[Reader-list] International Week of Justice Festival. Nazir Josh, Kashmir Solo Performance...

Mon Dec 8 11:26:45 IST 2008

8th ,9th 10th from 9 am to 9 pm  at  Alliance Fransaise,  India Islamic Cultural Centre and WWF Gallery

Photo Exhibition  

UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS:  VOICES OF DIGNITY -ART AS WITNESS-  Images from all over  South Asia.  10 am to 7 pm every day.  WWF Gallery

9th Dec 08  5:00 pm-7:30 pm  Talk Show:  "No Hiding Place for Torture"

Speakers:
Samina Peerzada,  Artist Pakistan
Ghazi Hussein,  Writer, Palestine Scotland
Prassana Vithange,  Filmmaker, Sri Lanka
Malalai Joya,  Parliamentarian, Afghanistan
Fali Nariman,  Senior Advocate India

10th  Closing Ceremony  4:00 pm

Closing Film  "The Class"  Laurent Cantet/France/2008/feature
Nazir Josh,  Kashmir,  Solo Performance

Musical Concert  Musafir

--- On Sun, 12/7/08, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] DCOS Agreement on Procurement in Support of Interoperability and Open Standards emerges at 3rd IGF, Hyderabad
> To: "Principal Support List of FSF-India" <fsf-friends at mm.gnu.org.in>, fsfs-org at fsfs.in, "Greenyouth" <greenyouth at googlegroups.com>, "fourth-estate-critique at googlegroups.com" <fourth-estate-critique at googlegroups.com>, "Reader List" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 10:56 AM
> 6 December 2008
> 
> At the close of the final day of the 3rd Internet
> Governance Forum in
> Hyderabad, India, the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards
> (DCOS)
> released an agreement entitled the "Dynamic Coalition
> on Open
> Standards (DCOS) Agreement on Procurement in Support of
> Interoperability and Open Standards."
> 
> Under the procurement agreement, governments, publicly
> funded and
> non-profit institutions agree to promote interoperability
> and
> accessibility through the use of open standards.
> 
> 
> Anivar
> ---------
> Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Agreement on
> Procurement in
> Support of Interoperability and Open Standards
> 
> 3rd Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
> Hyderabad, India
> 6 December 2008
> 
> Preamble
> The Contracting Parties,
> 
> *Recalling* the World Summit on the Information Society
> (WSIS)
> Declaration of Principles which states that
> "[i]nternational standards
> aim to create an environment where consumers can access
> services
> worldwide regardless of underlying technology,"
> 
> *Recognizing* that standards are increasingly global
> concerns,
> involving goods and services that move in international
> trade across borders,
> 
> *Aware* that current competition and legal remedies may not
> be enough
> to solve the inherent tensions that routinely arise in the
> realm of
> patents and standards,
> 
> *Desirous* of encouraging procurement policies that require
> evaluation
> of multiple, competing products based on open ICT standards
> in order
> to ensure a level playing field for vendors, governments
> and
> consumers,
> 
> *Cognizant* of the need for procurement policies for
> software programs
> that are predicated upon an open standard,
> 
> Open Standards
> =============
> 
> Given the multiplicity of interpretations of the term open
> standards,
> for the purpose of this document we endorse as an
> acceptable
> definition the position contained in the European
> Union's draft
> European Interoperability Framework:
> 
> 1) The open standard is adopted and will be maintained by a
> not-for-profit organisation, and its ongoing development
> occurs on the
> basis of an open decision-making procedure available to all
> interested
> parties (consensus or majority decision etc.).
> 2) The open standard has been published and the standard
> specification
> document is available either freely or at a nominal charge.
> It must be
> permissible to all to copy, distribute and use it for no
> fee or at a
> nominal fee.
> 3) The intellectual property - i.e. patents possibly
> present - of
> (parts of) the open standard is made irrevocably available
> on a
> royalty free basis.
> 4) There are no constraints on the re-use of the standard.
> 
> (IDABC EIF v2 draft
> (http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7728))
> 
> As noted in the European Interoperability Framework cited
> above, open
> standards or technical specifications must allow all
> interested
> parties to implement the standards and to compete on
> quality and
> price. The goal is to have a competitive and innovative
> industry, not
> to protect market shares by raising obstacles to newcomers.
> Thus, open
> standards or technical specifications must be possible to
> implement in
> software distributed under the most commonly used open
> source
> licences, with no limitations arising from patents
> associated with the
> standard in question.
> 
> In addition to the above requirements, it is recommended
> that there
> should be multiple independent implementations of the
> standard.
> 
> *Governments, publicly funded and non-profit institutions*
> agree to
> implement the following policies.
> 
> Governments, publicly funded and non-profit institutions
> Hereby agree
> to the following measures in order to promote
> interoperability and
> accessibility through the use of open standards.
> 
> 1. To create a policy statement on interoperability and
> open
> standards, to be available to employees and the public.
> 
> 2. By 2010, procurement of all software should be vendor
> neutral and
> implement open standards
> 
> 3. By 2010, tender specifications for hardware (including
> peripherals
> and mobile devices) should require that manufacturers
> provide the
> driver and interface information necessary to work with a
> reasonable
> range of proprietary and free operating system platforms.
> 
> 4. By 2010, all public facing web pages should conform to
> W3C
> standards for structure, presentation and accessibility.
> 
> 5. By 2010, tenders for the supply of web based services
> (for example,
> online reservations) must specify the requirements of point
> 4.
> 
> 6. By 2010, agencies should implement policies regarding
> the storage
> and archiving of government data and records to ensure that
> data is
> stored in open data and document formats.
> 
> Signed by the following parties:
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> Aslam Raffee, Government IT Officers' Council, OSS
> Working
> Group,Republic of South Africa
> 
> Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
> 
> Bob Jolliffe, Freedom To Innovate, South Africa
> 
> Centre for Internet and Society, India
> 
> Eddan Katz, Electronic Frontier Foundation
> 
> Hamid Rabiee, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
> 
> Knowledge Ecology International
> 
> Moving Republic, India
> 
> Shuttleworth Foundation, South Africa
> 
> Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, India
> 
> 
> Endorsed by the following parties:
> -------------------------------------------------
> Bangladesh Friendship Education Society, Bangladesh
> 
> Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF), India
> 
> Foundation for Media Alternatives, Philippines
> 
> OpenForum Europe
> 
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