09 December 2003

WE SEIZE!

unfortunately, a few things 've rendered my plans to be in Geneva for the WE SEIZE! counter-event, whose activities were launched today, impossible. negotiations for a new job, discussions about a phd, and expecting the delivery of a best friend's daughter any moment now.....

for news from the trenches about WSIS and WE SEIZE!, check regularly the Hub Project site

alternatively, we can Watch the S-CONF STREAM and intervene!

or participate via IRC :
WE SEIZE! IRC Channel: irc.indymedia.org [channel #wsis] 
and another irc #wsis channel may be available on www.ecn.org/6601 ssl secure mode

UPDATE 1

Nettime has a post by Geert Lovink on WSIS?WE SEIZE including several small articles,
and a commentary on what went down during the first day of the counter-mmeting by Stefan Merten.

apart from the Hub which is my newsfeed of choice for WSIS?WE SEIZE, another excellent
source of relevant reportage is the Daily Summit - a british council blog entitled
"unlocking the WSIS for the world". check out the blogroll....

this is the post that ingnited my curiosity in Daily Summit:

December 12, 2003


"Citizens media meets bulldog journalism; finds the future of news,"
writes Jeff Jarvis

"I'm witnessing the future of journalism unfold over at DailySummit.net.

"There, a bunch of webloggers sent there by the
British Council (can someone explain them to me?) are covering the U.N. World Summit on Information Society with a vibrancy, immediacy, passion, imagination, doggedness, and openness you simply won't find in big media...

"This is what journalism is meant to be.

"This isn't some new form of journalism. This is the result of a few centuries of the evolution of journalism.

We, the readers, get to ask the questions we want to ask of those in power and we get answers. That's what it's all about, isn't it?

"Now, it helps immensely that the people in Geneva for Daily Summit know their stuff and also ask the right questions at every opportunity.

"Give the chance to interview the man in charge of the Iranian Internet, they got to confront him and ask about the arrest of weblogger Sina Motallebi (the frightening event that first introduced me and many of us to the Iranian weblog revolution). The mullahs' bureacrat lied and shuffled away from the point. But the confrontation tells them: The whole world is watching, boys.

"You can call that advocacy journalism or bulldog journalism or just good reporting. It's all that."

Thanks. It's been fun. We'll keep you updated with all the post-WSIS reaction.


But first, a drink...

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