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

[Amali De Silva]

Thank you Rik and Derrick !   Amali

"Derrick L. Cogburn" <dcogburn at umich.edu> wrote: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/


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From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] On Behalf Of Rik Panganiban
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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Amali De Silva-Mitchell MSc.

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