[WSIS CS-Plenary] Old problem, new solutions

[Marouen MRAIHI]

I agree with you on the "engineering" points but it's obvious that
engineering expertise needs funds and sometimes for many institutions
choosing a "turn key" approch is the solution to reach the objectives with
less costs and less technical "consultations".

Maybe what we have done today can be an example of cooperation between ICT
experts from the Civil society and an international organisation like the
UN. Unless we are going to send them a bill :) . And I'm sure that many NGOs
working on IT standards field will not refuse to offer the help if they are
kindly invited.

Marouen
http://www.mraihi.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Hervé Le Crosnier" <herve at info.unicaen.fr>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:45 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Old problem, new solutions


>
>
> Another slant of the exchange concerning UN documentation
> site.
>
> The site is old. We discover the problem today because
> we are looking following an annoucment this morning.
>
> First, this mean that we are following the list, and
> very intersted by the information circulating on
> the list, though it's mostly a noisy list :-)))
>
> Second : we can't blame todays actors for thing that
> were donne long ago. Techies were not as sharp as now.
> I'm teaching webmastering, and if i look back to the
> way we teached our student years ago, we will certainly
> be afraid :-))
>
> The problem is the one of re-engineering.
>
> This problem is a perpetual one in an information society.
>
> So, as civil society, guided by users interest, we can give
> advice to gouvernemental or international bodies to
> be always sure that they will master their next re-ingeniering.
>
> - follow open standards, the most advanced at the lauch time
>   of a projet.
> - publish the specification of the systems (well it certainly
>   means free-software isn't it ?)
> - separate and always separate : n-tiers services can more
>   easily be subject to progress. Well this mean no one can
>   get a hold on a complex system. Good for freedom isn't it ?
> - publish API : the internet technologies are more than any
>   technology a testbed for new services, new usages and
>   revalorisation of existing services, documents and
>   technologies... It means that anyone can learn and test,
>   and learn by testing : an information society is a never
>   ending learning society.
>
> Those are not technical rants, only political insights
> of what is to be a free and open information society.
>
> Even at re_engineering time.
>
> hervé Le Crosnier
>
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