[edu-eu] WSIS10 recommendations (was: Free software & education event next week in Paris)

[Guido Arnold]

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 02:10:38PM +0200, Ivaylo Ganchev wrote:
> 
> Finally the recommendations formulated by our work group were released and
> you can find it here :
> http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/wsis/WSIS_10_Event/wsis10_recommendations_en.pdf
 
Thanks! 

I finally found the time to read it. For those who don't have
the time to read the entire document, here are the passages I found
related to Free Software:

  Page 3:
  Universal human rights, as recognized in the international standards
  of the human rights edifice, should be at the core of the debate on
  Internet governance and regulation. The same rights that are applied
  in the offline world should also be applied online. Decisions should
  be based on democratic principles, including inclusiveness,
  transparency, openness, economic growth, equal participation and
  empowerment of all sectors of society.
  
  Page 6:
  Digital Literacy and Informatics: Develop a curriculum for teaching
  Computing including Digital Literacy and in particular Computer
  Science/ Informatics that will allow children in K12 education to have
  an access to knowledge that will make them creators of technology –
  not just its consumers.
  
  
  Session 18
  Adoption and teaching of Open/Libre technologies in Higher Education
  curricula and Professional recognition for FOSS engineers and
  practitioners (IFIP, 27 February)
  
  - UNESCO/WSIS should encourage changes to Computer Science/Software
    Engineering curricula to include both Open Source tools and Open
    Source Methodology to recognise the innovative and
    transformative power of these and their consequent impact on
    economies. Approaches to ACM and other CS curriculum should now be
    taking into account Free and Open Source software explicitly to
    ensure its inclusion.
  - UNESCO/WSIS should encourage universities and other educational
    institutions in the provision of knowledge and skills for industry,
    government and practitioners that will better their understanding
    of the innovative and transformative power of Free and Open Source
    software in the economy.
  - UNESCO/WSIS should take a leadership role in promoting education in
    the collaborative skills 7 required to excel in open source. Further
    they should seek the development of education techniques and
    resources that lead to such skills development as an adjunct to and
    context of Computer Science education.
  - UNESCO/WSIS should support the development of education modules
    about risk management in the selection of FOSS and proprietary
    software for IT projects.
  - UNESCO/WSIS should support the development of education modules
    about the benefits of Open Source adoption and the best practices in
    doing so.
  - UNESCO/WSIS should promote the development of arguments and tools
    helping business and governments better understand their quality
    requirements on the IT projects they use and develop.
  - UNESCO/WSIS should actively promote the development and application
    of rigorous auditing of IT projects by properly qualified IT Project
    Management Specialists to ensure standards of practice can emerge to
    guide future decision making and operation.
  - UNESCO/WSIS should take a leadership role in promoting the
    encouragement of granular certification carried out by communities'
    experts to facilitate external trust in both experts and
    communities.
  - National, regional or international certification must ensure that
    the benefits of certification recognise the high level of innovation
    that is provided by the application of good ICT practice.
  - UNESCO/WSIS should actively support those accreditation schemes
    which recognise those granular certification programs that build on
    innovation in the professional practice of ICT.
  
  
  Page 11
  Session 33: Avoiding e-waste: Sustainable life-cycle management of ICT
              equipment (UNESCO, 26 February)
  
  - Avoiding or minimizing e-waste as well as protecting workers health
    and the environment have to be considered by producers, service
    providers, users and regulatory authorities as essential parts of
    the ICT equipment life-cycle management.
  
  Page 13
  The open, end-to-end, interoperable and decentralized design of the
  Internet should be maintained as a key enabler for an inclusive and
  open knowledge and information society. By empowering users at the
  edges rather than the center of its architecture, the Internet
  embodies democratic values and fosters a wide range of Human Rights.

I learned not too long ago that the Free Software suffers even more
than other IT related fields on the WSIS should ensure women’s equal
and meaningful participation in the knowledge society


It is a little sad that Free Software is not mentioned at all in the
concluding Recommendations.

Greetings,

Guido

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