[WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: World Summit on the Information Society - A Summit of Solutions for ICT Development

[McTim]

Hello Lisa,

On 11/2/05, mclauglm at po.muohio.edu <mclauglm at po.muohio.edu> wrote:


> It's stunning how many plenary speakers are from
> the big IT corporations

Why?

>
> Let the public-private partnerships begin. I
> suspect that, when all is said and done, we will
> find that CS has been used to cast a shadow of
> legitimation over a market-based, high tech
> global project.

Why does the private sector need CS to make them legitimate?

Here in Africa, there are lots of excellent CS initiatives in re: ICT4D.

But to be completely honest, their impact is dwarfed by that of the PS
in re: building an Information Society.

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Cheers,

McTim
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