From wsis at ngocongo.org  Fri Nov  2 17:08:12 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Fri Nov  2 17:07:41 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Up dates on the situation of ICTRC - Dr. Sohrab
	Razzaghi arrested
Message-ID: <200711021707.lA2H7O77008794@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

This is for a brief up date regarding the closure of the offices and
training centres of the Iranian NGO ICTRC in Tehran. 

I've been informed a few days ago that Dr. Sohrab Razzaghi, Executive
Director of the ICTRC, has been arrested. He has apparently been transferred
to the Evin Prison.

Members of the ICTRC team are also being interrogated these days in Tehran.

 

The judiciary has apparently not circulated motivations for the closure of
the ICTRC and the arrest of Dr. Razzaghi. 

 

A number of NGOs are now organising quick pressure and seeking international
attention. 

See for example at http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/1199 and in Farsi
http://freesohrab.wordpress.com <http://freesohrab.wordpress.com/> . 

 

We'll keep you updated. 

Best regards, 

 

Ph

 

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> wsis@ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> 

 

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From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Fri Nov  2 17:42:44 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: [GAID Steering] Renewal of Membership in the
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From sophie.toupin at si.amarc.org  Fri Nov  2 21:43:43 2007
From: sophie.toupin at si.amarc.org (Sophie)
Date: Sun Nov  4 09:31:11 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [Amarc-info] 16 days Campaign - 16 jours
	d'activisme
Message-ID: <472B9A0F.3060802@si.amarc.org>

Le fran?ais suit 

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Contribute to AMARC-WIN 16 days broadcast against gender violence!

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>From November 25 to December 10th, the Women's International Network of the World Association of Community Radio 
Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN) will highlight the 16 days of activism against gender violence with a second Annual 
Internet campaign.  This year, the theme of the broadcast will be: *Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles: 
End Violence against Women*. The campaign will be broadcasted at www.amarc.org/16days <http://www.amarc.org/16days>**

International human rights treaties and declarations created within the 
United Nations that address violence against women and require States to 
take action include the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of 
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, 1979), Declaration on the 
Elimination of Violence Against Women (DEVAW, 1993), Beijing Declaration 
and Platform for Action (1995), Statute of the International Criminal 
Court (Rome Statute, 1998), Millennium Declaration (2000) and Security 
Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and security, among others.

Community radio producers from Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, 
Europe, North America and Latin America and the Caribbean will dedicate 
these 16 days to highlight the effort of women and men working to put an 
end to gender violence. The programs featured will include 
documentaries, interviews, debates, poetry, music and much more.

This multilingual broadcast campaign mobilizes community radios around a global issue and encourages them to use new 
communication technologies such as the Internet to extend the reach of their voices.

Radio stations around the globe are invited to download the audio files from the AMARC-WIN 16 days website and broadcast 
them in their radio stations during the 16 days campaign which starts on November 25^th  and end on December 10th.

Share your radio programs; contribute to this year 16 days radio marathon. AMARC WIN is looking forward to your 
pre-recorded material that focuses on *Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles: End Violence against Women*.
 Material on other subjects will also be welcomed. The language, length and format of the audio programs are 
discretionary. Please send us your material in MP3, OGG or WAV format. For the broadcast on November 25^th  we
 need your material by November 20th, any material sent later will also be posted on the website throughout 
the campaign. For more information visit: www.amarc.org/16days <http://www.amarc.org/16days>.

The coordination of the 16 days campaign at the international level will be ensured by the International 
Secretariat of AMARC. Regionally, the campaign will be coordinated by the regional AMARC WIN representatives 
in conjunction with AMARC regional offices.

 

Asia-Pacific:

Bianca Miglioretto a bianca(at)isiswomen(point)org


Africa:

Doris D?ris a doris_dd(at)yahoo(dot)com

 

Europe:

Lucia Ruiz at lucia.ruiz(at)radiovallekas(dot)org

 

Latin America and the Carrebean :

Maru Chavez a mechf(at)hotmail(dot)com

 

MENA:

Tamara Aqrabewe at aqrabawe(@)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au  

 

International Secretariat:

Sophie Toupin at sophie(at)amarc(dot)org


AMARC is an international non-governmental organization serving the community radio movement, and linking more 
than 3,000 community radios in over 110 countries. AMARC aims to support, defend and promote the interests of 
community broadcasters through solidarity and international cooperation.

The AMARC Women's International Network is a large assembly of women communicators working to ensure women's 
right to communicate through and within the community radio movement.

 

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Participez ? la campagne des 16 jours d?activisme contre la violence faite aux femmes d?AMARC-RIF!

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Du 25 novembre au 10 d?cembre, le r?seau international des femmes de l'Association mondiale des radiodiffuseurs
communautaire (AMARC-RIF) c?l?brera les 16 jours d?activisme contre la violence faite aux femmes avec une radiodiffusion 
sur l?Internet et ce, pour une deuxi?me ann?e cons?cutive. Cette ann?e le th?me de la campagne est : Demander la mise 
en ?uvre, D?fier les obstacles : Finissons-en avec la violence faite aux femmes. La campagne sera radiodiffus?e sur 
l?Internet ? l?adresse suivante : www.amarc.org/16jours

Les trait?s, les d?clarations et les accords relatifs aux droits de 
l?homme, conclus par le biais des Nations Unies, qui traitent de la 
violence ? l??gard des femmes et font obligation aux Etats de prendre 
des mesures, englobent entre autres, la Convention sur l??limination de 
toutes les formes de discrimination ? l??gard des femmes (CEDAW, 1979), 
la D?claration sur l??limination de la violence ? l??gard des femmes 
(DEVAW, 1993), la D?claration et le Programme d?action de Beijing 
(1995), le Statut de la Cour p?nale internationale (Statut de Rome, 
1998), la D?claration du Mill?naire (2000) et la R?solution 1325 du 
Conseil de S?curit? sur les Femmes, la paix et la s?curit? (2000).

Les producteurs de radio communautaire d'Asie-Pacifique, du Moyen-Orient, d'Afrique, d'Europe, d'Am?rique du Nord et 
d'Am?rique latine et des Cara?bes consacreront ces 16 jours pour accentuer l'effort des femmes et des hommes qui 
travaillent pour mettre fin ? la violence faite aux femmes. Les programmes incluront des documentaires, des entrevues, 
des discussions, de la po?sie, de la musique et beaucoup plus.

Cette campagne radiophonique multilingue mobilise des radios communautaires de partout ? travers le monde autour d'un 
th?me pr?cis et les encourage ? employer les nouvelles technologies de communication telles que l'Internet pour prolonger
l'extension de leurs voix. 

Les stations de radio communautaire de partout sont invit?es ? t?l?charger les programmes audio vers?s sur le site Web 
de l'AMARC consacr? au 16 jours d?activisme et de les diffuser pendant toute la campagne.

Partagez vos programmes de radio et contribuez ? ce marathon radiophonique pour les 16 jours d?activisme. L'AMARC-RIF 
attend avec int?r?t votre mat?riel pr?-enregistr? portant sur le th?me suivant : Demander la mise en ?uvre, D?fier 
les obstacles : Finissons-en avec la violence faite aux femmes. Prenez note que le mat?riel audio portant sur d'autres 
sujets sera ?galement accept?. La langue, la longueur et le format des programmes audio sont ? la discr?tion des 
participantEs. Veuillez nous envoyer votre mat?riel dans le format MP3, OGG ou WAV. Pour l'?mission du 25 novembre 
pri?re de nous envoyer votre mat?riel avant le 21 novembre. Les programmes envoy?s apr?s le 21 novembre seront 
verser sur le site web de l?AMARC- RIF et mis en valeur durant toute la campagne. Pour plus d'information 
visitez: www.amarc.org/16jours <http://www.amarc.org/16jours>.

La coordination de la campagne internationale sera assur?e par le Secr?tariat International de l?AMARC. Au niveau 
r?gional la coordination de la campagne sera prise en charge par les repr?sentantes r?gionales de l?AMARC RIF qui
 seront appuy? par les bureaux r?gionaux.

 

Asie-Pacifique:

Bianca Miglioretto a bianca(arobas)isiswomen(point)org

 

Afrique:

Doris D?ris a doris_dd(arobas)yahoo(point)com

 

Europe:

Lucia Ruiz a lucia.ruiz(arobas)radiovallekas(point)org

 

Am?rique latine et les Cara?bes 

Maru Chavez a mechf(arobas)hotmail(point)com

  

Moyen-Orient et Maghreb:

Tamara Aqrabewe a aqrabawe(arobas)yahoo(point)com(point)au  

 

Secr?tariat international:

Sophie Toupin a sophie(arobas)amarc(point)org

 

AMARC est une organisation non-gouvernemental internationale servant le mouvement de la radio communautaire, et 
liant plus de 3.000 radios communautaires dans plus de 110 pays. AMARC vise ? soutenir, d?fendre et favoriser 
les int?r?ts des radiodiffuseurs communautaires par la solidarit? et la coop?ration internationale.

Le r?seau international des femmes de l'AMARC (AMARC-RIF) est une grande assembl?e de communicatrices travaillant 
de concert pour assurer le droit de la communication aux femmes  ? travers et ? l'int?rieur du mouvement de la
 radio communautaire.
_______________________________________________
Amarc-info mailing list
Amarc-info@lists.amarc.org
http://lists.amarc.org/mailman/listinfo/amarc-info
From wsis at ngocongo.org  Tue Nov  6 14:18:03 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Tue Nov  6 14:17:36 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CSTD Intersession Panel - 28-30/11/07
Message-ID: <200711061417.lA6EHFLQ026145@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

Find attached the very draft provisional programme of the Kuala Lumpur CSTD
intersession Panel. In accordance with the multi-year programme of work
adopted at the 10th session, the Panel will address:

            

-          Science, technology and engineering for innovation and
capacity-building in education and research;

 

-          Development-oriented policies for socio-economic inclusive
information society, including access, infrastructure and an enabling
environment (This is related to the WSIS follow up mandate of the CSTD).

 

On each of the two themes, the discussion will be based on the issue papers
prepared by the CSTD Secretariat - to be circulated shortly - and on one or
two presentations, followed by an interactive discussion. The outcomes of
this intersession panel will feed into the up coming 11th session of the
CSTD. See on the CSTD
<http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=2068&lang=1&m=13906&y
ear=2007&month=11>  website. 

We need to ensure that there would be good CS discussants participating in
this Panel and good CS contributions.

 

Let me remind you that an up-dated calendar of events related to post WSIS
is available at http://www.csbureau.info/posttunis.htm. 

 

More information soon. 

 

Best regards, 

 

Philippe

 

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> wsis@ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> 

 

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Date: Tue Nov  6 15:20:51 2007
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From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Tue Nov  6 18:05:49 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process
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From wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de  Tue Nov  6 19:43:55 2007
From: wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleinw=E4chter=2C_Wolfgang?=)
Date: Tue Nov  6 20:44:44 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS
 Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership
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Message-ID: <2DA93620FC07494C926D60C8E3C2F1A808DCDA@server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de>

I volonteer for the CS NomCom Pool.
 
w
 

________________________________

Von: CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org]
Gesendet: Di 06.11.2007 19:06
An: 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'; governance@lists.cpsr.org; gov@wsis-gov.org
Cc: 'CONGO - Philippe Dam'; rbloem@ngocongo.org
Betreff: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership



Dear all, 

 

This is to suggest that we go into CS self-nomination through a NomCom process for the membership of the GAID Strategy Council (reminder: see GAID Secretariat note attached). As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure might be open for rotation. Nomination are open until 30 November 2007, so that a CS self-nomination process should be finalized by that time (some flexibility might allow us to finish it in the early days of December). 

 

Please start volunteering to the NomCom according to the proposed guidelines below. I'll inform you about the webpage in which the names will be published. Depending on when the seeds for the randomization process in selecting NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more information about that very shortly), the various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, but the process could remain unchanged.

 

Selection of a CS Nomination Committee

The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS representatives, acting in their personal capacity and randomly selected among those who would volunteer. For the selection of 5 names to be random, we should try to have 5 times as many volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.

 

Volunteers for serving in the Nomination Committee should announce themselves no later than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS affiliation at wsis@ngocongo.org). The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published online.

 

The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21 November 2007. 

 

*          Members of the Nominations Committee will preferably have to demonstrate a long-standing engagement in the Information Society-related processes within the UN, in particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of civil society self-organised working processes.

*          Volunteering for the pool does NOT disqualify anyone from selection for the Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com (that is, if you are randomly selected) does. 

*          The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get a representative selection in the Nom Com. 

*          There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the Nomination Committee.

 

The Nomination Committee would start working on line fairly intensively on 21 November 2007 until 30 November 2005. Its work will be facilitated by a non voting facilitator (if nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).

 

If the number of volunteers to serve in the NomCom does not reach 25 persons by 19 November, we would have to consider that there is no interest among this group to go into a self-nomination process for the Steering Committee CS membership. We would leave it completely to the GAID Secretariat to identify such membership.

 

Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council

Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council is open to all representatives from civil society, including CS entities accredited to WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and all other CS actors interested in ICT for Development and involved in the UN development agenda towards achieving the MDGs.

 

Nominations (including self-nominations) and all relevant information must be sent to the NomCom facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 22:00 p.m. GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:

 

Name:
CS Affiliation(s):
Country:
Gender:
Age:
Biographical Statement:
Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:

 

The members of the NomCom will determine in due time their guidelines and criteria.

They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded to the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.

Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened to rotation, it is expected that the NomCom recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, to allow for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.

 

 

As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this CS self-nomination process and to make it successful.

Looking forward to reading you in this regard.

 

Best regards, 

 

Philippe

 

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail: wsis@ngocongo.org <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> 
Website: www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our website at www.ngocongo.org

 

From motamar at gmail.com  Tue Nov  6 22:50:21 2007
From: motamar at gmail.com (malik khan)
Date: Tue Nov  6 22:57:34 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS
	Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership
In-Reply-To: <2DA93620FC07494C926D60C8E3C2F1A808DCDA@server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
References: <200711061805.lA6I5RCn015077@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>
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Message-ID: <f22ffaa00711061450s36e1c3bbwe20207320f5c4ea7@mail.gmail.com>

 Dear All
Greetings
Beaware we have  some on spying on all of youNone of it is true . my bio
data was places alkl over the world to see . i was not given any
consideration on anyn of so called  candtency.,
Malik Khan


On 11/6/07, Kleinw?chter, Wolfgang <
wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:
>
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> Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
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> this message!
> _______________________________________
>
> I volonteer for the CS NomCom Pool.
>
> w
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> Von: CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org]
> Gesendet: Di 06.11.2007 19:06
> An: 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'; governance@lists.cpsr.org;
> gov@wsis-gov.org
> Cc: 'CONGO - Philippe Dam'; rbloem@ngocongo.org
> Betreff: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process
> for GAID Strategic Council membership
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> This is to suggest that we go into CS self-nomination through a NomCom
> process for the membership of the GAID Strategy Council (reminder: see GAID
> Secretariat note attached). As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure
> might be open for rotation. Nomination are open until 30 November 2007, so
> that a CS self-nomination process should be finalized by that time (some
> flexibility might allow us to finish it in the early days of December).
>
>
>
> Please start volunteering to the NomCom according to the proposed
> guidelines below. I'll inform you about the webpage in which the names will
> be published. Depending on when the seeds for the randomization process in
> selecting NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more information about
> that very shortly), the various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, but
> the process could remain unchanged.
>
>
>
> Selection of a CS Nomination Committee
>
> The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS representatives, acting in their
> personal capacity and randomly selected among those who would volunteer. For
> the selection of 5 names to be random, we should try to have 5 times as many
> volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.
>
>
>
> Volunteers for serving in the Nomination Committee should announce
> themselves no later than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS
> affiliation at wsis@ngocongo.org). The list of names of the volunteers,
> ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published
> online.
>
>
>
> The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21
> November 2007.
>
>
>
> *          Members of the Nominations Committee will preferably have to
> demonstrate a long-standing engagement in the Information Society-related
> processes within the UN, in particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of
> civil society self-organised working processes.
>
> *          Volunteering for the pool does NOT disqualify anyone from
> selection for the Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com (that is, if
> you are randomly selected) does.
>
> *          The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get
> a representative selection in the Nom Com.
>
> *          There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the
> Nomination Committee.
>
>
>
> The Nomination Committee would start working on line fairly intensively on
> 21 November 2007 until 30 November 2005. Its work will be facilitated by a
> non voting facilitator (if nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody
> objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).
>
>
>
> If the number of volunteers to serve in the NomCom does not reach 25
> persons by 19 November, we would have to consider that there is no interest
> among this group to go into a self-nomination process for the Steering
> Committee CS membership. We would leave it completely to the GAID
> Secretariat to identify such membership.
>
>
>
> Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council
>
> Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council is open to
> all representatives from civil society, including CS entities accredited to
> WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and all other CS actors interested in ICT for
> Development and involved in the UN development agenda towards achieving the
> MDGs.
>
>
>
> Nominations (including self-nominations) and all relevant information must
> be sent to the NomCom facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 22:00
> p.m. GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:
>
>
>
> Name:
> CS Affiliation(s):
> Country:
> Gender:
> Age:
> Biographical Statement:
> Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:
>
>
>
> The members of the NomCom will determine in due time their guidelines and
> criteria.
>
> They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded
> to the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.
>
> Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened to rotation, it is expected
> that the NomCom recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, to allow
> for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.
>
>
>
>
>
> As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this
> CS self-nomination process and to make it successful.
>
> Looking forward to reading you in this regard.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Philippe
>
>
>
> Philippe Dam
> CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail: wsis@ngocongo.org <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org>
> Website: www.ngocongo.org
>
>
>
> The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
> that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
> decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
> presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
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From: parminder at itforchange.net (Parminder)
Date: Wed Nov  7 07:18:03 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS
	Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership
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I do as well. Parminder 

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Dear all, 

 

This is to suggest that we go into CS self-nomination through a NomCom
process for the membership of the GAID Strategy Council (reminder: see GAID
Secretariat note attached). As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure
might be open for rotation. Nomination are open until 30 November 2007, so
that a CS self-nomination process should be finalized by that time (some
flexibility might allow us to finish it in the early days of December). 

 

Please start volunteering to the NomCom according to the proposed guidelines
below. I'll inform you about the webpage in which the names will be
published. Depending on when the seeds for the randomization process in
selecting NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more information about
that very shortly), the various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, but
the process could remain unchanged.

