Hi everyone,
It seems like there's general consensus about recommending 'Gbenga Sesan
as a plenary speaker. I suggest we list him as our main recommendation,
along with the names of other people who received seconded nominations
for high-level panels and roundtables. Regarding Michael's suggestions,
I'd love to get Polly and Partha involved, but I'm not particularly
comfortable with submitting their names without their consent. I'm
cc'ing Partha to see if he would be willing to speak regarding
telecentres at WSIS. I don't have Polly's email, but think she'd be
great since she's African and a woman. If someone could contact her
asap, that would be great. I'll need to submit the list later tonight
because of time zone differences.
thanks
ac
Gurstein, Michael wrote:
A number of people from the Community Informatics Network which is a
close affiliate of the Telecentres Network will be attending WSIS/Tunis
and could most ably contribute both from the Telecentres (access)
perspective as well as from the Community Informatics (effective use)
perspectives including Polly Gaster from Mozambique, Partha Sarker from
Bangla Desh, John Fung from Hong Kong, and Hannah Beardon from a very
prominent NGO doing Telecentre/Community Informatics work in dozens of
LDC's.
I haven't discussed this with them directly, but I do know that they are
planning to attend.
MG
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Thanks, 'Gbenga. I'd certainly second your nomination. Gaspar Matyas
comes to mind as well - Matyas, have you confirmed your plans for Tunis
yet? Similarly, I would recommend searching for someone representing
Mission 2007 in India. Even though Professor MS Swaminathan isn't
formally a member of our caucus, he's certainly a luminary who can speak
quite eloquently on the role of knowledge centres in development.
I'm also quite happy to speak as well, but I'd prefer to have someone
from the South representing us in the plenary.
andy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all:
I will be in Tunis for the meeting, and I'm not sure if all of us know
about a
Telecentre Leaders Forum @ ICT4all in Kram, hosted by the GKP and
holding from
November 15 - 18. Please see
http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/newsmaster.cfm?&menuid=2&acti
on=view&retrieveid=187
for more details...
I would be glad to speak on behalf of the Telecentre Caucus -- so you
may consider this a self nomination.
Best regards,
Quoting Ashish Saboo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Andy
Thanks for updating us. Unfortunately the list is not very active
and
we are not sure who are attending the summit's Telecentre Caucus .
Can
you please list out the confirmed delegates & wonder are they on this
list ?
Many members like ours do not have resources to fund the visit but we
find the UN backed forum as our only hope to bring the voice of
Teelcentre movement on a wide platform. I am sure list members can
help set the agenda.
Sincerely
Ashish Saboo
President
Association of Public Internet Access Provider , India
Website: http://www.apiap.cybernook.net
ApiAp diary : http://apiap.blogspot.com
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http://internetcafenews.blogspot.com
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 Andy Carvin wrote :
This email was just sent around on the CS plenary list. All caucuses
are invited to recommend speakers for the summit, following the
guidelines below. Since only a minority of telecentres caucus
members
are in Geneva right now, it makes the most sense for us to discuss
this online.
Please take a look at the guidelines, then feel free to suggest any
names to the list for public discussion. Please note we must submit
names no later than noon geneva time on Wednesday, so that basically
means we must come up with recommendations by the end of the day on
Tuesday. -andy
Ashish Saboo
President
Association of Public Internet Access Provider (ApiAp)
The voice of independent Cyber cafe operators
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