Antw: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Structure of WSIS Phase 2

[Wallace Taylor]

Further to the efforts in Canada and New Zealand,
 The Australian Civil Society through the Roundtable for Australian Civil Society (RACS) prepared a statement for WSIS in Geneva. This should be on the http://www.ciresearch.net/ site this coming week. The debrief with the Australian National Office of the Information Economy following WSIS has agreed that the RACS forum should be continued into the WSIS processes for Tunis. It is expected that this forum will facilitate a number of events across Australia commencing in June 2004 in order to further develop a civil society construct to work in partnership with both the government and the private sectors to develop an integrated approach to the aims of WSIS for Tunis.

Wal Taylor 

-----Original Message-----
From: Liss Jeffrey [mailto:ljeffrey at ecommons.net]
Sent: Friday, 6 February 2004 2:29 AM
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Subject: Re: Antw: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Structure of WSIS Phase 2



FYI
In Canada, at our well-attended debriefing of Wsis in Ottawa, hosted by 
Canadian Commission for Unesco on February 23, there was support for 
holding local events and possibly a Canadian Summit prior to Tunis. We will 
be discussing these prospects today in Toronto (http://wsis.ecommons.ca), 
in Montreal later this month (February 19), in Winnipeg in early June, and 
will advise of other sessions via this list and all are welcome to post 
Canada-relevant events in the web calendar.
I will write up that Ottawa debriefing following our session today where 
(Liss Jeffrey, Andrew Clement - CPSR, Leslie Chan - Science, David Mason - 
free and open source, C4LD) will all be on our panel discussion of 
Wsis-Smsi from a civil society perspective.
At Marc Raboy's suggestion, we plan to ask the Canadian government to 
support the idea of confirming the CS credentials from Geneva for Tunis. 
Some of us also feel strongly that groups and citizens who know nothing so 
far of the process should now be included in information sessions, and in 
action plans, monitoring and implementation. We intend to keep building our 
web resource to support these initiatives.
Liss J



At 04:53 PM 05/02/2004 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Adam wrote:
> >Problem I see with the structure is the lack of any regional
>meetings...
> >However, I think we should emphasize the importance of regional
> >meetings and the diversity they enable.
>
>That's a good point, Adam.
>CS should plead for more "regionalism" in the preparatory process.
>Regional meetings are easier accessible for CS participants and from
>many points of view more useful for strengthening regional cooperation
>and effective intervention. The given regional caucus structure in the
>CS-Bureau should be further developed to serve as facilitator
>negotiating the terms for CS particiaption in these meetings.
>
>my x cents..
>Thanks,
>Olga
>
>
> >Just my 5 (euro)cent. ;-)
> >
> >Ralf
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