[WSIS CS-Plenary] bureau organization

[djilali benamrane]

Please see below in French 
I support this Amali's proposal and hope that we are
capable to adhere as a basic rule with possibly
complemantary proposals.
Choising our representatives and spokepersons We
absolutely must take care of Gender balance, language
balance and geographical balance.
We cannot just trust those who represented us in the
Geneva phase evan if they did well.
We must have the capacity to say no to problematic
proposals event if some of us think that we must jest
be present evrywhere without mandate or orientation.
Let's buid on these relevant proposals made by Amali.
All the best
Djilali
Je supporte les proposition d'Amali et espère que nous
serons capables d'adhérer à ces règles élémentaires et
à les enrichir.
En choisissons nos représentants et porte paroles,
nous devrions veillez à l'équilbre du genre, des
langues et des régions.
Nous ne pouvons nous satisfaire de nos repésentants à
Genève même s'ils ont été parfaits.
Nous devrions avoir la capacité de dire non aux
propositions problèmatique même si certains pensent
qu'il faille être présents partout et toujopurs sans
mandat ni orientation. 
Construisons ensemble sur les propositions d'Amali
Amitiés
Djilali   
--- Amali De Silva <amalidesilva at yahoo.com> wrote:
> During the next phase of the summit whichever
> structure, and whoever as individuals are  chosen,
> it should be remembered that  it is imperative that
> those particular individuals adhere to some good
> principles, otherwise their credibility will be
> lost:
>  
> 1) TRANSPARENCY ( who ? why ? where ? what ? when ?
> )
>  
> 2) ACCOUNTABILITY ( information dissemination on a
> timely basis and complete!)
>  
> 3) FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ( all are entitiled to
> their view - keep it civil on the list !)
>  
> 4 ) RECOGNITION ( Important to give a place to
> significant individuals / regions - not just those
> who are privy to funding opportunities or those who
> can attend meetings due to their proximity to Geneva
> )
>  
> 5) REPRESENTATION ( - Who are the bureau members
> actually representing ?    Important to have good
> diversity of representation from a number of diverse
> organizations from around the world )
>  
> 6) FLEXIBILITY 
>  
> Thank you !
>  
> Amali De Silva - Mitchell
> President Vancouver Community Network
> Co-coordinator North American Caucus WSIS - CS
> 
>  
> 
> William Drake <wdrake at ictsd.ch> wrote:
> Hi Jean-Louis,
> 
> Thanks for your note, but just let me clarify my
> view, which I gather is a
> little different from yours. In raising the bureau
> issue at the CONGO
> meeting in Geneva and here on the list, I was in no
> way criticizing Alain
> and Louise, the bureau, or the families, and
> certainly was not implying that
> the latter were created to 'monitor CS' as you
> suggest. When this was done,
> CS's organization was still nascent and fluid, the
> secretariat needed a
> structure akin to the other bureaus that it could
> interface with, and that
> structure needed constituent groupings behind it.
> While some people have
> expressed concerns about the resulting architecture
> and it's 'top down'
> genesis (and I'll never forget attending a surreal
> meeting at PC 2 where we
> sat around trying to figure out if we were a 'social
> movement' or fit under
> another of the labels), in the end everyone worked
> together and things went
> pretty well. So, no criticism implied.
> 
> The question is simply this. Since that architecture
> was created, there has
> been a bottom up blossoming of working groups and
> caucuses, and these groups
> have lots of active and dedicated members, have
> generated texts and other
> inputs, etc. And let's be honest, the same can't be
> said of every one of
> the families, which after all were categories
> offered to us that didn't
> always attract big populations. So as we look to the
> next phase of WSIS,
> would it not make more sense for us to think about
> how we have actually
> self-organized and have a bureau comprising people
> from the most active,
> member-based groupings, irrespective of whether
> they're called families,
> working groups, or caucuses? I can't see any reason
> to continue having only
> one type represented just because that's the
> structure that was established
> long ago; path dependency with no feedback loops is
> not a good model.
> 
> To be clear, I recognize that the bureau just does
> process (although there
> will be content covered in Tunis) and has done it
> well, that its function is
> not really constituent 'representation' per se, and
> that it would take time
> to devise a collectively agreed alternative, but I
> still think a more
> diverse representation/involvement/whatever could be
> useful in terms of
> information flow and overall coordination. While I
> personally have no
> interest in being on the bureau, there are others
> who might bring in new
> energy with such a change.
> 
> We need to be a learning network, if not
> organization, and to assess
> everything we've done so far---what worked, what
> sort of worked, what
> didn't, and why---with an eye to strengthening the
> mechanisms for CS
> participation. This will be especially important
> because phase II looks to
> be different in focus and dynamics.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bill Drake
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org
> [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org]On
> > Behalf Of Fullsack Jean-Louis
> > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 2:17 PM
> > To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> > Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] tunis meeting
> >
> >
> > En français ci-dessous
> > 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
> 
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