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Att <b>Civil Society Bureau</b><br>
c/c WSIS-GOV group<br>
c/c WSIS-finances group<br>
<br>
<i>Dear English-speaking friends<br>
<br>
There has been a recent intense mail exchange in French that<br>
is important to be conveyed, across the linguistic divide.<br>
<br>
The starting point is the original call from ACSIS translated below,<br>
then there was some facts finding supporting this call, and then lastly<br>
the address by Djilali to the CSB which has been sent to the CSB<br>
list only in French<br>
<br>
in chronological order, we have <br>
</i><i><br>
<b> - Original call from ACSIS ( translated in English )</b><br>
- Detailed fact finding ( Francis ) <br>
- Louis Pouzin message of support of WSIS-GOV to ACSIS<br>
</i><i>- <b>Djilali ( WSIS-Finance) call to the CSB<br>
</b></i><i>
- </i><i> further information and suggestion ( Francis )<br>
<br>
Most important messages are in <b>bold.<br>
</b><br>
Best <br>
<br>
Francis <br>
</i><i><br>
----------------------------<br>
</i><i></i><i><br>
</i><br>
<blockquote cite="mid:46F975B2.40109@ensta.fr" type="cite">
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NANA Delphine wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:102527.18470.qm@web26013.mail.ukl.yahoo.com"
type="cite">
<div><b><font face="comic sans ms" size="3"><strong>Bonjour Cher
Louis
Pouzin et tous</strong></font></b></div>
<div><b><font face="comic sans ms" size="3"><strong></strong></font> </b></div>
<div><b><font face="comic sans ms" size="3"><strong> Le temps
commence
à
se faire court. Je pense que nous devons commencer à développer les
stratégies pouvant nous permettre d'explorer toutes les possibilités
favorables pour atteindre RIO.</strong></font></b></div>
<div><b><font face="comic sans ms" size="3"><strong></strong></font> </b></div>
<div><b><font face="comic sans ms" size="3"><strong> Pour cela, je
suggère que la WSIS-GOV contacte le CSB, afin que ce dernier contacte
à son tour le sécrétariat de l'IGF et l'IUT pour la demande de
financement des PVD sur les fonds mis à la disposition par le Canada et
le Japon</strong></font></b></div>
<div><b><font face="comic sans ms" size="3"><strong></strong></font> </b></div>
<div><b><font face="comic sans ms" size="3"><strong>L'expérience du
passé m'ammène à vous demander de bien vouloir mettre un accent
particulier sur la cas de la Société Civile africaine, en ce qui
concerne sa participation à Rio.</strong></font></b></div>
<div><b><strong></strong> </b></div>
<div><b><strong><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Best regards</font></strong></b></div>
<div><font face="comic sans ms" size="3"><strong></strong></font><br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<font color="#33cc00" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Translation
of original ACSIS message and answer in English </font><br>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i><b>Hello Louis Pouzin
and
everybody <br>
<br>
Time is running short, I think that we must start to develop
strategies enabling us to explore all the favorable
possibilities to reach RIO. <br>
<br>
For that, I suggest that the WSIS-GOV contacts the CSB ( Civil Society
Bureau ), so that its contacts in turn <br>
the IGF secretariat and IUT to request financing for developing
countries with <br>
the funds
allocated by Canada and Japan <br>
<br>
Our past experience lead us to request to you to give a specific
attention on the case of the African Civil Society, <br>
with
regard to its participation in Rio.</b> <br>
<br>
</i></font></blockquote>
<br>
<i><br>
</i><i>
What is currently unfolding concerning Civil Society financing is of a
specific<br>
concern to this group. <br>
<br>
In short cf, infra for a detailed explanation), at least 100,000$ were
allocated exclusively <br>
for experts of developing by
Canada. In my opinion, there is much more money available, <br>
a part of the
89,000$ from Japan, and a part of the funds already allocated with the
IGF, <br>
but the secretariat publishes neither the amounts (contrary to
the WSIS practices )<br>
nor intentions of the donors. <br>
<br>
No effort was made
by the Secretariat to distribute those funds, <br>
whereas the meeting of
RIO will be held in a few weeks. <br>
It is not necessary to qualify such a lack of leadership, <br>
the facts are speaking for themselves.
