[n_america] Re: Virtual Link: WSIS CS meetings, Berlin, Seattle and Freistadt, 13 June

Sat May 15 10:59:48 BST 2004

Hi Everyone,

(If I'm the Michael/MG being referred to below), 

I'm a bit confused, but planning for events and so on at the CTCnet
should probably at this point exclude me or my connection to CTCnet as
it looks now that I'll be leaving my activities there to colleagues.

Best,

MG

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Carvin [mailto:ACarvin at edc.org] 
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:07 AM
To: Amali De Silva
Cc: 'Andy Carvin'; bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de; dcogburn at umich.edu;
mgurst at vcn.bc.ca; 'northamericalist'; rguerra at cpsr.org
Subject: RE: [n_america] Re: Virtual Link: WSIS CS meetings, Berlin,
Seattle and Freistadt, 13 June

 Hi Amali,

I don't understand; Michael is referring to my email about our meeting
at CTCNet in Seattle. The details, as they stand now, are further down
in the same email; see below.

ac
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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
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      Subject:    RE: [n_america] Re: Virtual Link: WSIS CS meetings,
Berlin, Seattle and Freistadt,  13 June
Amali De Silva <amalidesilva at yahoo.com>

05/14/2004 08:19 PM MST
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Andy - I assume that you know who MG is making reference to / birds of a
feather meetings ? and that you will enlighten us on the dates / times /
venues closer to the date of the conference.

thank you !

Amali De Silva - Mitchell
President Vancouver Community Network, Canada.

Michael Gurstein <mgurst at vcn.bc.ca> wrote:
It looks now that I'll be in Africa at that time.. the session I was
going to be co-organizing at the conference will be done by my colleague

Good luck with it.

MG
-----Original Message-----
From: Amali De Silva [mailto:amalidesilva at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 4:46 PM
To: Andy Carvin
Cc: AndyCarvin; amalidesilva at yahoo.com; bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de;
dcogburn at umich.edu; mgurst at vcn.bc.ca; northamericalist; rguerra at cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [n_america] Re: Virtual Link: WSIS CS meetings, Berlin,
Seattle and Freistadt, 13 June

Sounds good to me ! thank you !

Sorry for the delay in replying was attending information sessions on
the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Thank you again!

Amali

Andy Carvin <ACarvin at edc.org> wrote:

Then we should plan to do this:

late afternoon on Saturday, June 12: North America civil society meeting
during the CTCNet conference's "birds of a feather" session, where
anyone can schedule an informal roundtable meeting. I'll inform CTCNet
of our intentions to do this, and will confirm the time. The location of
the meeting will probably not be known until the final program comes
out, but it'll be somewhere in the main conference area. For more info
on attending the conference, please visit www.ctcnet.org and click on
their annual conference link. Derrick will work out an agenda for the
gathering, which will last an hour. (assuming that's the length of this
years birds of a feather sessions.)

Morning of Sunday, June 13: a subset of us will go online to meet with
the Berlin group. The technology used for this particular meeting has
yet to be determined. Ralf, please let us know what time you would like
to meet that Sunday.
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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
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To: AndyCarvin , bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de, dcogburn at umich.edu,
northamericalist
cc: mgurst at vcn.bc.ca, rguerra at cpsr.org, amalidesilva at yahoo.com
bcc:
Subject: Re: Virtual Link: WSIS CS meetings, Berlin, Seattle and
Freistadt, 13 June Amali De Silva

04/29/2004 10:12 AM MST

I was hoping that we would all meet (NA caucus) for a discussion before
the meeting with Berlin - otherwise what would be said in the
cross-continent dialogue ( we need some consensus) ? Also, we  need to
look at our structure / reporting / advocacy strategies going in to
Phase 2. These would actually be somewhat different from the EU side.

However, Andy if you think that this is over kill then what we can do is
just set the time with Ralf. Please make sure though that you do post
the information to the list for all of us on the NA caucus who want to
be present, to be present.

The conference does not represent the NA caucus I just want to be clear
on that. The NA caucus are those who are on our list. There is always a
problem with WSIS CS on the legitimacy of those who represent the whole.
We do want to ensure transparency and inclusivity.

So, to move forward:

Andy - please set up a 1 hour teleconference with Berlin for the day and
inform us of the time and location. Please post the "birds of a feather"
activities to the NA caucus list so that people can attend.

Derrick - if you have done work on a full agenda - those of us who are
interested can meet virtually to discuss before June 13th or post it to
the NA  list for discussion as soon as possible. We have a good 6 weeks
to have a good discussion.

I post this to the NA list as people have approached me for status on
this activity.

Thank you all for making this happen !

Amali

AndyCarvin wrote:
I'm a little unclear if we are to have one meeting or two - are we
meeting as a group at ctcnet, then going online to report to the Berlin
group, or are we doing it all at once? As Ralf said, the former might be
easiest.

If that's the case, I propose the NA folks meet late saturday afternoon
as one of the conference birds of a feather sessions, then a subgroup of
us can go online sunday morning seattle time to report to the berlin
group.

would that be good? If so I will finalize both meeting times with ctcnet
and ralf, then we can post invitations to the list.

Andy

Amali De Silva-Mitchell  AAT,BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE

Tel: 1-604-736-9012 & Email: amalidesilva at yahoo.com

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Amali De Silva-Mitchell  AAT,BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE

Tel: 1-604-736-9012 & Email: amalidesilva at yahoo.com

Amali De Silva-Mitchell  AAT,BSc.(Econ)Warwick,MSc.(Int.Acc/Fin)LSE

Tel: 1-604-736-9012 & Email: amalidesilva at yahoo.com