Hi David,
Actually, I was referring to Tai's role in the Samoan govt; your nomination certainly wouldn't be a problem. Would you like us to include you? I wish I could give you a sense of the time commitment, but I imagine it would be significant; but the reality is that there are several dozen people being nominated and only a handful of them will likely be picked. (Which means all of this could just be an academic exercise on our part.)
Please let me know asap - I have to submit the list in 30 minutes!
ac
David Leeming PFnet wrote:
Hi,
Actually I am not a government official, I am an independant consultant and UK citizen. Just happens I have been TA for PFnet since formulation and in the Sols since 1996. PFnet is a CSO (actually it is an activity of an umbrella CSO - RDVA). At the moment I don't even have a contract. Since June I have been waiting for a 2-year application of Pfnet to start funded by the EU, and am speaking on behalf of PFnet in a voluntary capacity. That makes it difficult for me to accept any new commitments, so really I hope Stuart would accept the nomination. But if you convince me it would not be too time consuming after Stuart's 90 minutes are up, get back to me.
David
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Hi Tai,
The only problem is that technically we can't nominate a government official for a civil society slot. :-( You would have to wear a civil society hat -- an affiliation with a NGO, etc.
ac
Fuatai Purcell wrote:
Got your point Andy. In that case then, If you don't hear from Stuart in the next 90 minutes
as
you stated, then I nominate David Leeming from the Solomon Islands. If David does not want to, then I will nominate myself on the basis that
I
will attend the WSIS prepCOM in February as head of delegation from
Samoa.
See how small our countries are in the Pacific region? Decisions are
easy to
make!!
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David, I will take your endorsement as seconding Stuart's nomination.
If I am not mistaken, isn't Stuart in Australia? Would it not be better to have either you or Tai represent small SIDS directly? I don't have an opinion on this; just curious.
So now we have four people, one of whom has acknowledged interest in being nominated. If we don't hear from the other three, we are left with two choices: going forward with Taran, or submitting the others as well and hoping they'll say yes after the fact.
At this point I think we should close the nominations, since we would really be pushing the ettiquette of the process if we submitted more than four names.
ac
David Leeming PFnet wrote:
I would like to echo Tai's comments. Small Islands Developing States
(SIDS)
suffer from enourmous challenges caused by small scale, lack of
opportunity
to aggregate demand, high costs, vulnerability to natural disasters,
ethnic
tension, lack of strategy and awareness at policy level etc etc.
However, if
done correctly, "telecentres" can bridge these constellations of
islolated
small communities in many ways. Also backing up Tai's comments further, sustainability through multi-sector partnerships is an essential
strategy,
that we have proven in the Solomons. We have self-sustaining
Internet-based
community communications facilities that are sustainable with a monthly income of not much more than it costs to buy a bubblejet ink cartridge
(@
AUD 2,000 per litre of ink!!!! - so we use dot matrix printers.....).
In
recent research, we showed that affordability was not a major factor affecting utilisation of PFnet. The poorest of the 5 communities
researched
showed the second most utilisation, and all five communities had an
average
income of around USD1 per day or less. Therefore we need the SIDS perspective recognised.
David Leeming Technical Advisor People First Network Solomon Islands
We do not have telecentres
in the Pacific yet, other than the PFNet in the Solomon Islands. It is
very
important that we include someone to represent the small island
developing
states. After all, telecentres will be one strong ICT initiative that
can
help bridge the digital divide in our countries that are made up of
hundreds
of smaller islands. I have no objection to the nominated people so
far.
But
it sounds to me that while they are experienced in telecentres etc.
they
are
all from the "highly populated" developing countries. The digital
divide
cannot be bridged if small island developing states continue to sit on
the
sidelines. There telecentre issues that are unique to small island developing states. Thanks
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