[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: Re:North America CS members

[Sasha Costanza-Chock]

Regarding North America contact points,

A US chapter of the CRIS campaign is currently in the process of formation.
The mailing list has just been set up; you can subscribe here:

 http://www.comunica.org/mailman/listinfo/crisusa_comunica.org

The goal of CRIS USA will be to develop input to the WSIS by progressive US
civil society, and to pressure the US negotiators whose current positions
primarily reflect the view of the Coordinating Committee of Business
Interlocutors.

Sasha Costanza-Chock



-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Bendrath
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Sent: 10/1/2003 11:54 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: Re:North America CS members

Amali and Robert,

Robert is right that we had two meetings of the NGOs from Europe and
North America at PrepCom3. Officially, there is even a European/North
American Caucus that has been established at Prepcom 2. But it had not
been very active since then. I have tried to find info on a listserv,
but could not even spot it quickly in my WSIS mail archive.
Amali is therefore also right that some new structure could be needed. 

We have done our share of work at PrepCom3 to somehow link the European
NGOs and start a promising dialogue with the European Union. This is, by
definition, a Europe-only process. (Of course we allow "observers" and
even give them full rights. ;-))
But I think it really would make sense to set up a North-American caucus
/ list / whatever especially for US and Canadian CS people. There has to
be somebody who e.g. watches the US behaviour at WSIS closely. We can
try do this for the EU, but that's it.
European List: https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/wsis-euc

On the other hand, a common Northern coordination could be needed for
all the hot North-South aspects that popped up heavily at PrepCom3.

Just for clarification. 
Go ahead with whatever you like. But make sure it keeps the momentum...

Ralf

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