 

Selection of a CS Nomination Committee

The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS representatives, acting in their
personal capacity and randomly selected among those who would volunteer. For
the selection of 5 names to be random, we should try to have 5 times as many
volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.

 

Volunteers for serving in the Nomination Committee should announce
themselves no later than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS
affiliation at wsis@ngocongo.org). The list of names of the volunteers,
ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published
online.

 

The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21
November 2007. 

 

*          Members of the Nominations Committee will preferably have to
demonstrate a long-standing engagement in the Information Society-related
processes within the UN, in particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of
civil society self-organised working processes.

*          Volunteering for the pool does NOT disqualify anyone from
selection for the Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com (that is, if
you are randomly selected) does. 

*          The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get a
representative selection in the Nom Com. 

*          There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the
Nomination Committee.

 

The Nomination Committee would start working on line fairly intensively on
21 November 2007 until 30 November 2005. Its work will be facilitated by a
non voting facilitator (if nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody
objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).

 

If the number of volunteers to serve in the NomCom does not reach 25 persons
by 19 November, we would have to consider that there is no interest among
this group to go into a self-nomination process for the Steering Committee
CS membership. We would leave it completely to the GAID Secretariat to
identify such membership.

 

Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council

Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council is open to all
representatives from civil society, including CS entities accredited to
WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and all other CS actors interested in ICT for
Development and involved in the UN development agenda towards achieving the
MDGs.

 

Nominations (including self-nominations) and all relevant information must
be sent to the NomCom facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 22:00 p.m.
GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:

 

Name:
CS Affiliation(s):
Country:
Gender:
Age:
Biographical Statement:
Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:

 

The members of the NomCom will determine in due time their guidelines and
criteria.

They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded to
the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.

Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened to rotation, it is expected
that the NomCom recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, to allow
for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.

 

 

As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this CS
self-nomination process and to make it successful.

Looking forward to reading you in this regard.

 

Best regards, 

 

Philippe

 

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail: wsis@ngocongo.org <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org> 
Website: www.ngocongo.org 

 

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that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
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From ajp at glocom.ac.jp  Wed Nov  7 07:33:57 2007
From: ajp at glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Date: Wed Nov  7 07:36:02 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS 
	Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership
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I'll also volunteer for the nominating committee.

Adam Peake.  GLOCOM.




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>Gesendet: Di 06.11.2007 19:06
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>gov@wsis-gov.org
>Cc: 'CONGO - Philippe Dam'; rbloem@ngocongo.org
>Betreff: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process for
>GAID Strategic Council membership
>
>
>
>Dear all,
>
>
>
>This is to suggest that we go into CS self-nomination through a NomCom
>process for the membership of the GAID Strategy Council (reminder: see GAID
>Secretariat note attached). As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure
>might be open for rotation. Nomination are open until 30 November 2007, so
>that a CS self-nomination process should be finalized by that time (some
>flexibility might allow us to finish it in the early days of December).
>
>
>
>Please start volunteering to the NomCom according to the proposed guidelines
>below. I'll inform you about the webpage in which the names will be
>published. Depending on when the seeds for the randomization process in
>selecting NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more information about
>that very shortly), the various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, but
>the process could remain unchanged.
>
>
>
>Selection of a CS Nomination Committee
>
>The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS representatives, acting in their
>personal capacity and randomly selected among those who would volunteer. For
>the selection of 5 names to be random, we should try to have 5 times as many
>volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.
>
>
>
>Volunteers for serving in the Nomination Committee should announce
>themselves no later than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS
>affiliation at wsis@ngocongo.org). The list of names of the volunteers,
>ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published
>online.
>
>
>
>The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21
>November 2007.
>
>
>
>*          Members of the Nominations Committee will preferably have to
>demonstrate a long-standing engagement in the Information Society-related
>processes within the UN, in particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of
>civil society self-organised working processes.
>
>*          Volunteering for the pool does NOT disqualify anyone from
>selection for the Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com (that is, if
>you are randomly selected) does.
>
>*          The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get a
>representative selection in the Nom Com.
>
>*          There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the
>Nomination Committee.
>
>
>
>The Nomination Committee would start working on line fairly intensively on
>21 November 2007 until 30 November 2005. Its work will be facilitated by a
>non voting facilitator (if nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody
>objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).
>
>
>
>If the number of volunteers to serve in the NomCom does not reach 25 persons
>by 19 November, we would have to consider that there is no interest among
>this group to go into a self-nomination process for the Steering Committee
>CS membership. We would leave it completely to the GAID Secretariat to
>identify such membership.
>
>
>
>Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council
>
>Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council is open to all
>representatives from civil society, including CS entities accredited to
>WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and all other CS actors interested in ICT for
>Development and involved in the UN development agenda towards achieving the
>MDGs.
>
>
>
>Nominations (including self-nominations) and all relevant information must
>be sent to the NomCom facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 22:00 p.m.
>GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:
>
>
>
>Name:
>CS Affiliation(s):
>Country:
>Gender:
>Age:
>Biographical Statement:
>Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:
>
>
>
>The members of the NomCom will determine in due time their guidelines and
>criteria.
>
>They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded to
>the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.
>
>Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened to rotation, it is expected
>that the NomCom recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, to allow
>for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.
>
>
>
>
>
>As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this CS
>self-nomination process and to make it successful.
>
>Looking forward to reading you in this regard.
>
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>
>
>Philippe
>
>
>
>Philippe Dam
>CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat
>11, Avenue de la Paix
>CH-1202 Geneva
>Tel: +41 22 301 1000
>Fax: +41 22 301 2000
>E-mail: wsis@ngocongo.org <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org>
>Website: www.ngocongo.org
>
>
>
>The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
>that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
>decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
>presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
>Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
>website at www.ngocongo.org
>
>
>
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From habib.gares at wanadoo.fr  Wed Nov  7 08:02:13 2007
From: habib.gares at wanadoo.fr (Habib EL GARES)
Date: Wed Nov  7 08:05:17 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination
	process	for GAID Strategic Council membership
Message-ID: <28350614.61251194422533155.JavaMail.www@wwinf1634>


Bonjour Philippe,

Je suis volontaire pour d?poser ma candidature:
Je suis,
El Gar?s Abdelmajid- Habib.
J'ai 58 ans
je suis professeur  et j'ai deux nationalit?s: Fran?aise et Tunisienne.
Je veux bien participer au d?veloppement des TIC dans les pays du sud car je suis install? en France et je travaille ? Grenoble et ? Lyon mais je suis dans diff?rentes organisations des pays du sud.
je suis d'accord pour vous envoyer mon CV .Mais ecrivez moi en Fran?ais s'il vous plait.
? bient?t
Habib




> Message du 06/11/07 19:06
> De : "CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam" 
> A : "'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'" , governance@lists.cpsr.org, gov@wsis-gov.org
> Copie ? : "'CONGO - Philippe Dam'" , rbloem@ngocongo.org
> Objet : [WSIS CS-Plenary] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership
> 
> 
Dear all, 
 
This is to suggest that we go into CS self-nomination through a NomCom process for the membership of the GAID Strategy Council (reminder: see GAID Secretariat note attached). As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure might be open for rotation. Nomination are open until 30 November 2007, so that a CS self-nomination process should be finalized by that time (some flexibility might allow us to finish it in the early days of December). 
 
Please start volunteering to the NomCom according to the proposed guidelines below. I?ll inform you about the webpage in which the names will be published. Depending on when the seeds for the randomization process in selecting NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more information about that very shortly), the various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, but the process could remain unchanged.
 
Selection of a CS Nomination Committee
The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS representatives, acting in their personal capacity and randomly selected among those who would volunteer. For the selection of 5 names to be random, we should try to have 5 times as many volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.
 
Volunteers for serving in the Nomination Committee should announce themselves no later than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS affiliation at wsis@ngocongo.org). The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published online.
 
The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21 November 2007. 
 
?          Members of the Nominations Committee will preferably have to demonstrate a long-standing engagement in the Information Society-related processes within the UN, in particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of civil society self-organised working processes.
?          Volunteering for the pool does NOT disqualify anyone from selection for the Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com (that is, if you are randomly selected) does. 
?          The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get a representative selection in the Nom Com. 
?          There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the Nomination Committee.
 
The Nomination Committee would start working on line fairly intensively on 21 November 2007 until 30 November 2005. Its work will be facilitated by a non voting facilitator (if nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).
 
If the number of volunteers to serve in the NomCom does not reach 25 persons by 19 November, we would have to consider that there is no interest among this group to go into a self-nomination process for the Steering Committee CS membership. We would leave it completely to the GAID Secretariat to identify such membership.
 
Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council
Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council is open to all representatives from civil society, including CS entities accredited to WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and all other CS actors interested in ICT for Development and involved in the UN development agenda towards achieving the MDGs.
 
Nominations (including self-nominations) and all relevant information must be sent to the NomCom facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 22:00 p.m. GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:
 
Name:
> CS Affiliation(s):
> Country:
> Gender:
> Age:
> Biographical Statement:
> Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:
 
The members of the NomCom will determine in due time their guidelines and criteria.
They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded to the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.
Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened to rotation, it is expected that the NomCom recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, to allow for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.
 
 
As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this CS self-nomination process and to make it successful.
Looking forward to reading you in this regard.
 
Best regards, 
 
Philippe
 
Philippe Dam
> CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail: wsis@ngocongo.org
> Website: www.ngocongo.org 
 
The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our website at www.ngocongo.org
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From: info at INTERNETGOVERNANCE.ORG (IGP Info)
Date: Wed Nov  7 08:13:47 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [IGP-ANNOUNCE] IGP Alert: New Paper Released on
	"Net Neutrality as Global Principle for Internet Governance"
Message-ID: <web-28941969@bk3.webmaillogin.com>

As a contribution to the 2007 UN Internet Governance Forum 
(IGF), IGP has released a new paper showing how network 
neutrality can serve as a globally applicable principle 
that can guide Internet governance. The paper defines 
network neutrality as the right of Internet users to 
access content, services and applications on the Internet 
without interference from network operators or overbearing 
governments. It also encompasses the right of network 
operators to be reasonably free of liability for 
transmitting content and applications deemed illegal or 
undesirable by third parties. Those aspects of net 
neutrality are relevant in a growing number of countries 
and situations, as both public and private actors attempt 
to subject the Internet to more control. An important part 
of the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum is to 
develop globally applicable public policy principles for 
Internet governance. The paper contends that the principle 
of network neutrality combines and integrates concepts of 
universal access to the resources connected to the 
Internet, freedom of expression, economic innovation, and 
free trade in digital products and services.

Read the paper:
<http://internetgovernance.org/pdf/NetNeutralityGlobalPrinciple.pdf>

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<http://www.internetgovernance.org/events.html#IGF2007DNSSECWorkshop_111406>

"Public Policy on the Internet"
14 November, 2007
Meeting Room VI, Hotel Windsor Barra
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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From francois.ullmann at ingenieursdumonde.org  Wed Nov  7 09:12:41 2007
From: francois.ullmann at ingenieursdumonde.org (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Ullmann)
Date: Wed Nov  7 09:47:27 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] candidature for CS Self-Nomination process for
	GAID Strategic Council membership
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Message-ID: <1194426761-6cae4aad50f10b1d0864fa738ec8d8cc@ingenieursdumonde.org>

Dear Phlippe,

I confirm that I am volunteer for the selection of CS' process:
Name: Dr-Eng.  Francois ULLMANN
CS Affiliation(s): President of "Ingenieurs du Monde" NGO (ECOSOC)
Country:France 
Gender:M
Age:58
Biographical Statement: I was involved in the WSIS from the first precom Tunis meeting and I provided a lot of statements or to participate in many meetings and I'm realising a lot of IT projects in Africa.
Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council: deep professional experience  with companies and states for technologies matters and involved in the UN / NGO activities thanks to 25 years of presence.

I remain at your disposal for any development

Thanks and regards

 

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From tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn  Wed Nov  7 09:28:12 2007
From: tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn (Tijani BEN JEMAA)
Date: Wed Nov  7 09:53:21 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS
	Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership
References: <200711061805.lA6I5RCn015077@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <003901c82120$8472b840$5a12a8c0@acerb8600603ec>

Thank you Philippe for this initiative,

If the number of volunteers does'n reach 25, I don't think it would be good to give up and let the GAID secretariat to do the selection. I think even if we have twice the number of the nom com members, we have to go ahead and select randomly 5 among 10. But under 10, I agree with you that we have to let the GAID secretariat do it.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam 
  To: 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space' ; governance@lists.cpsr.org ; gov@wsis-gov.org 
  Cc: 'CONGO - Philippe Dam' ; rbloem@ngocongo.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:06 PM
  Subject: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership


  Dear all, 

   

  This is to suggest that we go into CS self-nomination through a NomCom process for the membership of the GAID Strategy Council (reminder: see GAID Secretariat note attached). As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure might be open for rotation. Nomination are open until 30 November 2007, so that a CS self-nomination process should be finalized by that time (some flexibility might allow us to finish it in the early days of December). 

   

  Please start volunteering to the NomCom according to the proposed guidelines below. I'll inform you about the webpage in which the names will be published. Depending on when the seeds for the randomization process in selecting NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more information about that very shortly), the various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, but the process could remain unchanged.

   

  Selection of a CS Nomination Committee

  The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS representatives, acting in their personal capacity and randomly selected among those who would volunteer. For the selection of 5 names to be random, we should try to have 5 times as many volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.

   

  Volunteers for serving in the Nomination Committee should announce themselves no later than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS affiliation at wsis@ngocongo.org). The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published online.

   

  The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21 November 2007. 

   

  ?          Members of the Nominations Committee will preferably have to demonstrate a long-standing engagement in the Information Society-related processes within the UN, in particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of civil society self-organised working processes.

  ?          Volunteering for the pool does NOT disqualify anyone from selection for the Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com (that is, if you are randomly selected) does. 

  ?          The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get a representative selection in the Nom Com. 

  ?          There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the Nomination Committee.

   

  The Nomination Committee would start working on line fairly intensively on 21 November 2007 until 30 November 2005. Its work will be facilitated by a non voting facilitator (if nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).

   

  If the number of volunteers to serve in the NomCom does not reach 25 persons by 19 November, we would have to consider that there is no interest among this group to go into a self-nomination process for the Steering Committee CS membership. We would leave it completely to the GAID Secretariat to identify such membership.

   

  Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council

  Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council is open to all representatives from civil society, including CS entities accredited to WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and all other CS actors interested in ICT for Development and involved in the UN development agenda towards achieving the MDGs.

   

  Nominations (including self-nominations) and all relevant information must be sent to the NomCom facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 22:00 p.m. GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:

   

  Name:
  CS Affiliation(s):
  Country:
  Gender:
  Age:
  Biographical Statement:
  Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:

   

  The members of the NomCom will determine in due time their guidelines and criteria.

  They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded to the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.

  Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened to rotation, it is expected that the NomCom recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, to allow for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.

   

   

  As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this CS self-nomination process and to make it successful.

  Looking forward to reading you in this regard.

   

  Best regards, 

   

  Philippe

   

  Philippe Dam
  CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
  11, Avenue de la Paix
  CH-1202 Geneva
  Tel: +41 22 301 1000
  Fax: +41 22 301 2000
  E-mail: wsis@ngocongo.org
  Website: www.ngocongo.org 

   

  The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our website at www.ngocongo.org

   



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From: hkawa at attglobal.net (Hiroshi Kawamura)
Date: Wed Nov  7 11:02:30 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Workshop on Accessibility standards development
	and UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
	in Rio, 12 November 2007
Message-ID: <014b01c8212b$802d1e50$0a0ba8c0@X60120G>

Announcement:

Accessibility standards development and UN Convention on the Rights of 
Persons with Disabilities

Short Description:
The thematic workshop on "Web Accessibility Guidelines Development and UN 
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" is designed to 
revisit internet accessibility guidelines and standards to meet the 
requirements of persons with disabilities in the light of the first human 
rights convention of the UN adopted in 21st Century to enrich the discussion 
of the main sessions on Diversity.
Based on the Global Forum on Disability in the Information Society held in 
both WSIS in Geneva and Tunis, the workshop invites Mr. Buntan, President of 
Thailand Association of the Blind, who worked for the UN Convention on the 
Rights of Persons with Disabilities and WSIS process in collaboration with 
all those concerned around the world including Ms. Bieler, Director of the 
Inter-American Institute on Disability, and Ms. Caras, President of People 
Who. Those three speakers will address the requirements for the Internet 
Governance to comply with the Convention and WSIS Plan of Actions from the 
view point of persons with disabilities. Mr. Abou-Zahra, W3C web 
accessibility expert will talk about harmonization of web accessibility 
standards and W3C Web Accessibility Initiatives with special reference to 
best practices on national web accessibility guidelines development. Mr. 
Shore, Autism Society of America, and Ms. Osorno, National Association of 
the Deaf of Colombia, will address further challenges for the development of 
accessibility standards. The modertor will encourage interactive discussion 
for brain storming to generate a real multi-stakeholder participation. 
Practical approaches for the internet governance to promote Universal Design 
and Assistive Technologies will be the key focus.

When and where:
November 12th 15:00-16:30 at Windsor Barra Hotel (Alhambra II)

Organizers:
Hiroshi Kawamura, President, DAISY Consortium
Judy Brewer, Director, Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C
Margita Lundman, Program Director, The Swedish Handicap Institute
George Kerscher, Secretary General, DAISY Consortium
Stephen Shore, Board, Autism Society of America
Shadi Abou-Zahra, Web Accessibility Specialist, W3C
Phill Jenkins, Accessibility Program Manager, IBM
Deborah Kaplan, Deborah Kaplan Consulting
Monthian Buntan, President, Thailand Association of the Blind
Mary Frances Laughton, Director, Assistive Devices Industry Office, Canada

Panellists:
Monthian Buntan, President, Thailand Assoication of the Blind
Shadi Abou-Zahra, Web Accessibility Specialist, W3C
Stephen Shore, Board, Autism Society of America
Rosangela Berman Bieler, Director, Inter-American Institute on Disability
Martha Lucia Osorno Posada, Board, World Federation of the Deaf
Sylvia Caras, President, People Who
Moderator: Hiroshi Kawamura, President, DAISY Consortium

Aditional Information:
Colombian Sign Language interpretation will be provided during the workshop.

