AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] tunis meeting

[Fullsack Jean-Louis]

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Dear all

I fully support Bill's opinion as far as the CS bureau is concerned. There
is an original mistake due to members of Fondation du Devenir who created
these families on a unilateral basis perhaps for a "better" monitoring of
the CS ...
Anyway, working groups have significantly contributed to CS's documents and
expression during the WSIS first phase (far more than a number of families)
and therefore deserve to be represented in the Bureau. This isn't only a
"personal concern" but an issue related matter of fact. And some major
issues are still outstanding such as Internet gouvernance and what's
basically specific for Africa : infrastructure, access and financing.
Another main issue still to be addressed is international cooperation.
Unfortunately there are no families to deal with the  latter two issues.
This is particularly regretable since the tunisean phase compulsorily
will/must focus on these as major inputs for any concrete Action Plan to be
issued as THE outcome of the Tunis Summit that all African delegations -both
gouvernmental and civil organisations'- expect from this event on their
continent.

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT

Bonjour à tous

Je soutiens entièrement le point de vue de Bill concernant le Bureau de la
SC. Il y a une faute originelle commise par les membres de la Fondation du
devenir qui ont créé ces familles de manière unilatérale peut-être en vue de
"mieux" piloter la SC ...
Qu'importe, les groupes de travail ont significativement contribué aux
documents et à l'expression de la SC (bien plus qu'un certain nombre de
familles) pendant la première phase du SMSI et pour cette raison ils
méritent d'être représentés au Bureau. Ce n'est pas seulement une question
de personne mais une matière factuelle lié aux problèmes eux-mêmes. Et
certains problèmes des plus importants sont toujours en instance, comme la
gouvernance d'Internet et ce qui est essentiellement spécifique pour
l'Afrique : l'accès, l'infrastructure et le financement. Un autre problème
majeur à traîter concerne  la coopeération internationale. Malheureusement
il n'y a pas de familles traîtant de ces deux derniers problèmes. Cela est
particulièrement regrettable car la phase tunisienne devra obligatoirement
se concentrer sur eux en tant que contributions majeures pour n'importe quel
Plan d'Action qui sera publié en tant que LE résultat du Sommet de Tunis que
toutes les organisations africaines -gouvernementales comme civiles-
attendent de cet événement sur leur continent.

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Drake" <wdrake at ictsd.ch>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 11:10 AM
Subject: RE: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] tunis meeting


> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> > Dar all,
> >
> > 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
>
> The Tunisian government is probably not all that aware of or concerned
about
> the details of the CS structure; certainly the ambassador gave no hint of
> this at the CONGO meeting.  I suspect they think that by inviting the
bureau
> to Tunis to plan they've done all they need to do.
>
> > 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.)
>
> Sorry, but I don't think this really responds to what Rikke said.  The
issue
> here is not whether there are 'newcomers' who don't know the structure or
> understand the process/substance division (which I am sure the Tunis
meeting
> will blur).  Rather, it's whether the structure is optimally configured in
> terms of democratic representation.  This concern has been raised on the
> list a number of times by by many 'old timers.'   Why should the bureau
> comprise only families rather than also including people from the caucuses
> and working groups, which after all were created bottom up and have
> contributed heavily?  Why wouldn't we want the bureau to comprise reps of
> the most active groupings, irrespective of which of the three forms they
> take?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
> -------------
>
> > > -- Original Nachricht--
> > > Von: Rikke Frank Joergensen <rfj at humanrights.dk>
> > > An: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> > > Senden: 11:12 AM
> > > Betreff: [WSIS CS-Plenary] tunis meeting
> > >> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am glad to see that C&T is a "born" participant in the
> > > Tunis meeting, according to the information from Renata.
> > >
> > > However, it’s still worrying that the family structure is the point
> > > of access for CS at a meeting that will undoubtedly deal with both
> > > process and
> > > content. And that effective means for participation in this 2. phase
> > > will be so
> > > limited due to financial constrains on CS.
> > >
> > > Rikke
>
>
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