For the "P2 contingent"--particularly those arriving for the first week:
> > When do we plan to meet?
> >
> > Monday morning while the governments are deciding our fate for the
> > next 2 weeks?
May I suggest that we do get together during lunch on the first day. Lets
leave the morning to find each other in the opening session. If I remember
correctly, there is a canteen at the mezzanine of the CICG (ist day venue)
which serves cheap food. Lets meet there, 1230? (Am particularly asking the
Youth Caucus contingent if they are free since they are the most numerous--6
of the 14 I listed as going are from the Youth Caucus.)
We do have to get organized to talk about:
(What follows is a proposed agenda; feel free to add, subtract, multiply and
divide...)
1. Pending business from Tokyo:
- TY letter to Samassekou (as per Sacha's reminder of a suggestion from last
December)
- Tokyo Declaration: ensuring it gets in somehow to the official documents
- (what else?)
2. Info and Outreach work:
- Asia Pacific "packet" (as per Adam's suggestion): production and
distribution strategy;
- On site reports: the suggestion is for a daily report to this list (and
others) > who shall do it?
- other plans and activities
3. Coordinating Spaces and Times:
- Coordinating meetings/caucuses of Asian CSO Caucus/AP NGO CCW during week
one
- coordination of these with schedules of other caucuses/meetings (e.g,
Gender, Youth, CRIS, civil society "family meetings", etc.) to prevent
overlap and optimize participation
- logistics: communication system
4. Coordinating Structure/s
- time for a more formal nomination of a (new) "coordinator/convenor/chair"
and/or Steering Committee (hopefully with reps from the sectoral caucuses
and with some geographical diversity)
- "Distance Participation"*: mailing list consultations (need for someone
offsite to be a facilitator of this when "decisions" have to be validated)
- Asian participation in the global CS structures
5. Initial discussion on PrepCom2 issues (SUBSTANCE, finally!):
==================================================
- Civil Society Bureau: concept and operations; representation of Asians
- Samassekou's non-paper: content and themes/action plan
- Lobbying work: Sub-Comm2, National delegations, CS Directorate/Exec
Secretariat, etc.
Again, please feel free to add issues you feel are important. Let us all
draw on our collective experiences from Geneva (P1) to Bangkok to Tokyo, and
learn from them. Notwithstanding Susanna's recent post on the limits and
possibilities of finding unity in diversity, let us not lose sight of the
strategic objectives we had when we engaged WSIS, and ACT accordingly while
we can...
Hoping for your prayers in support of those in Geneva
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: Sacha Jotisalikorn <sacha@forumasia.org>
To: <communication@wsisasia.org>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 10:43 PM
Subject: [communication 540] Re: asian voices in geneva
> Dear all P2 contingent,
>
> Re Adam's comment about meeting. Since GLOCOM have already taken care of
the
> thank you letters to the Japanese hosts, maybe you can all take the
opportunity
> in Geneva to discuss drafting similar letters for Mr. Samassekou and
Levine and
> include our Tokyo statement (as we discussed in earlier messages).
>
> Sacha
>
> Adam Peake wrote:
>
> > Feri Lumampao <fglumampao@approtech.org> and Mosharraf Hossain
> > <addbd@bangla.net> are registered, don't know if they are going.
> >
> > Both Feri and Mosharraf were in Tokyo.
> >
> > When do we plan to meet?
> >
> > Monday morning while the governments are deciding our fate for the
> > next 2 weeks?
> >
> > It is NOT to late to ask your government representatives to support
> > full civil society and private sector participation in Sub Committee
> > 2. Do it!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > > > Those going to P2 (or already there) could you please let me know
who
> > >> you are so that we can send you any updates on this Tokyo statement
via
> > >> email and our website.
> > >
> > >Who I know are going to Geneva from Asia:
> > >
> > >Nick Moraitis (Australia),
> > >Patcha, YJ Park (Korea)
> > >Doshi Maitreyi (India)
> > >Prasetyo Arief (Indonesia)
> > >Umi Sabriah (Malaysia)
> > >Adam Peake, Izumi Aizu (Japan)
> > >Robert Sagun, Bronce Roentgen, Al Alegre (Philippines)
> > >Bobby Garcia (Regional/Philippines), Raijeli Nicole (Regional/?);
Susanna
> > >George (Regional/Malaysia)
> > >
> > >Did I miss anyone? (probably did.). Please fill in... (Sacha, how about
you,
> > >Arfa and Serena? Chat, who is going for APC-WNSP Asia? Anyone from
Pacific
> > >Islands?)
> > >
> > >FYI, I may be speaking in behalf of the CRIS Campaign as one of the
civil
> > >society voices in the Second Roundtable ("Access to Knowledge, Open
Access,
> > >Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Local Content"...whew!) on Tuesday,
18
> > >Feb am. (If the gender balance is not good, I will give up my slot to a
> > >woman, probably Olinca Marino from Latin America, who is from APC)....
> > >
> > >If I do speak in RTable2, our Tokyo statement will find its way into
the
> > >presentation for sure somehow...:-)
> > >
> > >Seriously: Amidst the uncertainty of the times and the war rumblings
getting
> > >louder, let us celebrate our unity, our diversity, and our continuing
> > >commitment to the peace, justice, and human rights which will underpin
our
> > >vision of a truly communicative "information society"...
> > >
> > >Al
> >
> > --
>
>
>