[WSIS CS-Plenary] Membership of the Global Alliance governing bodies rejects/excludes the Free and Open Source Software Movement from the overall process!

[Fouad Riaz Bajwa]

To all concerned global FOSS Bodies, ICT stakeholders & UN-GAID, 

 

The results of the selection of committees or stakeholders is not acceptable
by the (Civil Society) Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Movement. The
FOSS Movement has been deliberately sidelined again as was done during the
WSIS main activities. Once again under representation has been given to the
FOSS Movement and excluded from the overall ICT process. 

 

It can be concluded that there is some biasness in the selection of the
UN-GAID council and committees again. There is no representation from the
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Movement in the committees; no leaders
from either of the forefront organizations involved in the promotion of FOSS
are involved. Either the issue has been excluded on purpose or again this
proves the plight of the proprietary software forces on the FOSS movement
and biasness of a certain lobby in the UN system. 

 

This is our appeal to all concerned to include the FOSS Movement in the
UN-GAID or a proper justification be given to the FOSS Movement why it has
been excluded from such an important global ICT related inclusive process!
Furthermore, this is not exclusion of the FOSS Movement only; it is the
rejection of the basic right of all human beings to choose and access their
ICT software freedoms! Is the UN system really interested in depriving us of
our basic rights to promote ICT Software Freedom for Everyone!

 

Why is it that such initiatives related to ICT4D normally have a continuous
habit of excluding important actors and stakeholders from the overall
process! Such a process should also be rejected by the FOSS movement that
excludes respect for the open software related core of the overall process!

 

Voicing & Promoting ICT Software Freedom For Everyone - The Free and Open
Source Software Movement!



I will not participate in such a biased forum and furthermore Civil Society
FOSS movements should boycott such a biased meeting because we all know why
this happens! The hidden political force that we are well aware of, buys out
everyone in the process and right on time! 

 

Visit the website and see it with your own eyes at http://www.un-gaid.org
<http://www.un-gaid.org/> .  

 

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Fouad Riaz Bajwa
General Secretary - FOSS Advocate
FOSSFP: Free & Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan R Secretariat
Office of the General Secretary
Lahore-54700, Pakistan
Cell: 92-333-4661290
Tel: 92-42-5030039
E-Mail: bajwa at fossfp.org
URL: www.fossfp.org ; www.ubuntu-pk.org

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From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] On Behalf
Of CONGO - Philippe Dam
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 3:13 PM
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org; bureau at wsis-cs.org
Cc: 'CONGO - Philippe Dam'
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Membership of the Global Alliance governing
bodies

 

Dear all, 

 

The full lists of members of the Global Alliance governing bodies (Strategy
Council and Steering Committee) are now posted on line on the GAID website
(www.un-gaid.org <http://www.un-gaid.org/> ). Congratulations to the CS
members designated by the UN SG. See below.

 

Best, 

 

Ph

 

 

 

Strategy Council: http://www.un-gaid.org/council/council.html 

Kamel Ayadi, President, World Fed. of Engineering Associations (Tunisia) 

Rodrigo Baggio, Executive Director, Committee for Democracy in Information
Technology (Brazil) 

Peter Bruck, President, World Summit Award (Austria) 

Astrid Dufborg, Executive Director, GeSCI 

Hiroshi Kawamura, Daisy Consortium, (Japan) 

Janet Langmore, President, Digital Opportunity Trust (Canada) 

Tracey Naughton, Media Caucus (S. Africa/Australia) 

Bazlur Rahman, CEO, NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (Bangladesh) 

Lynn St. Amour, President/CEO, Internet Society 

Lynn M. Wanyeki, Executive Director, FEMNET (Kenya)

 

Steering Committee: http://www.un-gaid.org/steering/steering.html 

Titi Akinsanmi (Programme Manager, Global Teenager Project)

Renate Bloem (CONGO)

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

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that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
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