[WSIS CS-Plenary] speaking slots at the summit

[Ralf Bendrath]

The ITU has just produced a document on the Tunis summit format, which was 
presented to the CS Content & Themes group an hour ago. They plan to have 
much more CS interventions and participation then.
See <http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/pc2/off4.doc>

The document also contains a number of other information on the summit 
format. One interesting point for us realing the CS speaker scandal in 
Geneva (when the ITU overrode our nominations) is the following point:

"The organizational meeting shall be followed by the opening ceremony of 
the Summit. The Heads of State of the host countries, the 
Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Secretary-General of ITU, the 
President of the Preparatory Committee, and one top-level representative 
from civil society (including NGOs) as well as one top-level 
representative from a business sector entity (including ITU Sector 
Members), identified through their self-organizing mechanisms, in 
coordination with the Secretary-General of the Summit, will be invited to 
make opening remarks."

Ralf <- just in the final PrepCom plenary, which is about to end