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nuclear test vets double average cancer rates

AVEN members meet to discuss cancer rates among nuclear veterans
. . .

AVEN members meet at Fleurance to discuss the discuss the fate of French nuclear test veterans exposed to radiation in Africa and Polynesia.





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Officials from the Nuclear Test Veterans Association briefed members and associate veterans on their work since founding seven years ago, in June 2001.





Meeting at the mayoralty of Fleurance, AVEN represents 3,000 members in French territory and more than 4,000 from Mururoa e Tatou in French Polynesia, fighting legal battles with the help of a law firm.

With Arlette Dellac, head of Legal Affairs, AVEN vice-president Jean-Luc Sans explained that France conducted 210 nuclear tests from 13 February 1960 to 27 January 1996, first in Algerian Sahara, at two sites, Reggane and In Ecker, and then in Polynesia, at Moruroa and Fangataufa.

Exposure

Tens of thousands of people, civilians and military, participated in these tests. Many today encounter health problems. In addition many people have been seriously exposed to radiation.

Nearly 4,000 veterans have already contacted AVEN, which demands truth about conditions of protection and exposure of those involved on the sites, and justice for unfortunate victims of these events, as well as their families and dependents. Many veterans still wonder what is happening to those who participated in these nuclear tests, posing many questions about disease and suffering they endured as well as risks to descendants.

Cancer survey

A survey of health among veterans shows that 34% of them report one or more cancers, the percentage representing double the annual incidence of cancer in France in the same age group, at 17%.

Arlette Dellac thus spoke of the 18 legislative proposals that have been filed since 2002 by parliamentarians from all political sides, both in the National Assembly and Senate.

Faced with refusal from two assemblies, a support committee for Truth and Justice in recognition of the consequences of nuclear testing and fair compensation for victims was established on 3rd of June.

In addition, a national petition with 12,000 signatures was brought to Matignon, residence of the Prime Minister on the Elysees.

AVEN continue their struggle, reports a mainland news site, South West.


translation, additional reporting by jason brown

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20081101 knight news challenge

. . .

knight news challenge:

application for a good governance project,


total transparency tools, TTT




november 2008
avaiki nius agency



Project Title: total transparency tools, TTT
Requested amount from Knight News Challenge:
500,000
Expected amount of time to complete project: 2/3 years
Total cost of project including all sources of funding: 500,000


Describe your project:

TTT, total transparency tools, offer global transformation simply by extending everyday email skills.

TTT takes an open-source approach to a gender-balanced, ethics-based training model, promoting participation in real-time, real-world information for and by ‘real’ people.

This project takes three years of conceptualisation and a draft working model to the next phase, seeding a pilot project across 26 territories and states of the world’s most widespread and vulnerable region, the Pacific Islands.

From Hawaii in the north, Aotearoa to the South and Rapa Nui westwards, imploding timeframes for global warming add urgency to calls for effective networking of communities facing climate adaptation, and, in some cases, sovereign extinction. Related issues exist for Oceanic partners, Australia and New Zealand.

How will your project improve the way news and information are delivered to geographic communities?

Total transparency tools, TTT offer potential for broad scalability using mainstream web2 tools as an open gateway to “golden mile” transformation of good governance globally, starting with bottom up advocacy among communities.


At people level, email users avoid having to learn complicated (and usually male dominated) content management systems, like Joomla for example, a favourite among toys-for-boys IT sections!


Instead, even a remote user can extend an email account to update and interact with social networks, like Blogger, Facebook and Ning – all via email.

Remote media centres limited only to UHF email, for example, might partner with urban media centres with better internet links to enable web-based registrations.

What experience do you or your organisation have to successfully develop this project?


Living on a small island since 1977, I remember wind-up phones, morse code and telex, the excitement in 1981 of phone and fax, space-age reality of a satellite dish, gleaming stark white among glossy green banana leaves and coconut trees.

Suitably impressed, us islanders grabbed hold of email to avoid ruinously expensive toll calls, us$3 a minute at one stage.

Similar patterns are emerging for adoption of web2 approaches to all sorts of
social issues, including corruption and mismanagement.


