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size=4>Dear Kwasi<BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=4>Your comment and interest is very much appreciated. I hope someone
would like to lead such a group as I am unable to take on more right now.
However, I would very much like to be part of a group if someone is facilitating
the inputs. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=468104711-01082007><FONT face=Arial size=4>I
copy this to Hiroshi and hope he will join a group together with some of us to
look into recommendations of how we can support accessible ICT for all persons
without extra costs for some! </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=468104711-01082007><FONT face=Arial
size=4>warm regards</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=468104711-01082007><FONT face=Arial
size=4>Kicki </DIV></FONT></SPAN>
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<P align=left><SPAN lang=sv><FONT face=Arial size=4>Kicki
Nordström<BR>Synskadades Riksförbund (SRF)</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=sv><FONT
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<P><FONT size=4><FONT face=Arial>kicki.nordstrom@telia.com (private)</FONT>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Från:</B> kwasi boakye-akyeampong
[mailto:kboakye1@yahoo.co.uk] <BR><B>Skickat:</B> den 31 juli 2007
20:06<BR><B>Till:</B> governance@lists.cpsr.org; Kicki Nordström<BR><B>Ämne:</B>
Re: SV: [governance] Fundamentally broken design of society<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Norbert, Kikki,<BR><BR>I'd be part of any such initiative if you'd
take it up. It will be an opportunity for me to learn. Until Kikki threw the
disability angle to the digital divide debate, I, personally, had not given it
much consideration since it is something that is (if I'm not exagerating)
totally ignored in the developing world. I can at least say that for my country
Ghana.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Kwasi<BR><BR><B><I>Kicki Nordström
<kicki.nordstrom@srfriks.org></I></B> wrote:
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">Dear
Norbert.,<BR><BR>Maybe you are absolutely right, we the civil society have to
show the way forward! A group of people could be assigned to discuss this
matter, and there are, I think, a network of persons with disabilities, linked
to this list, (I hope) and we may have just to address this network to put a
group together?! Others may be interested as well and should be welcome.
<BR><BR>The group I am thinking of was created at the first WSIS and with its
side event, we have continued to work on the resolution we adopted, wishing a
ICT society open for ALL! The resolution was further developed in Tunis at the
second phase of WSIS and the disability Forum hold the second side event.
<BR><BR>I really hope something will happen now so as we can move this issue a
bit further! <BR><BR>Thanks Norbert., for your good initiative, do you mind to
take the lead?<BR>Yours<BR>Kicki <BR><BR>Kicki Nordström<BR>Synskadades
Riksförbund (SRF) <BR>World Blind Union (WBU)<BR>122 88
Enskede<BR>Sweden<BR>Tel: +46 (0)8 399 000<BR>Fax: +46 (0)8 725 99 20<BR>Cell:
+46 (0)70 766 18 19<BR>E-mail: kicki.nordstrom@srfriks.org
<BR><BR>kicki.nordstrom@telia.com (private) <BR><BR><BR>-----Ursprungligt
meddelande-----<BR>Från: Norbert Bollow [mailto:nb@bollow.ch] <BR>Skickat: den
31 juli 2007 18:23<BR>Till: governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>Ämne: [governance]
Fundamentally broken design of society<BR><BR>Dear Kicki,<BR>I very strongly
agree with your assertion that the real problem lies with a fundamentally
broken design of society!<BR><BR>(Note: The following sentence is perhaps a
bit complicated, but it can be safely ignored by all but the most pedantic of
readers.<BR>In the above statement, I understand "design of society" to mean
both the currently existing system by means of which society as a whole is
composed out of a very large number of sub-systems, as well the way in which
the decisions are made by means of which society as a whole is allowed to
evolve.)<BR><BR>Now the question arises, how can this fundamental brokenness
be fixed?<BR><BR>Certainly it is not possible for society as a whole to get
fixed all at once!<BR><BR>So the best that can be done, in my opinion, is to
start small, get a small but diverse group of people together (electronically,
by means of a mailing list) who agree on wanting to figure out how a subsystem
of society can be constructed which avoids the kind of fundamental "design of
society" flaws that result in the production of _disabling_ software. I'm sure
that when we figure out how to produce, within such a subsystem of society,
computer software which is not disabling but rather empowering for everyone,
that kind of software is going to be a commercial success also with the large
number of computer users who are not particularly interested in "design of
society" problems.<BR><BR>What do you
think?<BR><BR>Gruss,<BR>Norbert.<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Norbert Bollow
<NB@BOLLOW.CH>http://Norbert.ch<BR>Präsident der Swiss Internet User Group
SIUG http://SIUG.ch<BR>Die SIUG engagiert sich für den Schutz der Privatsphäre
und dafür, dass auch in Zukunft das Internet auf offenen Standards
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