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

[Ivaylo Ganchev]

Hello Guido,

thank you for this feed-back. Let's hope now that these recommendations
will be considered and won't be left as
just-another-set-of-recommendations.

If you have an idea about how to bring light to these propositions, let us
know.

Best regards,

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Ivaylo

> 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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