Going online with my news agency from 2004, I learnt how to work around internet access issues with a third-world approach to www wonderful-whatever- works!

Early web2 advocacy helped plant seeds that emerged this year as the region’s first successful media forums, the Pacific Freedom Forum and Pacific Islands Journalism Online, assisting also with similar efforts for a public news blog from PIMA, an Auckland-based NGO, the Pacific Islands Media Association (New Zealand).

How is your idea innovative; new or different from what already exists?


Not just innovative, globally transformative, always, by favouring low-tech information over high-tech processes. Every time an information-first approach; technology a distant second.


By getting back-to-basics with mainstream webmail, TTT establishes an ethics2 administrative overlay, offering immediate scalability. In the same way online networks now refer to the need for cloud or even swarm computing, TTT provides ‘virtual’ capacity, on whatever scale, when and where needed.

TTT also:


  • serves as a back-up for existing good governance approaches, providing raw
    RSS feeds for monthly accounts and annual audits.
  • user friendly, promoting awareness that anyone can freely create their
    own transparency tools.

Another innovation takes TTT advocates through next phase certification processes, the first free, the second and third outlining techniques and transformations required to gain a full TTT credit.

An early example of these tools in action can be found at my agency’s transparency blog, avaiki nius featuring email alerts auto-published from my own personal bank account.

Another draft ethics2 example, updates traditional curriculum vitae concepts, founding as curriculum veritas.

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email-2-web




















 

 

email-2-web

Empowering communities using existing skills base




email-2-web | 30 second overview

 

Once set up, auto-publishing emails to the web is easy.

 

1. Write an email.

2. Click send.

3. Free site auto-publishes email as webpage.



training objective




Counterpart train ICT skills, namely how to set up and update weblog sites using existing email skills.




need for the training




Businesses, NGOs, churches, community groups, and government entities want websites.




Barriers to establishing a website have included particularly high access costs including paying for technical skills.




Another problem: websites rarely receive updates. Nevermind the technical side of things, many people lack skills to create their content.




Common question: what do we write about?




purpose of the training




This funding application sees training in two main areas – simple online skills and information creation.




Firstly, funding this ICT training application gives online skills to use simple, free tools establishing and - equally important - updating their own websites.




Recently emergent technologies known as weblogs or blogs for short work similarly to free email accounts. Anyone who can use email can begin learning these skills fairly easily.




Secondly, updating. Information is often a silent “i” in ICT development. Neglecting this means many websites never approach full potential. Training outlined here will also give participants confidence to use their own personality to create authentic, interactive, information-rich weblog sites.




In terms of realising the strategic advantage of weblogs at a national, regional and global levels, counterpart trainers are essential.




training programme outline




1.1 What is the internet ?


1.2 What is the (world wide) web?


1.3 Where the internet lives (hint: next to phone calls and faxes)


1.4 Importance of websites


1.5 Updating by email – how web log sites are changing the internet


1.6 Understanding search engines


1.7 Online figures in different "markets"


1.8 Personalise your service – let people know who you (and your staff) are


1.9 Don’t be like everyone else – be unique - use your own language


1.10 RSS what is Really Simple Syndication?


1.11 Should I use my name or a nickname?




2.0 Web logs


2.1 Weblogs


2.2 Blogs


2.3 Who uses blogs


2.4 How blogs fit into your business / NGO / ministry


2.5 Let’s set one up


2.6 Setting your secret email-to-web address


2.7 Adding links


2.8 Changing the look


2.9 Setting up your free email


2.10 Adding your RSS feed for Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail


2.11 Promoting your web log / website




3.0 What can I put on my site?


3.1 How often should I update?


3.2 Using my mobile phone camera to update my site


3.3 Using your own community as a source of material


3.4 Sources of information – newspapers, radio, TV, newsletters, show you are a part of your community


3.5 Pictures, photos, stuff you’ve seen on the web


3.6 Your views


3.8 Your guests, clients, members, staff


3.9 Who should I involve in my site?


3.10 Partnering between youth, business and women


3.11 Why Coca Cola is the number one soft drink on the planet


3.12 Why you only need a small sip




4.0 Setting up your own gmail


4.1 Setting up your own blogger weblog site


4.2 Fine tuning your weblog site.


4.3 Problem solving on your weblog site – where to get help




5.0 Content creation – filling your weblog site


5.1 Online resources – where to find statistics, information and graphics


5.2 How to create your own online content


5.3 Updating your website – when and how


5.4 Conclusion – reviewing the review


 


expected outcomes of the training




Participants able to overview the internet and their potential part in it.