For further information, please contact Hiroshi Kawamura, 
hkawa@attglobal.net


From karenb at gn.apc.org  Wed Nov  7 16:52:02 2007
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Wed Nov  7 16:52:09 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] urgent: Accommodation available in rio
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dear all

APC has two single rooms available in rio at US90 
per night including breakfast up until Nov 18th.. 
please let me know urgently if anyone needs a room.

we are staying here:

Tropical Barra Hotel, by the beach in Barra da 
Tijuca, at the Western side of Rio.
www.tropicalbarrahotel.com.br
Av. Do Pep?, 500 - Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Ph: (+55) 21 2158 9292
Fax: (+55) 21 2494 2921

map of hotel location in relation to IGF venue: http://tinyurl.com/2go9qk

and have arranged a twice daily shuttle to and 
from the IGF venue (which is just 1 1/2 km along the beach from our hotel)

thanks

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From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Wed Nov  7 18:13:03 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] On line information on the CS self-nomination
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From: hekwuruke at gmail.com (Henry Ekwuruke)
Date: Wed Nov  7 18:19:42 2007
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Thanks for the information. I pray more women participate!

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From: philippe.dam at ngocongo.org (CONGO - Philippe Dam)
Date: Wed Nov  7 19:00:42 2007
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From shahid_ictdpb at yahoo.com  Wed Nov  7 11:04:02 2007
From: shahid_ictdpb at yahoo.com (Shahid Uddin Akbar)
Date: Wed Nov  7 19:00:56 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS
	Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership
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I will be available too.
   
  Regards,
  Shahid
   
  .....................................
  Md Shahid Uddin Akbar
  ICT Consultant
  KATALYST/SwissContact
  House 20, Road 6
  Baridhara, Dhaka 
  Bangladesh
  shahiduddin.akbar@swisscontact-bd.org 
   

Parminder <parminder@itforchange.net> wrote:
  
I do as well. Parminder 

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Betreff: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process for
GAID Strategic Council membership



Dear all, 



This is to suggest that we go into CS self-nomination through a NomCom
process for the membership of the GAID Strategy Council (reminder: see GAID
Secretariat note attached). As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure
might be open for rotation. Nomination are open until 30 November 2007, so
that a CS self-nomination process should be finalized by that time (some
flexibility might allow us to finish it in the early days of December). 



Please start volunteering to the NomCom according to the proposed guidelines
below. I'll inform you about the webpage in which the names will be
published. Depending on when the seeds for the randomization process in
selecting NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more information about
that very shortly), the various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, but
the process could remain unchanged.



Selection of a CS Nomination Committee

The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS representatives, acting in their
personal capacity and randomly selected among those who would volunteer. For
the selection of 5 names to be random, we should try to have 5 times as many
volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.



Volunteers for serving in the Nomination Committee should announce
themselves no later than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS
affiliation at wsis@ngocongo.org). The list of names of the volunteers,
ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published
online.



The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21
November 2007. 



* Members of the Nominations Committee will preferably have to
demonstrate a long-standing engagement in the Information Society-related
processes within the UN, in particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of
civil society self-organised working processes.

* Volunteering for the pool does NOT disqualify anyone from
selection for the Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com (that is, if
you are randomly selected) does. 

* The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get a
representative selection in the Nom Com. 

* There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the
Nomination Committee.



The Nomination Committee would start working on line fairly intensively on
21 November 2007 until 30 November 2005. Its work will be facilitated by a
non voting facilitator (if nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody
objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).



If the number of volunteers to serve in the NomCom does not reach 25 persons
by 19 November, we would have to consider that there is no interest among
this group to go into a self-nomination process for the Steering Committee
CS membership. We would leave it completely to the GAID Secretariat to
identify such membership.



Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council

Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council is open to all
representatives from civil society, including CS entities accredited to
WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and all other CS actors interested in ICT for
Development and involved in the UN development agenda towards achieving the
MDGs.



Nominations (including self-nominations) and all relevant information must
be sent to the NomCom facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 22:00 p.m.
GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:



Name:
CS Affiliation(s):
Country:
Gender:
Age:
Biographical Statement:
Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:



The members of the NomCom will determine in due time their guidelines and
criteria.

They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded to
the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.

Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened to rotation, it is expected
that the NomCom recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, to allow
for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.





As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this CS
self-nomination process and to make it successful.

Looking forward to reading you in this regard.



Best regards, 



Philippe



Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail: wsis@ngocongo.org 
Website: www.ngocongo.org 



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decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
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Nations agencies on issues of global concern. For more information see our
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From mueller at syr.edu  Thu Nov  8 15:21:04 2007
From: mueller at syr.edu (Milton L Mueller)
Date: Thu Nov  8 15:20:58 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] At the Rio Forum: The new scholarship on Internet
	Governance 
Message-ID: <7663C7E01D8E094989CA62F0B0D21CD9E592DC@SUEXCL-02.ad.syr.edu>

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) Symposium is one of the most significant pre-events associated with the Internet Governance Forum. This year, the program includes critical, independent analysis of institutions such as ICANN, country code top-level domain managers and the IGF itself. Some of the world?s most prominent IG scholars will analyze issues such as network neutrality and security governance and the convergence of social movements around Internet governance issues.

 

The GigaNet Symposium will be held from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm on Sunday, November 11 at the Versailles 1 Room in the Hotel Windsor Barra (the same hotel at the IG Forum). Attendance is free and open to all. Sponsors are GigaNet, the Mudra Institute of Communication Research, The Singapore Internet Research Centre, the Brazilian Internet Governance Steering Committee, and the Internet Governance Project. 

 

You can view the program here: HYPERLINK "http://shorl.com/dalodrinepryve."http://shorl.com/dalodrinepryve


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From cafec3m at yahoo.fr  Thu Nov  8 16:42:38 2007
From: cafec3m at yahoo.fr (CAFEC)
Date: Thu Nov  8 16:42:43 2007
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] On line information on the CS self-nomination
	process for GAID Strategy Council
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*Name:  SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN
CS Affiliation(s):CENTRE AFRICAIN D'ECHANGE CULTUREL
Country:DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
*Gender:M
*Age:55
Biographical Statement:involved in the SMSI since Bamako 2002 and I take
part in various meetings organised by some international
organisations(Uneca, Government of Tunis, Government of Egypt and elected on
November 05 during the second phase in Tunis, Sub regional Coordinator of
ACSIS for Central Africa. In national level, I stand up a national network
of NGO to promote ICT and a national plate forme for Internet Governance
under UNDP support.*

*
I am ready to contribute and remain at your disposal for any development
program*



2007/11/7, CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam <wsis@ngocongo.org>:
>
> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> this message!
> _______________________________________
>
>
>
>  Dear all,
>
>
>
> Note that we created an information page on the CS Self Nomination process
> for the GAID Strategy Council Membership:
>
> http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462
>
>
>
> The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message
> indicating interest, is published *HERE<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463>
> *.
>
> We have *6 volunteers so far* (all men! Not gender balanced at all?), we
> would need 25 to make the selection process really random.
>
>
>
> Let me remind you the calendar of this process:
>
>
>
> *20 November 2006: deadline for volunteering to the Nomination Committee*
>
> 21 November 2006: random selection of the Nom Com members
>
>
>
> 25 November 2006: deadline for candidatures to the CS NomCom for
> membership to the GA Strategy Council
>
> 25-30 November 2006: on-line work on the nomination committee
>
> 30 November 2006: submission on the CS Nom Com recommendation the GAID
> Secretariat
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
> *Philippe Dam**
> CONGO - Information Society &
> Human Rights Coordinator
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail: **philippe.dam@ngocongo.org* <wphilippe.dam@ngocongo.org>*
> Website: www.ngocongo.org *
>
>
>
>
>
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COORDONNATEUR SOUS REGIONAL ACSIS/AFRIQUE CENTRALE
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From: vivek at itforchange.net (Vivek Vaidyanathan)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:46:14 +0530
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Invitation to attend United Nations - Internet
	Governance Forum workshops being co-organised by IT for Change
Message-ID: <20071109061043.B9CA424BE73@mail.gn.apc.org>

Dear Friends

 

**Apologies for Cross Posting**

 

Greetings from IT for Change

 

This is to invite you attend workshops being co-organised by IT for Change
(ITfC) at the United Nations - Internet Governance Forum 2007 at Rio,
Brazil. Details regarding these workshops are given below 

 

1.      Frameworks for Governance of Critical Internet Resources

 

*         Time and Venue: 14th November 2007, 12:30 - 14:00 hrs, Pardo I,
Windsor Barra Hotel

 

*         About the Workshop

 

With the Internet becoming the infrastructure of an ever-increasing range of
social, economic and political activities, the manner of governance of its
core or critical resources - a term whose meaning itself is contested - is a
matter of importance for all. Private commercial law, voluntary standards,
community-based norms and practices, and national, regional and
international law, may all have a role in the governance of Critical
Internet Resources (CIRs). Their governance is exercised by private parties
in contractual arrangements, local/ national regulators, regional and
international governmental institutions, communities of Internet users and
non-governmental, voluntary standards bodies of national, regional and
international purview. 

 

*         The purpose of this workshop is to examine some key issues
regarding the governance of CIRs, such as:

 

(1) The resources critical to the working and growth of the Internet and its
appropriation by all individuals and groups, including the disadvantaged;

(2) The level and means by which CIRs are governed/ should be governed; and

(3) The normative basis of different approaches to the governance of CIRs.

 

The multi-stakeholder, multinational panel of this workshop will map the
current landscape of Internet Governance mechanisms and institutions, as
well as explore alternatives, including "commons-based" and "public
interest-based" frameworks, for the governance of CIRs. 

More information on this workshop can be found at
<http://www.itforchange.net/images/stories/files/governance_frameworks_for_c
ritical_internet_resources_flyer.pdf>
http://www.itforchange.net/images/stories/files/governance_frameworks_for_cr
itical_internet_resources_flyer.pdf

2.      Dynamic Coalition on Framework of Principles for the Internet

 

*         Time and Venue: 14th November 2007, 16:30 - 18:00 hrs, Meeting
Room Imperial, Windsor Barra Hotel

 

*         About the Dynamic Coalition

 

The dynamic coalition on 'Framework of Principles for the Internet' has the
objective to understand, influence and contribute to the processes of making
international laws, conventions, treaties etc in the area of Internet
Governance - both of the soft law and hard law varieties - incorporating the
multi-stakeholder principle. For this purpose, the coalition will explore
the possibility of civil society taking the lead in collaboratively
developing some overall normative principles for the Internet which can
underpin such international processes, and/or themselves be adopted through
a framework convention kind of a process. 

 

*         About the Workshop 

 

The present workshop will map out the objectives and working methods of the
dynamic coalition, apart from taking on the substantive agenda of exploring
what kind of frameworks and principles will be suitable for guiding global
public policy for the Internet. It will also seek to address the possibility
of engaging with global Internet public policy processes including that of
the WSIS mandated 'enhanced cooperation'.

 

More information on this workshop can be found at
http://intgovforum.org/dyn_col_session.php?DC=Framework%20of%20Principles%20
for%20the%20Internet

 

 

IT for Change is also involved in the organising of a third workshop being
sponsored by the Civil Society - Internet Governance Caucus (IGC)

 

 

3.      Fulfilling the mandate of the IGF

 

*         Time and Venue: 15th November 2007, 08:30 am - 10:00 am, Pardo 1,
Windsor Barra Hotel

 

*         About the Workshop 

 

The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society mandates the IGF to: discuss
public policy issues; facilitate discourse between bodies dealing with
cross-cutting international public policies and discuss issues that do not
fall within the scope of any existing body; interface with appropriate
intergovernmental organizations and other institutions on matters under
their purview; facilitate the exchange of information and best practices,
and in this regard make full use of the expertise of the academic,
scientific and technical communities; advise all stakeholders on increasing
the Internet's availability and affordability in the developing world;
strengthen and enhance multistakeholder engagement in existing and future
Internet Governance mechanisms; identify emerging issues, bring them to the
attention of the relevant bodies and the general public, and, where
appropriate, make recommendations; contribute to capacity-building; promote
and assess, on an ongoing basis, the embodiment of WSIS principles in
Internet governance processes; discuss critical Internet resources; help to
find solutions to the issues arising from the use and misuse of the
Internet; and publish its proceedings.


It could be argued that the IGF is contributing to the realization of some
of these objectives. However, other items in the list are more difficult to
promote solely through annual conferences comprising main sessions with
panels of speakers and an assortment of workshops.  Accordingly, this
workshop will consider what additional steps, if any, could be taken on a
consensual, multistakeholder basis to help the IGF community achieve the
mandate.  In particular, the workshop will consider: 

 

1.  The thinking behind the formulation of the mandate, which derives from
the WGIG Report and the discussions held during Prep-Com 3 of the WSIS Tunis
phase;

2.  Whether some or all of the functions enumerated in the mandate remain
important, value-adding, activities that are not being performed elsewhere,
would benefit the global community, and are uniquely suited to the IGF; 

3.  Operationally practical steps that could be pursued on a consensual,
multistakeholder basis by the IGF community in order to perform those
functions;

4.  Related current trends and challenges in the IGF's activities.

 

More information on this workshop can be found at
http://intgovforum.org/wks_session_info.php?numes=37

 

Additionally, information on those workshops where ITfC is participating in
can be found at
http://www.itforchange.net/images/stories/files/itfor_change_at_theun_igf_20
07.pdf

 

 

Best Regards

Vivek

 

 

Vivek Vaidyanathan

IT for Change (ITfC)

Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities

Tel:(+91 80) 26654134, 26536890

Fax:(+91 80) 41461055

Mob: +91 9980084835

 <http://www.ITforChange.net> www.ITforChange.net

 

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From robin at ipjustice.org  Sat Nov 10 21:36:48 2007
From: robin at ipjustice.org (Robin Gross)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:36:48 -0800
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] IP Justice at Internet Governance Forum 2007
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*IP Justice at Internet Governance Forum 2007
*11 - 15 November 2007
Inquiries: robin at ipjustice.org

IP Justice is proud to be involved with a number of discussions 
scheduled for the 2007 *Internet Governance Forum* (IGF) in Rio de 
Janeiro, Brasil.  The IGF is a United Nations conference bringing 
together various stakeholders such as government, civil society, and 
business to discuss issues related to Internet governance.

IP Justice is either an organizer, speaker, or co-sponsor of the 
following IGF-Rio sessions, which will be held at the Windsor Barra 
Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the 2007 Internet Governance 
Forum (11-15 November 2007).

_*11 Nov. 2007*_

*Standards Edge Conference: "Digital Inclusion: Accelerating Global 
Participation & Access through 'Open' ICT Standardization"*
Time: 8:30 - 17:30
Keynote: John Gage - Sun MicroSystems
Session: *"International Market Influences"* (15:45 - 17:15)
Speakers include: Robin Gross of *IP Justice* / Richard Owens of *the 
World Intellectual Property Organization* / Thomas Vinje of *Clifford Chance
*Info:  http://thebolingroup.com/digitalinclusion

_*12 Nov. 2007*_

*Session:  The intersection of open ICT standards, development and 
public policy*
Time:  15:30 - 17:00        Room: Pardo I
Speakers include: Robin Gross of *IP Justice* / Malcolm Harbour of 
*European Parliament* /  Carlos Afonso of *Rits-Brazil
*Info:  http://info.intgovforum.org/yoppy.php?poj=61*
*
*Session: Meeting of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Freedom of Expression 
(FOEonline)*
Time: 17:30 - 19:00        Room: Imperial
Speakers include: Nicholas Dearden of *Amnesty International* / Julien 
Pein of *World Press Freedom Committee* / Christian Moeller of *OSCE / 
*Robert Faris of *Open Net Initiative / *Bob Boorstin* *of *Google
*http://foeonline.wordpress.com/*
*

_*13 Nov. 2007*_

*Session:  Meeting of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on an Internet Bill of 
Rights*
Time:  10:30 - 12:00        Room:  Versailles II
Speakers include: *Gilberto Gil* of Brazilian Ministry of Culture / 
*Stefano Rodota,* Former EU Privacy Commissioner / *Catherine Trautman* 
of European Parliament / *Robin Gross* of IP Justice / *Carlos Affonso 
Pereria de Souza *of FGV-CTS / *Vittorio Bertola
*http://www.internet-bill-of-rights.org/en/*
*
*Session: Meeting of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS)*
Time: 14:30 - 16:00        Room: Pardo I
Speakers include: Susan Stuble of *Sun MicroSystems */ Georg Greve of 
*Free Software Foundation Europe* / Thiru Balasubramaniam of *Knowledge 
Ecology International
*http://igf-dcos.org/*
*
*Session: * * "Digital Education and Information Policy Initiative: 
Towards the Development of Effective Exceptions to and Limitations on 
Copyright in the Realm of Digital Education"*
Time:  18:30 - 20:00
Room:  Alhambra II
Speakers include:  Maria Badia of *European Parliament* / Ariel Vercelli 
of *Creative Commons Argentina* /  Luis Villaroel Villalon of *Chile's 
Ministry of Education* / Geidy Lung of *the World Intellectual Property 
Organization* / Robin Gross of *IP Justice
*http://ipjustice.org/wp/2007/11/06/digital-education-workshop-at-the-2007-igf-rio/*
*

_*14 Nov. 2007*_

*Session:  IP Justice International Cyberlaw Clinic Showcase: A global 
network of law schools promoting the public interest in Internet law and 
policy*
Time:  9:00 - 10:00 am        Room:  Queluz VI
Speakers include:  *Stefano Rodota*, Former EU Privacy Commissioner / 
Michael Geist of *CIPPIC* / Ronaldo Lemos of *FGV-CTS* / Nick Dearden of 
*Amnesty International* / Hong Xue of *Hong Kong University* / Mary Wong 
from *Franklin Pierce Law Center* / Carlos de Souza of *FGV-CTS*
http://www.ipjustice.org/cyberlaw/showcase

*Session:  **Meeting of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Access to Knowledge 
and Free Expression (A2K at IGF)*
Time:  16:30 - 18:00        Room:  Versaille II
Speakers include:  Robin Gross of *IP Justice* / Brad Biddle of *Intel 
Corp* / Eddan Katz of *Yale Law School* / Susan Struble of *Sun 
MicroSystems* / Natasha Primo of *Association for Progressive 
Communications* / Ronaldo Lemos and Pedro Paranagua of *FGV-CTS* / Mary 
Wong of *Franklin Pierce Law Center
*http://ipjustice.org/wp/2007/11/03/a2kigf-rio-2007/*
*
_*15 Nov. 2007*_
_**_
_**_*Session:  Meeting of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Privacy*
Time:  8:30 - 10:00 am        Room:  Imperial
http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/Privacy

_*IGF Press Conferences:

*_IP Justice also supports the following press conferences at IGF 
(Windsor Barra Hotel):

    * 13 Nov. 11:00 am: *Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards Press
      Conference*
    * 14 Nov. 10:00 am: *Launch of Dynamic Coalition on Digital
      Education Press Conference*







From cafec3m at yahoo.fr  Tue Nov 13 14:44:02 2007
From: cafec3m at yahoo.fr (CAFEC)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:44:02 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Compte rendu sommet Connecter l'Afrique
Message-ID: <ecb172de0711130644o2c721041r7a662ac782249ea8@mail.gmail.com>

*COMPTE RENDU DU SOMMET CONNECT AFRICA DE KIGALI*







Il s'est tenu ? Kigali le 29 et 30 Octobre 2007, un sommet des dirigeants
int?ress?s au d?veloppement des  TIC en Afrique. Ce sommet  ?tait organis?
par le Gouvernement de la r?publique du Ruanda, l'Union Internationale des
T?l?communications (UIT), l'Union Africaine, le Groupe de la Banque
Mondiale, l'Alliance Mondiale des Nations Unies pour les TIC au service du
D?veloppement, l'Union Africaine des T?l?communications, la Commission
Economique des Nations Unies pour l'Afrique et le Fonds Mondial de
Solidarit? Num?rique sous le haut patronage du Pr?sident du Rwanda et du
Pr?sident du Ghana, Pr?sident en exercice de l'Union Africaine.



