07.12.2000 Bülten - netyorum.com / Sayı: 50
netyorum.com: ISOC "Internet
Society", UNESCO tarafından NGO "Non-Governmental Organization"
olarak tanındı. Bu tanım, internet dünyası için yeni oluşumlarında habercisi.
Aşağıda, 01.12.2000 tarihli basın bültenini bulabilirsiniz. Bu metin
İngilizce'dir. "Internet Society Istanbul Chapter" sayfalarına
http://www.isoctr.org adresinden erişebilirsiniz.
UNESCO GRANTS THE INTERNET SOCIETY NGO OPERATIONAL RELATIONS STATUS
"WASHINGTON, DC - (December, 01, 2000)
The Internet Society (ISOC) is pleased to announce that it has
been officially recognized as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in
operational relations with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
http://www.unesco.org/ .
"Entering into operational relations with UNESCO as an NGO helps
globalize and extend ISOC's principal objectives by means of a international
organization expressly set up to work towards the goal of achieving 'information
access for all' worldwide. We are very pleased and look forward to a long and
fruitful relationship with UNESCO," stated Brian Carpenter, Chairman of ISOC.
ISOC and its Internet Societal Task Force (ISTF)
http://www.istf.org/ will work closely with the UNESCO sector of
Information and Informatics, particularly with the organization's Information
Society and Communication Development Divisions.
The mission of the UNESCO sector of Information and Informatics
is to help UNESCO's Member States, particularly developing countries, and
disadvantaged communities worldwide to strengthen their capacities in
communication, information and informatics. Christine Maxwell, ISOC Trustee and
the Society's UNESCO Liaison Officer, said that "ISTF's mission is very closely
allied with that of UNESCO's divisions named here. We are already examining
together the key areas in which to focus our cooperative efforts."
With more than 60 Chapters throughout the world and another 60
currently in formation, ISOC has broad and deep access to Internet expertise on
both technical and societal issues in both developing and developed countries.
Partnership with UNESCO also serves to enhance the Internet
Society's collaboration with other NGOs active in a wide range of sectors. These
relationships will serve to increase awareness of the implications of
information technologies for societal change.
The first discussion paper prepared by ISOC for UNESCO, "Global
Trends that Will Impact Universal Access to Information Resources,"
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/unesco-paper.shtml was presented by Christine
Maxwell at UNESCO's INFO/ETHICS 2000 Conference - Right to Universal Access to
Information in the 21st Century
http://webworld.unesco.org/infoethics2000/index.html .
About the Internet Society The Internet Society
http://www.isoc.org/ is a non-profit, non-governmental, open membership
organization whose worldwide individual and organization members make up a
veritable "who's who" of the Internet industry. It provides leadership in
technical and operational standards, policy issues, and education. ISOC hosts
two annual Internet conferences
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ , trains people from all over the
world in networking technologies, conducts workshops for educators, and
publishes an award-winning magazine, OnTheInternet.
ISOC provides an international forum to address the most
important economic, political, social, ethical and legal initiatives influencing
the evolution of the Internet. This includes facilitating discussions on key
policy decisions such as taxation, copyright protection, privacy and
confidentiality, and initiatives towards self-governance of the Internet. ISOC
created the Internet Societal Task Force as an on-going forum for discussion,
debate, and development of position papers, white papers, and statements on
Internet related societal issues.
ISOC is the organizational home of the International Engineering
Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the Internet Engineering Steering
Group, and the Internet Research Task Force - the standards setting and research
arms of the Internet community. These organizations operate in an environment of
bottom-up consensus building made possible through the participation of
thousands of people from throughout the world.
Contact:
Christine Maxwell
Trustee, ISSG
Internet Society
Tel: +1 415 732 6170
Fax: +33 442668107
Email:
Maxwell@chiliad.co.uk
Don Heath
President and CEO
Internet Society
11150 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 100
Reston, VA 20190-5321
USA
Tel: +1 703 326 9880
Fax: +1 703 326 9881
Email:
heath@isoc.org
Lynn St. Amour
Executive Director and COO
Internet Society
4, rue des Falaises
CH-1205 Geneva
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 807 1444
Fax: +41 22 807 1445
Email:
st.amour@isoc.org
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