Activities of the Global Community Program 2006 Global Dialogue

  Earth Community Organization (ECO)
the Global Community

is hosting
Introduction to Global Dialogue 2006
Politics and Justice without borders
Theme More info concerning the theme
Actions for the good of all as per the Statement of rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities of the Global Community citizens.
Statement of rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities

All issues with titles:
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Discussion Roundtable and Workshop Session
Issue 28

Preventive actions against the worst polluters on the planet and those who destroy the global life-support systems


Opening Remark by Leader(s) and Lead Paper(s)
Comments and Recommendations from Participants (by name and address)
Summary of Comments from Participants
Summary of Recommendations from Participants
Assessment of Results of Discussion Roundtable and Conclusion
Closing Remark by Leader(s)

 

Opening Remark by Leader(s) and Lead Paper(s)


Leader
Country
Contact
Issues
Grigori Abramia File Georgia
geocer@mmc.net.ge
http://www.georgia-gateway.org/NGOinGeorgia/WB/001.htm
1, 4, 7, 8, 22, 24, 26, 28, 33, 36, and 47
Vassily A. Agaphonoff File

Russia rkrostov@don.sitek.net 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 22, 25, 26, 28, 33, 40, 49, 53
William M. Alexander File

U.S.A.
walexand@calpoly.edu
www.jadski.com/kerala

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10,18, 20, 21, 25, 28, 33, 35, 39, 40, 46, 48, 49, 50, 52, 54, and 55
Mark Anielski File

Canada www.pembina.org
anielski@ualberta.ca

4, 7, 8, 11, 22, 24, 25, 28, 32, 36, 40, 47, 53, 54, and 55
USAKI Ayato File Japan  asuka@sal.tohoku.ac.jp  1, 25, and 28
Khalid Aziz and Otto N. Miller File

U.S.A. aziz@pangea.Stanford.EDU 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 33, 36, 40, 52
Allan E. Barsky, Bill Diepeveen, Maureen Wilson, Karen Hanna File

Canada barsky@ucalgary.ca
Bill.Diepeveen@ma.gov.ab.ca
mwilson@ucalgary.ca

2, 7, 8, 9, 22, 24, 28, 33, 38, 40, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, and 55
Brad Bass File

Canada Brad.Bass@ec.gc.ca
brad.bass@utoronto.ca
http://www.tor.ec.gc.ca/earg
1, 9, 11, 25, 26, 28, 36, 47, 53, and 55
Jennifer Beale File Canada www.web.net/~tccr
tccrsoc@web.net
 3, 4, 5, 7, 17, 21, 27, 28, 36, and 40
Vincenzo Bentivegna File Italy
DPMPE@CESIT1.UNIFI.IT
vincenzo.bentivegna@cesit1.unifi.it
54, 4, 9, 26, 28, 35, 36, 49 and 40
 Andrzej Bobiec File Poland pecheneg@ic.kharkov.ua
www.topb.most.org.pl
 1, 25, 26, 28, and 51
Alexander S. Bogolyubov
File
Russia abogol@stk.mmtel.ru
http://www.ilstu.edu/~aggubin/buklet_eng.htm
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 34, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 53, 54, and 55
Klaus Bosselmann File New Zealand k.bosselmann@auckland.ac.nz
www.law.auckland.ac.nz/cel/nzcel.html
4, 5, 15, 26, 28, 34 and 47
John M. Bunzl File United Kingdom www.simpol.org
inf@simpol.org
jbunzl@simpol.org
3, 7, 8, 19, 22, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 40 and 46
Thorkil Casse and Fabiana Issler File Denmark tca@cdr.dk
cdr@cdr.dk
fabiana.issler@undp.org
http://www.cdr.dk
1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 15, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 33, 35, 39, 40, 46, 47, 49, 54, and 55
Ameer H. Chowdhury File Bangladesh iedsfoeb@accesstel.net 1, 4, 9, 26, 28, 47, and 53
Jim Christiansen File

France jchris5210@aol.com 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 15, 22, 25, 26, 28, 33, 36, 40
Victoria Churikova, Ludmila Ignatenko, Vera Koveinik, Anatoly Nikitin, Sofia Nikitina, Alexey Drouziaka, Valery Drouziaka File
Russia yupik@elrus.kamchatka.su
druz@ecoclub.nsu.ru
airport@proto.elrus.kamchatka.su
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 15, 25, 26, 28, 36, 47, 49, 51, and 55
George L. De Feis File

