[CS Bureau] RE: Speaker Background Notes and Recommendation of Ms. Ebadi

[west]

Dear All,

I met  Mrs. Ebadi this morning and we discussed the WSIS issues in detail 
and I also provide some documentations. unfortunately most of the documents 
I have are in English which she is not comfortable with, in any case we 
agreed that I collect some more information and statistics for her speech, 
then we will meet again to finalize our discussions. I also in detail 
informed her of the development and human rights concerns of the WSIS 
process and the digital gap, right to development, issues related to human 
rights, article 19, censoring, the WSIS multi stakeholher process, and also 
internet governance.

The items that I need information on now are:

1- the budget for military expenditure of some developing countries and 
their budget on ICT and other development infrastructure/education.
2-some statistics regarding world situation on communication, the important 
ones, such as how many have access or no access to telephone, internet, PCs, 
etc

I think I should send  an email to plenary, requesting their advise and 
technical support in providing these data as soon as possible.

Regarding her travel costs, we both think the most appreciate way is that 
ITU should cover it, not CS entities.
Regards

Amir
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "west" <westasiaregion at hotmail.com>
To: "Antoine" <amadelin at fidh.org>; <wsis at itu.int>; <rbloem at ngocongo.org>
Cc: <wsis at ngocongo.org>; <bureau at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [CS Bureau] RE: Speaker Background Notes and Recommendation of 
Ms. Ebadi


> Dear Antoine, Renate
>
> I am going tom meet Mrs. Ebadi tommorow to give her some details of WSIS 
> process and background, which she needed to be able to have adequate 
> information on the subject.She also requested me to find out that the 
> coverage of the costs of her presence & how it will be covered? as she 
> told me that FIDH had accepted to cover the translator costs, but her 
> participation costs should be covered by UN. Can I have some information 
> in this regard, to be able to brief her. She also seems that has not 
> recieved the formal invitation by ITU.
>
> Regards
>
> Amir
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <wsis at itu.int>
> To: <rikp at earthlink.net>
> Cc: <rbloem at ngocongo.org>; <bureau at wsis-cs.org>; <wsis at ngocongo.org>; 
> <charles.geiger at itu.int>; <moncef.achour at itu.int>; 
> <charlotte.sgier at itu.int>
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:59 PM
> Subject: [CS Bureau] RE: Speaker Background Notes and Recommendation of 
> Ms. Ebadi
>
>
> Dear Civil Society Selection Committee,
>
> I hereby inform you that Secretary-General of ITU Mr. Utsumi decided to 
> nominate Ms. Shirin Ebadi as the opening speaker on hehalf of Civil 
> Society. Ms. Renate Bloem, who had been nominated as the opening speaker 
> in the initial list, was invited to speak in the General debate. At the 
> same time, we were informed that Mr. Roberto Bissio was not available for 
> the Tunis Summit.
>
> The second list of Plenary speakers from Civil Society will be announced 
> by the end of next week.
>
> With my best regards
>
> Toru Nakaya
> In charge of the official program coordination
> WSIS Executive Secretariat
>
> ==============================
>
> Dear Mr. Nakaya,
>
> Please find attached a cover letter to Mr. Utsumi as well as 3
> attachments related to the letter:
>
> 1. Background information on recommended speakers from civil society
> 2. Letter from Human Rights Caucus recommending Ms. Shirin Ebadi
> dated 12 October 2005
> 3. List of endorsing entities to Ms. Ebadi’s recommendation (as of 16
> October 2005)
>
> Please transmit this to Mr. Utsumi.
>
> Rik Panganiban
> on behalf of the selection committee
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