[WSIS CS-Plenary] How will you celebrate World Information Society Day?

Sat Nov 26 14:20:45 GMT 2005

Hi, Robert and anyone who REALLY is interested in some background -- certainly far from comprehensive -- on World Telecommunication Day. There also exists a World Television Day, although this history I would not go into now. World Internet Day does not seem to exist. World Information Society Day does not technically exist either.

World Telecommunication Day seems to have existed in 1966 to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the ITU, although I currently find no UN General Assembly Resolution in any of the surrounding years for such a Day. 

The State of Qatar issued a set of 5 stamps for this occasion in 1966. 

Other research demonstates that the 18th observance of the day was at least referred to in a speech in Nigeria by A.T. Ayuba, the Minister of Communications of Nigeria, in 1986, although my mathematics says that would have been the 20th World Telecommunication Day.

So, how will I celebrate which day?????

Best regards, Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Guerra" <rguerra at lists.privaterra.org>
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] How will you celebrate World Information Society Day?
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:31:45 +0100

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> If I remember correctly the call for a "world internet day" came 
> from  the government of Spain. It might be worth our while to learn 
> more  about the origins and aims of the proposal.
> 
>  From memory, the initiative came from a series of consultations 
> done  with NGOs and other stakeholders last year in Spain. I can 
> try to  find out more and post the results asap.
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> Robert
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> On 24-Nov-05, at 10:24 AM, djilali benamrane wrote:
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> > Dear all,
> > Taking into consideration the Wolfgang's proposal
> > consisting of  merging "world days" for ITU and
> > Information society could mean that we agree with the
> > mandate and the role played by ITU in the organization
> > of the Summit....
> > I don't feel confortable with such a proposal.... The
> > Civile society must be very carefulness and preparing
> > its point of view regarding the necessaire future big
> > reform of the UN system including ITU.
> > Why celebrating world information society day ? why
> > not wait for more relevant result and prepare World
> > information and communication society day ?
> > All the best
> > Djilali
> > Je ne partage pas la proposition consistant à fêter
> > ensemble le jour anniversaire de la création de l'UIT
> > et celui de la societé mondiale de l'information.
> > C'est trop d'honneur fait à l'UIT et c'est anticiper
> > la réforme profonde, impérative du système onusien y
> > compris l'UIT.
> > Pourquoi ne pas attendre d'autres progrès en matière
> > d'information et surtout de communication pour que la
> > société civile soit fière de fêter une journée
> > significative de l'information et de la communication
> > et ce n'est pas l'IUT dans son mandat actuel et dans
> > ses tendances pro opérateurs privés qui nous aidera à
> > progresser...
> > Amitiés
> > Djilali
> >
> >
> >> will be interlinked in the future? Or will it merge
> >
> > --- Wolfgang Kleinwächter
> > <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Dear list,
> >>
> >> May 17 is the "World Telecommunication Day"
> >> celebrated by ITU. The Day commemorates the signing
> >> of the Internetal Telegraph Convention in Paris in
> >> 1865 which is seen as the birthday of todays ITU.
> >> Does anyone have an idea, how the two "world days"
> >> will be interlinked in the future? Or will it merge?
> >>
> >> Wolfgang
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----Original Message-----
> >> From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org on behalf of Rik
> >> Panganiban
> >> Sent: Wed 11/23/2005 7:09 PM
> >> To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> >> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] How will you celebrate
> >> World Information Society Day?
> >>
> >> Greetings all,
> >>
> >> Here's a less-serious take on the recently
> >> proclaimed "World
> >> Information Society Day" ala The Onion and David
> >> Letterman.  Thanks
> >> to David Weekly for the image.
> >>
> >> - Rik
> >>
> >> ?
> >> Can also be downloaded from
> >> http://rikomatic.com/photos/wsistunis/
> >> infosocday
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>   Rik Panganiban             email:
> >> rikp at earthlink.net
> >>   UN Reporting & Advocacy    tel: (+1) 917-710-5524
> >>   Civil Society Organizer    web:
> >> http://rikomatic.com
> >>
> >> Submit NGO Events to http://www.ngoevents.org
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Djilali Benamrane : dbenamrane at yahoo.com
> > Tel/fax : (227) 75 35 09 BP 11207 - Niamey - Niger
> > Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
> > Page web sur le Sommet Mondial sur la Societe de l'Information  
> > (SMSI) (mecanismes de financement) http://www.wsis-finance.org et 
> >  groupe de discussion : http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/
> > Page web sur l'Afrique et la globalisation : http:// 
> > www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/
> > Groupe de discussion: http://www.egroups.com/list/afriqueglobalization
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