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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Greetings and thank you for weighing in on the
<EM>content</EM> side, if I understand it; else please forgive and illuminate
further. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>I would appreciate your view on the following -
that the more interesting the substance, the more will conceptual notice of need
for, and practical routes to, <EM>accessibility</EM> develop as in other
at-least-partially self-governing systems (a view). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>This observation is not to prejudice or detract
from issues of accessibility at all, and in fact in communication modalities and
formats for all including those with disabilities, emphatically - but just to
suggest that very interesting uses and materials have a way of propagating
interest and support, indeed sometimes from unanticipated sources.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Very bests wishes, and thank you for the
discussion, LDMF.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4><FONT size=3><FONT size=4>-----<BR>Linda D.
Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D..</FONT><BR></FONT><FONT size=1>Online communications
systems ARPANet forward.<BR>For Identification here: *Respectful Interfaces*
Programme / Communications<BR>Coordination Committee for the United
Nations. ACM ABA. International<BR>Disability Caucus for the
Disability Convention (toward U.N. Treaty).</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>From: "Gurstein, Michael" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:gurstein@ADM.NJIT.EDU"><FONT face=Arial
size=4>gurstein@ADM.NJIT.EDU</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=4>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>To: "McTim" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=4>dogwallah@gmail.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=4>>; "Carlos
Afonso" <</FONT><A href="mailto:ca@rits.org.br"><FONT face=Arial
size=4>ca@rits.org.br</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=4>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Cc: "WSIS Internet Governance Caucus" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org"><FONT face=Arial
size=4>governance@lists.cpsr.org</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial
size=4>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:55
AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Subject: Re: [governance] Fwd: The US factor in the
WSIS needshighlightingas much as the Tunisian factor</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=4></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=4>> Sorry McTim,<BR>> <BR>> I must disagree. The tragedy of
WSIS is not an absence of "concrete<BR>> action on bridging the digital
divide" but rather it is in not<BR>> developing concrete actions for the
"effective use" of ICTs in support<BR>> of the range of local processes for
development in such areas as health,<BR>> learning, local economic
development.<BR>> <BR>> The experience has been, in Africa as elsewhere,
that those local<BR>> implementations that focus on "access" (i.e. "bridging
the Digital<BR>> Divide") are almost universally (economically and
socially)<BR>> unsustainable in the longer term. <BR>> <BR>>
Those implementations that focus on real locally identified ICT enabled<BR>>
"uses" are much more likely to survive and be useful.<BR>> <BR>> As an
aside, I'm delighted to see that the language of ICT "use" (after<BR>> much
CS discussion pre-Geneva WSIS) is creeping into the recent official<BR>> WSIS
documents alongside if not yet replacing the rather less useful<BR>>
terminology of "the Digital Divide".<BR>> <BR>> Best,<BR>> <BR>>
Mike Gurstein<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -----Original Message-----<BR>> From:
</FONT><A href="mailto:governance-bounces@lists.cpsr.org"><FONT face=Arial
size=4>governance-bounces@lists.cpsr.org</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Arial
size=4>> [mailto:governance-bounces@lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of
McTim<BR>> Sent: November 2, 2005 5:27 PM<BR>> To: Carlos Afonso<BR>>
Cc: WSIS Internet Governance Caucus<BR>> Subject: Re: [governance] Fwd: The
US factor in the WSIS needs<BR>> highlightingas much as the Tunisian
factor<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On 11/2/05, Carlos Afonso <</FONT><A
href="mailto:ca@rits.org.br"><FONT face=Arial
size=4>ca@rits.org.br</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=4>> wrote:<BR>> >
Caro Vittorio,<BR>> ><BR>> > Could you be more specific? Sorry, but
CS needs to define itself, take<BR>> <BR>> > clearer positions, and the
big stakes are around oversight.<BR>> <BR>> I beg to differ Carlos. The
"big stakes" are about connecting the<BR>> unconnected.<BR>> <BR>> The
tragedy of the failure of WSIS is NOT the lack of IG reform, but the<BR>>
lack of concrete action on bridging the digital divide.<BR>> <BR>>
"Overall<BR>> > approach" means very little, and regarding the USA,
what should we do?<BR>> <BR>> > Just wait and see, in a Darwinian,
evolutionary approach?<BR>> <BR>> I'm afraid we don't have the leverage to
do much else.<BR>> <BR>> --<BR>> Cheers,<BR>> <BR>> McTim<BR>>
nic-hdl: TMCG<BR>> "In theory there is no
difference between theory and practice. In<BR>> practice there is" Yogi
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