[WSIS CS-Plenary] Financing CS from LDCs.

[mpazello at oi.com.br]

Hello,
It seems to be a great and bad news in the same time. Great news  
becasue it shows that still there is money to support the civil  
society from LDCs, unfortunatelly not for people from developing  
countries. Bad news because IMO CSB doesn't reflect the current CS  
mobilization around the WSIS implementation and monitoring.

Nnena, in a previous message, has raised relevant points to think  
about the CSB existence, role, etc. in special because one year after  
Tunis there was no substantive activity in the CSB list. I agree with  
Nnena that "some dead caucuses need to be buried". In the same way  
pobrably new caucuses/groups were born.

Anyway, in relation to grants and funds  a good accountability is  
needed in order to prevent misunderstandings on this matter.

Could be good to recover the reports of the debate and decisions made  
in the last CSB as well the CS plenary meeting when the role of CSB  
was discussed too.

Magaly

On 29/10/2006, at 20:29, Dr. Francis MUGUET wrote:

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> Hello again.
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> First, the good news.
> Following negotiations started in Paris, at UNESCO, the
> ambassador of Finland, told me this afternoon that
> the CSB is welcome to make officially a resquest
> to the European Union in order to provide
> financial assistance to Civil Society representative
>  from LDCs, in order to attend the next WSIS meetings.
> ( around twenty  persons. ).
>
> Best
>
> Francis
> -----------------------------------
> Re-Bonsoir
>
>
> Suite à des négotiations entamées à Paris, à L'UNESCO
> L'ambassadeur de Finlande m'auorisé me dire, que
> l'Union Europe est disposée à recevoir d'une manière
> officielle, une requète du Bureau pour assurer
> une aide financière aux représentants (max<20 )
> de la SC des PVD, pour participer aux prochaines
> réunion du SMSI.
>
> Bien cordialement
>
> Francis
>