[WSIS CS-Plenary] Overpass request process for Tunis summit High Level Panel and Plenary meetings

[CONGO - Philippe Dam]

Dear all, 

 

CSB members and Caucus/WG/CS Family coordinators were recently informed
about the process for the distribution of overpasses for the High Level
Panel in Tunis and for the Plenary meetings. Overpasses are needed only for
the HLP and Plenary meetings, in which space constraints impose some obvious
limitations in the number of persons allowed in the room. Only CS
participants duly registered to Tunis Summit and badged under an accredited
CS entity are entitled to request an overpass for those two meetings. 

 

The Civil Society Bureau (CSB) was asked by the WSIS ES to ensure the
repartition and the distribution of overpasses through a self-organizing
process when space limitation occurs in some meeting rooms. 

 

For better transparency of the process, the CSB has established a central
on-line overpass request system available for all caucuses/WG/families
(www.privaterra.org/~rguerra/wsis). Each CS registered participant, who
would like to request an overpass, will have to fill in this form by 11
November 2005, indicating which Caucus/WG/families (s)he belongs
to/participates in. Each requester will receive a confirmation of his/her
request together with a registration number, and requests lists will be
compiled for each CS grouping. The electronically compiled lists will be
sent to all focal points. 

 

For more flexibility, caucus/WG/Family focal points will have the
possibility to also consider requests that have been sent to them directly,
provided that they duly announced their intention to do so and the process
they choose to the members of the grouping, the CSB Secretariat and for
better transparency to the CS Plenary.

Therefore, by default and without any notification from the Caucus
coordinator, the overpass request process is based on the electronic
registration system provided by CPSR at
<https://secure.privaterra.org/wsis> https://secure.privaterra.org/wsis.

Complete information, with the processes announced by each caucus
coordinator as well as the complete text of CSB guidelines on the
distribution of overpasses, is available at 

www.csbureau.org/passes.htm.

 

For new comers (representatives of organisations accredited to WSIS at
PrepCom-3) and representatives of CS entities not participating in CS
structures, note that a small number of overpasses has been reserved for
distribution in Tunis. Request procedure will be made available as soon as
possible.

 

 

Please note again that:

. Overpasses are not nominative and can easily be transferred.

. 75 Plenary overpasses have been reserved by the WSIS ES for civil society
organisations from the Host Country to facilitate their participation in the
process, so that Plenary overpasses should be attributed in priority to
representatives of non-Tunisian CS entities. 

. Access to this website will be given to the CSB Secretariat (hosted by
CONGO in Geneva) for the management and distribution of the electronically
compiled lists of requests. Technical support is provided by CPSR.

 

 

Best regards,

 

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
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