[WSIS CS-Plenary] Répondre: [CS Bureau] WSIS Implementation and Follow-up Meetings in Geneva - 10-19 May 2006

Tue Apr 11 16:34:44 BST 2006

Hi Philippe,

Thanks a lot for your efforts

1/ I plan to be attend especially the CSTD related meetings

2/ Orientation session : I think it is always useful to hold such a
session, at least to make all civil society participant at the same level 
of information. Any time would be OK.

3/ Daily coordination : I fully support the morning daily meeting
(Plenary during WSIS prepcoms).

Thanks again Philippe.

Tijani

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Le Lu, 10 Avril 2006 17:56:20 +0000, "CONGO - Philippe Dam" a écrit:

Dear all, 

As the heavy series of meetings to be held around the 9th session on the
Commission on Science and Technology is getting closer, I would like to
consult you on how civil society should better strategize to follow-up and
continue to better impact the outcome of these meetings.

In addition to the 9th session of the CSTD (15-19 May 2006), 9 facilitation
meetings for international implementation will take place between 12 May and
19 May (cf. CONGO website
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10206> ), the celebration ofthe World Day for the Information Society (17 May), an information meeting
on the up-coming launch of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development
(probably 15 May, to be confirmed, cf. CONGO website
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10210> ), a new consultationon the future role of the CSTD convened by ECOSOC (16 May) and a
consultation on the IGF (19 May).

The full list of events is available on the website of the former CSB:
http://www.csbureau.org/posttunis.htm. You can also find a provisionaltimetable attached.

In the perspective of this week of IS related meeting, it would be useful to
know:

1)       Attendance: Who will participate in this series of meetings?

2)       Orientation session: CONGO is ready to organise an orientation
session for this week, with the view to discuss the WSIS process so far and
help non WSIS participants to fit into the on-going implementation and
follow-up process. Do you support that there is a need for such an
orientation session? Friday 12 and Monday 15 are already packed, but would
you agree that a lunchtime 2-hour session would be convenient?

3)       Daily coordination or information exchange meetings: Charles Geiger
announced us that a Room at ITU (100 seats) would be available full time to
answer the various needs of CS meetings. We are still discussing with UNCTAD
/ UN about the possibility to get a room one hour every day (9:00-10:00) for
possible daily meeting among Civil Society. This timeslot could be used to
perform the CS Plenary function during the WSIS preparatory process of
information exchange. Please forward us your comments about this
possibility. This also raises the question of how civil society must
self-organise itself in the WSIS follow-up and implementation period.

4)       Meeting facilities: It will be difficult to organize thematic side
events during this week. However, we would like to know which caucuses /
working groups will be involved and if they need us to ask for specific
meeting facilities.

Other information about the UN CSTD session:

• An invitation letter was sent by post to all ECOSOC accredited NGOs. This
could be used as support document for visa requests.

• As previously announced, the CSTD Bureau is under the process of examining
a proposed decision for interim participation of WSIS accredited civil
society entities to the up-coming 9th session of the CSTD. We will keep you
up-dated about the next developments, but the CSTD Secretariat serviced by
UNCTAD is quite optimistic that the outcome of this decision would be in
line with what CONGO proposed.

• Information on badging issues during the up-coming series of meetings will
be made available soon. We are still exploring possibilities to rationalize
the badging process between the different sorts of meetings (CSTD /
Implementation facilitation / other consultations).

• In view of Action Line C2 facilitation, the ITU-BDT has created a "virtual
group" for this Action Line. Any stakeholder (individual persons or NGO and
other civil society entities) interested in the Action Line C2 can
participate in this virtual group by clicking on
http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/c2/index.html and announcinghim/herself to the group leader, Pape Gorgui Touré.

• Also note that UNESCO also developed a webpage for comments on action
lines it is in charge: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21495<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21495&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> &URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html 

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further question. Best regards,

Philippe 

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