<br>
<br>
It is suggested that the WSIS-Finance group joins<br>
with the WSIS-GOV group
(cf infra msg of Louis Pouzin) and <br>
conveys to the Civil Society Bureau the urgent request from ACSIS (cf
infra),<br>
which does
nothing else than follow <br>
the normal practice during the Geneva and
Tunis phases. <br>
<br>
Why in the follow-up phase, <br>
the process should
become "abnormal", non transparent and ineffective?
<br>
</i><br>
<i>Best regards<br>
<br>
Francis</i><br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:46F975B2.40109@ensta.fr" type="cite"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i> </i></font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">In my legal study ( <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wsis-gov.org/IGF/legal-igf.html">http://www.wsis-gov.org/IGF/legal-igf.html</a>
) it is noted that </font><br>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style=""><span
style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><font
face="Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif">Concerning </font><font
face="Nimbus Sans L"> </font></span></span></span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.intgovforum.org/funding.htm"><font
face="Nimbus Sans L">funding </font></a><span style=""><span
style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif"><span
style="font-style: normal;">of
the secretariat, the names of the generous donors are disclosed
but not the amount of the grants as it was the case for the ITU trust
fund for the WSIS. An amount of 200,000 US$ is mentioned by Dr.
Milton Mueller ( see reference V ) in those terms :</span><i> </i></font><i><font
size="3"><font face="Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif"><font color="#222222">It's
clear that if the results of WSIS did not signal overall acceptance
of ICANN's legitimacy and current structure by the intergovernmental
system, the initial results of the Forum's MAG selection do. One
cannot avoid mentioning in this context the $200,000 contribution
ICANN made to the Forum. That probably didn't hurt.<br>
<br>
</font></font></font></i><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
size="3"><font color="#222222">Currently the
URL list is </font></font></span></span></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://intgovforum.org/funding.htm">http://intgovforum.org/funding.htm</a></font><br>
<p><i><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#3333ff"><b>Funding
</b>:The Secretariat's activities are funded
through extra-budgetary contributions paid into a multi-donor Trust
Fund administered by the United Nations. Contributions from all
stakeholders are welcome. <b>One objective of the fund is also to
facilitate attendance of developing county participants.</b></font><br>
</font></i></p>
<p class="normal21"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">one
must
notice that is not the only objective, and <b>not even the main
objective.</b>..!<br>
</font><br>
</p>
<p class="normal21"><font color="#3333ff"><i><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The following donors have made
contributions to
the Trust Fund :</font></i></font></p>
<p class="normal21"><font color="#3333ff"><i><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">- Swiss Agency for Development and
Cooperation (<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.sdc.admin.ch/">SDC</a>)<br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.minez.nl/content.jsp?objectid=21438">Ministry of
Economic Affairs of The Netherlands</a><br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.dep.no/ud/engelsk/">
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Norway</a><br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.dti.gov.uk/index.html">Department
for Business,
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform</a>, United Kingdom.<br>
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.icann.org/"
target="_blank">ICANN</a>)<br>
- Number Resource Organization (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nro.net/">NRO</a>) <br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.nominet.org.uk/">Nominet
UK </a><br>
<span class="normal21" style="">- The Swiss Education & Research
Network (<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.switch.ch/"
target="_blank">SWITCH</a>) <br>
- The Internet
Society</span> (<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.isoc.org">ISOC</a>)
<br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.afilias.info/gateway/index_html" target="_blank">Afilias</a>
Global Registry Services<br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.nic.at/">Nic.at</a> The
Austrian Registry<br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.norid.no/">UNINETT</a>
Norid
AS<br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.cctld.ru/">Coordination
Center for TLD RU</a><br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.auda.org.au/">auDA</a>
Australia's Domain Name Administrator <br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.siemens.com/index.jsp"
target="_blank">Siemens</a>
Aktiengesellschaft - Communications <br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://nikkeidigitalcore.jp/">NIKKEI
DIGITAL CORE</a><br>
</font></i></font> </p>
<p class="normal21"><font color="#3333ff"><i><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Pledges to the Trust Fund have
been made by:<br>
- European Union (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm" target="_blank">EU</a>)<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://foundation.verizon.com/">Verizon
Foundation</a></font></i></font> </p>
<p class="normal21"><font color="#3333ff"><i><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span class="normal21">In-kind
contributions have been received by:</span><br>
- The United Nations Bureau in Geneva (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.unog.ch/" target="_blank">UNOG</a>)<br>
- Agence Intergouvernementale de la
Francophonie- Institut Francophone des Nouvelles Technologies de
l'Information et de la Formation (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://intif.francophonie.org/">INTIF</a>)<br>
</font></i></font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
23 may 2007 :<br>
<i><font color="#3333ff"><br>
<b>Canada</b> is taking concrete action to try to make that happen.
