[WSIS CS-Plenary] Practical & Procedural Problems at IGF.

Mon Oct 30 08:55:42 GMT 2006

A wonderfull prouve that everything is done for the
exclusion of Civile society. The multipartnariat is
nothing but only a manner to give legitamacy for the
private sector to deal with states and UN system....
Franicis cela constitue une nouvelle preuve que la
société civile ne peut pas jouer dans la cour des
grands. C'est un alibi pour légitimer le role
d'interlocuteur du secteur privé dans les négiciations
avec les états et l'ONU et une fois encore cela prouve
le peu de chance de succès d'un multipartenariat
équilibré.
Amitiés
Djilali
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> Hello again,
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> this time with bad news.
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> The IGF meeting organizatiion is raising
> many problems that are denounced, to
> various, by many attendants.
> 
> 1/ the date, coinciding with a vacation
> period is incovenient. Planes and Hotels are full.
> Ticket prices are much higher.
> 
> 2/ the location, somewhat isolated
> within a chic suburd, where the sight of
> a ferrari and luxury cars is not unusual.
> 
> 3/ the venue is simply exclusive
> in both senses.
> The obscene luxury of the venue does not fit.
> Yesterday night, stumbling on a diner in one
> of the room, I have got the impresion that
> I have got the wrong TV channel and I was
> watching an episode of "Rich & Famous".
> 
> The negotatiated room price at the venue
> is 172 euros.
> It is so expensive that a diplomat from a western
> european country told me he had to ask for
> special authorization
> as this price exceeded allowed limits !.
> 
> When I tried to buy a sandwich to eat while
> at the cybercafé, I went to the bar, where
> I learned that the price of a "club sandwich" is 14
> euros.
> I haven't look at the price of the restaurant... :-(
> This contrasts with the UN and UNESCO cafeterias
> that
> are affordable.
> 
> If you rented a car ( I did so for 20 euros/daily ),
> be prepared for a surprise tomorrow.
> The UN police is clearing all nearby parkings,
> and the only way to park ( unless going rather far )
> in the underground parking of the Hotel
> which you must 10 euros /daily.
> In Geneva,for Prepcoms, a parking permit
> was given free to attendants with a car.
> 
> Rooms include simply of lines of chairs without
> any tables to put a  computer, and without outllets
> to power them.
> 
> 4/ Network
> The Wifi broke 3 times tbis afernoon.
> The cybercafé is undersized, with only
> 14 computers ( Dell sponsorship ),
> all running Windows XP, in contempt
> of WSIS recommendations.
> Upon my request a table for laptops and
> a printer  was added.
> I asked the computer manager ( who is using
> GNU/LINUX ) to implement at least half of them
> with GNU/linux.  I asked Kummer and
> he agreed.
> Be prepared for network crashes tomorrow. :-( !
> 
> 5/ Overpasses.
> The main Hotel meeting room may hold
> 800, when 1500 are registered to
> attend.
> Just 100 overpasses were alloted to
> Civil Society.
> Seemingly, per chance, the responsibility
> for the overpasses, was given to Adam Peake.
> The very few same that are in favour of
> killing the CSB, were the first to complain
> about the way the overpasses were distributed.
> They just having a taste of their own medecine,
> 
> 6/ Web site
> The Synthesis Paper is only available
> in doc format.
> 
> In constrat with other WSIS meetings, they were
> no discussions with CSB, and no
>   preliminary meetings between the organizers
> and the CSB executive secretariat to handle
> all those practical and procedural issues.
> This tedious and time-consuming work was not much
> heralded,
> but it was very important.
> Learning from this experience, for next WSIS
> meetings
> the CSB should prepare well in advance all
> those procedural issues.
> 
> That's will be all for tonight
> 
> Francis
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