Dear Sacha
I won't get the visa until tomorrow. This is due to the process within
the university which took quite a few steps. I've asked the travel agency
to send the ticket to me on Thursday afternoon.
I will let you know as soon as everything is in order.
Ubonrat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sacha Jotisalikorn" <sacha@forumasia.org>
To: <communication@wsisasia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 8:17 AM
Subject: [communication 232] Re: Open Meeting on Jan 11 and 12 in WSIS
Tokyo; call to panelists/presentors for coordination
> 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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