[WSIS CS-Plenary] Virtual Participation - Establishment ofworking group?

[Michael Gurstein]

I'm really delighted to see the renewed interest in enabling electronic
participation in the WSIS process and particularly for Civil Society.

For those with an interest I would call your attention to an extensive
and I think quite useful discussion on precisely these issues in an
email list that was launched as an output of the Montreal Congress of
the Global Community Networking Partnership in 2002.  The archive is
accessible at http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/arc/wsis-e-consult and
is useful particularly for the discussion of CS e-consultation in a
multilingual context. These discussions petered out when it became clear
the extent of resources required to undertake the tasks involved and
that few of these resources seemed to be accessible at that time.

I would also draw your attention to the work of Daniel Pimenta's group
Funredes of the Dominican Republic which through MISTICA has been
conducting these types of multi-lingual virtual discussions within a
primarily Latin American context for a number of years and who have I
believe developed considerable expertise and supportive software for
this purpose.

Best,

Mike Gurstein
Chair: (Global) Community Informatics Research Network
http://www.ciresearch.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] On
Behalf Of Beatriz Busaniche
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:14 PM
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Virtual Participation - Establishment
ofworking group?


El jue, 11-03-2004 a las 13:57, Robert Guerra escribió:

> 
> Among other things, we discussed having a virtual meeting next week -
> Wed . March 17th at 10:00 EDT to be exact - where those of us
interested 
> could exchange ideas, comments and perhaps even create a working group

> on advancing the use of ICTs for virtual participation and
collaboration.
> 
> 
> Hearing this, if you'd like join us next week  please email either
> myself or Derrick (off-list).


Robert, gracias por responder mi mensaje en privado.  Como aquí lo
indica, pedí en privado sumarme a este equipo para colaborar y trabajar
sobre una plataforma para reuniones.

Traigo el tema a plenaria porque creo que es importante.  Algunos de los
más activos participantes de la plenaria y del proceso de la CMSI somos
usuarios de GNU Linux. Organizar esta reunión sobre una plataforma que
sólo incluya a usuarios de windows  nos excluye.  

Pedí en otro mail que no se comience a trabajar sobre una plataforma no
incluyente. Temo que eso ocurrirá la semana próxima. Entiendo la buena
voluntad de quienes proveen esta herramienta, pero habiendo herramientas
accesibles a todos, usar una que excluye a un gran grupo es inaceptable.

Como podemos nosotros,  usuarios de gnu linux, integrar este grupo de
trabajo?

Robert, thank you for your answer to my private mail. As it says here, i
asked in private to be included in this group to colaborate and work
with this issue.

I bring this comment to plenary because i think it's very imoprtant.
Some of the most active participants in this plenary and in the whole
process of WSIS are GNU Linux users.  Organice a meeting over a platform
that only include windows user, exclude us. 

I asked in another mail, not to start working over a non inclusive
platform. I am afraid that that will happen next week. I understand the
good intentions of people providing us that platform, but knowing other
tools accesible for all, to use one that exclude a big part of this
plenary is unacceptable.

How could we, gnu linux users, join this working group? 

Thank you very much / gracias 

Beatriz

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