[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [WSIS-CT] final version, comments by today, Dec 7, 4pm
Viola Krebs
viola at icvolunteers.org
Mon Dec 8 06:37:10 GMT 2003
Dear Rik,
I know we are late, but I hope you can still consider the suggestions of
the WG on Volunteering and ICTs:
Poverty Eradication
Poverty Eradication must be a key priority on the WSIS agenda. Without
challenging existing inequalities, no sustainable development embracing the
new ICTs can be achieved. People living in extreme poverty must be enabled
to contribute their experiences and knowledge in a dialogue involving all
parties. Challenging poverty requires more than setting `development
agendas'. It requires a fundamental commitment to examine the current
frameworks, to improve local access to information that is of relevance for
the specific context, to improve training in ICT-related skills, and to
allocate significant financial and other resources. Because volunteers are
working at the grassroots level, they play an important role of social
inclusion.
Human Development Education and Training
Literacy, education and research are fundamental and interrelated
components of the information exchanges necessary to build knowledge
societies. Knowledge creation and acquisition should be nurtured as a
participatory and collective process; it should not be considered a one-way
flow or confined to one section of capacity-building. Education, in its
different components - formal, informal, lifelong - is fundamental to
building democratic societies both by creating a literate citizenry and a
skilled workforce. Only informed and educated citizens with access to
empowering education, a plurality of means of information, and the outputs
of research efforts can fully participate in and effectively contribute to
knowledge societies. Therefore it is also essential to recognize the right
to education as stated both in the Declaration on the Right to Development
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Capacity building initiatives designed to empower individuals and
communities in the information society must include, in addition to basic
literacy and ICT skills, media and information literacy (i.e. the ability
to find, appraise, use and create information and technology). It should be
designed to stimulate the desire for general learning and respond to
specific as well as special needs: those of young and elderly people, of
women, of people with impairments, of indigenous peoples, of migrant
communities, of refugees and returnees in post-conflict situations, in a
life-long perspective. Volunteers can help transmit knowledge and enhance
capacity, in particular of marginalized groups not reached by government
training institutions.
Kind regards,
Viola
At 11:58 07.12.03 +0100, Rik Panganiban wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Please find attached in Word and RTF formats the near final version fo the
>CS visionary statement, to be presented formally on Wednesday December
>10. We request your comments to this text to the drafting committee by
>TODAY, December 7, by 4pm, CET.
>
>Note that this text has already received wide input from caucuses and
>working groups, has undergone several stages of consultation, and must be
>ready to give to translators by Monday if we are to have it translated and
>available for wide endorsement on Wednesday. The drafting committee will
>do final edits this afternoon.
>
>In this light, we request that you comment only if there are SERIOUS
>omissions or corrections necessary, and to submit corrected text. It is
>much too late for completely new text or sections.
>
>There will be a final opportunity to discuss the text tomorrow (Monday,
>December 8) at a plenary meeting at the ITU, room C, at 9am.
>
>Thanks for your consideration and rapid action on this. Apologies for the
>extremely short time frame, and for only having the draft text available
>in English.
>
>Regards,
>
>Rik Panganiban
>WFM
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>Rik Panganiban email: rikp at bluewin.ch
>Special Adviser Mobile: +41 76 473 3274
>World Federalist Movement www.wfm.org
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