Hi Doug, Thanks for the excellent suggestions. Perhaps we can integrate these ideas into our comments on the political chapeau, which I've just forwarded to the list. Since we don't have to piggyback our comments on the backs of the education taskforce, we can frame the comments from the telecentres perspective more directly, emphasizing ideas like ICTs as a catalyst for positive social change at the local level, the role of volunteers, and other ideas that have been shared by the group since last night.
thanks, ac ------------------------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ ------------------------------------------------- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] cc: bcc: Subject: [ciresearchers] RE: [Telecentres] requesting immediate feedback: telecentres/educationstatement [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Schuler) 02/22/2005 09:49 AM PST <font size=-1></font> Thanks for the opportunity to comment on this. I wanted to second everything that has been said so far but to suggest that we can go farther. My feeling is that local empowerment is extremely critical (and part of this involves access to ICT). Additionally, however, local communities must get involved in larger struggles, ones that go beyond their local region. This perspective acknowledges that governments (and businesses) are unlikely (and unable) to make the changes that will be necessary to develop a safer, sustainable, healthier and more just world and that civil society (of which local communities are one part) must be a strong leader in this process. I don't know how to integrate these sentiments into input for WSIS but I do hope that regardless of what happens with this process we don't forget that we're not promoting ICT so that local communities can JOIN the existing world; it's so local communities can CHANGE the existing world and make it better. I think this perspective is vital if we're going to be part of the solution(s). Thanks! -- Doug _______________________________________________ telecentres mailing list [email protected] http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/telecentres To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
