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

Sun Feb 8 11:23:42 GMT 2004

Please see in French below !
Dear Wallace,
Good news on what countries like Canada, New Zelande
or Australia are doing as follow up activities post
Geneva and before Tunis.
We all can imagine such approach possible and suitable
in developped countries. Unfortunately, it is more
difficult in underdevelopped countries and it is a
fact that International CS will be at 99,99%
represented in Tunis by North CS (i am not speaking
about the formal participation of South CS like in
Geneva).
It is also a fact than even if the Summit will take
place in an arabic and french speaking country, the
English is and will certainly be the dominant
language.
Whar to do ? how to try to correct this unfair ans
unacceptable situation ? Government are not doing
anything, the United Nations System is not concerned
as well as the private sector ! most of those we can
plead against the poverty are those we live in Africa
and in underdelopped countries. They need access to
information and communication as elementary human
right and not under the market conditions. They must
able to express their hopeless and they reject the
destructor liberalism. 
All the best

Cher Wallace
Ce sont de bonne nouvelles au sujet des initiatives
entreprises au canada, en Nouvelle Zelande ou en
Australie comme suivi du Sommet de Genève et en
préparation de celui de Tunis.
On peut imaginet une telle démarche possible et
souhaitable dans tous les pays développés, elle le
sera plus difficile dans les pays pauvres et l'on peut
gager que la société civile internationales sera à
99,99% représentée par sa composante du Nord à Tunis
(je parle de représentation effective et non de
participation formele alibi comme cela est le cas dans
de telles rencontres).
C'est malheureusement un fait que dans le prochain
sommet qui aura lieu dans un apys arabophone et
francophone la langue anglaise sera dominante et
dominatrice et si les Gouvernements, ni le système
onusien ni les opérateurs privés n'auront envie de
faire bouger les choses et donner une chance à la
société civile africaine, arabe, espagnole,
portuguaise ou chinoise de contribuer utilement aux
débats et de faire des propositions conformes à notre
ambitions de lutte contre la pauvreté. Les populations
de ces pays ont besoin de l'accès à l'information et à
la communication comme un bien public à l'échelle
mondiale, comme un droit humain essentiel pour
exprimer leur désarroi, leur désespérance, leur refus
du libéralisme ravageur.

--- Wallace Taylor <w.taylor at cqu.edu.au> wrote:
> 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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