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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>And as was argued extensively in WSIS I and (finally) acknowledged in the WSIS +10 non-paper, “access” is not sufficient without the means to effectively use that access. Without the supports, training, facilities, designs, technologies etc. to actually make use of “access” to accomplish personal and collective goals, arguing for “access” as is being done here is (surprise, surprise) simply a free promo for carriers, ISP’s and those gaining their income from passive data content provision.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> bestbits-request@lists.bestbits.net [mailto:bestbits-request@lists.bestbits.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>parminder<br><b>Sent:</b> September 27, 2015 7:15 AM<br><b>To:</b> bestbits@lists.bestbits.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [bestbits] new initiative from Facebook to coonect the world<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>He and his friends are wrong-- it is not access that is essential for people, it is such access that is <br><br>(1) unmediated </span>by economic and political interests, and <br>(2)which is not employed to siphon off micro information which would the key economic resources and level of various kinds of control in the coming times, <br><br>and instead puts people and communities in charge of their own lives, which is essential.... The Facebook model fully militates against such empowering access. This model is no more essential to people's connectivity than Monsanto is essential for people's agri- livelihood, and Shell is for people's energy needs. <br><br> Someone should have pointed this out when he spoke. <br><br>... parminder <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sunday 27 September 2015 07:23 PM, Carolina Rossini wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>====forward message ====<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><br>— I also wanted to make sure that you saw the news about the Connectivity Declaration, which Mark Zuckerberg announced at the UN today. You can learn more here: <a href="http://connecttheworld.one.org/" target="_blank">http://connecttheworld.one.org/</a>. There will also be a Zuckerberg-Bono op-ed in the Times tomorrow on connectivity (pasted below). -Best, Andy<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div style='margin-right:7.5pt;float:left'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:10.95pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#141823'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/zuck?fref=photo" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#141823'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/zuck" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>Mark Zuckerberg</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div style='margin-right:3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:10.95pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#9197A3'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10102391360451281&set=a.612287952871.2204760.4&type=3&permPage=1" target="_blank"><span style='color:#9197A3;text-decoration:none'>5 hrs</span></a> · <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='margin-bottom:3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:10.95pt;vertical-align:top'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#9197A3'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#141823'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#141823'>Today I’m speaking at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/unitednations" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>United Nations</span></a> in New York where I’m going to call for universal internet access to be made a global priority.<br><br>I’m also kicking off a global call to action in partnership with the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ONE" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>ONE</span></a> campaign supported by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/action2015" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>Action/2015</span></a>, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/gatesfoundation" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</span></a>, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MoIbrahimFoundation" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>Mo Ibrahim Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/savethechildren" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>Save the Children</span></a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TED" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>TED</span></a>, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/unitednationsfoundation" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>United Nations Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ushahidi/108316392532530" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>Ushahidi</span></a>, Bono, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RichardBranson" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>Richard Branson</span></a>,<a href="https://www.facebook.com/AriannaHuffington" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>Arianna Huffington</span></a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shakira" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>Shakira</span></a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>George Takei</span></a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/charlizetheron" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>Charlize Theron</span></a>, Jimmy Wales and many others. <br><br>We have a simple message. Internet access is essential for achieving humanity’s Global Goals.<br><br>By giving people access to the tools, knowledge and opportunities of the internet, we can give a voice to the voiceless and power to the powerless. We also know that the internet is a vital enabler of jobs, growth and opportunity. And research tells us that for every 10 people connected to the internet, about 1 is lifted out of poverty. <br><br>If we connect the more than 4 billion people not yet online, we have a historic opportunity to lift the entire world in the coming decades. Those without internet access cannot share their voices online. But you can. Share your support at <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?d=AQESN91kD2jYIE842bPdTxRox-JCu80-7ogOvo2o3zmCzfJOo1ZStPkmHz4&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.one.org%2Fconnecttheworld&h=5AQEY3jgc&enc=AZPZr0MugmaYrU2LRESBpBe6kSaeY_LgtwjgEhV0FAoM2Lgy_XJUMqvnKdjEZmBxySKLG1nxyEsWnH9gt_-wKFrxOev7CXcyQkVMM6GVt2YHco5rp0UyZYHREWVWDTpGciQ&s=1" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>www.one.org/connecttheworld</span></a> <br><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/connecttheworld" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>#connecttheworld</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/globalgoals" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998;text-decoration:none'>#globalgoals</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:10.95pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#141823'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#141823'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:10.95pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#141823;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><img border=0 width=960 height=960 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D0F90F.329B7960" alt="Image removed by sender."></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#141823'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-bottom:15.0pt'><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:2rem;line-height:2.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>To Unite the Earth, Connect It<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E2E2E2 1.0pt;padding:2.