The Global CN Partnership Agreement

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The Global CN PartnershipAgreement

• Accepted proposal at the Clossing Session of
• Global CN2000., Nov 4, 2000

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What the Global CN
Partnership can be?

• A new experimental framework to be invented
  together (instead of copying traditional
  formulas).
• A partnership open to CN organizations and
  individuals and also academic, public and private
  organizations
• Sharing common values and aims also open to
  change.

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Initial values and aims...

• Promoting innovative social change through the
  effective use of ICTs
• Promoting a bottom-up approach to our joint
  activities and events
• Getting community networkers into policy debates
  and dialogues at the local, national, and global
  levels

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Initial values and aims...

• Shifting the main focus in ICT development from
  people as consumers to citizens, and active
  participants in the knowledge society
• Addressing the real issues behind achieving
  equitable and effective access to the Internet,
  its tools and benefits

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Initial values and aims...

• Promoting a multilingual and multicultural
  Internet
• Develop new models of sustainable local
  development using ICTs to empower people
• Helping to design a partnership culture among
  community networkers, private enterprise, public
  sector, universities and relevant agencies

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Activities framework

• Thematic (e.g. education, access, media,etc.)
• Territorial (e.g.local, regional,
  transnational...)
• Events
• Trails open to all events,(e.g. Dakar 2001...)
• A focus meeting (e.g. Global CN2001, Buenos
  Aires, Global CN 2002 Canada,...)
• Actions and Projects
• Cn Portal,
• Online Resource Center
• CNLab
• Evaluation of the results

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Organization framework

• A Congress that makes decisions
• Open Steering Committee
• Regional participation
• Thematic working groups
• Self-selection
• Personal commitment to specific tasks
• Program continuity
• GCN2001 local Organizing Committee

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Exploring new funding models

• Current models of funding ,charity based or
  welfare state based are insuficient
• A social entrepreneurship partnership like the
  CNs needs a different kind of funding.
• Exploring the social venture capital model. How
  about a Global CN Fund?

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Next Steps...

• Steering Committee first open meeting,
• Barcelona, Nov 4, 16h.
• Agenda
• -Global CN2001 initiative and organizing
  priorities
• -Thematic working groups proposals
• -Global CN Partnership tools
• ....