Hello everyone,
Just a very short note: from I heard until now, from the noices which are
circularing in more or less official places, I was told that the proposal
written by president Samassekou will constitue the basis of most discussions
of prepcom2. For example, the swiss delegation is preparing its position on
the basis of this paper...
This paper was drafted during a very unformal expert meeting and we don't
know who did participate to this meeting. But apparentlly this declaration
willl have more impact on the discussions than any other (sometimes you
wonder why we work so hard to give in our papers in time.... anyway...
democracy is a long way away)
Bets regards,
Chantal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Peake" <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
To: <communication@wsisasia.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:31 AM
Subject: [communication 496] Re: Fw: [WSIS CSCG] Civil society participation
in Prepcom II
Al,
WSIS: An Asian Response" workshop report was accepted as an input
document for both
the regional conference and PrepCom2. See the PrepCom2 document list,
and file "Collective contribution from several Asian NGOs
WSIS/PC-2/C/0025" at
<http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/md/03/wsispc2/c/S03-WSISPC2-C-0025!!MSW-E.
doc>
The Asia Civil Society Forum (CONGO) document is not mentioned on the
PrepCom2 document list (it is on the Asian regional meeting website.)
Seems it was not submitted to the WSIS secretariat. I thought it
was, perhaps someone could check. May not be too late to have it
listed.
My guess (and I really don't anymore than anyone else) is there will
not be a draft action plan or declaration issued before PrepCom2
starts.
I think for guidance we need to refer to the "non-document" from the
PrepCom President. See
<http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/md/03/wsispc2/inf/S03-WSISPC2-INF-0001!!MS
W-E.doc>
Note the intro to this document:
"Explanatory Note
The purpose of this note is to explain briefly, for the benefit of
participants in PrepCom-2, the origin and purpose of the attached
document entitled Information and Communication for All.
With the support and guidance of the WSIS Bureau, and with the
very able assistance of the Swiss and Executive Secretariats, the
President of the Preparatory Committee convened a meeting of a Group
of Experts in December. This group helped the President draft an
informal document intended to assist PrepCom-2 in its initial
discussions of a draft Declaration and Action Plan."
Other documents to consider are the Millennium Development Goals
<http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/>. Touchstone issues for WSIS and
UN ICT Task Force.
So any issue or caucus based paper might benefit from being relevant
to the President's non-paper, taking into account MDGs, and even have
some overlap with DOT Force/UN ICT Task Force action plan. (This is
of course my guess -- WSIS is pretty much a mystery to all of us!)
Last -- look again at the DOT Force report and the action items
outlined there. The DOT Force action plan is being carried forward
by the UN ICT Task Force. It is perhaps (?) the best first draft we
have of any WSIS action plan. At least, I can't see them dropping
anything mentioned in the DOT Force plan. (I expect they will add
and/or emphasize missing MDG issues.)
Adam
>Gaurab, Izumi, Adam, Patcha, Chat, Mavic, Sasha, Susanna, Nick, Robert,
>Bobby, Chun (and all!...shouldn'th ave started naming names...)
>
>Please be informed of this thread started by Sally of ALAI--am copying it
to
>you now. (Take note about the stress on Action Plans...)
>
>Do I assume that our "final" Tokyo statement is one we will work on? Or
even
>the two other earlier Bangkok statements as they contain stuff not included
>in the Tokyo one (which specifically reacted to the draft declaration)?
>
>Am asking for guidance so we may know how to proceed to getting our content
>in, in the most efficient and tactical way--both to the CS coordinating
>bodies and to the WSIS PrepCom2 secreatariat itself.
>
>Let this list be the forum for any comments, suggestions, questions on
>this...
>
>Al
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Sally Burch - ALAI <sburch@alainet.org>
>To: <wsis-cscg@comunica.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [WSIS CSCG] Civil society participation in Prepcom II
>
>
>> WSIS Civil Society Coordinating Group list
>> Hi,
>>
>> I haven't seen examples of thematic causus statements, but the
>> youth and gender caucuses have produced statements.
>>
>> I wouldn't worry too much about the length at this stage. The
>> important thing is to get agreement on what the central ideas are
>> and express it in a statement. And then either at the end of the
>> document or on a separate one-pager, translate that into specific
>> language that you consider could be part of the Action Plan.
>>
>> By posting these statements back to the lists, we could then hope
> > to get feedback from others.
>>
>> Sally
>>
>> On 5 Feb 03, at 1:38, Hans Klein wrote:
>>
>> > WSIS Civil Society Coordinating Group list
>> >
>> > Sally,
>> >
>> > Thanks for raising this issue.
>> >
>> > I would be grateful to see an example report from a thematic caucus.
>Are
>> > we talking about one page here? Or five?
>> >
>> > Has *any* group done a report that they can post here?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Hans
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 03:44 PM 2/4/2003 -0500, Sally Burch - ALAI wrote:
>> > >WSIS Civil Society Coordinating Group list
>> > >Hi all,
>> > >
>> > >I have just been looking through the program for PrepCom II. It is
>> > >clear that the main activity is the Subcommittee II (content and
>> > >themes) sessions on the Plan of Action. People were mentioning
>> > >last week that we wouldn't have access to that meeting but unless
>> > >something has changed, as I understand it we should be admitted
>> > >as observers, and with possible spaces for interventions (has
>> > >anyone heard otherwise?)
>> > >
>> > >But more important than sitting in on the meetings themselves, we
>> > >need to have proposals ready in "UN language" to submit to
>> > >friendly governments. Which -if any- of the thematic caucuses
>> > >have been working on their proposals? If you have produced
>> > >general statements, you should now be looking at producing
>> > >shorter more specific proposals in language that could be directly
>> > >incorporated into the respective documents. If you have not started
>> > >working yet, then this is the key moment to do so. This is the best
>> > >moment to get new content into the documents. By the time we
>> > >reach Prepcom III we will probably be reacting to content already
>> > >elaborated, but with much less chance of including new issues.
>> > >
>> > >The content and themes civil society working group can collaborate
>> > >with fitting the proposals into the respective sections of the Action
>> > >Plan (depending on how the Subcommittee defines the structure of
>> > >themes); but we can't possibly produce all the content. This needs
>> > >to be done by those with a specific interest in each issue in
>> > >question.
>> > >
>> > >Could the leaders of each caucus please report back here on how
>> > >they are working, what specific issues they are covering and when
>> > >they will be producing their documents?
>> > >
>> > >Sally Burch
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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