[WSIS CS-Plenary] proposed list of speakers for Tunis

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

And the next speaker on behalf of WSIS-Cs will be Ayesha Asan from CCBI
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France





> Message du 04/10/05 09:34
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> Robert,
> 
> Being one of those who nominated Adama Samassekou to speak on behalf of the 
> civil society I was guided by the following considerations:
> 
> He was nominated to speak on multi-stakeholder partnerships, so he should 
> have been aware of different stakeholders' concerns to be able do deal with 
> the topic.
> 
> He was one of the first people in the world who raised this issue on a very 
> high level and promoted it at the Geneva Phase in his capacity of the 
> President of WSIS Preparatory Committee.
> 
> His career comprises different kind of activities, including:
> 
> - Head of the Linguistic Department of the Institute of Social Sciences of 
> Mali, the National Library of Mali (research/education community);
> - Founding president, for Mali and Africa as a whole, of the Peoples' 
> Movement for Human Rights Education, as well as the founding chairman of 
> ADEMA-France (civil society);
> - Minister of Education of Mali and a spokesperson for the Government of 
> Mali (government);
> - Currently: President of the African Academy of Languages with ministerial 
> rank (both research/education and government).
> 
> To my mind this is a great a combination of various stakeholders' 
> experience, which, augmented by his outstanding thinking and speaking 
> abilities and global-wide vision, gives him the right to talk about MSP at 
> such high level on behalf of one of the stakeholder, for which this topic is 
> most important, i.e. civil society.
> 
> I hope this will help to understand my motivation to offer Mr. Samassekou as 
> one of the key speakers, and this was shared by many CSB members.
> 
> Tatiana
> ________________________________________
> 
> Tatiana V. Ershova
> 
> Co-Coordinator
> WSIS CS Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Family
> 
> General Director
> Institute of the Information Society
> E-mail: info at iis.ru
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> 
> Chair of the Board
> Russian e-Development Foundation
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> ----- Исходное сообщение ----- 
> От: Robert Guerra
> Кому: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Отправлено: 3 октября 2005 г. 20:13
> Тема: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] proposed list of speakers for Tunis
> 
> 
> Rik:
> 
> 
> I think having the president of the first phase preparatory process speak on 
> behalf of Civil Society at the tunis summit is strange and quite 
> problematic. Is he not a cabinet member of the Malian government?
> 
> 
> Please not as well, that I do not see any of the names of Canadians I posted 
> to the plenary list last week. Below is a copy of the message with the names 
> and bios. I hope they can be considered. I am of the personal opinion that 
> it would be great if a spot could be given to Derrick de Kerckhove, the 
> director of the McLuhan program at the University of Toronto.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> 
> From: Robert Guerra 
> Date: September 29, 2005 6:52:03 PM GMT+02:00
> To: wsis-cs-plenary Plenary 
> Subject: Nomination - Canada - Nominations
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Following a quick ad-hoc consultation with Canadians attending PrepCom3, I 
> would like to put forward the following nominations as speakers - from 
> Canada - for the opening ceremony and/or high level panel.
> 
> 
> They are HIGH level Canadians who not only have a long, well known 
> experience in information society issues but also have participated in one 
> or more WSIS related events (prepcoms and/or summit).
> 
> 
> The names, bios and URLs for additional information is below for the review 
> and consideration of the committee.
> 
> 
> additional names will be forthcoming.
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Derrick de Kerckhove
> Charles Taylor
> Peter Leuprecht
> Jean-Louis Roy
> Jennifer Corriero
> 
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> Derrick de Kerckhove
> (opening ceremony)
> 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_de_Kerchove
> 
> 
> Derrick de Kerckhove is the Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and 
> Technology, author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and 
> Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto.
