AW: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Statement - To be read at WSIS/ITU informal planning

[wolfgang at imv.au.dk]

Dear al, 

there are some concrete proposals in the CS Declaration like an internaitonal convention against information warfare or a convention for cultural diversity. One key proposal was the launching of an independent WSIS "Observatory". 

The idea with the observatory was to have a multistakeholder network  which could be something like a "clearinghouse" or, probably, also a "watchdog". The proposal was to evaluate internaitonal conventions and the work of existing intergovernmental and other organisations how the match with the WSIS principles. 

The "Obervatory" proposal is a little bit different from the proposed "Annual Benchmarking" report of the WSIS Action plan, but does no conflict. In fact, it is complementary. 

To base a short statement in Tunis on this already formulated observatory proposal could be useful. 

best regards

wolfgang



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Von: Robert Guerra <rguerra at cpsr.org>
An: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Senden: 04:25 PM
Betreff: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Statement - To be read at WSIS/ITU informal planning



--On Sunday, February 22, 2004 3:55 PM +0100 Vittorio Bertola 
<vb at bertola.eu.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:32:07 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> I think it would be a good idea to read at statement from CS at the
>> upcoming informal meeting in tunisia.
>
> It might be a good idea, but perhaps there should first be consensus
> on what the civil society should state. Would it just be a generic
> reminder about the need for more civil rights? Would it be a request
> for some specific actions? What other requests, for example in terms
> of future WSIS process, we want to make?


time is short - so we do need to engage into a discussion about those 
topics ASAP.

all i've tried to do, is create a space - provide a tool, which might 
facilitate development of what we come up with. let's take this as a 
test - to see if tools like Wiki's might help (btw. has this been tried 
before in WSIS/CS?)

All one has to do is register on the site, and then one is free to 
revise what's there.


> (For what regards the matters I am more familiar with, ie Internet
> Governance, I think we should take the opportunity to restate the
> importance of adequate civil society representation in the upcoming
> working groups organized by the Secretary General of the UN.)


There's a meeting this coming week at the ITU in Geneva where I hope 
those issues will be raised. I know, for certain that key groups will be 
raising that concern at the UN ICT Task force meeting and the end of 
March in New York City.

regards

Robert
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