Fw: [hipatia] [[email protected]: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Microsoft-UNESCO -
agreement / accord]
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From: Juan-Carlos Gentile <[email protected]>
To: coordinadores-hipatia <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:31:47 -0500
Subject: [hipatia] [[email protected]: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary]
Microsoft-UNESCO - agreement / accord]
English/French
Hello
This agreement is already under discussion in the PCT and Finance groups
I went to the Press Conference at UNESCO.
Be re-assured, the welcome to Bill Gates was not triumphal, and the Press
was unamimously negative.The text of the Microsoft/ UNESCO agreement which I was able to retrieve
at UNESCO and that was kindly scanned by Marie-Laure from
http://www.bpem.orgis available on site.
http://www.wsis-finance.org/gov-doc-en.html
it is also available at
http://www.wsis-pct.org/unesco-miscrosoft.html
The authorized translation of the article in English is
http://www.april.org/articles/divers/tribune-microsoft-unesco-liberation.html.en
( thanks to Fred�ric Couchet , one of the authors who belongs to the PCT
group )
> Unesco remains totally silent regarding critiques or requests for
> clarification on this agreement.
Our request that the text of the agreement be available online had no
effect.
Replies were evasive.
It would have been better than our scanned images.
We believe that the agreement has some legal flaws that might allow the
Civil Society to ask the WSIS to demand that the texts of the agreement be
modified. This is under study, and all people with a legal background are
asked to join the PCT and the Finance groups to discuss further those
points.
> By the way, UNDP and IDRC have signed similar agreements with M$. Ah,
> the power of money...
>
If you have the texts or URLs of those agreement, please let us know.
Best regards
Francis
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fran�ais
Bonjour
J'ai assist� � la conf�rence de Presse de l'UNESCO.
Rassurez vous ! l'accueil pour Bill Gates ne fut pas triomphal, et la
presse fut tr�s critique.Le texte de l'accord Microsoft/ UNESCO (uniquement en Anglais ) que j'ai
recup�r� � l'UNESCO et qui a �t� gentiment scann� par Marie-Laure chezhttp://www.bpem.org est disponible sur le site.
http://www.wsis-finance.org/gov-doc-en.html
et aussi sur
http://www.wsis-pct.org/unesco-miscrosoft.html
Notre requ�te que le texte de l'accord soit en mis en ligne et qu'il soit
aussi traduit en Fran�ais n'a pas �t� fructueuse.Bravo pour la transparence et la diversit� linguistique !
Le texte de l' accord poss�de des failles juridiques qui devraient
permettre � la Soci�t� Civile de demander au SMSI d'exiger de l'UNESCO de
modifier le texte de cet accord.Ceci est � l'�tude. Toute personne poss�dant un bagage juridique est
invit�e � joindre les groupes PCT et Finance pour une discussion plus
approfondie.
Cordialement
Francis
>--c.a.
>
>Rui Correia wrote:
>
>>Dear All
>>
>> Herewith a rushed translation of the French text found in the link
>> provided by Martin Oliveira to the French newspaper in which it was >>
>> published today.>> The translation was fed through translation software and then
>> polished up where necessary for comprehension
>> - it is far form being a perfect product; it was done only in the >>
>> interest of sharing this article. The names of the authors and their
>> >> affiliation appear at bottom.>>
>> Regards, Rui
>> ________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> Liberation newspaper, Paris - 5/1/2005
>>
>> On November 17, Bill Gates, on a trip to Paris, returned visit to the
>> head office of UNESCO to sign an agreement of partnership with the
>> organization.
>> The agreement defines eight objectives for which UNESCO and Microsoft
>> [...]
>>
>>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>Carlos Afonso
>>diretor de planejamento
>>Rede de Informa��es para o Terceiro Setor - Rits
>>[email protected] http://www.rits.org.br
>>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>>
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