> 
> 
> He edited Understanding 1984 (UNESCO, 1984) and co-edited with Amilcare 
> Iannucci, McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell'uomo (Bulzoni, 1984) two collections 
> of essays on McLuhan, culture, technology and biology. He also co-edited 
> with Charles Lumsden The Alphabet and the Brain (Springer Verlag, 1988), a 
> book which scientifically assesses the impact of the Western alphabet on the 
> physiology and the psychology of human cognition. Another publication, La 
> civilisation vidéo-chrétienne appeared in France in December, 1990 and in 
> Italy the following year (Feltrinelli, 1991). Brainframes: Technology, Mind 
> and Business (Bosch & Keuning, 1991) addresses the differences between the 
> effects of television, computers and hypermedia on corporate culture, 
> business practices and economic markets. The Skin of Culture (Somerville 
> Press, 1995) is a collection of essays on the new electronic reality which 
> stayed on Canadian best-sellers lists for several months. It was translated 
> into a dozen languages including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Polish and 
> Slovenian. Connected Intelligence (Somerville, 1997) introduced his research 
> on new media and cognition. His latest book, The Architecture of 
> Intelligence, was first issued in Dutch in December 2000, and in English 
> (June 2001), Italian and German in September 2001. It was later translated 
> into Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. He collaborated with Mark Federman on 
> McLuhan for Managers: New Tools for New Thinking, published in September 
> 2003. de Kerckhove is also contracted to work on a book about the history of 
> stage performance from early Greek theatre to modern Opera, in collaboration 
> with Francesco Monico.
> [edit]
> 
> 
> Other work
> 
> 
> de Kerckhove has offered connected intelligence workshops worldwide, and now 
> offers this innovative approach to business, government and academe to help 
> small groups to think together in a disciplined and effective way while 
> using digital technologies. In the same line, he has contributed to the 
> architecture of Hypersession, a collaborative software now being developed 
> by Emitting Media and used for various educational situations.
> 
> 
> As a consultant in media, cultural interests, and related policies, de 
> Kerckhove has participated in the preparation and brainstorming sessions for 
> the plans for: the Ontario Pavilion at Expo '92 in Seville, the Canada in 
> Space exhibit, and the Toronto Broadcast Centre for the CBC. He was involved 
> in plans for a major exhibit on Canada and Modernism at the Cité des 
> sciences et de l’industrie in Paris for 2004 and was a member of the 
> cultural committee of Toronto's bid for the Olympics in 2008. He was a 
> member of several government task forces on developing a telecommunications 
> policy for Ontario, designing a cultural policy for the francophone 
> community in Ontario, and also appeared before the CRTC Public Hearing 
> Committee on the Information Highway. A World Economic Forum Fellow, de 
> Kerckhove is also an active member of the Vivendi Institut de prospective 
> where he is in charge of investigating the future technological and business 
> development of the new technologies. He was decorated by the Government of 
> France with the order of "Les Palmes académiques" and has been a member of 
> the Club of Rome since 1995. de Kerckhove is, most recently, the holder of 
> the Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology at the Library of Congress 
> in Washington, D.C.
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> Charles Taylor
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(philosopher)
> http://www.uni.ca/taylor_f.html
> http://agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Charles_Taylor
> 
> 
> Charles Taylor, CC, BA, MA, Ph.D, FRSC (born November 5, 1931) is a Canadian 
> philosopher known for his viewpoints on morality and modern western identity 
> of individuals and groups. He is often classified as a communitarian.
> 
> 
> His principal philosophical standpoint is that of "exclusive humanism"—a 
> humanism without reference to the transcendent, especially as it relates to 
> cultural, social, or political life.
> 
> 
> Taylor was educated at the McGill University (B.A. in History in 1952) and 
> at Oxford (B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 1955, M.A. in 1960, 
> Ph.D in 1961).
> 
> 
> He was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford 
> University and was for a long time Professor of Political Science and 
> Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he is now 
> professor emeritus. Taylor is now Board of Trustees Professor of Law and 
> Philosophy at Northwestern University.
> 
> 
> In 1995 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.
