status. We understand the following 
threats in Korea become real threats in other countries, too. 
 
-National ID card experience
-Real name registration in the online activity [proposal]
-Bio Data/DNA data recognition [proposal]
-NEIS, Education administration database network setup [proposal] 
-etc

If you are interested in this proposal, please join this effort
to organize the "Surveillance Society Status Report" session. 
 
Regards,
KCSN