[WSIS CS-Plenary] UN Official Document System is online

[Rik Panganiban]

Robert, et al,

I'm already on this and am bringing some people at the UN in the loop.  
I am happy to compile people's feedback and suggestions and put it to 
the UN technical people directly.

I urge folks for the time being not to start a media-flurry on this 
before we get some kind of response from the UN.  If they ignore or 
dismiss our criticisms then we can start taking to the airwaves.  My 
guess is that the German coalition folks have already alerted their 
media contacts.

The truly sad part about this is that if the UN IT people had 
beta-released this and asked for volunteers to run it through its 
paces, folks would have jumped at the chance to help out.  Instead they 
put out a product that doesn't work for a large population of users.  
So they make themselves vulnerable to criticism and accusations of 
cozying up to Microsoft.

Rik Panganiban

On Jan 6, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Robert Guerra wrote:

> trying to be productive...
>
> Any way we can communicate the results of our "tests" to the relevant 
> UN Officials so that they can perhaps try to fix it ASAP.
>
> If they can not, then i would suggest that we start the process of 
> formulating a formal press release to inform the world about the lack 
> of standards..
>
> regards
>
> Robert
>
> At 3:41 PM +0100 1/6/05, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>> Georg C. F. Greve ha scritto:
>>>  rp> Regards to all and Happy Transparent and Accessible New Year.
>>>
>>> I just tried this and had problems actually getting to the documents,
>>> others have reported similar problems with non-IE browsers on Windows
>>> and Macintosh. It appears the site is running on Microsoft and is
>>> using Microsoft-only functions for Javascript.
>
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