[WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting in Tunis 22-23 June?

[djilali benamrane]

Excellent initiative Ralf, You really are in the good
way... Propose to those who master 2 or 3 languages to
do the effort to translate even approximatively the
content of their message, especially when it concerns
important information.
All the best
Djilali
--- Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> To the translation team: Can we get a translation of
> Rik's and this
> message? I neither speak Spanish nor French...
> Thanks!
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> the idea of having a CS pre-prepcom in Tunis was
> also discussed at the
> recent Public Voice meeting of mainly North American
> groups in New York,
> and also here in Germany at our last federal CS
> meeting in mid-March.
> 
> We had the idea to not only have it as an
> introduction for the ones who
> are new to the WSIS process, but also as a
> collection of workshops for
> capacity building especially for CS people who have
> been involved and
> active before. As has been said, phase two will be
> more complex, so we
> need to be more efficient in our use of scarce
> resources like time,
> money, attention span etc. And we will have to take
> into account the
> special situation in Tunisia, where internet traffic
> is monitored and
> human rights websites are blocked.
> 
> A preliminary list that we in Germany (with help fom
> Robert) developled
> included the following workshops. We already listed
> some people who
> might help organizing them, though some have not
> been asked yet and we
> have no idea who will be able to come to Tunisia
> then.
> 
> - secure and free communication infrastructures
> (Robert Guerra, Chaos
> Computer Club Berlin, Alvar Freude/Odem.org)
> 
> - human rights legal instruments (Rikke Frank
> Jörgensen/Human Rights
> Caucus, also invite someone from Tunisian Human
> Righs League)
> 
> - moderation and discussion skills / techniques
> (Heiner Benking/Open
> Forum, Berlin)
> 
> - websites and online collaboration tools (Robert
> Guerra, Derrick
> Cogburn)
> 
> - press work / strategy (Media Caucus?)
> 
> - WSIS phase one and past UN summits: process
> experiences / modalities /
> rules of procedure for NGO participation, also:
> lessons learned
> (Renate Bloem, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, UN
> Associations?)
> 
> - Negotiation and "diplomacy" skills for lobbying /
> interaction with
> governments / delegation members) 
> 
> - ... and whatever people find useful and are
> willing to organize.
> 
> The general idea is to have a pool of parallel
> workshops people can pick
> from. There should also be some time for caucus and
> plenary meetings,
> where the political discussions can take place. Of
> course it would be
> good to combine this with an introduction session on
> the moring of the
> first day (23 June).
> 
> So: If we can get 4-5 working group rooms for the
> two days and a big one
> for plenary every evening, it should work and would
> be a great
> contribution to the overall process.
> 
> Best, Ralf
> 
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