I
am<br>
pleased to say that we have been able to place <b>$100,000</b> with
the <b>ITU</b> to provide<br>
<b>fellowships to experts from developing countries</b> to
participate
in the Rio<br>
meeting. We firmly believe that our dialogue will be enhanced by the<br>
participation of developing country experts in the discussions in Rio.
We also<br>
see this as a positive way of encouraging the ITU and the IGF to
cooperate in a<br>
very real way.</font> <br>
</i><br>
<br>
in addition at the last consultation meeting on September 03<br>
<br>
<i><font color="#3333ff">we are pleased to announce that<br>
<b>Japan </b>will enhance its support to the IGF and the Secretariat
by contributing<br>
10 million yen or about <b>$87,000 U.S. dollars </b>at a recent
exchange rate for the<br>
future facilitation of preparation process of IGF, as well as capacity<br>
building, such as </font><b><font color="#3333ff">fellowship programs
for developing countries.</font></b></i><b><br>
</b><br>
There are several questions that are coming immediately to the mind :<br>
1/ Why the amounts of money given is not disclosed by the IGF
secretariat ?<br>
It is the first rule of <b>transparency.</b> <br>
During the WSIS, all the amounts given to ITU were proudly disclosed by
ITU.<br>
Why the WSIS best practices are not longer followed, in what is still<br>
a WSIS process ?<br>
<br>
2/ What the secretariat is doing is all this money ?.<br>
The salary of Desai is paid by the UN, the salary of Kumer,is taking<br>
care, indirectly by the Swiss government, <br>
so far I understood they do not pay rent <br>
There are at most of couple of interns, and the fees of consultants.<br>
The list of consultants is not disclosed, Only Avri Doria<br>
( Chair of the ICANN GNSO ) has disclosed on<br>
the ICANN site that she is a IGF consultant. She is helping preparing<br>
the synthesis papers, so far it is known. <br>
Is it not an undue influence to have an ICANN official <br>
as a secretariat consultant ? The question is open ?.<br>
<br>
3/ The secretariat claims it has no money to pay for translators.<br>
Has the IGF secretariat has to pay for conferences rooms at ITU<br>
or at Palais des Nations. ? <br>
If true, it would be fair that ITU should waive those renting fees.<br>
Concerning translators during consultations, <br>
the IGF may rely on much cheaper<br>
volunteers provided by ICV, as this was done occasionally during<br>
WSIS. The proposal of the "distributed multi-stakeholder"<br>
secretariat was welcome with silence....<br>
These are topics that must be revisited later in details.<br>
<br>
It is too late to make operational savings in time for RIO, so lets go
back<br>
to funding schemes.<br>
<br>
Some stakeholders groupings obviously are not enthusiastic about<br>
those institutionalized funding schemes that could give political
independence <br>
to CS speakers with limited financial capability, because theses
groupings <br>
operates through the power of selecting cronies <br>
through financing</font>.<br>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The now defunct dynamic
coalition on IGF funding created in Athens turned <br>
to be a sad and indecent joke.<br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The secretariat has
not made any call for fellowships, <br>
The IGF secretariat is under-staffed to process such a call, anyway and
<br>
It has not done so in Athens.<br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
So now, as advocated by the African Civil Society, represented by ACSIS<br>
<br>
( by the way, it is a remarkable achievement that the whole African
Civil Society<br>
is represented under one umbrella organization such as ACSIS, in no
other<br>
region, such a feat has been accomplished )<br>
<br>
it is time to revert to the field-proven WSIS best practices.<br>
During the WSIS summits phases, ITU was transferring funds<br>
to the executive secretariat of the Civil Society Bureau that<br>
was then distributing financial support to CS members. <br>
Since phase II, the CSB executive secretariat is currently hold by
CONGO <br>
( <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ngocongo.org">http://ngocongo.org</a> founded in 1948 )<br>
which has done this job with full accountability. <br>
In fact CONGO is better equipped in terms of staff,<br>
and accounting experience than the IGF secretariat <br>
to manage financial distribution, avoiding the<br>
conflict of interests between financing fellowships and the<br>
secretariat operations. <br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
It is interesting to underline that the <b>100,000$ </b>provided by
Canada shall not<br>
be used for the secretariat expenses, but <b>only for fellowships</b>,
<br>
and as well as a substantial part of the $87,000 provided by Japan.<br>
<br>
For the rest of the funding, and I guess the major part, <br>
the rule of silence prevails so far, and we do not know the intent of
the donors.<br>
The WSIS-GOV group should contact the donors so that their amounts<br>
and their intent be publicly known. <br>
<br>
It seems logical that financial supports should be requested first <br>
for the WSIS-GOV speaker nominees ( whose list has just been proposed )<br>
