[WSIS CS-Plenary] Content and Themes -- Sense of the Group -- Responding to the Plan of Action

[Bill McIver, University at Albany]

All,

The Content and Themes Group took up the question
of if and how to respond to the latest draft
of the Official Plan of Action.
This note presents the sense of the group on what
should be done.

_Background_

-- As of this morning, no specific protocol had yet emerge,
   apart from the apparently ad hoc decisions being made
   to allow short, Civil Society input in the Working Group
   processes.


_Recommendations_

The sense of the group on how to respond is as follows:
- A line-by-line approach, as was used in NY, was generally felt
  to be an unwise use of time.
- Instead, commentaries are felt to be a better approach at this time.
- In particular, caucuses who undertake such drafting are asked to
  link commentary on the Point of Action with the inputs developed
  by Civil Society on the Draft Declaration.
- Linkages should also be made with the non-negotiable points articulated
  in the most recent Civil Society document.
  These can be found in the PrepCom3 folder at:
  http://mboom.draper.albany.edu/~mciver/WSIS/CSDeclaration/


Thanks,

WJM
-- 

Bill McIver
Assistant Professor
School of Information Science and Policy
University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, New York 12222
USA

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