WSIS Volunteer Family, Phase 1 Report

Organization

Sponsors

We thank all the sponsors for their generous support:

Département des Affaires Etrangères, Ambassade Suisse de Dakar Plate-forme ICT4D Taiwan (Province of China)

Banque Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch

About NOROIS
Morris-Chapman Brussels

République du Sénégal

Commission Nationale de la Francophonie du Sénégal

International Association for
Volunteer Effort

National and International Focal Points

The following individuals mobilized their local and regional volunteer networks in view of the Geneva Summit and/or contributed to the Summit texts.

International
Viola Krebs, ICVolunteers / IAVE; Manuel Acevedo, former UNV, Universitat Aperta; Liz Burns, IAVE; Helga Leifsdottir, IFRC; Kumi Naidoo, CIVICUS; Xavier Verzat, ATD Quart Monde.

Europe
Gail Hurley, European Volunteer Centre (CEV); Lesley Greenaway, VDS (Scotland); Josep Vicent Marin and Judith Cobeña, Federació Catalana de Voluntariat Social; Lola Arias, Foundation of Solidarity of the Community of Valencia (Spain); Arman Vermishyan, "BURG" Youth Environmental Center NGO, Internet Forum "Environment" (Armenia).

Asia
Anthony Carlisle, IAVE (Taiwan (Province of China)).

North America
Diane Trahan, Cyberjeunes Canada International (Canada).

Central and South America
Luz Stella Alvarez and Carlos Rodriguez, IAVE Colombia (Colombia); Susana Barnetche, CEMEFI / IAVE (Mexico); Luis Felipe Murray, Iko Poran (Brazil).

Africa
Mahendranath Busgopaul, Halley Movement (Mauritius); Rose Ekeleme, IAVE Nigeria (Nigeria); Henri Valot, UNVolunteers (Mali); Astrid Coche, ICVolunteers (Senegal); Michel Tchongang Linze (Cameroon).

Dakar Symposium

Patronage

Patron: H.E. Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal
Special advisor: Amadou Top, Observatoire sur les Systèmes d'Information, les Réseaux et les Inforoutes au Sénégal (OSIRIS)

Sponsors

Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie / Institut francophone des Nouvelles Technologies (INTIF)
Industrie Canada, Gouvernement du Canada
Republic of Senegal
Swiss Embassy in Dakar

Organizing Committee

Presidency: International Conference Volunteers; Conference of ONGs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO); Civil Society Division of the World Summit on the Information Society Executive Secretariat; International Association for Volunteer Effort; Conseiller Technique Informatique - NTIC et Assistance Technique, Republic of Senegal.

Advisory Committee

Presidency: Commission Nationale pour la Francophonie; Vice Presidency: Conseil des Organisations Non-Gouvernementales d'Appui au Développement (CONGAD) et Assistance Technique, Primature, République du Sénégal; Réseau Anaïs, Cameron; Direction Informatique, Republic of Senegal; Internet Society (ISOC); Observatoire sur les Systèmes d'Information les Réseaux et les Inforoutes au Sénégal (OSIRIS); United Nations Volunteers Programme (UNV); Peace Corps Volunteers, Digital Freedom Initiative; United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

Partners

Coopération française; Conseil des Organisations Non-Gouvernementales d'Appui au Développement (CONGAD); European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN); MCART; Swiss Embassy in Dakar.

Coordination

Overall coordinator: Viola Krebs, ICVolunteers, Focal Point WSIS Volunteer Family; Coordinator Dakar: Topias Issakainen, ICVolunteers; Communication Specialist: Astrid Coche, ICVolunteers; Web site and Online News: Randy Schmieder, MCART; Video: Silvano de Gennaro, CERN; IT Specialist: Victor Gabriel.

Volunteers

Moustapha Ndiaye, Papa Assane Dieye, Serigne Abdoul Aziz Ndoye, Djibril Ndaw, Youssoupha Diagne, and Jocelyn Pierre (Direction de l'informatique de l'Etat, Présidence, Sénégal), Makane Faye (Economic Commission for Africa), Daniel Dory, Ulla Skiden and Johan Holmberg (World Computer Exchange); the volunteer interpreters Caroline Vallve-Cheng and Gwen Dellar; the team of CESAG.

Geneva Conference

Organizers

ICVolunteers and IAVE

Sponsor

Taiwan (Province of China)

Partners

Civil Society Division of the World Summit on the Information Society Executive Secretariat; European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN); MCART Association

Coordination

Viola Krebs, ICVolunteers; Anthony Carlisle, IAVE.

Volunteers

Reporters: Laila Petrone, Cornelia Rauchberger, Janet Tanburn, Allan Nguyen and Randy Schmieder. Interpreters: Caroline Vallve-Cheng, John Moorhead, Gudrun Mddeb, Bianca Phillips, Margret Wills. Welcome team: Cloe Swift, Elena Nas.

Photo Exhibition

Volunteer photographers

Paola Cassola, Emmanuel Bacary Daou, Mamadou Konaté, Viola Krebs, Pascale Linares, Patrice Moullet, Sheba Okwenje, Randy Schmieder, Steve Szoradi and Laurent Valdes.

Special thanks

We would like to thank the following entities for having made this exhibit possible:

Arcodis
Centre culturel français de Bamako
European Volunteer Center
ICT4D Platform
Lomard Odier Darie Hentsch
MCART
WSIS Executive Secretariat

Documentary film

Camera: Silvano de Gennaro, Prince Ibrahim Erese, Jean Philippe Boris

Sound: Silvano de Gennaro, Emmanuel Olorunfemi

Interviews: Viola Krebs, Mérault Brice Ahouangansi

Comments: Français: Kty Rippoz, English: Michele de Gennaro

Realization: Silvano de Gennaro, Viola Krebs

Post-production: Silvano de Gennaro, Ronaldus Suykerbuyk

Sub-titles: Randy Schmieder

Special thanks

We would like to thank the following entities for having made this exhibit possible:

Le Ministère de la Culture du Mali, L' Institut Supérieur de Management de Dakar, L'Ecole Internationale de Genève "La Chataigneraie", Team of the United Nations Volunteers Mali, La Mairie de Tombouctou, NOROIS, H.E. Mr. Adama Samassekou, Catherine Perrin, Ali Farka Touré, Djeneba Seck, Dominique Hausser.