COngratulations from East TImor on ASOs intervention.
Those issues are the most strategic in Asia-pacific
Regions.
Gill
Dili
--- alalegre@codewan.com.ph wrote: > Dear Angela,
Mavic and all Asian CSO colleagues in
> Paris
>
> Congratulations on your intervention in the plenary;
> it reconfirms Asian CSOs
> leadership role in the WSIS process...bravo to all
> who made it happen (and who
> drafted the statement in so little time)...
>
> The issues you emphasized are strategic and
> non-negotiable. I am sure you have
> the implicit support of people on this list...
>
> It seems that aside from organizing ourselves (not
> that easy because of our
> diversity), CSOs really has to be vigilant about
> interventions of government
> which represent backward steps to the gains already
> made. We know all of you
> will be actively guarding against this...
>
> In all of this, let us all be reminded of the fact
> that WSIS formal process
> such are these are just one of many arenas of
> struggle where we can make a
> difference. Your engagement there is testament to
> our willingness to engage
> this arena, but of course in then end, there are
> other arenas if that one is
> not as "friendly"...
>
> If you guys don't meet regularly, I suggest you
> schedule an informal fellowship
> at least! Have a drink together and try to squeeze
> some time to enjoy Paris a
> bit. We will all be with you in spirit! :-) Do find
> time to relax...(just a
> bit :-)
>
> Our prayers are with you...
>
> Al
>
> P.S. Angela, please give my regards to all APC
> colleagues present, as well as
> to the CRIS people...
>
> P.S. Chat, can you find out who is sitting in the
> Philippine panel (Geneva
> mission? Embassy in Paris?). I know no one from our
> govt was able to go. If you
> hava a chance, pls ask what happened to the
> Philippine govt comments to the
> Drafts--there is a fear here that it was never
> submitted because of comments
> from the Mission in Geneva, objecting to certain
> things (human rights
> references?!?)... Am in touch with Heceta, Sarmiento
> and Pena here this week...
>
>
> Quoting amkt@gn.apc.org:
>
> > Hi Al,
> >
> > The Asia Pacific caucus did make an intervention
> during plenary on the first
> >
> > day, as we felt that as a region we could support
> the Civil Society
> > Priorities
> > Document and also to re-emphasise certain key
> principles i.e. principle of
> > inclusivity (there was an attempt by the Czech
> government to incorporate in
> > the
> > Declaration the concept of national sovereignty
> and we wanted to emphasise
> > that
> > this should be extended to mean the sovereignty of
> the people), right to
> > information and gender equality. Mavic from Isis
> presented on the Caucus'
> > behalf, and she will be sending the statement we
> made to the list.
> >
> > Governments are reviewing the Declaration of
> Principles and among the
> > controversial issues are concepts of "the right to
> information", "the right
> > to
> > communicate", "the right to development", and the
> concept of "knowledge
> > society" vs. "information society". It was decided
> that there would be a
> > working group to work out these concepts and come
> to a concensus on these.
> >
> > In response to this, the Content and Themes
> working group now led by Karen
> > Banks (as Sally and Bill are not physically here)
> managed to have a concensus
> >
> > at plenary for caucuses who have asked to speak
> today (Day 2) to cover
> > certain
> > key principles that remain contentious or are
> missing. Interventions today
> > included the importance of human rights (including
> Article 19), the
> > importance
> > of open source/free software (and under this the
> importance of not having
> > Intellectual Property Rights regimes), Internet
> Governance, gender (by the
> > Multistakeholder Gender Caucus), labour rights and
> press freedom/freedom of
> > expression.
> >
> > There have been some calls from certain
> governments (including the European
> > Union) to strike out all reference to women and
> youth from the Declaration.
> > Fortunately, a number of governments are against
> but we have yet to see how
> > the
> > deliberations will go.
> >
> > The Asia Pacific Caucus does not meet daily, but
> we are in contact with each
> >
> > other. All of us stay at the same hotel so that
> facilitates things a lot for
> > us.
> >
> > Warm regards,
> >
> > Angela
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Surlignage "Alan G. Alegre" <alalegre@fma.ph>:
> >
> > > FYI - a provisional agenda for the civil society
> plenary in Paris for the
> > > intersessionals of WSIS.
> > >
> > > WE hope that our colleagues there keep us up to
> date... Godspeed in
> > Paris...
> > >
> > > Al
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: ValñÓie Peugeot <vpeugeot@vecam.org>
> > > To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org>; <ct@wsis-cs.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:39 PM
> > > Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] agenda for today
> meeting 18 : 00
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Civil society
> > > Content and themes meeting
> > > 15 07 2003.
> > > 18 : 00
> > >
> > >
> > > Agenda
> > >
> > >
> > > Agenda adjustments.
> > >
> > > A - Plenary issues
> > >
> > > 1 Daily meetings for civil society :
> > > - 9 h/ 10 h : Civil society Plenary. Room 2.
> > > - 14 h/ 15 h 30 : Civil society Bureau (closed
> meeting). Room 14, Bonvin
> > > building.
> > > - 14 h/ 15 h 30 : Civil society drafting group.
> Room A 12
> > > - 18 h/19 h : Working group on content and
> themes. Room 4.
> > >
> > > 2 General presentation of the process during
> the Inter session.
> > > => monitoring team on controversial issues
> > >
> > >
> > > B - Content and themes issues
> > >
> > >
> > > 1 Update on the civil society priorities
> issues text : purpose, status,
> > > elaboration process.
> > > . report from Sally Burch and Bill Mciver
> > > . additional amendments
>
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