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

Sat Nov 26 14:29:53 GMT 2005

World internet day is supposed to be different then world  
telecommunications day. the confusion , the same dates - got everyone  
confused..

as I mentioned earlier, "world internet day" (dia del Internet) did  
come from the spanish government. There is a website , in spanish of  
course - url is below.

http://www.diadeinternet.es/

regards,

Robert

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Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
Managing Director, Privaterra <http://www.privaterra.org>

On 26-Nov-05, at 9:20 AM, richard jordan wrote:

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> 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.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Robert
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>> Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
>> Managing Director, Privaterra <http://www.privaterra.org>
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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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