> 
> 
> Noted books
> 
> 
> * The Explanation of Behavior (1964)
> * Hegel (1975)
> * Hegel and Modern Society (1979)
> * Philosophical Papers (2 volumes, 1985)
> * Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity (1989)
> * The Malaise of Modernity (1991; the published version of Taylor's 
> Massey Lectures, reprinted in the U.S. as The Ethics of Authenticity (1992)
> * Philosophical Arguments (1995)
> * Modern Social Imaginaries (2004)
> 
> 
> Peter Leuprecht
> http://www.pdhre.org/people/leuprechtbio.html
> http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sirp/com/04-202.htm [Français]
> http://www.law.mcgill.ca/faculty/bio_display-en.htm?bio_id=49&state=Print_List
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Professor Leuprecht was Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1999 to 2003. He 
> teaches theories of justice and conducts research in the field of 
> international law and human rights. In August of 2000, he was appointed UN 
> Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia. Author 
> of numerous publications, Dean Leuprecht has taught at the Universities of 
> Strasbourg and Nancy (France), at the European Academy of Law in Florence 
> (Italy) and at the Département des sciences juridiques de l'Université du 
> Québec à Montréal. Professor Leuprecht served as Director of Human Rights at 
> the Council of Europe, and was elected Deputy Secretary General in 1993. He 
> left his post before the end of his term because of his disagreement with 
> the dilution of Council of Europe standards. Awarded the Prix du civisme 
> européen in 1991, he was a member of a committee of four Sages asked to 
> prepare a human rights agenda for the European Union for the year 2000.
> 
> 
> Peter Leuprecht a enseigné aux Universités de Strasbourg et de Nancy ainsi 
> qu'à l'Académie de droit européen de Florence. Professeur invité au 
> Département des sciences juridiques de l'UQAM et professeur à la Faculté de 
> droit de l'Université McGill dont il a été le doyen de 1999 à 2003, monsieur 
> Leuprecht possède des qualifications et une expérience exceptionnelles dans 
> les domaines du droit international et des droits de la personne. Dès 1961, 
> le jeune diplômé de l'Université d'Innsbruck (Autriche) amorce une brillante 
> carrière au Conseil de l'Europe. Il y restera jusqu'en 1997 après avoir été, 
> entre autres, secrétaire du Comité des ministres, directeur des Droits de 
> l'Homme et Secrétaire général adjoint (poste électif). Conseiller au 
> Ministère canadien de la Justice de 1997 à 1999, membre du Comité des « 
> Sages » qui a préparé le programme d'action sur les droits de la personne 
> pour l'Union européenne de l'an 2000, monsieur Leuprecht est aussi 
> représentant spécial du Secrétaire général des Nations Unies pour les droits 
> de la personne au Cambodge depuis août 2000.
> 
> 
> Peter Leuprecht est lauréat du Prix du civisme européen (1991) et du Human 
> Rights Award of the Lord Reading Law Society (2001).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bob Carty
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bob Carty est un producteur et documentariste pour les émissions The Sunday 
> Edition et The Current sur CBC Radio One. Avant de s’engager dans le 
> journalisme, Bob Carty a oeuvré dans les domaines des droits de la personne 
> et du développement international, plus particulièrement en Amérique 
> centrale. En 1981, il joint les rangs de la CBC à titre de chef du service 
> étranger et, plus tard, comme producteur senior du programme radio Sunday 
> Morning. Il a également travaillé pour les programmes radio de la CBC As it 
> Happens, Commentary et Morningside. À la fin des années 1980, et pendant 
> cinq ans, il couvre la situation des droits humains, les conflits militaires 
> ainsi que les questions de développement et d’environnement en Amérique 
> centrale pour la CBC, la National Public Radio, le Monitor Radio et le Globe 
> and Mail. Il participe également à des projets spéciaux de journalisme d’enquête 
> avec CBC Radio News et CBC Television.
> 
> 
> Les documentaires radio de Bob Carty ont reçu de nombreux prix dont le 
> prestigieux Peabody Award et le Gabriel Award. Parmi les autres prix, 
> mentionnons le New York International Radio Festival Gold Award and Grand 
> Award, le prix de l’Association canadienne des journalistes pour son travail 
> de journalisme d’enquête, le prix de l’Association canadienne des rédacteurs 
> scientifiques et le prix d’Amnistie internationale du Canada pour ses 
> informations sur les droits de la personne. L’Organisation des Nations Unies 
> lui a de plus exprimé une reconnaissance spéciale pour son programme radio 
> prônant les valeurs du système onusien. En 2004, il s’est vu remettre le 
> prix Online Journalism Award décerné par le Online News Association pour son 
> reportage sur les réactions indésirables aux médicaments. Il a été également 
> mis en nomination au Canada pour le prix Michener.
