[WSIS CS-Plenary] Collaboration software debate

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

Federico wrote :
"the fascination with cool
new toys may be causing some fellow caucus members lose sight of how bad
an idea it is to move part of the debate to a realm in which people
without broadband and fat machines cannot participate"

You are right and your comment would be perfect if you add : "high level skills in both hw and sw hadling and mastering"
We are lots of people who are just able to send e-mails and write documents with our "machine". But I stress that we have a lot of ideas and of commitment to share !
Isn't that the originanlity and the role of CS in the WSIS ?
I'd just remind to everybody that CS didn't have such sophisticated tools during phase 1 of the WSIS and hawever it happened to be present, active ant reactive. Far more than in the presnt phase!
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France 



> Message du 14/04/05 01:58
> De : "Federico Heinz" 
> A : plenary at wsis-cs.org
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> Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Collaboration software debate
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> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:22 -0500, Taran Rampersad wrote:
> > Who are you representing here, Federico?
> 
> I am a member of this caucus, concerned that the fascination with cool
> new toys may be causing some fellow caucus members lose sight of how bad
> an idea it is to move part of the debate to a realm in which people
> without broadband and fat machines cannot participate.
> 
> > If you don't see a need for software, then I don't see the need for
> > this discussion to continue
> 
> You continue to ignore the issue, and I'm starting to hope that you are
> doing it deliberately, because I'm running out of ways to explain it to
> you. Certainly there are people and circumstances for which such
> software would be useful. I'm just pointing out that the use of this
> kind of tool for CS caucus' purposes would be a mistake, because it will
> exclude people which could very well participate using the current
> tools.
> 
> > It's apparent to me that there is a need for software for
> > online collaboration which meets the needs of the Civil Society plenary,
> > and there has been such a need.
> 
> Great! If it is so apparent to you, then it will be very easy for you to
> substantiate this need. Please, do tell us.
> 
> Fede
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