>From: "Pablo Accuosto" <accuosto@chasque.net>
>To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] ITeM Panel - 17 Nov - 10.45 - Mehdia, Kram
>Exhibition Hall - Tunis
>Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:54:20 -0300
>
>Instituto del Tercer Mundo / Third World Institute (ITeM) invites all WSIS
>stakeholders to the panel debate
>
>Framing WSIS in Global Governance Processes
>Linkages and Follow-up
>
>On November 17, 2005 from 10:45 to 12:45 at the Room Mehdia (Kram
>Exhibition Hall), during the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the
>Information Society (WSIS), ITeM will organise an event titled "Framing
>WSIS in global governance processes: Linkages and follow-up".
>
>The following panelists will take a close look at WSIS's outcomes from a
>Southern perspective, contextualizing them in the wider space of
>multilateral processes and global politics. Impacts of the WSIS process at
>global and regional level will be analysed by the panelists and debated
>among attendees.
>
>- Ziad Abdel-Samad
>(Executive Director - Arab NGO Network for Development, ANND, Lebanon)
>- Anriette Esterhuysen
>(Executive Director - Association for Progressive Communications, APC,
>South Africa)
>- Susana Finquelievich
>(President - LINKS, Civil Association for the Development of the
>Information Society;
>Director - Research Program for the Information Society, University of
>Buenos Aires, Argentina)
>- Anita Gurumurthy
>(Director, Advocacy - IT for Change, India)
>- Robin Mansell
>(President - International Association for Media and Communication
>Research, IAMCR;
>Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet, Department of Media and
>Communications, London School of Economics, United Kingdom)
>- Daniel Pimienta
>(President - Networks and Development Foundation, FUNREDES, Dominican
>Republic).
>
>The book "Information Society for the South: Vision or Hallucination",
>which brings together the series of briefing papers produced as part of
>ITeM's "WSIS Papers" project, will be launched at this event.
>
>This book contains contributions by Ana Laura Rivoir, Anita Gurumurthy &
>Parminder Jeet Singh, Anna Badimo, Carlos A. Afonso, Fernando Prada,
>Gustavo Gómez, James Love, Joëlle Carron, Leila Hassanin, Lishan Adam,
>Sangeeta Shashikant, Seán Ó Siochrú and Susana Finquelievich.
>The "WSIS Papers" project is possible thanks to the support of the
>International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC) / PanAmericas
>ITeM greatfully acknowledges the support provided by Bread for All / Pain
>pour le Prochain for the realisation of this panel.
>
>Contact for more information: Pablo Accuosto 'accuosto@item.org.uy'
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