[WSIS CS-Plenary] The March meeting: suggestions

[Meigs]

Le 12/02/04 17:08, « Renata BLOEM » <rbloem at ngocongo.org> a écrit :

Dear all,

I support Karen's ideas and proposals.

It is very important to be there, and to express the fact that issues are
not just governance and funding, but that all the rest is as important.
Speaking from the point of view of the education, literacy, and research
famili for example I can say that though these issues seem consensual at the
level of principles, nothing, -absolutly nothing- has been settled in the
action plan. Besides the declaration on these issues seems to allow for two
models to be followed, one along "traditional industrial" lines, the other
along "open access, community" lines, and we know these lines don't
necessarily meet... So nothing has been solved.

I would say the same is true for all the other issues.

We have to keep the pressure on concrete measures, and on how to evaluate
them, even if two years seems awfully short to do so.
Whoever goes to that meeting for Civil Society should emphasize this
evaluation aspect. 

Best
Divina Frau-Meigs
Deputy secretary general, IAMCR


> Dear all,
> 
> I had made the point to include someone from the Content and Themes Group
> from the beginning to the Minister, to the CSB and during our CONGO
> Briefing.
> In fact, the CT Group had always a seat on the Bureau for liaison reason,
> and I would therefore take it for granted, that he/she should be invited.
> Renata
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org]On
> Behalf Of karen banks
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:36 PM
> To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] The March meeting: suggestions
> 
> 
> Dear plenary,
> 
> I was going to ask for further information about the March meeting, who was
> attending, on what basis etc, but the recent posting from Mr. Geiger is
> useful in that respect.
> 
> [extract..
> 
>> Let me now turn to the invitation of Tunisia:
>> 
>> The host country of the second phase has invited the members of the three
>> Bureaus (Intergovernmental Bureau of the PrepCom, Civil Society Bureau,
>> Consultative Committee of Business interlocutors) as well as the focal
> point
>> members of the HLSOC (High Level Summit Organizing Committee, basically the
>> interested UN Agencies) to a informal brainstorming meeting at Tunis. This
>> meeting is not part of the formal preparatory process.
> 
> It is good to see that Civil Society has been invited,  along with other
> stake-holders, in the representation of the CS Bureau.
> 
> However, and although this meeting is not part of the formal preparatory
> process, i think we all know that this will be a very important meeting,
> that will layout a possible shape and direction for the implemenation of
> Phase II.
> 
> I'm sure that the host country - and all participants - will want to ensure
> that the outcomes of this meeting, inform the first preparatory meeting,
> and the entire preparatory process. No doubt it will deal with process
> issues, but i would imagine it will also deal with content issues. As Mr.
> Grieger goes on to say:
> 
>> The meeting intends to kickstart the reflection process among all
>> stakeholders on what should be the value added of phase 2 of WSIS. As you
>> know, agreed languange was that phase 1 would end with a Declaration and a
>> Plan of Action (and it did!), and phase 2 would focus more on developmental
>> issues and also monitor and evaluate progress made since the first phase of
>> the Summit. This is a vague statement. For real monitoring and evaluation,
>> the time span of 23 month between the two phases is too short, as every
>> development expert knows.
> 
> In that respect, I feel it is very important that we uphold our ways of
> working during WSIS phase I, and extend an invitation to the Content and
> Themes working group, to identify a representaive for the meeting.
> 
> The ICCB is attending and i imagine will certainly wish to focus on some
> content issues, i believe it's imperative that the WSIS Content and themes
> group is simiarily represented.
> 
> I understand the funding contraints, but the issue here is also one of
> principle, if we can agree on that first, then we can second deal with the
> financial difficulties.
> 
> I would like to know how others feel about this?
> 
> karen
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary