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Conferences and Events
Internet Fiesta
Internet Fiesta Web Site: www.internet-fiesta.org/
What is the Internet Fiesta?
Internet brings people together. It can be used to organize new Fiestas and shows that were unthinkable before.
The Internet Fiesta are the sum of the Fiesta events organized all over Europe between March 19 and 21, 1999. The fiestas can take many different
forms:
- children in school demonstrate their knowledge of Internet to their parents and grand parents,
- communities that used to exchange ideas on the net meet together,
- artists create numerical art pieces,
- citizens sale to citizens (an Internet garage sale),
- administrations open their office to demonstrate new form of interactions with the citizens,
- short films festivals are organized on the net....
The Fiesta opens the door to your imagination and your energy to let your organize your own event on the spirit of Internauts which put up personnal and community
webservers on the Internet.
Internet
Society (ISOC) Chapters Fiesta Sites:
See http://cat.isoc.org/internet-fiesta
Web Site, a full database with all activities developing in Catalonia
and our influence area (Valencia, Balearic Islands and French Catalonia).
The same data what in the Internet-Fiesta Official Web Site.
Italian web site for Internet Fiesta http://www.cineca.it/internet-fiesta
Hi, Fiesta friends.
In Portugal, a Conference was organised on the 19th about the Internet in Portugal, with the presence of the Minister of Science
and Technology and was broadcasted from a web site;
Many of the portuguese 200 Youth Institute delegations and centres for promoting the new information technologies offered free access to the
Internet to anyone who showed up. Also, the biggest portuguese ISP, Telepac, openned its main store to this purpose;
There were, during the weekend, in, at least, 90 schools activities related to Internet use, especially, students explaining to their parents and
anyone else some of the new possibilities the Internet has to offer.
To coordinate and promote the event, the Mission for the Information Society created a portuguese Internet Fiesta web site at:
www.missao-si.mct.pt which is still available and will be presenting the final outcome of the Fiesta.
I am pleased to announce that in Cyprus and GREECE major happenings took place. After exhaustive work from all the staff of my companies and
the extensive subcontracting our company made bearing all the financial costs (more than 350000usd) we succeeded in:
-Organizing a total of 29 events for Cyprus
-Organizing a total of 36 events for Greece
Attracting more
that 30000 people physically in the fiestas of Cyprus and Greece.
Have more than 13000 hits in the two national sites we have built.
Produced a CD rom especially for the fiestas.
Got promotion from all type and kind of media in Cyprus and Greece for the fiesta.
Have the Mayor of Athens in the inauguration ceremony and the General Manager of CY.TA
in Cyprus.
Political and market leaders comment possitevely on the initiative.
This week we are recovering. Next week we will start based on the acquired experiense planning the Fiesta's of 2000.
In the Netherlands
the whole Internet Fiesta is focussed on an initiative to create an opportunity like. We use the slogan 20% for 80%, meaning that the approx. 20% citizens
using the Internet shall demonstrate to the other 80% what it is at zero cost.
We expect around 1000 events/locations and approx. 15-20.000 visitors.
From 8th of March until March 21st we have dedicated Internet Fiesta Call-Centre (0800-1583) with Fiesta question support workdays 08:00-22:00 and sat-sun
09:00 - 17:00
Promotion for Fiesta is many articles already published, interviews on radio and national newspapers. Likely coverage of opening on national news/tv
and likely coverage of Worldrecord attempt by Raymond van Barneveld.
Major openingact by (tentative) the prime-minister in The Hague, as a direct follow-up we will open an Internet-cafe for Seniors in Eindhoven and in
another city called Meppel. These two Internet Cafes are the first two in a series of 24 Internet cafes opened as an Internet Fiesta project initiated
by Internet Society Netherlands. Materials and funding for the project are sponsored by KPN Telecom (50 iMacs), Apple Computer (training) and Ministry
of Transport (project costs).
Other major event is the WebDarts Worldrecord attempt by Embassy WorldChampion Raymond (Barney) van Barneveld. Raymond will try to establish a worldrecord
simultaneous Darts against hopefully over thousand Ducth players at the same time using the Internet as a means to gather scores and to display
intermediate results. Next year we plan to extend the attempt to a worldwide initiative whereby international contestors are welcome too.
In Utrecht many events take place, major happenings are:
Media Plaza Fiesta, the Dutch Cybercenter industry showcase is open during Fiesta and over 2000 visitors are expected for special events like:
- new technology demos, ADSL, Cable-Internet
- videoconferening with Dutch movie/TV/sports stars
- special theme's: Music, Theatre & Internet
- WebChat with stars, e-mail etc.
