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Hans F Hoffmann/ CERN; Lishep BR; Feb 2004 1
World Summit of the Information Society
WSIS is the first Summit to address the challenges andopportunities presented by the Information Society.
Two Phases: Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005
The results of the Geneva Summit consists ofa declaration of principles and an action plan.
New kind of summitgovernments will work together with the private sector (industry) and civil society (us) to define actions and solutions
Hans F Hoffmann/ CERN; Lishep BR; Feb 2004 2
WSIS Topics
Good governancedialogue between citizens and political groups (e-democracy)support for schools and teachers (e-education)support for the medical system (e-health)
Cultural and linguistic diversitylocal contentopen and free system of informationnew media to supplement traditional media
Development i.e. Digital Dividefacilitating infrastructure for access to the network information for better conditions of trade and development overcoming poverty
Security of informationSolidarity Fund
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WSIS Results
Declaration of PrinciplesA. Our Common Vision of the Information Society We, the representatives of the peoples of the world, assembled in Geneva from 10-12 December 2003 for the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, declare our common desire and commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life, premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.B. An Information Society for All: Key PrinciplesC. Towards an Information Society for All Based on Shared Knowledge
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WSIS Results
Plan of Action:Vision and principles of the Declaration translated into concrete action lines
to advance the achievement of the internationally-agreed development goals, such as the Millennium Declaration, the Monterrey Consensus and the Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Implementation
The Information Society envisaged in the Declaration of Principles will be realized in cooperation and solidarity by governments and all other stakeholders Plan of Action is thus an evolving platform to promote the Information Society at the national, regional and international levels
Private Sector and Civil Society both seen as equally important for bridging the Digital Divide
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Role of Science in the Information Society
RSIS was a WSIS Summit Event held at CERN in Geneva, on 8-9 December 2003
To emphasise Role of Science in the Information Society and to express the voice of the scientific community to WSIS
Organised by UNESCO, CERN, International Council of Science Unions and Third World Academy of Science____________
A definition of the "information society": The term "IS" covers the acquisition, storage, processing, transmission, distribution and use of information and knowledge.
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Why RSIS: Goals and Challenges
Millennium GoalsTarget 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially in information and communications
Kofi Annan's Challenge to Scientists:Address the clear inequalities in scientific activities between rich and poor, developed and less developed, act to overcome the Digital Divide
Adamo Samassekou's request to WSIS and Scientists: Solidarity Global Cooperation North South, South South
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Why RSIS: Knowledge Society
Science is an acknowledged process to transform data to information to knowledge
Ordered into context, reduced to essentials and validated, curated Information becomes Knowledge
Knowledge offers the capacity to act, the potential to get something going
Basic Knowledge is a Public Good
Science is a Public Good underpinning the Information Society
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RSIS ProgrammeSetting the scene (08-12-2003):
1. Welcome; L Maiani DG CERN2. Welcome from the host country; A Ogi3. RSIS at WSIS; A Samassekou, President WSIS PrepComY Utsumi, Sec Gen ITU4. Keynotes; Nitin Desai, spec. advisor to K Annan; HRH Princess M C Sirindhorn, Thailand; W Erdelen, Ass. DG UNESCO5. Visionary: Esther Dyson, founding chair of ICANN6. How the IS fosters Research and Learning; I Serageldin, DG Library of Alexandria7. Bridging the Digital Divide; Santiago Borrero (former chair Global Spatial Data Infrastructure, current Sec Gen Pan-American Institute Geography and History8. The next Steps; Juan Rada; Sen Vice President Oracle9. Reflections on the RSIS; R Kahn, Juergen Renn, B S Ngubane, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, R Bloem
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RSIS Programme, cont.Parallel Sessions:
10. Contributions to Education; Chair Wei Yu, Chinese Education Ministry; Rapporteur M El-Tayeb, UNESCO
11. Contributions to Economic Development; Chair J Dryden, Dep Director OECD; Rapporteur M Nahavandian, Tehran
12. Contributions to Environment; Chair W Erdelen, UNESCO; Rapporteur L Fusco, ESA
13. Contributions to Health; Chair J Kim, WHO; Rapporteur H McConnell, Interactive Health Institute
14. Contributions to Enabling Technologies; Chair R Kahn; Rapporteur D Williams, CERN and TERENA
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RSIS Programme, cont.
15. Response of the Scientific Community to UN Challenge; Opening Address K Matsuura, DG UNESCO; Chair M Hassan TWAS; Rapporteurs presenting the outcome of their sessions
16. The return to society; N Stehr, Advanced Cultural Studies, Germany; O Purbo, Indonesia
17. Science and Governance: I Illiescu, President Romania; T Berners-Lee; W Lichem, Austrian Fed Min Foreign Affairs; Atta-Ur-Rahman, Minister Science and Technology Pakistan; T Abu-Ghazeleh, UN ITC Task Force
18. Summary and Closing Remarks; M G K Menon
19. Key Messages from RSIS; L Maiani DG CERN
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RSIS @ ICT4D
SIS ForumElectronic demonstration of 42 projects from 32 organisations in 5 themes:
Education and Culture; Health; Development, Environment, Risks; Fundamental Science and Enabling Technologies; CERN in the Information Society
SIS Online Caltech-CERN (with CRC, Canada, North Western University (USA), SWITCH, Switzerland)Demonstrations of the power of high bandwidth connectivity
Music Grid with CRC/CanadaVRVS, MonALISA and Grid enabled Physics Analysis
demosUNOSAT, . . . . .
