[WSIS CS-Plenary] General overviews and resources on WSIS follow-up and implementation process

[CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam]

Dear Johan and all, 

 

Thanks for highlighting this Summit.

This Summit is actually mainly an ITU event and whose organisation was
almost fully managed by the ITU. Other partners, including the World Bank
and GAID, joined and supported the initiative later in the process. ITU
mainly focused its outreach and invitation efforts to Governments (at the
highest level possible), international organisations, ITU sector members and
business companies, who would be able to finance additional projects in
terms of network infrastructures and access. The meeting will therefore
primarily follow ITU practices. But CS representatives who duly registered
will be provided an access badge, as far as I was confirmed.

 

As regards the format of the 6 sessions scheduled in the Summit
<http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/connect/africa/2007/summit/programme.html> ’s
programme, it seems it will be held on a quite informal way, on the WEF
model, with a number of main speakers and interactions with the audience. I
have no idea of the names of the speakers at this time, but my guess is that
they would mainly come from the ministerial level and from the corporate
sector. Such as all other participants, CS representatives and other
stakeholder will have opportunities to ask for the floor. 

 

More information: 

            • http://www.un-gaid.org/fr/node/718

            • http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/connect/africa/2007/index.html

 

Are there other CS representatives planning to participate in this Summit?
What about the involvement of the ACSIS or other African NGOs?

 

Best, 

 

Philippe 

 

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part de Johan Hellström
Envoyé : lundi, 8. octobre 2007 21:03
À : Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] General overviews and resources on WSIS
followup and implementation process

 

Dear All,
Thank you Phillippe for this post-WSIS update, very timely indeed. I am
about to go to Kigali and the ITU and GAID organised Connect Africa Summit
end of this month. Will there be any organised civil society
involvement/attendance? It is supposed to be an informal process with the
GAID aim to provide "a platform for an open, inclusive, multi-stakeholder
cross-sectoral policy dialogue", still the format of the conference seems to
be something else, ie following a traditional, exclusive high level panel
debate format where most of the issues are already discussed and decided.
Anyone who knows more about this or CS role in this process? 
Best regards, Johan



On 10/4/07, CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org> wrote:

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Dear all,

 

Some weeks ago, it was asked on the Plenary list to bring some
clarifications on the structures and articulations between the various
post-WSIS institutional processes. Find below and attached some elements of
answers and clarification:

 

-          Power-point presentation on the WSIS implementation and follow up
process: this document is used by Mr. Charles Geiger (Special Advisor to the
UN CSTD and Former WSIS Executive Director) to present the post WSIS
architecture within the UN system (see attached);

 

-          An updated version of the post WSIS chart, together with an
explanatory one-pager, prepared by CONGO (see attached; also available on
line on the CONGO website:
http://www.ngocongo.org/files/chart_on_post_wsis.pdf). 

 

-          I also suggest the reading of the chapter on "WSIS in Review",
from the Global Information Society Watch 2007 Report, which provides
relevant clarification on the matter
(http://www.globaliswatch.org/download). 

 

I hope this can help! Feel free to indicate other resources on this issue.

 

All the best,

 

Ph

Philippe Dam 
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org 
Website: www.ngocongo.org 

 


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