<div dir="ltr">Hi Ken,<br><br>One eventual way that Internet Rights(1) can help on least developed countries is by giving a bank account (2) to every person, where this bank account is connected or related to public and non public entities that help needed persons, to avoid duplication of efforts and maximize transparency and efficiency. <br>
<br>More here:<br><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070704102907/http://virtualrights.org/files/project_overview_latest.pdf">http://web.archive.org/web/20070704102907/http://virtualrights.org/files/project_overview_latest.pdf</a><br>
<br>(1) Having a bank account is considered a human right, in the virtual personality human right being studied t the Costa Rican Congress.<br><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070704102907/http://virtualrights.org/files/PROYECTO%20PERSONALIDAD%20VIRTUAL.doc">http://web.archive.org/web/20070704102907/http://virtualrights.org/files/PROYECTO%20PERSONALIDAD%20VIRTUAL.doc</a> (Spanish)<br>
<br>(2) A bank account is an expression of a virtual personality, even if it is not on the Internet.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Jaco<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Ken Lohento <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klohento@panos-ao.org">klohento@panos-ao.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB">For your information -
KL<br>
</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">---<br>
</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">The African civil
society for the information society (ACSIS) submitted a contribution to
IGF within the
framework of the preparation of the India meeting. </span><span lang="EN-GB">The contribution targets the draft
programme
in discussion but also general issues around IGF. Some of its comments
are directed to </span><span lang="EN-GB">stakeholders in
general (including Africans)<br>
</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">The title of the
contribution in English is: "For a real impact of IGF
in
least developed countries"<br>
<br>
It includes, among other, recommendations or concerns such as:<br>
<br>
- IGF's impact in Africa is hardly
seen so far</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">- the need
to decisively make efforts to make the IGF useful to developing
countries -
establishing permanent thematic working groups, provide supplementary
resources
to the secretariat, find more resources for participation, etc.<br>
- the review of IGF should give opportunity to analyze IGF impacts on
LDCs and
a multilingual approach should be followed for this review in order to
include
all stakeholders<br>
- the need to consolidate and give more visibility to 'best practice
fora' that
potentially favor the reinforcement of capacities of the global South.<br>
- a proposal to publish results of the IGF (in print and or electronic
documents
: manuel/collection of best practices, etc.) with particular attention
to
results useful to DCs<br>
- regarding theme 2 of the draft programme, the replacement of
« Promoting
cybersecurity, and Trust" by « Promoting cybersecurity, and Freedom of
expression on the Internet" to also give more visibility to human
rights
issues along with security issues<br>
- the need to have important information in UN languages on the website<br>
- a appeal should be made to LDCs's governments in the final documents
produced
at Hyderabad, for them to initiate/strengthen/support national IG(F)
processes
for the consolidation of IG for Development in those countries<br>
</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">- the need
to strengthen remote participation mechanisms </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">- the need to discuss
norms and standards in India<br>
</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">- an appeal
to African stakeholders to better contribute within the framework of
the IGF to
the promotion and consolidations of the IG(F) on the continent<br>
- a proposal of a meeting of CS on IGF prior to Egypt 2009 to discuss
IGF role
and impact.<br>
</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">etc.</span></p>
<br>
The document is in French.<br>
<br>
KL<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jaco Aizenman L.<br>My iname is =jaco (<a href="http://xri.net/=jaco">http://xri.net/=jaco</a>)<br>XDI Board member - <a href="http://www.xdi.org">www.xdi.org</a><br>
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