Both: Kofi Annan and Tim Berners Lee: Message to Schools
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Key Messages from RSISEducation:
consensus that education is needed for development, a role for South-South cooperation, ICTs are essential;
Health: ICTs can help in priority public-health areas (safe water, …), capacity-building, telemedicine;
Environment: planners and decision makers need accurate and timely information, North-South collaboration essential to ensure access to data
Economic Development: open-source software should be made available, exchange and use of scientific data could be a model for society;
Enabling Technologies: scientists should engage in policy arena and define projects with clear benefits, e.g., networks, knowledge depositories, grids, etc.
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RSIS Guidelines
Scientific information should be freely available
Software tools for distribution should also be freely available
Networking infrastructure should be established world-wide
Training of people, equipment should be provided in host nations
General education is basic for Information Society
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Tomorrow’s Digital Libraries:How ICTs Will Preserve and Disseminate
Knowledge
Ismail Serageldin
Geneva 8 December 2003
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Feed the Hungry
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Heal the Sick
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Protect the Environment
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Bring Dignity to Work
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Allow the Joy of Self Expression
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The Industrial Countries are leaving the Less Developed
Countries (LDCs) further behind… except for the East Asian Countries (including
China) that are rapidly mastering new technologies
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PCs per 10,000 Persons
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The Enormous Weakness of the Schooling System on
Which the University Builds
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Rich Countries Vs. Poor Countries
Income:
40 Times
Research: 220 Times
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Libraries
• Preserve the achievements of the past• Provide access to common heritage of
humanity • Fundamental part of the education system• Spread the values of rationality, tolerance,
diversity and the scientific outlook • Important public outreach functions • Essential for scientific R&D efforts that drive
economic growth
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Computers : An Essential Library Instrument
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A Contribution to the Conference
“The World Summit on the Information Society”
Geneva 2003
Towards a Web ofCulture and Science
Jürgen Renn, MPI for History of Science
The Crisis of Culture andScience in the
Information Age
Lack of Cultural Heritage on the Web
The bulk of information which forms the coreof cultural heritage is largely excluded from the information system constituting the backbone of an ever-more knowledge-based world.
Jürgen Renn, MPI for History of Science
The Vision of a Web of Culture and Science
Jürgen Renn, MPI for History of Science
The Implementationof the Vision
The Berlin Declaration
“In order to realize the vision of a global and accessible representation of knowledge, the future Web has to be sustainable, interactive, and transparent. Content and software tools must be openly accessible and compatible.”“Our organizations are interested in the further promotion of the new open access paradigm to gain the most benefit for science and society.”
Jürgen Renn, MPI for History of Science
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Education in the Era of
Information Technology
• World-wide access to enormous resources (courseware, data sets, libraries, museums, people …).
• Virtually instantaneous visual, video, audio communications. Participation!
• Dramatic improvements in technology are occurring at astonishing rates.
• It is not expensive now and is getting cheaper every day. Robert Eisenstein, Santa Fe Institute
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Information Technology for Information Technology for Education----A wonderful Education----A wonderful Opportunity!Opportunity!
Atta-ur-RahmanAtta-ur-Rahman
Federal MinisterFederal Minister , ,Ministry of Science & Ministry of Science & Technology, PakistanTechnology, Pakistan
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And an environment that stimulates creativity and welcomes advances in the use of Information Technology
IT Education
High capacity, reliable and accessible communications
The Strategy…The Strategy…
Laws and enabling environment
Service to the Citizens
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29 Cities
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FASTEST INTERNET SPREAD!!
97% of the population
UNCTAD report 2003
—35% ahead of India!!
Oct 2003:
1600 locations
97% Population Access to the Internet
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Envisat ASAR: 17 November 2002Envisat ASAR: 17 November 2002
The Prestige accident
Wide Swath Mode
Space as global data access in emergency
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Monitoring spills in Med Sea: comparison 1999/2000
Need for a complex information management system!
9 Dec 2003, CERN Slide: 41
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE PRODUCTS
SST climatology derived from the PATHFINDER NOAA/AVHRR archive (1985-1995, 9 km resolution). Time intervals are 10 day periods.
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Information technology
• Environmental monitoring for sustainable development need
– Integration of all available mature means (including space and other technologies)
– appropriate scale (local, regional and global)
– Tight cooperation with all concerned parties (community)
– Solve the data policy issues Lu
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VISION for next decade
• Every citizen • shall be able to easily monitor • the state of his environment, • from his planet to his country,
• to his village,• to his street • to his house
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Current Status: Possible SEE-network topology
Existing Geant-Connections
SINSEE- GB-Backbone
Discussedconnections
Currently builtconnections
Existing internationalconnections
Unclearconnections
Development of a Regional Research and Education e-InfrastructureUNESCO-CERN-MPG Workshop at CERN (April-2002)
Reconstruction of ScientificCo-operation in South-East Europe
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Summary & Call for Action
Connect all universities, poly-technical high schools by creating the Global Research and Education Network by 2005
Create basic, affordable (open source?) software tools for disseminating this information
Create Open Courseware and digital and certified knowledge depositories, e.g. Digital Libraries
Collect indigenous cultural and knowledge heritage in all countries. . . . .
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Next
Proceedings, pdf versions of all RSIS presentations to be published soon
Only my own transparencies will be available, not those borrowed from the RSIS Speakers
Expect concrete suggestions and guidelines from this conference
Thank you!
Turn on the lights, including the Internet light everywhere