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Peter Thomas suggests<\/a> applying to attend the world summit on the information society<\/a>, even though it’s highly unlikely that an inexperienced, and small ngo like ours will get a place. Probably more likely to happen through fitu<\/a>. On the other hand, I might as well. So I will.<\/p>\n

update:<\/strong> OK, I forgot that we’re not actually a legal ngo. we decided against going through the motions until we really needed it. maybe now is a good time?
\n2nd update:<\/strong> Ok, I’ve officially pronounced myself not too clever. while wire.less.dk is not legally an ngo, the whole point was that we are a member of the informal<\/a> network, which is a registered non-profit in the uk. hello, wake up!<\/p>\n

Mr. riptari also asks:<\/p>\n

If anyone is interested in, as a group, dissecting the abundance of data over at the WSIS web site in manageable chunks to figure out just what they’re going to be doing at this conference, contact me. We can divide up the site content and post our findings at our respective logs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And sure, why not. I don’t know how much time I could dedicate to it, but it sounds like a good way to go through at least some of the material. Anyone else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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