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

Thu Feb 12 07:10:38 GMT 2004

Further to the efforts in Canada, new Zealand and Australia,
also the Italian Civil Society Platform is organizing towards Tunis.
A debriefing was held in Rome, on February 5th, organized by Alisei, an
italian NGO.
Participants: members of the governmental task Force (Ministry for
technological Innovation), parliamentarians, business sector representative,
local authorities and the entire group of civil society who have been
involved in geneva. We also invited members from the EU caucus (Marianne
Seger) the Governance Caucus (Bill Drake and Vittorio bertola) and from
WSIS-online (bertrand) in order to strengthen connections within the civil
society structure and to make our discourse perceived as a common one.
Perspectives are positive, as we were assured that a Multistakehldor Table
will be set up, starting march, to prepare jointly for the second phase.
Structure and roles to be defined so inputs from other experiences could be
respectively useful. I think it is very important at this stage to have the
most complete info about official developments so that we can manage to
engage in a propositive way with the government
We were the ones to stress the need to connect with local authorities, who
are moving in directions for many aspects relevant to us. The dialogue has
been vague until now, but could (and should) be strenghtened

But there are a number of iniziatives that fall outside the WSIS official
process and take this second phase as an opportunity to develop further
initiatives. Among these: there is a publication that starting from WSIS
opens to a number of relevant issues for ICT and policies (forthcoming
mid-March); the website is being rearranged; meetings and events will allow
to connecte to the wider civil society in the country (third sector,
development NGos, media professionals) and we are planning an international
conference on Multistakeholder practices in Venice in october

A few points:
we should try to work through regional caucuses as much as possible: to
strengthen regional perspectives and positions and to be able to organize
joint initiatives
having a space for a calendar is OK, we could also think of a session with
national and regional stories/experiences ecc. to give ideas and biuld
alliances (maybe worldsummit03 already has something like this? Ralf?)
furthermore, I know there will be comments and reflection on WSIS coming out
in publications in the next months; but it would be useful to have something
available now. Why not another section in a website could host pieces and
articles that are already available or readable, so that we could have one
space where ti find materials (and even translate and distribute...)
we are still lacking any serious dialogue with the media, which has been the
great absent from geneva,. we should try to develop some ideas about this,
much in advance... maybe starting from the national level

so far for the moment
best wishes, ciao
claudia padovani

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wallace Taylor" <w.taylor at cqu.edu.au>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 2:12 AM
Subject: RE: Antw: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Structure of WSIS Phase 2

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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