Hi Adam,
Thanks for the update. Look forward too your news from Japan. Let me go=20=
through Sally's message and get back to you.
Sacha
On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 10:10 Asia/Bangkok, Adam Peake wrote:
> 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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>> From: "Sally Burch - ALAI" <sburch@alainet.org>
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>> Subject: [Ct] Starting the content discussion
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We remind you this is the list for discussing civil society content
>> for the WSIS.=A0
>>
>> 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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