[WSIS CS-Plenary] Drastic changes to the proposed WSIS implementation mechanisms in the new text

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

dear robert
I still believe that ITU doesn't report to ECOSOC, even as the coordinator of the WSIS process : behind Utsumi you'll find Kofi Annan or his close advisors (e.g. Nitin Desai).
During the twenty years or so I spent as an ITU senior consultant I never heard anything from ECOSOC.
Jean-Louis Fullsack






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> You raise a tricky question....
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> Are you referring to whom does the ITU report to (if at all) for it's 
> ongoing mandate, or who does the ITU report to as the lead agency 
> organizing the WSIS.
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> I think the ITU , as it predates the UN has a "different arrangement" 
> as to which structure in the UN it "reports to". I'm not to sure as 
> i'm not a ITU expert. Bill Drake and others on the governance list 
> are, and they would be good people to ask.
> 
> As for what reporting the ITU needs to do, and where for WSIS. As i'm 
> not sure, i've just quickly looked through the ECOSOC page and found 
> some reports from the ITU (see below). So indeed, it does seem that 
> the reports to to ECOSOC, which in turn might end up at the General 
> Assembly.
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> http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=E/2004/61&Lang=E
> http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=E/2004/61/CORR.1&Lang=E
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> Note by the Secretary-General of the United Nations transmitting the 
> report of the Secretary-General of the International 
> Telecommunication Union on the first phrase and progress in the 
> preparations for the second phase of the World Summit on the Informat
> Agenda Item: Economic and environmental questions: Science and 
> technology for development (13(b))
> Issue Date: 5/5/2004
> ODS Symbol: E/2004/6
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