[WSIS CS-Plenary] Report-back to the bureau on Samassekou's non-paper

[Raoul Weiler]

Dear all,

May be I just too late.

About the non-paper of the president of the PrepCom
I suggest the following re-structuring, the articles numbers
I refer to are the one of this text:

1. Article 2 (Our challenge...) should be in part B and moved
between  15 and 16, so become the first of Part B

2. Point 8 ( Cultural [identity] and diversity, ....) and the
articles 49, 50 and 51 have their place, eventually after being
rewritten, in Part A between the actual articles 5 and 6.

3. Point 10 (Ethical dimension .....) should also be moved to,
eventually after being rewritten, to point A. (Our Vision...)
between articles 6 and 7.

4. Article 3 is a standard expression not really related to WSIS.

I realize by looking into more detail of the text, that some additional
redactional work remains to be done !

Cordially,

Raoul Weiler
Club of Rome

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Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Report-back to the bureau on Samassekou's
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> Report-back to the bureau on the reaction to Samassekou's non-
> paper.
>
> Forgive me for writing only in English for time reasons.  Translation
> help would be appreciated.
>
> Those who are following the CT list will know that we are compiling
> the comments received on the non-paper version of the Declaration.
> We have received comments so far from the PCT caucus,
> indigenous, youth, community media (being finalized), environment,
> human rights and security and privacy group.  The compiled
> comments will be sent before the 6pm (Geneva) deadline on
> Thursday.
>
> We had asked for all comments to be in by Wednesday.  Any last
> comments received before 3pm Geneva time on Thursday might be
> incorporated as long as they are brief.
>
> I would also like to point out that a number of caucuses and
> organizations have decided not to send in comments at this time
> due to the unacceptably short time-frame and (in the case of Latin
> America) the unacceptable lack of availability of a Spanish version
> of the non-paper.
>
> We propose that the bureau and secretariate should take a more
> active role in giving us advance information of these kinds of
> requests.  We appreciate Mr. Samassekou's concern to receive
> our input, but in the circunstances (we all have full-time jobs
> elsewhere) it is almost impossible to organize a reaction at such
> short notice, much less to make a proper on-line consultation,
> which means that whole regions (such as Latin America) are left
> out of the opportunity to react.
>
> Even though the document was not ready until last Friday, we
> could have been warned in advance that we would be receiving it
> with a given deadline to respond, which would have helped us to
> organize our time and allocate responsibilities.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sally Burch
>
>
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