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

[mclauglm at po.muohio.edu]

Rik, thanks as always for your wonderful help "on 
the ground." Just a comment regarding the UN 
agencies making themselves vulnerable to 
accusations that they are cozy with Microsoft: In 
the interest of transparency it might be best to 
just acknowledge that they *are* cozied up and 
cozying up to Microsoft. Whether or not this 
accounts for the present problem may be another 
question, but as the saying goes, if it looks 
like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

Cheers,

Lisa


>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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>>Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
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