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

[Fullsack Jean-Louis]

And If the EU/NA "caucus" were only a "submarine" for NA lobbying in the EU
area ?
A kind of "European subsidiary" for NA think tanks ?
A gadget for nostalgic Europeans of "American Dream" ?
Until I know the NA people and organisations involved (transparency isn't
only a Declaration principle  for DCs!) I'm strictly against such a
transatlantic combinate that we don't need for Civil Society purposes.
What we do need is a strong European working group that meets our concerns,
correseponds to our European vision, and tries to esptablish a better
formalized contact with the European Institutions, especially (at least for
me) in the ACP Framework as far as "Digital divide" issues are concerned.

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT France

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> A brief word on the discussion over EU/NA caucus:
>
> Not only doesn't it make much sense to combine EU/NA, it seems unclear to
me
> what the purpose of an NA caucus would be. The Canadian, US, and Mexican
> governments are not operating as a bloc here.
>
> Frankly, the US gov is currently one of the prime obstacles to key civil
> society positions, esp. on free/libre open source software. This is in
part
> because their position is basically being written by the 'committee of
> business interlocutors.' There is therefore the (overdue) need for 'civil
> society' in the US to get organized, generate a more progressive US
> position, and pressure the US gov.
>
> Some steps have been taken in this direction: Clemencia Rodriguez of
> OURmedia/Nuestr at sMedios, Dorothy Kidd of USF, and myself (Sasha
> Costanza-Chock) of Free Press media reform network and the CRIS campaign,
> are creating a first draft of a 'US civil society' statement for
submission
> to the CS Plenary, the CS Bureau, and the US gov. This will be widely
> circulated for reworking and endorsement by US groups, then launched in
> early November, probably at the National Conference on Media Reform
> (mediareform.net/conference).
>
> To facilitate this process, we have created a CRIS USA mailing list open
to
> US CS: http://comunica.org/mailman/listinfo/crisusa_comunica.org
>
> We invite all US CS to help us make this happen, effectively, in a very
> short time.
>
> Sasha Costanza-Chock
>
> schock at asc.upenn.edu
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