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

[jsarr at refer.sn]

Objet : demande d'1 passe supplémentaire (pour le Sommet de Bilbao)

Chers tous,

La famille des Villes et Autorités Locales avait demandé, comme il était indiqué
auparavant, un passe pour le Panel de Haut Niveau. Cependant, il ne faut pas
perdre de vue que, à la suite du Sommet Mondial des Villes et Pouvoirs Locaux
qui se tiendra à Bilbao les 9, 10 et 11 novembre 2005 à Bilbao, une délégation
de pouvoirs locaux se rendra à Tunis pour faire la restitution.
Je pense donc que nous aurions besoin d'un passe supplémentaire pour le panel de
Haut Niveau. Cela nous fera deux passes : 1 pour la délégation du Sommet de
Bilbao et 1 pour le reste de la famille des Villes et Autorités Locales.
En espérant que cette requête sera examinée avec la plus grande attention, je
vous prie de croire, chers collègues, l'expression de mes salutations
cordiales.

Joseph SARR
Famille des Villes et Autorités Locales
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Selon CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at iprolink.ch>:

> 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
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