[WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [WSIS-CT] Next steps for Content and Themes

[John R. Gagain Jr.]

Dear Sally,

Thank you for the email and your response.  You ask below if anyone would
like to volunteer to draft the guidelines for the caucuses.  I would like to
volunteer to assume this role.  Please put me down.  I would be happy to
work on it with someone else.

Also, I did not receive Susanna's proposal.  Could someone send that to me.
I did receive some emails from Adam, but I dont remember reading anything
about "caucus work that's focused on direct input", which is an excellent
idea and similar to what I proposed.  Adam, could you send / re-send me what
Sally mentions you stated?

John


-----Original Message-----
From: ct-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:ct-admin at wsis-cs.org]On Behalf Of
Sally Burch - ALAI
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 7:58 PM
To: ct at wsis-cs.org
Subject: Re: [WSIS-CT] Next steps for Content and Themes


Hi all,

Thanks to those who have commented on this proposal and to
those who have offered to collaborate with drafting.

I agree with Susanna's proposal that a CS declaration should be
the result of a discussion and not just a collation.  This is the main
drawback of not having had a space of our own (civil society forum)
to be able to work on such a document.  In this sense this summit
has meant a serious drawback for civil society in relation to
previous UN conferences, where there have been regional and
global forums.  We should at least do some planning on how to
work on this during the Prepcom.

Adam's proposal for caucus work that's focused on direct input,
and an overall statement based on the human rights document
from Paris, is, I think a good approach that will help us to be more
focused on the crucial issues at this stage.  If there is agreement,
the drafting team could start work on that.

John's suggestion of guidelines for caucuses would be useful.  Is
someone willing to do a draft of that?

Bill will, I think, be compiling the comments and proposals received
to date on the latest version of our priorities document, so that we
can have that as input for our work.

We need to have the drafting group up and running by Monday.
I will be away till then but if others want to join please let us know,

Sally


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