Le sommet a connu la participation des diff?rentes parties prenantes actives
dans la r?gion, ? savoir les pays africains, la Chine, l'Inde, la Banque
Mondiale, la Commission Europ?enne, le G8, l'OCDE, les pays Arabes, des
grandes compagnies du secteur TIC, le Programme des Nations Unies pour le
D?veloppement et d'autres organisations internationales.



A l'ouverture de ce sommet, on a remarqu? la pr?sence des Pr?sidents du
Ruanda, du Ghana, du S?n?gal, du Malawi, du Burkina Faso, de Djibuti, du
Pr?sident de la Commission de l'Union Africaine, du Pr?sident de la Banque
Africaine de D?veloppement, du Repr?sentant du Secr?taire G?n?ral des
Nations Unies, du Secr?taire G?n?ral de l'UIT.

Certains pas africains ?taient repr?sent?s par leur Premier Ministre ou des
Ministres en charge des TIC tandis que d'autres se sont fait repr?senter par
des conseillers des Ministres.

Ce sommet auquel ont particip? pr?s de 1000 personnes constitue donc le
point de d?part du projet " Connecter l'Afrique " dont la mise en ?uvre
apportera beaucoup en termes d'emplois et de r?duction de la pauvret? aux
pays b?n?ficiaires. Le chef de l'Etat djiboutien a, dans le discours qu'il a
prononc? lors du sommet, clairement d?montr? les progr?s effectu?s par son
pays dans le domaine des t?l?communications et dans celui des nouvelles
technologies de l'Information.

Le ministre en charge des t?l?communications, M.Ali Abdi Farah, qui avait
particip? aux c?t?s de plusieurs ministres de l'Union Africaine aux r?unions
qui ont pr?c?d? le sommet des chefs d'Etat a indiqu? que cette initiative
?tait de nature ? permettre aux pays africains de renforcer leurs capacit?s
dans le domaine des TIC. "Comme l'a soulign? le chef de l'Etat dans son
discours ? Kigali, il s'agit maintenant pour l'Afrique qui n'a pas pu faire
sa r?volution agricole et industrielle de faire sa r?volution num?rique. Le
sommet de Kigali consacr? ? l'initiative " Connecter l'Afrique " a permis un
engagement fort des dirigeants africains. Je crois que cette initiative sera
une r?ussite dans la mesure o? l'engagement politique existe et o? les
bailleurs des fonds, au premier rang desquels la Banque mondiale, se sont
engag?s ? mobiliser les ressources financi?res n?cessaires pour  la mise en
?uvre de ce projet qui b?n?ficie comme je l'ai dit de l'appui des bailleurs
et d'organisations telles que l'Union internationale des t?l?communications,
a soulign? M.Ali Abdi Farah.

Le Sommet " Connecter l'Afrique " s'est en effet achev? par un engagement
des dirigeants ? cr?er un environnement r?glementaire favorable et une
promesse du secteur priv? d'investir dans le secteur des communications sur
le continent.  Plus de 1 000 personnes, dont six chefs d'?tat, des chefs
d'entreprise du secteur des technologies de l'information et des
communications (TIC), des responsables de banques r?gionales de
d?veloppement, ont particip? ? cette r?union dans la capitale rwandaise,
consacr?e aux moyens d'am?liorer l'infrastructure des TIC en Afrique,
particuli?rement la connexion Internet ? haut d?bit.

" Le probl?me n'est pas technologique, car la technologie est disponible: il
s'agit d'une question de volont? politique pour cr?er l'environnement
ad?quat ", a d?clar? Craig Barrett, Pr?sident de l'Alliance mondiale des
Nations Unies pour les TIC et Pr?sident d'Intel corporation, en d?plorant
les co?ts de connexion particuli?rement ?lev?s en Afrique.  " Les
universit?s d'Afrique subsahariennes r?unies payent 3 millions de dollars
par mois uniquement en co?ts de connexion, cet argent pourrait ?tre utilis?
? meilleur escient ailleurs ", a-t-il estim?.

" Le march? africain est ouvert, l'Afrique est ? la recherche de
partenariats ", a pour sa part d?clar? le Malien Hamadoun Tour?, Secr?taire
g?n?ral de l'Union internationale des t?l?communications (UIT), en assurant
que les entreprises ?taient pr?tes ? investir, sachant qu'il y avait de
l'argent ? gagner.  ? son tour, le Pr?sident du Rwanda Paul Kagam?, h?te du
Sommet, a appel? les dirigeants africains ? " faire les bons choix
politiques pour que ces technologies deviennent une partie de la solution".

Moshen Khalil, Directeur du D?partement ICT du Groupe Banque mondiale a
quant ? lui soulign? les progr?s accomplis dans le secteur.  Il a rappel?
que le taux de p?n?tration du t?l?phone ?tait pass? de 1% ? 20% en quelques
ann?es en Afrique et il a souhait? que l'exemple du t?l?phone mobile soit
reproduit dans d'autres secteurs des TIC.

" Gr?ce ? l'esprit d'entreprise du secteur priv? africain, au soutien de la
communaut? internationale et ? l'engagement des gouvernements du continent,
la connexion universelle en Afrique n'est plus un r?ve utopique " a rench?ri
Sha Zukang, Secr?taire g?n?ral adjoint aux affaires ?conomiques et sociales,
qui repr?sentait le Secr?taire g?n?ral de l'ONU.

Au cours des deux journ?es du Sommet, la Banque mondiale a annonc? qu'elle
allait doubler son budget pour les infrastructures des TIC en Afrique, en
d?bloquant 2 milliards de dollars sur les cinq prochaines ann?es.  L'UIT et
Microsoft ont lanc? " Virtual View ", une plateforme en ligne pour rep?rer
et faciliter les projets de d?veloppements des TIC sur le continent.
  GSM, association commerciale mondiale repr?sentant plus de 700 op?rateurs
de t?l?phonie mobile, a annonc? un projet d'investissement de plus de 50
milliards de dollars en Afrique subsaharienne au cours des cinq prochaines
ann?es pour offrir une couverture r?seau ? plus de 90% de la population.  Le
Pr?sident de la Banque africaine de d?veloppement, Donald Kaberuka, a
annonc? un pr?t de 150 millions de dollars pour un c?ble panafricain -le
syst?me de c?ble sous-marin d'Afrique de l'Est- qui apporterait une
connexion rapide et bon march? ? au moins 23 pays.



Buts et Objectifs



Le Sommet Connect Africa est un partenariat mondial r?unissant de multiples
parties prenantes et visant ? mobiliser les ressources humaines, techniques
et financi?res n?cessaires pour rem?dier aux insuffisances flagrantes des
infrastructures des technologies de l'information et de la communication en
afrique.



Cette initiative vise ? compl?ter, acc?l?rer et renforcer les projets et
investissements TIC existants dans le secteur public et priv?, en cherchant
? rem?dier aux principales insuffisances, ? mobiliser des ressources et ?
renforcer la coordination entre les parties prenantes , au service
d'activit?s et de priorit?s nationales et r?gionales.



Elle vise l'?tablissement de nouveaux partenariats et s'est articul? sur
l'obtention des r?sultats concrets avec comme programme des discussions
interactives dans le cadre de tables rondes r?unissant de multiples parties
prenantes, des annonces de partenariats, ainsi que la possibilit? donn?e aux
participants de pr?senter leurs projets de d?veloppement des TIC ? des
partenaires et donateurs potentiels.

Ce sommet a ?galement offert une excellente occasion aux leaders des
secteurs public, priv? et financier de se rencontrer et de nouer de nouveaux
partenariats pour l'avenir.

Les participants ont eu ? examiner les facteurs d?terminants pour le succ?s
du financement et du d?veloppement des TIC et ont d?cid? de collaborer en
vue de :

-          lancer des initiatives visant ? ?largir l'infrastructure du
r?seau dorsal et des r?seaux d'acc?s ;

-          mettre en oeuvre des initiatives qui encouragent l'acc?s partag?
tels que les t?l?centres communautaires et les t?l?phones de village ;

-          am?liorer la formation aux TIC  (renforcement des capacit?s) ;

-          encourager l'?laboration d'applications et de services TIC
adapt?s aux conditions locales ;

-          intensifier les efforts destin?s ? mettre en place un
environnement politique et r?glementaire favorable ? l'investissement.



Recommandations essentielles



I.                     Infrastructure dorsale et r?seaux d'acc?s :

1.       interconnecter toutes les capitales africaines ? l'infrastructure
TIC large bande et renforcer la connectivit? avec le reste du monde ?
l'horizon 2012 ;

2.       connecter tous les villages africains aux services large bande ?
l'horizon 2015 ;

3.       mettre en oeuvre des initiatives qui encouragent l'acc?s partag?
tels que les t?l?centres communautaires et les t?l?phones de village.

4.       assurer la mise en place effective du fonds de service universel l?
o? il n'est pas op?rationnel ;

5.       amener ceux qui l'ont pas encore fait ? l'adh?rer et utiliser le
Fonds de Solidarit? Num?rique ;

6.       recourir au partenariat public-priv? pour la mise en ?uvre des
projets. ;

7.       adopter des politiques r?glementaires souples visant ? favoriser
l'implantation des op?rateurs dans les zones rurales.



II.                    Renforcement des capacit?s



1.       accorder une priorit? ?lev?e au d?veloppement des comp?tences en
quantit? et en qualit? suffisante, et int?grer pleinement  les TIC dans
l'?ducation ;

2.       mettre en place des centres d'excellence dans chaque sous-r?gion de
l'Afrique TIC.



III.                  Services, contenu  et applications



1.       mettre en ?uvre des services et applications qui :

?       r?pondent aux besoins des populations citadines et rurales ;

?       sont ?conomiquement avantageuses pour permettre leur acquisition
surtout par les plus d?munis ;

?       permettent d'am?liorer la productivit? et par cons?quent d'augmenter
les revenus ;

?       soient d?velopp?es en collaboration avec les communaut?s de base
afin que celles-ci soient en mesure d'en assurer la p?rennit?.

2.       mettre en oeuvre des services de t?l?-administration,
t?l?enseignement, commerce ?lectronique, t?l?sant?, aide ? l'agriculture,
etc.

3.       assurer le d?veloppement du contenu en langues locales.



IV.                  Cadre politique et r?glementaire





1.       proc?der ? la r?vision des cadres r?glementaires et de r?gulation
ainsi qu'? l'harmonisation des politiques et r?glementations, tant sur le
plan sous-r?gional que r?gional ;

2.       assurer le renforcement des capacit?s pour les r?gulateurs ;

3.       cr?er des points d'?change internet nationaux et r?gionaux ;

4.       lib?raliser la t?l?phonie IP ;

5.       baisser les droits de douane sur les ?quipements TIC.



Toutes ces recommandations ont ?t? accompagn?es des promesses de financement
par la plupart des organismes de financement et d'investissement pr?sents.
C'est ainsi par exemple que le consortium GSM a annonc? des investissements
de 50 milliards de dollars pour les 5 prochaines ann?es, contre 10 milliards
les 5 derni?res ann?es, la Banque Mondiale a promis 2 milliards de dollars,




Pour acc?der ? ces fonds, il a ?t? demand? aux ?tats africains de monter et
pr?senter des projets bancables.



*Remarque*



-durant tout le d?roulement de ce sommet, il a ?t? soigneusement ?vit?
l'implication, la participation et le r?le de la soci?t? civile. Personne
m?me le Secr?taire G?n?ral de l'UIT n'a fait mention du r?le jou? par la
soci?t? civile dans le processus des deux phases et dans la phase Post
Tunis.



*Activit?s avant le sommet*



La CEA , en collaboration avec ISOC et la Commission de l'Union Africaine, a
organis? une consultation r?gionale le 28 Octobre 2007 sur la gouvernance de
l'Internet sous forme de table ronde en perspectives du Forum de Rio et qui
s'est articul?e sur les points suivants :



*1. Aper?u panoramique du processus de la GI en Afrique dont voici les
th?mes d?velopp?s* :



Mod?rateur: Makane Faye, UNECA

Rapporteur: Moustapha Ndiaye (S?n?gal)



1?re Communication: Africa and the Internet Governance debate: from Bamako
to Athens, by Mamadou Iam Diallo, Chairperson, Bamako bureau for the World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)



2e Communication: Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio: What is in for
Africa? By Mr Dawit Bekele, Coordinator, ISOC Regional Bureau for Africa





3e Communication: Connect Africa: the Integrated Continental Information
Network, by Ms Sophia Bekele, CEO of CBS International (Ethiopia)



*2. Tables Rondes*



*2.1. Acces and Africa*

* *

Pr?sident : Mr. Nii Quaynor du Ghana ;

Rapporteur : Mr. Haroun Mahamat BADAOUY du Tchad

Pan?listes :

MM. Moustapha M. Diaby de la Commission de l'Union Africaine ;

         David Turahi de l-Ouganda ;

         Lanre Ajayi du Nigeria ;

         Eric Osiakwan de AFRISPA

         Isidoro Pedro da Silva du Rwanda ;

Ms. Fatimetou Mint Mohamed Saleck de la Mauritanie



*2.2. Internet Critical Ressources and Africa*

* *

Mod?rateur: Mr Ridha Guellouz (Tunisie)

Rapporteur : Mirabelle Djuine (Cameroun)

Pan?listes :

-          Rapha?l Mmasi (Rwanda)

-          Marc Vincent de Paul Kallyth (Congo)

-          Gbenga Sesan (Nigeria)

-          Clement Dzidonou (Ghana)

-          Shem Ochuodho (Kenya)





*2.3. Internet Security and Africa*

* *

Mod?rateur: Anne Rachel Inne (ICANN

Rapporteur : Jean Phil?mon Kissangou (Congo)

Pan?listes :

-          Abdou Abass Sarr (C?te d'Ivoire)

-          Issoufou Seynou (Burkina Faso)

-          Brian Longwe (Kenya Information Network Centre)

-          Sophia Bekele, CBS International (Ethiopia)





*2.4. Diversity and Africa *

* *

Mod?rateur : M. Olivier Nana Nzepa (Cameroun)

Rapporteur: Mlle Esperance Niyonzima (Burundi)



Panelistes : M. Maurice Tadajeu (Cameroun), M. Isaac Kofie Danner (Sierra
Leone), M. Baudoin Schombe (RDC), M. Hezekiel Dlamini (UNESCO)



*2.5. The way forward: On the Road to Rio de Janeiro*

* *

Mod?rateur: Esam Abulkhirat, Senior ICT Officer, African Union Commission

Rapporteur: Mactar Seck (ECA)

Pan?listes (All Session Mod?rators): Dr Nii Quaynor, Mr Ridha Guellouz, Ms
Anne Rachel Inne, Mr Olivier Nana Nzepa



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From karenb at gn.apc.org  Tue Nov 13 15:01:09 2007
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:01:09 -0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] PRESS RELEASE: APC/Council of Europe: New code
 for public participation in internet governance
Message-ID: <20071113150110.6212C26F503@mail.gn.apc.org>

Dear all

an outcome of our preparations for and 
discussions during the workshop organised by the 
APC, COE and UNECE yesterday on public participation in internet governance..

karen
====

NO EMBARGO

The Council of Europe and APC propose a code for 
public participation in internet governance

RIO de JANEIRO, BRAZIL, November 13 2007 -- 
Intergovernmental and civil society organisations 
propose a self-regulatory mechanism to foster 
participation, access to information and 
transparency in Internet governance at the 
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro on 12 November 2007.

The mechanism should ensure that all the 
institutions which play a role in some aspect of 
governing the internet commit to transparency, 
public participation, including participation of 
all stakeholders, and access to information in 
their activities. The proposal was announced at a 
best practice forum on public participation in 
Internet governance and access to information, 
co-organised by the United Nations Economic 
Commission for Europe (UNECE), the Council of Europe and the Association for
Progressive Communications (APC).

The new proposal reflects the Council of Europe's 
commitment to the concept of public service value 
of the Internet. For Internet governance to 
satisfy democratic needs the part to be played by 
users should be recognised and strengthened, said 
the Council of Europe Deputy Secretary General 
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio at the IGF best practice 
forum on ?Public participation in Internet 
Governance: Emerging issues, good practices and 
proposed solutions?. The forum explored how 
adherence to the World Summit on the Information 
Society principles can become common practice in 
institutions involved in Internet governance.

