Chun, thanks very much for this.
What does everyone think? Will this bring enough of an Asian flavor
to the issue of cultural diversity?
Thanks,
Adam
At 3:05 PM +0900 12/9/02, Chun Eung Hwi wrote:
>Dear Adam and others,
>
>
>UNESCO session organizer is the following person.
>I had got this information from Korean commission of UNESCO.
>
>Axel Plathe
>Information Society Division
>UNESCO
>1, rue Miollis
>75015 Paris
>t 33.1.45.68.44.67
>f 33.1.45.68.55.83
>
>And I attache preliminary plan for their session.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Chun Eung Hwi
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>On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Adam Peake wrote:
>
>> I spoke to one of the Japanese organizers this evening. As I
>> mentioned earlier, we have been trying to get an update on the
>> Agenda, etc., so we can brief the CONGO meeting on Tuesday (see
>> <http://www.acsf.net/>)
>>
>> Sessions on Monday, January 13. These are the responsibility of the
>> organizer, the organizers have not changed:
>> Session lead by UNESCO on cultural diversity, etc.
>> 2 sessions lead by UNDP on ICTs for development (see Bruce Girard's
>> email, "Subject: [communication 084] UNDP panels", for more info than
>> I have on this.) At one time the organizer for these sessions was
>> UNDP and Asian Development Bank, but seems ADB may (might) have
>> dropped back from this task. Not clear.
>> Main change is that a session on the future of e-economy lead by the
>> private sector may be held as a parallel session against 1 of the
>> UNDP sessions.
>>
>> I was not able to learn how to have input to any of these sessions
>> direct to the organizers (it is particularly frustrating that we
>> don't seem to know who at UNESCO is organizing, and how to contact
>> them. Perhaps there will be a good UNESCO presence at the CONGO
>> meeting and we'll find out there.) The ministry did say that any
>> suggestions about session content, recommendations for speakers,
>> etc., could be sent to the main conference contact address
> > <wsis@soumu.go.jp> and ask that it be forwarded. If anyone does
> > write to that address, you might also cc <ap-wsis@glocom.ac.jp> and
> > we will try push.
>>
>> January 14. Still devoted to formal statements, lead by governments,
>> the UN agencies, etc. They are still open to civil society being
>> given a couple of slots for statements (as they were at PrepCom1.)
>> But they are still finding it very difficult to know who can
>> represent civil society in this official format. Help with this is
>> something that this mailing list (as suggested in Bangkok, etc.),
> > next week's CONGO meeting, and probably the groups that will organize
> > side-meetings in Tokyo (Jan 11 and 12) might do. The slots are still
> > there if we can come up with names and give the organizers some idea
> > of why this person above all the other possibilities for civil
> > society should be given a slot during this part of the agenda.
>>
>> The session that was called the "interactive session" has now been
>> renamed something like "wrap up". It will be used for statements
>> from the floor. Civil society will have an opportunity to speak up.
>> But it seems to be loosing its discussion aspect. Important that this
>> time remain available for reports from other conferences (like CONGO
>> and the workshop from 2 weeks ago), and Tokyo side events to read
>> their comments into the record.
>>
>> That's about it. No other changes since report of 2 weeks ago.
>>
>> I still believe our way into the process is by offering substance.
>> Imagine you were running a regional conference, you were expecting
>> minsters of state from 20 plus countries, it's just month away (a
>> month of holidays), you haven't event got the agenda fixed.
> >
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
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