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

Tue Oct 31 18:09:38 GMT 2006

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> Francis
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> Thank you for going through all that horrendous ordeal and finding
> time to put online some of the problems faced at Athens.
> It provides sufficient food for thought for all
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> Courage
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> lOn 10/30/06, djilali benamrane <dbenamrane at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>> --- "Dr. Francis MUGUET" <muguet at mdpi.org> a écrit :
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>> > Hello again,
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>> > this time with bad news.
>> >
>> > 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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