U.S.A. Gdefeis@amanet.org
http://www.operationenterprise.com

3, 7, 8, 15, 22, 25, 28, 36, 40, and 55
David Del Porto File

U.S.A. sustainable@aics.net
www.ecological-engineering.com
http://www.ecological-engineering.com/cofs.html
1, 4, 7, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 36, 40, and 55
John C. Dernbach File

U.S.A. John.C.Dernbach@law.widener.edu 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 25, 28, 33, 35, 36, 47, and 53
J. Dewulf, J. Mulder, H. Van Langenhove, H.J. van der Kooi, J. de Swaan Arons File

Belgium herman.vanlangenhove@rug.ac.be
J.mulder@stm.tudelft.nl
H.J.vanderKooi@stm.tudelft.nl
Jo.Dewulf@rug.ac.be

2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36, and 53
Zhang Di File People's Republic of China Zhangdi@eyou.com
kefeng@sina.com
4sunshine@yeah.net
4, 7, 9, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32, 35, 42, 43, and 55
Dott. Giuseppe Di Vita File Italy gdivita@lex.unict.it 1, 9, 11, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32, and 33
Michele Doncaster File

Canada micheledoncaster@hotmail.com 25, 26, 28, 36, 41 and 55
Roger Doudna File Scotland rdoudna@findhorn.org 1, 4, 9, 11, 25, 28, 30, 33, 36, and 47
David Driesen File USA ddriesen@law.syr.edu 1, 2, 5, 24, 25, 26, 28, and 29
Ramkumar Bendapudi and Gerard D'Souza File

U.S.A gdsouza@wvu.edu 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 22, 24, 26, 28, 33, and 53
Germain Dufour File Canada gdufour@globalcommunitywebnet.com
gdufour@globalcommunitywebnet.com
http://www.globalcommunitywebnet.com/public/gdufour/
http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/globaldialogue2004
/index.htm
http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/earthgov/
http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/mtbenson/
all Discussion Roundtables
Louise Dunne and Frank Convery File Ireland louise.dunne@ucd.ie
http://www.ucd.ie/~envinst/envstud/

1, 3, 4, 7, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 35, 40, and 55
Jose Ferrer File
FERRERJK@pdvsa.com 2, 9, 11, 25, 28, 40, 47, and 53

Walter Leal Filho File
Germany leal@tu-harburg.de 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 15, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 35, 40, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, and 55
Karl Froschauer File

Canada froschau@sfu.ca 1, 4, 11, 24, 26, 28, 35, 38, 54, and 55
Azer Garayev File Azerbaijan aspa@azintex.com
roland_pro_99@yahoo.com
27, 28, 30, 54, and 55
Anastassios Gentzoglanis File

Canada agentz@courrier.usherb.ca 1, 4, 8, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, and 40

Hans W. Gottinger File
Germany hg528@bingo.baynet.de
hg528@bingo-ev.de
gottih@rpi.edu
hwgott@aol.com

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32, 35, 40, 47, 53, 54, and 55
John Greenfield File
Greenfield@xtra.co.nz 11, 28, 51 and 53

Nikolai Grishin and Olga Tokmakova File
Russia ngrishin@glasnet.ru 1, 4, 10, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 35, 40, and 54
Yuriy Grynyuk File

Ukraine grinrost@forest.lviv.ua 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 25, 26, 28, 35, 36, 40, 47, and 55
Steven Guilbeault File Canada
jean.guy.vaillancourt@umontreal.ca
www.greenpeace.ca
1, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36 and 47
Min Guo File

U.S.A. g3131mguo@umbsky.cc.umb.edu 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 25, 26, 28, 33, and 36
Galina Gutina File Russia goutin@fmail.ru 26, 28, 31, 32, 35, 37, 41, 42, and 43
Cliff Haas, Bob Gent and David Crawford File

U.S.A. ida@darksky.org
http://www.darksky.org
BobGent@aol.com
liz@darksky.org

1,7, 9, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 47
Xiaohui Hao File People's Republic of China haoxiaohui@hotmail.com 10, 15, 25, 26, and 28
Alanna Hartzok File USA earthrts@pa.net
http://www.earthrights.net
28, 4, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33,  and 53

Alexander Heydendael File
Canada alexander.heydendael@biodiv.org 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 35, 43, 44, 45, 49, 53, 54, and 55
Peter Hills File People's Republic of China phills@hkucc.hku.hk 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 17, 18, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 33, 36, 54, and 55
Mikylas Huba File

Slovakia geoghuba@savba.savba.sk
geoghuba@savba.sk
1,4, 6, 7, 22, 25, 26, 28, 35 and 55
Joy Hyvarinen File U.K.
JH@ieeplondon.org.uk
http://www.ieep.org.uk
1, 4, 25, 26, 28, 36, 47 and 55
Vladimir Ira File

