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MISTICA: ONG rechazan Portal Desarrollo Banco Mundial

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 10:34:21 AST

>Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 17:06:49 -0600
>From: ssr <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [telecentros] Portal Desarrollo Banco Mundial
>
>Nota en ingles sobre la campa�a contra el Portal del Desarrollo del Banco
>Mundial....
>
> >>>> NEW BRIEFING <<<<<<
>A Tower of Babel on the internet? The World Bank's Development Gateway
>
>LONDON MAY 1, 2001, WORLD BANK INTERNET SCHEME CONTESTED
>As its Spring Meetings end in Washington, the World Bank is in the final
>stages of planning a major new web initiative. The Bank claims that the
site (the
>Development Gateway) will contain all points of view on over 130 development
>topics. The site aims to attract a wide audience of officials, NGOs,
>journalists and researchers in many countries, to become the "premier web
entry point on
>poverty and sustainable development".
>
>A number of civil society groups have been discussing the Development Gateway
>over the last year and have concluded that its approach is flawed and will do
>little or nothing to help people who currently lack the ability to get their
>voices heard on the internet. In recent weeks major NGO networks in South
>Africa and Latin America have taken formal positions not to join the Gateway.
>
>A new briefing from the Bretton Woods Project, a London-based NGO which
>has been following the Gateway for over a year, presents extracts from
current Gateway
>planning documents and the reasons why the Gateway is being contested. These
>include:
>1) the site's chosen topic sections are too rigid and do not represent
the way
>that many people in developing countries view development issues;
>2) it is impossible to choose editors who will be trusted by the wide
range of
>people the Gateway aims to serve;
>3) the claim that the Gateway will contain only "high quality" material is
>controversial, while quality remains undefined;
>4) the multi-million dollar site will compete unfairly with existing internet
>sites;
>5) the site's interactive features will help promote the opinions of
people in
>richer countries and office-based workers in developing countries;
>6) the Gateway's independent governance arrangements are too little, too late
>
>Many of these points have been raised with the Bank's Gateway team, which has
>proved unwilling to engage with questions about the fundamentals of their
>initiative. Unless they change their approach, civil society groups will have
>little option but to use the internet and e-mail to challenge the Gateway,
>while continuing to build up independent sites. The briefing ends with some
>suggestions and an appeal for people to help with this.
>
>NOTES
>A Tower of Babel on the Internet? can be viewed or downloaded at:
>www.brettonwoodsproject.org/topic/knowledgebank/index.html
>Or e-mail: [email protected] asking for a copy by e-mail attachment
>(specify format if you do not want it in Word 2000).
>Spanish version coming soon.
>
>Note to editors: the Bretton Woods Project is happy to provide articles or
>features on this issue.
>
>Note to web managers: please link to this briefing from your site.
>
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