[WSIS CS-Plenary] Microsoft-UNESCO - agreement / accord [Fwd: unesco]

[Dr. Francis MUGUET]

Hello,

I just now noticed this mail ( fwd below ) while
searching in my past messages.

After the UNESCO Press conference 17 November 2004 which
I attended, we tried, Djilali and me in vain to get
UNESCO to post the UNESCO-M$  agreement on the
UNESCO site.  Finally, with the help of BPEM, we got
a scanned version online at
http://www.wsis-pct.org/unesco-miscrosoft.html
and
http://www.wsis-finance.org/gov-doc-en.html

At GFC4 ( 10 January ) I brought with me the UNESCO-M$
agreement and I showed it to the delegates of GFC countries,
who were unaware to this agreement made in reference to
the WSIS  and were puzzled that text was kept "secret".
I discussed also this point with Karkkins that assured
me that he will see to it.
It seems that he was efficient.
The next stage should be to ask that this agreement
should be translated in French and Spanish.

Best regards

Francis

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	unesco
Date: 	Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:04:47 +0100
From: 	Moorhead, Victoria <V.Moorhead at unesco.org>
To: 	muguet at wtis.org



Dear Dr Muguet,

On behalf of the Director-General, I would like to acknowledge with
thanks receipt of your communication, in which you ask UNESCO to make
public the details of the agreement signed between UNESCO and Microsoft
on 17 November 2004. I am pleased to advise you that the ful text of the
cooperation agreement, together with the Director-General's speech, is
available online at the following web address :

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17589&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html 


<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17589&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> 




With regard to the comments on FOSS, please note that UNESCO remains
very interested in the free and open source development model and as
reiterated by the Director-General, will continue to support the ongoing
and future activities in this field. UNESCO would like to emphasize that
the agreement with Microsoft is not an "either/or" situation - it is not
mutually exclusive of other relationships.

Yours sincerely,

Abdul Waheed Khan
Assistant Director-General for
Communication and Information


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