SCN: Re: Global CN 2001

[patrick]

Doug,

Thank you for sharing that. It's nice to know where SCN sits in
relationship other communities, online and elsewhere.

It certainly gives perspective.

Patrick

P.S. I ran into my daughter's teacher at REI today where my
daughter's class was climbing the rock there. I told the teacher that
I work with SCN and that I was browsing SCN's webpages and came
across the Seattle Sundial Trail
(http://www.sundials.co.uk/~seattle.htm) and I noticed that the page
did not have mention of a sundial on the side of the building of my
daughter's school. I emailed Woody, who runs the site, about the
sundial and he said, yes, he hadn't updated the site in a long time.
I offered to take a picture with my digital camera,but he said he had
some. Well, he had worked with my daughter's teacher for two years to
build the sundial. He told me to say hi to her and I did today.

Another person recently wanted to put the Companion Flag website on
SCN, host it here. I told my daughter about it as I had seen a
bumpersticker for the Companion Flag and she said that the person who
runs Companion Flag had come to her class and they made Companion
Flags.

Such a small world.
--- Doug Schuler <douglas at scn.org> wrote:
>  
> Here is a note that I received from Susana Finquelievich
> in Buenos Aires about an upcoming conference there in which
> I'll be speaking about SCN and other issues.  Susana was 
> in Seattle at DIAC-00 and is on the program committee for
> DIAC-02.  Although we should beware (IMO) of thinking that
> SCN is the *answer* I really don't want us to trivialize our
> efforts.  As you can see in her note below, Susana takes
> them very seriously.  Also, there is talk about trying to 
> get the UN interested in community networks on a more global
> basis.  (Maybe some SCNites can venture down to Buenos Aires
> this December.....??)
> 
> -- Doug
> 
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Susana Finquelievich wrote:
> 
> > Dear Friends:
> > 
> > In these days, I have received worried mails from many of you,
> asking
> > if, given the world crisis, and the economic Argentinean
> problems, the
> > II World Congress of Community Networks, global CN 2001, that
> will take
> > place in Buenos Aires, on December 5 to 7, will be effectively
> carried
> > out.
> > 
> > The answer is a resolute YES.
> > 
> > The Buenos Aires Organizing Group (GOBA), together with community
> > organizations in Argentina and abroad, considers that this is the
> moment
> > to strengthen community networks, capable to build global
> solidarities
> > and to stimulate local developments. It is more necessary than
> ever to
> > go on struggling for human rights, such as economic and social
> > inclusion, the abolition of the Digital Divide, the reinforcement
> of
> > identities and cultures, for privacy, and individual, as well as
> social,
> > rights; against North – South imbalances in access to Information
> > Society. It is also mandatory to debate the role of community
> > organizations and community informatics in the present world
> scenario.
> > 
> > For these reasons, we are advancing to the Congress, as you can
> see in
> > our website, http://www.globalcn2001.org.
> > 
> > Our strength, at international level, is the development and
> increasing
> > interaction of a number of community organizations in Europe,
> Latin
> > America, North America, Africa, Oceania, and Asia; at local
> level, it’s
> > our mixed organization partnership, conformed by the University
> of
> > Buenos Aires, the largest in the country, representing the
> academic
> > sector; the Federal Council of Investments, a strong government
> organism
> > that represents the Provinces, and CICOMRA, the Argentina Chamber
> of
> > Informatics and Telecommunications Enterprises, as representative
> of the
> > private sector. Local and international Community organizations
> support
> > us and participate actively in the Congress.
> > 
> > We expect to see you all in Buenos Aires.
> > 
> > Greetings to all,
> > 
> > Susana Finquelievich
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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