Re: [atlarge-discuss] [APCNews] Articles from World Summit on the Information Society PrepCom 2

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Judyth and all,

  Not allot new here regarding Larry Lessig.  As one that has had
some experience with Larry going back to 1995, Larry's positions
and very good ideas have been incorporated by in large to INEGroup
for some time now.  Cudo's to Larry!

espresso@e-scape.net wrote:

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> Can Open Source Technologies Transform African Information
> Infra-structures? A troupe of African techies tell it how it is
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> By Maud Hand for APC
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> "We belong to the new school. With an active mailing list of 200
> programmers all over Africa feeding in to our documents on a daily
> basis, we're really focused. In fact, we're so in harmony with the UN
> papers so far, that we reckon they're actually using our material to set
> the strategies for the final document." - Bildad Kagai, FOSSFA.
>
> The launch of Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa
> (FOSSFA) last Friday, 21st February, at Prepcom 2 has made its impact on
> the gathering of government delegates, Civil Society activists, UN
> Agencies and the Media assembled because ever since, 'Africa Open Source
> Task Force' has been the buzz word!
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> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=9965
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> Keeping it real at Prepcom 2: reports from the preparatory conference
> for the World Summit on the Information Society
>
> By Maud Hand for APC
>
> In my voluntary capacity as audio archivist for APC, I'd been assigned
> the task of recording the Morning Plenary as the core activists were
> otherwise engaged. After locating my spot alongside the other observers,
> I had resigned myself to the drone coming from the sea of suits and
> computer-toting delegates when APC's Karen Banks swept me off to
> 'something far more exciting' to coin her phrase.
>
> Lighting up the Conference Center dining room was a gathering of women
> from the Southern States of Africa. Their laughter and style was
> instantly welcoming not to mention the fact that they were willing to be
> interviewed. Leading this lively posse was Tracey Naughton, the director
> of M.I.S.A. (Media Institute of Southern Africa). Through her
> co-ordination, four women centrally involved in practical projects on
> the ground were making their presence felt at Prep Com 2.
>
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=9953
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> More poet than lawyer: An interview with Larry Lessig, the reluctant
> Internet rights activist
>
> Heather Ford, former APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor website manager,
> recently met Lawrence Lessig - professor, lawyer and author of the
> acclaimed "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace". She told APC about the
> experience.
>
> In the past two weeks, I have attended two very different conferences
> where Larry Lessig has spoken. One, as the key note speaker at an Oxford
> University conference entitled: 'Politics of Code: Shaping the Future of
> the Next Internet', the other, as one of the 'visionaries' to open the
> recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). What I saw was a
> man who is not only passionate about his quest for justice in the
> Internet, but who is also gifted with the unique ability to bridge the
> world of technology and politics. Because of this single quality, he may
> be one of civil society's greatest allies in our attempts to translate
> and explain the notion of the technological as political. Lessig uses
> the phrase 'code is law' to describe how every decision that we take in
> these formative years to develop the framework on which the Internet is
> built, will have a critical impact on the way that power is distributed
> in the Information Society of the future.
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