[WSIS CS-Plenary] Report on Sub-committee B, 1500-1800

[Rik Panganiban]

World Summit on the Information Society

Prepcom III

Sub-committee B

29 September 2005

1500-1800 hours



Notes by Rik Panganiban




Sub-committee B continues negotiation on new political chapeau, based  
on WSIS-II/PC-3/DT/12. [Not available online yet.]

Paras 1A-1B

Cuba and Norway still leading negotiations

Para 5A

Sub-committee B begins w Para 5A

Ghana
Proposes to lead negotiations on combining 5A-G

US
On 5A-5G: Should have a short political chapeau.  Freedom of  
expression and media issues already dealt with in Geneva doc, which  
was hard fought text.  We propose elimination because they re-open  
contentious issues.

Ghana
Delete 5A-G

Cuba
We will lead negotiations on 5A-G

Para 8A

US submits text

El Salvador adds “fully respecting human rights”

Honduras inserts “development”

Taken in brackets

Para 9

US
We prefer Alt9

NZ
We will coordinate work on this para.

Para 9A “open source”

US
Add “in ways that combine the advantages of all models” to “principally”

Brazil
We support including this in brackets.

Para 9B

Australia
Move to operational part

UK
Delete

Belarus
This text comes from a conference we had.  Let’s talk about this  
bilaterally.

US
We have suggestions on this.

Para 10A


Para 11B “equitable multilateral trading system”

US
Has new text

Para 11C

Brazil will coordinate new text

US has alternative language

New US text: ”We recognize that the use of local languages in ICTs  
promotes inclusion of all people in the information society, enhances  
cultural diversity, and contributes to development.”



Para 11E “financial resources”

US, Australia, NZ and UK
This is a resource issue.  Should be in  operational part not here.

El Salvador, Honduras, Algeria, Cuba, Egypt
We need some references to mobilizing resources in the chapeau

Iran
Propose texts from millennium outcome document

Canada proposes new text.

Para 11F “public and private investment”

Australia
This para summarizes our debates on private sector and public sector  
investment.  We should go back to Geneva language.

Para 11J “child helplines”

US, UK
Too detailed for political chapeau.  Move to operational part in part 7.

Chair
We really need to have some text on protecting children. Perhaps can  
the NGO that proposed this please bring this text back to us.  We  
will move this operational part.

UK and Canada will be happy to work on this to make it in line with  
Geneva language.

Para 11K

Japan
“We reaffirm our desire to build ICT networks and develop  
applications, in partnership with the private sector and civil  
society, based on open or interoperable standards that are affordable  
and accessible to all, available anywhere and anytime, to anyone and  
on any device, leading to a [ubuquitous networked society.]”

para 11L
Ghana
This para is important to us.

UK
Reformulates: “We note the potential of ICTs and encourage their use  
in identifiying conflict situations through early-warning systems,  
preventing them, and promoting their peaceful resolution, mitigating  
their consequences, protecting civilians, facilitating peacekeeping  
missions, and post-conflict reconstruction towards free, open,  
inclusive and just societies.”

Some opposition, so in negotiation still.

Para 12A




Chair
At 6:10pm we will come back here and start general discussion on  
paper related to mechanisms.  We have tried to incorporate different  
inputs that were made.

Then we continue on Chapters 1 and 4 tonight, without  
interpretation.  We will finish our work today.


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RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator
Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United  
Nations (CONGO)
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