[WSIS CS-Plenary] CSB members fellowship

[Beatriz Busaniche]

I am completely agree with Amir, but i have to add something.  And of course
has to do with some special cases. México and Argentina are not able to
receive fellowships, and  that involves Bureau members, Olinca from Latin
American Caucus and me, from education and academia . We received
fellowships before,
In my case, prepcom 2, paris and prepcom 3.   But the situation or our
countries changed during the last few weeks, and now we are not elegible for
fellows anymore, just because the list does not include us. 

I support your comments Amir. And I add my concerns about all of this.  I
received as answer that we have to start looking for other funds to go to
the summit, and that is terrible considering the way we've been working
during the whole year, and of course, considering that we do not have much
time.

Regards from Argentina


Lic. Beatriz Busaniche
busaniche at caminandoutopias.org.ar
Centro de Teletrabajo y Teleformación
Carrera de Relaciones del Trabajo
Universidad de Buenos Aires
www.caminandoutopias.org.ar



-----Mensaje original-----
De: bureau-request at geneva2003.org [mailto:bureau-request at geneva2003.org] En
nombre de west Asia Enviado el: miércoles, 15 de octubre de 2003 19:18
Para: bureau at geneva2003.org
Asunto: Re: CSB members fellowship
Importancia: Alta


Dear All

I want to make it clear, as we discussed the CSB members wasn't included in
the fellowships list due to the decision that there will be a separate CSB
fellowship list, as secretariat is saying there is no such list as donor
does not agreed with, so we should make it clear that we all have the right
to apply now as a participant, if meet the criteria, then CSB member could
be considered as a candidate for fellowship. I think is more unfair to
exclude a group of very active people who spent most of their hours in the
CSB meetings discussing the CS matters and try to facilitate the process,
having a full CSB for the summit is essential and its usefulness is
un-doubtable.

Its going to be funny to have many fellows in the summit, which may be new
to the process and exclude one of the most active groups in the process ,
CSB member are volunteers who dedicate a main part of their time to serve
others for the sake of an effective WSIS and they represent families, the
people themselves have the right to apply, but a family may not have a
representative in the CSB because they didn't meet the criteria, in this
case someone else should take their seat in CSB or they should try other
sources, exactly like others, but if a person is eligible to apply and
receive fellowship, why should we stop them, it is a punishment of being so
active!!?

Either secretariat should do something or we should find a way for that. I
believe we should change our previous position and be more realistic.

I should also clearly mention that CSB members are entities, not
individuals, its families who have representatives, so a family should try
to send someone to the CSB, he/she could be a fellow or not, doesn't make a
difference, but because we worked at CSB, we are not eligible to apply is
something really unfair! for transparency issues I am asking secretariat to
act as the final selector of fellowships for at least regional focal points,
to minimize the conflict of interest, for example a regional FP may apply
and the family/caucus who is responsible for approving the application is
secretariat or all bureau members, can I have some ideas as soon as
possible.  We should be quik as there is not much time.

Thanks a lot

Amir



----- Original Message -----
From: <claire.chombeau at ties.itu.int>
To: <bureau at geneva2003.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: CSB members fellowship


> Dear Amir, dear all,
>
> We have to consider that we may only support participants /CSB members
from LDCs
> or from developing and in transition countries (lists already sent).
> So,
we can
> not support one representative from each family.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Claire
>
> Quoting west Asia <westasiaregion at hotmail.com>:
>
> > Dear bureau members
> >
> > I think the wise action would be to apply as others, but the
> > difference
is
> > as we decided to have a separate fund, maybe its much better that
> > CSD do the selection(just a suggestion) , on the other hand the 
> > presence of CSB is very
> > important, so maybe we should take it as it is and ensure the fellowship
> > for
> > one representative from each family, which is also logical.
> >
> > regarding the times and deadlines, I think the dates Claire
> > mentioned
are
> > ok.
> >
> > with regards
> >
> > Amir
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <claire.chombeau at ties.itu.int>
> > To: <bureau at geneva2003.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: CSB members fellowship
> >
> >
> > > Dear Amir,
> > >
> > > There is no special fund for the CSB members. You will have to
> > > think
to
> > include
> > > yourself in the selection you will send me (deadlines still to be
> > confirmed,
> > > pre-selection by the families 1st of November and final selection
> > > by
the
> > > regional group 7th of November?)
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Claire
> > >
> > > Quoting Barmaki Amir Hossein <westasiaregion at hotmail.com>:
> > >
> > > > Dear Angela
> > > >
> > > > Just as a matter of reminding to myslef, do CSB members need to
> > > > fill
up
> > the
> > > >
> > > > fellowship forms or there is another process for them?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Amir
> > > > West Asia Family
> > > >
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