The United Nations Economic Commission for 
Europe?s Aarhus Convention on Access to 
Information, Public Participation in 
Decision-making and Access to Justice in 
Environmental Matters (the ?Aarhus Convention?) 
was presented at the Forum as a possible 
prototype of such a mechanism.  The Convention is 
designed to admit as signatories, both 
governments and inter-governmental institutions, 
as well as other types of institutions, said Hans 
Hansell, leader of the group for ICT and 
development at UNECE. ?The Aarhus Convention 
firmly establishes access to information, 
transparency and participation in governance 
processes as a shared value, and supports 
institutions in implementing the convention,? Mr Hansell explained.

With its simple mechanism for dealing with 
complaints, as well as an information clearing 
house, the Aarhus Convention sets a particularly 
valuable model for the Internet governance 
community because transparency, participation and 
access to information, and accountability are the 
cornerstones of good governance, commented 
Anriette Esterhuysen, Executive Director of APC. 
?This is a framework that can underpin other 
processes and even support them, without 
replacing any existing institutional 
configuration, policies or regulations,? Ms Esterhuysen added.

?Like the IGF, the new agreement we are proposing 
can constitute a non-threatening platform for 
progress and positive change and can be 
established as a self-regulatory mechanism. 
Institutions which want to demonstrate their 
commitment to being transparent, inclusive and 
accountable, can become signatories,? Ms Esterhuysen concluded.

APC contact
Fr?d?ric Dubois, Information coordinator
Mobile +1 514 660 0664, frederic at apc.org

Council of Europe contacts
Estelle Steiner, Press Officer, Mobile +33 (0)6 08 46 01 57,
estelle.steiner at coe.int
Sophie Lobey, Communications Officer, Mobile +33 (0)6 64 09 93 40,
sophie.lobey at coe.int

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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Tue Nov 13 20:20:37 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO - Philippe Dam)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:20:37 -0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Some Scholarships available for CSO/NGOs to GK3
	(11-13 November 2007)
Message-ID: <200711132020.lADKKUB4001224@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

This is to inform you we have been contacted by the GKP Secretariat today to
announce that small number of last minute funding opportunities will be made
available for CS representatives and NGOs for participating the GK3
Conference organised in Kuala Lumpur (11-13 December). The GKP Secretariat
is requesting that any request or recommendation for funding should be sent
to them no later than this Friday.

 

The theme is Emerging People, Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies. In
allocating the available fellowship, the GKP is targeting organisations
based in developing or transition countries and having a specific working
expertise in the area of ICT4D.

 

Interested CS organisations and NGOs should send us a request
(wsis at ngocongo.org), before Thursday 15 November (12:00 am, GMT),
indicating:

-          Name of the Civil Society Organisation or NGOs:

-          Country:

-          Name of representative:

-          Gender:

-          E-mail address:

-          Area of expertise and knowledge in ICT4D:

 

Full information about the conference can be obtained from
www.GKPEventsOnTheFuture.org <http://www.gkpeventsonthefuture.org/> . 

We regret the very late deadline and by the fact that this process can not
be made more open, but the funding opportunity was apparently made available
very late and the GKP Secretariat is willing to finalize the process early
next week.

 

Best regards, 

 

Philippe

Philippe Dam
Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
Program Officer - WSIS and Human Rights
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> www.ngocongo.org

 

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From pororoca at e-fem.net  Wed Nov 14 11:51:38 2007
From: pororoca at e-fem.net (magaly)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:51:38 -0200 (BRST)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] dynamic coalition on gender & ig - meeting wed 6pm
In-Reply-To: <200711132020.lADKKUB4001224@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>
References: <200711132020.lADKKUB4001224@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <53264.189.76.103.158.1195041098.squirrel@webmail.e-fem.net>

DYNAMIC COALITION ON
GENDER AND INTERNET GOVERNANCE

OPEN SESSION

MEETING ON WEDNESDAY 14TH - 18:00- 19:00
VERSAILLES I


The APC WNSP - Association for Progressive Communications Women's
Networking Support Programme, EMERGE-Centro de Pesquisa e Produ??o em
Comunica??o e Emerg?ncia of Fluminense Federal University in Brazil, and
IT for Change are convening the *Dynamic Coalition on Gender and Internet
Governance*.

We invite women and men whose interest is to ensure that gender equality
principles are not marginalised in internet governance processes to join
this coalition. Both organisations and individuals may join the coalition.

The *Dynamic Coalition on Gender and Internet Governance* aims to ensure a
gender perspective is included in the key debates around internet
governance issues, such as content regulation, privacy, access, freedom of
expression among others. It also intends to promote women's visibility at
the IGF and related fora; to conduct research and provide input on the
main topics of IGF debates; to support capacity building of gender
advocates and to promote more effective linkages between local, regional
and global initiatives relating to gender and the information society.

The statement of objectives is a draft only and will be finalised during
the meeting.

The initial coalition partners include the following organisations:

* WNSP-Women Network Support Programme of APC-Association for Progressive
Communications, International
* EMERGE-Centro de Pesquisa e Produ??o em Comunica??o e Emerg?ncia of
Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
* G2G Gender and Technology, Brazil
* Lule? University of Technology (or LTU) Division Gender, Technology and
Organisation, Sweden
* ITForChange, India


Please write to  info at e-fem.net  if you are interested to join the
coalition, or learn more about the Dynamic Coalition on Gender and
Internet Governance.


From wsis at ngocongo.org  Wed Nov 14 13:31:34 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO - Philippe Dam)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:31:34 -0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting on other post WSIS issues - Thursday
	15 November, 13:00-14:00
Message-ID: <200711141331.lAEDVQdq014729@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

After discussing with a number among you, it appeared that there is an
interest to discuss about other post WSIS issues and processes, beyond IGF.
The IGF Secretariat kindly attributed us a room during lunchtime tomorrow.
The meeting will basically take place between the sessions on Taking stock
and the way forward and Emerging Issues.

 

Date:    Thursday 15 November

Time:   13:00-14:00 

Venue: Room Queluz VI (Queluz VI is on the lower level of the hotel, one
floor down the IGF Internet Point and Village Square).

 

Proposed agenda:

 

a.	CSTD (intersession Panel, 28-30 November / 11th session, May 2008)
b.	Multi-stakeholder implementation at the international level
c.	GAID
d.	GK-3 Conference
e.	Other business

 

.....

 

Feel free to make additional proposals or suggestions through this list.

 

All the best, 

 

Philippe

 

Philippe Dam
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> 

 

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From gillmushtaq at yahoo.com  Wed Nov 14 17:24:27 2007
From: gillmushtaq at yahoo.com (mushtaq gill)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:24:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Some Scholarships available for CSO/NGOs
In-Reply-To: <200711132020.lADKKUB4001224@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <19711.25516.qm@web38015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear Sir/Madam
  Thanks  God Bless...........Help and With You Familys.....!
   
  1)Christian Care Fundation Pakistan and 
  2)Idara Gawahi International Pakistan
   
  Christian Care Foundation is a registered organization under the society act 1860 established in 2004 and working for the betterment and uplifs the society by various programs. It started with the interfaith dialogue program (Social Harmony) to eliminate the discrimination among the community as well as between the religions. To increase public awareness of the magnitude, causes and consequences of peace and justice, and to let the public know that solutions do exist and are indeed attainable. In Pakistan, Government is not taking much interest in the development of of poor communities moreover, there are less business trends, awareness and and opportunities for marginalize. Whit over population/limited resources people are unable to get education, therefore, the people are not aware of theirs social and economic situation. They are remaining un-skilled and backward part of the society. The majorties belong to the lower class and are discriminated ageinst at all levels
 Christian care foundation has taken up the responsibility for the establishing and strengthening the community, particularly remote areas.
   Goal: Work for the promotion of Love, lustice and peace.
  Mission: Motivating peoples to eliminate the discrimination atmosphere among the society.
  Priority areas of CCF:-
  Socieal Harmony  /  Interfaith dialogue program.
  Anti-trafficking women and children.
  Micro Finance Program 
  Health Program (HIV  /  AIDS), mother and child health
  Agriculture program
  Youth  
  Contact us: 
   
  Dir, Mushtaq Gill Form Pakistan
  Address:
  30 NC Hunza Block, A.I.Town Lahore Pakistan
  Post/Zip Cord: 54570
  Ph: 0092.3064425471
  

CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org> wrote:
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      st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                Dear all, 
   
  This is to inform you we have been contacted by the GKP Secretariat today to announce that small number of last minute funding opportunities will be made available for CS representatives and NGOs for participating the GK3 Conference organised in Kuala Lumpur (11-13 December). The GKP Secretariat is requesting that any request or recommendation for funding should be sent to them no later than this Friday.
   
  The theme is Emerging People, Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies. In allocating the available fellowship, the GKP is targeting organisations based in developing or transition countries and having a specific working expertise in the area of ICT4D.
   
  Interested CS organisations and NGOs should send us a request (wsis at ngocongo.org), before Thursday 15 November (12:00 am, GMT), indicating:
  -          Name of the Civil Society Organisation or NGOs:
  -          Country:
  -          Name of representative:
  -          Gender:
  -          E-mail address:
  -          Area of expertise and knowledge in ICT4D:
   
  Full information about the conference can be obtained from www.GKPEventsOnTheFuture.org. 
  We regret the very late deadline and by the fact that this process can not be made more open, but the funding opportunity was apparently made available very late and the GKP Secretariat is willing to finalize the process early next week.
   
  Best regards, 
   
  Philippe
  Philippe Dam
Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
Program Officer - WSIS and Human Rights
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail: wsis at ngocongo.org
Website: www.ngocongo.org 
   
  The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our website at www.ngocongo.org
   

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From karenb at gn.apc.org  Thu Nov 15 13:53:03 2007
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:53:03 -0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] APC Statement as IGF II closes
Message-ID: <20071115135304.1130C27C0CB@mail.gn.apc.org>

hi everyone

some initial reflections as IGF II draws to a close..

karen
=====

APC statement on the second Internet Governance Forum
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 12-15 2007

15 November 2007

RIO DE JANEIRO, 15 November 2007 ? As the second 
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) draws to a close, 
the Association for Progressive Communications 
(APC) is taking stock and formulating suggestions 
for action, as a way to move the IGF forward.

The Rio IGF, like the first IGF, succeeded as a 
space for inclusive policy dialogue. The openness 
of the format of the event, and the quality and 
diversity of the participants created an 
opportunity for reaching common understanding of 
complex and controversial issues. It builds 
understanding of differences in positions and 
opinions. It is this that enables the IGF to 
influence and inform policy without the 
constraints of needing to create consensus on negotiated text.

We appreciate the impressive effort of the 
Brazilian Internet Steering Group in organising 
the event, and in particular want to recognise 
their inclusion of civil society organisations in the preparatory process.

This being said, the IGF can and should make 
further progress in fulfilling its mandate. Here 
are APC?s suggestions to the IGF for consolidating its mechanism.

- Establish a self-regulatory mechanism to ensure 
participation, access to information and 
transparency in internet governance: APC 
recommends that a mechanism is created to ensure 
that all the institutions which play a role in 
some aspect of governing the internet commit to 
ensuring transparency, public participation, 
including participation of all stakeholders, and 
access to information in their activities.

- Establish regional and national IGFs: Listening 
to the proposals of many Latin American and 
African delegates, including from leading 
governments and the private sector, APC would 
like to support the idea of establishing regional 
IGFs to define regional priorities and to enable 
greater participation from developing countries. 
. We also believe that national IGFs are a 
powerful mechanism for learning, problem solving, 
collective action and building partnership among 
different stakeholders at national level.

- Convene ?IGF Working Groups?: APC recommends 
that the IGF uses the format of the WGIG, or 
bodies such as the IETF (Internet Engineering 
Task Force) to convene working groups to address 
complex issues that emerge during a forum. These 
groups can be made up of individuals with the 
necessary expertise, and drawn from different 
stakeholder groups. These groups can then engage 
specific issues in greater depth, and, if they 
feel it is required, develop recommendations that 
can be communicated to the internet community at 
large, or addressed to specific institutions. .

These recommendations need not be presented as 
formally agreed recommendations from the IGF, but 
as recommendations or suggestions for action from 
the individuals in the Working Group.These 
working groups have a different role from the 
self-organised dynamic coalitions which we believe should continue.

Based on discussions at the IGF II it appears 
that working groups on the following five issues 
might be valuable: a) WG on the definition of 
illegal and harmful content; d) WG on self and 
co-regulation in internet governance; c) WG on 
business models for access; d) WG on a 
development agenda for internet governance; e) WG on open standards.

- Effectively resource the IGF secretariat: We 
want to express our admiration of Markus Kummer 
and his team for accomplishing so much with so 
little human and financial resources. We 
recognise the extensive investment made by the 
government of Brazil, and also by the previous 
host country, Greece, as well as other 
contributions made by governments, sponsors and 
donors. However, if the IGF is to continue to 
succeed and make further strides in fulfilling 
its mandate, the secretariat needs to be properly 
resourced. The United Nations needs to recognise 
that the IGF is the outcome of a UN process and 
should ensure that it has the resources it needs 
to fulfil its mandate as defined at the Tunis Summit in 2005.

- Strengthen the capacity and legitimacy of the 
Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group: We recommend 
that one third of the membership of the 
Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group rotates every 
year; that it is formally appointed by Secretary 
General by the end of January of every year; that 
the mandate of the MAG is clarified and that it 
considers electing some form of management 
committee to streamline its internal 
decision-making processes. We recognise the right 
of the MAG to have closed discussions (Chatham 
House Rules) but it needs to adhere to basic 
principles of transparency and accountability. We 
propose that the MAG provides routine reports on its meetings and decisions.

- On the thematic areas of the IGF, acknowledging 
that access, openness, security, critical 
internet resources and diversity have been 
explored extensively, APC does not see the value 
in recycling these themes in the plenary format. 
We encourage the IGF III organisers to consider a 
different format for the plenary panels. Such a 
format should allow for in depth discussion of 
specific issues and can draw on the outcomes of 
workshops and inputs of working groups.

- Increase participation in agenda setting: We 
suggest that the IGF secretariat and the MAG 
(Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group) convene 
working groups for each of the main themes of the 
next forum to help shape the agenda and identify 
speakers well in advance of the event. These 
groups can assist the MAG and the secretariat to 
address gender balance and diversity in the composition of the panels.

- Learning from experience: We encourage the 
secretariat and the hosts of the first two IGFs, 
Greece and Brazil, to engage in active sharing of 
lessons learned with the next host country of the 
IGF, India. This process should include 
representatives of all stakeholder groups.

In conclusion, we would like to extend our thanks 
to the host people and government, the Executive 
Coordinator of the IGF secretariat and its 
chairperson, and all participants. We wish India 
well in it's preparations for IGF III and express 
our commitment to the process and willingness to 
provide support in the process where we can.

The Association for Progressive Communications
Rio de Janeiro, 15 November 2007


From marzouki at ras.eu.org  Thu Nov 15 14:50:13 2007
From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:50:13 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] April fool's day? Was Re: [governance] APC
	Statement as IGF II closes
In-Reply-To: <20071115135304.1130C27C0CB@mail.gn.apc.org>
References: <20071115135304.1130C27C0CB@mail.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <AD17CF38-1720-469C-9B19-EEB3DA6825A0@ras.eu.org>

Karen, and all,

Many comments to be made on APC press release of Nov. 15, but this  
one below is of major concern:

Le 15 nov. 07 ? 14:53, karen banks a ?crit :

> APC statement on the second Internet Governance Forum
> RIO DE JANEIRO, 15 November 2007 ? As the second Internet  
> Governance Forum (IGF) draws to a close, the Association for  
> Progressive Communications (APC) is taking stock and formulating  
> suggestions for action, as a way to move the IGF forward.
[...]
>
> - Convene ?IGF Working Groups?: APC recommends that the IGF uses  
> the format of the WGIG, or bodies such as the IETF (Internet  
> Engineering Task Force) to convene working groups to address  
> complex issues that emerge during a forum. These groups can be made  
> up of individuals with the necessary expertise, and drawn from  
> different stakeholder groups. These groups can then engage specific  
> issues in greater depth, and, if they feel it is required, develop  
> recommendations that can be communicated to the internet community  
> at large, or addressed to specific institutions. .
>
> [...]
> Based on discussions at the IGF II it appears that working groups  
> on the following five issues might be valuable: a) WG on the  
> definition of illegal and harmful content;

Is APC seriously proposing that such a group work on a *definition*  
of illegal content at international level? i.e. a *harmonization* of  
all national laws? I cannot believe this..

Is APC also seriously proposing same thing for harmul content? i.e. a  
*harmonization* of all cultures, religions, beliefs, morals, etc.? I  
cannot believe this either!
May I remind this very famous quote from the European Court of Human  
Rights case law (Handyside v. UK, 1976):

"(?) it is not possible to find in the domestic law of the various  
Contracting States a uniform European conception of morals. The view  
taken by their respective laws of the requirements of morals varies  
from time to time and from place to place, especially in our era  
which is characterised by a rapid and far-reaching evolution of  
opinions on the subject. (?) Freedom of expression constitutes one of  
the essential foundations of such a society, one of the basic  
conditions for its progress and for the development of every man.  
Subject to paragraph 2 of Article 10 (art. 10-2), it is applicable  
not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received or  
regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also to  
those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the  
population. Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and  
broadmindedness without which there is no 'democratic society'(...)"

This, to simply talk about Europe, a region which at least share some  
more or less common cultural roots and, above all, has adopted a  
regional Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), has set up a regional  
Court to enforce it (Strasbourg Court), which has developed a  
comprehensive case law. I cannot even imagine what APC proposal would  
mean at the world global level..

And, if this was not enough, APC is suggesting that an IGF working  
group "in the format of the WGIG, or bodies such as the IETF" develop  
such a definition of illegal and harmful content? When even the  
European Court of Human Rights says, in the same Handyside judgement,  
that "State authorities are in  principle in a better position than  
the international judge to give an opinion on the exact content of  
these requirements [of morals] as well as on the 'necessity' of a  
'restriction' or 'penalty' intended to meet them"? So a handful of  
WGIG-like or MAG-like members, with the selection process that we've  
experienced till now, would do it with more legitimacy than the  
international judge?

Again, I can't even believe this.. Is it a typo in APC press release  
or what?! Or is today April fool's day in Brazil?

