A-Infos (en) 2nd announcement: Virtual Conference

[Bram Dov Abramson <bram@tao.ca>]

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			Virtual Conference:
 The Right to Communicate and the Communication of Rights
        	      11 May - 26 June 1998

This is the second of two announcements for the Virtual Conference on the
Right to Communicate and the Communication of Rights, starting Monday, 11
May.  Registration for working group discussions has now started.

Videazimut is an international alliance bringing together independent video
and television organizations and practitioners from Africa, Asia, Europe,
Latin America and North America around an agenda for the democratization of
communication -- an essential component of sustainable development and
democratic society. 1998 marks the 50th anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.  In its declaration of principles, Videazimut
aligns itself with a growing consensus on the right to communicate as a
fundamental human right.

We are therefore holding a Virtual Conference from 11 May to June 26 1998,
aimed at generating and disseminating fresh thinking on communication and
human rights.  Held in conjunction with the International Development
Research Centre (Canada) and the Canadian International Development Agency,
this Virtual Conference is our contribution to the community of events
marking the UDHR’s 50th anniversary.  You are invited to take part in the
Virtual Conference, which is being hosted by PanAsia Networking...

	<http://www.PanAsia.org.sg/conferen.htm>

... and which can be accessed directly here:

	<http://commposite.uqam.ca/videaz>.

Participants are asked to join one of five working groups over a 5-week
period.  In each working group, 1-3 short papers will be circulated each
Tuesday morning, forming the basis for the following week’s discussion.
Discussion will take place over e-mail -- filtered through moderators to
avoid information overload -- supplemented by a WWW resource with
conference papers and archives of the discussion. 

Participants will receive *no more than* two e-mail digests daily.  A
weekly summary will be posted each Monday afternoon, for those who have not
been able to keep up, before passing to the next topic.

The working groups:
(1) legal perspectives
(2) institutional perspectives
(3) gender perspectives
(4) cultures of globalization: perspectives
(5) civic education and public memory: perspectives.

A plenary session will take place during the final week.

The Virtual Conference’s official languages are English, Spanish, French.
All participants may submit their comments in any of these languages, with
the help of a volunteer translation team. The Virtual Conference is
co-presented by COMMposite, the French-language student journal of
communication, with the collaboration of meep! media, a Montréal-based
internet and intranet consultancy.  For more information please e-mail Bram
Dov Abramson, conference director, at <bram@tao.ca>.
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Bram Dov Abramson
Laboratoire de recherches sur les politiques de communication
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, Succ. Centreville, Montreal (Que) H3C 3J7 Canada
e-mail <bram@tao.ca> | fax +1.514.343-2298

*Virtual Conference on the Right to Communicate*:
1. Hosted by IDRC/PanAsia Networking:
<http://www.PanAsia.org.sg/conferen.htm>.
2. Direct access:
<http://commposite.uqam.ca/videaz>


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