<div>Congratulations to the new Representives, and to Civil Spciety as well, for the welcomed CS representation at the table. .</div>
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<div>With best wishes, LDMF.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/16/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">jlfullsack</b> <<a href="mailto:jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr">jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Despite I'm not a fierce supporter of GAID, I warmly congratulate Viola and Parminder who -among others- will repesent the CS engaged in "bridging the communication gap" between rich nations and developing countries.<br>
Best<br>Jean-Louis Fullsack<br><br>----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Gurstein" <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<div><span class="e" id="q_11956370a250899a_1"><br><br><br>Of particular interest in this context is the appointment of Parminder to<br>the Strategy Council of the GAID (Congratulations Parminder!).<br><br>MG<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>
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alliance on ICT<br><br>MEDIAINFO-DPI/NY/UNO<br>10/04/2008 02:19 PM<br><br>To<br><br>cc<br><br>Subject<br>UN appoints new members to the global alliance on ICT<br><br>PRESS RELEASE<br><br> UN appoints new members to the global alliance on ICT<br>
<br>United Nations, 09 APRIL -The United Nations announced today the<br>appointment of new members to the Global Alliance for Information and<br>Communications Technology and Development (GAID).<br>The new members replace the members of the GAID Steering Committee and<br>
Strategy Council hosted by the United Nations Department of Economic and<br>Social Affairs. The new members will carry on the strategic work towards<br>achieving the Millennium Development Goals through ICT policies as laid<br>
out by the outgoing members.<br>The new members were selected through international consultation with all<br>stakeholder groups to ensure a balance in gender, geographical and<br>institutional representation. The new membership was approved by Mr.<br>
Zukang Sha, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, whose<br>Department (UNDESA) oversees the operations of GAID.<br>The composition of the Steering Committee has been expanded from 12 to 15<br>and the Strategy Council from 60 to 65, with the new members poised to<br>
reflect the growing interest and recognition of the role of ICT in the<br>development and the rising profile of GAID.<br>The function of the Steering Committee is to provide overall guidance for<br>GAID and to help define the medium and long-term priorities along with the<br>
Strategy Council, as well as to serve the Under-Secretary-General in an<br>advisory capacity. For its part, the Strategy Council plays an active role<br>in disseminating the results of policy dialogue to a wider audience and in<br>
promoting and coordinating further partnerships with GAID. Gloria Bonder<br>(UNESCO Women, Science and Technology in Latin America),<br>Jennifer Corriero (TakingITGlobal), Abdul W. Khan (UNESCO), Thierno<br>Ousmane Sy (Government of Senegal), Mohsen Khalil (World Bank), and Ramón<br>
Garza (Índigo Media) are joining the committee this term. Dr. Craig<br>Barrett, Chairman of the Board of Intel, will continue to serve as the<br>committee chair through to the Fall of 2009.<br>The Strategy Council will be joined by Afghanistan, Armenia, Bahamas,<br>
Croatia, Gambia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Nigeria, Qatar, Rwanda, Syria, and<br>Vietnam as new government members; Ibrahim Adel (Zain), Roger Cochetti<br>(CompTIA), Johan F. Khairuddin (Astro plc), Tom Phillips (GSM<br>Association), Peter Tinoco (Cisneros), and Jeffrey M. Nick (EMC<br>
Corporation) are representing private sector entities; Clotide Fonseca<br>Quesada (Omar Dengo Foundation), Qiheng Hu (Internet Society of China),<br>Viola Krebs (ICVolunteers), Doroth Okello (WOUGNET), Rinalia Abdul Rahim<br>
(Global Knowledge Partnership), Abdulaziz Sager (Gulf Research Center),<br>Parminder Jeet Singh (IT for Change) are representing civil entities. The<br>new members representing other international organizations are Patricia<br>
Francis (International Trade Centre), Zhou Yiping (UNDP), and the Network<br>of Local Authorities for the Information Society (IT4All Bilbao).<br>The term of the current membership was extended to coordinate the GAID<br>leadership with the upcoming GAID Annual Meeting and Global Forum in Kuala<br>
Lumpur at the end of May. Over the past year-and-a-half, GAID has<br>benefited from the work of the outgoing members whose support and<br>engagement have been crucial to ensure GAID's success. They will continue<br>to serve an important and active role as High-level Advisers of the<br>
Alliance and in promoting information technologies at the service of<br>development.<br>For more information, please visit <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.un-gaid.org/" target="_blank">http://www.un-gaid.org</a> or contact<br>
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