[WSIS CS-Plenary] Nominations

[Adam Peake]

I think you may have missed Mrs. Nordstrom.

Her name was put forward some time ago, before you launched the 
content and themes process.

Thanks,

Adam



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>Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:50:07 +0900
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>Dear all:
>
>The following message was originally sent to this list on October 17th 07:32
>am GMT but by technical reasons was not yet circulated.
>Please note that the message was sent BEFORE we knew that Mrs. Ebadi is not
>available at the Opening but I believe still the spirit of the message is
>valid.
>
>Hiroshi Kawamura, 20 October 2003 03:48 Japan Standard Time
>
>--- original message dated 17 October 2003 follows ---
>
>Dear All:
>
>I sincerely congratulate the work done by Mrs. Ebadi more than the prize she
>was given.
>However, please allow me to bring some different views on the issue of
>selection of the CS representative at the opening and other opportunities in
>the Geneva Summit.
>
>There are lots of viewpoints among stakeholders who are participating in the
>preparatory process of WSIS.  Promotion and actual implementation of Civil
>Society participation in the UN process is important infrastructure building
>for the future input from Civil Society.  Contributions from each caucus of
>Civil Society must support this common platform building.  In this sense,
>each caucus or family group need to be more encouraged to put their
>candidate speakers forward for selection of the best speaker in the context
>of WSIS.
>
>With this consideration, although I admit that Mrs. Ebadi is one of the best
>candidates for the opening, I would like to draw your attention to another
>best candidate who have been committed to the actual WSIS process
>representing 600,000,000 people with disabilities in the world, Mrs. Kicki
>Nordstrom , the President of the International Disability Alliance.
>She has been active in international human rights arena, a best gender
>equality activist as a totally blind mother, going around the world to
>promote collaboration for supporting developing countries, and the best
>advocator of the theory "Nothing about us without us" - full participation
>of all stakeholders.  She delivered a very clear eloquent message on the
>"Information Society for All" at the Paris Intersessional Meeting
>(http://www.wsis-cs.org/intersessional/disability.html) in context of WSIS
>even though she was allocated only 3 minutes.
>
>If WSIS is going to address bridging the digital gap and set out the
>direction towards the Information Society for All, I believe, Mrs. Nordstrom
>is the best speaker at the Opening to represent the Civil Society.
>
>Best regards
>
>Hiroshi Kawamura
>CSB Disability Family Group Focal Point
>hkawa at attglobal.net



>All,
>
>The list of nominees is here:
>http://mboom.draper.albany.edu/~mciver/WSIS/Summit/Speakers/Nominations-Main.html
>
>Please let me know as soon as possible if I missed someone.
>
>WJM
>--
>
>Bill McIver
>Assistant Professor
>School of Information Science and Policy
>University at Albany, State University of New York
>Albany, New York 12222
>USA
>
>e-mail: mciver at albany.edu
>URL: http://www.albany.edu/~mciver
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