Am back in Manila...whew
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From: Ralf Bendrath <bendrath@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To: wsis-cs-plenary <plenary@wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:29 PM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Civil Society Plenary 12. November 2003
> Civil Society Plenary 12. November 2003
> These are rough notes. I am not sure if I missed anything because of the
> lack of translation.
> Regards,
>
> Ralf Bendrath
>
> Civil Society Plenary 12. November 2003
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Monitoring, SC-2 (Rik Panganiban)
> ---------------------------------
> Governments still at the very beginnings of action plan this morning,
> behind schedule.
> Declaration:
> Financing still open, Swedish consensus proposal out there. Still major
> conflicts over "digital solidarity agenda/fund"
> Significant work is done in bilateral discussions, led by individual
> delegations. Major facilitators here: Switzerland and Tunisia. These
> meetings are closed to observers.
>
> Reports from governments working groups:
> ----------------------------------------
> IPRs (Chaires by Brazil): Georg Greve: Deadlock, Brazil etc. against
> North
> Security (Chaired by Russia): Ralf Bendrath: some progress but back to
> September draft at the end
>
> Action Plan:
> ------------
> - Chairs plan: Only talk about bracketed text. So far: Media - is it a
> stakeholder or not?
> - Restarting debate that they already had on declaration
> - Volunteers found for CS statementment on action plan this evening
> (goals and objectives)
> - Speakers wanted on action plan, sections B and C (tomorrow)
> - Coordination: Jane Jensen
>
> CS "Non-Negotiables" document
> -----------------------------
> - first deadline was today 12:00
> - Steve Buckley is putting together a draft for tonight which will be
> sent to the plenary list.
> - final version to be released on Friday.
>
> Alternative vision document
> ---------------------------
> postponed till tomorrow
>
> CS Strategy Working Group (Ralf Bendrath)
> -----------------------------------------
> - The "multistakeholder" label gives uns some power. We have to think
> about how to use it, as this is a new situation for civil society.
> - We should stay inside thew summit activities, but make sure that our
> concerns are clearly and visibly communicated.
> - The latter point is strongly related to the question of who will speak
> on our behalf at the summit.
> See mail on plenary list from yesterday evening (english) or this
> morning (french) for details.
> Next meeting: Thursday, 18:00, Cybercafe
> Every day a 45 minutes press conference for civil society at the summit!
> Develop press strategy!
>
> CS Bureau meeting today (Renate Bloem)
> --------------------------------------
> - open-ended working group on Tunisia phase
> - how can we participate?
> - What kind of structure would CS suggest for a negotiating platform?
> - Do we accept the speakers criteria of the ITU (only "presidents" of
> NGOs etc.)? No!
> - Fellowships: less percentage of applications from developing countries
> - Entrance badges ("overpass" badges): 600 for CS, mechanism for
> distributung these: 8 for each caucus of working group, 4 for each
> family, 5 for CT coordination, 2 for side events people, passes for
> speakers. So far 310 used, left over 290 on first come, first serve
> basis
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