[WSIS CS-Plenary] Text for the section3-item18 of Plan of action

[adel.elzaim at canti.com]

Hello
Bonjour,

Voici le texte de l'intervention de la Famille
Multistakeholders Partnerships sur la section 3, paragraphe
18 du plan d'action.
Cette intervention sera faite cet après-midi.

There is the text to be presented today on the section 3,
item 18 of Plan of action.
English version of this text will be ready this after noon.

Thanks

Adel El Zaim
Multistakeholders partnerships Family

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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:48:19 +0200
 <estherjoly at fr.inter.net> wrote:
> Thanks  you for your observation.
> 
> 
> I was thinking, that we should have to propose a civil
> society observatory
> to have our own report and audit of the funds managing (
> Perhaps it's not
> the fair english expression : sorry :-))
> *
> *Esther
> 
> Chun Eung Hwi wrote:
> > Yesterday afternoon, I was in Sub-Committee II meeting.
> In my view,
> > that time was one of highlights of this 3rd PrepCom of
> WSIS, because
> > many governments showed up what their positions were
> for a few most
> > contentious paragraphs of the draft Declaration of
> Principle
> > Document. My observation is that in a word, it
> presented a very
> > ruthlessly cold reality of the present world as it is.
> This is one
> > unofficial personal note, but not a monitoring report
> of civil
> > society group. However, this short note could be
> helpful for your
> > understanding what is happening in PrepCom III of WSIS.
> >
> > Afternoon session dealt with para. 34 to 54 ( last part
> Declaration
> > of of Principle Document) - here a few contentious
> issues which were
> > representing the most conflicting views of governments
> such as IPR,
> > internet governance, and financial source proposal of
> solidarity fund
> > are contained. Most comments of governments were very
> short because
> > for most governmental delegations, only a few
> modification seemed to
> > be required to the draft document, but they felt to
> show up the
> > necessity of clarifying what their positions were on
> those
> > contentious issues - contrasting views were very
> clear-cut or the
> > draft text have some sharply contrasting bracketed
> alternative
> > phrases.
> >
> > 1. Regarding solidarity fund (ph. 53)- UNESCO mentioned
> that they
> > don't want to make new fund for ICT support and the
> existing financial
> > mechanisms like World Bank or IBRD and etc. should be
> used for this
> > purposes. And this position was strongly supported by
> most advanced
> > countries including the U.S., Japan, Canada. Canada
> delegate added
> > that we had so many financial mechanisms and they are
> supporting many
> > ICT development projects. Whereas most African
> countries and
> > developing countries strongly supported the proposal of
> solidarity
> > fund which could be used for building up the
> communication
> > infrastructure of developing countries.
> >
> > 2. Regarding internet governance (ph. 44 and
> alternative phs. 1 or 2)
> > - Draft document have three options - contentious
> points are two -
> > one is whether new governing body should come up or not
> and whether
> > it is international or intergovernmental one, the other
> one is
> > whether the policy authority of country code top level
> domain should
> > be the sovereign right of each country or not. Option
> one of
> > "international, intergovernmental organization"
> (definitely means
> > ITU) and ccTLD policy authority in the hands of
> national sovereignty
> > (alternative 1st of 44) was supported by Middle East
> countries
> > including Syria, Vietnam, Indonesia and many African
> countries.
> > Whereas the other option demanding only more
> transparency and
> > geographical diversity (alternative 2nd of 44) and
> seemingly
> > supporting the present ICANN was supported by Japan,
> Malaysia (the
> > present Chair of Government Advisory Committee of ICANN
> is Malaysian)
> > and finally EU. China chose the present article of 44
> which is being
> > supported by most countries but Chinese delegate added
> cautiously
> > that they want to use the word of "international"
> rather than
> > "intergovernmental" organization. (the present text has
> the bracketed
> > words of [intergovernmental/international]. The chair
> of ICANN GAC -
> > Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi clarified recently as follows -
> "International
> > by definition means everyone is involved, from
> governments to private
> > sector and civil society. Whereas intergovernmental
> gives an
> > indication that only governments are involved and not
> necessarily the
> > people.'' (Refer to
> http://news.com.com/2102-1028_3-5077101.html )
> >
> > 3. Regarding intellectual property right (ph. 40c) :
> Most advanced
> > countries and even some developing countries argued to
> add one more
> > sentence implying that the existing intellectual
> property right
> > regimes like WTO TRIPs or WIPO treaty should be kept.
> Most developing
> > countries including Cuba, Brazil, India and Indonesia
> supported ph.
> > 40C emphasizing the balance between owners and users of
> intellectual
> > property.
> >
> > Walking out from the meeting place after the end of
> afternoon
> > session, I met one friend of civil society group and I
> said to him
> > "Wake up from your dream! It could be helpful for your
> healthy."
> >
> >
> >
>
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> > Chun Eung Hwi
> > General Secretary, PeaceNet | phone:     (+82)
>  2-2166-2205
> > Seoul Yangchun P.O.Box 81   |   pcs:     (+82)
> 019-259-2667
> > Seoul, 158-600, Korea      | eMail:
>   chun at peacenet.or.kr
> >
>
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