[WSIS CS-Plenary] roundtable 3

[John Fung]

dear all,

i would like to report that Dr CK Law from the hk council of social service quoted the CS declaration in his speech yesterday at roundtable 3 - ICT as tool to achieve millenium development goals, when he made his intervention on intellectual property. he also gave his view on how internet charges were at an unreasonably high rate in developing countries, compared to developed countries.

prof Kleinwachter from Aarhus University took it further to explain that the CS declaration was intended to be an engaging, instead of antagonistic, document to the official declaration.

i trust all these would become annex to the formal proceedings of WSIS.

i am wondering how the CS declaration was mentioned in other roundtables.

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hello prof kleinwachter, i was sitting behind you but did not have a chance to say hello. greetings from a hong konger.

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john fung
HK Council of Social Service




---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Hans Klein <hans.klein at pubpolicy.gatech.edu>
Reply-To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Date:  Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:13:28 +0100

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>FYI, my comments were based on the previous episode with Somalia, as 
>reported by the BBC:
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>"US shuts down Somalia internet," BBC News, Nov. 23, 2001
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1672000/1672220.stm
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>Hans Klein
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>At 12:15 AM 12/12/2003 -0800, Amali De Silva wrote:
>>FYI
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>>CBC News Online <nwonline at toronto.cbc.ca> wrote:
>>Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:01:42 UT
>>From: CBC News Online
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>>RICH, POOR DISCUSS INTERNET AT WORLD SUMMIT
>>WebPosted Wed Dec 10 10:50:23 2003
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>>Geneva---Disputes between industrialized and developing countries over
>>control of the internet threaten to steal the spotlight at a UN summit
>>aimed at expanding access to information technology.
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>>Countries including China, South Africa, India and Brazil want control of
>>internet addresses and domain names transferred to an international
>>group, possibly under the United Nations.
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>>The U.S. government chose to give oversight of the internet's addressing
>>system to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
>>(ICANN), a body that answers to the U.S. Commerce Department.
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>>A UN official warned that countr ies may start implementing conflicting
>>internet policies or even set up their own internal networks if their
>>concerns aren't heard.
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>>Hans Klein, chairman of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility,
>>said countries are worried that a change in U.S. government policy could
>>affect another country's presence on the web.
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>>For instance, Washington could decide to remove the domain names of
>>countries thought to be sponsors of terrorism, essentially cutting them
>>off from the internet, Klein said.
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>>Senegal has called for a fund to finance technology projects in poorer
>>countries. The U.S., Japan and the European Union are skeptical of
>>such a fund, but delegates said countries that want to start such a
>>fund can do so.
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>>Some countries, especially China, are pushing for approval of non-English
>>domain names.
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>>The World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva continues Wednesday
>>and Thursday. The World Wide Web was invented 13 years ago at a nuclear
>>research lab in the Swiss city.
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>>Copyright (C) 2003 CBC. All rights reserved.
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>>Amali De Silva-Mitchell MSc.
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>>Tel: 1-604-736-9012 & Email: 
>><mailto:amalidesilva at yahoo.com>amalidesilva at yahoo.com
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