Fwd: [WSIS-CT] Civil Society Speakers

[Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>]

Here is the list of CS speakers chosen by the Secretary General of ITU. 
Meryem

Début du message réexpédié :

> De: Liliane Ursache <liliane.ursache@ties.itu.int>
> Date: Lun 1 déc 2003  15:15:28 Europe/Paris
> À: bureau@geneva2003.org, ct@wsis-cs.org
> Objet: [WSIS-CT] Civil Society Speakers
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Please be informed the Secretary General of ITU,  Mr. Utsumi has 
> decided to select the following speakers for the Summit.  Please note 
> that I am in the process of contacting the speakers for the General 
> Debate to ensure their availability.  Round Tables speakers will be 
> contacted  as of tomorrow.
>
> with best regards,
>
> Liliane
>
>
>
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> CIVIL SOCIETY PROPOSED SPEAKERS
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> Opening Session – Wednesday 10 Dec.
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> 1.	Ms. Kicki Nordstrom, President of World Blind Union and 
> International Disability Alliance (Norway)
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> General Debate – Wednesday 10 Dec. PM
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> 1.	Ms. Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki, Executive Director of African Women’s 
> Development and Communication Network, FEMNET (Kenya)
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> 2.	Mr. Shu-Khun Lin, Founder of the Molecular Diversity Preservation 
> International (China)
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> 3.	Mr. Oluwagbenga Sesan, Co-founder of Paradigm Initiative (Nigeria)
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> 4.	Mr. Sean O’Siochru, Leader, CRIS Campaign (Ireland)
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> General Debate – Thursday 11 Dec. AM
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> 5.	Mr. Philip Jennings, General Secretary of Union Network 
> International - UNI (UK)
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> 6.	Ms. Mercedes Bresso, President of World Federation of United Cities 
> - WACLAC (Italy)
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> General Debate – Thursday 11 Dec. PM
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> 7.	Ms. Jane Lubchenco, President of International Council of 
> Scientific Unions (USA)
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> 8.	Ms. Liz Burns, President of the International Association for 
> Volunteer Effort - IAVE (UK)
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> 9.	Ms. Sally Burch, President of Agencia Latinoamericana de 
> Información - ALAI (Ecuador)
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> 10.	Mr. Timothy Balding, Director General, World Association of 
> Newspapers (UK)
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> General Debate – Friday 12. Dec. AM
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> 11.	Mr. Kamel Ayadi, President, World Federation of Engineering 
> Organizations (Tunisia)
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> 12.	Ms. Mililani Trask, Pacific representative to the Permanent Forum 
> on Indigenous Issues (Hawaii)
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> 13.	Mr. Carlos Afonso, President, Rede de Informações para o Terceiro 
> Setor - RITS (Brasil)
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> 14.	Ms. Deborah Hurley, Director of the Harvard Information 
> Infrastructure Project at Harvard University (Canada)
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> Round Table 1 : Creating Digital Opportunities
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> 1.	Mr. Manuel Castells, Academic (Spain)  
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> (or Mr. Cheick Modibo Diarra, President, Africa Virtual University 
> (Mali))
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> 2.	Ms. Stéphanie Perrin, Electronic Privacy Information Centre – EPIC 
> (directed the development of Canada’s federal privacy law for the 
> private sector, PIPEDA) (Canada)
> 3.	Mr. Casio Tanigushi, Mayor of Curitiba (Brasil)
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> 4.	Mr. Richard M. Stallman, President of Free Software Foundation (USA)
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> 5.	Mr. Lishan Adam, Researcher, Center for Knowledge Dynamics and 
> Decision Making - Information Science, University of Stellenbosch 
> (Ethiopia)
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> Round Table 2 : Diversity in Cyberspace
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> 1.	Mr. Lawrence Lessig, Academic, Standford University (USA)
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> 2.	Mr. Daniel Pimienta, Director FUNREDES (Dominican Republic)
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> 3.	Mr. Steve Buckley, World Association of Community Radio 
> Broadcasters (AMARC) (UK)         
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> or/and Mr. Aidan White, General Secretary of the International 
> Federation of Journalists (UK)
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> 4.	Ms. Susanna George, Executive Director ISIS (Philippines)
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> 5.	Ms. Saida Agrebi, President of ATM, Vice President of WFO (Tunisia)
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> STAND BY
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> 1.	Mr. Kumi Naidoo, CEO and Secretary General of CIVICUS (South Africa)
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> 2.	Ms. Dorothy Gordon, Director General of Ghana-India Kofi Annan 
> Centre of Excellence for Information and Communication Technology 
> (Ghana)
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> Round Table 3: ICT as a Tool to achieve the MDGs
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> 1.	Ms. Emilienne Lionelle, Leader of SAMNICK and member of Engineers 
> without Borders (Cameroon)
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> 2.	Ms. Leonel Fernandez Reyna, President, Global Foundation for 
> Democracy and Development - FUNGLODE (Dominican Republic)
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> 3.	Mr. Law Chi-Kwong, The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (China)
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> 4.	Mr. Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Professor, Aarhus University (Denmark)
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> 5.	Mr. Alain Rousset, President of the Aquitaine Region (France)
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> TO BE CONFIRMED - Round Table 4: Empowering All Citizens
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> 1.	Mr. Peter Leuprecht, Dean of Law McGill University (Canada)
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> 2.	Mr. Kumi Naidoo, CEO and Secretary General of CIVICUS (South Africa)
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> 3.	Ms. Dorothy Gordon, Director General of Ghana-India Kofi Annan 
> Centre of Excellence for Information and Communication Technology 
> (Ghana)
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> 4.	Mr. Nestor Busso, Presidente del Foro Argentino de Radios 
> Comunitarias - ALER (Argentina)
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> 5.	Mr. Mahfuz Anam, Editor "The Daily Star", former UNESCO 
> Communication Program officer (Bangladesh)
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> STAND BY
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> 1.	Mr. Simon Davies, Director General of Privacy International (UK)
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> 2.	Mr. William Drake, Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade 
> and Sustainable Development in Geneva, and member of Board of 
> Directors of CPSR (USA)
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> 3.	Mr. Habib Sy, Executive director of Aid Transparency founder, 
> Professor of
> Communications and taught in Several African and US universities 
> (Senegal)
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> 4.     Ms. Mary Chenery-Hesse, Vice-Chairman of the National 
> Development Planning Commission (Ghana)
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> 5.	Ms. Fatma Allo, Founder of Tanzania Media Women's Association 
> (TAMWA (Tanzania)
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> 6.	John Dada, President FANTSUAM Foundation (Nigeria)
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> 7.	Natasha Primo, Director, WomensNet (South Africa)
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