[WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital divide conference

[John Fung]

Dear all,

The 7th International Conference: Human Services Information Technology Application (HUSITA7) shall be held in Hong Kong in August 2004.

Please see conference website for details: http://www.hkcss.org.hk/husita7/

It has a theme on digital inclusion and please see if you can attend. There will also be a post conference tour to Shanghai and Beijing to study the use of ICT in civil affairs.

Please also circulate this mail to those who might be interested in participating.

Presenters of papers would enjoy a discount on registration fee.


John fung






-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] On Behalf Of djilali benamrane
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 5:51 PM
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] spam or universal access ?


Thanks Amali for your understanding and your support.
Firendly
Djilali
--- Amali De Silva <amalidesilva at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 2 cents from me - I have to admit when I see the
> pleas from Africa e.g. Niger which our colleague on
> the  CS plenary list  never fails to enlighten us
> about; I wonder as to what our CS priorities for
> humanity really are especially at a conference such
> as this ? Is it spam ( a junk mail annoyance for the
> Western world ) or universal access ?
> 
> I do think the C&T team of phase 1 should
> re-mobilize and start on an action plan for phase 2
> themes that CS wants to promote asap - starting with
> a virtual on-line / real time meeting would be
> great!
> 
> Amali De Silva - Mitchell
> 
> cc: Plenary
>
> wolfgang at imv.au.dk wrote:
> Hi Betrand,
>
> do yopu propose an "Intergovernmental Spam
> Convention" or a "Spam MoU"?
>
> best
>
> wolfgang
>
> -- Original Nachricht--
> Von: Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE
> An: Adam Peake
> Senden: 08:01 PM
> Betreff: Re: [governance] comment on spam
>
> Hi,
>
> Could be a case where a new type of international
> instrument
> is needed, similar to what Directives are in the
> European
> Union :
>
> a formal agreement on objectives, measures/methods
> to adopt
> by the respective stakeholders, the responsibility
> to do it
> resting on each individual (sovereign ?) entity,
> with a
> follow-up mechanism to verify later on that the
> Directive has
> been "transposed in the internal legal order".
>
> It seems anyway that spam is rising to the level of
> recognized global nuisance, and could be a very good
> test
> case for defining new methods to address such
> issues.
>
> 2cents, etc...
>
> Bertrand
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:55:47 +0900
> >From: Adam Peake
>
> >Subject: [governance] comment on spam
> >To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> >
> >We've discussed a little about address spam
> globally
> (whether is can
> >be addressed globally, or whether anyone should
> even try.)
> I just
> >sent a note to Dave Farber's list about spam in
> Japan. We
> don't
> >really have any domestic generated spam. A lot of
> spam from
> overseas,
> >little generated in Japan. Spam on the wired
> Internet that
> is, we do
> >suffer still from spam on mobiles.
> >
> >I think there's a lot of opportunity for sharing of
> best
> practices,
> >but action seems to be best taken locally. Global
> coordination and
> >cooperation, but not multilateral hard action.
> >
> >2 cents, etc.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Adam
> >
> >
> >--
> >
> >(Sent to Farber, no idea if he will choose to
> forward to his
> list.)
> >
> >At 8:39 PM +0900 3/10/04, Adam Peake wrote:
> >
> >Dave,
> >
> >I almost never see Japanese spam.
> >
> >In 2002, Japan enacted two laws: quite strict, and
> quite
> successful
> >
> >As far as I can see, the basic regulations are:
> >
> >-messages must state they are an advertisement and
> sent
> without consent.
> >-must have a real opt-out option.
> >-randomly generated email addresses are banned
> (APeake@,
> BPeake@,
> >CPeake@, etc., and random numbers for mobile
> addresses.)
> >-be sent from a valid address, with a valid subject
> line.
> >-carriers/ISPs are able to bar spammers.
> >-carriers/ISPs can filter spam without consent
> (this stems
> from a
> >time when there was masses of mobile spam, 80% or
> more of
> all data
> >traffic, and carriers needs to get it off their
> networks.)
> >
> >Penalties: up to 2 years jail, fines up to 3
> billion yen
> >(300,000,000 yen, about $2.5 million at the time.)
> >At the same time, pyramid buying laws were expanded
> to
> address some
> >types of spam.
> >
> >I think Scott MacQuarrie's last comment is wrong:
> we do need
> to care
> >about our ISP's problems, they bill us!
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Adam
> >
> >Adam Peake
> >GLOCOM Tokyo
> >
> >
> >
> >As I said often on IP, I have neither the time or
> desire to
> use systems
> >like this and ignore all such requests djf
> >
> >Delivered-To: dfarber+ at ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
> >Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 16:45:06 -0800
> >From: Dennis Paull
> >Subject: Re: [IP] SPAM Countermeasures Risks Digest
> 23.25
> >X-Sender: dpaull at pop.svpal.org
> >To: dave at farber.net
> >Cc: Scott MacQuarrie
> >
> >Hi Dave,
> >
> >For IP if you choose.
> >
> >I read through the Digiportal web site and I do not
> see how
> it could be
> >used with lists such as IP? If Scott thinks that
> email list
> owners are
> >going to respond to special messages from every new
>
> subscriber, he must
> >be crazy.
> >
> >There may be other such situations that are less
> apparent
> where the
> >scheme being used is inappropriate. Besides that,
> it looks
> great.
> >
> >Dennis Paull
> >Half Moon Bay, CA
> >
>
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>
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