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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

http://rsis.web.cern.ch/rsis/index.html

http://www.cern.ch/public/


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




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




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




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.




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




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




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




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




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




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




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.




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

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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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The Enormous Weakness of the Schooling System on

Which the University Builds

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Rich Countries Vs. Poor Countries

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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.


The Vision of a Web of Culture and 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.”


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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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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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FASTEST INTERNET SPREAD!!

97% of the population

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—35% ahead of India!!

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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

The Role of Science in the Information SocietyDic 2003 40

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.


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)

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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


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. . . . .


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

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