[Telecentres] urgent: choosing speakers for the Tunis summit

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,

It seems like there's general consensus about recommending 'Gbenga Sesan 
as a plenary speaker. I suggest we list him as our main recommendation, 
along with the names of other people who received seconded nominations 
for high-level panels and roundtables. Regarding Michael's suggestions, 
I'd love to get Polly and Partha involved, but I'm not particularly 
comfortable with submitting their names without their consent. I'm 
cc'ing Partha to see if he would be willing to speak regarding 
telecentres at WSIS. I don't have Polly's email, but think she'd be 
great since she's African and a woman. If someone could contact her 
asap, that would be great. I'll need to submit the list later tonight 
because of time zone differences.

thanks

ac

Gurstein, Michael wrote:
> A number of people from the Community Informatics Network which is a
> close affiliate of the Telecentres Network will be attending WSIS/Tunis
> and could most ably contribute both from the Telecentres (access)
> perspective as well as from the Community Informatics (effective use)
> perspectives including Polly Gaster from Mozambique, Partha Sarker from
> Bangla Desh, John Fung from Hong Kong, and Hannah Beardon from a very
> prominent NGO doing Telecentre/Community Informatics work in dozens of
> LDC's.
> 
> I haven't discussed this with them directly, but I do know that they are
> planning to attend.
> 
> MG
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: telecentres-bounces at wsis-cs.org
> [mailto:telecentres-bounces at wsis-cs.org] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin
> Sent: September 27, 2005 1:47 PM
> To: me at gbengasesan.com
> Cc: telecentres at wsis-cs.org
> Subject: Re: [Telecentres] urgent: choosing speakers for the Tunis
> summit
> 
> 
> Thanks, 'Gbenga. I'd certainly second your nomination. Gaspar Matyas 
> comes to mind as well - Matyas, have you confirmed your plans for Tunis 
> yet? Similarly, I would recommend searching for someone representing 
> Mission 2007 in India. Even though Professor MS Swaminathan isn't 
> formally a member of our caucus, he's certainly a luminary who can speak
> 
> quite eloquently on the role of knowledge centres in development.
> 
> I'm also quite happy to speak as well, but I'd prefer to have someone 
> from the South representing us in the plenary.
> 
> andy
> 
> me at gbengasesan.com wrote:
> 
>>Hello all:
>>
>>I will be in Tunis for the meeting, and I'm not sure if all of us know
>>about a
>>Telecentre Leaders Forum @ ICT4all in Kram, hosted by the GKP and 
>>holding from
>>November 15 - 18. Please see
>>
> 
> http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/newsmaster.cfm?&menuid=2&acti
> on=view&retrieveid=187 
> 
>>for more details...
>>
>>I would be glad to speak on behalf of the Telecentre Caucus -- so you 
>>may consider this a self nomination.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>
>>Quoting Ashish Saboo <apiap at rediffmail.com>:
>>
>>
>>>Andy
>>> Thanks for updating us. Unfortunately the list is not very active 
>>>and
>>>we are not sure who are attending the summit's Telecentre Caucus .
> 
> Can 
> 
>>>you please list out the confirmed delegates & wonder are they on this
> 
> 
>>>list ?
>>>
>>>Many members like ours do not have resources to fund the visit but we
>>>find the UN backed forum as our only hope to bring the voice of 
>>>Teelcentre movement on a wide platform. I am sure list members can 
>>>help set the agenda.
>>>
>>>Sincerely
>>>
>>>Ashish Saboo
>>>President
>>>Association of Public Internet Access Provider , India
>>>Website: http://www.apiap.cybernook.net
>>>ApiAp diary :  http://apiap.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>News from the Internet Cafe world : 
>>>http://internetcafenews.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 Andy Carvin wrote :
>>>
>>>
>>>>This email was just sent around on the CS plenary list. All caucuses
>>>>are invited to recommend speakers for the summit, following the 
>>>>guidelines below. Since only a minority of telecentres caucus
> 
> members 
> 
>>>>are in Geneva right now, it makes the most sense for us to discuss 
>>>>this online.
>>>>
>>>>Please take a look at the guidelines, then feel free to suggest any
>>>>names to the list for public discussion. Please note we must submit 
>>>>names no later than noon geneva time on Wednesday, so that basically
> 
> 
>>>>means we must come up with recommendations by the end of the day on 
>>>>Tuesday. -andy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Ashish Saboo
>>>President
>>>Association of Public Internet Access Provider (ApiAp)
>>>The voice of independent Cyber cafe operators
>>>URL: http://www.apiap.cybernook.net
>>>Blog: http://apiap.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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> 

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