>Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:24:50 -0400
>To: <icacaribbean@dgroups.org>
>From: Daniel Pimienta <pimienta@funredes.org>
>Subject: Funredes leaves Carisnet consortium
>Bcc: staff@funredes.org
>
>This note to inform CIVIC that http://funredes.org is no more
>partner in the http://carisnet.org consortium.
>
>The reasons for resigning are multiple and complex,
>a combination of:
>- Funredes is now a think-tank structure, not suited for this
>type of project, especially when schedules extends.
>- Funredes did not felt comfortable with the coordination
>of the Carisnet project.
>- Funredes did not felt satisfied with the Carisnet role
>in the second http://cardicis.org meeting where Funredes
>openly tried to target a key beneficiary role for CIVIC in
>the strategy for pushing ahead multilinguism and a more
>balanced Caribbean countries presence in ICT4D multistakeholder
>discussions.
>
>Funredes believes now that the path towards Caribbean integration
>in Information Societies needs to step through the strengthening
>of the non English speaking stakeholders of the ICT4D community.
>
>Daniel Pimienta
>http://funredes.org
>
>PS:
>The misuse of Funredes automatic translation services for documents
>such as the mandate is not making us happy neither.
>
>As the designer and the service provider of http://funredes.org/tradauto
>we can just repeat what we have said every time, since 1998, when we
>started to promote those services: "translation by program
>is a valuable aid to mutual comprehension for email exchanges but
>applying it to documents is a serious lack of respect to authors"
>(or in the current situation to Spanish or French speaking members asked
>for comments to the document and whose silence will be taken for approval).
>
>CIVIC was definitively born as an English-speaking, CARICOM countries
>centered, electronic conference on ICT4D and has maintained as such which
>is good for the region; unfortunately, it has not been able to change
>this specific reality after more than 3 years and Funredes does not
>perceive conditions for improvements at this time.

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