To all nomanited,<br><br>Congratulations for your engagement.<br><br>Baudouin <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/4/15, CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam <<a href="mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org">wsis@ngocongo.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Find below the nominations of the UN SG concerning the renewed
membership of the GAID Strategy Council and Steering Committee.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">This renewed team will work in the perspective of the GAID Kuala
Lumpur meeting.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Civil Society is highlighted in bold in the Stereing Committee
list.</span></font></p>
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<p><b><u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Steering Committee (2008-2009)</span></font></u></b></p>
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<li style=""><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Mrs. Gloria Bonder, UNESCO Regional Chair on Women, Science and
Technology in Latin America, Argentina</span></font></b></li>
<li style=""><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Mrs. Jennifer Corriero, TakingITGlobal, Canada</span></font></b></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Ramón A.
Garza, Índigo Media, Mexico</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Mohsen A.
Khalil, World Bank</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Abdul W.
Khan, UNESCO</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Thierno
Ousmane Sy, Senegal</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Talal
Abu-Ghazaleh, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization, Egypt</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Craig
Barrett, Intel Corporation, United States - Chairman</span></font></li>
<li style=""><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Mrs. Renate Bloem, Conference of NGOs (CONGO)</span></font></b></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Fust
Walter, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Switzerland</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">H.E. Mr.
Maximus Ongkili, Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation,Malaysia</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Guy
Sebban, International Chamber of Commerce</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mr.
Carl-Henric Svanberg, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Sweden</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Hamadoun
Touré, International Telecommunications Union (ITU)</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Sha
Zukang / Mr. Sarbuland Khan (ex officio)</span></font></li>
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<p><b><u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Strategy Council (2008-2010)</span></font></u></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Private
Sector</span></font></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">International
Organizations</span></font></b></p>
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<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Afghanistan</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Armenia</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Azerbaijan</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bahamas</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Brazil</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Canada</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">China</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Croatia</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Cuba</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Dominican
Republic</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Egypt</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Finland</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">France</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Gambia</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Germany</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ghana </span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">India</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Italy </span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Jordan</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lithuania</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Madagascar</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mexico </span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Nigeria</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Pakistan</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Qatar</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Republic of
Korea</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Russia</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Rwanda</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">South
Africa</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Syria</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Tunisia</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Vietnam</span></font></li>
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<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Ibrahim
Adel, Zain, Kuwait</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Roger
Cochetti, Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), United
States</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Peter
Hellmonds, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Johan
F. Khairuddin, Astro Entertainment SDN BHD, Malaysia</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Jeffrey
M. Nick, EMC Corporation, United States</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Carlo
Ottaviani, STMicroelectronics Foundation, Switzerland</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mrs. Pamela
Passman, Microsoft, United States</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Tom
Phillips, GSM Association, United Kingdom</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Arthur
Reilly, Cisco Systems, United States</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Peter
R. Tinoco, Fundación Cisneros, Venezuela/United States</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Representative
from IBM</span></font></li>
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<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ms. Rinalia
Abdul Rahim, Global Knowledge Partnership, Malaysia</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Peter
Bruck, World Summit Award, Austria</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ms.
Clotilde Fonseca, Fundacion Omar Dengo, Costa Rica</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ms. Qiheng
Hu, Internet Society of China</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Hiroshi
Kawamura, The DAISY Consortium, Japan</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ms. Viola
Krebs, ICVolunteers, Switzerland</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mrs. Janet
Longmore, Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT), Canada</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ms. Dorothy
Okello, Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET), Uganda</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Bazlur
Rahman, Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC),
Bangladesh</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr.
Abdulaziz Sager, Gulf Research Center, Dubai U.A.E.</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Asad U.
Shah/Mr. Bradford Kane, International Commission on Workforce
Development, United States</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr.
