[WSIS CS-Plenary] new version of WSIS CS statement

[Ralf Bendrath]

Hi all,

after more than 36 hours of almost constant consultations with various
groups, caucuses and individuals, and with the help of a number of
volunteers who refined and polished various parts, we now have a new
version 3.1 of the WSIS CS statement.

French and Spanish translations are already in the making and will be sent
to the Plenary and Content&Themes lists as soon as they are ready.

Some caucuses have announced they will submit further input, which will be
covered in the next - and hopefully final - version.

In case there are French and Spanish contributions, we will need
volunteers to incorporate them into the English original and the
translations. Neither Karen nor myself speak French or Spanish. Please 
contact us at <cs-dec at wsis-cs.org> if you can yolunteer for this.

We had to do some editing in order to get a coherent text in terms of flow
of the arguments, style, level of detail, and lenght. I have told most of
the people whose submissions had to be edited about the reasons directly.
I guess you all will understand we did the best we could to incorporate
all your inputs while at the same time developing a text that can be taken
as one piece rather than a collection of different papers.

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Timeline and further process
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1. Please try to discuss further input and comments with the respective
caucuses first. The chapters have headlines that easily lead to the
caucuses who led the drafting process in these parts. The list of caucuses
and their contact details is available at
<http://www.wsis-cs.org/caucuses.html>.

2. Please try to submit any further input until Friday night (2 December).
SEND IT TO <cs-dec at wsis-cs.org>
We will then try to produce a new version over the weekend.

Best, Ralf
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