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WSIS - GENEVA
10-12 December 2003

CIVIL SOCIETY SPEAKERS LIST







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CIVIL SOCIETY PROPOSED SPEAKERS
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Opening Session – Wednesday 10 Dec.

 

  1. Ms. Kicki Nordstrom, President of World Blind Union and International Disability Alliance (Norway)
 

General Debate – Wednesday 10 Dec. PM

 

  1. Ms. Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki,  Executive Director of African Women’s Development and Communication Network, FEMNET (Kenya)

 

  1. Mr. Shu-Khun Lin, Founder of the Molecular Diversity Preservation International (China)

 

  1. Mr. Oluwagbenga Sesan, Co-founder of Paradigm Initiative (Nigeria)

 

  1. Mr. Sean O’Siochru, Leader, CRIS Campaign (Ireland)

 

General Debate – Thursday 11 Dec. AM

 

  1. Mr. Philip Jennings, General Secretary of Union Network International - UNI (UK)

 

  1. Ms. Mercedes Bresso, President of World Federation of United Cities - WACLAC (Italy)

 

General Debate – Thursday 11 Dec. PM

 

  1. Ms. Jane Lubchenco, President of International Council of Scientific Unions (USA)

 

  1. Ms. Liz Burns, President of the International Association for Volunteer Effort - IAVE (UK)

 

  1. Ms. Sally Burch, President of Agencia Latinoamericana de Información - ALAI (Ecuador)

 

  1. Mr. Timothy Balding, Director General, World Association of Newspapers (UK)

 

General Debate – Friday 12. Dec. AM

 

  1. Mr. Kamel Ayadi, President, World Federation of Engineering Organizations (Tunisia)

 

  1. Ms. Mililani Trask, Pacific representative to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (Hawaii)

 

  1. Mr. Carlos Afonso, President, Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor - RITS (Brasil)

 

  1. Ms. Deborah Hurley, Director of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard University  (Canada)

 

 

Round Table 1 : Creating Digital Opportunities

 

  1. Mr. Manuel Castells, Academic (Spain)  

(or Mr. Cheick Modibo Diarra, President, Africa Virtual University (Mali))

 

  1. Ms. Stéphanie Perrin, Electronic Privacy Information Centre – EPIC (directed the development of Canada’s federal privacy law for the private sector, PIPEDA) (Canada)
  2. Mr. Casio Tanigushi, Mayor of Curitiba (Brasil)

 

  1. Mr. Richard M. Stallman, President of Free Software Foundation (USA)

 

  1. Mr. Lishan Adam, Researcher, Center for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision Making - Information Science, University of Stellenbosch (Ethiopia)

 

Round Table 2 : Diversity in Cyberspace

 

  1. Mr. Lawrence Lessig, Academic, Standford University (USA)

 

  1. Mr. Daniel Pimienta, Director FUNREDES (Dominican Republic)

 

  1. Mr. Steve Buckley, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) (UK)         

or/and Mr. Aidan White, General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists  (UK)

 

  1. Ms. Susanna George, Executive Director ISIS (Philippines)

 

  1. Ms. Saida Agrebi, President of ATM, Vice President of WFO (Tunisia)

 

STAND BY

 

  1. Mr. Kumi Naidoo, CEO and Secretary General of CIVICUS (South Africa)

  1. Ms. Dorothy Gordon, Director General of Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence for Information and Communication Technology (Ghana)

 

Round Table 3: ICT as a Tool to achieve the MDGs

 

  1. Ms. Emilienne Lionelle, Leader of SAMNICK and member of Engineers without Borders (Cameroon)

 

  1. Ms. Leonel Fernandez Reyna, President, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development - FUNGLODE (Dominican Republic)

 

  1. Mr. Law Chi-Kwong, The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (China)

 

  1. Mr. Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Professor, Aarhus University (Denmark)

 

  1. Mr. Alain Rousset, President of the Aquitaine Region (France)

 

TO BE CONFIRMED - Round Table 4: Empowering All Citizens

 

  1. Mr. Peter Leuprecht,  Dean of Law McGill University (Canada)

 

  1. Mr. Kumi Naidoo, CEO and Secretary General of CIVICUS (South Africa)

 

  1. Ms. Dorothy Gordon, Director General of Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence for Information and Communication Technology (Ghana)

 

  1. Mr. Nestor Busso,  Presidente del Foro Argentino de Radios Comunitarias - ALER  (Argentina)

 

  1. Mr. Mahfuz Anam, Editor "The Daily Star", former UNESCO Communication Program officer (Bangladesh)


STAND BY

 

  1. Mr. Simon Davies, Director General of Privacy International (UK)

 

  1. Mr. William Drake, Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, and member of Board of Directors of CPSR (USA)

 

  1. Mr. Habib Sy, Executive director of Aid Transparency founder, Professor of
    Communications and taught in Several African and US universities (Senegal)

 

4.      Ms. Mary Chenery-Hesse, Vice-Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission  (Ghana)

 

  1. Ms. Fatma Allo, Founder of Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA (Tanzania)

 

  1. John Dada, President FANTSUAM Foundation (Nigeria)

 

  1. Natasha Primo, Director, WomensNet (South Africa)



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