coming from developing countries. <br>
As lower priority, financing could also be given,<br>
on a case by case basis, with full transparency, to the "poor in rich
countries",<br>
( often the best allies with the developing countries ). <br>
<br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Indeed at least for
the contribution of Canada in an escrow account at ITU, <br>
the CSB could interface directly at the operational level with the ITU,<br>
as done during WSIS,<br>
after agreement by the advisory group co-chairmen, since it<br>
is reasonable to expect that this kind of decision should be handled <br>
at a higher level than at the level of<br>
a supposedly purely clerical secretariat. <br>
<br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Therefore the
strategy
advocated by ACSIS seems fully justified, and<br>
it seems the only way left for African Civil society to obtain<br>
independent funding at this stage.<br>
<br>
The floor is open for discussions and suggestions. <br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
<br>
Francis<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</font></blockquote>
<br>
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<th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">Subject: </th>
<td>[Gov 71] Stratégie à développer</td>
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<th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">Date: </th>
<td>Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:55:17 +0200 (MEST)</td>
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<th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">From: </th>
<td>Louis Pouzin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:pouzin@well.com"><pouzin@well.com></a></td>
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<th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">Reply-To: </th>
<td>WSIS CS WG on Information Networks Governance <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gov@wsis-gov.org"><gov@wsis-gov.org></a></td>
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<th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">To: </th>
<td>NANA Delphine <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:delynana2002@yahoo.fr"><delynana2002@yahoo.fr></a></td>
</tr>
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<th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">CC: </th>
<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:gov@wsis-gov.org">gov@wsis-gov.org</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<br>
<pre>Chère Delphine,
<b>
La procédure que tu as proposée n'a soulevé aucune objection du groupe WSIS-GOV. Il y a donc un clair consensus pour la mettre en pratique. Je vais contacter le CSB pour la prise en compte de nos besoins de financement.
The procedure you have proposed did not raise any objection from the WSIS-GOV group. Hence, there is a clear consensus for its implementation. I shall contact the CSB for taking in account our funding needs.
</b>
Bien cordialement
Louis Pouzin
Président WSIS-GOV
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:41:06 +0200 (CEST), NANA Delphine wrote:
> Le temps commence à se faire court. Je pense que nous devons commencer à développer les stratégies pouvant nous permettre d'explorer toutes les possibilités favorables pour atteindre RIO.
> Pour cela, je suggère que la WSIS-GOV contacte le CSB, afin que ce dernier contacte à son tour le sécrétariat de l'IGF et l'IUT pour la demande de financement des PVD sur les fonds mis à la disposition par le Canada et le Japon
> L'expérience du passé m'ammène à vous demander de bien vouloir mettre un accent particulier sur la cas de la Société Civile africaine, en ce qui concerne sa participation à Rio.
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<i><br>
Translated from French</i><br>
<br>
<b>
Dijlali address to the CSB members <br>
</b>
<pre><b>No translation in English, English-speaking people that are
interested will have to make the same effort as French-speaking
people are enduring when they are reading their messages!
(<i> NdT : I translated it anyway</i> <span class="moz-smiley-s3"><span> ;-) </span></span>)
Dear colleagues and friends who survived to the WSIS process
I am making you a copy of a message sent on the wsis-finance list
that I coordinate, an alarm call about the unorthodox intrigues
and lack of transparency of the collectors and distributors of resources
intended to facilitate the participation of the African Civil Society
for Rio.
--------------------
Dear members of the wsis-finance Group
Many messages have just circulated to draw attention
to the opacity which surrounds the odd practices concerning
resources mobilization as well as the conditions of allowance
of those resources intended in whole or in part
for the financing of the participation to Rio
of African Civil Society representatives
Dear friends
In those messages, it is indicated that twenty or so
donors would have made contributions,
while the public is neither allowed
to know the true amount of those contributions,
nor the way in which these sums are allowable or have been already allocated,
nor to whom and according to which criteria ?
