[WSIS CS-Plenary] Feb 15th CS Plenary

[Robert Guerra]

http://www.privaterra.org/activities/wsis/blog/pc2-_feb_15_-_cs_plenary.html

(here's a copy my quick notes from this morning's meeting)


Agenda Items

- Review of yesterday's CS briefing session
- Report from the Civil Society Bureau
- Bureau-Bureau meeting for Feb 17 has been announced. Time will be 
14:00 to 14:45
- Proposal of creation of CS Arab Caucus

This discussion became a bit heated as the ones suggesting the 
creation of the arab caucus were from LTDH (Tunisia). The Tunisian 
other CS groups at the plenary (those with well known links to the 
Tunisian Government) of course had to respond. Before things got too 
heated the chair intervened to leave it up to the different groups to 
come to a consensus so that they don't take up precious plenary time.

Key topics for this prepcom and the summit.

There were several interventions stating the importance for Civil 
Society to start formulating what the priorities are to mention at 
the press conference.

1. Multi-stakeholder principle - Still a struggle and needs to be 
developed further not only @ WSIS but other spaces as well
2. Financial Mechanisms
3. Working Group on Internet Governance
4. Summit  - Preparations, logistics for summit, privacy & security 
concerns (information and security working group).
5. Human Rights and Social Justice - let's make sure that the WSIS 
isn't just about infrastructure , but also has a human element to it. 
Key concerns about Human rights and Social justice are what NGOs are 
all about and should be reiterated.


The meeting was also archived, and is available online @ the following URL:

http://www.wsis-csb.org/wsis-audio/CS-Plenary-Feb15.mp3
(It's 1 hour total. Size of the archive is 53.6 MB)


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Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>