Intl symposium on information society and human dignity

[Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>]

Hi all,

This is to inform you that an International Symposium on Information 
Society and Human Dignity will be organized in Geneva on November 3-4. 
As far as I know, the Symposium is not open to the public. However, 
some members from the HR caucus will be participating to its work.
Web site is at: http://www.pdhre.org/wsis

The Symposium is convened by Prof. Peter Leuprecht, from McGill 
University, in its capacity of member of the Presidium of PHDRE (The 
People Movement for Human Rights Education), an NGO which played a 
fundamental role in initiating the UN People Decade for Human Rights 
Education, of which Adama Samassékou is also a member of the Presidium.

As put in the invitation letter, "The objective of the symposium is to 
examine the opportunities and threats which the development of ICTs 
brings with it for human dignity and human rights and to assert that 
the information and communication society the building of which the 
WSIS should foster must be firmly based on, and must contribute to the 
development of, human dignity and human rights – all human rights, 
civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. In this 
perspective, the symposium will address in particular issues such as 
the digital divide and its human rights implications and the role of 
ICTs in human rights education. [...] The symposium is to produce a 
statement on the information society and human dignity which will be 
presented to the WSIS."

Meryem