Slovakia ira@savba.sk 1, 3, 4, 7, 22, 25, 26, 28, 36, and 40
Igor G. Ivanov File Russia askalon@ab.ru
ic18igi@ic.dcn-asu.ru
1, 7, 9, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 51, and 53

A. Jagadeesh File
India a_jagadeesh@yahoo.com
vayoo@hotmail.com
a_jagadeesh@usa.net
a_jagadeesh@coolmail.com
1, 3, 4, 7, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32, 48, 49, 50, 53, and 55
Raghbendra Jha and K.V. Bhanu Murthy File

India rjha@igidr.ac.in
kvbm@del3.vsnl.net.in
bsmm@vsnl.com

http://www.igidr.ac.in/facu/rjha.htm
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 36, 37, 49 and 55

Tao Jiyi File
People's Republic of China taojiyizzz@21cn.com 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 35, 37, 39, 40, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, and 55
Kun H. JOHN, Yeo C. Youn, and Jae W. Park File
South Korea Kunjohn@aol.com 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 13, 24, 25, 28, 33, 35, and 36
Gennady N. Karopa File

Belarus greenway@karopa.belpak.gomel.by
gnkaropa@gsu.unibel.by

1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 35, 41, 46, 47, 49, 53, 54, 55
Natalia Knijnikova File

Russia root@greenfeel.bitmcnit.bryansk.su 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 35, 39, 40, 53, 54, and 55
ANITA KON File

Brasil anitakon@pucsp.br
anitakon@exatas.pucsp.br
2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, 35, 48, 49, 51, 54 and 55
Mikhail Krasnyanski File Ukraine public@library.donetsk.ua 4, 1, 7, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, and 35
Michal Kravcik (Kravčík) File

Slovakia kravcik@ludiaavoda.sk
mvolav@changenet.sk
http://www.changenet.sk/peopleandwater/news.stm
http://www.peopleandwater.sk
http://www.changenet.sk/ludiaavoda/
1, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36 and 47
Oystein S. LaBianca and Gary Brendel File

U.S.A. labianca@andrews.edu 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 33, 35, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 52, 53, and 55
Isabelle Lambiel File Switzerland isabellelambiel@hotmail.com 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, 35, 36, 40, 47, 53, and 55
Rebecca Last File Canada info@ceia-acie.ca
conference@cisdl.org
4, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 24, 26, 28, and 46
Tonu Lausmaa File Estonia tlausmaa@teleport.ee 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 40, 54, and 55
Ming Lei File Japan leiming@gsm.pku.edu.cn
mlei@uji.energy.kyoto-u.ac.jp
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 15, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 35, 36, 37, 40, 46, 52, 53, 54, and 55
Igor N. Malakhov File

Ukraine, malakhov@ecok.freenet.kiev.ua 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 18, 20, 25, 26, 28, 36 and 55
H. M. Maralusiddaiah File

India
patel.asi@usa.net
patelsanjana@yahoo.com
2, 4, 7, 12, 13, 18, 25, and 28
Marin R. Mehandjiev  and Krassimira R. Mehandjieva
File
Bulgaria abecop@museum.web.bg 1, 3, 4, 7, 15, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, and 32
Isabel Mendes File Portugal midm@iseg.utl.pt 53 4, 19, 26, 28, 32, 36, and 53
Aubrey Meyer File U.K.
aubrey@gci.org.uk 1, 4, 7, 9, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36, 40, and 47
Leslaw Michnowski File Poland http://www.psl.org.pl/kte
kte@psl.org.pl
elmamba@poczta.onet.pl
#1 10, 15, 17, 19, 21, 28, 32, 36 and 59
Jose H. Moya File

Venezuela forja@reaccium.ve 1, 3, 4, 7, 19, 25, 26, 28, 35, 41, 42, and 55
Khatam Murtazaev File Republic of Tajikistan murtaza@khj.tajik.net 6, 9, 28, 48, and 49


Kh. Murtazaev, I.Turakulov and S.N. Karimov
File
Republic of Tajikistan murtaza@khj.tajik.net 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 25, 26, 28, 32, 36, 37, and 40
K.V. Bhanu Murthy File

India kvbm@del3.vsnl.net.in
bsmm@vsnl.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 13, 19, 21, 26, 28, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, and 49
Islam Israfil oglu Mustafaev
File
Azerbaijan IMustafaev@iatp.baku.az
ruzmk@rad.dl.ab.az
1, 6, 9, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36, and 40
Yunusov Muzafar File Republic of Tajikistan nigor@sugdien.com 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 26, 28, 35, and 49
James Mwami File Uganda BusogaProject@maf.org 1, 9, 26, 28, 35, 36, 38 and 47
Mukhamedjanov Ozod File