It is also learned that ACSIS,
supposed to promote the qualitative and quantitative participation
of the African civil Society representation,
has not been involved, neither distantly nor closely; with the
operation of an equitable distribution of collected sums.
One can only be astonished by the discretion which surrounds
this bad governance, on the IGF Secretariat level as well as the
Civil Society Bureau, in so far as this Bureau still has an
existence, a functionality and a legitimacy to accompany
the post WSIS process.
</b></pre>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><big><b>I solemnly invite the
members of the Civil Society Bureau</b><br>
<b>to react if they want to prove that the Civil Society is still alive,</b><br>
<b>and that Civil Society intends to play a role in the future.</b><br>
<b>What is occurring now, concerning Civil Society financing,</b><br>
<b>is of particular interest to us. </b><br>
<b>Our silence might be considered as complacency, even as</b><br>
<b>complicity with an IGF Secretariat which cannot be</b><br>
<b>distinguished neither for its transparency </b><br>
<b>nor for the effectiveness of certain acts that it poses. </b><br>
<b>With these facts, we witness a democracy and transparency deficit </b><br>
<b>and we might move significantly backward in comparison with</b><br>
<b> to meager progress which we obtained </b><br>
<b>at the time of the preparatory phases and </b><br>
</big><b><big>the WSIS Summit meetings in Geneva and Tunis.</big> </b></font>
<pre><b>
Friendly yours
Djilali
"""""""""
And to the effect that my message be more explicit,
I would like to refer to a previous
<i>( NdT from another thread elsewhere ) </i>
message from our friend Muguet and to support
his suggestion that the recipients of
collected resources should be only acknowledged stakeholders of
the WSIS, the follow-up and implementation process, that
cannot come to Rio, without this financial assistance.
It is necessary to exclude from this (recipient) list those
who benefit already from supports to participate, and all those
who, in any case, will be in Rio, with the
hope to carry out an advantageous financial transaction.
In any case, ACSIS should be associated, if not be the leader,
within the allocation process,
on a transparent basis and with verifiable criteria.
Djilali Benamrane:
</b>
Djilali Benamrane : <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:dbenamrane@yahoo.com">dbenamrane@yahoo.com</a>
Tel/fax : (227) 75 35 09 BP 11207 - Niamey - Niger
Tél/Fax : (331) 01 45 39 77 02 Paris - France
Page web sur le Sommet Mondial sur la Societe de l'Information (WSIS)
(mecanismes de financement) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wsis-finance.org">http://www.wsis-finance.org</a>
et groupe de discussion : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/">http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/</a>
Page web sur l'Afrique et la globalisation : <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/">http://www.multimania.com/djilalibenamrane/</a>
Groupe de discussion: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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</i><i>Translated from French<br>
<br>
</i>Good evening
<br>
<br>
I fully associate myself with the emotion of Djilalali (representative
of the
Group Finances at the Bureau), <br>
and with the request of Delphine
(representative of ACSIS and the African Regional Family at this
Bureau).
<br>
<br>
(for information, for those which are not familiar with the WSIS
structure, the URL of the Bureau <br>
is <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://csbureau.info">http://csbureau.info</a>,
and the Bureau plays only one procedural part,
it is not a Polit Buro! )<br>
<br>
As an exchange of messages is mentioned, it appears useful that
it should be quoted (see below) <br>
for those which are not in the lists in
c/c.
<br>
<br>
It is expected that the Education & Research Family <br>
<font color="#3366ff"><font color="#000000">represented at
the Bureau, in part by me, </font></font>would support the request of
the
African regional family.<br>
<br>
In addition, I convey the message of a total support to ACSIS
request, on behalf of Louis Pouzin,
<br>
president of the new WSIS Working group, of the Civil Society,on
Information Governance (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wsis-gov.org">http://wsis-gov.org</a>), <br>
whose mailing list now
exceeds hundred members, and where Delphine launched the ACSIS first
call.<br>
The WSIS-GOV Group was established with an aim of clearly
differentiating
the Civil Society <br>
from the "Commintern" (the Community of the
Internet) a technico-industrial complex that<br>
uses sophisticated
techniques of lobbying, by using proxies, by practicing the law
of silence, <br>
and by diverting shamelesslly the fondamuntal values of Civil Society
which are the transparency and inclusion.
