[WSIS CS-Plenary] who is attending?: WSIS Asia Pacific meeting

[Adam Peake]

I believe ESCAP has been reluctant to involve civil society in the 
regional process since the summit.  The first couple of regional 
meetings were intergovernmental, some of the sub-regional meetings 
then made a rather weak attempt at including CS.  There was no 
significant effort, even for the Tehran meeting, to involved CS in a 
substantive way.

However, after skimming (and light skimming at that) the draft 
declaration and plan of action, those document look OK.  Need to read 
them carefully and will do that. See 
<http://www.unescap.org/icstd/events/WSIS_2nd_Phase/tehran_conf.asp>

I've been working with UNDP APDIP on their Internet governance 
project <http://igov.apdip.org>. The project report will be a major 
part of the Tehran  documents.  In it's current form it should be 
acceptable to Civil Society.

Of course we don't know what might change when govt. get together and 
work with those drafts in Tehran. Main threat I think comes from the 
possibility of local quasi-NGOs packing the halls and being used to 
undermine important civil society positions.  Not sure how to stop 
that, except to perhaps note our concerns to WSIS secretariat and 
President.

Adam



At 10:13 AM +0100 5/22/05, karen banks wrote:
>hi renate
>
>>Amir has written below to the CSB. We still have to establish whether not
>>enough people were ready to show up or whether there was a deliberate
>>attempt in the environment to exclude CS.
>>Renata
>
>yes, i have been in touch with amir and am aware, hence my asking 
>who is planning to attend. It seems some strategising is indeed in 
>order.
>
>karen
>
>
>
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