[Lac] nominacion a portavoz ceremonia de apertura
Valeria Betancourt
valeriab at apc.org
Wed Nov 5 22:28:34 GMT 2003
Querid at s amig at s,
La discusión sobre la persona que intervenga a nombre de la sociedad
civil en la ceremonia de apertura de la cumbre ha iniciado.
Antes de entrar en detalles sobre ello, me gustaría recordarles que
solo UNA persona puede participar en la ceremonia de apertura, por
tanto el consenso que debe haber en relación a ello es esencial, como
entenderán. No estoy de acuerdo con el criterio sugerido por la
Secretaría de que debe tratarse solamente de una persona con un alto
cargo directivo o ejecutivo. Puede ser que yo no esté entediendo
bien qué es lo que la secretaría quiere decir con "top level
representative". No necesariamente vamos a sentirnos representados
por una persona que ostente esos cargos sino alguien que refleje
desde la base, la práctica y el pensamiento, nuestros principios,
valores y visiones más importantes.
La primera moción: que nuestro portavoz sea Richard Stallman.
Algunos argumentos para su nominación están expresados en detalle en
el mensaje de Francis Muguet que se encuentra al final de este
mensaje.
Desde APC, expresaremos nuestra posición ante la moción.
Sería muy bueno que discutamos dentro del caucus esta nominación, que
reflexionemos sobre ella y decidamos conjuntamente si la apoyamos o
no.
Muchos saludos,
Valeria
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From: "Beatriz Busaniche" <beatriz at maxmedia.com.ar>
To: "'Dr. Francis MUGUET'" <muguet at mdpi.org>,
<plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Copies to: <ct at wsis-cs.org>
Subject: RE: [WSIS-CT] Opening Ceremony Speaker PCT proposal
: Richard Stallman
Date sent: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:51:33 -0300
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Francis
I am completely agree with this proposal, did you ask Richard about
it?
Regards from Buenos Aires!
Lic. Beatriz Busaniche
busaniche at caminandoutopias.org.ar
Centro de Teletrabajo y Teleformación
www.caminandoutopias.org.ar
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De: ct-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:ct-admin at wsis-cs.org] En nombre de
Dr. Francis MUGUET Enviado el: miércoles, 05 de noviembre de 2003
14:36 Para: plenary at wsis-cs.org CC: ct at wsis-cs.org Asunto: [WSIS-CT]
Opening Ceremony Speaker PCT proposal : Richard Stallman
Hello everybody
Besides the selection rules that have been just proposed by the C&T
for
discussions and that of course we fully intend to abide,
it has been recognized that the discussion concerning
the Opening Ceremony speaker has already started and obviously
this choice requires a very broad consensus. Therefore the
PCT group is setting forward a proposition for discussions.
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Our propositions is based both
on the merits of the speaker
as well as the purpose and usefulness of his intervention.
Without Richard Stallman, the information society would probably be
the dominion of ruthless monopolies, leaving little practical
possibilities for any freedom at all. Without the Free Software
movement, without the GPL, there would have been probably no
GNU/Linux
operating systems that now running on the vast majority of Web
servers. Richard Stallman is well versed with all the technical,
legal, economical and philosophical aspects of the issues of the
Civil
Society.
It is proposed that the first part of his speech (about 2/3 ) should
convey the declarations that would have prepared by the various
thematics groups of the Civil Society as compiled by the C&T drafting
group.
In the last part, Richard Stallman should focus on the issue of Free
Software and Software patents. As all of you are aware, the fight
against software patents is a crucial issue, and a decisive battle is
now been fought in Europe that is going to have worldwide
consequences. It is proposed that in the name of the CS; Richard
Stallman would publicly challenge Mr. Frits Bolkestein, the European
Commissioner to accept the decision of the European parliament and
not
to try to remove the patent directive, as he threatened he would do,
from the authority of the European, parliament to put it under the
authority of governments as a technocratic re-negotiation of the
European Patent Convention, in order to that software patents be
approved despite the vote of the parliament.!
The exact text from Frits Bolkestein
http://europa.eu.int/comm/commissioners/bolkestein/index_en.htm
http://swpat.ffii.org/players/bolkestein/index.en.h is :
"Now if we fail in our efforts to achieve a harmonization of patent
law relating to computer-implemented inventions in the European
Union,
we may well be confronted with a renegotiation of the European Patent
Convention. And if I may be blunt, President, the process of
renegotiation of the European Patent Convention would not require any
contribution from this parliament. So the situation is clear: there
is
a single objective but a choice of means. Either we proceed using the
community method, or we take a back seat and watch while member
states
go via the route of an intergovernmental treaty.
Such a provocative undemocratic statement shall not
be tolerated by the CS. The message is that the Information Society
shall not be ruled by technocrats but with respect of the democratic
rights. This is a question of basic rights.
Therefore the purpose of the end of Richard Stallman intervention
should be dual : 1/ Help to remove the threat of software patent over
Europe and over the world. 2/ Reaffirm the rights of the people in
front of an arrogant technocracy at the service of special interests.
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Francis F. MUGUET Ph.D
muguet at mdpi.org muguet at ensta.fr
MDPI Foundation http://www.mdpi.net
World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS)
Civil Society Working Groups
Scientific Information : http://www.wsis-si.org chair
Patents & Copyrights : http://www.wsis-pct.org co-chair
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