[WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [WSIS-CT] Next steps for Content and Themes

[Wolfgang Kleinwächter]

Dear John,

do you have already a meeting plan for the CS WSIS Buereau?

I will be there from thursday onwartds with the UN ICT TF meeting.

best and see you soon

w




On torsdag, aug 28, 2003, at 03:58 Europe/Copenhagen, John R. Gagain 
Jr. wrote:

> Dear Sally,
>
> Thank you for the email and your response.  You ask below if anyone 
> would
> like to volunteer to draft the guidelines for the caucuses.  I would 
> like to
> volunteer to assume this role.  Please put me down.  I would be happy 
> to
> work on it with someone else.
>
> Also, I did not receive Susanna's proposal.  Could someone send that 
> to me.
> I did receive some emails from Adam, but I dont remember reading 
> anything
> about "caucus work that's focused on direct input", which is an 
> excellent
> idea and similar to what I proposed.  Adam, could you send / re-send 
> me what
> Sally mentions you stated?
>
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ct-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:ct-admin at wsis-cs.org]On Behalf Of
> Sally Burch - ALAI
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 7:58 PM
> To: ct at wsis-cs.org
> Subject: Re: [WSIS-CT] Next steps for Content and Themes
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to those who have commented on this proposal and to
> those who have offered to collaborate with drafting.
>
> I agree with Susanna's proposal that a CS declaration should be
> the result of a discussion and not just a collation.  This is the main
> drawback of not having had a space of our own (civil society forum)
> to be able to work on such a document.  In this sense this summit
> has meant a serious drawback for civil society in relation to
> previous UN conferences, where there have been regional and
> global forums.  We should at least do some planning on how to
> work on this during the Prepcom.
>
> Adam's proposal for caucus work that's focused on direct input,
> and an overall statement based on the human rights document
> from Paris, is, I think a good approach that will help us to be more
> focused on the crucial issues at this stage.  If there is agreement,
> the drafting team could start work on that.
>
> John's suggestion of guidelines for caucuses would be useful.  Is
> someone willing to do a draft of that?
>
> Bill will, I think, be compiling the comments and proposals received
> to date on the latest version of our priorities document, so that we
> can have that as input for our work.
>
> We need to have the drafting group up and running by Monday.
> I will be away till then but if others want to join please let us know,
>
> Sally
>
>
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