| Steve Cisler on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:42:14 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> Digital Opportunity Task Force report |
As the meetings and protests begin in Genoa for the G8 summit, I want to point out a report that is the result of several meetings over the last 12 months with G8 reps, NGOs, companies, some developing countries, and international organizations. What makes this a departure from previous reports is that non-profit organizations sat at the table in more than an advisory role. Of course, how those non-profits were chosen depended on each country. There is a member list and more background on the web site. The report is here: Final Report of the Digital Opportunity Task Force http://dotforce.org/reports/ The Genoa Social Forum program http://www.genoa-g8.org/ does not seem to address information technology in any of the planned sessions, but there is an implied criticism of this sort of effort as being a distraction from other issues like debt reduction and the environment. Given that the street actions will overshadow this and that the host country Prime Minister, Guiliano Amato, is not very enthusiastic about emphasizing technology, you may hear nothing more about it. It's worth a look. Steve Cisler 4415 Tilbury Drive San Jose, California 95130 408 379 9076 http://home.inreach.com/cisler "There are some places where the road keeps going." - Bud Parker # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]