[WSIS CS-Plenary] Global Alliance: Consultation

Sun Mar 13 10:26:15 GMT 2005

Dear Rik, dear Karen, dear all,
My first impression is to stop to respond to any
sollicitation to take part to all initiatives... As
long as i am informed nobody give to any association
as important as it could be to debate and take
position on behalf of the Civile Society.
Alliances with the private sector, with the UN system,
or and with government couterpart in this
desequilibrated multipartnariat is going to put us in
difficult position...
Before any involvement in any proposal concerning the
WSIS follow up process must be discussed in deep
inside the CS famillies before having an official
position  and an habilited porte parole.
It is so easy for the our partners to say "with
concertation and acceptation of the CS" in all cases
when they have discussed the issue with one person or
one association or NGO ! Perhaps is it a strategy in
certain CS componient... so we have to clarify
espaecially when we recently have suffured of such a
situation with the UN-TFFM, when the UNDP decided who
must represent the CS without any concertation with
thoses who are in charge with the issue within the CS.
All the best

Chers Rik, Karen et les autres,
Ma première impression pour ne pas rester muet et être
considéré comme consentant c'est de conseiller qu'on
stope toutes discussions et prise de position au nom
de la société civile par telle ou telle honorable
grande association au nom de tout le monde.
Nous devrions avoir une position claire et concertée
de la société civile en son seil sur ces problèmes
d'importance et donner un mandat clair au porte parole
chargé d'entreprendre ou de finaliser les discussions
au nom de la société civile....
Si nous ne faisons pas cet effort de clarification il
ne faut nous étonner que tout un chacun peut nous
engager dans n'importe quel aventure et on passera
notre temps à corriger au lieu d'avancer. On a déjà
souffert récemment de pareille situation avec la Task
force onusienne sur les mécanismes de financement le
PNUD ayant décidé de qui devait représenter la société
civile sans consultation aucune avec les ayant droits
au chapitre.  
Amitiés
Djilali    
--- Rik Panganiban <rikp at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Here are my notes from a briefing with Saburland
> Khan last week in New 
> York with CONGO on the Global Alliance:
> 
> Saburland Khan, Director of the UN Division for
> ECOSOC Support and 
> Coordination and head of the UN ICT Task Force,
> updated CONGO at its 
> board meeting last week on the proposed "Global
> Alliance for ICT 
> Development."
> 
>   Mr. Khan noted that the purpose of the Global
> Alliance would be to 
> "integrate ICTs into the overall UN development
> agenda." So the 
> alliance will bring together the WSIS implementation
> efforts with the 
> Millennium Development Goals and the broader UN
> development agenda, as 
> encompassed in the UN Millennium Declaration and the
> various UN 
> conferences on women, sustainable development,
> population, social 
> development, etc.
> 
> I pressed him on the question of what would happen
> if the WSIS did not 
> formally recognize the Global Alliance as the
> overall coordinating body 
> for the WSIS follow-up and implementation process. I
> noted that there 
> were other "contenders for the crown" including the
> ITU.
> 
>   Mr. Khan replied that the Global Alliance was not
> going to be 
> primarily about WSIS follow-up, but had a much
> broader purpose and 
> agenda.
> 
>   In terms of process, Mr. Khan reported that the
> idea of the Global 
> Alliance was introduced at the last UN ICT Task
> Force meeting in 
> Berlin, and was initially well received. At the WSIS
> Prepcom II there 
> were consultations on the Global Alliance concept,
> with large 
> participation by civil society, as well as the
> private sector and 
> governments.
> 
> Consultations will continue until mid-April with
> various stakeholders 
> on the Global Alliance. At the next UN ICT Task
> Force meeting in April 
> in Dublin, these consultations will be brought
> together.
> 
>   On 13 September they plan to hold a roundtable in
> New York on the 
> Global Alliance, and then to formally launch the
> Alliance at the WSIS 
> in November in Tunis.
> 
> Rik Panganiban
> 
> On Mar 10, 2005, at 4:52 PM, karen banks wrote:
> 
> > dear all,
> >
> > Some of you may recall the open meeting on the
> proposed 'Global 
> > Alliance'.
> >
> > Several delegates expressed concerns about the
> proposal, made concrete 
> > suggestions, asked probing questions and were keen
> to have further 
> > information.
> >
> > The UNICT TF has created a space on it's website
> for feedback, 
> > comments etc to the concept note
> > posting here for your info.
> >
> > If you have any difficulties with the website, or
> have any other 
> > questions, i imagine Serge Kapto who works at the
> secretariat, would 
> > be happy to field questions (kapto at un.org).
> >
> > karen
> >
> >> Dear colleagues,
> >>
> >> During the Second Preparatory meeting (PrepCom2)
> of the WSIS, the Task
> >> Force recently launched a series of open
> consultations on the idea of 
> >> a
> >> Global Alliance on ICT and Development. As part
> of this process, the
> >> Secretariat of the Task Force prepared a "Note on
> issues for 
> >> stakeholders
> >> consideration". We encourage you, members of the
> Task Force Working 
> >> Groups
> >> and Regional Nodes, to take part in these
> consultations by reviewing 
> >> the
> >> above mentioned note which you can find at
> >>
>
http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/documents.pl?id=1443
> >>
> >> A space has been provided on the website through
> the link above to 
> >> allow
> >> posting of your comments/concerns/suggestions.
> Please let us know 
> >> what you
> >> think.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Secretariat of the UN ICT Task Force
> >
> >
> >
> ===============================================
> RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator
> Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with
> the United Nations 
> (CONGO)
> web: http://www.ngocongo.org
> email: rik.panganiban at ngocongo.org
> mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524
> 

Djilali Benamrane : dbenamrane at yahoo.com
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