[WSIS CS-Plenary] Internet Governance UN ICT Task Force next week

[Robert Guerra]

--On Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:38 PM +0100 LADY MURRUGARRA 
<ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es> wrote:

> Dear all:
> Some Plenary's members will be participating in the Global Forum on
> Internet Governance organized by the UN ICT Task Force next week ?
> http://www.unicttaskforce.org/
>

I'll change topics for now - to a few other items also of importance:

(1) Lady, discussing strategy and organization of CS around the event 
you mention is an important one.

if someone has details - please post

(2) CS Bureau report from Tunisia that Viola sent out yesterday raises 
very important points which not only need to be discussed on the bureau 
list, but also here on the plenary.

if you haven't seen the report - Then i believe you should ASAP.

CSB Report:
<http://www.worldsummit2003.de/download_en/pv_wsis_bureau_20040315.rtf>

Structure of CSB:
<http://cms.privaterra.org/wsis>

(3) Planning ahead -


What Process, deliverables and modalities of participation for phase II 
(Tunisia) does CS want to develop ?. The executive secretariat published 
a "draft" road map in February which was expanded on at the meeting in 
Tunisia.

Note: copy of which can be downloaded at the URL below
<http://cms.privaterra.org/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=42>

The discussion in Tunisia, and the corresponding Road Map makes it 
obvious that the Tunisia phase is inherently more complex. The ITU will 
not be taking the complete lead of the preparations as it did before, 
but instead involve a plethora of international organizations such as 
WIPO, UNDP, UNESCO, just to name a few. The # of meetings will likely 
tax our ability to engage and participate

My personal view is that for Civil Society to be as effective (or 
perhaps even more so) as it did in the Geneva phase we need to be more 
effective, more professional in developing a Road map or our own, a 
strategy on how we can collaborate and intervene to reach our goals - 
the achievement of points we raised in our declarations and benchmarks.

Going back to my earlier point - what indeed is being planned by CS for 
the meeting in New York next week?


regards

Robert