[WSIS CS-Plenary] Up-date on ITU and CS: issue raised at the next ITU Plenipotentiary Conference

Sun Oct 29 20:22:13 GMT 2006

Jean Louis, 

Je pense que les documents et les trois propositions que CSDPTT avait
présentés en vue de la réunion du 1er février 2006 sont toujours disponibles
en ligne et sont présentés au sein d’une note du Chairman en tant que
document de substance – document officiel de cette session :

http://www.itu.int/reform/contributions/8.doc (p. 14 à 17).

Pouvez vous confirmer qu’il s’agit bien de ceux-ci ? 

Serez vous a Antalya ? 

Ph

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De : plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] De la part
de Jean-Louis FULLSACK
Envoyé : dimanche 29 octobre 2006 19:11
À : plenary at wsis-cs.org
Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Up-date on ITU and CS: issue raised at the
next ITU Plenipotentiary Conference

Dear Philippe

Many thanks for your information about the ITU reform dealing with the
participation of CS organisations in its constituencies, and the related
documents. This very crucial issue will be discussed and answered by the
coming Plenipotentiary Conference (PP'06). 

You may remember that all along the WSIS process, CSDPTT was the only CS
organisation who presented these ideas such as CS organisations to be
considered as members with analogue status to businesss members, ITU
internal structural reform, cooperative action with other UN agencies, etc .

CSDPTT was probably the only CS organisation who submitted these proposals
(there are three ones, each one for a specific topic) to the ITU Council who
was to examine the ITU reform issues on the basis of contributions sent by
different partners in January 06. This document was displayed on the ITU
(reform) page, alongside with other proposals sent by member states,
international/regional organisations and business entities. Last but not
least, these proposals were in french language only.

Once more, I'm profoundly disappointed for two reasons. Our document is no
longer displayed at the ITU WSIS site (unless you use TIES, the expensive
ITU access to its documents !) ; in other words : CS members and visitors
are precluded from reading these proposals. In addition, all these documents
concerning this paramount issue for building a stronger and more efficient
ITU -including those which you mention in your mail- are exclusively in
English. This is probably one of the reasons why the CSDPTT proposals are
simply ignored by the ITU bosses and therefore withdrawn from the documents
list 

For your information as well as for informing our CS members the CSDPTT
document is attached to this e-mail. I'm sorry for our no french speaking
members and I will try to tanslate them as soon as possible for the list.

In addition I'd ask CONGO to do its best in respect of CS contributions to
be displayed with other members' ones on the official ITU/WSIS sites for the
sake of actual multistakeholdership and taken into account accordingly.by
the UN agencies and more specifically the ITU.

Best regards

Jean-Louis Fukllsack

CSDPTT - France.     

> Message du 28/10/06 17:28
> De : "CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam" 
> A : bureau at wsis-cs.org, plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Copie à : "'CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam'" , "'Renate Bloem'" 
> Objet : [WSIS CS-Plenary] Up-date on ITU and CS: issue raised at the next
ITU Plenipotentiary Conference
> 
> 

Dear all, 

Further to the previous messages sent to this list in September 2006, I
would like to inform you that the question of civil society and NGO
participation will be addressed at the next ITU Plenipotentiary Conference
between 6 and 24 November 2006
(http://www.itu.int/plenipotentiary/2006/index.html). 

The discussions among the ITU Council Working Group
<http://www.itu.int/council/wsis/wsis_WG.html>  on WSIS (meeting on 12-13
Sept. 2006) conduced to proposing the ITU Plenipot to engage the ITU Council
to conduct a study on civil society and the activities of ITU, and to
authorise the Council to take a decision regarding the provisional
application of the provisions that will be established for the entry of CS
entities into ITU activities before the next Plenipotentiary Conference.

This situation represents a compromise between the proposals circulated by
Switzerland and Argentina during the meeting of the WG. For information, you
find these documents at the links below:

Swiss proposal
<http://www.itu.int/council/wsis/Working_Group_on_WSIS/Sept-2006/20060831%20
CH%20proposal%20for%20enhanced%20CSO%20participation.doc> : 
http://www.itu.int/council/wsis/Working_Group_on_WSIS/Sept-2006/20060831%20C
H%20proposal%20for%20enhanced%20CSO%20participation.doc  
Argentinean proposal
<http://www.itu.int/council/wsis/Working_Group_on_WSIS/Sept-2006/035e_argent
ina.doc> :

<http://www.itu.int/council/wsis/Working_Group_on_WSIS/Sept-2006/035e_argent
ina.doc>
http://www.itu.int/council/wsis/Working_Group_on_WSIS/Sept-2006/035e_argenti
na.doc 

For your information, I attached the full report of the meeting of the ITU
Council WG on WSIS to the Plenipotentiary Conference, which addressed, in
addition to CS inclusion in ITU, a certain number of issues related to
implications for the ITU of the WSIS outcomes (action taken and to be taken
after Tunis, and evolving role of the World Telecommunication
Standardization Assembly), as well as the ITU Plenipot draft Resolution on
“Enhanced participation of civil society entities and organisations in ITU
activities”.

Is there anybody in this list who is planning to take part in the ITU
Plenipot next month?

It would also be interesting to take the opportunity of the IGF gathering to
talk about this issue.

Best regards, 

Philippe Dam
> CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
> Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> 

>
> [ Final WG-WSIS report with annexes (no rev marks) (2) (2).doc (361.9 Ko)
]
> [ WG WSIS ANNEX 2 draft res civil society.doc (46.5 Ko) ]

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