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MISTICA: CMSI: Paradojas sobre dominio publico...

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 14:43:51 AST

No puedo resistir hacerles testigo de este dialogo.

>Subject: World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, Switzerland, 10
>- 12 December 2003
>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:46:49 +0100
>From: "Donald King" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>
> Dear Mr Pimienta
> Please find attached media information regarding "WSIS
> 2003", the flagship publication for the World Summit on the Information
> Society Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005
> The WSIS Summit is the ideal platform for organisations
> concerned with ICT to dialogue in relation to presenting proposals for
> joint public/private sector initiatives on ICT and to address focused
> legal, policy and regulatory issues.
> Agenda Publishing would like to offer the FUNREDES the
> opportunity of placing either an advocacy article or promotional feature
> in the publication, of what will be one of the most important meetings
> regarding ICT development in the international calendar.
> Advocacy articles (Advocacy Briefs) will also be
> reproduced in an ring-bound Ministerial brief which will be sent to all
> the Ministers of the countries attending the meeting, some 14 days in
> advance of the Meeting itself.
> Not for profit organisations are given a 50% discount of
> the normal costs
> 1 x A4 page advocacy article (650 words) or promotional
> feature @ $4,975
> or
> 2 x A4 pages advocacy article (1300 words), or
> promotional feature @ $7,465
> Positions are limited and need to be allocated ASAP.
> Artwork / text is required November 2003.
> If you require further information, please do not hesitate to
> call or send an e-mail.
>
> Kind regards
> Donald King
> Project Director
> www.agendapublishing.com

Mi repuesta fue:

>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 203 13:47:33 -0400
>To: "Donald King" <[email protected]>
>From: Daniel Pimienta <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, Switzerland,
>10 - 12 December 2003
>
>Mr. King,
>
>Are you telling me an NGO would have to pay some 5,000 US$ to insert
>a one page paper in your publication?
>I doubt very much you will find any NGO working in the South accepting that.
>
>As for FUNREDES, we are fervent spporters of initiative such as
>Public Library of Science http://www.plos.org/ or Soros Open Access
>http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ and we are not at all interested
>in publishing in other place than the public domain and, anyway,
>that would be wrong way to advocate for the public domain in the WSIS!
>
>Cordialmente,
>
>PS: Our public policy oriented papers in thematics of the WSIS are
>normally published
>in web sites such as http://funredes.org/mistica which are in the public
>domain
>or in the Civil Society platform (http://www.geneva2003.org).

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