[CS Bureau] Overpass request process for Tunis summit High Level Panel and Plenary meetings

[Adam Peake]

What's the deadline for the name of the person(s) 
who will receive the "super pass" to the opening 
ceremony?

Thanks,

Adam


At 7:13 PM +0100 11/7/05, CONGO - Philippe Dam wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>CSB members and Caucus/WG/CS Family coordinators 
>were recently informed about the process for the 
>distribution of overpasses for the High Level 
>Panel in Tunis and for the Plenary meetings. 
>Overpasses are needed only for the HLP and 
>Plenary meetings, in which space constraints 
>impose some obvious limitations in the number of 
>persons allowed in the room. Only CS 
>participants duly registered to Tunis Summit and 
>badged under an accredited CS entity are 
>entitled to request an overpass for those two 
>meetings.
>
>The Civil Society Bureau (CSB) was asked by the 
>WSIS ES to ensure the repartition and the 
>distribution of overpasses through a 
>self-organizing process when space limitation 
>occurs in some meeting rooms.
>
>For better transparency of the process, the CSB 
>has established a central on-line overpass 
>request system available for all 
>caucuses/WG/families 
>(<http://www.privaterra.org/~rguerra/wsis>www.privaterra.org/~rguerra/wsis). 
>Each CS registered participant, who would like 
>to request an overpass, will have to fill in 
>this form by 11 November 2005, indicating which 
>Caucus/WG/families (s)he belongs to/participates 
>in. Each requester will receive a confirmation 
>of his/her request together with a registration 
>number, and requests lists will be compiled for 
>each CS grouping. The electronically compiled 
>lists will be sent to all focal points.
>
>For more flexibility, caucus/WG/Family focal 
>points will have the possibility to also 
>consider requests that have been sent to them 
>directly, provided that they duly announced 
>their intention to do so and the process they 
>choose to the members of the grouping, the CSB 
>Secretariat and for better transparency to the 
>CS Plenary.
>Therefore, by default and without any 
>notification from the Caucus coordinator, the 
>overpass request process is based on the 
>electronic registration system provided by CPSR 
>at 
><https://secure.privaterra.org/wsis>https://secure.privaterra.org/wsis.
>Complete information, with the processes 
>announced by each caucus coordinator as well as 
>the complete text of CSB guidelines on the 
>distribution of overpasses, is available at
><http://www.csbureau.org/passes.htm>www.csbureau.org/passes.htm.
>
>For new comers (representatives of organisations 
>accredited to WSIS at PrepCom-3) and 
>representatives of CS entities not participating 
>in CS structures, note that a small number of 
>overpasses has been reserved for distribution in 
>Tunis. Request procedure will be made available 
>as soon as possible.
>
>
>Please note again that:
>€ Overpasses are not nominative and can easily be transferred.
>€ 75 Plenary overpasses have been reserved by 
>the WSIS ES for civil society organisations from 
>the Host Country to facilitate their 
>participation in the process, so that Plenary 
>overpasses should be attributed in priority to 
>representatives of non-Tunisian CS entities.
>€ Access to this website will be given to the 
>CSB Secretariat (hosted by CONGO in Geneva) for 
>the management and distribution of the 
>electronically compiled lists of requests. 
>Technical support is provided by CPSR.
>
>
>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
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