INTERSESSION MEETING Pictures
Plenary Session Statements ( July 16, 2003 )

Plenary session statements are among the most effective ways available to the Civil Society in order to convey a message to all the states of the world at the WSIS.

On July 16, among the speakers of the Civil Society Richard Stallman ( PCT WG ) was about the third one, and Francis Muguet ( SI WG ) was the last speaker. Since the total time alloted to the Civil Society was short, each WG statement was to be even shorter.

Francis Muguet pronounced his speech in French (... otherwise the French Ambassador would have been mad against him ! ...) (French text ), ( noisy mp3 courtesy of Christian Scherer ), ( English version ) . Some people in the audience were enthusiastic. The ambassador from Argentina came in person to congratulate him and gave her business card.