Dear all,
Many thanks to Al for the update and keeping us focused. Al has undertaken this
update /coordination for us as the designated focal point of the Engagement Working
Group (set up at the Bangkok workshop). We hope to converge our Bangkok working
groups into the other groups and continue with post-Tokyo activities. Looking forward
to seeing those of you going to Tokyo and meeting new colleagues. We will keep you
posted from Tokyo.
Sacha
"Alan G. Alegre" wrote:
> Dear all
>
> Greetings of solidarity from Manila...
>
> It will be just a couple of days when the Tokyo meetings will start and I
> would like to congratulate everyone (especially from our friends in Japan
> like Izumi, Adam, Hamada and others who are facilitating a lot of things)
> for all the efforts to transcend structural, distance, and time barriers to
> enable Civil Society and NGOs to engage the processes more meaningfully.
>
> Congrats as well to the organizers of the different side events, which all
> promise to be very interesting and relevant.
>
> As some of us are leaving in for Tokyo within the week, I would like to post
> some final recommendations for the Tokyo meetings, which some of us have
> been talking and thinking about already:
>
> 1. I would like to reiterate the importance of the process of converging all
> NGOs in the Open Meetings (a la NGO Plenary in PRepCom1 which was very
> effective in coordinating "modes of NGO participation"), scheduled for 5-7
> pm both on Saturday (11th) and Sunday (12th), at the UN University. We
> appreciate all efforts to align the other side events to this schedule so as
> to prevent overlap/competing times. It is extremely important to have these
> meetings as our own space to coordinate all NGO-related activities and
> concerns.
>
> 2. Aside from the usual briefings these meeting will have, we also are
> looking at the possibility of ensuring that all NGO panelists and presentors
> during the formal meeting, come together to share with everyone interested
> the outline/content of their presentations, so we are confident that all
> important messages are delivered, and overlaps are minimized. Though we are
> all autonomous and independent from each other, coordination is of utmost
> importance (based on the previous experience at the Geneva PrepCom1).
>
> IN this light may I suggest that all proposed panelists and presenters do a
> "sharing session" with interested CSO stakeholders, either during the open
> meetings/plenaries, or sometime after (maybe in an informal after-dinner
> session) to preview and share their intended presentations for
> feedback--revisions, endorsement--from the other members. The panel
> discussions should be an opportunity to represent all the major concerns of
> the diverse ngo stakeholders that we call Asia ngo/civil society. (Thanks to
> Sacha for this sound suggestion.)
>
> 3. I also would reiterate to all going to Tokyo to think of the possiblity
> of possible areas of work where you can volunteer to facilitate our work
> there. I had suggested about 4 "working clusters" to be active in Tokyo:
> - Logistics
> - Content
> - Information and Outreach
> - "lobbying"/Engagement
> Hopefully you will all have an idea of where you can best contribute so we
> may structure things loosely but effectively.
>
> 4. We encourage everyone to gather information that may be useful to our
> processes, and may I stress that situationers from your respective official
> country delegations may also be important to share.
>
> Please feel free to send this out to all NGO people not on this list but who
> you know will be in Tokyo, with some sort of background info about our
> common efforts to have this CSO convergence process--from Geneva PrepCom1,
> to Bangkok (both the WACC/Forum Asia workshop, as well as the CONGO ACSF
> meeting), to Hyderabad Asian Social Forum, and finally to Tokyo.
