[WSIS CS-Plenary] WSIS implementation: Consultation meeting of action lines moderators/facilitators (24 February)

[Sandza Laurent]

Philippe,

J'aimerai plus ou moins avoir de manière détaillée le
compte rendu de Pape Diouf(ACSIS)par rapport à la
société civile africaine et WSIS.

Merci
--- CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org> a écrit :

> Dear all, 
> 
>  
> 
> You can find below and attached our notes / report
> on the Consultation
> meeting on action lines moderators/facilitators,
> convened by ITU / UNESCO /
> UNDP on Friday 24 February.
> 
> The Chair announced that there would be an official
> report of this meeting.
> The provisional list of provisional focal point
> should also be made
> available on-line.
> 
>  
> 
> Best regards, 
> 
>  
> 
> Ph
> 
>  
> 
>
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> Consultation Meeting of WSIS Action Lines
> Moderators/Facilitators
> 
> ITU/UNESCO/UNDP, 24 February 2006
> 
>  
> 
> Introductory remarks
> 
> Yoshio Utsumi, ITU Secretary General, dedicated his
> first words to the
> multi-stakeholder nature of the implementation
> process, leading to concrete
> actions in line with WSIS goals and principles. At
> the international level,
> international organisations would facilitate
> activities among stakeholders
> (§ 108 of Tunis Agenda), and the purpose of this
> meeting was to coordinate
> among action line teams. The action line
> implementation activities must be
> multi-stakeholder in nature (inclusive and bottom
> up), a collective process
> and result oriented. Each action team should be a
> light mechanism. He
> stressed that this needed coordination of action
> lines implementation was a
> process separated from the interagency coordination
> between UN agencies
> secretariats within the UN Group on the Information
> Society (to be part of
> the UN CEB, § 103). 
> 
>  
> 
> Koïchiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director General, added
> that WSIS contributed to
> give ICT a social dimension (knowledge and
> education) in addition to its
> technological one. He insisted on the
> multi-stakeholder nature, the
> consideration of Geneva action lines, and the
> moderating role of UN agencies
> when appropriate. He presented the two draft papers
> presented by the
> organisers of the meeting.
> 
> -    The Draft terms of reference for
> moderators/facilitators referred to
> the role of each action line facilitator.
> 
> -    The Draft terms of reference for lead agencies
> was an answer to the
> needed coordination among moderators.
> 
> He said the work of the interagency coordination
> mechanism of the UN Group
> on the Information Society would be better clarified
> further to the UN CEB
> High Level Committee on Programmes to take place the
> following week.
> 
>  
> 
> Ms. Odile Sorgho-Moulinier, UNDP Geneva, also
> insisted on how to strengthen
> the role of each action multi-stakeholder team in
> the identification of
> priorities and of their work, both in virtual
> discussion and physical
> meetings. On the coordination between the Action
> lines facilitators, she
> stressed the need for coherence among them and with
> other existing
> mechanisms, such as the UNGIS. WSIS implementation
> should also reach out to
> other development processes including the MDGs. 
> 
>  
> 
> Several participants, including UNDP, made some
> comments regarding the date
> of this meeting and the difficulty for many
> stakeholders to participate in
> consultations when dates are not well coordinated.
> In the future, meeting
> scheduling should avoid conflicts with other
> international ICT gatherings.
> 
>  
> 
> It must be noted that even though Member States were
> represented in the room
> by around 20 delegations, most of them remained
> quite passive during the
> meeting. This was even more obvious during the
> afternoon session.
> 
>  
> 
> 1.  Moderators/Facilitators of Action Lines
> 
>  
> 
> Identification of Action Lines Facilitators
> 
> Willie Currie (APC) proposed to cluster the existing
> action teams in 3
> groups, each to be coordinated by one of the leading
> facilitating agencies.
> Grouping action lines together that way would help
> facilitate CS
> participation in action line implementation. In
> addition, for each of these
> clusters, civil society entities could offer
> co-facilitate the
> implementation to guarantee a more multi-stakeholder
> participation. WHO said
> not to be opposed to such an action lines
> clustering. Francis Muguet (ENSTA)
> preferred a clustering of events while keeping the
> diversity of each
> thematic action lines. He later added that the draft
> terms of reference
> should also refer to event clustering for the
> implementation mechanism.
> 
>  
> 
> Ayesha Hassan (CCBI) supported the need at this
> stage to leave open the list
> of action line facilitators and then to keep the
> process flexible. The EU
> and Canada stressed the indicative and non
> exhaustive nature of the annexed
> list of action line facilitators. Charles Geiger
> (WSIS ED) proposed not to
> cast in stone who would moderate, but to remain
> flexible and open for the
> long-term perspective of WSIS implementation. 
> 
>  
> 
> Egypt stressed that each international organisation
> should continue to work
> within its mandate and the decision of its governing
> body. The experience of
> international agencies working in the field of
> development should be used
> for the benefit of economic development.
> 
>  
> 
> Bertrand de la Chapelle (wsis-online.net) recalled
> the wording of the Tunis
> Agenda, which referred to the themes and action
> lines of the Geneva Plan of
> Action. In this perspective, WSIS implementation
> could be articulated around
> up to 70 sub-themes. He emphasised the need for a
> more thematic and non
> exclusive approach taking into account relevant
> themes in which specialised
> actors were involved. 
> 
>  
> 
> Participation of all stakeholders in WSIS
> implementation
> 
> 
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