[WSIS CS-Plenary] UN ICT Forum civil society meeting - FRIDAY 3/26 2pm

Thu Mar 11 18:49:33 GMT 2004

--Hi, Since I think I have been literally the only NGO from UN Headquarters in NY to attend all of the Prep Coms for the Geneva segment, but not the Prep Com 3A, and since I was asked to speak at the NGO briefing along with Therese Gasteau of DPI, Amb. Hachani of Tunisia, and Sara mcCue of UNDP, and I proposed it at the session on February 12, that I will organize some type of open-ended group here at Headquarters that can meet to coordinate among ourselves re the tunis phase.

I will be in the air to Korea's UNEP Global civil Society Forum and the Ministerial Segment of the UNEP Governing Council at noon on the 25th, so unable to join you.

If you give me about 6-7 hours, there will be a copy of my notes on the briefing organized today, Thursday, March 11, by the Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) this morning from 11 AM - 12 noon in the ECOSOC Chamber in NY.

Participants, Sarbuland Khan, Director of the Substantive Secretariat and of the ICT Task Force, Therese Gasteau of DPI (Dept. of Public Information), Amb. Ali Hachani, Permanent Representative of Tunisia 
to the UN, and Pierre Helg of the Mission of the Swiss Confederation.

Several delegations asked questions, as did one NGO.

Richard Jordan

Notes are not verbatim, excuse any inaccuracies please, they are mine alone. Notes
--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:27:45
From: dcogburn at si.umich.edu
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org, Frannie Wellings <wellings at epic.org>
Cc: pv at .gn.apc.org, INVALID_ADDRESS_IN_GROUP at .SYNTAX-ERROR, ""

>Frannie,
>
>I will attend.
>
>Professor Derrick L. Cogburn
>School of Information and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
>The University of Michigan
>
>Cheers,
>Derrick
>
>Quoting Frannie Wellings <wellings at epic.org>:
>
>> Hi everyone - I've had great response for a meeting alongside the NYC
>> 
>> UN ICT meeting, I'm now changing the time so we can accommodate as 
>> many people as possible.
>> We're now holding the Public Voice civil society meeting on Friday 
>> afternoon from 2-4pm at the Ford Foundation (address below).  The UN
>> 
>> meeting will end at 1pm on Friday at which time I hope most of you 
>> who are attending the meeting or just in NYC will be free to meet. 
>> We will unfortunately be without a few colleagues from APC who have a
>> 
>> conflicting meeting at that time, so we could also try and meet for 
>> drinks/discussion on the night of the 25th if anyone is interested. 
>> In addition, we'll organize a pre-UN meeting teleconference earlier 
>> in that week as well for anyone who's interested.  I've had a couple
>> 
>> of questions about press attendance and the answer I've given is no 
>> press.
>> We now need a confirmed list of attendees for food ordering and 
>> building access.  So sorry to do this again, but please send me 
>> confirmation of your availability to attend and pass this on to other
>> 
>> civil society colleagues who will be in town.  Thanks so much. 
>> Looking forward to seeing everyone - Frannie
>> 
>> Ford Foundation address:
>> 320 East 43rd Street New York, NY 10017
>> 
>> Please bring a photo ID for entrance into the Ford Foundation.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:30:49 -0500
>> >To: public voice wsis:dhurley at well.com, acarvin at edc.org, 
>> >liza at mediaactioncenter.org, amcgee at virtualidentity.org, 
>> >william.dutton at internet-institute.oxford.ac.uk, CCHIU at aclu.org, 
>> >clemencia at ou.edu, dhalleck at ucsd.edu, eviltz at pir.org, dirk at grcmc.org,
>> 
>> >elizabeth.robinson at kcsb.org, embench at wpfc.org, wings at igc.org, 
>> >noam at columbia.edu, gbsohn at publicknowledge.org, 
>> >hans.klein at pubpolicy.gatech.edu, james.love at cptech.org, 
>> >mclauglm at po.muohio.edu, st.amour at isoc.org, mueller at syr.edu, 
>> >rguerra at privaterra.org, schock at riseup.net, s.g.davies at lse.ac.uk, 
>> >stephanie at digitaldiscretion.ca, susang at nclnet.org, 
>> >vfranz at osieurope.org, yjpark at MYEPARK.COM, Anthony.Riddle at FEX.org, 
>> >Saskia Fischer <saskiamf at yahoo.com>, dbronson at ichrdd.ca, 
>> >catherine at mediaactioncenter.org, hfeld at mediaaccess.org, 
>> >kiddd at usfca.edu, elizabeth.robinson at kcsb.org, mciver at albany.edu, 
>> >bcreech at ctr.pcusa.org, rik p, Rikke Frank Joergensen 
>> ><rfj at humanrights.dk>, karenb at gn.apc.org, sburch at alainet.org, Meryem
>> 
>> >Marzouki <ralf.bendrath at sfb597.uni-bremen.de>, Adam Peake 
>> ><ajp at glocom.ac.jp>, Meryem Marzouki <marzouki at ras.eu.org>, 
>> >wolfgang at imv.aau.dk, lachapelle at openwsis.org, latham at ssrc.org, 
>> >jane at una.dk, hr-wsis at iris.sgdg.org, plenary at wsis-cs.org, 
>> >governance at lists.cpsr.org, crisusa at comunica.org, olivier_Nzepa, 
>> >ca at rits.org.br, mouhamet at next.sn
>> >From: Frannie Wellings <wellings at epic.org>
>> >Subject: UN ICT Forum civil society meeting
>> >Cc:
>> >Bcc:
>> >X-Attachments:
>> >
>> >Hi everyone - Taking advantage of any civil society presence in New
>> 
>> >York City for the UN ICT forum, the Public Voice is organizing a 
>> >civil society meeting on the afternoon of March 25.  I'm looking for
>> 
>> >civil society folks that will be there and might be interested in 
>> >meeting to discuss/strategize civil society participation away from
>> 
>> >the UN meeting itself.  We're reserving a room at the Ford 
>> >Foundation and I need to get an idea of numbers.  I think it will be
>> 
>> >held from 3pm-5pm on March 25th.  Please e-mail me as soon as 
>> >possible with any information on possible participants who will be 
>> >in the NY area/participating in the Forum including yourselves.
>> >Thanks so much,
>> >Frannie Wellings
>> >
>> >--
>> >
>> >
>> >-----------------------------------------------------------------
>> >Frannie Wellings
>> >Policy Fellow, Electronic Privacy Information Center
>> >Coordinator, The Public Voice
>> >1718 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 200 
>> >Washington, D.C.  20009   USA 
>> >wellings at epic.org
>> >+1 202 483 1140 extension 107 (telephone)
>> >+1 202 483 1248 (fax)
>> >http://www.epic.org
>> >http://www.thepublicvoice.org
>> >-----------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Frannie Wellings
>> Policy Fellow, Electronic Privacy Information Center
>> Coordinator, The Public Voice
>> 1718 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 200 
>> Washington, D.C.  20009   USA 
>> wellings at epic.org
>> +1 202 483 1140 extension 107 (telephone)
>> +1 202 483 1248 (fax)
>> http://www.epic.org
>> http://www.thepublicvoice.org
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