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[djilali benamrane]

Many thanks Anriette for this large information on the
mechanism of the TFFM process, it will be usefull for
the future.
I have no problem with APC in particular, nor with any
other Big NGO. What i feel is that as CS
representatives we are not playing with the same rules
in the same yard. It is a chance for the CS to have
such international NGOs who can found by their own
dozen of participants in important meetings.
I note with plaisir that the monolunguism English
domination become an objective problem if we want to
meet equity between NGOs and associations.
I note also and i underlined it that if resouces are
mobilized to help CS participation they must be
allocated with priority to CS from LDCs and
Underdeveloped countries.
Thank you so much i learnt a lot on how UNDP deal with
   SC and the so called multipartenariat. I shall
propose to my working group a draft of an open letter
to UNDP. 
All the best
Merci Ariette pour ce message trés instructif. Il sera
d'une grande utilité pour le futur.  
Je n'ai pas de problèmes particulier avec APC ou avec
une ONG internationale quelconque c'est une chance
qu'elles existent et qu'elles peuvent aligner des
dizaines de représentants dans les rencontres
d'importance. Simplement je relève que nous ne jouons
pas avec les mêmes règles ni dans les mêmes cours.
La domination révoltante du monolinguisme finira par
provoquer un jour ou l'autre un rejet de participation
des analphabètes en anglais voir une explosion contre
cet impérialisme.
Il faut aussi que s'il y a des ressources pour
faciliter la participation de la société civile que
cela aille au Sud en priorité aux PMA et au PVD, j'ai
eu à le dire avec force à genève et je continuerai à
le crier.
En tout cas merci pour ces précieuses informations qui
m'incitent à rédiger au sein de mon groupe une lettre
ouverte au PNUD pour dénoncer sa vision d'un
multipartenariat où la SC est manipulée à merci.
Bien à vous
--- Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:

> Dear Djilali
> 
> I am responding to clarify APC's role in the Task
> Force on Financial
> Mechanisms which I think you might be referring to
> in your message.
> 
> This is only English... apologies.
> 
> > 3... In the future we must condemn any Big
> > International NGO who accepet to represent the CS
> > without any dialogue and concertation as it has
> been
> > the case in the past for the designation by UNDP
> of
> > the CS representative in the TFFM without any
> > concertation inside the CS where a working group
> was
> > active.
> 
> > 3... Dans l'avenir on devrait condamner avec force
> > toute grande ONG internationale qui accepte de
> jouer
> > le jeu des désignations des représentants de la SC
> > sans dialogue ni participation, comme cela a été
> le
> > cas lors de la désignation par le PNUD des
> > représentants de la SC au groupe de travail de
> l'ONU
> > sur les mécanismes de financement, alors qu'un
> groupe
> > de travail de la société civile était opérationnel
> et
> > aurait pu être consulté au sein de la SC.
> 
> APC received an invitation to be a member of the
> Task Force on Financing
> Mechanisms from UNDP that was dated 16 September
> 2004 (before the launch
> of the civil society working group on financing on
> 20 September).
> 
> We were not invited on behalf of the WSIS civil
> society caucus, or on
> behalf of any subgroup among civil society
> organisations working in the
> WSIS process.
> 
> Nor were we invited to represent civil society in
> general.  We would never
> have accepted such a role.
> 
> As a membership organisation our primary challenge,
> and not an easy one,
> is to ensure that we respect the mandate of the APC
> network.
> 
> Why was APC included in the TFFM?
> We were invited as an individual network of civil
> society organisations,
> most of whom are in developing countries, who have
> been active in ICT
> issues since the late 1980s.  And, in particular,
> because we had tackled
> the financing issue early on in the post WSIS1
> phase.
> 
>  In June 2004 APC published a paper on financing
> which was written by our
>  member in
> Uruguay, ITeM (Instituto del Tercer Mundo) with the
> lead author being
> Pablo Accuosto.