- Fiesta Bazar, stands from industy Internet leading companies
KPN Telecom Fiesta, with special events:
- Internet for kids
- ADSL demos
- Internet telephony
- Videoconferencing via Internet
- Contests, Internet-Quiz
In city of Eindhoven,
lots of activity is organized, major items:
- City library, 50 Internet PC's
- Education Centre,open with 70 Internet PC's and free training
- City Hall, free Internet Access
- Shopping Centre Mall, free Internet Access + training
- Woensel district centre, free Internet Access
- SeniorWeb Eindhoven: 4 stands, free Internet Access
- local newspapers, full page Fiesta special
In Den Bosch, opening
of Retail-One, a dedicated centre for Retailing and Internet.
In Rotterdam, Internet Marathon, 24hrs free access and Cable-Internet demo's at ENECO.
In Amsterdam, High-IQ, special site and discussion for super-intelligent kids.
In Groningen, local schools get connected to Internet using Open Source software (Linux).
In Maastricht, McLuhan Institute, Free Access and SUMMS demos...
The Internetfete comes to Berlin !
The Internetfete opens the gates of the virtual world
Berlin, 26,01,1999 - For the first time Germany will contribute to the European Internet Fiesta. The Internetfete will take place in Berlin from March 19, to 21,
1999. " The aim of the Internetfete -in connection with Internet Fiesta- is to promote Internet as a mass medium in Germany and in Europe
and make it part of everydaylife. It will also encourage the European culture on the networks ", says Dr Philippe Royer, the initiator
and supervisor of Interntefete and Internet Fiesta, and Manager Information Society at bmp Aktiengesellschaft.
In Germany, the Internetfete is an initiative of enterprises under the leadership of bmp Aktiengesellschaft and is supported by a number of innovative actors of Berlin's Multimedia platforms and institutions.
The operational principle of the Internetfete is to connect on-line events at the same days with real meetings in different places. If anyone missed Internet, the day of the Internetfete will be the opportunity to discover it and to get
the gates of the Virtual World opened! Internetfete gives to everyone the possibility to take part of the event.
Communiqué de Presse 5 mars 1999
- Fête de l'INTERNET -
" La Loi de l'Internet : un espace de citoyenneté mondiale à conquérir "
19 & 20 mars 1999
www.loi-internet.org
Le Chapitre Français de l'Internet Society (ISOC) organise avec le Sénat un nouvel événement pour la Fête de l'Internet, les 19 et 20 mars 1999
: le vote d'une loi de l'Internet par un parlement virtuel, composé pour l'occasion de deux cents parlementaires, représentant les différentes
tendances de la société française sur le Net et assistés des internautes en ligne.
Un projet de loi (de 4 articles) a été déposé en janvier 1999 sur le bureau du Cyber-Parlement. Il est consultable sur le web "Loi". Ce
texte est le point de départ d'une réflexion publique sur l'adaptation - nécessaire - de la législation française par rapport aux spécificités
de l'Internet.
Les internautes sont appelés à une participation active en ligne et à voter sur ce projet : www.loi-internet.org
Notre web s'enrichira au fur et à mesure jusqu'au 20 mars.
Si vous avez plus de 13 ans et une adresse électronique, vous pouvez vous inscrire sur notre liste électorale (sur le web), quelque soit votre nationalité
et votre lieu de résidence. 1 internaute = 1 voix.
Le vote de la loi (les 19 et 20 mars) est libre et secret.
Le texte définitif de la Loi de l'Internet sera connu le 20 mars à 18h.
L'accès au Sénat est ouvert au Public (nombre de places limité à 200).
Une pièce d'identité sera demandée à l'entrée.
Vous pourrez suivre également en ligne et en temps réel les discussions, les amendements et le vote de chacun des 4 articles de la Loi de l'Internet.
Des personnalités du monde du Net, de l'Economie, de l'Education, de la Politique, de la Culture, des Nouvelles Technologies... seront présentes
dans l'Hémicycle et représenteront les 4 groupes politiques fictifs que nous avons constitués : "Netiquette, e-parti, Cyber-Colbertiste et
PIF".
RV dans l'hémicycle du Sénat les 19 & 20 mars et sur www.loi-internet.org!
Coordination
Olivier ITEANU
Avocat à la Cour
Secrétaire Général ISOC France
oiteanu@iteanu.com |
Responsable
Presse
France MIREMONT
Membre fondateur ISOC France
france@imaginet.fr
tél : 01 48 58 14 34
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For more information about the Internetfete get tuned into : http://www.internetfete.de
And Internet Fiesta Europe : http:// www.internet-fiesta.org
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