 

Participants set up their own weblog site, adding an email updating feature.



Counterpart trainers able to pass skills onto wider audiences, including other trainers.




training timeframe




40 hours localisation, 40 hours training and 40 hours follow up assistance, development of next phase training with counterpart trainers.




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20060530 email-2-web application








































email-2-web


Empowering communities with
existing technologies




NZAID Funding for in-country training is now available for the financial year 2006-2007. Training proposals are invited to be submitted to the Department for National Human Resources Development by 21st May 06.




Title of the Training




email-2-web


Auto-publishing emails to the web


1. Write an email.

2. Click send.

3. Free site auto-publishes email as webpage.



Objective of the training




Teach Cook Islanders ICT skills, namely how to set up and update their own weblog sites using existing technologies.




The need for the training (background)




Businesses, NGOs, churches, community groups, and government entities want websites.




Barriers to establishing a website have included particularly high access costs including paying for technical skills.




Another problem is that websites rarely receive updates. This is because many people lack basic information creation skills.




A common question is – what should we put on our website?




The purpose of the training




This funding application sees training in two main areas – simple online skills and information creation.




Firstly, funding this ICT training application will give Cook Islanders online skills to use simple, free tools to establish and - equally important - update their own websites.




Recently emergent technologies known as weblogs or blogs for short work similarly to free email accounts. Anyone who can use email can begin learning these skills fairly easily.




Secondly, updating. Information is often the silent “i” in discussion of ICT development. Neglecting this aspect means many websites do not reach their full potential. Training outlined here will also give participants confidence to use their own observational skills to create authentic, information-rich weblog sites.




In terms of realising the strategic advantage of weblogs at a national level, this application proposes counterpart trainers to spread this knowledge widely as possible.




Training programme outline (summary of what’s to be covered in the training)




> Five days with two daily sessions: 8am to 12.30pm and 1pm to 5.30pm.


> Morning sessions for counterpart trainers.


> Afternoon sessions for NGOs, government information officers and outer islands delegates.




1.1 What is the internet ?


1.2 What is the (world wide) web?


1.3 Where the internet lives (right next to phone calls and faxes)


1.4 The importance of websites


1.5 Updating by email – how web log site services are changing the internet


1.6 Understanding search engines


1.7 Online booking figures in Europe, the United States and Australasia


1.8 Personalise your service – let people know who you (and your staff) are


1.9 Don’t be like everyone else – be unique - use your own language


1.10 RSS what is Really Simple Syndication?


1.11 Should I use my name or a nickname?




2.0 Web logs


2.1 Weblogs


2.2 Blogs


2.3 Who uses blogs


2.4 How blogs fit into your business / NGO / ministry


2.5 Let’s set one up


2.6 Setting your secret email-to-web address


2.7 Adding links


2.8 Changing the look


2.9 Setting up your free email


2.10 Adding your RSS feed for Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail


2.11 Promoting your web log / website




3.0 What can I put on my site?


3.1 How often should I update?


3.2 Using my mobile phone camera to update my site


3.3 Using your own community as a source of material


3.4 Sources of information – newspapers, radio, TV, newsletters, show you are a part of your community


3.5 Pictures, photos, stuff you’ve seen on the web


3.6 Your views


3.8 Your guests, clients, members, staff


3.9 Who should I involve in my site?


3.10 Partnering between youth, business and women


3.11 Why Coca Cola is the number one soft drink on the planet


3.12 Why you only need a small sip




4.0 Setting up your own gmail


4.1 Setting up your own blogger weblog site


4.2 Fine tuning your weblog site.


4.3 Problem solving on your weblog site – where to get help




5.0 Content creation – filling your weblog site


5.1 Online resources – where to find statistics, information and graphics


5.2 How to create your own online content


5.3 Updating your website – when and how


5.4 Conclusion – reviewing the review


 


Expected outcome of the training (what benefit will the participant gain after the training).




