Dear Colleagues:

Spontaneous Post and "release":

 

Here is a link to an article on point to this post, but for those who do not use links, just skip to comments which follow, extended comments and queries after that, and finally article excerpts.:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/sns-ap-time-person-of-year,0,4659298.story
 

Comments and Queries:

 

In the year 2000, the National Disability Party inspired by the Cannadays went online as the first Internet-Based Political Party in the USA, and subsequently A Party In Interest.

In 2002  - or was it shortly thereafter  - The International Disability Caucusy launched a collaborative, conversational interconnection that has clearly been and is widely acknowledged to still be a driving voice and chief contributor to The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities just days ago adopted by the U.N. General Assembly..

 

Both are historic instances of "People's Assembling", merging the YOU and the I with the WE and US in a virtual world we call "CyberSpace" in relation to physical storage in machines on earth, linked by telephony.

Now such hosts as "Myspace"  and "You Tube" along with the discussion forums that have long existed on email and bulletin board bases are widening the window for collaboration and convenings toward consensus or at least the emerging of global themes.

Extended Comments and Queries:

 

Will Internet Governance, Values, and Jurisdictional urgings merge well with grass roots yearnings for open space interconnectivity?

The above are just preliminary comments and questions while the broadcast news comes in that Time Magazine features "You" as the Person(s) of the Year. I have not yet read this Time Magazine Persons of the Year Award Issue.  Will it suggest, "nothing about you without you?"  If so,  what will it speak with Communication equty and equality of  both decoding and encoding  systems for the Blind and the Deaf  - as far as delivering information and affording meaningful responsive systems for contributing comment?  How will it celebrate, endorse, and help enforce Communication Rights of Access and full Creative Powers? My Colleagues in these Areas speak more precisely as to what is needed.  What is clear is that much is warranted and deserved, as emboldened by the first Human Rights Treaty of our Century in which we in Civil Society have had honor to participate as to Principles.  Now to Action, as to States Parties Signings and Ratifications, and everyone's efforts toward global as well as local education. on the Rights. And exercise thereof. 

 

 Let's follow up. But even now in advance of such revelations -  and enduringly,  *Nothing About Us Without Us*.

Cordially, LDMF.

Linda D, Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D. five decades in Computing and Info Systems.
National Disability Party

International Disability Caucus

     Coordination of Singular Organizations on Disability on the IDC Steering Committee.

*Respectful Interfaces*: Achieving Dialogue While Cherishing Diversity."
Persons With Pain International.

World Democracy Movement.

U.S. Burn Support Organization.

Excerpt: OPENING Lines of The Article:

Time Magazine's Person of the Year: You

By LARRY McSHANE
Associated Press Writer
Published December 17, 2006, 4:10 AM CST


NEW YORK -- Congratulations! You are the Time magazine "Person of the Year."

The annual honor for 2006 went to each and every one of us, as Time cited the shift from institutions to individuals -- citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine put it. The winners this year were anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web.

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"If you choose an individual, you have to justify how that person affected millions of people," said Richard Stengel, who took over as Time's managing editor earlier this year. "But if you choose millions of people, you don't have to justify it to anyone."