AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] tunis meeting

[Rik Panganiban]

Wolfgang et al,

While I think it might be useful to have this document explaining CS 
structures, at least for ourselves, I am not so sure that the Tunisian 
hosts are all that concerned about this.  They simply want to know who 
is the "main" coordinating body among the various sectors, which for 
governments is the government bureau, for the private sector is the 
CCBI, and for NGOs is.... the Bureau and Content and Themes.  The 
Tunisian ambassador on Monday's briefing was clear:  he invited the 
respective bureau's and he expects the bureaus to work out amonst 
themselves who actually are the most appropriate people to attend, 
which might be delegated to someone not on the bureau.

Of course the CS plenary is sovereign, just as the government plenary 
is sovereign over the govt bureau.  But this doesn't help the summit 
hosts to know who to interact with directly from each sector.

It's important to note that governments are also apparently having some 
difficulties re-constituting among themselves the government bureau.  
There are apparently many more candidates than there are slots 
available, which is somewhat unusual.  Usually the regional groups 
already work this issue out quietly amongst themselves to avoid a more 
potentially politicized and controversial election procedure.

So really it is only the private sector that for the most part has 
seemed to be able to coordinate smoothly its own representation issues. 
  But that is also an open question, at least on my part.

Rik Panganiban


On 13 févr. 04, at 11:37, <wolfgang at imv.au.dk> wrote:

> Dar all,
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> It should be clear (also for the Tunis organizers) that the "main 
> organ" of CS is the CS Plenary. CS-P has two arms, "C&T" for Content 
> (based on a broad range of WG and Caucuses) and the "Bureau" for 
> Procedures. The so-called "C&T Liaison" is a full member of the 
> Bureau. It is important to explain this "simple structure" to the 
> newcomers from the very early day to avoid any misunderstanding. CS is 
> organized bottom up. The Bureau does not take content related 
> decisions. It facilitates the communications between other bodies and 
> stakeholders and the different families, caucuses wg etc. of the Civil 
> Society and deals with formal aspects (which room is needed when, 
> which speaking slots should be reserved, when we should have a meeting 
> with the intergovernmental office etc.)
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> It would be helpful to write a self-explaining one-pager (with an 
> Organizational Chart) for distribution in Tunis.
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> Best
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> wolfgang
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> -- Original Nachricht--
> Von: Rikke Frank Joergensen <rfj at humanrights.dk>
> An: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Senden: 11:12 AM
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