Meryem

--
Meryem Marzouki - http://www.iris.sgdg.org
IRIS - Imaginons un r?seau Internet solidaire
40 rue de la Justice - 75020 Paris
Tel. +33(0)144749239


From karenb at gn.apc.org  Thu Nov 15 14:58:40 2007
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:58:40 -0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] April fool's day? Was Re: [governance] APC
 Statement as IGF II closes
In-Reply-To: <AD17CF38-1720-469C-9B19-EEB3DA6825A0@ras.eu.org>
References: <20071115135304.1130C27C0CB@mail.gn.apc.org>
	<AD17CF38-1720-469C-9B19-EEB3DA6825A0@ras.eu.org>
Message-ID: <20071115145842.3FD17271EA4@mail.gn.apc.org>

hi meryem

>Karen, and all,
>
>Many comments to be made on APC press release of Nov. 15, but 
>this  one below is of major concern:
>
> > - Convene 'IGF Working Groups': APC recommends that the IGF uses
> > the format of the WGIG, or bodies such as the IETF (Internet
> > Engineering Task Force) to convene working groups to address
> > complex issues that emerge during a forum. These groups can be made
> > up of individuals with the necessary expertise, and drawn from
> > different stakeholder groups. These groups can then engage specific
> > issues in greater depth, and, if they feel it is required, develop
> > recommendations that can be communicated to the internet community
> > at large, or addressed to specific institutions. .
> >
> > [...]
> > Based on discussions at the IGF II it appears that working groups
> > on the following five issues might be valuable: a) WG on the
> > definition of illegal and harmful content;
>
>Is APC seriously proposing that such a group work on a 
>*definition*  of illegal content at international level? i.e. a 
>*harmonization* of  all national laws? I cannot believe this..

firstly - they are initial reflections, and certainly we'll be doing 
some further reflection.. and having your reaction right now is 
great.. as the proposals for working groups - or rather what they 
night focus on - is definitely one for discussion - if there isn't 
sufficient interest from enough people in forming a WG around a 
particular issue, then it clearly wouldn't have any traction..

secondly - the proposal that you're particularly concerned about, 
'definition of illegal and harmfil content' - is certainly not 
intended to come up with a definition - but rather the contrary (at 
least in my mind) - that the phrase 'illegal and harmful content' is 
at the centre now of so much policy and legislation - in both hard 
and soft forms, compulsory, voluntary, self and co-regulation - that 
you can't move for fear of banging up against it..

there was an interesting discussion about 'illegal' and 'harmful' 
content.. and that, irrespecive of how anyone might feel about the 
illegaility of specific content, it is illegal - but 'harmful' 
content, is essentially content that some interested group wishes to 
make illegal - and the raod to that, is largely via self and 
co-regulatory schemes - and often implemented by inappropraite parties..

>Is APC also seriously proposing same thing for harmul content? i.e. a
>*harmonization* of all cultures, religions, beliefs, morals, etc.? I
>cannot believe this either!

of course not meryem ;)

karen 
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From karenb at gn.apc.org  Thu Nov 15 15:03:48 2007
From: karenb at gn.apc.org (karen banks)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:03:48 -0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] April fool's day? Was Re: [governance] APC
 Statement as IGF II closes
Message-ID: <20071115150348.40F9227C389@mail.gn.apc.org>

ps.. and meryem, to some extent you are right, not a typo so much, ut 
open to misinterpretation - the word 'definition' shouldn't be in the 
phrase, as it creates just this kind of misundertanding.. we will 
edit the statement

> > - Convene 'IGF Working Groups': APC recommends that the IGF uses
> > the format of the WGIG, or bodies such as the IETF (Internet
> > Engineering Task Force) to convene working groups to address
> > complex issues that emerge during a forum. These groups can be made
> > up of individuals with the necessary expertise, and drawn from
> > different stakeholder groups. These groups can then engage specific
> > issues in greater depth, and, if they feel it is required, develop
> > recommendations that can be communicated to the internet community
> > at large, or addressed to specific institutions. .
> >
> > [...]
> > Based on discussions at the IGF II it appears that working groups
> > on the following five issues might be valuable: a) WG on the
> > definition of illegal and harmful content;

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From bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de  Thu Nov 15 15:01:09 2007
From: bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Ralf Bendrath)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:01:09 -0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [governance] APC Statement as IGF II closes
In-Reply-To: <20071115135304.1130C27C0CB@mail.gn.apc.org>
References: <20071115135304.1130C27C0CB@mail.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <473C5F35.50108@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

Hi Karen, Willie, Anriette and others,

karen banks schrieb:
> APC statement on the second Internet Governance Forum
Very good statement in general, thanks for pushing our thinking forward as
usual.

A quick feedback on one important point:

> - Convene ?IGF Working Groups?: APC recommends that the IGF uses the 
> format of the WGIG, or bodies such as the IETF (Internet Engineering 
> Task Force) to convene working groups to address complex issues that 
> emerge during a forum. These groups can be made up of individuals with
> the necessary expertise, and drawn from different stakeholder groups.
> These groups can then engage specific issues in greater depth, and, if
> they feel it is required, develop recommendations that can be 
> communicated to the internet community at large, or addressed to 
> specific institutions. .

This is a really interesting proposal and a good way to use the potential
of para 72g of the Tunis Agenda.

> These recommendations need not be presented as formally agreed 
> recommendations from the IGF, but as recommendations or suggestions for
> action from the individuals in the Working Group.These working groups
> have a different role from the self-organised dynamic coalitions which
> we believe should continue.
Just to be clear: In which way would they be different?
Do you envisage them as being set up by the chairman?
Would they have a limited lifespan? A closed membership? Or what?
(I am not familiar with the working details of IETF WGs).

> Based on discussions at the IGF II it appears that working groups on 
> the following five issues might be valuable: a) WG on the definition of
> illegal and harmful content; d) WG on self and co-regulation in 
> internet governance; c) WG on business models for access; d) WG on a 
> development agenda for internet governance; e) WG on open standards.

Just to point at an intrisic difficulty if you have these things not done
bottom-up: By this, you open the fight over what should be in the pipeline
for recommendations and what should not (privacy, anyone?). I can already
hear government delegates crying foul...

The important question remains: Who exactly would make the decisions on
working groups?

Best, Ralf

From ldmisekfalkoff at gmail.com  Thu Nov 15 15:18:06 2007
From: ldmisekfalkoff at gmail.com (linda misek-falkoff)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:18:06 -0500
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] April fool's day? Was Re: [governance] APC
	Statement as IGF II closes
In-Reply-To: <20071115150348.40F9227C389@mail.gn.apc.org>
References: <20071115150348.40F9227C389@mail.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <45ed74050711150718j7bcbea88g1d1bc87eaa9f2873@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings:

For one, here, I am very much interested in joining any group discussing the
notion of illegal and harmful content.  I see the proposal as a *meta* level
and not an *object* level one.  To explore the issues from the start, and
frame the relevant questions, so please sign me up.

One notes that the current cordiality in IGF-II Rio toward the topic itself
is refreshing given early 'policy't edicts that *disinformation* wanted to
be as free as *information* on the Internet, and had a right to be.  Perhaps
we will swing back and forth between both views or visit others, but at
least now there is dialogue apace.  Free Expression?  License?  Not the
same? So ...(?)...

As a P.S., it would be good to have posted some links that you consider
particularly helpful to learn about  the European or other regional courts
mentioned,  as per the initial quote in this thread:

"This, to simply talk about Europe, a region which at least share some
more or less common cultural roots and, above all, has adopted a
regional Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), has set up a regional
Court to enforce it (Strasbourg Court), which has developed a
comprehensive case law. I cannot even imagine what APC proposal would
mean at the world global level"

Thank you and  best wishes,
LDMF
Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff
* Respectful Interfaces* .

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> ps.. and meryem, to some extent you are right, not a typo so much, ut open
> to misinterpretation - the word 'definition' shouldn't be in the phrase, as
> it creates just this kind of misundertanding.. we will edit the statement
>
> > - Convene 'IGF Working Groups': APC recommends that the IGF uses
> > the format of the WGIG, or bodies such as the IETF (Internet
> > Engineering Task Force) to convene working groups to address
> > complex issues that emerge during a forum. These groups can be made
> > up of individuals with the necessary expertise, and drawn from
> > different stakeholder groups. These groups can then engage specific
> > issues in greater depth, and, if they feel it is required, develop
> > recommendations that can be communicated to the internet community
> > at large, or addressed to specific institutions. .
> >
> > [...]
> > Based on discussions at the IGF II it appears that working groups
> > on the following five issues might be valuable: a) WG on the
> > definition of illegal and harmful content;
>
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From marzouki at ras.eu.org  Thu Nov 15 15:23:33 2007
From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:23:33 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] April fool's day? Was Re: [governance] APC
	Statement as IGF II closes
Message-ID: <A3CAC10C-56DB-450E-A203-F352414638A7@ras.eu.org>


Le 15 nov. 07 ? 16:03, karen banks a ?crit :

> ps.. and meryem, to some extent you are right, not a typo so much,  
> ut open to misinterpretation - the word 'definition' shouldn't be  
> in the phrase, as it creates just this kind of misundertanding.. we  
> will edit the statement

Please do if indeed this was not what was meant. There are so many  
people and groups and institutions.. that would be more than happy to  
understand it as it actually reads in this first version. If indeed  
APC understanding is what you specified in your previous reply  
("irrespecive of how anyone might feel about the illegaility of  
specific content, it is illegal - but 'harmful' content, is  
essentially content that some interested group wishes to make illegal  
- and the raod to that, is largely via self and co-regulatory schemes  
- and often implemented by inappropraite parties.."), then may I  
suggest other wordings that you may or may not use:

"WG on the impact of content regulation by technical and soft law  
measures on human rights and the rule of law"

And this working group would actually be able to build on huge  
existing work.

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From marzouki at ras.eu.org  Thu Nov 15 16:01:05 2007
From: marzouki at ras.eu.org (Meryem Marzouki)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:01:05 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] April fool's day? Was Re: [governance] APC
	Statement as IGF II closes
Message-ID: <433BF1AC-B999-4D23-B037-DDA3117CA5D2@ras.eu.org>

Linda,

Le 15 nov. 07 ? 16:18, linda misek-falkoff a ?crit :
> As a P.S., it would be good to have posted some links that you  
> consider particularly helpful to learn about  the European or other  
> regional courts mentioned,  as per the initial quote in this thread:
>

There are many of them, not to mention websites of official  
institutions. These may certainly be helpful:
- http://www.hrni.org
- http://www.huridocs.org
- http://www.pdhre.org (see re: Internet, PDHRE Statement on Human  
Rights, Human Dignity and the Information Society: http:// 
www.pdhre.org/wsis/statement.doc)

Website of the European court is at: http://www.echr.coe.int

And, I don't want to advertise, but there is this book, too: http:// 
mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10871
It covers, chapter by chapter, rights most impacted in the  
information society. Some chapters available online:
- Foreword: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262101157forw1.pdf
- Intro: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262101157intro1.pdf
- Freedom of expression: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/ 
0262101157chap1.pdf
- Privacy: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/HOSEIN/pubs/mit_chapter_gus.pdf
- Political participation: http://www.ip3.gatech.edu/research/ 
Right_to_Political_Participation.pdf
- Guarantee rights/rule of law: http://www-polytic.lip6.fr/ 
article.php3?id_article=82

I would also recommend having a look at the WSIS human rights caucus  
work (2003-2006, all docs archived at: http://www.iris.sgdg.org/ 
actions/smsi/hr-wsis/)

Best,
Meryem

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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Fri Nov 16 16:09:06 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO - IS)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:09:06 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS self-nomination process for GAID
	Strategy Council -	 need more volunteers and more candidates
Message-ID: <1195229346-933465e57c5d5d929dc052b8520d71a7@ngocongo.org>

Dear all, 

 

This is to remind you the on going CS self-nomination process to the GAID Strategy Council. Now that the IGF has come to an end, I would like to encourage you once more to volunteer for the Nominations Committee, as well as nominate valuable candidates.

 

So far we have only 9 volunteers for the NomCom ? much less than half way to go since we would need 25 to make the random selection process really random.

 

More critically we have a very small number of candidates. I think I only have 2.

 

Best, 

 

Ph

 

 


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De : CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org] 
Envoy? : mercredi 7 novembre 2007 16:15
? : governance at lists.cpsr.org
Objet : [governance] On line information on the CS self-nomination process for GAID Strategy Council

 

Dear all, 

 

Note that we created an information page on the CS Self Nomination process for the GAID Strategy Council Membership:

http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462

 

The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, is published HERE.

We have 6 volunteers so far (all men! Not gender balanced at all?), we would need 25 to make the selection process really random.

 

Let me remind you the calendar of this process:

 

20 November 2006: deadline for volunteering to the Nomination Committee

21 November 2006: random selection of the Nom Com members

 

25 November 2006: deadline for candidatures to the CS NomCom for membership to the GA Strategy Council 

25-30 November 2006: on-line work on the nomination committee

30 November 2006: submission on the CS Nom Com recommendation the GAID Secretariat

 

Best,

 

Ph

Philippe Dam
CONGO - Information Society &
Human Rights Coordinator
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail: philippe.dam at ngocongo.org
Website: www.ngocongo.org 

 

 

 

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From ronda.netizen at gmail.com  Fri Nov 16 17:12:50 2007
From: ronda.netizen at gmail.com (Ronda Hauben)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:12:50 -0500
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS self-nomination process for
	GAID Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
In-Reply-To: <1195229346-933465e57c5d5d929dc052b8520d71a7@ngocongo.org>
References: <1195229346-933465e57c5d5d929dc052b8520d71a7@ngocongo.org>
Message-ID: <ecb9aa080711160912k54ecde89r24a82ebede8b6b0d@mail.gmail.com>

Its a bit disheartening to see that there is only a nomination issue rather
than a discussion of what the state is of what is happening and what the
views are on what it would be good to see happening.

It would be more appropriate to think of nominations coming out of a process
of some serious discussion.

Just yesterday I asked the General Assembly President at a press briefing at
the UN about what was happening as the follow up to WSIS.

The 2nd committee has a resolution to be taken up today asking for a report
on the state of affairs since the World Summit activities in Geneva and
Tunis.

Resolutions A/C.2/62/L.28 and A/C.2/62/L.35 are draft resolutions for the
General Assembly 2nd commmittee on "Information and communication
technologies for development" which are to be taken up this afternoon in the
2nd committee.

They essentially call for a report "on the status of implementation of and
follow-up to the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society."

Otherwise very little attention and activity is in general being given to
the issues that were raised in the WSIS despite the fact there was lots of
excitement during the Geneva and Tunis events.

One issue I see as important is a serious discussion over whether the
problem of spreading the Internet is merely a problem of lack of resources
or is it that the way the problem is being framed is not appropriate.

In my research and writing about the history and impact of the Internet I
have seen that the early efforts at spreading the Internet was generally a
question of a research and development group doing the work to apply the
knowledge to the particular circumstances of the situation.

In general the more people interested in development issues know of this
background and history the more they can learn from and build on what has
been done.

Yet in the current activity regarding spreading the Internet in development
situations it seems that emphasis instead is on how to get business
involved.

This seems to assume that the knowledge of what is appropriate for
development is already understood and only a matter of getting the proper
products to this new market.

With regard to the continuing spread of the Internet I was to propose this
is a detour from what is a more appropriate direction forward.

with best wishes

Ronda

See for example the articles on the spread of Unix in
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook


On 11/16/07, CONGO - IS <wsis at ngocongo.org> wrote:
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> _______________________________________
>
>
>
>  Dear all,
>
>
>
> This is to remind you the on going CS self-nomination process to the GAID
> Strategy Council. Now that the IGF has come to an end, I would like to
> encourage you once more to volunteer for the Nominations Committee, as well
> as nominate valuable candidates.
>
>
>
> So far *we have only 9 volunteers* for the NomCom ? much less than half
> way to go since we would need 25 to make the random selection process really
> random.
>
>
>
> More critically we have a very small number of candidates. I think I *only
> have 2*.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *De :* CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org]
> *Envoy? :* mercredi 7 novembre 2007 16:15
> *? :* governance at lists.cpsr.org
> *Objet :* [governance] On line information on the CS self-nomination
> process for GAID Strategy Council
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> Note that we created an information page on the CS Self Nomination process
> for the GAID Strategy Council Membership:
>
> http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462
>
>
>
> The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message
> indicating interest, is published *HERE<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463>
> *.
>
> We have *6 volunteers so far* (all men! Not gender balanced at all?), we
> would need 25 to make the selection process really random.
>
>
>
> Let me remind you the calendar of this process:
>
>
>
> *20 November 2006: deadline for volunteering to the Nomination Committee*
>
> 21 November 2006: random selection of the Nom Com members
>
>
>
> 25 November 2006: deadline for candidatures to the CS NomCom for
> membership to the GA Strategy Council
>
> 25-30 November 2006: on-line work on the nomination committee
>
> 30 November 2006: submission on the CS Nom Com recommendation the GAID
> Secretariat
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
> *Philippe Dam**
> CONGO - Information Society &
> Human Rights Coordinator
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail: **philippe.dam at ngocongo.org* <wphilippe.dam at ngocongo.org>*
> Website: www.ngocongo.org ***
>
>
>
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From mclauglm at muohio.edu  Fri Nov 16 20:26:46 2007
From: mclauglm at muohio.edu (McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr.)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:26:46 -0500
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS self-nomination process for
 GAID Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
In-Reply-To: <1195229346-933465e57c5d5d929dc052b8520d71a7@ngocongo.org>
Message-ID: <C3636736.11931%mclauglm@muohio.edu>

Philippe, I volunteer to be a member of the noncom. Please will you share the list of those who've already volunteered as well as the names of those put forward for nomination to the strategy council?

Best,

Lisa McLaughlin



Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Mass Communication & Women's Studies
Williams Hall
Miami University, Ohio  45056
USA
tele: +1 513 5293547
fax: +1 513 5291835


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From ldmisekfalkoff at gmail.com  Sat Nov 17 03:41:00 2007
From: ldmisekfalkoff at gmail.com (linda misek-falkoff)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:41:00 -0500
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS self-nomination process for
	GAID Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
In-Reply-To: <1195229346-933465e57c5d5d929dc052b8520d71a7@ngocongo.org>
References: <1195229346-933465e57c5d5d929dc052b8520d71a7@ngocongo.org>
Message-ID: <45ed74050711161941h18411ef1q3f1c2d55b7500096@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings,

Thank you for your notice.

I am interested in serving on the Civil Spciety Strategy Council, from a
senior netizen, woman online perspective if appointed.  My information is
already online from prior candidacy but I do not believe I still have the
link; your help will be appreciated.

