[WSIS CS-Plenary] memo from today's plennary

[Veni Markovski]

Jean-Louis,

At 11:11 15.12.2003 'Ц.'  +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Veni
>Did you see a likely "majority" of the audience in our "meeting" applaud
>your proposal ?
>So if you have a remaining sense of respect for democratic expression,
>please don't "fight a lost battle". We need our energy and attention for our

I have done what I felt proper to do - offer to thank some people (actually 
all of them who were actively participating in the CS plenary) and the 
government of Swiss for their financial support.

Yes, it's true that for some people, coming from the developed countries, 
to stay 2 weeks in Geneva or 1 week in Paris is nothing in terms of 
covering the expenses (I guess not many people paid from their pocket), as 
a person coming from the developing countries, I *am* thankful for the work 
they did first in getting us there, secondly in providing us with 
facilities to work, third, in facilitating the work between the CSP and the 
Secretariat.

While I can understand the frustration from the WSIS itself, as well as 
from all other glitches on the road, I can't accept that this alone is 
enough not to be polite, and to say "thank you" to the people who - at the 
end - made it possible to be there, and to talk in a free, open and 
transparent manner.

The fact that I alone raise my voice to thank doesn't make my position 
weaker; quite the contrary - it only shows that I feel things differently. 
On the other hand, people like Wolfgang, Renate and others, have been in 
support for this "thank you note".

At the end, I will stop to care if the CS Plenary has decided to thanks or 
not. I will do it on my own and on behalf ot the Internet Society of 
Bulgaria in a letter to the CS Secretariat and the Swiss government.

On a minor issue, what's not acceptable for "any CS delegate at the WSIS" 
is a question that you can not generalize. I feel quite confident that 
working within WSIS helps the CS much more than working outside - in front 
of the police. Whether we want to admit it or not, but that seems to be one 
of the not so many world summits, where CS has played a major role inside 
the halls, and not outside.

regards,
veni

>future and still ongoing activity, notably by improving our documents and
>gain support of other CS organisations.
>By the way I find your thanks rather inappropriate, because they associate
>our CS people who really did their best (Sally, Meryem, Bill, ...) with
>others who were/are to be facilitators (WSIS CS Bureau)  and organisers
>(WSIS Secretariat) at our service and paid for their job. Yet they not only
>have miserably failed but they also where scandalously absent on our
>debates.
>At last the CS Secretariat argument ("if they weren't, we ought to be
>outside fighting withe the police") is simply unacceptable for any CS
>delegate at the Summit.
>Therefore CSDPTT protests energically against such allegations and
>confusions.
>Jean-Louis Fullsack
>CSDPTT