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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>FWIS and not to overload anyone’s Sunday reading but Marita’s note spurred me to take a look in my archives.. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The first below was my response (2005) to WSIS (Tunis) and the second (2013) is the talk I gave at the WSIS Review gathering some 8 years later. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/290/238">http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/290/238</a><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><a href="https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/making-happytalk-in-paris-disneyland-and-the-wsis-10-review/">https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/making-happytalk-in-paris-disneyland-and-the-wsis-10-review/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Interesting where there seems to have been progress (in the technology) and where there appears to have been none—in using the technology to empower/enable local communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>