[WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: European/NA 'family'

[Meryem Marzouki]

Hi,

Le mercredi, 23 juil 2003, à 16:54 Europe/Paris, Jean-Pierre Pinet a 
écrit :

> Hi,
> With B. Oudet we speak about an European Union coordination of CS. Now 
> you
> speak about a European / North American family... I really not 
> understand
> what happens !

It seems there is indeed a misunderstanding. Bruno Oudet proposal was 
only directed towards NGOs from the EU, and has nothing to do with any 
family. This EU coordination should be understood like existing 
national coordinations of NGOs, aiming at directly getting/providing 
information to/from their own government and discussing with it. Since 
the EU is a regional institution, the idea came of a regional 
coordination of NGOs.
Also, Bruno Oudet has a larger list of EU interested organizations. I 
remember having put mine on a list he circulated during one of the CS 
plenary meetings.

Meryem

> J.P. Pinet
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : karen banks [mailto:karenb at gn.apc.org]
> Envoyé : mercredi 23 juillet 2003 01:36
> À : Veni Markovski; hans.klein at pubpolicy.gatech.edu
> Cc : vpeugeot at vecam.org; jeanpierre.pinet at atd-quartmonde.org;
> greve at gnu.org; steve at commedia.org.uk; thomruddy at yahoo.com;
> fcouchet at april.org; claire.shearman at mcr1.poptel.org.uk; ralf Bendrath
> Objet : European/NA 'family'
>
>
> dear veni and hans
>
> I wanted to get your thoughts on how we can more effectively organise 
> and
> represent european/nth american CS participants within WSIS structures 
> and
> processes.
>
> You are both noted as contact points for the european/cis/na 'family' 
> for
> the Civil Society Bureau and as there are some important decisions 
> bureau
> members will be making on behalf of the interests of their consituency 
> in
> the coming weeks, though it would be a good idea if we could open a 
> space
> to discuss issues relevant to those of us active in WSIS in the region.
>
> we talked in paris about the need to create a space for CS participants
> interested in dialoguing with the EU - an important actor in the 
> process -
> and together with issues such as decisions about allocation of funds 
> for
> fellowships, representation in delegations who meet with the 
> governmental
> bureau, participation in negotiations in prepcomIII etc, i feel we 
> need to
> be more transparent about our work in the region..
>
> is there a working space for members of the european/nth american 
> family?
> and if not, can we create one?
>
> i'm ccing this to those who expressed interest in meeting informally 
> with
> the EU delegation in paris (which didn't materialise) as a start.. but 
> no
> doubt there are others who we should outreach to..
>
> all the best
> karen
>
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