[WSIS CS-Plenary] OECD Civil society reference group & OECD 2008 Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy

[Dr. Francis MUGUET]

Hello

One may be a little surprised by the lack of discussions and 
consultations on the
various WSIS lists concerning the incoming series of OECD-related events 
in Seoul,
while many panelists belong to various WSIS lists

    * OECD 2008 Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet
      Economy Civil Society Stakeholder Fora ( 16 June 2008, Seoul,
      South Korea )
          o Civil Society - Organized Labour Forum : Making the future
            of the Internet economy work for citizens, consumers and
            workers <http://thepublicvoice.org/events/seoul08/>
          o The technical community and the OECD Ministerial on the
            Future of the Internet economy
            <http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/issues/itc_agenda_20080616.shtml>

          o Business Forum
            <http://www.biac.org/seoul_iccp_ministerial_2008.htm>
          o GigaNet Lunch Session
            <http://www.igloo.org/community.igloo?r0=community&r0_script=/scripts/folder/view.script&r0_pathinfo=%2F%7B58dacb33-31ea-4219-9124-89a75ffe71d0%7D%2FPublic%20Library%2Fgiganetcos%2F2008gigane&r0_output=xml>
            ( 16 June 2008, Seoul, South Korea )
    * OECD 10th ministerial meeting : Shaping Policies for Creativity,
      Confidence and Convergence in the Digital World
      <http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_38415463_1_1_1_1_1,00.html>
      ( 16 June Stakeholder Fora, Ministerial segment 17-18 June 2008,
      Seoul, South Korea )
    * World IT Show (WIS) <http://www.worlditshow.co.kr/eng/index.php>
      17-20 June 2008, Seoul, South Korea
    * Side events
      <http://www.oecdministerialseoul2008.org/en/programmee/sideevent_related.html>
      ( 16-20 June 2008, Seoul, South Korea )
    * Global IPv6 Summit in Korea 2008 <http://ipv6.or.kr/summit2008/> (
      June 18-19, 2008, Seoul, South Korea )
    * International Conference on Future Internet Technologies 2008
      <http://as.icu.ac.kr/cfi08/> ( June 18-20, 2008, South Korea )

Could someone explains what is the *OECD Civil society reference group* ?

Is it an open ended group ?
Is there a coordination and some governance in this group ?

The only thing I could find about this  *reference group*
( yet another creative name )  on Google is the
2007 article from Milton :
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2007/10/5/3273492.html

/ IGP is involved in this initiative, along with APC 
<http://www.apc.org> and EPIC's Public Voice 
<http://www.thepublicvoice.org/>, as part of the reference group 
coordinating civil society participation.

We do know, however, that the assembled governments officially 
recognized the "Civil society reference group" (along with ICANN, the 
Internet Governance Forum, and the Global Alliance) as one of the 
entities to invite to the Ministerial./

All the best

Francis

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