> Bob Carty est membre du International Consortium of Investigative 
> Journalists (ICIJ). Ardent défenseur de la liberté d’expression, il est 
> membre du conseil d’administration de Journalistes canadiens pour la liberté 
> d’expression (JCLE) et l’un des fondateurs de Échange international de la 
> liberté d’expression (IFEX)
> 
> 
> [english]
> 
> 
> Bob Carty is a documentary producer for The Sunday Edition and The Current 
> on CBC Radio One. Prior to entering journalism Mr. Carty worked in the field 
> of human rights and international development focussing on Latin America. In 
> 1981 he joined the CBC becoming foreign editor and later senior producer for 
> the radio programme Sunday Morning. He also worked for shorter periods for 
> the CBC Radio programmes As It Happens, Commentary and as senior producer of 
> Morningside. In the late 1980s, he spent five years in Central America 
> covering military conflicts, human rights, development and ecological issues 
> throughout Latin America for the CBC, National Public Radio, Monitor Radio 
> and the Globe and Mail. Returning to Canada in 1993, Carty resumed full-time 
> documentary work for Sunday Morning and later for the new CBC current 
> affairs programme This Morning (now The Sunday Edition and The Current 
> respectively). He also participates in special investigative projects with 
> CBC Radio News and CBC Television.
> 
> 
> Bob Carty's radio documentaries have won numerous awards including a 
> prestigious Peabody Award and a Gabriel Award. Other prizes include the New 
> York International Radio Festival Gold Award and Grand Award, the Canadian 
> Association of Journalists Award for Investigative Journalism, the Canadian 
> Science Writers’ award, Amnesty International of Canada’s award for human 
> rights reporting, and a special United Nations recognition for programming 
> which reinforces the values of the U.N. system. Recent team reporting on 
> issues of adverse drug reactions won the Online Journalism Award (2004) 
> given by the Online News Association, and in Canada was also nominated for a 
> Michener Award.
> Mr. Carty is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative 
> Journalists (ICIJ). He is active in freedom of expression issues as a board 
> member of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and he is one of 
> the founders of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
> 
> 
> Jean-Louis Roy
> 
> 
> http://www.ichrdd.ca/francais/apropos/jeanLouisRoyBio.html
> 
> 
> Jean-Louis Roy was appointed President of Rights & Democracy (International 
> Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development) in June and took up his 
> post on August 19, 2002.
> 
> 
> A former Director of the Montreal daily Le Devoir, Mr. Roy was Secretary 
> General of the Agence de la Francophonie in Paris from 1990 to 1998. He was 
> responsible for promoting cooperation between the 49 member states of the 
> Francophonie and for the implementation of political, economic and social 
> programmes agreed upon at summit meetings of Heads of State and Governments.
> 
> 
> Since then Mr. Roy has served in an advisory capacity on related issues and 
> was a visiting professor at York University, in Ontario and at the 
> University of Moncton in New Brunswick. In 2001, he was appointed Chancellor 
> of the University of Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia.
> 
> 
> He holds a PhD in history from McGill University where he was Director of 
> the Centre for French Canadian Studies from 1971 to 1981. He was Director of 
> Le Devoir from 1981 to 1986 until he was named Québec Delegate General in 
> Paris and Delegate to Francophone Multilateral Affairs, a post he held until 
> 1990.
> President of the Ligue des droits et libertés du Québec (Quebec's Civil 
> Liberties' Union) from 1976 to 1978, he was a member of the Commission des 
> droits et libertés de la personne du Québec (Québec's Human Rights 
> Commission) and in 2000, was awarded the Prix Droits et Libertés (Human 
> Rights Prize) of the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de 
> la jeunesse du Québec (Québec Human Rights and Rights of Youth Commission).
