[CS Bureau] Cluster WSIS events & Bureau meetings in May

[Dr. Francis MUGUET]

Dear members of the Bureau

We have to get back to work. !!!

1/ So far, concerning invitation letters that many of
us  need to have to be able attend the cluster Week.
either for Visa, travel application and funding.
The invitations letters are available only for
  Action Line C5 Facilitation Meeting  ( 14-15 May 2007
  action lines C2, C4, and C6 ( 16 May 2007
  Informal consultation between ITU and CS 18 May 2007
  Second consultation meeting of WSIS Action Line Facilitators
  25 may 2007
   UNESCO has not prepared yet any invitation letter.

Could CONGO as the Bureau executive secretariat inquire
with  ECOSOC, or ITU, or UNCTAD ( as the de facto
WSIS executive secretariat ) about the possibility
to make available a global
invitation letter covering the two weeks in Geneva.
This would simplify greatly visa application for
some, and bureaucracy for all of us.

2/ The e-science action line should occur on Monday 14 May.
This is to be confirmed.
There are long  multi-stakeholder negotiations
to find a convenient date when all major stakeholders
could attend.

3/ As I did last year, for the action lines meetings in Paris,
may I act as the Bureau liaison officer with UNESCO ?
to speed up things concerning procedural issues,
eg Letters of invitations, and terms of references.

I have been working closely with the Science4D division
to get updated terms of references,
and  Working Methods of the Multi-stakeholders Team
concerning the e-science action line
( not yet on http://www.wsis-si.org/unesco.html,
since I waiting to UNESCO science divsion to have them posted )
These are very important procedural documents,
and it would be good to discuss the procedures concerning
the other action lines. This should a topic of discussion
of a bureau meeting.

Procedural issues are going to quite important in this
cluster week, specifically with ECOSOC, UNCTAD, UNESCO, ITU
with the new secretary general, to determine the
participation of Civil Society.

4/ It seems that we need to hold a Bureau Meeting in
Geneva in May to discuss about the reform of the Bureau,
or at the very least, fill the vacant seats for
various families in order to stay inclusive.
CONGO need to be confirmed as the executive secretariat
of the WSIS CS Bureau to be able to continue to negotiate
( they are doing a terrific job ) ) procedural issues
  for the sake of the whole CS ( not just with ECOSOC ).

5/ We might hold 2 Bureau meetings, one at the beginning
of the cluster week, Monday 14 or Tuesday 15,
to assess the current situation,
and let people start to discuss in Geneva and elsewhere, and one
at the end on Friday 25.

Do we ask families to send short reports as we
did for the CapeTown meeting in order to list the
active familie ?

We should start discussions on all those topics without delays.

Best regards

Francis


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Francis F. MUGUET  Ph.D
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