Hi Izumi-san,
Good to hear form you and the work our friends in Japan are doing.
Could you give any guess/indication which of your points the Japanese
MOC would be favorable to include in their statement and which they
would be reluctant to? Are the Ministry of Foreign Affairs still
involved in this process?
Who form Japan will be going to the intersessional meeting?
Sacha
On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 13:00 Asia/Bangkok, Izumi AIZU wrote:
> Thanks Adam, and yes, we have called for re-grouping the meeting
> as WSIS Japan NGO Committee and so far had two meetings since
> late April. And we plan to hold another tomorrow to hopefully
> formalize our first draft of comment to the two official documents.
>
> We received a request from our Ministry of Communications (among
> other affairs) who hosted the Asia Pacific Meeting in January to
> submit NGO comments to them so that they could include
> (some of) them. Those gathered agreed to work on and will
> make our own version, submit them, and the government will
> include whatever they can accept. We will then forward our own,
> as a whole, to the WSIS secretariat, along the way we are willing
> to share our versions.
>
> We are trying to add some concept of "Vernacular" in addition
> to local and ubiquitous, and we are kind of struggling about this.
> One reason is that we feel uncomfortable with the current version
> which does not really recognize the local, native, diverse people
> and community as the main actor of the information society, but
> rather they are "treated" as the object to be given the benefit
> of not by the Powers that be or mighty industry techno giants.
> That is the feeling and rationale behind trying to insert more
> Vernacular approach.
>
> We saw the first document, vision and principle, rather week
> in structure and does not convey much visions - will try do
> add some elements. So far we could not cover the Action Plan
> document that much. I hope that we could share the result
> by either end of the week or early next week.
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> izumi
>
>
> At 12:10 03/05/13 +0900, you 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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>>> A few weeks ago we circulated a proposal for working on
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