[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: EU/Pan-European/North-American Caucuses

[Wolfgang Kleinwächter]

I would very much support Jean Louis proposal. MEPs are much closer to 
CS than others. We will have a meeting on EU-RALO, the planned European 
Internet User Organkjsation within ICANN on Saturday in Milan. MEP 
Erika Mann, who co-chairs also the European internet Foundation, is 
also involved.

BTW, the EU-RALO, if it comes to an existence (very open and at the 
moment in cooperation with the different European ISOC Chapters) could 
be also closer linked to WSIS and both the ICT Global Governance and 
the EU/US caucuses, if needed.

Best

wolfgang


On torsdag, okt 2, 2003, at 09:37 Europe/Copenhagen, Fullsack 
Jean-Louis wrote:

> Ralf and all
> I can't but approve this soundly argued statement upon the 
> "pan-european
> caucus".
> I agree fo a real European caucus, who will have to gather the 
> numerous and
> diverse european NGOs, facilitate european actions and meetings, and
> establish contacts (lobbying) with the EU bodies such as the 
> Commission and
> the European Parliament (EP).
> For the latter I believe there is big job to be done especially with 
> the
> Committees :
> - CO1 (Foreign Affairs, Human Rights,...)
> - CO4 (Citizen's Freedoms and Rigths,...)
> - CO7 (Industry, Trade, Research and Energy)
> - C13 (Culture, Youth, Education, the Media ...)
> - C16 (Women's Rights and equal Opportunities)
> - C14 (Development and Cooperation).
> I use to have some contacts with members of the latter committee. 
> Since I
> have an access pass to the EP and I am living at Strasbourg, I 
> volunteer to
> participate in possible lobbying activities as a "CS focal point" for 
> Access
> and Infrastructure, and deeply committed in development activities 
> mainly
> with Africa. In this field the EU-ACP Agreement  entails some 
> possibilities
> of bringing together the European and African Caucuses.
> Thanks for your attention and best regards
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralf Bendrath" <ralf.bendrath at sfb597.uni-bremen.de>
> To: <wsis-euc at fsfeurope.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:42 PM
> Subject: Re: EU/Pan-European/North-American Caucuses
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Christine Wenzel wrote:
>>
>>> By establishing two lists we face the danger of being confronted with
>>> "double"postings in the EU and USA/Can.-list
>>
>> No. It is up to us to really think about what should be sent to whom.
>> And there are ways of enforcing this. ;-)
>>
>> If we have the clear objective of mainly getting the NGOs in the EU
>> together, it is of no primary interest to the North Americans.
>> If the North Americans have things to organize over there (like
>> meetings, lobbying in Washington or other stuff), I don't want all the
>> mails they need to get it done.
>>
>> If one of the caucuses (after proper discussion on the respective 
>> list)
>> comes up with a  projet / idea / problem of common concern, then we 
>> have
>> means of getting in contact with each other. There is always the 
>> plenary
>> list, where all caucuses should report about concrete projects once
>> they're propoerly managed in the caucus anyway.
>>
>> If anybody wants to participate in both groups: Just subscribe to both
>> lists.
>> But you should be able to choose.
>>
>> Re Olga:
>>>> equivalent to the UN-geographical pan-european regions
>>>> and to the further regional preparatory conferences (?),
>> Will there be anything happening in this regard? I don't see it yet.
>>
>>>> better information flow in both
>>>> directiions on monitoring or lobbying results,
>> As Meryem has rightly said: This should (and will) be done in the
>> thematic caucuses.
>>
>> Most importantly:
>> If people in North America want to set up their own structure, we 
>> should
>> not try to stop them by saying "we can organize you, too". Let them do
>> it if there is already this good initiative by Amali!
>>
>> We have enough to do in Europe. For example:
>> Is anybody really feeling responsible for the EU follow-up? See? ;-)
>>
>> (BTW: Jan: Can you please send around the letter to the EU presidency
>> that was given to them last week?)
>>
>> So: let us first see if we really can get this CS-EU-thing going and 
>> let
>> the North Americans do their thing. When it is rolling more stable, we
>> can think about cooperating with others, not before. This somewhat
>> reflects the experience we had in Germany: We first organized in 
>> Berlin,
>> than (more or less) German-wide, then finally were able to help with
>> getting the EU thing done.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ralf
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