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:33.75pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;float:left'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>By BONO and MARK ZUCKERBERG</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>SEPT. 26, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div style='margin-bottom:33.75pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Photo</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-bottom:5.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender."></span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Bono, left, and Mark Zuckerberg.</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#999999;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Credit</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#999999'>Kay Nietfeld/European Pressphoto Agency, left; Peter DaSilva for The New York Times</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-bottom:11.25pt;float:left'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/to-unite-the-earth-connect-it.html?_r=0#story-continues-1" target="_blank"><span style='color:#326891;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'>Continue reading the main story</span></a><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Share This Page</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>SEVENTY years ago, the United Nations was formed as the expression of a simple choice: cooperation instead of war. Humanity would stand as one against conflict, poverty and disease. All the world’s voices would be heard.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>At least, that was the plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>We’ve come a long way. We’ve halted and reversed the spread of killer diseases, extended life expectancy and raised incomes. We’ve even walked ourselves back from the edge of some global conflicts and catastrophes. But progress has not been evenly distributed. Too many people have been left outside of a mostly urban, mostly Northern success story.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Seeing that, world leaders put forth a new set of global goals in New York last week. If we want to build a world where not just some but all get to live in security and prosperity, there’s a lot still to do, as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development signed off on by United Nations member states shows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>It lists 17 goals and 169 targets, and one of these, 9(c), is a target that we believe is crucial to accelerate realization of all the others: a commitment to provide Internet connectivity for all by 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Today over half the people on this planet don’t have access. That is not good for anyone — not for the disempowered and disconnected, and not for the other half, whose commerce and security depend on having stable societies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>An unprecedented array of technologists and activists — from Mo Ibrahim to Bill and Melinda Gates, action/2015, Ushahidi and Sahara Reporters have come together to support a global Connectivity Declaration, pledging their support for the new global goals and connecting the world to opportunity. This needs to become a global movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>In this century, global development and global connectivity are closely linked. If you want to help people feed, heal, educate and employ themselves around the world, we need to connect the world as well. The Internet should not belong to only three billion people, as it does today. It should be seen as a necessity for development, and a tool that makes larger things possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>In Ethiopia and Tanzania, for example, farmers connect to get better prices, track inventory and make mobile insurance payments in case of bad weather. In Nigeria, citizens use <a href="http://www.yourbudgit.com/about/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#326891'>BudgIT</span></a>, a mobile app, to assess whether governments keep their spending promises. The opportunity is especially great for women. Men have significantly more access to the web, but when women get connected, they use technology as a pathway to better education, health, economic status and security. In Guatemala, cellphones inform mothers how to have healthy pregnancies. In Kenya, women receive financial services via their cellphones thanks to the brilliant M-Pesa microfinance scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>In the last few weeks, we’ve watched desperate refugees seek shelter on the frontiers of Europe. Smartphones have made it possible for those left behind to communicate with loved ones across checkpoints and razor wire. The Internet connected our world in shared grief as a Syrian child’s death on a beach in Turkey came to symbolize every refugee. Social media carried the message and changed not just popular opinion but public policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>It’s one thing to say we should connect the world. The real trick is how.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>There’s no simple solution or silicon bullet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>In many places, increasing connectivity will have to start with extending access to energy. Nine out of 10 rural Africans don’t have electricity. Governments can make the difference. This is why we support initiatives like President Obama’s Power Africa plan and the bipartisan Electrify Africa Act in Congress, as well as the African Development Bank’s investments in renewable energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>Where governments lay the foundation, the private sector can build. Promising efforts are underway to bridge the digital divide. But we know the global community can, and must, do more — and urgently. The <a href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibility/intel-foundation.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:#326891'>Intel Foundation</span></a>’s work in STEM education, Microsoft’s use of technology to advance the Millennium Development Goals and Google’s Project Loon to connect remote locations illustrate how technology leaders are prioritizing this effort, as is Internet.org, Facebook’s contribution to meeting the challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>More technology companies and entrepreneurs must take more responsibility. Silicon Valley should look beyond itself and act more on issues like education, health care and the refugee crisis. We challenge the tech industry to do far more for those most marginalized, those trapped in poverty, and those beyond or on the edge of the network.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:101.25pt;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;max-width:540px'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333'>All the global goals must be scored — but the goal of connectivity for everyone everywhere will surely hurry this game-that’s-not-a-game to its successful conclusion. <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Hurry</span></em> being the operative word here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:0.875rem;line-height:1.125rem'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Bono is the lead singer of the band U2 and a founder of the advocacy group ONE and its division (RED). Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and chief executive of Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>———<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Andy O’Connell<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Global Policy Development<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Facebook<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Washington, DC<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>____________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <a href="http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits">http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>