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Mikael
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TIG Featured Online
December 15, 2003 - 11:31 AM
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Wanted to let you guys know that on Dec. 15th around 11:30 pm, an article about TIG was featured on the front page of news.google.com - a popular news collecting site read by millions of people. Very exciting!
The article is about TIG's role in the WSIS, and you can find it here:
http://www.towncrieronline.ca/main/main.php?direction=viewstory&storyid=3078&rootcatid=&rootsubcatid=
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Re: TIG Featured Online
December 15, 2003 - 11:52 AM
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Thats very cool. Thanks for the link Mikael. Good job for TIG getting very good publicity and a nice article written.
I had no idea TIG was hoping to have the webpage translated to such languages such as Swahili and Hindi. That is way too cool.
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How effective are these conferences?
December 16, 2003 - 03:16 AM
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Maybe I'm going out on a limb here. Perhaps I'm just a shmuck whose to far radical to really see the light. Yet when I see stories of TIG members going to big important conferences, I sort of get skeptical. In my experience of attending conferences, few of them have actually been that useful (enough to spend thousands of dollars on) or more than a bunch of important people getting together and talking with each other over expensive catered food, the worthwhile information never getting back to where it needs to.
I cannot claim to have attended even the amount of ones that Mike and Jen have been in charge of, so perhaps I have a different perspective. Yet the quasi-liberal/progressive caucuses approaching problems today usually are platforms for arguing, a few workshops that the information rarely gets dispersed to many people, and it is usually pretty exclusive. The idea of going to a conference with 'heads of state' both excites and turns my stomach. One could say your organization is definately getting quite a bit of recognition and is becoming successful (expecially if you've been in operation for just 2 years). Yet, from another perspective, it also means you take the next step to selling out and compromising your objectives. In many ways, Chirac and Schroeder are just another two couple of imperialist shmoes. Oh damn 'he pulled out the I word.' I am not going to sit here and list reasons why Germany/France are imperialst, for the same reasons I won't usually do so on the US: it's not hard to see. One might argue, that it is a good thing we meet with these important people and talk about this or that- but what really comes of it if you're not signing their re-election checks?
Is it a good thing that TIG is going to these conferences and representing issues and ideas that may or may not be part of its members ideas as well? Does it matter what we say if we aren't giving over money? Generally, I can say it does mater, but that Mike and Jen have been pretty receptive to peoples opinions- which is quite awesome and irregular of the liberal elites bread today.
Yet I still return to the question: how do these conferences really help people, and give those who cannot afford to be there, are not in positions of power, a voice? Would it not be better to focus on eliminating the condtions (the system) that keeps people from having a say in (in the instance of the conference referenced in the article) 'where information technology' should go? That way they would not have to relly on big shots to 'speak for them.' This does not mean we stop having delegates, it means we are more accountable to the groups and populations we represent. Democracy and information technology are just words when you're dying from malnutrition and hunger.
One thing that I thought was VERY awesome was that TIG had many scholarships for youth to attend the YES summit in Alexandria Egypt a year or so ago. That was definately a positive step in the right direction IMHO. I do not know how that conferences really went - what came out of it in terms of helping youth employment. So perhaps my problem is not with conferences, but how they are organized, who is considered to go and how information that takes place at conferences (usually helpful) gets BACK to the population it is trying to serve.
Do not get me wrong though- I very much gain a sense of inspiration (and though not enough motivation) from hearing about TIG in the news, participating in it, and working with all of you who make it run. I was, and still very much, priveledged to meet Mike and Jennifer and hopefully will work with them in the future. I just worry that in our attempt to pioneer new ideas and solve social problems, that we stumble onto the same kinks that have hindered organizations in the past... and we end up just enforcing the status quo and in a race to stay afloat by working to get grants and money more than on the actual cause. Alas, it has happened to many times I am sure, to count.
Peace,
Michael
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Re: TIG Featured Online
January 7, 2008 - 02:53 PM
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TIG all the way 
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