[WSIS CS-Plenary] Draft Statement for Sub-Committee B (for Tuesday afternoon)
John Fung
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Thu Sep 22 07:29:28 BST 2005
i agree with laina's suggestion.
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From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] On
Behalf Of Laina Raveendran Greene
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If not too late an input, I agree with this and would like to add and
"Recognition and ["empowerment"/"inclusiveness"] of marginalised groups"
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Dear all,
Could I add to bullet d: non-discrimination AND RECOGNITION OF
MARGINALISED GROUPS?
Yours
Kicki
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Elizabeth Carll, PhD
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Ämne: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Draft Statement for Sub-Committee B (for
Tuesday afternoon)
Bertrand,
The various recommendations are excellent. However, I would like to add
one general point with regard to the first item below. One of the major
criticisms of the benchmarks and themes, plan of action of the
(government) Geneva Declaration was that it did not go far enough and
led to the writing of the CS Declaration. The statement below appears
to support the government Declaration. While as a minimum this is
important, it is also essential to include the benchmarks and thematic
clusters from the CS Declaration, or why did we bother drafting it?
One example which applies to the Health and ICT Working Group was the
inclusion of the recognition of both physical and mental health
information. There were a number or other themes as well.
It is critical not to overlook the issues which gave rise to the
drafting of the CS WSIS Declaration and work to include these and
inclusively move forward on all previous CS issues.
<<1) Any framework must reaffirm the key principles of the Geneva
Declaration and Plan of Action, including :
a. Sustainable development
b. The respect of human rights and particularly freedom of
expression
c. Women's empowerment and gender equality
d. Non-discrimination>>
Thank you for your work on this.
Elizabeth
Dr. Elizabeth Carll
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies;
UN NGO Committee on Mental Health;
Communications Coordination Committee for the UN
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Fax: 631-754-5032
ecarll at optonline.net
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Dear all,
Following a first meeting of the Group on Sub-Committee B (aka Working
Group on Implementation and Follow-up) monday evening, please find below
the draft intervention for Tuesday afternoon session. This will be the
first session of the committee and no agreement has so far been reached
by governments on which text the discussion will start upon.
In this context, the choice has been made to focus the ipreliminary
ntervention on a few basic principles and components, building on
previous CS statements from the last two years. This will form the basis
for more concrete formulations in the coming days, once we know the text
that will form the basis for negociation.
Comments are welcome. but the final version will have to be finalized by
lunchtime tuesday and the presentation should not last longer than three
to four minutes (Nnenna will pronounce it). So please rather edit than
add.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. The draft is sent to the
Plenary for today, but successive interventions will be circulated on
the newly opened followup mailing list (please subscribe at :
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/followup
Best
Bertrand
Draft TEXT (word version attached)
Statement on behalf of Civil society Working group on WSIS
Implementation and Follow-up
Sub-Committee B – WSIS PrepCom3 – Sept 20, 2005
In November, the Summit itself will be over. Geneva produced valuable
Principles and a comprehensive Agenda for Action. Tunis must now produce
a follow-up framework for getting things done. This framework must be
both efficient and flexible.
It is not efficient to merely encourage actors to keep doing what they
have always done. The present GFC draft is much too weak. We all need
stronger commitments from governments and more structured mechanisms.
Flexibility is the second criteria : nobody wants a heavy architecture,
cast in concrete for eternity, but rather an enabling framework. The
proposals discussed at PreCom2 could generate a rigid, hierarchical and
top-down mechanism that could stifle initiatives and establish control
under the guise of coordination.
In this first meting of Sub Committee B, and before a decision is made
on which document or model discussions will be based upon, we want to
outline some key components that any framework must contain to be
efficient and flexible.
The following key benchmarks will guide our drafting amendments in the
coming days :
1) Any framework must reaffirm the key principles of the Geneva
Declaration and Plan of Action, including :
a. Sustainable development
b. The respect of human rights and particularly freedom of
expression
c. Women's empowerment and gender equality
d. Non-discrimination
2) Any framework should be based on a multi-stakeholder approach,
and we strongly oppose the deletion of the terms "full and effective" to
qualify CS participation in the most recent GFC draft;
3) Any framework should address the national, regional and
international levels but also articulate them;
4) Regular Review Meetings must allow all actors to review progress
in an open and multi-stakeholder format. This means more frequent and
lighter meetings than usual +5 and +10 Summits. It also means more than
the insertion of a few paragraphs in an annual report by the Secretary
General to Ecosoc or the UN GA Frequency and convenors of such
Thematic, Regional and Global review meetings should be discussed;
5) Any framework should enable the progressive grouping of issues
in larger Thematic Clusters , taking into account the Geneva Action
Lines but without making them intangible;
6) Any framework should encourage the formation of Thematic
Multi-stakeholder Initiatives , ideally with a minimum of common
criteria for their formation and functioning;
7) All international organizations, according to their mandate or
geographical competence, should be instructed to integrate in their own
activities the outcomes of the WSIS and to actively support and
facilitate the Thematic Multi-stakeholder Initiatives that emerge;
8) Governments should individually "pledge" to establish, at the
national level, " multi-stakeholder implementation frameworks" to define
e-strategies, facilitate concrete initiatives and provide open policy
fora for debate;
9) A Global Policy Debate is needed. Paragraph 35 of the GFC
document should not only be maintained but made even more precise. The
possible articulation with the forum function envisaged in Internet
Governance should be clarified.
10) Finally, Resolution 57/270 B in no way prevents the WSIS to
establish a specific and more efficient follow-up mechanism, as the 2003
report to the General Assembly on Resolution 57/270 has clearly
established.
We will come back in more detail on each of these points in the coming
days. We sincerely thank the Chair for establishing this flexible and
efficient mechanism for interaction in this Sub-Committee.
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