Fw: Let us prepare the Internet Fiesta 2003

[Internet Fiesta]

Internet Fiesta, 5th Edition 
from March 17th to 23rd 2003
theme
Expatriation today 


HTLM version : http://www.tutytam.org/2003/english/   
also french version http://www.tutytam.org/2003/francais/ 
and spanish version http://www.tutytam.org/2003/castellano/


Since the beginning of the Internet adventure, the web has continued to be the favoured link between expatriated communities. Through forums, chat rooms and specialised web sites, communities have formed according to their cultural affinities. Today the world wide web is the main communication stream between members of these communities. The Internet allows individuals living abroad to stay in touch with their culture, their language and to recreate a cultural space in which puts a specific emphasis on their identity.

The International Fiesta Committee, still operating from Paris, France, has decided that the fifth edition of the Internet Fiesta will be dedicated to all those who live abroad and wish to keep in touch with their roots and with each other. The Internet Fiesta remains open naturally to all projects and proposed initiatives. 

The International Fiesta Committee wishes to thank all the weavers of the Internet Fiesta 2002 and of former editions, for their remarkable achievements. The committee have studied the results of 2002 and wish to pin point certain weaknesses that the event presented and to suggest some directives in order to correct them and to make sure that the Internet Fiesta 2003 will be an even more successful event than in the past:

Therefore, the committee encourages all the contributors to get in contact with all possible expatriated web communities, every where, all around the world, and to inform them or to propose to them to become our partners on every possible project being prepared. Furthermore, it appears that the most efficient way to work being if you keep forwarding information throughout your network. To insure the success of our Fiesta, one can never be too insistent.


The committee encourages you to engage in formal relations, as soon as possible, with institutions and officials in your town, region or nation in order to obtain official supports, grants, representations or accreditations for you project, your local committee or the International Fiesta Committee.


The committee keenly advises you to get in contact equally with a maximum of local, regional or national media and to associate them to your initiatives in order to give to the internet Fiesta the largest possible public notoriety.


We also invite you to actively look for sponsors and partners, not only for your own projects but also for your local committee or for the International Committee. Remember that the partners gain increased visibility, adapted to their very needs and only good partnerships will allow the Fiesta to keep existing. Please intensify your effort especially in the direction of IT and NTIC sectors. Weavers who would have found a sponsor or a partner for their local committee or for the International Committee will see their project entitled for a commission rewarding their action.


The committee would like every one involved in the Internet Fiesta 2003 to contact every possible N.G.O. in order to make them participate in a way or an other in the Fiesta and to make them use their network for our mutual benefit.


Finely, it appears particularly important that every weavers get in contact with schools and universities to inform them and to encourage them to participate in your project or to prepare their own but also in order to provide the entire Fiesta network with translation resources in a maximum of languages. 
In order to complete the Internet Fiesta 2002 report, the committee would like to ask every one to be kind enough to send us everything you have seen or heard or read about us in the media. We will gather all of it and install an on-line library on the new official web site of the Internet Fiesta.

Last but by no means least, we would appreciate if you could send as soon as possible, your suggestions and short overview of the initiative you may be preparing. The new official web site of the Internet Fiesta 2003 will be operational very soon, meanwhile we are ready to receive your mail on cif2003 at tutytam.org

Thank you and best regards

For the International Fiesta Committee
Philippe BOLAND
Moderator


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