[WSIS CS-Plenary] Reminder: ITeM Panel and Book launch - Thursday 17th - 10:45 Room Mahdia

[Pablo Accuosto]

Dear all,

This is to remind you of  our ITeM's invitation to attend the panel "Framing
WSIS in global governance processes" at Room Mehdia (or Mahdia, depending on
where you look) tomorrow thursday 17th from 10:45 to 12:45.

Full announcement below.

Pablo

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Instituto del Tercer Mundo / Third World Institute (ITeM) invites all WSIS
stakeholders to the panel debate

Framing WSIS in Global Governance Processes - Linkages and Follow-up

17 November 2005 - 10:45 - 12:45
Room Mahdia, Kram Exhibition Hall, Tunis


On November 17, 2005 from 10:45 to 12:45 at the Room Mehdia (Kram Exhibition
Hall), during the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS), ITeM will organise an event titled "Framing WSIS in global
governance processes: Linkages and follow-up".

The following panelists will take a close look at WSIS's outcomes from a
Southern perspective, contextualizing them in the wider space of
multilateral processes and global politics. Impacts of the WSIS process at
global and regional level will be analysed by the panelists and debated
among attendees.

- Ziad Abdel-Samad
(Executive Director - Arab NGO Network for Development, ANND, Lebanon)
- Anriette Esterhuysen
(Executive Director - Association for Progressive Communications, APC, South
Africa)
- Susana Finquelievich
(President - LINKS, Civil Association for the Development of the Information
Society;
Director - Research Program for the Information Society, University of
Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Anita Gurumurthy
(Director, Advocacy - IT for Change, India)
- Robin Mansell
(President - International Association for Media and Communication Research,
IAMCR;
Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet, Department of Media and
Communications, London School of Economics, United Kingdom)
- Daniel Pimienta
(President - Networks and Development Foundation, FUNREDES, Dominican
Republic).

The book "Information Society for the South: Vision or Hallucination", which
brings together the series of briefing papers produced as part of ITeM's
"WSIS Papers" project, will be launched at this event.

This book contains contributions by Ana Laura Rivoir, Anita Gurumurthy &
Parminder Jeet Singh, Anna Badimo, Carlos A. Afonso, Fernando Prada, Gustavo
Gómez, James Love, Joëlle Carron, Leila Hassanin, Lishan Adam, Sangeeta
Shashikant, Seán Ó Siochrú and Susana Finquelievich.

The "WSIS Papers" project is possible thanks to the support of the
International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC) / PanAmericas

ITeM greatfully acknowledges the support provided by Bread for All / Pain
pour le Prochain for the realisation of this panel.

 http://WSISPAPERS.CHOIKE.ORG