[WSIS CS-Plenary] Opening ceremony speaker

[Fullsack Jean-Louis]

Many thanks, Meryem, this is a very good suggestion.
I fully support the initiative to nominate Aminata Traore for the opening
session CS speaker ; she is one of the most qualified person really aware of
the main issues the Summit ought to tackle and as far as it is possible to
(help to) solve.
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Meryem Marzouki" <marzouki at ras.eu.org>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Cc: <hr-wsis at iris.sgdg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 5:10 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Opening ceremony speaker


Hi all,

It seems that interesting discussions, with full "stakeholder" views,
have already started, when we don't even know yet the topics of the
round-tables, for which we're supposed to nominate speakers :-)

But as for now, there seems to be a hot discussion on Stallman for the
opening ceremony.
My very personal point of view (not the HR caucus one, which has not
yet discussed this issue) is that, if nominating a 5mn CS speaker for
the opening ceremony has any meaning (and I am not quite sure it has
one), we should avoid sectoral issues. And free software, though very
important, is one among many others.

So, if a speaker should be nominated, s/he should be _really_
high-level, with a true vision, and speaking on _truly_ essential issue.

At this point, the best candidate in my opinion would be Aminata Traoré
(I assume there is no need to introduce her). She will be in Geneva,
for a Cardoso's Un High Level panel meeting, and I am not sure she
would accept to leave the panel for yet another speech related to WSIS.
But it is worth trying to get her for the opening ceremony, too.

Meryem
PS1. Ms Ebadi being unavailable at this time, since she's will be
receiving the peace nobel prize.
PS2. Even if Aminata Traoré cannot make it for the opening ceremony, I
don't think Stallman could be the right person, for many reasons
already raised by othe people on this list.


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