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

[Elizabeth Carll, PhD]

Dear Adam and all,

I will try and attend on March 25th, but have to leave for Washington DC
later that afternoon and will not be returning for a few days.

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
Focal Point
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
Chair Media/ICT Working Group,
NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York
Tel: 1-631-754-2424
Fax: 1-631-754-5032
ecarll at optonline.net

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From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org]On
Behalf Of Adam Peake
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:00 PM
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Internet Governance UN ICT Task Force
next week


>--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


Civil Society participants I can remember off hand (and I have not
heard from all that they will definitely attend, but this is who I am
expecting to see)

Adam Peake
Jeanette Hofmann
Karen Banks
Bill Drake
Vittorio Bertola
Wolfgang Kleinwächter
Bertrand de La Chapelle
Izumi Aizu
Milton Mueller
YJ Park
Bill McIver
Paul Wilson
Erick Iriarte Ahon
Carlos Afonso
Norbert Klein
Anriette Esterhuysen
Derrick Cogburn
Rik Panganiban
Veni Markovski

(apologies... I think I am missing people.)

There is also an online forum and all are very much encouraged to join:

<http://www.wsis-online.net/igov-forum/root/>  *please* comment.

Thanks,

Adam



>(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
>
>
>
>
>
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