AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] tunis meeting

[karen banks]

dear all

adam said:
>I thought we had the document, "Civil Society at the WSIS:  Basic 
>Structures", written by Renata, Sean and Wolfgang in September 2003 
>(around the time of PrepCom3?)

This: http://www.wsis-cs.org/cs-overview.html - is the document on the 
website at the moment, which is drawn from the work of sean, renate and 
wolfgang (and others)

Can we work to update this one? as this is the most publically accessible 
document.

It would be useful to add wolfgang's note about the 'permanent liaison' 
role on the CSB - but that is a different issue to the respective roles of 
the bodies - CS plenary, CSCT and CSB

We must also translate whatever document we agree as our final public document.

karen

>>>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.)