[WSIS CS-Plenary] Proposed statement to GFC on paras 10, 11 and 29 - Endorsement

[maseger at t-online.de]

Thank you, Parminder
& YOU ALL,
for all the valuable work and information on the list.

I endorse the submitted statement for EURAG:

MARIANNE SEGER
Kohlenkamp 45
D-45468 Muelheim
GERMANY

P.S.:
(Gender Caucus & European Caucus)
I am the permanent NGO observer (ECOSOC) at the United Nations (with ground passes)
in NEW YORK and GENEVA for EURAG (= European Federation of Older Persons
- see: www.eurag-europe.org)
address: EURAG General Secretariat, Wielandgasse 9, A-8010 Graz, AUSTRIA.

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"Parminder" <Parminder at ITforChange.net> schrieb:

Hi All,
 
The following is the two-para statement that I propose organisations and individuals endorse in the next 15 hours.
I can forward the statement in the names of those who endorse it on this list in this time-period.

1.    The undersigned organisations and individuals from the Civil Society strongly oppose the move to make the proposed changes in paras 10, 11 and 29 of the operational part of the Tunis document, as per the new input document circulated by the chair of the GFC. These changes are too drastic, they do not represent the contributions of the various stakeholders to the existing text, and their acceptance will defeat the stated purpose of the Tunis summit, described as the ‘summit of solutions’, to make some real headway in implementing the promises of the Geneva summit.

2.    We will like to see the present suggested mechanism, based on stakeholder teams around action lines with a well-defined overall co-ordination body, as contained in the existing paras 10, 11 and 29, improved and elaborated through a multi-stakeholder consultative process to ensure that an adequate and necessary post-WSIS structure is in place, not only for implementing the outcomes of WSIS but also to take up Information Society issues as they come up.

Thanks Bill. I count CPSR on. Parminder
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Parminder Jeet Singh
IT for ChangeBridging
Development Realities and Technological Possibilities
91-80-26654134
www.ITforChange.net