>
> ==========================================
> I know of 3-4 "centers of gravity" in Tokyo if you need to coordinate with
> someone:
>
> Hotel: Toyoko Inn Kamata No.2
> 7-24-7 Nishi-Kamatam Ota-ku, Tokyo 144-0051, Japan
> Tel: 81-3-3733-2580, Fax: 81-3-3733-2581
> Possible Contact points there: Sacha Jotisalikorn, Bobby Garcia
>
> Hotel: Shinagawa Prince Hotel, Main Tower
> 10-30, Takanawa 4-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8611, Japan
> Tel: 81-3-3440-1111, Fax: 81-3-3441-7092
> Possible Contact points there: Al Alegre, Jaba Menon
>
> Hotel: Children's Palace- Kodomonoshiro-Hotel (Jan 10-11 only)
> 5-53-1, Jinguumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0001, Japan
> Tel: 81-3-3797-5677, Fax: 81-3-3406-7805
> Possible Contact points there: Chat Ramilo and others from the Gender caucus
>
> Glocom Office
> 6-15-21 Roppongi, Minato-ku Tokyo 106-0032
> TEL: +81-3-5411-6677 FAX: +81-3-5412-7111
> Possible Contact points there: Izumi Aizu, Adam Peake, Yumiko Masuda
> ==========================================
>
> For those not going to Tokyo, we hope that the communcation@wsisasia.org
> list will be the place for continuous on site briefings and reports. The
> stakeholders to the Asian process are certainly beyond only those able to
> attend the face-to-face meetings!
>
> Thanks a lot and hope to meet all Tokyo sojourners soon!
>
> In solidarity
> Al Alegre
>
> P.S. I am also reposting again a draft by the global civil society
> Sub-committee on Participation (formed at PrepCom 1, under the aegis of the
> Civil Society Plenary Group) of a paper outlining important participation
> and inclusion issues, FYI. (Sent by Sean O'Sochru). Apologies if you have
> recieved this already.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Izumi Aizu <izumi@anr.org>
> To: <hiroko-h@jumonji-u.ac.jp>; <kiochkim@sookmyung.ac.kr>; Kwan Liow
> <kwan@gkpsecretariat.org.my>; 'Rinalia Abdul Rahim'
> <rinalia@gkpsecretariat.org.my>; Beris Gwynne <berisgwynne@fdc.org.au>;
> Robert Guild <RobertG@forumsec.org.fj>; <nick@takingitglobal.org>; toshimaru
> ogura <ogr@nsknet.or.jp>
> Cc: <communication@wsisasia.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:37 PM
> Subject: [communication 209] Open Meeting on Jan 11 and 12
>
> >
> >
> > Dear organizers of the Side Events,
> >
> > Asian NGOs involved with WSIS is now forming a coordination committee
> > tentatively titled as
> > "Asia Pacific NGO Coordination Committee for WSIS"
> >
> > and there is a proposal to hold an "Open Meeting" during the Side Event,
> > Saturday and Sunday, in the late afternoon, say from 5 to 7 pm at UNU.
> >
> > It seems that after 5 pm should be OK for most events except the
> > Communication Rights, but since the last part if video one, some
> > people should be able to join (according to Hamada-san).
> >
> > One request is Room. All rooms are used in the late afternoon,
> > so UNU person told me it is better to ask if any of you, the organizers
> > who is going to conclude the meeting each day before 5 pm so that
> > that same room can be used for this Open Meeting.
> >
> > Could you indicate if you are ready to "give up" the room before or
> > around 5 PM?
> >
> > We want to discuss:
> > -> to formaly kick off NGO Coordination Commitee;
> > introduce ourselves, share what each other are facing and doing
> > prepare NGO panel in the plenary
> > discuss about the Declaration, with two NGO reps to the editorial
> committee
> > prepare for PrepCom2 and Summit
> >
> > Below is the summary of the concluding time of the side events as I
> gathered
> > (correct me if I am wrong or you changed the agenda recently).
> >
> > Gender - Saturday, 11th: 5 pm, Sunday, 12th: noon
> > Communication Rights - Sunday: late afternoon will be Movie session
> > Information Society - Sunday: 5 pm
> > Youth - Saturday: not certain, 7:30 pm, dinner?
> > Sunday: 6 pm?
> > Pacific Islands - Sunday: 4:45 pm
> >
> > Though Pacific Island organizer is not quite the "NGO", I still think
> > asking key persons will benefit NGO/civil society and Pacific Island
> > stakeholders together.
> >
> > Thank you for your understandings and cooperation.
> >
> > izumi
> >
> >
> >
>
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