[Lac] nominacion a portavoz ceremonia de apertura
Beatriz Busaniche
busaniche at caminandoutopias.org.ar
Wed Nov 5 22:31:56 GMT 2003
Hola Valeria y amig at s del caucus
Como verán en el mail adjunto, estoy a favor de esta nominación. Estuve
trabajando con Francis en una versión al español de la propuesta que llegará
en las próximas horas. Ya la tengo terminada pero quisiera que Francis la
envíe, asi´que llegará pronto.
Creo que los motivos argumentados son más que claros y la presencia de
Stallman, más allá de las simpatías o no que nos genere su figura, es por
mucho, una de las más representativas de las posiciones en esta lucha por el
control del conocimiento.
Saludos a tod at os
Bea
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De: lac-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:lac-admin at wsis-cs.org] En nombre de
Valeria Betancourt
Enviado el: miércoles, 05 de noviembre de 2003 19:29
Para: lac at wsis-cs.org
Asunto: [Lac] nominacion a portavoz ceremonia de apertura
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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