[WSIS CS-Plenary] [governance] Post mortem and next steps on IG

[l.d.misek-falkoff]

Dear Vittorio and WIlliam and all:

As just one small voice (listerve member) here, may I resonate with your post by commenting on its immediate and universal importance in many aspects.

Even though different instances rely on different facts - still there seem some pertinent and even compelling comparisons here.  The recent UNGA (UN General Assembly and NGO joint hearing at the U.N. New York Headquarters  NY faced such issues; and voices calling for far more meaningul participation also arose at the well over 2500 NGO individual-participant 58th DPI/NGO Conference just recently in the same venue.  It is indeed voices which must be heard across all borders and the messages they intone.

Feeling sure many here will want to offer support, I do the same. My Internet and pre-Internet design, programming, and user-view too online experiences are over 40 years; it is great that among all the voices here, frontally including the very exciting and adep-at-sharing present ICT generation, one meets from time to time the pioneers of prior periods as well. Everyone in ICT is a pioneer at a particular slice in e-time. What counts a lot is continuing...

Call on us all.

And sending very best wishes, : ) LDMF.
Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D..
For Identification here: *Respectful Interfaces* Programme / Communications
Coordination Committee for the United Nations.  ACM ABA.  International
Disability Caucus for the Disability Convention (toward Treaty) - Founder, Persons with Pain International.
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From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb at bertola.eu.org>
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Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [governance] Post mortem and next steps on IG


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> William Drake ha scritto:
> 
> >1. As everyone probably knows by now, there will be an Intersessional
> >"open-ended" negotiation group to negotiate the chapters on Implementation
> >(Chapter 1), Financial Mechanisms (Chapter 2) and Follow-up (Chapter 4),
> >and to finalize the political part of the document. "Open ended" in this
> >context means all governments can participate.  If I heard correctly,
> >civil society and the private sector are out in the cold, although
> >Karklins said there'd be regular reporting out.  Woop de doo.  WSIS
> >multistakeholderism revealed.
> >  
> >
> I think we have to push very hard on this, and at the same time give to 
> the friendly governmental people (including Karklins, I think) some room 
> to make some practical advancements.
> 
> For example: why don't we formally put together a "civil society 
> delegation", composed by a few people (3-5) entrusted by this Plenary, 
> and send a letter to Karklins saying that we would like such delegation 
> to be formally included in the open ended negotiations? After all, the 
> EU openly supported our participation in the plenary, and I think that, 
> while asking to move these consultations to the resumed session of the 
> PrepCom or to any excessively open environment would not fly, the 
> request to have one more seat for civil society (and one for private 
> sector of course), to be added to the 150+ seats of the governments, 
> could be more reasonable and more supportable by Western governments. 
> And we can do this together with the private sector.
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