Participants will be able to overview the internet and their potential place in it. Participants will, if internet access is enabled for this workshop, have set up their own website or added an email updating feature to their existing website.




Counterpart trainers will be able to pass these skills onto a wider audience.




Budget – will only cover the following costs: (a) trainer fees (b) resource material (c) air/boat travel and per diem costs if trainer and trainees have to travel internally (d) some refreshment costs




Trainer fees


$35 per hour x 80 hours 2,800




30 hours preparation including further development of this proposal, 40 hours of training and 10 hours follow up assistance and development of next phase training with counterpart trainers.




Resource materials: Computer rentals and internet access


10 x computers x 5 days @$30 each 1,500




While computer rentals and internet access do not appear to be specifically outlined in the funding application advertising, teaching ICT skills are impossible without them.




Resource materials: others


50 pages x 20 participants @ 30 cents 300




Refreshments


$50 x 2 x 5 days (morning and afternoon tea) 500




Rarotonga subtotal 5,100




Airfares*


Penrhyn 1,600


Manihiki 1,500


Rakahanga 1,500 + 500


Pukapuka 1,500


Nassau 1,500 + 500




Atiu 400


Mauke 400


Mitiaro 400


Aitutaki 300


Mangaia 300




Per diems


$60 x 10 x 7 days 4,200




Outer islands component subtotal 14,600




Total ICT workshop training budget nz$19,700




* if NZAID/DNHRD decides outer islands participation is a priority.




Clearstream Wins Defamation Award Appeal Over French Journalist



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Clearstream Wins Defamation Award Appeal Over French Journalist

By Heather Smith

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Clearstream International SA, the financial-settlement company owned by Deutsche Boerse AG, won 1,500 euros ($2,000) in damages from a French journalist in its appeal of an earlier 1-euro defamation award.

The Paris court of appeals ruled that reporter Denis Robert and his publisher Les Arenes, or Canal Plus, the pay-TV unit of Vivendi SA that ran a documentary in 2001 featuring Robert's reports, erred when they claimed that Clearstream's numbered accounts facilitated illegal activities, according to a statement from Clearstream.

Clearstream's goal ``has been to establish the truth about its activities and to defend its honesty,'' said Clearstream Chairman Andre Roelants in the statement. The appeals court's decision to increase the damages ``accomplishes that.''

An appeals court in Brussels last month fined Canal Plus Belgique 1 euro in a libel case over the same documentary.

A spokesman for Canal Plus and Larence Corona, a spokeswoman for Les Arenes, declined to comment on today's ruling. Robert's lawyer didn't immediately return a call for comment.

To contact the reporter on this story: Heather Smith in Paris at hsmith26@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: October 16, 2008 13:18 EDT



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Clearstream Wins Defamation Award Appeal Over French Journalist

By Heather Smith

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Clearstream International SA, the financial-settlement company owned by Deutsche Boerse AG, won 1,500 euros ($2,000) in damages from a French journalist in its appeal of an earlier 1-euro defamation award.

The Paris court of appeals ruled that reporter Denis Robert and his publisher Les Arenes, or Canal Plus, the pay-TV unit of Vivendi SA that ran a documentary in 2001 featuring Robert's reports, erred when they claimed that Clearstream's numbered accounts facilitated illegal activities, according to a statement from Clearstream.

Clearstream's goal ``has been to establish the truth about its activities and to defend its honesty,'' said Clearstream Chairman Andre Roelants in the statement. The appeals court's decision to increase the damages ``accomplishes that.''

An appeals court in Brussels last month fined Canal Plus Belgique 1 euro in a libel case over the same documentary.

A spokesman for Canal Plus and Larence Corona, a spokeswoman for Les Arenes, declined to comment on today's ruling. Robert's lawyer didn't immediately return a call for comment.

To contact the reporter on this story: Heather Smith in Paris at hsmith26@bloomberg.net

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