[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: Fellowships criteria

[bambang soeprijanto]

Deal All;

I agree definitely with you, Beatrice!
The decision made by donor's country should not be
allowed for solely based decision. That should be a
transparent and considerable time span for allowing
the revision and input.

How come does the process of decision making among
information society without the consent and approval
of all members?!

If this is the case, then it was surely an old
capitalistics paradigm that people who have a lot of
money will account on to hold the power.

In addition to that country divide in terms of capital
abound, there are within country split in the final
approval procedures for attending WSIS.

Let's say that I am a lucky guy who attend the 2nd
Prepcom with the government official status, while at
that moment, the http://www.info-ri.com gained status
as a NGO for my country.

But after a while  back to home, the NGO status were
being questioned among officials.  Fortunately, 
eventhough it has also been deposed from the list at
the 3rd WSIS status by the Secretariat, that seemed
not solve the problems. It runs to other direction.

(Some) of The  government participating in WSIS still
have old paradigm that the officials are the solely
body who have full authority to represent all the
people within  such country. From this point, it
follows that decision to pick the delegates up is
deppen on official procedures, that it mainly based on
grey criteria or un questinable decision. Meanwhile,
the infromation societyy or academia and NGO people,
were being put on the corner with a non status.

That is why, guys like Onno gaining acceptance and
welcomed at abroad, but sadly he was unrecognized in
their home grown country land. Even when he made
criticism on the purpotedly an official's ministry
decision by the Transoportation and Telecommunication
minister for regualting 2.4 GHz spectrum.

With that portraits of government participating in the
WSIS, I have no idea whether this forum will benefit
for us all to  either furthering the welfare and
educating society or just to placate a political and
mumbo jumbo words ideological driven of split between
developed countries (capitalism camps) and developing
countryes (socialism cacmps).

So, it may still a long way to go for fulfilling the
idea of information and knowledge society for all,
when the format of procedign in the WSIS summit is
still at this point of based on prejudism and
un-transparency.

TX,

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--- Beatriz Busaniche
<busaniche at caminandoutopias.org.ar> wrote:
> Hello everybody / hola todos y todas
> 
> Sorry for the crossposting. 
> 
> Following the fellowships criteria process, i have
> to inform that Argentina
> is not a country in development anymore, at least
> for the Civil Society
> Division.  That means that i cannot apply for a
> fellowship to attend the
> Wsis. Not even being a civil society bureau member.
> 
> That means that we (education and academia family
> and caucus) have to think
> about who's going to take my place in the bureau
> meetings, and who's going
> to coordinate our education and academia group
> activities during nexts steps
> of the summit. 
> 
> I was very concerned about this situation, and i am
> still worried about
> this, because something must have changed during the
> process. I received a
> fellowship during prepcom 2. Also to attend Paris
> Meeting and also for
> prepcom 3. But suddenly, from one day to the other,
> Argentina is not a
> country that could receive fellowships for civil
> society anymore. 
> As donnors didn't change, and the country's
> situation didn't chance in the
> last months, i demand an urgent explanation of this
> situation.   
> 
> I just received as explanation that the country's
> list (we don't know the
> origin of it) was provided by donnors,  but as i can
> prove, it's for sure
> not a list considered during the whole process until
> now. 
> 
> I want to share this situation with plenary because
> this means that not only
> me, but all argentine civil society is excluded in a
> very unfair way of the
> possibilities to receive funds to join the process. 
> I demand and urgent
> explanation of the reasons, and for sure, i will not
> accept just that it's
> "donnor's decition". 
> 
> Regards and thank you very much
> 
> Hola a todos y todas
> 
> Siguiendo el proceso de asignación de becas, debo
> informar que Argentina no
> es más un país en desarrollo, al menos para la
> División Sociedad Civil. Esto
> significa que yo no podré aplicar para una beca para
> ir a la CMSI.  Ni
> siquiera siendo miembro de la oficina de la sociedad
> civil
> 
> Esto significa que nosotros (la familia y caucus de
> educación y academia )
> debemos pensar quién va a tomar mi lugar en las
> reuniones de oficina y quien
> va a coordinar desde ahora la participación del
> equipo de educación y
> academia en los próximos pasos de la cumbre.
> 
> Me preocupé mucho por esta situacón, y sigo
> preocupada, porque algo debe
> haber cambiado durante el proceso.  Recibí una beca
> para asistir a prepcom
> 2. También recibí ayuda para asistir a la reunión de
> París y una beca para
> asistir a Prepcom 3. Pero de repente, de un día para
> el otro, Argentina dejó
> de ser un país en condiciones de recibir becas para
> la participación de su
> sociedad civil.  Como los donantes de fondos no han
> cambiado, y la situacón
> de país tampoco, en los últimos meses, exigo una
> urgente explicación de esta
> situación.
> 
> Sólo recibí como explicación que la lista de paises
> (no sabemos la fuente de
> la lista) fue provista por los donantes, pero como
> puedo fácilmente
> comprobar, esa lista no fue considerada hasta ahora
> en el proceso.
> 
> Quisiera compartir esta situación con el plenario
> porque esto significa que
> no solo yo, sino toda la sociedad civil argentina
> está siendo excluida
> injustamente de las posibilidades de recibir ayuda
> financiera para sumarte
> al proceso. Exigo una urgente explicación de las
> razones, y por cierto,  no
> voy a aceptar sólo que me digan que es una "decisión
> de los donantes". 
> 
> Saludos a todos y muchas gracias. 
>  
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 


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