Subject: 2nd announcement: Virtual Conference
Bram Dov Abramson (bram@tao.ca)
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 09:23:14 -0500
Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980508092314.007ea830@tao.ca> Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 09:23:14 -0500 To: roundtable@cni.org From: Bram Dov Abramson <bram@tao.ca> Subject: 2nd announcement: Virtual Conference
[Cette annonce est =E9galement disponible en francais.]
[Este mensaje existe tambien en espanol.]
Virtual Conference:
The Right to Communicate and the Communication of Rights
11 May - 26 June 1998
This is the second of two announcements for the Virtual Conference on
the Right to Communicate and the Communication of Rights, starting
Monday, 11 May. Registration for working group discussions has now
started.
Videazimut is an international alliance bringing together independent
video and television organizations and practitioners from Africa, Asia,
Europe, Latin America and North America around an agenda for the
democratization of communication -- an essential component of
sustainable development and democratic society. 1998 marks the 50th
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In its
declaration of principles, Videazimut aligns itself with a growing
consensus on the right to communicate as a fundamental human right.
We are therefore holding a Virtual Conference from 11 May to June 26
1998, aimed at generating and disseminating fresh thinking on
communication and human rights. Held in conjunction with the
International Development Research Centre (Canada) and the Canadian
International Development Agency, this Virtual Conference is our
contribution to the community of events marking the UDHR's 50th
anniversary. You are invited to take part in the Virtual Conference,
which is being hosted by PanAsia Networking...
<http://www.PanAsia.org.sg/conferen.htm>
.... and which can be accessed directly here:
<http://commposite.uqam.ca/videaz>.
Participants are asked to join one of five working groups over a 5-week
period. In each working group, 1-3 short papers will be circulated each
Tuesday morning, forming the basis for the following week's discussion.
Discussion will take place over e-mail -- filtered through moderators to
avoid information overload -- supplemented by a WWW resource with
conference papers and archives of the discussion.
Participants will receive *no more than* two e-mail digests daily. A
weekly summary will be posted each Monday afternoon, for those who have
not been able to keep up, before passing to the next topic.
The working groups:
(1) legal perspectives
(2) institutional perspectives
(3) gender perspectives
(4) cultures of globalization: perspectives
(5) civic education and public memory: perspectives.
A plenary session will take place during the final week.
The Virtual Conference's official languages are English, Spanish,
French. All participants may submit their comments in any of these
languages, with the help of a volunteer translation team. The Virtual
Conference is co-presented by COMMposite, the French-language student
journal of communication, with the collaboration of meep! media, a
Montreal-based internet and intranet consultancy. For more information
please e-mail Bram Dov Abramson, conference director, at <bram@tao.ca>.
-- Bram Dov Abramson Laboratoire de recherches sur les politiques de communication Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. Centreville, Montreal (Que) H3C 3J7 Canada e-mail <bram@tao.ca> | fax +1.514.343-2298*Virtual Conference on the Right to Communicate*: 1. Hosted by IDRC/PanAsia Networking: <http://www.PanAsia.org.sg/conferen.htm>. 2. Direct access: <http://commposite.uqam.ca/videaz/>
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