[governance] Tunisia

[Qusai AlShatti]

Dear All and Especially our Tunisien Colleagues:
As the Great Tunisien Poet Abul Qasim AlShabi Said once: "If the
people one day chose life, destiny will comply".
اذا الشعب يوما أراد الحياة     فلا بد ان يستجيب القدر
We wish Tunis a new era of freedom, democracy and prosperity. It is a
new begining for all Tunisiens, full of hope, optimism and a better
future. It is astonishing to see how people (especially the youth)
can use the Internet and social networks to support each other, pursue
their freedom, organise themselves, seek a better life and stand for
their principles. Ironically, the people right now are using it to
assist the police and the army (the organizations that filtered it in
the past) to maintain law and order.

It is time for the rest in this world to know that blocking, filtering
and censoring the Internet will never work.

May Godbless Tunis and all Tunisiens.

Sincerely Yours

Qusai Al-Shatti

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Derrick L. Cogburn <dcogburn at syr.edu> wrote:
> Great note Anriette. I too have been thinking about WSIS Tunis as these
> events unfolded. I'd been to Tunisia several times before WSIS, but the
> contrasts in 2005 between the hopeful possibilities of the information
> society being discussed inside with what was happening outside in the city
> were indeed striking.
> I wish everyone in Tunisia the best in this new phase, which will certainly
> not be without its own challenges.
> Cheers,
> Derrick
>
> Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn
> Associate Professor
> American University
> Syracuse University
> Director: COTELCO Center
> http://cotelco.net
> Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 16, 2011, at 9:24 AM, "parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
>
> Congratulations to all Tunisians. One can imagine what a heady moment it
> must be for you all. Parminder
>
> Khaled KOUBAA wrote:
>
> Anriette,
> People here have been delivered from the dictatorship of Ben Ali.
> Everyone know become free to express himself and discuss what ever he wants.
> I personally was not able to write such email before 15/01/2011
> Thank you for all your support for Tunisia and hope that our friends from
> Arab World will take this huge opportunity to wake up.
> Khaled
>
> Le 16/01/2011 12:55, Anriette Esterhuysen a écrit :
>
> For those of us who were in Tunis in 2005... is it not extraordinary what is
> happening there at the moment?  It was amazing to see interviews with some
> of our Tunisian colleagues (who we were delicately trying to support while
> involved in the rather politically complex process of participating in a
> summit in Tunis while also supporting local human rights organisations) on
> Al Jazeera.
>
> It would be good to hear reactions from the Tunisian members of this list.
> Off list responses probably best as this is not quite on topic.
>
> Anriette
>
>
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