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

[jsarr at refer.sn]

Chers Collègues,
Chers amis,

Je pense qu'il faut féliciter les membres du comité de sélection qui nous ont
proposé une liste d'orateurs d'une aussi grande qualité. Leur tâche n'était pas
facile à priori et, malgré toutes les difficultés signalées ça et là, ils ont
tenu compte de toutes les sensibilités. Malheureusement, toutes les
candidatures ne pouvaient être honorées. Il faut simplement retenir que ces
personnalités nominées, le sont en notre nom à tous. Je suis sincèrement
convaincu que la société civile, dans son ensemble, apportera à ceux qui seront
finalement nommés toute sa sympathie et son soutien.
Je demande par avance pardon à ceux qui se sont sentis frustrés mais je pense
que faire bloc derrière cette liste renforcera la société civile.
En vous souhaitant une bonne préparation du Sommet de Tunis, je vous souhaite à
tous une excellente semaine et vous transmets mes salutations les plus
cordiales.

Joseph SARR
Point focal de la Famille des Autorités locales






Selon "Tatiana V. Ershova" <ershova at iis.ru>:

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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
> URL: http://www.iis.ru
>
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> 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 <rguerra at lists.privaterra.org>
> Date: September 29, 2005 6:52:03 PM GMT+02:00
> To: wsis-cs-plenary Plenary <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
> 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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>
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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 Ã  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
>