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MISTICA: CMSI: Understanding what's going on

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 09:58:49 AST

>Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 18:52:13 -0500
>To: [email protected],
> <[email protected]>,
> <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
>From: Liss Jeffrey <[email protected]>
>Subject: [wsis] wsis this week
>
>Pass this on if it is useful:
>
>If anyone wants to keep up with what's happening this week at WSIS, when
>the Prep Comm 3 resumes in Geneva, here are a few places to start. Please
>keep in mind that Prep Comm 3 was suspended because agreement on key
>issues could not be reached. In the Plenary (open to all accredited for
>Prep Comm 3), a number of countries, notably African states, argued that
>they could come back in November but it would be a hardship to wait until
>December to conduct some sort of pressure cooker marathon negotiation.
>Canada and others argued that heads of state and chief ministers could not
>be asked to come to the World Summit when they did not know what the
>document was that they were expected to sign onto. So this week in fact is
>very important. It may be that the final shape of the documents is decided
>this week.
>
>http://www.itu.int/wsis/preparatory/prepcom/pc3/index.html
>This link features all of the up to date documents, including agenda, the
>latest versions of the declaration of principles and the plan of action
>and
>http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1031|1033
>This link takes you to the latest version of what is called a "non-paper"
>dated November 5th.
>It is important because the version of the non-paper that Civil society
>and the Private sector (CCRI) official responses are directed at is dated
>October 24th.
>You will find those responses at this site. You will also find lots of
>information, including the previous versions of these documents.
>
>People have contacted us at eCommons/agora as they want to know what is
>going on, how to stay tuned, and what they can do. I am one of the three
>civil society delegates on Canada's official delegation, and we are there
>thanks to Canadian Commission on Unesco, partly for expertise, but mostly
>for inclusion and to communicate what is happening via our networks. It is
>very complicated if you are an outsider to the process, but it can be done
>if we exchange links, views and tips.
>To get informed, you should go to this most recent site (above), as it is
>the subject of discussion and negotiation this week in Geneva.
>The site will feature updates. The Civil society sites will also
>continuously feature updates.
>Whatever emerges from this process on Friday, this Friday, November
>14th, will either be the document that heads of state or chief ministers
>sign onto (or do not, as they may not) in December at the official World
>Summit, or else another meeting will be held just prior to the summit.
>
>Many delegations and civil society groups who were there in September
>cannot afford to return for this resumption of Prep Comm 3.
>We have good people there for Canada but so much goes on in the moment
>that we are all a bit in the dark as to what is going on.
>
>If you would like to visit our links on the WSIS, and see our reports,
>please visit (and bookmark)
>
>www.ecommons.net ( more resources will be posted this week, and french
coming)
>and
>http://www.ecommons.net/stage/main.phtml?f=23
>where we will be posting reports, and you can post links or resources if
>you would like a web record way to communicate.
>
>More to come and O yes, if you are in Toronto this week:
>
>THE WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:
>Civil Society's Place at the Table?
>A Panel Discussion with Robert Guerra and Dr. Liss Jeffrey
>Tuesday, November 11, 2003
>6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
>140 St. George, Room 728
>Faculty of Information Studies (Bissell building, adjacent to Robarts
>Library)
>University of Toronto
>Attendance is free of charge, and there is NO need for registration.
>ABSTRACT: The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) aims to bring
>together government, the private sector, civil society and the United
>Nations family for a global discussion to develop a clear statement of
>political will and a concrete plan of action for achieving the goals of the
>Information Society, while fully reflecting all the different interests at
>stake. This panel will introduce WSIS and its process, and the role of civil
>society in that process.
>BIOS:
>ROBERT GUERRA is a leading privacy advocate based in Palo Alto, California
>and Toronto, Canada. After working for several years in the medical research
>field he dedicated his focus to the emerging field of medical privacy
>consulting. For the past two years, he has been involved in numerous privacy
>initiatives to help NGOs both preserve and protect their data. He currently
>sits on the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and is
>CPSR's representative at WSIS.
>DR. LISS JEFFREY (AB, Harvard University, M.E.S. York University, Ph.D.
>McGill University) teaches graduate seminars at the McLuhan Program,
>University of Toronto and is the director of the McLuhan Global Research
>Network (www.mcluhan.ca). Dr Jeffrey also directs a new media and policy lab
>and think tank, the byDesign eLab (www.bydesign-elab.net), which has been
>engaged since 1997 in new media and policy projects including a public space
>network to support community development, civic participation and cultural
>content creation in Canada, through the Electronic Commons / Agora
>Electronique (www.ecommons.net). The Foreign Policy eDialogue, a project in
>partnership with the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development at the
>Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
>(www.foreign-policy-dialogue.ca) has just won Canada's best of content
>category for e-government in the WSIS awards, and will be showcased at the
>Canada Pavilion in Geneva this coming December. Dr Jeffrey has been selected
>as a civil society member of the official Canadian delegation to WSIS.
>
>To sign-up for the Information Rights Salon announcement email list please
>go to: <http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/inforights/>
>The Information Rights Salon is co-sponsored by the Knowledge Media Design
>Institute (KMDI) <http://www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/> and the Information Policy
>Research Program (IPRP) <http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/>.
>
>In Montreal: Professor Cees Hamelink is speaking at the University of
>Montreal on Thursday November 13th at 5 PM
>on Communication Rights.
>WSIS will come up.
>I will be there and so will lots of others who will go to Geneva in December.
>
>Hope this helps.
>Cheers
>Liss Jeffrey, PhD
>Director
>eCommons/agora
>www.ecommons.net

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