John, friends,
I have been tinkering with this as well - I take it you mean the draft
recommendation on Multilingualism and Universal Access in Cyberspace",
to give it its full name. My main addition (by e-mail rather than at the
consultation) was the concept of a right of access to information that
is essential to human development. "Essential information" as an access
right is something considerably larger than "fair use/dealing" and other
exceptions (and even they are under threat in an encrypted environment).
The URL for giving the background, timeline and earlier drafts (up to
Corr 2, dated February 2002) of this recommendation is
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mul_recom/
Best,
Chris
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-----Original Message-----
From: British Computer Society Developing Countries Specialist Group.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Lindsay
Sent: 24 June 2002 11:31
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Subject: UNESCO and access to cyberspace
>
> I represented the group at the national UNESCO commission meeting
> called to consider the draft resolution to the world congress in
> November on access to cyberspace ..
>
> this will in turn undoubtably form the basis of a position for the
> WSIS which I have kept the group informed of..
>
> but I added a paragraph on metadata which was accepted so we'll see
>
> I could give a longer report, and were this any other body, refer to a
> web page :) but external examiners call
>
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