so that was the WSIS. now i am sitting here in the lounge in the airport, whitch is pretty nice. they are all invited us to come here and to get some drinks for free and the best think is that we can also use the laptops and computers here whitch are buildt up for us to show us how nice is tunis. it was a really good experience to be here. i met a lot of friends i already met at tig on the internet and i made an interesting film. even if it is not finished at the moment i am sure that it will be a great one.

the most impressing think for me was a speech from kiki and nick who has organized it all. they worked really hard and you could see it here that everythink was organized. when they held their speech yesterday i am really started to cry becouse it is so imazing how youth can work on ICT. (i hope i got all the smiling faces on the tape!!!)
the stand and the youth hub had been the most familiar place at all the kram exhebition hall.

even yesterday we had a great dinner together in a really good restaurant where we talked about all the wsis process and how it will go on...

i think we have to say a BIG thank you to everyone who helped us and who organized the youth hub and the stand from takingitglobal!

I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU !!!

(ps/ at least i am really chocked thaty the site fro, tig i could not visit directly here in the airport - the port was unreachable!!!

so after a really short night yesterday and some hours of sleep i finaly arrived here again at kram expo hall. (tig had a party last night - the 5 aniversary) a lot of people again waited outside to be checked to enter the building and to visit us. i met some german people and spoke about my spot.

its getting less and less people here at the WSIS and we are all some kind of very happy to got in contact with different people from other projects working on the same topic.

on saturday i will return to germany and will go directly to the Student Action Network Meeting of the amnesty students groups to speak about the international youth strategy.

from Monday on i will be two days in Duesseldorf on a workshop.

greets from tunis
marc

so now its already the second day and i am not tired any more. just went to the press conference from tig about the youth caucuss and finaly found the german stand. Germany has the best stand here, collourfull and with a lot of people... i even managed to speak some german :-)

today in the evening we will have the party of the five year old birthday from tig !!!

FINALY I WILL RELAX

hello again,
nice greetings from Tunis. Well so the the first real day finished and i am really tired.
Had done a lot of filmings today which will be hopefully presented online in the next few weeks. we will work on it - i am sure.
Anyway its really great here if i am sure that tunisia is never like this like it is at the moment. everywhere you can find a lot of police and everywhere you are controlled if you have your badge on you. So if you do not have it you are really lost. There are lots of busses and tunis is cleaned up. everywhere there are tunesian peaple asking you what you are thinkin about tunis and so on.

so there are a lot of critical remarks from my side also about all the topics we are speaking here - becouse i am not sure if it will be realized or not.

Also in the evening i had some kind of very interesting happening. sara from australia arrived and walked into our hotel. she had an reservation but the place was not booked. so the man from the bus said that she has to leave and go back to the airport becouse she could get lost. its really great that they care about us like this here, but it was not right, and so we started arguing. even three police man arrived and asked what was happened...

finaly we managed that she got a roum and everything was ok - but the fact that the police and all the tunisian want to controll us was really chocking.

i also heard that the normal live here was closed, students did not had to go to school becouse all the school were claused. I think this is horribel becouse we are here just attending an event.

an other storry was also that a man from ghana had to wait more than four hours to get the key from is roum and it was surely just becouse he is black, becouse when the girl arrived (from Amsterdamm) the key was found quickly.

so i am a kind of pissed of in which fake situation it all is happening here

--> see day two

so it is the first day meeting here iin tunis all the people i spoke to the last weeks. So great to see their face :-)

Arrived today at 12 at monastir and than went by bus to tunis. took three hours and i went directly to the hotel. Later i went to the main hall to get my badge and then get started to film herer at the WSIS. The filming is going well and i really have fun even if it is just running arround and meeting a lot of friends. we are all so opened becouse we are all working for the same idea.

:-)

now sitting here in a stand next to the tig stand at the WSIS area and checking my mails.

Later we sill go eat together and than i will drink the best cold red vine they have - i sweare!

great greetings
Marc

Hallo allerseits,

unter http://www.wsis-koordinierungskreis.de/presse/pressematerialien-wsis-2005.pdf ist die aktuelle Version der Pressemappe als PDF.

During the week of the Summit an international team of journalists in Tunis will produce a daily, virtual edition of the IPS conference newspaper
TerraViva.

Find reporting in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, as well as news feeds and radio broadcasts from other partners, all still at http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/wsis/

hey everybody!
today I recived an positive answer to go to the WSIS in November in Tunis! I am so happy :-) !!! It´s so great to find out more about all the projects about youth and media, it´s so great to learn from others worldwide... I am so happy and can´t wait anymore to go to Tunis. Again an international meeting like the International Council Meeting from amnesty in the summer this year...

greetings , marc