> 
> This paper developed the concept of networks as a
> global public good, and
> an approach to financing based on this principle. 
> The paper was
> distributed at WSIS2 prepcom 1 and received serious
> attention from not
> only civil society, but also from governments.
> http://rights.apc.org/documents/financing.pdf
> 
> We commissioned this paper not only because of our
> involvement in WSIS...
> but to contribute actively to our ongoing work in
> ICT policy advocacy
> (which predates WSIS and will continue beyond WSIS).
> 
> It is in this context that I was invited to be a
> member, in my capcity as
> APC executive director, of the TFFM. I immediately
> asked UNDP if they
> could include ITeM, who had developed the paper on
> financing for APC, but
> unfortunately they did not respond positively to
> this suggestion.
> 
> As I live in Johannesburg in South Africa and the
> TFFM meetings were to be
> held in New York I nominated my colleague, Willie
> Currie, who is currently
> based there, to attend the meetings in my place.
> 
> Please note therefore that with regard to the TFFM:
> 
> - I never accepted the invitation to join the TFFM
> on behalf of any entity
> other than the APC network
> 
> - Very early on in the process we proposed to UNDP
> that APC assist them in
> facilitating a consultation with civil society
> through a structured online
> discussion.  We even proposed using the civil
> society working group on
> financing workspace (which was established in 20
> September).
> 
> UNDP responded to say that they felt this was not
> necessary as they had
> already organised to have a web-based online
> disucssion.  We shared with
> them our concern that we felt this would not be
> enough and that a mailing
> list-based discussion would be more inclusive.  We
> also noted that we felt
> such a consultation would HAVE to be multi- lingual.
> 
> - The TFFM had only two meetings, and it was hard
> enough for APC to ensure
> that the perspectives we brought to the TFFM
> accurately reflected the
> positions of our members. For APC to 'represent'
> broader civil society
> would not only have been completely inappropriate,
> it would be impossible.
> 
> - At our request UNDP agreed that we could invite
> additonal CS participants to the
> second meeting which we did, having had only one
> day's notice (a Sunday) to do so.
> Rik Panganiban was able to come and did report on
> this meeting to plenary. Subject:
> [WSIS CS-Plenary] report on TFFM meeting 29 November
> - Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004
> 14:01:34 -0500
> 
> - Through our policy work in Africa we were able to
> collaborate with the
> African Civil Society Caucus to facilitate a public
> discussion on financing in
> January 2005 as part of the preparatory process for
> the Accra WSIS 2
> regional Africa prepcom.  In fact, thiis online
> meeting focused on three
> important areas: internet governance, Africa's
> priorities, and financing.
> The three discussion papers were available in
> English and French and the
> discussion took place in both languages.
> 
>
http://africa.rights.apc.org/index.shtml?apc=29740ieDiscussion+papers1
> 
> The list where the discussion took place is:
> Africa at wsis-cs.org
>
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/africa
> 
> - APC expressed its concerns on the TFFM process,
> including our concerns
> about insufficient inclusiveness and consultation,
> with the UNDP in
> December 2004. You can find more information about
> this at
> http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=30736
> 
> - The timing of the process (2 months), made it
> impossible for APC to engage you, and
> others in the financing WG you created, to the
> extent we would have like to. We simply
> had to prioritise networking internally with our
> members, and even that was difficult to
> do effectively.
> 
> In conclusion, APC members have always been
> sensitive to issues of exclusion
> through language, and insufficient participation. 
> At present we
> prioritise addressing this at regional and national
> levels. In February
> this year APC, through our member organisation in
> the DRC, Alternatives,
> and the support of other regional partners such as
> Panos West Africa, held
> a regional ICT policy advocacy workshop in Kinshasha
> with participants
> from Francophone West Africa - in French.
> 
> In December 2004, through our member Nodo Tau, we
> convened a regional ICT
> policy meeting, Spanish, in Rosario, Argentina and
> later 
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Djilali Benamrane : dbenamrane at yahoo.com
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