AW: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Info for WSIS Phase 2

[Rik Panganiban]

Dear Friends,

There are some basic questions we should ask among ourselves:

1)  Are there groups that will be able to re-organize their own 
schedules and find the funds to partipate in a March 4-5 meeting in 
Tunisia?  This is very short notice for most of us, I imagine.  I 
understand that the Tunisian government might be able to assist groups 
who can travel to Tunisia, perhaps with finding less expensive 
accomodations and such.  However there is no mention of this meeting on 
either the WSIS secretariat site or the official Tunisian website, 
which does not fill me with confidence.

2)  Will we be able to draft a basic vision of a successful 2nd phase?  
More to the point, what are the base conditions that in your 
organization's view would be necessary for the 2nd phase to succeed?  
I.e. level of participation, thematic focus of meetings, overall goal 
of Tunis 2005, etc. It would be great if each caucus and working group 
could collate views on this, and we could have these available for the 
Tunis meeting next month.  We don't have to all agree, but just knowing 
what the gender caucus, the people with disabilities caucus, the ICT 
global governance caucus, etc. would like to get out of the Phase II 
process I think would be very helpful to us all.

On this point, I think we can all agree that the modalities of 
participation should be at least at the level of the Paris 
Intersessional and Prepcom III. We should be able in principle to 
attend and have some rights of participation in working groups and 
other informal sub-groups.  CS should be able to make interventions on 
a section-by-section basis.  Accreditation of groups to the process 
should be conducted transparently and in respect of the usual UN 
modalities of accreditation.

Wolfgang, I believe that an interactive calendar will be the principal 
"upgrade" to WSIS-online.net.  I.e. a comprehensive calendar of 
official and associated events for the WSIS process, searchable 
sectorally and regionally.


Regards,

Rik Panganiban

On 3 févr. 04, at 08:54, <wolfgang at imv.au.dk> wrote:

> It would be good if we could generate a "Calendar of Events" on a 
> Website with " official WSIS events", "informal WSIS events" and "WSIS 
> related events". This would made it easier to start planning with very 
> limited ressources.
>
> Tunis is certainly cheaper than Geneva, but flights are much more 
> expensive :-(
>
> best
>
> w
> Original Nachricht--
> Von: veni markovski <veni at veni.com>
> An: plenary at wsis-cs.org,plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Senden: 02.02.2004
> Betreff: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Info for WSIS Phase 2
>
> I'd like to add some more questions:
> 1) Since there will be an ICANN meeting March 1-6, people who are 
> involved
> in Internet governance on the root/DNS level will not be able to attend
> other meetings. How do we solve that with going to Tunisia?
> 2) Why not use the Geneva accreditation?
> 3) Will there be special prices for staying in Tunisia? This is 
> extremly
> important for the CS.
>
>
>> Thank you for providing us with latest information on WSIS Phase 2
>> organization. However, there are still many issues to be clarified, 
>> and it
>
>> seems quite hard to obtain any information about that. Here are some
>> questions that I would like to raise as for now:
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