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

[Laina Raveendran Greene]

Dear Jean-Louis,
 
I do understand your frustration and I am pleased to have met you and heared
your interventions in Geneva. 
 
HAving said that, we all know that CS is not one voice but many. This is the
reason we have caucuses. Again, my point why we should have had caucuses at
the least nominate people they feel spoke for their group at the least. I
also agree with the point raised by another person on another note that for
well known influential people in their field, such as Prof Swaminathan (the
father of the Green Revolution in India and very well known for his ICT4D
projects in India, it would not be wise to get his speech vetted by an
armophous group of peoplewith different voices and who are people with the
time and resource to attend PrepCom. For others, maybe I agree with your
point, especially if they appear to speak for their caucus, they should at
least get the caucus point of view. 
 
I understand that you are frustrated with the current process, and I share
many of your sentiments. I also feel that perhaps we could give some
perspective that we are now in the midst of the reshaping of a "new form of
cooperation" not just with governments, but amongst CS. 
 
I think you may want to be involved on the mailing list of the Working
Methods group to get us better organised even though it may appear to be too
late. The whole WSIS process has taken NGO participation in the UN to
another level (not as much as we would have liked) and we should build upon
it. Much ofwhat we learn there could also be used to build on learnings the
Internet community has learnt on how to create some level of legitimacy,
accountability, etc.
 
I know this does not give you answers but I just thought we could find a way
to tap your points into making the future better, hopefully. Perhaps even
WSIS Tunis.
 
Regards,
LAina

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You are fully right Vittorio, and it's time for our "facilitators" to be
aware of our determination. Otherwise, we the CS deny any speaker to speak
in our name and on our behalf and we make our opinion public 

We are fed up with fiddled public declarations (the "Common CS plenary and
private sector declaration" during PepCom-2 is the best example of them) and
press conferences, as well as with misused speaking slots in plenaries.

Jean-Louis Fullsack

CSDPTT   






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> Rik Panganiban ha scritto:
> > I would love it if every speaker put a draft on a wiki, and anyone 
> > could go in and edit their speech for them, and we could all sign off 
> > on every speech as coming from "global civil society." But I know 
> > ourselves and our processes enough to think that this is unrealistic.
> > 
> > We're just not a monolithic entity that can force our will on anyone. 
> > All we can do is recommend, encourage, cajole and convince.
> 
> Well, we could (should?) have asked some commitments to our speakers 
> before appointing them, but in any case it is the ITU, not us, that 
> formally chooses them, right?
> 
> In any case, we could for example ask all speakers to release a draft of 
> their intervention by, say, one week before the Summit, to the Plenary 
> list, so that the drafts can be commented and they can then incorporate 
> reasonable suggestions. I think this is a reasonable request, in view of 
> the role that we are giving them.
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