[WSIS CS-Plenary] ECOSOC Resolution

[Ronda Hauben]

Phillippe

Thanks for posting this to the mailing list.

Do you know what it represents.

I am trying to understand what has happened to the impetus from the WSIS UN
activities at the UN and it seems spread out at this point and hard to
follow.

Does this say that The Commission on Science and Technology will be
surveying what the outcome of WSIS summits were and what activity is going
now in connection with the UN, especially with respect to development
related activities?

If this seems an appropriate interpretation, is there any indication when or
how this is to happen?

I welcome anyone who can help interpret what is going on or who would be
able to be helpful in understanding further what is being intended.

I would like to write an article for OhmyNews International at some point
about the outcome of the WSIS conference in Tunis (and earlier Geneva) as I
covered Tunis for OhmyNews. But it is hard to understand where to begin and
how to understand what is signficiant that is happening and what is the
frustration with the fact that the WSIS seemed to have been an important
development, but the continuation seemed less organized and clear.

Thanks

Ronda



On 8/3/07, CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org> wrote:
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>  For your information, find attached the ECOSOC resolution on integrated
> and coordinated implementation of UN conferences and summits (E/2007/L.32),
> adopted on 27 July. Its paragraph 4 refers to the role of the CSTD in the
> WSIS follow up. Paragraph 4 reads as follows:
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> "4. Acknowledges the efforts of the Commission on Science and Technology
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> for Development, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 57/270 B
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> 60/252 and Council resolution 2006/46, to effectively assist the Council
> as the focal
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> point in the system-wide follow-up, in particular the review and
> assessment of
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> progress made in implementing the outcomes of the World Summit on the
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> Information Society, while at the same time maintaining its original
> mandate on
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> science and technology for development, also taking into account the
> provisions of
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> paragraph 60 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome, and also acknowledges the
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> efforts of the Commission to use the multi-stakeholder approach
> effectively while
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> preserving its intergovernmental nature;"
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> In addition, note that the CSTD draft resolution on the "Flow of
> Information for the Follow-Up of WSIS" and its draft decision on the
> "Multi-year work programme" were also adopted without a vote on 27 February.
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