Parminder Jeet Singh, IT for Change, India</span></font></li>
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<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">European
Commission</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO)</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">International
Labour Office (ILO)</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">International
Trade Centre</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">NABE
(International Observatory for Strategic Innovation)</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Organisation
internationale de la Francophonie</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Special
Unit for South-South Cooperation (SU/SSC) – UNDP</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">United
Nations: DESA, UNCTAD, DPI, OCHA, UNFIP, Regional Commissions</span></font></li>
<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">World
Health Organization</span></font></li>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">From the recommendation of the civil society recommendation process
for the Strategy Council Membership, it appears that half of our recommended candidates
have been taken in the UN SG recommendation (Ms. Viola Krebs and Mr. Parminder
Jeet Singh).</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Best, </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">-----Message d'origine-----<br>
De : Serge Kapto<br>
Envoyé : mardi, 15. avril 2008 15:14<br>
Objet : [gaid-discuss] Press release: UN appoints new members to the
globalalliance on ICT</span></font></p><div><span class="e" id="q_11953b42f6c70374_1">
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MEDIAINFO-DPI/NY/UNO </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">10/04/2008 02:19 PM</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">UN appoints new members to the global alliance on ICT</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">PRESS RELEASE</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> UN appoints new members to the global alliance on ICT</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">United Nations, 09 APRIL –The United Nations announced today the </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">appointment of new members to the Global Alliance for Information and </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Communications Technology and Development (GAID). </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The new members replace the members of the GAID Steering Committee and </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strategy Council hosted by the United Nations Department of Economic
and </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Social Affairs. The new members will carry on the strategic work
towards </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">achieving the Millennium Development Goals through ICT policies as laid
</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">out by the outgoing members.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The new members were selected through international consultation with
all </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">stakeholder groups to ensure a balance in gender, geographical and </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">institutional representation. The new membership was approved by Mr. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Zukang Sha, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs,
whose </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Department (UNDESA) oversees the operations of GAID. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The composition of the Steering Committee has been expanded from 12 to
15 </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and the Strategy Council from 60 to 65, with the new members poised to </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">reflect the growing interest and recognition of the role of ICT in the </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">development and the rising profile of GAID. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The function of the Steering Committee is to provide overall guidance
for </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GAID and to help define the medium and long-term priorities along with
the </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strategy Council, as well as to serve the Under-Secretary-General in an
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">advisory capacity. For its part, the Strategy Council plays an active
role </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">in disseminating the results of policy dialogue to a wider audience and
in </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">promoting and coordinating further partnerships with GAID.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Gloria Bonder (UNESCO Women, Science and Technology in Latin America), </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Jennifer Corriero (TakingITGlobal), Abdul W. Khan (UNESCO), Thierno </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ousmane Sy (Government of Senegal), Mohsen Khalil (World Bank), and
Ramón </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Garza (Índigo Media) are joining the committee this term. Dr. Craig </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Barrett, Chairman of the Board of Intel, will continue to serve as the </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">committee chair through to the Fall of 2009. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Strategy Council will be joined by Afghanistan, Armenia, Bahamas, </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Croatia, Gambia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Nigeria, Qatar, Rwanda, Syria,
and </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Vietnam as new government members; Ibrahim Adel (Zain), Roger Cochetti </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(CompTIA), Johan F. Khairuddin (Astro plc), Tom Phillips (GSM </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Association), Peter Tinoco (Cisneros), and Jeffrey M. Nick (EMC </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Corporation) are representing private sector entities; Clotide Fonseca </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Quesada (Omar Dengo Foundation), Qiheng Hu (Internet Society of China),
</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Viola Krebs (ICVolunteers), Doroth Okello (WOUGNET), Rinalia Abdul Rahim
</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(Global Knowledge Partnership), Abdulaziz Sager (Gulf Research Center),
</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Parminder Jeet Singh (IT for Change) are representing civil entities.
The </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">new members representing other international organizations are Patricia
</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Francis (International Trade Centre), Zhou Yiping (UNDP), and the
Network </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">of Local Authorities for the Information Society (IT4All Bilbao). </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The term of the current membership was extended to coordinate the GAID </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">leadership with the upcoming GAID Annual Meeting and Global Forum in
Kuala </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lumpur at the end of May. Over the past year-and-a-half, GAID has </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">benefited from the work of the outgoing members whose support and </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">engagement have been crucial to ensure GAID's success. They will
continue </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">to serve an important and active role as High-level Advisers of the </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Alliance and in promoting information technologies at the service of </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">development. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.un-gaid.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.un-gaid.org</a> or contact </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Enrica Murmura of UNDESA- GAID, Tel: +1 212 963 5913, e-mail: </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="mailto:murmura@un.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">murmura@un.org</a> </span></font></p>
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