[WSIS CS-Plenary] Up-date on the preparations for the next CSTD meeting

Wed Apr 25 13:11:41 BST 2007

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>Is anybody willing to initiate a drafting process on that, or would you
prefer CONGO proposes some ideas on that? 

Philippe, Thanks for the information. I think both the areas CSTD 'program
of work' and 'working methods' are very important for CS to contribute to.
We did some work on it for the Paris meeting, which can be taken forward. I
can be of help in the week 13th - 18th May but probably not before that.  By
when do we need to submit these statements? At the CSTD meeting itself?

Parminder 

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IT for Change, Bangalore

Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 

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Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Up-date on the preparations for the next CSTD
meeting

Dear all, 

This is to inform you about the preparations for the next session of the
Commission on Science and Technology for Development, taking place in Geneva
between 21 and 25 May (see timetable of the WSIS related cluster of events
at http://www.csbureau.info/Time%20table%20IS%20week%202007.doc). 

Participation of WSIS accredited civil society entities

We were informally told that the final ECOSOC decision to formally allow
WSIS accredited entities to participate in the next two meetings of the CSTD
might be adopted either today or on this Thursday (tomorrow). There might
not be any problem on the adoption of this decision, since ECOSOC Member
States had already agreed on the language for several weeks.

Note that NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC are of course already
entitled to participate in the works of the Commission.

The two other CSTD related pending decisions, to be discussed and probably
adopted before the end of this week, are:

-       The ECOSOC decision to allow for participation of private sector
entities;

-       The ECOSOC decision taking note of the report of the 9th session of
the CSTD. This latest decision was the reason why the may CSTD related
issues remained pending because several governments wanted to re-open the
wording of the decision proposed by the 9th CSTD session. Finally, the
consensus could be reached in only taking note of that report.

We heard that these three decisions might be discussed separately, and not
as a package. We will keep you posted about the up coming developments. 

Documents of the up coming 10th CSTD session available on line

All working documentation for the next CSTD session, including the UN
Secretary General report to the CSTD and the agenda of the session, is being
posted on line on the CSTD-10 webpage
(http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=4066
<http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=4066&lang=1>
&lang=1).

For a quick link to the full information on CTSD and its past sessions, see
also http://www.unctad.org/cstd. 

Stakeholder written statements

It is expected that all statements sent by CSTD stakeholders, including of
course NGOs, would be posted on the CSTD website, therefore following the
practice experimented with the WSIS preparatory process. Written statements
should be sent to stdev at unctad.org. More precise information in this regard
will be included in an "information note for participants", to be circulated
by the CSTD Secretariat soon.

CS drafting process?

In this regard, I think it is relevant to consider a (or several) joint CS
statement(s) on some of the main issues to be discussed during the next
CTSD, and in particular on:

-       CSTD multiyear programme of work (see my previous message dated 9
February 2007: "Based on the ECOSOC
<http://www.un.org/docs/ecosoc/documents/2006/resolutions/Resolution%202006-
46.pdf>  resolution renewing the CSTD mandate in July 2006, the Commission
will work through biennial action cycle. The programme of work is still to
be determined and the CSTD Panel in Paris (6-8 Nov. 2006) addressed this
issue (see report of the CSTD Panel,
http://www.unctad.org/sections/dite_dir/docs/dite_pcbb_stdev0045_en.pdf,
read in particular pages 15-16)."

-       Proposals regarding CSTD working methods (including reporting
activities and relationship with other UN entities).

Is anybody willing to initiate a drafting process on that, or would you
prefer CONGO proposes some ideas on that? 

Please send us your feedback on this last point.

All the best, 

Philippe Dam

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