Alliance for a responsible, plural and united world

World citizens assembly
Lille – December 2-10, 2001

Regional group

PACIFIC ASIA

Priority 1 : Poverty eradication (financial and non financial)

Strategies : 
·	Microcredit / microfinancing and creation of global fund for microcredit.
·	Redistribution of wealth through taxation and public spending, especially progressive and capital tax like Tobin tax.
·	Community control of public sector projects / services / institution through advisory council.
·	Democratisation of international finance institution (WB, IMF)
·	Empowerment of local authority through training and capacity building and organizational strength of the poor.
·	Set up developmental task force by sending professional to villages.
·	Self critique of education system accessible to poor, establishing strong public education system and life organization learning account to support continuing education and training
·	Lengthen schooling years

Priority 2 : Managing cultural diversity : bottom up and top down

Strategies :
·	Strengthening regional and international groupings in Asia / Pacific.
·	School education about cultural richness and engaging with diverse cultures in the local community. Educators also to be involved in cross cultural immersion
·	Ensuring representation of ethnic communities on public sector bodies and in policy development.
·	Charter committing public bodies to serve diverse communities.
·	Encouraging responsible, ethnical media reporting diverse cultural issues
·	Celebrate our diversity and promote working together through cultural events.

Priority 3 : Reconciliation

Strategies :
·	Work through media, political and educational structures toward decisive action for reconciliation (eg. Treaty in Australia with indigenous people)
·	Elected leaders to put principle and knowledgeable judgement before short term political expediency and popularity.
·	Affirmative action for marginalised groups
·	Indonesia – Australia reconciliation

Priority 4 : character and quality leadership

·	Publicize networks and organizations promoting responsible leadership (eg. Parliamentary for Global Action and Global organization Politician Against Corruption).
·	Codes of conduct for professionals, including anti corruption guidelines, especially for those in public office.
·	Improve perception of parliament to attract future quality candidatures.

Priority 5 : quality of life

·	Less working hours for same pay
·	Social charter between government, multinational company and society to civilize global capital
·	Minimum state budget for health, education and infrastructure to guarantee minimum standards
·	Public dialogue on quality of life issues and measurement

Priority 6 : media diversity

·	Parliamentary / democratic inquires into how public media institutions carry out their cultural diversity charters
·	Reintroduce legislation to enhance diversity of media ownership
·	Prevent political strategies owning and running media monopolies within a state

Priority 7 : technology not for profit but serve human needs and environmental sustainability

·	Limit and reduce the length of time for patents and intellectual property rights to stop profiting at the expense of poorer nation / people.
·	Integrate sustainability into scientific and technological training
·	Need to undertake natural resource inventories
·	Develop design strategies to reduce energy consumption
·	Incentives for adopting sustainable technology and programs for transferring appropriate technologies

Priority 8 : promoting alternatives measurement of human development

·	Alliance to develop and promote new benchmark for measuring total quality of life to supplement GDP measurement.