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

[jsarr at refer.sn]

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,
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> 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
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> Tatiana V. Ershova
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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
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>
> 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
>
>
>
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> 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
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>
>
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> 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 hav
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