[WSIS CS-Plenary] speakers list transmitted to the ITU

[Laina Raveendran Greene]

Rik,
 
This is another reason using caucuses as a means to get speakers to speak on
at least more than organisation, would have been a better way of selecting
speakers.  IMHO.
 
Laina

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From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] On Behalf
Of Rik Panganiban
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:03 PM
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] speakers list transmitted to the ITU


I agree very much that we should consider the speakers to be "our" speakers.
The selection committee considered whether or not someone would be speaking
just on their own individual behalf, on behalf of their own organization, or
if they would be open to including other viewpoints besides their own.
Ideally we want to have as many possible views expressed through the limited
number of speaking slots allotted to us.

One easy way to do this is to include in the Annex the contact information
for each speaker, so that once we know the final list, we can contact each
person individually and make sure that they have the broadest possible view
on their given subject area. I.e. if someone plans to speak on telecentres,
that they be thoroughly briefed on the privacy and security working group's
concerns about data retention and surveillance.

Beyond that, if there are emerging global civil society statements on given
matters such as internet governance, we want to make sure that as many
speakers as possible mention this in their interventions.

Obviously, we respect everyone's right to speak their mind. But we want
everyone speaking to as much as possible show solidarity with the proposals
and viewpoints of the rest of CS in the WSIS process. 

Rik Panganiban


On Oct 10, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Ralf Bendrath wrote:



Finally, as active CS members, we deserve more than "a short summary (one
paragraph)" of the communication of "our" representatives, among who a big
part is unknown even for well initiated WSIS CS participants. 


This is a good point, and I really support this. The fact that some of them
are not known even to us WSIS "insiders" is probably due to the fact that
the ITU insisted on "director" level persons, while many of us who have been
very active in the WSIS process are normal members or staff. But it is
certainly good to see more clearly who they are. Last time we even had a
document where somebody had collected pictures of them. I hope the CS
secretariat through CONGO can find the time to do this.

Best, Ralf
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