> 
> 
> Mr. Roy has written several books including: A Guide to the European 
> Economic Community Charter; La Francophonie : Le Projet communautaire and 
> Une Nouvelle Afrique à l'aube du XX1e siècle. He has been awarded an 
> Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sainte Anne in 1985, and an 
> Honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Moncton in 1992
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jennifer Corriero
> http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/jenergy
> 
> 
> Jennifer Corriero is an innovator and leader, bringing tremendous insight 
> into understanding, reaching and motivating youth. Jennifer's experience 
> includes developing and driving youth programs related to technology, 
> collaboration and entrepreneurship. Jennifer has been selected by the World 
> Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (2005) and Global Leader for 
> Tomorrow (2002).
> 
> 
> In 1999, Jennifer co-founded TakingITGlobal, a non-profit social venture 
> which connects and supports over 75,000 members across 200 countries to 
> create positive change. TakingITGlobal.org is the world's premier global 
> online community for youth interested in making a difference, receiving more 
> than 1.4 million hits per day. TIG partners with five UN agencies, and is 
> supported by several corporations and philanthropic foundations.
> 
> 
> Jennifer is an Organizing Committee member for the Youth Employment Summit 
> Campaign, and was a member of the Canadian government delegation to the 
> World Summit on the Information Society. She has presented at events 
> including the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the 5th Stockholm 
> Challenge Global Forum in Sweden, the 2nd Global Knowledge Conference in 
> Malaysia, the Hague International Model United Nations, and the 2003 UNESCO 
> Youth Forum in Paris.
> 
> 
> In 2000, Jennifer spent six months in Redmond advising Microsoft on various 
> aspects of the next generation of workers (often referred to as the "Net 
> Generation"). Jennifer has also worked on various consulting projects for 
> companies such as MDS, Xerox, VanCity Credit Union, Bootlegger, J. Walter 
> Thompson, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, TD Bank, Royal Bank, Nike, 
> D-Code, Swatch, McDonalds and HP.
> 
> 
> Jennifer has a BA (Liberal Studies) with a focus on 'Business, 
> Communications, Technology and Culture' and is currently pursing her Masters 
> at York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies. Her area of 
> concentration is 'Youth Engagement and Capacity-Building Across Cultures'.
> 
> 
> Jennifer has served on the youth board of YouthFluence, was an International 
> Youth Ambassador for the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research, she 
> coordinated the Ontario Science Centre's Online Youth Advisory Team (for the 
> Innovation Project), and is a Youth Champion for Pollution Probe, an 
> environmental non-profit organization. She also serves as an advisor to the 
> Global Youth Action Network and Chat the Planet.
> 
> 
> In 1998, Jennifer was the project manager for a website funded by a Canadian 
> philanthropist dedicated to promoting Canadian women's history. She attended 
> the Shad Valley Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship summer program and 
> was a student at the Ontario Science Centre Science School where she studied 
> OAC Chemistry, Physics and Science & Society.
> 
> 
> Jennifer has served as a digital dignitary for 3Com's Planet Project, the 
> largest Internet-based poll of the human race, and was featured in articles 
> in Fast Company and TIME Magazine; was named as one of the "Shapers of Our 
> Future" in the area of technology and education by Converge Magazine; was 
> the 2001 Wired Woman Young Woman of the Year; has been recognized by the 
> National Congress of Italian Canadians as a Youth Achievement Award winner; 
> and was an award winner for McGill University's Management Achievement 
> Award.
> 
> 
> Jennifer is available for speaking engagements through The Lavin Agency.
> 
> 
> "I like keeping it real and staying true to what drives me. I love to create 
> beautiful things and share them with the world...whether it be ideas, 
> artwork, energy...the universe speaks through me, as it does you -- and when 
> this connection is made, the rewards are awe-inspiring!"
> 
> 
> "I think that with each moment we live, and each decision we make, we have 
> an impact on our own lives, and the lives of those around us. Most of the 
> time, we are unconscious of the impact that we have. I think that the first 
> way for 'others to make an impact' is to become more conscious and aware of 
> the decisions we make and the choices we have. Once this happens, we are 
> able to critically examine our own lives, and imagine new possibilities for 
> ourselves and the world. There are an infinite number of ways to affect 
> change and have an impact - the question we should ask ourselves should 
> center around what contribution we want to make, what kind of experiences we 
> want to have, and what kind of world we want to live in." 
> 
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