[WSIS CS-Plenary] another view on the Tunis summit
djilali benamrane
dbenamrane at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 29 09:22:23 GMT 2005
Dear Falkoff,
As democat acting in world civile society, we do must
have many points of view.
I send in French a paper draft for my discussion group
on Finance Mechanisms.
Please feel free to criticize and react.
All the best
Djilali
--- "l.d.misek-falkoff falkoff"
<ldmisekfalkoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Claire and hello all,
>
> For one and from the persepective of **Respectful
> Interfaces*,* it is very
> pleasant to have your post and the linked-to article
> by Bill Thompson. In
> my own thoughts I have been trying to compose
> something beginning with a
> disclaimer on sacharrine (overly sweet and/but
> artifical) comments.
>
> I do believe/ concur with the following, from
> Bill's article:
>
> <quote> *" In fact the summit achieved a great deal,
> and the two main
> documents produced the **Tunis
>
Agenda*<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=2267%7C0>
> * and the **Tunis
>
Commitment*<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=2199%7C0>
> * were only part of it. Just having everyone in
> the same place at the same
> time allowed conversations to take place at all
> levels, from senior
> ministers to activist members of radical NGOs.
> Information was exchanged,
> future collaborations were discussed, and the
> hundreds of exhibitors at the
> **ICT4ALL* <http://www.ict4all-tunis.org/>*
> exhibition that accompanied the
> summit were able to show off their work to a
> remarkably receptive audience."
> * <endquote>.
> And my own summaries will resonate on these points.
> True, I was not one blocked from entry, and I did
> not personally witness
> some reported disputes, so I do not claim to speak
> for all. Each *disrespectful
> interface* commands our attention.
>
> But when told there were 30,000 in attendance I was
> grateful for each link I
> was part of, with government, civil society
> (organizations, grass roots, and
> individual) new friends and colleagues, one expects.
> Momentum should prove a
> fine ally.
>
> Thank you again for opening the door to viewing all
> sides of the matter.
>
> P.S. All interested in *Respectful Interfaces* are
> cordially invited to
> convene in a WSUS-2-Tunis list under the "Respites"
> (abbrev.) banner.
>
> With warm regards to all, LDMF.
> Individual email.
> Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff
> Computing / Law / Humanities.
> Communications Coordination Committee for the United
> Nations, and other U.N.
> NGOS.
> Other Affliations on request.
>
>
> On 11/28/05, Claire Shearman
> <claire.shearman at mcr1.poptel.org.uk> wrote:
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