[CS Bureau] Information about overpasses in Tunis (HLP and Plenary meetings)

[Robert Guerra]

btw. who is the "Peace caucus - i have never, ever heard about them


regards,

Robert

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Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
Managing Director, Privaterra <http://www.privaterra.org>





On 21-Oct-05, at 10:02 AM, CONGO - Philippe Dam wrote:

> 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?
>
>
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> Proposed Guidelines:
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> 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
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> CH-1202 Geneva
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> <Information about Summit Overpasses.doc>
> <Information about Summit Overpasses [FR].doc>

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