Tentative schedule of Antti in WSIS 15th-18th November 2005
November 15,
09:00-13:00: Second Global Forum on Disability. Room Amilcar, Kram PalExpo, Tunis
November 16,
10.00-11.00: Digi-Arts (UNESCO). Room Zaghouan
14.30-18.00: ICT and people with disabilities (UNESCO). The workshop will look at policies that promote accessibility and inclusion in the digital world, especially in developing countries, and given the participatory and inclusive goals of knowledge societies, at how access to cyberspace for people with disabilities can be enhanced
19.30 Embassy of Finland, Tunis
November 17,
14.15-18.00: Education and ICTs (UNESCO)
17.00-19.00: the ECOSOC NGO Roundtable/workshops. Room La Goulette
November 18,
09:00-13:00: Second Global Forum on Disability; International Disability Alliance (IDA) panel discussion on equal partnership in ICT development. Room Amilcar, Kram PalExpo
14.30-16.00 Multilingualism in Cyberspace (UNESCO)
November 19,
Open
posted by AR at 5:12 pm
7 Comments:
Antti ja Markku,
Kiitos blogista!
Yrittäkää ehtiä käydä katsomassa MIT Media Labin 100 dollarin lappärin prototyypin julkaisu. Kts:
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
Tämä on Nicholas Negroponte uusin yritys imuroida labralleen rahoitusta kehitysmaista.
- Teemu
Have a nice trip!
Hei Antti ja Markku,
Digi-Arts -ohjelmaa vetävät UNESCO:laiset -Therese, Doyun ja Jaco - ovat minun hyviä tuttuja. Olemme tehneet Digi-Arts -ohjelman kanssa aika paljon yhteistyötä viimeisen kolmen vuoden aikana. Parhaillaankin kirjoitan heille opettajan opasta ja lisäksi koordinoimme "Art, Design and Technology Master Classes in the Arab States" - koulutusohjelmaa, kts.
http://moodle.uiah.fi/unesco/
Jos tunnistat em. Digi-Arts ihmisiä niin sanokaa terveisiä. - Teemu
Hello Antti!
I do hope that you will have a good conference in Tunis.
Today I did read in the Dutch newspapers that the personal advisor of Kofi Annan, professor and chair C. Hamelink, has stopped working for him as he can not agree that this conference takes place in Tunis. Mr. Hamelink is from the Netherlands and specialised in communication and human rights. He states that Tunesia abuses the human rights over and over again and that the conference should therefore not take place in Tunis.
Has this been communicated to you or others on the conference, and what is the opinion about this?
Greetings,
Corrie
Hei Antti,
I have not been myself to Tunisia but have heard it is a beautiful country.
It is true that there seems to be problems with human rights and freedom of speech. I just read this article on BBC about Tunisian bloggers' hungerstrike to protest the Tunisian political and legal systems.
It is important though to also remember the positive achievements done in Tunisia regarding womens' rights: it is the only Arab country that permits civil marriage.
If I remember correctly, they also have judicial divorce in Tunisia, so in that sense it gives more rights to women in marriage.
Joanna
dear corrie and teemu,
my name is umayya abu-hanna and i work as the cultural diversity coordinator at the finnish national gallery. i have been dealing with the issues of human rights, minorities and inclusion for a long time now. i am originally a palestinian from israel and the situation of human rights all over the world is something i follow.
if we want to be "clean" we cannto ex. meet or visit the usa. 1) it's history and it's nowaday power is built on 400years of slavery and discrimination. and that situation has not been dealt with even today. 2) it is a country tha still uses and puts in action the death penalty. 3) its not only abuses human rights and breaks its own laws in it's territory, but it kidnaps people and abuses them in other countries abroad.
we can either totally boycot countries that break human rights, or we could work with them - or with some people inside - to change the situation.
tunis is comparatively a country that respects manny human rights. the situation of women is better off than in many other palces. tunis also has a set of laws that is detailed and has a freedom of speach and a working democracy. i am NOT defending the abuse of human rights NOR the countries that do that. i am NOT apologizing for any wrong tunis or any other country for that fact- do. tunis does not respect all human rights. that is fair enough to say.
i have seen wonderful work done in afghanistan, in somalia and in other places were if you simply talk about discirmination and minorities- you already are taking the first step towards an iclusive and fair society.
coming from israel- it saddens me to see the hypocracy that we live in. human rights become an issue only in some palces and only some times. the times we are living tunis is one of the much "cleaner" states, even in western standard today.
that is sad to say.
the work you are doing in at the WFD is so beautiful, courageous and sends a very strong messege. just do it.
power to you all and the people of tunis.
umayya
Dear Umayya and Joanna,
Thank you both for your comments. I think it is good to discuss this and see the different perspectives. I did read the article on censor on weblogs and I think that if this conference had not been in Tunis, then this would not have gotten in the media. So that's the good thing.
The comment of Umayya on being clean, thus not visit USA really shook up my mind, I have never seen it like this. So thank you for that! Of course, the Netherlands are not clean either, being the inventors of slavery, and having had colonies that made them rich. My husband's family is from Indonesia and have experienced this oppression themself. So, we discussed this here at home too.
I agree that it is best to work with people in the different countries with systems of their own. Though I think it might not be always easy to respect other values, other concepts. But I think as long as we can discuss these topics openly, we can reach more than simply boycot.
Corrie
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