<br>
<br>
They do not wish that the Internet Governance Forum should lead
to any other thing than wordy discussions <br>
Of course, an inclusive
participation, which would be more demanding in terms of results, <br>
and
which might results on positions and recommendations is not their
priority....
<br>
<br>
CONGO, the executive secretariat of the Bureau, continues to
play a pivot part for information sharing, <br>
and
interface with the complex processes of the CSTD and the UN-GAID,<br>
helping all civil Society, and not only thoses accredited to ECOSOC. <br>
One can say that without CONGO, this complex process would have been
confiscated <br>
by one or two large ONGs, very
well financed, and allied with Commintern.
<br>
<br>
Answering to the poignant call of Djilali, it is time for the Bureau, <br>
that suffered several attempts to be bogged down, <br>
begins again fully and proudly
its role of facilitator for an inclusive participation of all,
and specifically from LDCs, <br>
and in particular of Africa.
<br>
<br>
In front of the amazing inefficiency and the non-transparency of the
secretariat of the FGI, <br>
it would be appropriate that CONGO, as executive secretariat of the
Civil Society Bureau, <br>
to <br>
1/ request from the IGF
Secretariat to provide the amount of the sums
available <br>
to allow an inclusive participation of Civil Society, in
particular that from the develloping and transition countries <br>
and if the IGF does not
want, or cannot allocate them, then the Bureau should take care of
those funds, <br>
<br>
2
for the funds given in trust fund with the ITU or
elsewhere, to follow the best practices of the WSIS, and <br>
thus to
provide to the ITU, the list of the Civil Society stakeholders that
should <br>
benefit from financial supports in order to take part to the Forum of
Rio.
<br>
<br>
It is proposed that the list of the potential recipients be drawn with
the <br>
the lists of the plenary speakers nominated, <br>
on one hand by the Internet Governance Caucus, <br>
and
on the other hand by the <font class="Head_Blue1XL">WSIS Civil
Society Working Group on Information Networks Governance.</font><br>
In priority nationals from LDCs and if
the level of funding allows it; nationals from countries of transition,
<br>
and then from industrialized countries.
<br>
Like Djilali mentioned it, this list of the potential recipiens
should include only stakeholders<br>
who could not come to Rio,
without this help, <br>
The goal is not to allow some,
already well financed , and which in any case will come to Rio, <br>
to make
an advantageous financial transaction, <br>
but to allow stakeholders who
did not find yet any other financial resource to be able to come. <br>
<br>
It is kindly requested from CONGO to ask for the list of funds given
in trust to the IUT, <br>
with the possible instructions of the donors,
and to provide the IUT with the list <br>
potential recipients.
<br>
It is kindlu requested from CONGO to contact and ask the donors listed
on
the IGF site to disclose <br>
the amount of their donations and their
instructions, <br>
and to commence all appropriate procedures with transparent donors, as
expeditiously as possible.
<br>
<br>
Among the funds given in trust with the IUT, there are <b>100,000$ </b>from
Canada, <br>
earmarked for the exclusive attention of experts from developing
countries, <br>
It is kindly requested from CONGO to contact
in priority representatives of Canada, <br>
with a list of potential recepients coming from LDCs, <br>
ASAP in order to
facilitate fund transfer to recipients, <br>
while it remains <b>only 4 weeks before Rio.
</b><br>
<br>
It is also kindly requested from CONGO to contact, Japan, one
transparent donor which <br>
made a public annoucement of its donation, and instructions.<br>
<br>
As it is rather obvious that a suspicion of influence trough money <br>
would still pervade upon the <b>non-transparent donors</b>.<br>
In the very unlikely case of a non-transparent financial management and
complete disclosure<br>
by the IGF the secretariat, it will be reluctantly forced upon us <br>
to
envisage that the Civil Society Bureau should require accounts <br>
from the Secretary General
of the United Nations, and possibly an audit. <br>
But one can hope that
Civil Society will not have to go up to this point.<br>
It is undoubtedly, only a momentary insufficiency which has lasted for
two years.
<br>
<br>
In conclusion, it is very sad to get to this point, <br>
but
no one should yield to discouragement and despair,<br>
because it is precisely the hidden agenda.
<br>
<br>
Friendly yours<br>
<br>
Francis<br>
<i><br>
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