Important comment from Sally Burch about how to coordinate civil
society input on the intersessional documents.
What shall we (Asian Caucus?), do?
A number of Japanese NGOs have been meeting to develop comments, they
have also been working with the government. I hope these comments
will be available in English by the end of the week. Of course we'll
share with this list.
Have others been holding national consultations?
Thanks,
Adam
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>Hi everyone,
>
>We remind you this is the list for discussing civil society content
>for the WSIS.=A0
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>Before starting, the coordinators of this group (Sally Burch and Bill
>McIver) want to make a quick consultation on process. Please
>answer the questions below within 24 hours.
>
>A few weeks ago we circulated a proposal for working on
>responses to the document produced by the WSIS, last March, for
>which a deadline of May 30 has been fixed by the Bureau.
>
>In our proposal, thematic caucuses and working groups were
>encouraged to produce their specific comments on the document,
>during April, and then during May we would work on a consensus
>document to meet the May 30 deadline. Following that, we
>proposed to work on our own civil society document before the 3rd
>Prepcom, as was agreed at the civil society plenary in Geneva.
>
>We know some caucuses have been working on content, but do
>not have a clear idea how many or which.
>
>The web tool for editing the documents is now almost ready
>(details later). However, before looking at how we should work, we
>want to make a quick consultation. Time is running late and we
>have less than three weeks to produce our comments on the
>document. Does it make sense, at this stage, to produce a single
>document, or should we rather focus on producing caucus
>documents?
>
>If we produce a single document, we will need all the caucus inputs
>this week and then a small team of, say, 4-5 people with sufficient
>time to focus on editing next week. This may not be realistic.
>
>So please answer the following questions:
>
>1) Which caucus are you representing? Has your caucus worked
>on content since Prepcom 2 and/or are you planning to before the
>May 30 deadline? Would you be able to have your input ready
>before next Monday?
>
>2) Do you consider we should give priority to drawing up a common
>document at this stage, or should we give more time to the
>caucuses to produce their own statements?
>
>3) Are you willing to be on the editing team next week if we decide
>to go ahead with the common document?
>
>4) Do you agree that, whatever modality the official process takes,
>after May we should focus on producing our own common civil
>society document (not necessarily restricted to the terms of the
>official documents?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sally Burch
>
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