Republic of Uzbekistan ngo@cpart.silk.org
nargiza@abc.freenet.uz
vildana@cpart.silk.org
1, 3, 4, 7, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36, and 40
Beverly A. Paul File

Canada bpaul@julian.uwo.ca 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 36, and 55
Akim Rahman File U.S.A. akim.rahman@puc.state.oh.us
rahman.19@osu.edu
 1, 8, 4, 7, 11, 12, 22, 24, 25, 26,  28, 39, 40,  47
Md. Hasibur Rahman File England  hasibur.rahman@royagcol.ac.uk
icms@bdcom.com
1, 2, 7, 25, 26, and 28
Madireddi Venkata Subba Rao File India subbarao_mv@yahoo.com
mvsmadhavi@hotmail.com
1, 4, 7, 10, 15, 16, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 36, 37, 53, and 55
E.Mohan Reddy File India ongcpr@vsnl.com 1, 4, 7, 11, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36 and 40
B.Sudhakara Reddy File

India sreddy@igidr.ac.in 4, 5, 7, 15, 24, 25, 26, 28, 35, and 40
Richard C. Rich File U.S.A. URBAN@VT.EDU 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36, and 39
Svetlana D.Schlotgauer and Maria V. Kryukova File

Russia flora@ivep.khv.ru 1, 28, 32, and 51
Vyacheslav Sharov File

Russia vbsharov@chat.ru 3, 4, 6, 15, 22, 25, 26, 28, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, and 55
Brian R. Shmaefsky File USA brian.shmaefsky@nhmccd.edu  1, 25, and 28
ASUKA-ZHANG Shouchuan(Jusen) File Japan susaki@mri.co.jp
asuka@sal.tohoku.ac.jp
1, 25, and 28
Alexander Skalon File Russia askalon@ab.ru , ic18igi@ic.dcn-asu.ru 1, 7, 9, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 51, and 53
Michal SKAPA File Czech Republic bqudeli@accc.ca
bgudeli@accc.ca
ptp@accc.ca

1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 22, 26, 28, 35 and 36
Yuri Skochilov File

Tajikistan root@pamir.td.silk.glas.apc.org
root@pamir.td.silk.org
tabiat@sv.td.silk.org
http://di-145c.mit.edu/projects/leep/Ngo/ecocenter/index.html

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 22, 25, 26, 28, 35, 36, 41, 42, 43, 44, and 55
Bernie Slepkov File Canada http://www.SustainableNiagara.ca
bernies@mergetel.com
 1, 9, 28, 33, and 36
Mike Stephenson File Canada guelph@tao.ca, csala@uoguelph.ca  1, 9, 25, 26, and 28
Sorin Tecucianu, Geanina Toma, and Niculina Tecucianu File Romania apgro@mail.dntis.ro 1, 3, 21, 26, 28 and 55
Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio File

BRAZIL teodosio@gold.com.br 1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 15, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 35, and 36
Dirgha N. Tiwari File

Nepal dntiwari@hotmail.com 1,3, 9, 25, 26, 28 and 36
Douglas Torgerson File

Canada
1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 15, 25, 26, 28 and 55
Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez File Mexico
jgvh0811@yahoo.com
jvargas08@berkeley.ed
4, 11, 24, 26, 28, and 35
Jean-Guy Vaillancourt File Canada
jean.guy.vaillancourt@umontreal.ca
www.greenpeace.ca
1, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36 and 47
Kamil Vilinovic, Milan Chrenko, Vladimir Hudek, Pavel Toma and Laszlo Miklos File Slovak Republic rec@changenet.sk
www.rec.sk
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 23, 26, 28, 35, and 40
Shahidul Haque, Hasida Yasmin and Md. Hasibur Rahman File Bangladesh icms@bdcom.com 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 25, 26, and 28
Alyn Ware FileUSAwww.lcnp.org
alynw@attglobal.net
 1, 14 and 28
Alexander Wegosky  File

Russia ecoland@kaluga.ru
http://ers.tarusa.ru
1, 2, 4, 11, 15, 19, 24, 26, and 28
Valentin Yemelin and Marilyn Mehlmann  File

Russia libra@mailbox.alkor.ru
yemelin@rocketmail.com
gapinter@ett.se
3, 7, 22, 25, 26, 28, 33, 40, 54 and 55
Wu yiming File People's Republic of China wym66@163.net  6, 7, 10, 24, 28 and 33
M. Muzafar Yunusov File  Republic of Tajikistan nigor@sugdien.com  6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 26, 28, 35, and 49
William M. Zadorsky File

