[WSIS CS-Plenary] List of requests for parallel events in Tunis

Mon Jul 11 18:44:39 BST 2005

Dear all, 

This is just to inform you that Renate Bloem sent out today a letter to Mr.
Utsumi, in order to demand the extension, by at least one additional week,
of the deadline for any initiative to merge proposals for side events
pertaining to common topics. This doesn’t mean that this deadline will be
extended by the Joint Committee, but that we are actually working on this.

In addition, we are also preparing a list of contacts within NGOs requesting
space for side events, in order to facilitate your initiatives in that
scope.

Lastly, we attended today’s GFC meeting. We were not thrown out, since no
government asked for it. We will send you a summary of this meeting asap
(probably tomorrow).

Best regards, 

Philippe Dam
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De : plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] De la part
de Elizabeth Carll, PhD
Envoyé : dimanche, 10. juillet 2005 18:32
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Objet : RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] List of requests for parallel events in Tunis

Robert,

Thanks for all your efforts in making this a transparent process and your

recommendations.  I would think if WSIS II were held in another venue such

as Geneva, the number of program proposals would not be a problem.

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Carll

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

UN NGO Committee on Mental Health

Communications Coordination Committee for the UN

Tel: 1631-754-2424

Fax: 1631-754-5032

ecarll at optonline.net

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A couple of important points that people should be aware of:

* The "deadline for " parallel event proposals was the end of April

* The "process and procedure" as to how to handle and the proposals

has been the subject of a great amount of debate and negotiations

both the the Groups of Friends of the Chair (GFC), the WSIS

governmental bureau and the civil society bureau.

-  I and other members of  the Civil society bureau, the WSIS ES as

well as certain key govts such as the EU and WEOG group  have lobbied

quite hard to make sure the process is as open and transparent as

possible. This lead to a recommendation to the parallel event

organizers that the list of proposals be made public and that clear

instructions be given as to where they are in the process and how to

proceed.

- The result of the lobbying efforts has lead a list "finally" being

made public. The exact process, specifically who are the persons who

will vet the proposals - is still unknown.

* To my knowledge, and that of the CSB bureau - no public and open

invitation has been made to involve CS structures such as working

groups, caucuses, plenary and/or the CSB in the decision making

process. Thus, despite calls from the CSB and others - no advancement

seems to have been made in actually involving CS in the actual

planning and logistics of the summit preparations itself. Multi-

stakeholder process, hmm, doesn't look like it..

* Having been involved in some of the lobbying efforts to make the

process open - it is my my "personal" opinion that the July 15th

deadline is in fact a "hard" one. As such, my recommendation would be

that Individuals and/or organizations that have submitted proposals

either confirm their info, or send in revised details on or before

July 15th - Tunis Time (that means 1800 on July 14th!).

* It has been my experience that the organizers are very strict when

it comes to deadlines & time zones - as such submissions on or after

18:00 on July 14th are likely to be considered late. So the ACTUAL

deadline is 1800hrs EDT (new york time) on July 14th!

regards,

Robert

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Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>

Managing Director, Privaterra <http://www.privaterra.org>

On 10-Jul-05, at 12:10 PM, Elizabeth Carll, PhD wrote:

> Dear All,

> 

> I agree with Milton, that this is not a realistic time frame to

> expect to attempt to merge programs by July 15th.

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