[CS Bureau] Information about overpasses in Tunis (HLP and Plenary meetings) - 2
CONGO - Philippe Dam
wsis at iprolink.ch
Wed Nov 2 16:55:39 GMT 2005
Thanks for your comment Joseph.
My understanding is that Caucus Focal Points will be provided with the
electronically compiled list of overpass requests, and then would have the
responsibility to effectively check who is actually member of the caucus or
not. I also requested Robert to set up the online registration so that
requesters could not tick more than 2/3 groupings to prevent anybody tick
all boxes and to limit the impact of multiple affiliations.
Best,
Ph
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Envoyé : mercredi, 2. novembre 2005 10:29
À : CONGO - Philippe Dam
Cc : bureau at wsis-cs.org; wsis at ngocongo.org; 'Renate Bloem'
Objet : Re: [CS Bureau] Information about overpasses in Tunis (HLP and
Plenary meetings) - 2
Chers membres du Bureau,
Je pense que la méthode d'inscription proposée par Robert est bonne.
Quelques
précautions à prendre cependant. L'information étant passée sur la liste de
la
plénière, il y a des risques que des participants n'appartenant et n'étant
actifs dans aucun caucus du SMSI s'inscrivent dans un caucus ou groupe
quelconque, juste pour avoir leur passe. La supervision des membres actifs
et
donc du point focal du caucus ou de la famille est indispensable pour éviter
des aberrations.
L'idée n'est pas pour effectuer un contrôle intempestif mais pour éviter que
des
participants réguliers du processus du SMSI ne soient laissés sur le bord du
chemin.
Salutations cordiales.
Joseph SARR
Famille des Autorités Locales
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Selon CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at iprolink.ch>:
> Dear Bureau members,
>
>
>
> You will find enclosed the up-dated document on overpass distribution
> policy. The technical support would be provided by CPSR (Robert:
> www.privaterra.org/~rguerra/wsis, some changes are still to be made) and
the
> management of electronic lists of overpass requests would be managed by
CSB
> Secretariat from Geneva (Alejandra, Jette and Philippe). We have continued
> to work on the basis of an electronic registration device since none of
you
> objected this proposal and some CSB members even commended on it.
>
>
>
> This system provides the maximal transparency and more security in the
> attribution process and has got many obvious advantages. Electronically
> compiled lists would be forwarded by the CSB Secretariat to the Caucuses
> coordinators/focal points, so that they would deal with the repartition of
> their attributed overpasses on that basis. Another main advantage of this
> system is that if a caucus coordinator would not show up or wouldn’t do
its
> job, the attribution of overpasses for the specific CS grouping could
easily
> be done by somebody else, since the CSB Secretariat would have all the
> information at its disposal.
>
>
>
> There would obviously be some risks of shortcomings in this mechanism
(very
> active caucus members who could forget to register and who would not be in
> these lists; CS registered participants could be confused or at least
> bothered to register one more time through web navigation). The
alternative
> proposal would be to leave caucuses coordinators, who already contacted us
> previously, to determine the attribution process and to inform the CSB
> Secretariat about their process and choice.
>
>
>
> The use of the registration website is quite heavy and bureaucratic
(mainly
> for caucuses with a very small number of overpasses) but more sure and
> transparent.
>
>
>
> I am waiting for your comments and hopefully your approval to go along
with
> this. Please build upon this proposal, we have to send this as soon as
> possible to the Plenary and others.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Philippe
>
>
>
> 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/>
>
>
>
>
>
> _____
>
> De : CONGO - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis at iprolink.ch]
> Envoyé : vendredi, 21. octobre 2005 15:02
> À : bureau at wsis-cs.org
> Cc : wsis at ngocongo.org; 'Renata Bloem'
> Objet : Information about overpasses in Tunis (HLP and Plenary meetings)
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> Please find attached our proposition concerning the attribution of
> overpasses to CS participants in Tunis (HLP and Plenary meetings), further
> to the up-date from ITU on the number of available overpasses for civil
> society. We request your comments on this document before we send it to
the
> Plenary List. You can find below some clarifications or questions.
>
>
>
> You can find in this document the requests we received and the actual
> repartition, based on the guidelines established by the CSB.
>
>
>
> High Level Panel:
>
> The CSB decision was: one overpass for each active existing
family/WG/caucus
> during previous WSIS events in priority, and one overpass for emerging
> family/WG/caucus during if available.
>
>
>
> After this, we still have 2 non-attributed overpasses. 2 caucuses
requested
> an extra overpass (Internet Governance and Human Rights) and it would make
> sense to allocate one extra overpass to the African Caucus with regards to
> its actual size.
>
>
>
> It is up to you to decide to whom allocate those two remaining overpasses,
> or if we should give them back to the WSIS ES (for information, the CSB
> guidelines stated that: “Any remaining after this will be returned to the
> Executive Secretariat for allocation to other stakeholder groupings.”)
>
>
>
> Plenary meetings:
>
> Taking into consideration the expected number of participants and the
> participation in the overall process (priority to existing caucuses at
> previous PrepComs), we tried to attenuate obvious overstatements (Peace
> Caucus requested 80 overpasses) and obvious understatements (WG on Finance
> requested only 8 passes) to compile the list enclosed.
>
>
>
> The fact that 100 overpasses would be reserved for host country
participants
> is a decision of the WSIS CS, and was in principle accepted by the CSB
when
> discussing overpasses.
>
>
>
> We propose to keep 36 passes not to be attributed to any caucus, in order
to
> have some flexibility with new comers or major CS entities which are not
> actually involved in CS structures. This is further to some concerns
> expressed to us and on the Plenary list. Guidelines would be made
available
> later on for the distribution of these overpasses. Do you agree with that?
>
>
>
> Proposed Guidelines:
>
> We have been asked by the WSIS to forward them our methodology for the
> distribution of overpasses. This is why the CSB Secretariat needs to make
> sure that a clear method would be used by each caucus. This is just an
> indicative general suggestion, based on Robert’s message concerning the
> European and North American Caucus.
>
>
>
> This could be easily adapted for any other WG/family/Caucus, to help the
> coordinator to establish such guidelines.
>
>
>
> Please send us your comment to improve this document as soon as possible
> (please before next Tuesday). Once approved by the CSB, we will send it as
> soon as possible to the Plenary List, and included in a note to be
> personally sent to each Caucus coordinator.
>
>
>
> We will clarify the practical aspect of the distribution of the overpasses
> in Tunis very soon.
>
>
>
> 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 <BLOCKED::http://www.ngocongo.org/> www.ngocongo.org
>
>
>
>
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