[ox-en] Fwd: [alien8 nadir.org: [Wsis] WSIS? We Seize!]
- From: Chris Croome <chris croome.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:09:21 +0100
Hi
I had a chat with Alan Toner yesterday about a possible
session we might be able to organise at WSIS where
Oekonoux and Free software ideas could be discussed -- the
words 'free software' in the following call were added at
my suggestion :-)
If anyone else is interested in the overall project then
there is an open list here where stuff is being organised:
http://lists.emdash.org/mailman/listinfo/prep-l
If people on the Oekonoux list are interested in doing
something at WSIS then we should discuss that here.
Chris
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From: alien8 <alien8 nadir.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:48:18 [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]
To: wsis nadir.org
List-Id: Info-Sharing and Coordination towards WSIS <wsis.lists.nadir.org>
Subject: [Wsis] WSIS? We Seize!
Hi all!
Members of the Geneva03 network met in Amsterdam at the
next5minutes tactical media festival and finalised a
general call for the series of counter-events around the
WSIS in December. See below for the call.
The focus of the call has changed slightly. It is now a
little bit more open than previous versions and focuses on
providing a general framework for other groups and
organisations to tap into and develop and present their
own projects, workshops, debates etc. Accordingly, the
work done by the organising network Geneva03 will focus on
providing basic logistics and infrastructure.
So, what we need to do now is to fill this fairly open
space with ideas and content. Groups and individuals who
want to present/develop/share their projects within this
framework should post their ideas on the
prep-l geneva03.org list or on the geneva03.org site
(which will hopefully feature a more straight-forward
open-publishing mechanism soon).
If people want to discuss their ideas on this list first,
then let's do that. As many of us have actually joined the
process after the first proposal for a Polymedia Lab had
been sent out, it may actually make sense to discuss
together what people want to see within the Lab and
whether/how we can make a coordinated effort to make the
lab happen.
Those who can't make it to Geneva in December could think
about how they can cooperate with the videostream project
- for example, organise screenings, produce own content,
show their own realities to the people in Geneva....
all best....
alien8
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WSIS? WE SEIZE!
Over the past months, activists and artists with different
backgrounds ranging from indymedia centers to the
noborder-networks, from the Free Software movement to
community media, from grassroots campaigns to hacker
collectives, have been discussing how to intervene in,
outside of, counter to, or as an alternative to the agenda
and organisation of the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) from December 10th to 12th in Geneva,
Switzerland.
WHAT IS WSIS?
WSIS is the first of two global summits dealing with
information and communications to be held by the United
Nations in Geneva. But the Summit is a smokescreen.
Although it talks about the digital divide, knowledge
dissemination, social interaction, political engagement,
media, education, and health, this language is used to
mystify the continuing use of information to protect and
advance the interests of global capital.
GENEVA_03
Geneva_03 is an open, loose and temporary association of
groups and individuals who are currently preparing a
series of events around the WSIS. Its common goal is to
create autonomous physical and network spaces for diverse
tactical, grassroots, activist and community media actions
and discussions in and around the WSIS meetings.
The issues at hand are many:
* Shaping and subverting the information technologies that
are now part of everyday life.
* Refusing both war and infowar.
* Countering the exploitation of immaterial work and
informalized labor.
* Resisting border management and digital rights
management.
* Defending our commons of ideas, including indigenous
knowledge, scientific data, free software, educational
systems and creative expression against the immense
pressures of privatization.
* Fighting for freedom of movement and freedom of
communication for all people, not just those who promote
and benefit from capital. The actions taking place at
WSIS? WE SEIZE! will seek to promote new ways of
communicating, what is communicated, by who and for
whom: to create new social formations that can address
the systems of domination that surround and inform our
world.
The struggle takes place from the local, regional and
global infrastructure (radio and TV spectrum, wireless
frequencies, cable rights of way, satellite orbital paths)
to the content that traverses those structures. These
networks should be for the benefit of and use by all the
world's people, organised to nurture and sustain social
cooperation.
WSIS? WE SEIZE!
The event will work around these areas:
* A strategic convention before the UN summit in Geneva,
comprising discussions, panels and presentations.
* A polymedia lab to share tools, skills, experiences, and
knowledge.
* A three day netcast which will follow the revolution of
the earth, streaming independent media activism and
community media projects from across the globe.
Geneva_03 is asking all interested people to get involved
with this initiative.
We are working to establish venues and schedules, as well
as options for accomodation and general survival in the
expensive city of Geneva.
There will be a further preparation meeting at the
European Social Forum in Paris in November.
For all people interested in the Geneva_03 project, this
is the open working list:
http://lists.emdash.org/mailman/listinfo/prep-l
and the website:
http://www.geneva03.org/
The Geneva_03 website is an open publishing forum where you can post your
proposals, ideas and contributions.
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