(In person participant WSIS I and II, Geneva and Tunis; and IGF-I, Athens.
Full-time online registered participant IGF-II, Rio, documenting and
interacting via Online Collaboration Dynamic Coaltion resources - grace
a  Jeremy Malcolm *et al*.

All the best, LDMF.


On 11/16/07, CONGO - IS <wsis at ngocongo.org> wrote:
>
> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> this message!
> _______________________________________
>
>
>
>  Dear all,
>
>
>
> This is to remind you the on going CS self-nomination process to the GAID
> Strategy Council. Now that the IGF has come to an end, I would like to
> encourage you once more to volunteer for the Nominations Committee, as well
> as nominate valuable candidates.
>
>
>
> So far *we have only 9 volunteers* for the NomCom ? much less than half
> way to go since we would need 25 to make the random selection process really
> random.
>
>
>
> More critically we have a very small number of candidates. I think I *only
> have 2*.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *De :* CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto: wsis at ngocongo.org]
> *Envoy? :* mercredi 7 novembre 2007 16:15
> *? :* governance at lists.cpsr.org
> *Objet :* [governance] On line information on the CS self-nomination
> process for GAID Strategy Council
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> Note that we created an information page on the CS Self Nomination process
> for the GAID Strategy Council Membership:
>
> http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462
>
>
>
> The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message
> indicating interest, is published *HERE<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463>
> *.
>
> We have *6 volunteers so far* (all men! Not gender balanced at all?), we
> would need 25 to make the selection process really random.
>
>
>
> Let me remind you the calendar of this process:
>
>
>
> *20 November 2006: deadline for volunteering to the Nomination Committee*
>
> 21 November 2006: random selection of the Nom Com members
>
>
>
> 25 November 2006: deadline for candidatures to the CS NomCom for
> membership to the GA Strategy Council
>
> 25-30 November 2006: on-line work on the nomination committee
>
> 30 November 2006: submission on the CS Nom Com recommendation the GAID
> Secretariat
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
> *Philippe Dam**
> CONGO - Information Society &
> Human Rights Coordinator
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail: **philippe.dam at ngocongo.org* <wphilippe.dam at ngocongo.org>*
> Website: www.ngocongo.org ***
>
>
>
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Disability Caucus.
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From ceo at bnnrc.net  Sat Nov 17 03:43:11 2007
From: ceo at bnnrc.net (BNNRC)
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:43:11 +0600
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary]  APC Statement as IGF II closes
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From guru at itforchange.net  Tue Nov 20 18:06:43 2007
From: guru at itforchange.net (Guru@ITfC)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:06:43 -0300
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [governance] Update on the CS self-nomination
	process for GAID Strategy Council - need more volunteers and
	more candidates
In-Reply-To: <1195229346-933465e57c5d5d929dc052b8520d71a7@ngocongo.org>
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Hi Philippe,
 
I volunteer to be on the NonCom.
 
regards
Guru
_____________ 
Gurumurthy K 
IT for Change, Bangalore 
Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 
 <http://www.itforchange.net/> www.ITforChange.net 

  _____  

From: CONGO - IS [mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org] 
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:09 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; plenary at wsis-cs.org
Cc: wsis at ngocongo.org
Subject: [governance] Update on the CS self-nomination process for GAID
Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates



Dear all, 

 

This is to remind you the on going CS self-nomination process to the GAID
Strategy Council. Now that the IGF has come to an end, I would like to
encourage you once more to volunteer for the Nominations Committee, as well
as nominate valuable candidates.

 

So far we have only 9 volunteers for the NomCom ? much less than half way to
go since we would need 25 to make the random selection process really
random.

 

More critically we have a very small number of candidates. I think I only
have 2.

 

Best, 

 

Ph

 

 

  _____  

De : CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org] 
Envoy? : mercredi 7 novembre 2007 16:15
? : governance at lists.cpsr.org
Objet : [governance] On line information on the CS self-nomination process
for GAID Strategy Council

 

Dear all, 

 

Note that we created an information page on the CS Self Nomination process
for the GAID Strategy Council Membership:

http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462> &id=10462

 

The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message
indicating interest, is published HERE
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463> .

We have 6 volunteers so far (all men! Not gender balanced at all
), we would
need 25 to make the selection process really random.

 

Let me remind you the calendar of this process:

 

20 November 2006: deadline for volunteering to the Nomination Committee

21 November 2006: random selection of the Nom Com members

 

25 November 2006: deadline for candidatures to the CS NomCom for membership
to the GA Strategy Council 

25-30 November 2006: on-line work on the nomination committee

30 November 2006: submission on the CS Nom Com recommendation the GAID
Secretariat

 

Best,

 

Ph

Philippe Dam
CONGO - Information Society &
Human Rights Coordinator
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wphilippe.dam at ngocongo.org> philippe.dam at ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

 

 

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From e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk  Tue Nov 20 12:42:29 2007
From: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk (Ezendu Ariwa)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:42:29 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS self-nomination process for GAID Strategy
 Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
In-Reply-To: <20071120100914.D6A15278114@mail.gn.apc.org>
References: <1195229346-933465e57c5d5d929dc052b8520d71a7@ngocongo.org>
	<20071120100914.D6A15278114@mail.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <51153.82.198.250.10.1195562549.squirrel@webmail1.londonmet.ac.uk>

Dear



I am happy to volunteer for the NonCom

I look forward to your reply



Ezendu





> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific
> people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> this message!
> _______________________________________
>
> Hi Philippe,
>
> I volunteer to be on the NonCom.
>
> regards
> Guru
> _____________
> Gurumurthy K
> IT for Change, Bangalore
> Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities
>  <http://www.itforchange.net/> www.ITforChange.net
>
>   _____
>
> From: CONGO - IS [mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org]
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:09 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Cc: wsis at ngocongo.org
> Subject: [governance] Update on the CS self-nomination process for GAID
> Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> This is to remind you the on going CS self-nomination process to the GAID
> Strategy Council. Now that the IGF has come to an end, I would like to
> encourage you once more to volunteer for the Nominations Committee, as
> well
> as nominate valuable candidates.
>
>
>
> So far we have only 9 volunteers for the NomCom ? much less than half way
> to
> go since we would need 25 to make the random selection process really
> random.
>
>
>
> More critically we have a very small number of candidates. I think I only
> have 2.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
>
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> De : CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org]
> Envoy? : mercredi 7 novembre 2007 16:15
> ? : governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Objet : [governance] On line information on the CS self-nomination process
> for GAID Strategy Council
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> Note that we created an information page on the CS Self Nomination process
> for the GAID Strategy Council Membership:
>
> http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news
> <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462> &id=10462
>
>
>
> The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message
> indicating interest, is published HERE
> <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463> .
>
> We have 6 volunteers so far (all men! Not gender balanced at all
), we
> would
> need 25 to make the selection process really random.
>
>
>
> Let me remind you the calendar of this process:
>
>
>
> 20 November 2006: deadline for volunteering to the Nomination Committee
>
> 21 November 2006: random selection of the Nom Com members
>
>
>
> 25 November 2006: deadline for candidatures to the CS NomCom for
> membership
> to the GA Strategy Council
>
> 25-30 November 2006: on-line work on the nomination committee
>
> 30 November 2006: submission on the CS Nom Com recommendation the GAID
> Secretariat
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
> Philippe Dam
> CONGO - Information Society &
> Human Rights Coordinator
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail:  <mailto:wphilippe.dam at ngocongo.org> philippe.dam at ngocongo.org
> Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>


Ezendu Ariwa
Senior Lecturer - Strategic Information Systems
London Metropolitan University
London Metropolitan Business School
277-281 Holloway Road
London N7 8HN
United Kingdom

Tel: 02071333945
Fax: 02071333899
Email: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk



Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo


From e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk  Tue Nov 20 12:42:36 2007
From: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk (Ezendu Ariwa)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:42:36 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS self-nomination process for GAID Strategy
 Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
In-Reply-To: <20071120100914.D6A15278114@mail.gn.apc.org>
References: <1195229346-933465e57c5d5d929dc052b8520d71a7@ngocongo.org>
	<20071120100914.D6A15278114@mail.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <51556.82.198.250.10.1195562556.squirrel@webmail1.londonmet.ac.uk>

Dear



I am happy to volunteer for the NonCom

I look forward to your reply



Ezendu





> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific
> people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> this message!
> _______________________________________
>
> Hi Philippe,
>
> I volunteer to be on the NonCom.
>
> regards
> Guru
> _____________
> Gurumurthy K
> IT for Change, Bangalore
> Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities
>  <http://www.itforchange.net/> www.ITforChange.net
>
>   _____
>
> From: CONGO - IS [mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org]
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:09 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Cc: wsis at ngocongo.org
> Subject: [governance] Update on the CS self-nomination process for GAID
> Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> This is to remind you the on going CS self-nomination process to the GAID
> Strategy Council. Now that the IGF has come to an end, I would like to
> encourage you once more to volunteer for the Nominations Committee, as
> well
> as nominate valuable candidates.
>
>
>
> So far we have only 9 volunteers for the NomCom ? much less than half way
> to
> go since we would need 25 to make the random selection process really
> random.
>
>
>
> More critically we have a very small number of candidates. I think I only
> have 2.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
>
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> De : CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org]
> Envoy? : mercredi 7 novembre 2007 16:15
> ? : governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Objet : [governance] On line information on the CS self-nomination process
> for GAID Strategy Council
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> Note that we created an information page on the CS Self Nomination process
> for the GAID Strategy Council Membership:
>
> http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news
> <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462> &id=10462
>
>
>
> The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message
> indicating interest, is published HERE
> <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463> .
>
> We have 6 volunteers so far (all men! Not gender balanced at all
), we
> would
> need 25 to make the selection process really random.
>
>
>
> Let me remind you the calendar of this process:
>
>
>
> 20 November 2006: deadline for volunteering to the Nomination Committee
>
> 21 November 2006: random selection of the Nom Com members
>
>
>
> 25 November 2006: deadline for candidatures to the CS NomCom for
> membership
> to the GA Strategy Council
>
> 25-30 November 2006: on-line work on the nomination committee
>
> 30 November 2006: submission on the CS Nom Com recommendation the GAID
> Secretariat
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
> Philippe Dam
> CONGO - Information Society &
> Human Rights Coordinator
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail:  <mailto:wphilippe.dam at ngocongo.org> philippe.dam at ngocongo.org
> Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>


Ezendu Ariwa
Senior Lecturer - Strategic Information Systems
London Metropolitan University
London Metropolitan Business School
277-281 Holloway Road
London N7 8HN
United Kingdom

Tel: 02071333945
Fax: 02071333899
Email: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk



Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo


From e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk  Tue Nov 20 12:42:32 2007
From: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk (Ezendu Ariwa)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:42:32 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS self-nomination process for GAID Strategy
 Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
In-Reply-To: <20071120100914.D6A15278114@mail.gn.apc.org>
References: <1195229346-933465e57c5d5d929dc052b8520d71a7@ngocongo.org>
	<20071120100914.D6A15278114@mail.gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <51282.82.198.250.10.1195562552.squirrel@webmail1.londonmet.ac.uk>

Dear



I am happy to volunteer for the NonCom

I look forward to your reply



Ezendu





> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific
> people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> this message!
> _______________________________________
>
> Hi Philippe,
>
> I volunteer to be on the NonCom.
>
> regards
> Guru
> _____________
> Gurumurthy K
> IT for Change, Bangalore
> Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities
>  <http://www.itforchange.net/> www.ITforChange.net
>
>   _____
>
> From: CONGO - IS [mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org]
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:09 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Cc: wsis at ngocongo.org
> Subject: [governance] Update on the CS self-nomination process for GAID
> Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> This is to remind you the on going CS self-nomination process to the GAID
> Strategy Council. Now that the IGF has come to an end, I would like to
> encourage you once more to volunteer for the Nominations Committee, as
> well
> as nominate valuable candidates.
>
>
>
> So far we have only 9 volunteers for the NomCom ? much less than half way
> to
> go since we would need 25 to make the random selection process really
> random.
>
>
>
> More critically we have a very small number of candidates. I think I only
> have 2.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
>
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> De : CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org]
> Envoy? : mercredi 7 novembre 2007 16:15
> ? : governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Objet : [governance] On line information on the CS self-nomination process
> for GAID Strategy Council
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> Note that we created an information page on the CS Self Nomination process
> for the GAID Strategy Council Membership:
>
> http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news
> <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462> &id=10462
>
>
>
> The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message
> indicating interest, is published HERE
> <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463> .
>
> We have 6 volunteers so far (all men! Not gender balanced at all
), we
> would
> need 25 to make the selection process really random.
>
>
>
> Let me remind you the calendar of this process:
>
>
>
> 20 November 2006: deadline for volunteering to the Nomination Committee
>
> 21 November 2006: random selection of the Nom Com members
>
>
>
> 25 November 2006: deadline for candidatures to the CS NomCom for
> membership
> to the GA Strategy Council
>
> 25-30 November 2006: on-line work on the nomination committee
>
> 30 November 2006: submission on the CS Nom Com recommendation the GAID
> Secretariat
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
> Philippe Dam
> CONGO - Information Society &
> Human Rights Coordinator
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail:  <mailto:wphilippe.dam at ngocongo.org> philippe.dam at ngocongo.org
> Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>


Ezendu Ariwa
Senior Lecturer - Strategic Information Systems
London Metropolitan University
London Metropolitan Business School
277-281 Holloway Road
London N7 8HN
United Kingdom

Tel: 02071333945
Fax: 02071333899
Email: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk



Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo


From wsis at ngocongo.org  Tue Nov 20 15:28:12 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:28:12 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Deadline to volunteer in Nom Com is today
	midnight - more volunteers needed.
In-Reply-To: <C3636736.11931%mclauglm@muohio.edu>
Message-ID: <200711201527.lAKFRLTP008150@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

Thanks Lisa, 

 

Yes there is on line a list of volunteers to serve in the NomCom and of self
nominations for the CS membership into the GAID Strategy Council we received
so far. The description of the whole process as previously circulated on
this list is available on: http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462> &id=10462. As you
know, the GAID Secretariat announced that 3 to 4 CS seats in the Strategy
Council will be renewed (corresponding to approximately one third of the 10
CS members of the Strategy Council, composed of a total of 40 members).

 

-          Volunteers to
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463>  serve in the NomCom:
We only have 13 volunteers so far and as you know we would need 25 to make
the selection completely random. The deadline for volunteering is TODAY at
0.00. The random selection process will indeed take place tomorrow. If we
don?t reach this number of 25, we would have to consider cancelling the
whole self nomination process and would not be in a position to submit a
recommendation for the new CS members of the Strategy Council to the GAID
Secretariat.

 

-          Nominated <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10464>
candidates for the GAID Strategy Council: I only received so far 4
nominations. We also need much more to make this process meaningful.
Deadline for nominations of candidates is 25 November. Nominations could be
self-candidatures of nominations by others. To nominate through this
process, send to wsis at ngocongo.org the following information:

Name:
CS Affiliation(s):
Country:
Gender:
Age:
Biographical Statement:
Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:

 

 

 

In parallel to that, one CS seat of the GAID steering committee is also
going to be open to rotation. The Steering Committee is composed of 10
members, including 2 from civil society. As also previously announced, I am
also trying to mobilize the CS outgoing members of the Strategy Council and
the HL Advisors to make a recommendation to the GAID Secretariat on the CS
seat of the GAID Steering Committee to be renewed. I would come back to you
later about that.

 

Best, 

 

Philippe

 

  _____  

De : plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] De la
part de McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr.
Envoy? : vendredi, 16. novembre 2007 21:27
? : Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS self-nomination process for
GAID Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates

 

Philippe, I volunteer to be a member of the noncom. Please will you share
the list of those who?ve already volunteered as well as the names of those
put forward for nomination to the strategy council?

Best,

Lisa McLaughlin



Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Mass Communication & Women?s Studies
Williams Hall
Miami University, Ohio  45056
USA
tele: +1 513 5293547
fax: +1 513 5291835


On 11/16/07 11:09 AM, "CONGO - IS" <wsis at ngocongo.org> wrote:

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From email at hakik.org  Tue Nov 20 15:58:46 2007
From: email at hakik.org (Hakikur Rahman)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:58:46 +0600
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Deadline to volunteer in Nom Com is today
 midnight - more volunteers needed.
In-Reply-To: <200711201527.lAKFRLTP008150@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
References: <C3636736.11931%mclauglm@muohio.edu>
	<200711201527.lAKFRLTP008150@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <20071120160052.796642805FA@mail.gn.apc.org>

Please add my name in the NomCom.

