[WSIS CS-Plenary] Geneva based Press

[Raoul Weiler]

Dear all,

As to the media and the Information Society, I think that there
are some misunderstandings in society today.

Radio exists about a century and TV half a century, however
both are not the initiators of what we understand today as the
emerging Information and Knowledge Society (IKS). Neither the
early computers until the mid eighties have directly contributed to
emergence of the information society.

The emergence of the 'information society' has its origin with
network technology including the 'free' protocols, and the
client/server technology. These technologies are in nature interactive
and allowing exploring information sources (surfing).  In so far
the internet and mail systems are very essential and recent in
the new information society concept. This are major differences
with radio and TV or the so called the 'classical media.'

For some purposes classical and new technologies are
complementary, especially in education purposes. Radio since
long and still is a very important player for transmission of 'educational
programs. But this summit, in my view, should deal with the
emergence of the information society made possible with the use
of new tools.

A debate on private/public is not really a topic here. When CS
states that 'all knowledge' has to be a public or common good
then all other considerations are superfluous, if not contradictory.

Cordially,

Raoul Weiler


---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fullsack Jean-Louis" <jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Cc: <ct at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Geneva based Press


> Hi Karen
> I cannot support your statement to the journalist from IPSNews below.
> Tell me : do private TVs demonstrate more "editorial independance" than
> public ones ? Is Fox News more independant than the BBC ?
> But above all, is privatization of public medias a  "non negociable" for
CS
> C&T group ? Who did endorse such a failure ?
> There are many members of CS C&T group who won't support such a statement
> which is contrary to our commitment to public service and public goods.
> Therefore I join Steve Buckley's questions and protest.
> Moreover, I ask the C&T group to review seriously this questionable
document
> entitled "Civil Society Essential Benchmarks for WSIS" as to reflect our
> real and basic concerns. I'm willing to make proposals and contributions
as
> I already did before and during PrepCom-3a through different e-mails.
> However, neither of the final CS documents (CS Statement and Essential
> Benchmarks) bore the slightest trace of them.
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
> CSDPTT
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "karen banks" <karenb at gn.apc.org>
> To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Geneva based Press
>
>
> > hi
> >
> > another press piece..
> >
> > karen
> >
> > COMMUNICATION:
> > A Steep Climb to the Information Society Summit
> > Gustavo Capdevila
> >
> > GENEVA, Nov 14 (IPS) - Everyone wants to bridge the information and
> > telecommunications divide -- governments, the private sector and civil
> > society -- but with less than four weeks to go before the World Summit
on
> > the Information Society (WSIS), agreement on how to tackle the issue
> > remains elusive....
> > http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=21121
> >
> >
> >
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