[WSIS CS-Plenary] III LAC-EU Ministerial Forum on Information Society

[Valerie Peugeot]

Thanks to Magaly for this feed back.

In case you are interested, you can see my speech at the following 
address (in Spanish only) : http://www.vecam.org/article.php3?id_article=343

Valérie


magaly pazello [c] wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> These last week took place en Rio de Janeiro the III LAC-EU Ministerial 
> Forum on Information Society, Nov. 22- 23, and AHCIET was also involved 
> in the organization of the event. You can find more information and also 
> documents on the forum in the official website: www.forumsocinfo.gov.br
> 
> Rede DAWN, Vecam, Funredes, RITS, Alfa-redi, ITeM among few other 
> organizations have attended it. The private sector have a visible 
> participation NOKIA, the Brazilian Chamber of E-commerce for example, 
> and also the regulatory agencies of telecommunications of the both regions.
> 
> Both civil society and private sector have participated in the main 
> panels and the working groups panels as well. What is quite good 
> considering that the Forum was an very short event, one day and half in 
> total.
> 
> However was a very clear the preference of the organizers to invite only 
> men to make part of the panels, what Valerie (Vecam), the one of the 
> representants of EU and the representant of the CARICOM were exceptions.
> 
> In terms of the Declaration of the Forum, Declaration of Rio de Janeiro, 
> the governments take in account few inputs from the civil society. But 
> any mention on Human Rights was accept, exception in the case of the 
> "human, social and cultural rights and  the environment" in relation to 
> impact of new technologies. Any mention on gender was considered in the 
> draft and obviously there is no gender dimension in the declaration.
> 
> As all of you can guess the paragraphs on free software and internet 
> governance was the most difficult issues to reach consensus. But in the 
> ECLAC point of view the Declaration itself doesn't means anything in the 
> regional process around IS.
> 
> One important thing was the GRULAC meeting. This Forum gave to the 
> governments the opportunity to meet again before the prepcom 2 in Geneva 
> next February.
> 
> 
> Magaly
> 
>