[WSIS CS-Plenary] How will you celebrate World Information
Society Day?
richard jordan
richardjordan at lycos.com
Sat Nov 26 14:46:12 GMT 2005
Hard to figure out WHO actually is in charge of this day.
Makes you want to pick up the telephone and call for help!
Richard
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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: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:29:53 -0500
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> World internet day is supposed to be different then world
> telecommunications day. the confusion , the same dates - got
> everyone confused..
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> 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.
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> http://www.diadeinternet.es/
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> Robert
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> Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
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> 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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> >>
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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
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >>>> 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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