[CS Bureau] Financing CS from LDCs.

[Magaly Pazello]

Hello,
It seems to be a great and bad news in the same time. Great news becasue 
it shows that still there is money to support the civil society from 
LDCs, unfortunatelly not for people from developing countries. Bad news 
because IMO CSB doesn't reflect the current CS mobilization around the 
WSIS implementation and monitoring.

Nnena, in a previous message, has raised relevant points to think about 
the CSB existence, role, etc. in special because one year after Tunis 
there was no substantive activity in the CSB list. I agree with Nnena 
that "some dead caucuses need to be buried". In the same way pobrably 
new caucuses/groups were born.

Anyway, in relation to grants and funds  a good accountability is needed 
in order to prevent misunderstandings on this matter.

Could be good to recover the reports of the debate and decisions made in 
the last CSB as well the CS plenary meeting when the role of CSB was 
discussed too.

Magaly


Dr. Francis MUGUET wrote:
> Hello again.
>
> First, the good news.
> Following negotiations started in Paris, at UNESCO, the
> ambassador of Finland, told me this afternoon that
> the CSB is welcome to make officially a resquest
> to the European Union in order to provide
> financial assistance to Civil Society representative
>  from LDCs, in order to attend the next WSIS meetings.
> ( around twenty  persons. ).
>
> Best
>
> Francis
> -----------------------------------
> Re-Bonsoir
>
>
> Suite à des négotiations entamées à Paris, à L'UNESCO
> L'ambassadeur de Finlande m'auorisé me dire, que
> l'Union Europe est disposée à recevoir d'une manière
> officielle, une requète du Bureau pour assurer
> une aide financière aux représentants (max<20 )
> de la SC des PVD, pour participer aux prochaines
> réunion du SMSI.
>
> Bien cordialement
>
> Francis
>
>
>
>