[Media Caucus] Fwd: Informal WSIS meeting in Tunis

[KM Shrivastava]

Kindly indicate the date clearly for the informal
meeting and attach a copy of invitation as I do not
find that attacment with this mail.
K.M.Shrivastava
Professor
Indian Institute of Mass Communication
E-mail : kmsiimc at yahoo.com
--- arne <arne at my-mail.ch> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Von: Tracey Naughton <t.naughton at iafrica.com>
> > Datum: Do, 12. Feb 2004  15:55:45 Europe/Berlin
> > An: <media-admin at wsis-cs.org>
> > Betreff: Informal WSIS meeting in Tunis
> >
> > Hello Again
> >
> > I have received an invitation from the Tunisian
> organisers of the 
> > second
> > phase of WSIS to attend a gathering there, to
> shape the process and 
> > agenda.
> > Clearly things are moving ahead at a pace. It is
> becoming a problem 
> > that I
> > don't have the resources to attend these meetings.
> In any event I feel 
> > we
> > have to meet as a caucus to look at membership and
> priorities, indeed 
> > at the
> > very matter of the media in Tunisia. I also feel
> that we should 
> > participate
> > in the Tunisia meeting. Any ideas as to how we can
> achieve this?
> >
> > I am pasting in below the original invitation and
> some follow up notes 
> > from
> > Charles Geiger Assistant Executive Director WSIS
> that were made to the 
> > CSB
> > list. At least you will then have this
> information.
> >
> > I look forward to hearing from you.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Tracey Naughton
> > Media Caucus Chair
> >
> > Feb. 11th:
> >> Dear members of the Civil Society Bureau
> >>
> >> Please find attached an invitation letter, signed
> by the Minister for
> >> Communication Technology and Transport, Republic
> of Tunisia, and by 
> >> the
> >> Secretary General of the ITU, to an informal
> brainstorming meeting at
> >> Tunis.
> >>
> >> Please note that this meeting is not a part of
> the official 
> >> preparatory
> >> process. The idea of the organizers is to bring
> together a group or
> >> persons which has been actively involved in the
> process of phase I of
> >> WSIS. In order not to make an arbitrary selection
> of persons, the
> >> organizers did choose to invite the members of
> the different bureaus 
> >> as
> >> well as the members of the HLSOC in their
> personal capacity. With 
> >> regard
> >> to the CSB, one member of each family is invited.
> >>
> >> The organizers will pay the costs of
> accommodation at Tunis (only
> >> telephone charges and alcoholic beverages are
> charged to 
> >> participants).
> >> Travel costs have to be paid by the participants
> (there is a rebate in
> >> case you use Tunisair). As the meeting has an
> informal character and 
> >> the
> >> invitation is restricted, we regret to inform you
> that no fellowships 
> >> from
> >> the ITU WSIS trust fund are available.
> >>
> >> With best regards
> >>
> >> Charles Geiger
> >> Assistant Executive Director
> >>
> >
> >
> > Dear members of the CSB
> >
> > I would like to update you on some recent events
> in the Executive
> > Secretariat (ES), and also answer the questions of
> Amir Barmaki and 
> > Roberto
> > Guerra.
> >
> > As you may have heard, the funding from the Canton
> of Geneva for the
> > Foundation du Devenir, which was running the civil
> society division in 
> > our
> > ES, has come to an end. The ES, as a whole,
> continues to exist, but 
> > with
> > less personnel than before. We may get some new
> colleagues into the ES,
> > which could be dealing with civil society liaison
> and accreditation 
> > matters.
> > We will inform you as soon as this becomes
> reality. For the time 
> > being, we
> > will inform the CSB members directly and as a
> whole.
> >
> > As you know, WSIS is a Summit in two parts. All
> Rules and Arrangements
> > decided by Governments for the first part of WSIS
> continue to be valid
> > during the second part. This includes Arrangements
> for accreditation 
> > and
> > participation. All entities from civil society and
> business who got
> > accreditation during the first part of the Summit
> remain accredited 
> > for the
> > second part of the Summit. Accreditation is an
> ongoing process, and we 
> > will
> > prepare for each PrepCom of phase 2 a new list of
> civil society and 
> > business
> > entities having requested accreditation, for
> approval by the 
> > Governments.
> >
> > Accreditation of civil society during the first
> part of the Summit was 
> > done
> > on the website of the Civil Society Division /
> Foundation du Devenir 
> > (FDD)
> > www.geneva2003.org , which was not the official
> WSIS website. As the 
> > FDD is
> > outgoing, this website will not be updated
> anymore, and we do not have 
> > the
> > capacity to manage the electronic registration
> they installed on their
> > website. Therefore, new accreditation requests,
> from now on, have to 
> > be sent
> > to the Executive Secretariat electronically or by
> fax / normal mail, 
> > and the
> > respective forms are available on our WSIS website
> at
> >
>
http://www.itu.int/wsis/participation/accreditation/cs.html
>  .
> >
> > Let me now turn to the invitation of Tunisia:
> >
> > The host country of the second phase has invited
> the members of the 
> > three
> > Bureaus (Intergovernmental Bureau of the PrepCom,
> Civil Society Bureau,
> > Consultative Committee of Business interlocutors)
> as well as the focal 
> > point
> > members of the HLSOC (High Level Summit Organizing
> Committee, 
> > basically the
> > interested UN Agencies) to a informal
> brainstorming meeting at Tunis. 
> > This
> > meeting is not part of the formal preparatory
> process.
> >
> > The meeting intends to kick-start the reflection
> process among all
> > stakeholders on what should be the value added of
> phase 2 of WSIS. As 
> > you
> > know, agreed language was that phase 1 would end
> with a Declaration 
> > and a
> > Plan of Action (and it did!), and phase 2 would
> focus 
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