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I've seen several interesting information society articles
recently. Is this list an appropriate place to post interesting
news items about the future of the internet/web in general? If not,
where should those discussions take place?<br><br>
I’m planning to attend the Rio meeting and if you’d like, I have time and
energy for active involvement here on this list.<br><br>
I’m the ICT liaison (Technical Expert) for the International Disability
Alliance. I started email lists in the mid-90's to build community
among people with disability and live now near Silicon Valley.
Details of my current service are here:
<a href="http://peoplewho.org/sylvia/resume.htm" eudora="autourl">
<font color="#0000FF"><u>http://peoplewho.org/sylvia/resume.htm<br>
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In preparing for Athens there was conversation here on the list about
involving new people, how to better reach out. I made some notes
while I was there and have been thinking this over.<br><br>
I have some process suggestions.<br><br>
I understand how it happened, but it is very confusing to have several e
mail discussions at several hosts, and several web pages. I also
understand that this will probably continue. So I’d like to see in
place somewhere a master web page with links to all of this and
explanations of what is what. It’s fine if it’s here:
<a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF">
<u>http://www.igcaucus.org/</a></u></font> with adding some entry level
links and explanations. Or here:
<a href="http://www.net-gov.org/list.php" eudora="autourl">
http://www.net-gov.org/list.php</a> again with an orientation for
newcomers. How much of the original WSIS related structure is still
valid, the lists, focal points, ... ?<br><br>
The acronyms and agency interactions are confusing. A matrix of
which is what and a list of what the acronyms stand for would be helpful
for orienting new people.<br><br>
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<dd>For instance, I can no longer find the web page where suggestions for
Rio were solicited. I don’t even know what to search for, to whom I
was giving input, ... If someone has that link, please post it for
me.<br><br>
</dl>A project that would interest me and might be a helpful civil
society product would be to develop some generally accepted email posting
standards. Just as business letters have a format (opening,
closing, addresses, date, ...) and press releases have formats (one page
preferred, contact info, ... ), so successful emails are signed, brief,
have white space, selectively quote, don’t look like spam, ... .
<a href="http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html" eudora="autourl">
<font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html</a></u>
</font> was last updated 24 October, 1995. I think ‘netiquette’ ,
like ‘netizen’ , are not currently familiar terms; perhaps something
could be developed. I’m not suggesting a rigid standard but rather
some guidelines or even simply examples of good practices and some
suggestions. <br><br>
Sylvia<br><br>
Sylvia Caras<br>
<a href="http://www.peoplewho.org/" eudora="autourl">www.peoplewho.org<br>
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