[WSIS CS-Plenary] register yourself and your organization on wsis-online.net

[Rik Panganiban]

Dear Friends,

I just went and updated my information on the wsis-online.net site and 
played around with the functionalities.  It's really quite helpful in 
getting ready for the Summit and the various side events.  (Full 
disclosure: I am involved in the consultations on setting up the 
website.)  On the site you can do the following:

*	List personal information you want made available about yourself, 
including organizational affiliation, contact info, issues you are 
interested in, even a photo so people know what you look like.

*	Show information about your organization, including specific issues 
focus, website, contact information, etc.

*	View a list of participants, including government, private sector, 
civil society and media

*	Search the nearly 200 side-events by date, type, or key word.  Then 
add the events you are interested in to your personal calendar.

*	Upload documents to the site that you want made available to others 
in any format.

*	Event organizers can upload files, photos, even videos related to 
their event to the website.  And I understand that each event will have 
a forum or blog attached to it where people can discuss the subjects 
raised in the forum, ask questions to the organizers, suggest topics, 
give feedback, etc.

I encourage folks to head over to wsis-online.net and register yourself 
and your organization.  It will be useful not only during the summit 
but more importantly for follow-up and networking after the summit.

Regards,

Rik Panganiban
Special Adviser
WFM


On Samedi, novembre 29, 2003, at 12:57  AM, Rik Panganiban wrote:

> The www.wsis-online.net community platform will have an online 
> database of all participants.  You will be able to post your contact 
> information (email, cell, text messenging, etc.) as well as other 
> information about your activities at the Summit.  More importantly you 
> will be able to search for other participants' contact information to 
> network, set up meetings, etc.
>
> Rik Panganiban
> WFM
>
> On Vendredi, novembre 28, 2003, at 05:52  PM, Amali De Silva wrote:
>
>> Btw Robert - Andy Carvin of the Benton Foundation had something to 
>> this effect in place during PC 3
>>  
>> Amali
>>
>> Robert Guerra <rguerra at cpsr.org> wrote:
>>
>> Ralf:
>>
>> might someone be willing to setup and host an online database where we
>> could post our contact info during the summit.
>>
>>
>> that way we'd avoid overwhelming this (and other lists), but have in
>> it's place a centralized location where we'd be able to goto to 
>> contact
>> collegues.
>>
>> For what it's worth - i'll make my Wiki Site available (see URL 
>> below),
>> however i'm not sure it's the most efficient mechanism.
>>
>>
>> look forward to suggestions.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>>
>> --On Friday, November 28, 2003 5:30 PM +0100 Ralf Bendrath
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > And please, to all:
>> > We have roughly 9000 registered participants at the summit.
>> > It just doesn't work if everybody announces his or her arrival here 
>> on
>> > this list.
>>
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