[governance] Fwd: The US factor in the WSIS needshighlightingas much as the Tunisian factor

[L.D.Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D..]

Greetings and thank you for weighing in on the content side, if I understand it; else please forgive and illuminate further.  

I would appreciate your view on the following - that the more interesting the substance, the more will conceptual notice of need for, and practical routes to, accessibility develop as in other at-least-partially self-governing systems (a view).  

This observation is not to prejudice or detract from issues of accessibility at all, and in fact in communication modalities and formats for all including those with disabilities, emphatically - but just to suggest that very interesting uses and materials have a way of propagating interest and support, indeed sometimes from unanticipated sources.

Very bests wishes, and thank you for the discussion, LDMF.

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Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D..
Online communications systems ARPANet forward.
For Identification here: *Respectful Interfaces* Programme / Communications
Coordination Committee for the United Nations.  ACM ABA.  International
Disability Caucus for the Disability Convention (toward U.N. Treaty).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gurstein, Michael" <gurstein at ADM.NJIT.EDU>
To: "McTim" <dogwallah at gmail.com>; "Carlos Afonso" <ca at rits.org.br>
Cc: "WSIS Internet Governance Caucus" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [governance] Fwd: The US factor in the WSIS needshighlightingas much as the Tunisian factor


> Sorry McTim,
> 
> I must disagree.  The tragedy of WSIS is not an absence of "concrete
> action on bridging the digital divide" but rather it is in not
> developing concrete actions for the "effective use" of ICTs in support
> of the range of local processes for development in such areas as health,
> learning, local economic development.
> 
> The experience has been, in Africa as elsewhere, that those local
> implementations that focus on "access" (i.e. "bridging the Digital
> Divide") are almost universally (economically and socially)
> unsustainable in the longer term.  
> 
> Those implementations that focus on real locally identified ICT enabled
> "uses" are much more likely to survive and be useful.
> 
> As an aside, I'm delighted to see that the language of ICT "use" (after
> much CS discussion pre-Geneva WSIS) is creeping into the recent official
> WSIS documents alongside if not yet replacing the rather less useful
> terminology of "the Digital Divide".
> 
> Best,
> 
> Mike Gurstein
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org
> [mailto:governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of McTim
> Sent: November 2, 2005 5:27 PM
> To: Carlos Afonso
> Cc: WSIS Internet Governance Caucus
> Subject: Re: [governance] Fwd: The US factor in the WSIS needs
> highlightingas much as the Tunisian factor
> 
> 
> On 11/2/05, Carlos Afonso <ca at rits.org.br> wrote:
> > Caro Vittorio,
> >
> > Could you be more specific? Sorry, but CS needs to define itself, take
> 
> > clearer positions, and the big stakes are around oversight.
> 
> I beg to differ Carlos. The "big stakes" are about connecting the
> unconnected.
> 
> The tragedy of the failure of WSIS is NOT the lack of IG reform, but the
> lack of concrete action on bridging the digital divide.
> 
>  "Overall
> > approach" means very little, and regarding the USA, what should we do?
> 
> > Just wait and see, in a Darwinian, evolutionary approach?
> 
> I'm afraid we don't have the leverage to do much else.
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
> nic-hdl:      TMCG
> "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In
> practice there is" Yogi Berra
> 
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