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

[maurice bulbulian]

on 01/10/03 14 51, Sasha Costanza-Chock at schock at asc.upenn.edu wrote:

> 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

May I respectfully remind you that CANADA and MEXICO are also part of North
America. 

Maurice Bulbulian