Discours de Madame Françoise MAYLIE, Ambassadrice de France au Vanuatu, prononcé à l’occasion de la réception du 14 juillet à la résidence de France, en présence du Président de la République du Vanuatu, du Premier Ministre et de nombreuses autres personnalités.)
Mme Françoise Maylié, Ambassadrice de France au Vanuatu, s’est rendue, le 9 juillet 2009 sur le site des fouilles archéologiques « Lapita », peuplement et culture installés il y a plus de 3000 ans, à Téouma, à proximité de Port-Vila.)
The disgrace of political class in Vanuatu has left the detrimental consequences being endured by the vast majority of average Ni-Vanuatu’s population: from an indigenous Ni- Vanuatu perspectiveVanuatu is an archipelago in the South West Pacific with…
[Originally published in the Vanuatu Daily Post’s Weekender Edition.]
A quiet revolution is taking place in North Efate.
Awareness of the rights of women in Vanuatu flowered briefly post-Independence thanks to the labours of eminent advocates such as Grace Molisa and Hilda Lini. They laboured continually to ensure that the neglected majority – Vanuatu’s women and children – were heard in the national dialogue.
Thanks to their generation, we have provincial and national Councils of Women, shelters in Vila and Santo and countless projects and services focused on improving conditions for women. To cap it all, over a decade of effort has finally given the Family Protection Act the force of law.
And yet, in spite of all this, women still face countless obstacles making themselves heard in daily life of the nation.
Lilly Lui wants women’s rights to bloom again as they did in the heady days following Independence. The sole female candidate in the upcoming Efate North bye-election, she has been entrusted by women throughout rural Efate to voice their concerns on the national stage.
Originally published at the Scriptorum. You can comment here or there.
Sibling 1: Me, you, me, you, me, you, ME!
Sibling 2: Nonono! You, me, you, me, you, me…. wait! NO!
1
this is only evidence
the rattling that betrays
a flock of sparrows
in the branches of a barren shrub
gathered
and pressing the stems
like a small cold wind
the rattling that betrays
a cat in a dry rose bush
collected like parts of a rumour
2
there are no petals
on a wet black bough
no apparition to blend
these two mysteries
that I found your love without looking
is not your fault
and not mine
Originally published at the Scriptorum. You can comment here or there.
Tangled up amidst all the talk about the imminent demise of newspapers, the subversive effect of Free, the purported damage done by Peer to Peer ‘leeches’ and various other riffs on the imbalance that new technology has created between creator and consumer is the often unexamined conclusion that copyright as a regime for encouraging creativity in modern society is simply unworkable on the Internet.
That leaves us with two options: We can continue to tinker with copyright, attempting to redefine fair use, to place reasonable penalties (or at least disincentives) on unauthorised copying… ultimately, to renegotiate the compromise that lies at the heart of the concept.
That’s a commendable, fundamentally reasonable approach that unfortunately ignores the fact that digital information is immune to copyright enforcement. The practical ‘right’ to make copies is the very essence of digital technology. Its usefulness is predicated on the fact that data is infinitely mutable and that copies cost as close to nothing as makes no difference. To pretend that we can place anything more than voluntary limits on this capability is dangerously naive.
Alternatively, we can scrap copyright, go back to first principles and examine in detail what the rights of the creator really are.
Originally published at the Scriptorum. You can comment here or there.
Hi, have put some photos up at http://picasaweb.google.com/jonviv
[This week's Communications column for the Vanuatu Independent.]
Last weekend’s announcement by Minister Rialuth Serge Vohor of an agreement to participate in the SPIN fibre-optic project had been met with cautious optimism from observers. While nobody doubts the desirability of having an undersea cable linking Vanuatu to the rest of the world, some questions remain.
The devil, as always, is in the details.
Originally published at the Scriptorum. You can comment here or there.
Discours de Madame Françoise MAYLIE, Ambassadrice de France au Vanuatu, prononcé à l’occasion de la réception du 14 juillet à la résidence de France, en présence du Président de la République du Vanuatu, du Premier Ministre et de nombreuses autres personnalités.)
You are currently browsing the laplap weblog archives for July, 2009.
