[WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund

[Fullsack Jean-Louis]

Salut Hervé
Ecris en français : tu y excelles !
Cordialement
Jean-Louis Fullsack

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hervé Le Crosnier" <herve at info.unicaen.fr>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund


> Meryem Marzouki wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > According to a press wire by AFP, dated April 3 (see below, in French),
> > a UN agency will be created, called "international agency for digital
> > solidarity" to manage this issue. The secretariat would be based in
> > Geneva, while main activities will be hosted in Lyon, France. I'm not
> > sure AFP is right when they call it a UN agency : it surely takes a lot
> > more formal process to create a UN agency. It may very well be an
> > international initiative led and managed by local authorities (cities).
> > The creation of the agency should be announced in early May in Paris,
> > during the congress of the organization named "united cities and local
> > governments".
> > Meryem
> > ==========
>
> Hello,
>
> Sure it's not a UN agency, but a consequence
> of the "Sommet des villes et des pouvoirs locaux dans
> la société de l'information" held in Lyon last november.
>
> It means that many actors are on the process to create
> a digital solidarity fund. The problem is the one of
> the multistakeholder approach for the funding (in the
> Wade prposal, only voluntary funding by consumers ;
> the CS communique about this call for more open solution
> including intergouvernemental funding and private
> funding from TIC producers).
>
> The other one is about control of funds. I'm not very well
> with the center of such a fund in the North when usage is
> on the South.
>
> Last, we must always remain that any digital solidarity fund
> is a transitional solution. Stopping the debt of the South
> is much more usefull and efficient. They already fullfill
> the debt, and only financial mechanisms allow North to
> postpone new debts over the old one.
>
> Hope this will not be the case for digital solidarity,
> with a never ending debt, 'cause gap is not only very
> large, but also enlarging every time following innovation
> (large bandwidth, électric power... and new usages such
> à TV on the net, images and vidéo, music and radio...).
>
> Sorry for my bad english writing.
>
> Hervé Le Crosnier
>
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