[WSIS CS-Plenary] The March meeting: suggestions

[Fullsack Jean-Louis]

en français ci-dessous
Hi Karen

The posting of Mr Geiger is rather disappointing and hopeless !
How could a small NGO afford to travel to and stay at Tunis, even with "The
Lonely Planet" hotel guide ... ?
I don't see any solution for civil society to be represented at a minimum
level at such Tunis meeetings unless the respective country/gouvernment
takes it upon itself to pay these big expenses. And nothing is less sure,
even in the North !
Friendly yours

Bonjour Karen
Le message de M. Geiger est plutôt décevant voire désespérant!
Comment une petite ONG pourrait-elle se payer le voyage et le séjour à
Tunis, même avec le guide des hôtels "Lonely Planet". ?
Je ne vois pas de solution pour que la SC soit représentée à un niveau
minimum à ses réunions de Tunis à moins que les Pays/gouvernements concernés
prennent sur eux le paiement de ces grosses dépenses. Et rien n'est moins
sûr, même au Nord !
Amicalement

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CS C&T Group "Focal person" for Access-Infrastructure and Financing
"Personne focale" pour Accès-Infrastructure et Financement du Grouope C&T de
la SC .

----- Original Message -----
From: "karen banks" <karenb at gn.apc.org>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:35 PM
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
>
>
>
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