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Date:  Sun, 09 Feb 2003 13:49:37 -0800
From:  leelangi@itmin.com
Subject:  [communication 501] Re: Fw: [WSIS CSCG] Civil society  participation in Prepcom II
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Hello,
Was the final Tokyo document was posted on this list?
Leelangi 


At 12:17 AM 2/6/03 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Al,
>
>Yeah, I think what Sally is talking about (I may be wrong) is a short
>document each caucus should produce (maybe it could be like a 2 minute
>speech as well?) that describes the key concerns of the grouping.
>
>I think for practical purposes our task here wearing our Asia Pacific hats
>is mainly to highlight those issues we think are specific to our region (but
>also have global ramifications). 
>
>For example:
>- The special needs of small island developing states
>- the disparity in access to technology within regions (ie. Inner-city Tokyo
>vs rural PNG)
>- cultural diversity
>- freedom of expression
>
>We don't need to detail everything, just some select things that are most
>important. We could also briefly mention the other general themes/approaches
>we think are important.
>
>I'm focusing on the youth one, so I hope someone else can write this.
>
>Cheers
>Nick
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan G. Alegre [mailto:alalegre@codewan.com.ph] 
>Sent: February 5, 2003 11:13 PM
>To: wsis-asia
>Subject: [communication 490] Fw: [WSIS CSCG] Civil society participation in
>Prepcom II
>
>
>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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