[CS Bureau] Reminder - report from WSIS CS meeting in Berlinon Saturday

[AIZU]

I plan to attend the Cape Town meeting as an ad hoc contact from Asia
Family though I am also heavily involved with Internet Governance caucus
and WGIG.

I quite agree with Adam that the discussion around Internet Governance
is better to be done on governance list - and I heard from Jeannet that this
list is getting more participants than before.

The plenary should take care the "overall" matters to Civil Society, of course
that includes Internet Governance matters, but so is Finance, Civil Society
engagement in general, and moving Internet Governance solely to the plenary
list will not only open a danger of making WGIG related activities of Civil 
Society
into WSIS plenary mode, being put into observer status, and also may loose
a very good momentum so far achieved by the governance caucus.

This does not mean, however, Governance caucus be a closed circle group
and exclude others. All are welcome to join to the governance  caucus and
its list, and continue and develop the work.

Here, in Cape Town, at ICANN AtLarge activities, we are starting to
publicize WGIG/ Internet Governance caucus activities and asking those
interested to join that list, together with Jeanette.

thanks,

izumi

At 16:34 04/12/03 +0900, Adam Peake wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I missed Ralf's note first time around on the plenary list. So a brief 
>comment for Bureau discussion.
>
>About CS Bureau & WGIG -- as a default, I think we should try to keep CS 
>work with the working group on Internet governance within the Internet 
>governance caucus. We've had a positive influence so far, both on process 
>and content. Perhaps more influence than govt or private sector. 
>Meaningful discussion of issues won't work in plenary (though plenary must 
>be/has been informed), and we don't need the confusion of new group.
>
>We spent quite a bit of time arguing that the WGIG should be independent 
>of WSIS processes, and there is a risk that CS Bureau involvement would 
>put us firmly back in the WSIS intergovernmental process. In WSIS we're 
>observers, so far in the Internet governance work we've been at the main 
>table. So let's not risk undoing that. Unless there is something 
>compelling that the Bureau could bring?  It's not clear to me what that might be.
>
>Thanks to all, particularly Viola, for organizing the Bureau meeting, I 
>think it's important and timely.  And I wish I could be there in the S. 
>African summer!
>
>Adam
>
>
>Robert Guerra wrote:
>>I am taking the liberty of forwarding Ralf's message to the plenary to 
>>the bureau list.
>>It's  a summary of the recent meeting in Berlin - where many key items 
>>were discussed related, which we should take into consideration and 
>>build-upon at our meeting on the weekend.
>>regards
>>Robert
>>
>>>From: Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
>>>To: wsis-cs-plenary <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
>>>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] report from WSIS CS meeting in Berlin on Saturday
>>>Sender: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org
>>>Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:05:06 +0100
>>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I think we had a very constructive discussion at the Berlin meeting on 
>>>Saturday and came up with some good ideas. You've already seen the first 
>>>outcome in Rik's mail on the WG on Working Methods.
>>>
>>>Below see the minutes from that meeting. For the speed readers, 
>>>here's the extra-short version:
>>>
>>>Major tasks to be done:
>>>- CS travel funding
>>>- fast and substantive work on finance
>>>- linking WSIS CS with other information policy networks and movements
>>>- discusssion on WSIS 2005 follow-up, including implementation
>>>**
>>>
>>>Next events to prepare for:
>>>- African regional meeting in February
>>>- PrepCom2 in February
>>>- UN ICT TF in April
>>>
>>>Best, Ralf
>>>
>>>-------------------------------------
>>>
>>>*WSIS Civil Society Meeting*
>>>*Berlin**, newthinking store*
>>>*20 November 2004, 15:00-18:00***
>>>
>
>
>rest deleted (long message.)
>
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