[CS Bureau] Parallel Events - Rejections now being sent - WE HAVE PROBLEM!

[Robert Guerra]

Dear all:

I just have received a rather troubling email - one where my proposal  
for a side event  - that was submitted just before the end of the day  
on April 30th (in my time zone) - has seemingly been rejected/refused  
by the organizers.

I don't believe which time zone was the one to submit by was ever  
mentioned - and as such, i and likely a few others - believed it was  
the local time zone.

While I have contacted the side-event organizers to clarify the point  
for my particular submission , i think it is an issue to be addresses  
by the bureau. Despite our call for effective engagement in the  
prepatory process - we aren't being engaged in matters that count.  
Date of meetings and the deadline specifics need, - actually must be  
- communicated to the CSB so
that we can inform the larger CS constituency.

Francis and Renata's earlier messages seem to indicate that there -  
indeed was an issue with deadlines, however there was going to be a  
certain amount of flexibility on how dates were going to be  
considered. Obviously from the message i just got from the side-event  
team - well, that doesn't seem to be the case.

The reason i'm - particularly  concerned - is that the proposal was  
related to a presentation/panel on Censorship and Freedom of  
expression in the North African and Middle East. It was being  
proposed by the organization i am associated with - Computer  
Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) - together with  Human  
Rights Watch (HRW) . My fear is that the pretext of - sorry it was  
late - was used to dismiss a proposal that has a human rights  
component. This may not be the case - but, i don't know and would ask  
for the bureau and ES to help me clarify the details.


regards

Robert





Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Guellouz ridha" <smsi-evenementsparalleles at mincom.tn>
> Date: May 5, 2005 5:18:48 AM EDT (CA)
> To: "Robert Guerra" <rguerra at privaterra.org>
> Subject: Re: Request for participation to the Parallel Events /  
> WSIS Second Phase
> Reply-To: "Guellouz ridha" <smsi-evenementsparalleles at mincom.tn>
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> With reference to your request to organise parallel events during  
> Tunis 2005
> WSIS, we would like first to thank you for your interest.
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> However since we have received your request on 1st of may  at 5:31, we
> apologize to consider it as being out of date limits, according to the
> guidelines of the parallel events.
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> Best Regards
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Original submission date..

> From: Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
> Date: April 30, 2005 10:40:22 PM EDT (CA)
> To: smsi-evenementsparalleles at mincom.tn, wsis-parallelevents at mincom.tn
> Cc: privaterra at privaterra.org
> Subject: Request for participation to the Parallel Events / WSIS  
> Second Phase
> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v728)
> Message-Id: <D63222E9-58CB-4415-A2EF-97B6B378C4E3 at privaterra.org>
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=Apple-Mail-9--830930726
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> Request for participation to the Parallel Events / WSIS Second Phase
>
> See attached file and below for details





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