[WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund

[djilali benamrane]

Respect ! Monsieur Fullsack qui fait l'effort
d'envoyer ses messages en deux voire 3 langues pour
que les gens puissent suivre et réagir sans parâitre
des nalphabètes... !
Au fait ! Es-tu sure que le sieur Le Cronier soit un
francophone ! ou aurait-il honte de l'être
--- Fullsack Jean-Louis <jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 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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