Ukraine Ukraine.ecofond@ecofond.dp.ua
zadorsky@mail.comwww.zadorsky.8m.com
1, 6, 7, 25, 26, and 28
Katalin K. Zaim File

Turkey kumar@central.murdoch.edu.au
kzaim@bilkent.edu.tr
http://www.ctp.bilkent.edu.tr/~kzaim
1, 11, 26, 28, and 36
Zhong Xiang Zhang File The Netherlands http://www.eco.rug.nl/medewerk/zhang/
Z.X.Zhang@Rechten.RUG.NL
Z.X.Zhang@ECO.RUG.NL
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 17, 23, 26, 28, 39, and 55


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Comments and Recommendations from Participants (by name and address)
Recommendation by Leslaw Michnowski

Sustainable Development Information Society Forum - Poland
Leslaw Michnowski




kte@psl.org.pl
www.psl.org.pl/kte

the sustainable development of our people (…) comprehensive vision for the future of humanity (…) poverty eradication, changing consumption and production patterns (…) pillars of sustainable development - economic development, social development and environmental protection (…) - WSSD - Johannesburg Declaration.

Dear Sir // Dear Madam

In this message we wish to inform you of an initiative presented by the delegation of the Polish government at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS, Geneva 2003, the relevant document is enclosed). That submission contained, inter alia, the following statements: (…) ways in which the world situation tends to evolve, creates an urgent need to build up a widely and freely accessible world information network. This network could serve to provide monitoring, forecasting and early warning (…) and thus help to implement the principles of sustainable development (SD). (…) This initiative aims to take up, on a global scale, the building of the information basis for SD-policy and SD-economy. The reasoning for this submission is as follows:

Systems research conducted in Poland on the causes of a variety of social pathologies - which are dangerously intensifying! - proves beyond doubt that these pathologies are being brought about by the existing and gradually exacerbating global crisis. This crisis could be overcome on the condition that social relations - in the global dimension - are re-oriented towards the common good, and adjusted so as to make effective and good use of achievements of science and technology progress by the society. In turn, to attain such a re-orientation, it is necessary to create a wisdom-based information society, which is far-sighted and flexible. For this to take place, priority should be given to the process of creation of a commonly accessible, world-wide system of:

- comprehensive monitoring;
- far-sighted forecasting and
- measurable evaluation

of effects of policy, work and other changes in the life conditions of human- beings and nature in general.

Such a SD-information system should be globally-integrated and territorially distributed. °In order to bring about the creation of such an information system, it is essential to carry out a large-scale operation, requiring appropriate developments in science, technology and society at large.

Due to the lack of such an information foundation for the global and local governance, a covert or overt struggle for access to scarce and shrinking natural resources will inevitably grow and accelerate the crisis. This crisis, if unchecked, will lead to a global catastrophe. The deficit of these resources should, and, we believe can, be eliminated through international cooperation, which should replace the existing competition. That, however, requires not only political will, but also the deepening of a comprehensive and easily accessible knowledge about the consequences of human actions and inactions.

In November 2005 in Tunis, the second, and final part of the World Summit on Information Society is scheduled to take place. If the ends outlined above are to be achieved, it is necessary that this initiative obtains recognition and strong international support.

Given all the above, we wish to ask you to support us in bringing this initiative to life, as it is urgently needed for survival of the humankind.

We are deeply convinced that building of the information basis for SD-policy and SD-economy is essential for averting a global catastrophe and achieving sustainable development of the world society.

With best regards,

Leslaw Michnowski

Enclosure

H.E. Professor Michal Kleiber
Minister of Scientific Research and Information Technology of the Republic of Poland
to the World Summit on the Information Society
Geneva, 11 December 2003

(…) We believe that the Internet and other ICTs technologies can be an effective tool for forecasting and preventing global threats. It can also be a perfect means to support the implementation of the idea of sustainable development. In my opinion, ways in which the world situation tends to evolve, creates an urgent need to build up a widely and freely accessible world information network. This network could serve to provide monitoring, forecasting and early warning with regard to elements capable of triggering a global change and thus help to implement the principles of sustainable development. Such a network would be vital in bringing us closer to a globalization process and its numerous phenomena ranging from the management of human settlements, world eco-systems, population movements up to other crucial elements of global transformation. (…)


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Summary of Comments from Participants




 
Summary of Recommendations from Participants




 
Assessment of Results of Discussion Roundtable and Conclusion




 
Closing Remark by Leader(s)





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