[-empyre-] Fwd: Fatima Lasay has forwarded a page to you from Korakora - Proyekto

[Fatima Lasay <digiteer@ispx.com.ph>]

Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:09:27 +0800
To: empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
From: Fatima Lasay <digiteer@ispx.com.ph>
Subject: Fwd: Fatima Lasay has forwarded a page to you from Korakora - Proyekto

Christina,

I'm think this did not make it to the list. I will forward it.

Regards,
Fatima
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To: empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Subject: Fatima Lasay has forwarded a page to you from Korakora - Proyekto
From: digiteer@ispx.com.ph
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:02:37 +0800

Fatima Lasay (digiteer@ispx.com.ph) thought you would like to see this page 
from the Korakora - Proyekto web site.

Message from Sender:

Hi Christina, and colleagues o the list, Unfortunately, I was not at 
PRNMS/ISEA06 so I cannot really say much about the event itself, although I 
was chair of the Educ WG (then consisting of Danny Butt (NZ), Roberto 
Verzola (Ph), Chu Chuyuan (Malaysia/Myanmar) and Eugenio Tisselli (Mx). We 
worked together have been able to meet on several ocassions prior to PRNMS 
(I have met Eugenio, 2004 in Aarhus, Chuchuyuan in Myanmar, 2004, and in 
2005 Danny Butt, Roberto Verzola and myself met in Amsterdam). Eugenio 
programmed the system for Catalan artist Antoni Abad's xexe.net, and I was 
able to meet Antoni here in Manila where he stayed for the project with 
Manila call centers. Chuyuan is now busy organizing forum in Korea on Asian 
residency programs and we communicate very little only by email. But work 
continues. Danny heads PRNMS Place, Ground, Practice WG and he co-organized 
a very successful meeting Cultural Futures in Auckland where I was able to 
participate and have a feel for the conditions there only even for very 
short time. Roberto is very busy with a mobile/SMS program for clean and 
honest elections and we have met recently, tested his program and he is 
continuing research and work on improving the system. Now I try to help 
with F/OSS advocates here in the Philippines, especially with proposed 
National Strategic ICT Roadmap 2006-2010. While our work in the old WG 
continues, it was impossible to pursue through PRNMS in San Jose as 
prospects of my going to US became more difficult (for various reasons). 
Working together beyond PRNMS/ISEA is our thrust, as is what has been 
happening. Discussing experiences, failures and successes in our individual 
efforts is especially important because it gives insights on problems not 
yet enountered, or gives new perspectives to old problems not yet solved. 
Below is message I sent to PRNMS shortly before the event, Roger Malina was 
kind enough to ask committees discuss to see how each working group would 
like to respond. I will send other previous post shortly. Regards, Fatima

An open letter to PRNMS/ISEA06
by admin

Dear colleagues,

While it is unfortunate that I cannot be with you in San Jose, I would like 
to put forward a request for your solidarity.

Recent years have seen an extraordinary number of extra-judicial killings 
in the Philippines. Reports indicate that approximately 290 persons have 
been killed since 2004: peasants, workers, church people, journalists, 
lawyers, activists, over 70 of them are women. According to the Asian Human 
Rights Commission, these killings are preventable, "but will only stop if 
the local and international community publicly condemn and pressure the 
government of the Philippines into taking action."

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