[WSIS CS-Plenary] CS structure diagram now online

Mon Mar 1 08:52:37 GMT 2004

Dear Thomas Ruddy  [and Chris Nichols]
Deeply grateful for your conversion of Chris Nichol's CS structure into
PDF,managed to find it and down load within minutes. Also grateful to Chris
for producing same diagram. All very helpful for elderly Brit who only
started on WSIS at PrepCom 3 but who hopes to attend official Prepcoms for
Tunis and Tunis itself unless she has 'popped her clogs' before then.
Re appropriate translations of above phrase --- quite impossible - my
apologies!!!!!!.

Valerie Evans. NAWO  [National Association of Women's Organisation, this is
the  NGO which elects the English representative to the European Women's
Lobby we have a further thre, one each, from Wales, Scotland and Ireland]]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ruddy" <thomruddy at yahoo.com>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:01 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS structure diagram now online

> Dear readers,
> After all the controversy surrounding the Open Office
> format of Chris Nicol's CS structure diagram, I have
> converted it to PDF and uploaded it onto this site I
> manage, http://www.wsis.ethz.ch
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> --- Chris Nicol <cnicol at pangea.org> wrote:
> > Subject: Re: AW: [WSIS CS-Plenary] tunis meeting
> > From: Chris Nicol <cnicol at pangea.org>
> > To: WSIS CS Plenary list <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:11:08 +0100
> >
> > This time with the attachment.  8-)
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 20:55, Chris Nicol wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 11:37, wolfgang at imv.au.dk
> > wrote:
> > > > 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 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.)
> > >
> > > Yes. I think it's also useful to see how the two
> > kinds of groups,
> > > families (Bureau) and Caucuses (Content and
> > Themes) differ. The families
> > > are organised more according to the origin of
> > their members: trade
> > > unions; regions; NGOs; women; youth; cities and
> > local authorities; think
> > > tanks, etc. ie constituencies, similar to the
> > governments, who
> > > supposedly represent their own national
> > constituencies. The caucuses are
> > > organised around areas of interest: human rights;
> > gender; internet
> > > governance; patents, copyright and trademarks;
> > regions, indigenous
> > > peoples, etc. People from many different
> > areas/constituencies of CS can
> > > be members of the same working group.
> > >
> > > The constituencies could be fine as a basis for
> > organising CS if there
> > > were some mechanism for formalising this
> > representation. But we don't go
> > > to Prepcomms with a mandate from our
> > constituencies. We try to represent
> > > them as best we can, but there are no elected
> > representatives from the
> > > broader trade union movement, nor representatives
> > of all women, nor all
> > > youths, nor have think tanks had a congress and
> > sent delegates, etc.
> > > This would be impossible. CS representivity in
> > WSIS has relied more on
> > > good will and motivation than on formal
> > structures.
> > >
> > > But the problem is more than this. When we were
> > working at the
> > > Prepcomms, we worked on issues, with other people
> > who shared our
> > > interest, in structures that didn't correspond to
> > our "constituencies",
> > > with the exceptions of gender, youth, regions,
> > etc. So the "families"
> > > were sometimes (often?) more of a burden than a
> > help in getting the work
> > > done. Some hardly ever met, just placing their
> > faith in their elected
> > > reps. The family structure, which on paper looks
> > democratic, was often
> > > less so in practice. It was more often the
> > caucuses and working groups
> > > where we got to know each other, shared ideas and
> > meals, created trust
> > > and confidence, etc, and thrashed out the issues
> > and wrote critiques
> > > together.
> > >
> > > I doubt that the families were set up as a
> > counterweight to the
> > > caucuses, but in my opinion the latter were often
> > more important. But
> > > the Bureau is the "official"  structure, modeled
> > on the governments' own
> > > structure, so it's the one the UN and the
> > Tunisians can (relatively)
> > > easily recognise. But only recognising the
> > families clearly leads to
> > > problems when in practice a lot of CS identifies
> > more with their
> > > caucuses. Maybe just an explanation would help the
> > Tunisian government.
> > >
> > > > It would be helpful to write a self-explaining
> > one-pager (with an Organizational Chart) for
> > distribution in Tunis.
> > >
> > > Attached is a first draft of an organisational
> > chart I began a while
> > > ago. It's in Open Office drawing format. If anyone
> > can convince me that
> > > they can't download Open Office (or get a CD) and
> > install it to read the
> > > file (in Windows or in Linux), (and in the process
> > start using free
> > > software), I'll see what I can do about making an
> > image file of it or
> > > sending them a CD with the Open Office
> > installation on it.
> > > http://www.openoffice.org
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Best
> > > >
> > > > wolfgang
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -- 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
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I am glad to see that C&T is a "born"
> > participant in the
> > > > Tunis meeting, according to the information from
> > Renata.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > However, its 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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