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

[jsarr at refer.sn]

Bonjour Robert,

Le caucus "PAIX" est coordonné par Mme Ana Leurinda, Présidente de l'ONG Culture
de Solidarité Afroindigène.
Bonne réception.

Joseph SARR
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Selon Robert Guerra <rguerra at lists.privaterra.org>:

> btw. who is the "Peace caucus - i have never, ever heard about them
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> regards,
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> Robert
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> Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
> Managing Director, Privaterra <http://www.privaterra.org>
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> On 21-Oct-05, at 10:02 AM, CONGO - Philippe Dam wrote:
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> > Dear all,
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> > 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.
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> >
> > You can find in this document the requests we received and the
> > actual repartition, based on the guidelines established by the CSB.
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> > High Level Panel:
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.”)
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> > Plenary meetings:
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > This could be easily adapted for any other WG/family/Caucus, to
> > help the coordinator to establish such guidelines.
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> > 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.
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> > We will clarify the practical aspect of the distribution of the
> > overpasses in Tunis very soon.
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> > Best regards,
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> >
> > 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: wsis at ngocongo.org
> > Website: www.ngocongo.org
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> > <Information about Summit Overpasses.doc>
> > <Information about Summit Overpasses [FR].doc>
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