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

[Robert Guerra]

On 5-May-05, at 7:56 PM, Dr. Francis MUGUET wrote:

>
> It seems that the rigid attitude against the deadline extension is  
> flying right back in the face of one its most adamant promoter.
>
i think that's too harsh a comment. Deadlines are important. More  
important are clear deadlines with clear instructions - with complete  
details. I submitted something on time - by April 30th NY Time -  
where the UN is based. What isn't clear , what hasn't been clear from  
the begining are the details as for the time zone to observe. It's  
one big black box - something we were promised would not happen.



> Being reponsible partners, means also we shall try to attempt to  
> defuse potentially explosive situations and not jump to the conclusion
> that an event has been censored from the outset.
>

censor is too strong a word , at least for me. must be something lost  
in translation.

  We don't have the details we need. We've offered to work together -  
we've been told  - sure - and then silence. For me that's equally as  
worrying as things will likely get worse, not better..


> 1/ the May 5 date that I mentionned was the grace period concerning
> adding precisions to a the request that have been sent by the  
> deadline.
> I just sent a mail tonight saying that we need more time.

that sort of clarifications needs to come officially. If there's any  
issue i can't issue a press release stating "it was what i heard from  
francis" - rather, i'd like to see it in writing from the ES and/or  
from the Tunisian organizing committee.



> 2/ It has been posted on the list maintained by the French Government
> to interface with the Civil Society that the French Government has
> requested a deadline extension until May 15.

It should be posted to the WSIS page - a page people see as official.


> 3/ The rumors that I gathered in Geneva on May 02, is that this  
> request is likely to be granted.
>

i don't want to take positions and start actions based on rumors.

let's follow an official procedure - have the concern transmitted  
officially to the ES and tunisian organizers. Both verbally at the  
upcoming meeting in Geneva, as well as in written form...


> Therefore, I am proposing that
> a/ the CSB should request from
> the joint organizing comittee that the CS
> should benefit from the same deadline extension as the longest one
> that has been granted to a Governement (ie at least May 15,
> It is hightly likely that many other governments have requested  
> deadline extensions ).
> This request for equal treatement would not jeopadize the precious  
> status of respectable and deadline-abiding partners that some would  
> like to promote at any cost.

We proposed back in Feb, at the prepcom - to have a joint working  
group. It is a point which seemed to have been well received - but  
not taken up in any way, shape or form.

I would ask this too be transmitted in person and in written form. I  
can't take pitty on governments that have plenty of resources. if  
it's a developping or least developped country - fine, but france -  
there shouldn't be an excuse for them to submit by a deadline. if  
they get granted a deadline - well, of course - it should also be  
granted to the other "stakeholders"


> b/ the CSB should request that the deadline for bringing precisions
> to a request sent by the deadline be at least May 30 ( or the deadline
> for filling new requests if this deadline extends after May 30 ).
>
we can ask...

> Furthermore, and this time some persons are going to be ill placed  
> to give lessons to others about deadlines !

don't understand the phrase - can you please state in other words.  
thanks.

>  I would like to ask the CSB to kindly consider again :
>
> 1/ write an addendum to the
> the B2B document concerning the the question of renting the  
> conference halls and the precisions concerning the internet access and
> virtual conferencing capabilities that I voiced in a previous  
> message and that Renate, Viola, Ramin bring those questions of  
> crucial practical importance in their May 12 meeting.
>

i am not in favour of an addendum. I propose a follow-up document -  
one which we state "recalling the B2B document" from wsis/pc2 - we  
have the following to say..


> 2/ using the new version of WSISonline site
>  where Bertrand  was kind enough to open a project page
> http://www.wsis-online.net/smsi/classes/won/projects/won- 
> projects-472992/project-view
> "Inventory of Planned Civil Society Events in Tunis".
> so that the CS could get organized with the same tool that is probably
> getting to be used for the WSIS in Tunis.

for as much as it's a good idea. to be honest, i really don't think  
the system will be used. by people who have submitted.

what i would - request - is that the Tunisian organizers post in a  
public place , perhaps @ wsisonline, or elsewhere a list of entries  
recieved, their status, the process involved in evaluating them, and  
which ones will be approved. in summary - be at least as open and  
transparent as phase I. We should ask for them to be more  
transparent ...



> Personally I have no time for this.

neither do i. neither do i have the funding. By the way, any news on  
funding for the CSB, civil society, fellowships or anything of the sort?


Prepcom 3 is only 4 months away, the summit is only 6 months away...

>
> 3/ Propose a CSB event tentatively called
> "The CSB and the institutionalization of the relationships between  
> the CS and the UN"
>

personally - i would rather have something that focuses on the  
similiar structures in the past, the CSB and how it relates to the UN  
reform/cardoso report.

Renata - what do you think?

regards

Robert

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