[CS Bureau] Working Space for Civil Society at the Kram Center
Robert Guerra
rguerra at lists.privaterra.org
Sat Nov 12 00:01:40 GMT 2005
Wifi free.? For the prepcom, summit or both. I have heard from
diplomatic sources that wifi was not going to be free...so let's
check to make sure it stays that way
regards,
Robert
--
Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
Managing Director, Privaterra <http://www.privaterra.org>
On 9-Nov-05, at 9:31 PM, CONGO - Philippe Dam wrote:
> Bonsoir Bertrand,
>
>
>
> We are in permanent contact with the WSIS Organizing Committee and
> with the ITU staff already in Tunis. I was confirmed this morning
> that computers were being set at the Civil Society Pavillon (one
> computer per office, power plugs, internet connexions,…). We
> requested printers, which might be set up tomorrow. We were ensured
> that at least 2 copy machines would be installed, maybe three.
>
>
>
> Please find attached the plan of the CS Space as we might find it
> on Sunday. The installation is now quite advanced.
>
>
>
> For your information, we were one more said today by the ITU staff
> in Tunis that WiFi will be FREE (the Tunisian from the organizing
> committee said “might be free”).
>
> An Internet Broadcasting System will be set up in the PrepCom-3
> room, so that floor sound and English will be made available on-
> line (sound only).
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Philippe
>
>
>
> De : Bertrand de La Chapelle [mailto:bdelachapelle at gmail.com]
> Envoyé : mercredi, 9. novembre 2005 18:24
> À : CONGO - Alejandra Mendoza
> Cc : Al Alegre; Georg C. F. Greve; Sean O Siochru; Robert Guerra;
> Adam Peake; Renata Bloem; bureau wsis; Jeanette Hofmann
> Objet : Re: [CS Bureau] Working Space for Civil Society at the Kram
> Center
>
>
>
> Dear Alejandra,
>
>
>
> As Adam mentionned, the working group B on follow-up will be in the
> same situation as the IG caucus, at least during the PrepCom phase
> where the pace will be intense.
>
>
>
> Normally, the two sub-committees should not be meeting at the same
> time (given the limited human resources of certain small
> delegations), but there is a great likelyhood that small drafting
> groups will be set in the intervals.
>
>
>
> When do you expect to have confirmation of the availability of the
> facilities for civil society during the PrepCom ?
>
>
>
> The key logistical elements will be :
>
> - power cables for laptops (numerous outlets)
>
> - the printers
>
> - the photocopier
>
> - wifi access (any final information on whether it will be free or
> not ?)
>
>
>
> Bertrand
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/9/05, CONGO - Alejandra Mendoza <wsis at ngocongo.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Al,
>
> We have proposed the two hours time slot to make the use of offices
> and
> meetings rooms more efficient. Several caucus/WG/Families might
> need the
> office at the same time having one office with one computer can
> block the
> work. Also we need to give the chance to organization/coalitions of
> NGOs to
> use this space.
> In addition, knowing that a caucus/WG/Families will use an office
> at certain
> time give us the flexibility once in Tunis to attribute it to
> another caucus
> or organization that will need a working space.
> Please think about the time you might need it.
> About boards in the office, that is a good idea that we can install
> giving
> the time table with information about who is using the office and
> Meeting.
>
> Best regards
>
> Alejandra Mendoza León
> CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail:wsis at ngocongo.org
> Website: 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
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Al Alegre [mailto: alalegre at fma.ph]
> Envoyé: mercredi, 9. novembre 2005 14:13
> À: CONGO - Alejandra Mendoza; 'Georg C. F. Greve'; 'Sean O Siochru'
> Cc: 'Robert Guerra'; 'Adam Peake'; 'Renata Bloem'; 'bureau wsis';
> 'Jeanette
> Hofmann'
> Objet: Re: [CS Bureau] Working Space for Civil Society at the Kram
> Center
>
> IN Geneva 2003, I remember the *regional families* were assigned a
> room (or
> was
> it 2?)...
> So LAC, Africa, ASia Pacific, West Asia, Europe/NA had a common space
> /communication center. REgional people looking for their comrades
> could
> float in
> and out...
>
> Makes a bit of sense if there are bulletin boards/cork boards or white
> boards/black boards where messages could be posted...
> Is it too late to make this request Alejandra?
>
> Al
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: CONGO - Alejandra Mendoza <wsis at ngocongo.org>
> To: 'Georg C. F. Greve' < greve at fsfeurope.org>; 'Sean O Siochru'
> <sean at nexus.ie>
> Cc: 'Alan Alegre' <alalegre at fma.ph>; 'Robert Guerra'
> <rguerra at lists.privaterra.org>; 'Adam Peake' <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>;
> 'Renata
> Bloem'
> < rbloem at ngocongo.org>; 'bureau wsis' <bureau at wsis-cs.org>; 'Jeanette
> Hofmann'
> <jeanette at wz-berlin.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:49 PM
> Subject: RE: [CS Bureau] Working Space for Civil Society at the
> Kram Center
>
>
> Dear George,
>
>
>
> As said in my previous e-mail we will have 7 offices available; so
> giving an
> office to the IG caucus during PrepCom 3 can be done, I can see
> that every
> body agrees. I think your idea of sharing offices within caucuses
> can be
> done. Please let me know and we can see how can we arrange this,
> but please
> make sure your caucus really need this working space at the time
> request.
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> Alejandra Mendoza León
>
> CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat
>
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
>
> CH-1202 Geneva
>
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
>
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
>
> E-mail:wsis at ngocongo.org
>
> Website: 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
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Georg C. F. Greve [mailto:greve at gnuhh.org] De la part de Georg
> C. F.
> Greve
> Envoyé : mercredi, 9. novembre 2005 11:02
> À : Sean O Siochru
> Cc : Alan Alegre; Robert Guerra; Adam Peake; Alejandra Mendoza; Renata
> Bloem; bureau wsis; Jeanette Hofmann
> Objet : Re: [CS Bureau] Working Space for Civil Society at the Kram
> Center
>
>
>
> || On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:58:26 +0000
>
> || Sean O Siochru <sean at nexus.ie> wrote:
>
>
>
> sos> Otherwise, how many offices are there? I think I read 'several'
>
> sos> . Is this three? Should we leave one that is available for use
>
> sos> on an ad-hoc basis, no more than an hour at a time, or
>
> sos> something? A lot of needs that arise just come out of the blue.
>
>
>
> I also discussed this with my PCT WG co-coordinator, Francis Muguet.
>
>
>
> Having some kind of office space for the PCT WG and/or the European
>
> Family would be incredibly helpful. I don't really expect the
>
> infrastructure to be as good as it was in Geneva -- and that was bad.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Georg
>
>
>
> --
>
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> greve at fsfeurope.org>
>
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