[WSIS CS-Plenary] orientation meetings for NGOs new to the process?

[Derrick L. Cogburn]

Rik,
 
This is a great idea.  If we are able to able to hold the meeting, I
would be happy to webcast it in order for remote participants to engage
with the briefing as well as recording it for those that couldn't make
it.  Also, we have a meeting scheduled on Saturday from 10:00 - 12:00 in
the ICT4D Platform, room 11 to talk about ways to use the iPC
infrastructure to contribute to this discussion
(http://tinyurl.com/y04u).  I am happy to have that be a broader
discussion along the lines that you raised.
 
Cheers,
Derrick
 

Derrick L. Cogburn, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor of Information 
and African Studies 
The University of Michigan
Website: http://www.si.umich.edu/~dcogburn 
Blog:  <http://cogburn.blogspot.com/> http://cogburn.blogspot.com/


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Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:42 AM
To: wsis-cs-plenary
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] orientation meetings for NGOs new to the
process?


Dear Friends,

Have arrangements been made to conduct some kind of orientation meetings
next week for groups who are new to the WSIS process by the Bureau or
other body? I have this nightmare about hundreds and hundreds of NGOs
who have not participated in prior Prepcoms asking what is the Bureau,
Content and Themes, the families and caucuses, etc, etc. And we may need
to organize some meeting, perhaps on Saturday, to begin to discuss what
are the future civil society structures groups want in place between now
and Tunis 2005.

I am of course happy to participate and help facilitate any such
orientation sessions that are organized.

On a similar note, the "official" WSIS side-events are listed on the
wsis-online.net site, but I am sure that there will be other meetings
organized by civil society groups that will be organized on an ad hoc
basis. Will there be a calendar somewhere where groups can find out
about these events? I'm hoping the civil society secretariat, APC, the
Boll Foundation or someone else can host this calendar.

Regards,

Rik Panganiban
WFM
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