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World Summit Event for Schools
" Το παγκόσμιο δικαίωμα στη μάθηση και την ανταλλαγή πληροφοριών"

Η πρώτη παγκόσμια διάσκεψη για την Κοινωνία της Πληροφορίας πραγματοποιήθηκε στη Γενεύη από τις 10 έως τις 12 Δεκεμβρίου 2003. Στα πλαίσια των εκδηλώσεων οι συμμετέχοντες στις δραστηριότητες του cyberschoolbus λάβαμε τα ηλεκτρονικά μηνύματα που ακολουθούν:
 

Μήνυμα από τον Tim Berners-Lee

Από: Tim.Berners-Lee@info.cern.ch
Προς : wses@longboy.eun.org
Θέμα: [Wses] Message sent from the original web server
Ημερομηνία: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:35:03 +0100

Dear young people,

Greetings! I am sending this message to you from the computer I used at CERN to create the World Wide Web. Today, the compputer was moved and set up at a special meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. We're talking about technology (computers and the Internet) and society (laws, and customs, and Governments) and how they connect.

It is great to be here with Kofi Annan, who leads the United Nations. For me, the UN is the most important organization in the world right now. Laws and customs develop separately in different countries. The UN can help different countries agree about what is legal and what is fair.

The Internet and the Web are being designed by all kinds of people -- including some children -- working together. The designers form "working groups" and discuss things by email, and telephone conference calls. (See www.ietf.org and www.w3.org for details). It is hard work and a lot of fun.

When you are learning about the Web, you may be faster at learning to use computers than your teachers. But listen to their wisdom about how to behave and what to believe on the Web.

I hope we all can use the Web to realize that other people are just like ourselves, even if they speak different languages, or have different abilities. I believe it is important to preserve our local cultures and languages. We must also share enough understanding planet-wide to bring peace. Have fun, and think about what you are doing.

Tim Berners-Lee

Μήνυμα από τον Kofi Annan

Από: Kofi.Annan@info.cern.ch
Προς : wses@longboy.eun.org
Θέμα: [Wses] Message sent from the original web server
Ημερομηνία: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:35:03 +0100

Dear young friends,

I am excited to be sending this email from the computer that Tim Berners-Lee used at CERN to write the original World Wide Web software in 1990 -- just 13 years ago. At that time, no one -- not even Tim -- could have dreamt that within a few years the Internet would connect millions of people all over the world in the blink of an eye. Just think how fast it has developed. Today, more information can be sent over a single cable in one second than was sent over the entire Internet during a whole month six years ago.

Today, Tim and I are emailing you from Geneva, Switzerland, where world
leaders are gathering to discuss how they can make sure that ommunication and information technologies benefit everyone. As participants from more than 80 countries in the World Summit Event for Schools, you are an inspiration to us all. And it's good that on this day, the 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, you are exercising your right "to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers".

I hope you will keep communicating with each other to build bridges of understanding between people and countries. By using technology in this way, you will bring us all closer to a more just and peaceful world, in which access to the Internet will be a right enjoyed by everyone. May this World Summit help us to see the world as a domain we all share.

Kofi A. Annan

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