[WSIS CS-Plenary] Microsoft-UNESCO - agreement / accord

[Dr. Francis MUGUET]

English/French

Hello

This agreement is already under discussion in the PCT and Finance groups

I went to the Press Conference at UNESCO.
Be re-assured, the welcome to Bill Gates was not triumphal,
and the Press was unamimously negative.
The text of the Microsoft/ UNESCO agreement which I
was able to retrieve at UNESCO and that was kindly
scanned by Marie-Laure from http://www.bpem.org 
is available on site.
http://www.wsis-finance.org/gov-doc-en.html
it is also available at
http://www.wsis-pct.org/unesco-miscrosoft.html

The authorized translation of the article in English is

http://www.april.org/articles/divers/tribune-microsoft-unesco-liberation.html.en

( thanks to Fredéric Couchet , one of the authors who belongs to the PCT 
group )

> Unesco remains totally silent regarding critiques or requests for 
> clarification on this agreement.

Our request that the text of the agreement be available online had no 
effect.
Replies were evasive.
It would have been better than our scanned images.

We believe that the agreement has some legal flaws that might allow the 
Civil
Society to ask the WSIS to demand that the texts of the agreement be
modified.   This is under study, and all people with a legal background
are asked to join the PCT and the Finance groups to discuss further those
points.

> By the way, UNDP and IDRC have signed similar agreements with M$. Ah, 
> the power of money...
>
If you have the texts or URLs  of those agreement, please let us know.

Best regards

Francis

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Français

Bonjour

J'ai assisté à la conférence de Presse de l'UNESCO.
Rassurez vous !  l'accueil pour Bill Gates ne fut pas triomphal,
et la presse fut très critique.
 Le texte de l'accord Microsoft/ UNESCO
( uniquement en Anglais ) que j'ai recupéré à l'UNESCO
et qui a été gentiment scanné par Marie-Laure chez
http://www.bpem.org est disponible sur le site.
http://www.wsis-finance.org/gov-doc-en.html

et aussi sur
http://www.wsis-pct.org/unesco-miscrosoft.html

Notre requète que le texte de l'accord soit en mis en ligne
et qu'il soit aussi traduit en Français n'a pas été fructueuse.
Bravo pour la transparence et la diversité linguistique !

Le texte de l' accord possède des failles juridiques qui devraient
permettre à la Société Civile de demander au SMSI d'exiger
de l'UNESCO de modifier le texte de cet accord.
Ceci est à l'étude. Toute personne possèdant un bagage
juridique est invitée à joindre les groupes PCT et Finance
pour une discussion plus approfondie.

Cordialement

Francis

> --c.a.
>
> Rui Correia wrote:
>
>> Dear All
>>
>> Herewith a rushed translation of the French text found in the link 
>> provided
>> by Martin Oliveira to the French newspaper in which it was published 
>> today.
>> The translation was fed through translation software and then 
>> polished up
>> where necessary for comprehension - it is far form being a perfect 
>> product;
>> it was done only in the interest of sharing this article. The names 
>> of the
>> authors and their affiliation appear at bottom
>>
>> Regards, Rui
>> ___________________________________________________________________________ 
>>
>> Liberation newspaper, Paris - 5/1/2005
>>
>> On November 17, Bill Gates, on a trip to Paris, returned visit to the 
>> head
>> office of UNESCO to sign an agreement of partnership with the 
>> organization.
>> The agreement defines eight objectives for which UNESCO and Microsoft
>> [...]
>>
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