Best regards,
Hakik

Dr. Md. Hakikur Rahman
Chairman
SchoolNet Foundation Bangladesh
web: www.schoolnetbd.org, www.hakik.org
email: email at hakik.org, hakikur.rahman at gmail.com

At 09:28 PM 11/20/2007, CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam wrote:
>[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your 
>response goes to the entire list. Kindly use 
>individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
>Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to 
>access automatic translation of this message!
>_______________________________________
>
>
>Thanks Lisa,
>
>Yes there is on line a list of volunteers to 
>serve in the NomCom and of self nominations for 
>the CS membership into the GAID Strategy Council 
>we received so far. The description of the whole 
>process as previously circulated on this list is 
>available on: 
><http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462>http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462. 
>As you know, the GAID Secretariat announced that 
>3 to 4 CS seats in the Strategy Council will be 
>renewed (corresponding to approximately one 
>third of the 10 CS members of the Strategy 
>Council, composed of a total of 40 members).
>
>- 
><http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463>Volunteers 
>to serve in the NomCom: We only have 13 
>volunteers so far and as you know we would need 
>25 to make the selection completely random. The 
>deadline for volunteering is TODAY at 0.00. The 
>random selection process will indeed take place 
>tomorrow. If we don?t reach this number of 25, 
>we would have to consider cancelling the whole 
>self nomination process and would not be in a 
>position to submit a recommendation for the new 
>CS members of the Strategy Council to the GAID Secretariat.
>
>- 
><http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10464>Nominated 
>candidates for the GAID Strategy Council: I only 
>received so far 4 nominations. We also need much 
>more to make this process meaningful. Deadline 
>for nominations of candidates is 25 November. 
>Nominations could be self-candidatures of 
>nominations by others. To nominate through this 
>process, send to 
><mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org>wsis at ngocongo.org the following information:
>Name:
>CS Affiliation(s):
>Country:
>Gender:
>Age:
>Biographical Statement:
>Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:
>
>
>
>In parallel to that, one CS seat of the GAID 
>steering committee is also going to be open to 
>rotation. The Steering Committee is composed of 
>10 members, including 2 from civil society. As 
>also previously announced, I am also trying to 
>mobilize the CS outgoing members of the Strategy 
>Council and the HL Advisors to make a 
>recommendation to the GAID Secretariat on the CS 
>seat of the GAID Steering Committee to be 
>renewed. I would come back to you later about that.
>
>Best,
>
>Philippe
>
>
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>[mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] De la part de McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr.
>Envoy? : vendredi, 16. novembre 2007 21:27
>? : Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
>Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS 
>self-nomination process for GAID Strategy 
>Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
>
>Philippe, I volunteer to be a member of the 
>noncom. Please will you share the list of those 
>who?ve already volunteered as well as the names 
>of those put forward for nomination to the strategy council?
>
>Best,
>
>Lisa McLaughlin
>
>
>
>Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
>Mass Communication & Women?s Studies
>Williams Hall
>Miami University, Ohio  45056
>USA
>tele: +1 513 5293547
>fax: +1 513 5291835
>
>
>On 11/16/07 11:09 AM, "CONGO - IS" <wsis at ngocongo.org> wrote:
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>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Suggested guidelines 
>- CS Self-Nomination processfor GAID Strategic Council membership
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>Dear all,
>
>This is to suggest that we go into CS 
>self-nomination through a NomCom process for the 
>membership of the GAID Strategy Council 
>(reminder: see GAID Secretariat note attached). 
>As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure 
>might be open for rotation. Nomination are open 
>until 30 November 2007, so that a CS 
>self-nomination process should be finalized by 
>that time (some flexibility might allow us to 
>finish it in the early days of December).
>
>Please start volunteering to the NomCom 
>according to the proposed guidelines below. I?ll 
>inform you about the webpage in which the names 
>will be published. Depending on when the seeds 
>for the randomization process in selecting 
>NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more 
>information about that very shortly), the 
>various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, 
>but the process could remain unchanged.
>
>Selection of a CS Nomination Committee
>The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS 
>representatives, acting in their personal 
>capacity and randomly selected among those who 
>would volunteer. For the selection of 5 names to 
>be random, we should try to have 5 times as many 
>volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.
>
>Volunteers for serving in the Nomination 
>Committee should announce themselves no later 
>than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS 
>affiliation at 
><mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org>wsis at ngocongo.org). 
>The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by 
>date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published online.
>
>The Nom Com would be selected through a random 
>selection process on 21 November 2007.
>
>?          Members of the Nominations Committee 
>will preferably have to demonstrate a 
>long-standing engagement in the Information 
>Society-related processes within the UN, in 
>particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of 
>civil society self-organised working processes.
>?          Volunteering for the pool does NOT 
>disqualify anyone from selection for the 
>Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com 
>(that is, if you are randomly selected) does.
>?          The more people who volunteer the 
>better chance we have to get a representative selection in the Nom Com.
>?          There will not be two persons from 
>the same organisation in the Nomination Committee.
>
>The Nomination Committee would start working on 
>line fairly intensively on 21 November 2007 
>until 30 November 2005. Its work will be 
>facilitated by a non voting facilitator (if 
>nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody 
>objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).
>
>If the number of volunteers to serve in the 
>NomCom does not reach 25 persons by 19 November, 
>we would have to consider that there is no 
>interest among this group to go into a 
>self-nomination process for the Steering 
>Committee CS membership. We would leave it 
>completely to the GAID Secretariat to identify such membership.
>
>Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council
>Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA 
>Strategy Council is open to all representatives 
>from civil society, including CS entities 
>accredited to WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and 
>all other CS actors interested in ICT for 
>Development and involved in the UN development 
>agenda towards achieving the MDGs.
>
>Nominations (including self-nominations) and all 
>relevant information must be sent to the NomCom 
>facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 
>22:00 p.m. GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:
>
>Name:
>CS Affiliation(s):
>Country:
>Gender:
>Age:
>Biographical Statement:
>Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:
>
>The members of the NomCom will determine in due 
>time their guidelines and criteria.
>They will be requested to come out with a 
>recommendation to be forwarded to the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.
>Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened 
>to rotation, it is expected that the NomCom 
>recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, 
>to allow for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.
>
>
>As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage 
>you to contribute to this CS self-nomination process and to make it successful.
>Looking forward to reading you in this regard.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Philippe
>
>Philippe Dam
>CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat
>11, Avenue de la Paix
>CH-1202 Geneva
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>governments and United Nations agencies on 
>issues of global concern.  For more information 
>see our website at <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/>www.ngocongo.org
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>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: [GAID Steering] 
>Renewal of Membership intheGAID Strategy Counciland Steering Committee
>Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:43:21 +0100
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>Dear all,
>
>This is the note of the GAID Secretariat 
>regarding the renewal of membership of the GAID 
>Strategy Council and Steering Committee.
>I also re-attached the recent e-mail I 
>circulated in this regard a couple of days ago.
>
>As discussed, the deadline for nominations is 30 
>November 2007. As previously announced, we have 
>not yet any idea of who, among the outgoing 
>Strategy Council (see 
><http://www.un-gaid.org/en/council/members>membership 
>here) and Steering Committee members (see 
><http://www.un-gaid.org/en/steering/members>membership 
>here), will be maintained and which ones will go out.
>
>I?ll come back to you early next week with some 
>proposals regarding a CS self nomination process 
>(please send any comment on that matter).
>
>The timeline as confirmed by the GAID Secretariat note is as follows:
>
>
>GAID Steering Committee
>GAID Strategy Council
>Deadline for expression of renewal by outgoing members
>
>15 August 2007
>
>30 November 2007
>Deadline for new nominations for membership
>
>30 November 2007
>
>30 November 2007
>Announcement of the Appointment of new members
>
>End of December 2007
>
>End of December 2007
>Office taking of the new members
>
>1 April 2008
>
>1 April 2008
>Date of the GAID structure with its renewed membership
>May 2008
>Kuala Lumpur
>May 2008
>Kuala Lumpur
>
>Best regards,
>
>Philippe Dam
>
>
>
>
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>[mailto:steering-bounces at un-gaid.org] De la part de Sarbuland Khan
>Envoy? : lundi, 29. octobre 2007 15:38
>? : steering at un-gaid.org
>Objet : [GAID Steering] Renewal of Membership in 
>the GAID Strategy Counciland Steering Committee
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>To ensure continuity and renewal of membership 
>in the GAID Strategy Council and Steering 
>Committee, the GAID Secretariat initiated a 
>nomination process last 31 July 2007 for 
>membership in both bodies. It is envisioned that 
>approximately one-third of the membership in the 
>Strategy Council and Steering Committee should rotate.
>
>According to the Terms of Reference adopted at 
>the 27 September 2006 meeting of the Steering 
>Committee (see attached), the term of the 
>members of the GAID Steering Committee was due 
>to end in September 2007, and the term of 
>members of the GAID Strategy Council will 
>conclude before the next meeting of the Strategy 
>Council on May 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 
>during the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT)).
>
>However, as agreed by the Steering Committee in 
>its meeting last 19 September 2007 in New York, 
>more time is needed for the consultation process 
>for nominations, particularly to membership in 
>the Steering Committee. It has been agreed that 
>the term of the present membership in the 
>Steering Committee be continued through March 
>2008 and to extend the Steering Committee 
>consultation process to align with the timeframe 
>for the process of rotation in the Strategy Council.
>
>The terms of the next GAID Steering Committee 
>and Strategy Council would, therefore, run as follows:
>
>Steering Committee (one year term)
>1 April 2008 - 31 March 2009
>
>Strategy Council (two year term)
>1 April 2008    31 March 2010
>
>
>RENEWAL OF MEMBERSHIP OF EXISTING MEMBERS
>
>The Secretariat kindly requests current members, 
>who have not yet done so, to indicate whether 
>they would be available and interested to be 
>considered as a candidate for renewal.
>
>We would be grateful to receive this information 
>(addressed to dejesus3 at un-gaid.org) no later 
>than 30 November 2007, both for Steering 
>Committee members and Strategy Council members.
>
>
>NOMINATIONS OF NEW CANDIDATES
>
>The Secretariat invites nominations for new 
>candidatures for the Steering Committee for 
>approximately 4 seats, and the Strategy Council 
>for approximately 20 seats (1/3 of the 
>membership of each stakeholder group) by 30 
>November 2007. (Please see 
>http://www.un-gaid.org/en/about/howgaidworks for the list of current members.)
>
>As is established practice, nominations for 
>Member States are being solicited through the 
>United Nations regional groups. Civil society 
>and trade organizations are being invited to 
>identify nominations from among their 
>constituencies. There is no limit to the number 
>of nominations that may be submitted. Qualified 
>organizations may also independently express 
>interest in membership. Nominations should be 
>submitted to the Secretariat by the appropriate 
>deadline noted above through the email address nominate at un-gaid.org.
>
>
>APPOINTMENT
>
>The list of recommended candidates will be 
>developed, following consultations with the 
>Strategy Council and the Steering Committee, and 
>approved on behalf of the Secretary-General by 
>the Under-Secretary-General of the Department of 
>Economic and Social Affairs. The appointment of 
>new members is anticipated to be announced by the end of December 2007.
>
>With my best personal regards,
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Sarbuland Khan
>
>
>
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>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Up date on renewal of 
>GAIDstructures(StrategyCouncil and Steering Committee)
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>Dear all,
>
>As indicated in my previous e-mails, the renewal 
>of the membership of GAID structures was 
>postponed, to allow for greater consultation 
>among stakeholders? groups. The deadline for 
>nominations is 30 November 2007. We therefore 
>have until that date to come out with a CS 
>self-organised recommendation on the membership 
>of both the Steering Committee and the Strategy 
>Council. Is there anyone among you willing to 
>moderate any of these self-nomination processes?
>
>Our problem so far is that we have not yet any 
>idea of who, among the outgoing StratC and 
>Steering Committee members, will be maintained 
>and which ones will go out. The GAID Secretariat 
>had asked all outgoing members to express their interest to continue.
>
>As regards the Steering Committee, I understood 
>that both Titi and Renate informed the GAID 
>Secretariat of their interest to continue one 
>more year. But there is no more information so 
>far on who would stay on Board. There were also 
>some discussions on whether the Steering 
>Committee membership should be increased to 12 
>members (currently 10), but there is not yet any 
>definite information on this (hopefully this would be one more for CS).
>
>As for the Strategy Council, it is understood 
>that approximately one-third of the membership 
>should rotate. But I have very little 
>information of who expressed the willingness to 
>continue. Out of 10 CS members so far, this 
>would mean that 3 or 4 new members should be 
>identified. But the deadline for expression of 
>renewal by outgoing members is also 30 November, 
>meaning that we would not be able to know before 30 Nov. who would go out

>
>We would anyway need to have 2 parallel 
>processes to go with by 30 November, in 
>identifying one individual for the Steering 
>Committee membership. Any process such as this 
>one would approximately need one month to be 
>finalised, so that we need to start both no 
>later that end October (next week!).
>
>A note by the GAID secretariat might be 
>circulated soon, but I preferred to forward you what we knew so far!
>
>Let me remind that the deadlines for the 
>nominations and appointment processes are as follows:
>
>
>GAID Steering Committee
>GAID Strategy Council
>Deadline for expression of renewal by outgoing members
>
>15 August 2007
>
>30 November 2007
>Deadline for new nominations for membership
>
>30 November 2007
>
>30 November 2007
>Announcement of the Appointment of new members
>
>End of December 2007
>
>End of December 2007
>Office taking of the new members
>
>1 April 2008
>
>1 April 2008
>Date of the GAID structure with its renewed membership
>May 2008
>Kuala Lumpur
>May 2008
>Kuala Lumpur
>
>All the best,
>
>Philippe
>
>
>Philippe Dam
>11, Avenue de la Paix
>CH-1202 Geneva
>Tel: +41 22 301 1000
>Fax: +41 22 301 2000
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From email at hakik.org  Tue Nov 20 15:58:46 2007
From: email at hakik.org (Hakikur Rahman)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:58:46 +0600
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Deadline to volunteer in Nom Com is today
 midnight - more volunteers needed.
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Please add my name in the NomCom.

Best regards,
Hakik

Dr. Md. Hakikur Rahman
Chairman
SchoolNet Foundation Bangladesh
web: www.schoolnetbd.org, www.hakik.org
email: email at hakik.org, hakikur.rahman at gmail.com

At 09:28 PM 11/20/2007, CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam wrote:
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>Thanks Lisa,
>
>Yes there is on line a list of volunteers to 
>serve in the NomCom and of self nominations for 
>the CS membership into the GAID Strategy Council 
>we received so far. The description of the whole 
>process as previously circulated on this list is 
>available on: 
><http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462>http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462. 
>As you know, the GAID Secretariat announced that 
>3 to 4 CS seats in the Strategy Council will be 
>renewed (corresponding to approximately one 
>third of the 10 CS members of the Strategy 
>Council, composed of a total of 40 members).
>
>- 
><http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463>Volunteers 
>to serve in the NomCom: We only have 13 
>volunteers so far and as you know we would need 
>25 to make the selection completely random. The 
>deadline for volunteering is TODAY at 0.00. The 
>random selection process will indeed take place 
>tomorrow. If we don?t reach this number of 25, 
>we would have to consider cancelling the whole 
>self nomination process and would not be in a 
>position to submit a recommendation for the new 
>CS members of the Strategy Council to the GAID Secretariat.
>
>- 
><http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10464>Nominated 
>candidates for the GAID Strategy Council: I only 
>received so far 4 nominations. We also need much 
>more to make this process meaningful. Deadline 
>for nominations of candidates is 25 November. 
>Nominations could be self-candidatures of 
>nominations by others. To nominate through this 
>process, send to 
><mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org>wsis at ngocongo.org the following information:
>Name:
>CS Affiliation(s):
>Country:
>Gender:
>Age:
>Biographical Statement:
>Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:
>
>
>
>In parallel to that, one CS seat of the GAID 
>steering committee is also going to be open to 
>rotation. The Steering Committee is composed of 
>10 members, including 2 from civil society. As 
>also previously announced, I am also trying to 
>mobilize the CS outgoing members of the Strategy 
>Council and the HL Advisors to make a 
>recommendation to the GAID Secretariat on the CS 
>seat of the GAID Steering Committee to be 
>renewed. I would come back to you later about that.
>
>Best,
>
>Philippe
>
>
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>[mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] De la part de McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr.
>Envoy? : vendredi, 16. novembre 2007 21:27
>? : Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
>Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS 
>self-nomination process for GAID Strategy 
>Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
>
>Philippe, I volunteer to be a member of the 
>noncom. Please will you share the list of those 
>who?ve already volunteered as well as the names 
>of those put forward for nomination to the strategy council?
>
>Best,
>
>Lisa McLaughlin
>
>
>
>Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
>Mass Communication & Women?s Studies
>Williams Hall
>Miami University, Ohio  45056
>USA
>tele: +1 513 5293547
>fax: +1 513 5291835
>
>
>On 11/16/07 11:09 AM, "CONGO - IS" <wsis at ngocongo.org> wrote:
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>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Suggested guidelines 
>- CS Self-Nomination processfor GAID Strategic Council membership
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>Dear all,
>
>This is to suggest that we go into CS 
>self-nomination through a NomCom process for the 
>membership of the GAID Strategy Council 
>(reminder: see GAID Secretariat note attached). 
>As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure 
>might be open for rotation. Nomination are open 
>until 30 November 2007, so that a CS 
>self-nomination process should be finalized by 
>that time (some flexibility might allow us to 
>finish it in the early days of December).
>
>Please start volunteering to the NomCom 
>according to the proposed guidelines below. I?ll 
>inform you about the webpage in which the names 
>will be published. Depending on when the seeds 
>for the randomization process in selecting 
>NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more 
>information about that very shortly), the 
>various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, 
>but the process could remain unchanged.
>
>Selection of a CS Nomination Committee
>The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS 
>representatives, acting in their personal 
>capacity and randomly selected among those who 
>would volunteer. For the selection of 5 names to 
>be random, we should try to have 5 times as many 
>volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.
>
>Volunteers for serving in the Nomination 
>Committee should announce themselves no later 
>than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS 
>affiliation at 
><mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org>wsis at ngocongo.org). 
>The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by 
>date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published online.
>
>The Nom Com would be selected through a random 
>selection process on 21 November 2007.
>
>?          Members of the Nominations Committee 
>will preferably have to demonstrate a 
>long-standing engagement in the Information 
>Society-related processes within the UN, in 
>particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of 
>civil society self-organised working processes.
>?          Volunteering for the pool does NOT 
>disqualify anyone from selection for the 
>Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com 
>(that is, if you are randomly selected) does.
>?          The more people who volunteer the 
>better chance we have to get a representative selection in the Nom Com.
>?          There will not be two persons from 
>the same organisation in the Nomination Committee.
>
>The Nomination Committee would start working on 
>line fairly intensively on 21 November 2007 
>until 30 November 2005. Its work will be 
>facilitated by a non voting facilitator (if 
>nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody 
>objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).
>
>If the number of volunteers to serve in the 
>NomCom does not reach 25 persons by 19 November, 
>we would have to consider that there is no 
>interest among this group to go into a 
>self-nomination process for the Steering 
>Committee CS membership. We would leave it 
>completely to the GAID Secretariat to identify such membership.
>
>Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council
>Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA 
>Strategy Council is open to all representatives 
>from civil society, including CS entities 
>accredited to WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and 
>all other CS actors interested in ICT for 
>Development and involved in the UN development 
>agenda towards achieving the MDGs.
>
>Nominations (including self-nominations) and all 
>relevant information must be sent to the NomCom 
>facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 
>22:00 p.m. GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:
>
>Name:
>CS Affiliation(s):
>Country:
>Gender:
>Age:
>Biographical Statement:
>Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:
>
>The members of the NomCom will determine in due 
>time their guidelines and criteria.
>They will be requested to come out with a 
>recommendation to be forwarded to the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.
>Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened 
>to rotation, it is expected that the NomCom 
>recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, 
>to allow for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.
>
>
>As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage 
>you to contribute to this CS self-nomination process and to make it successful.
>Looking forward to reading you in this regard.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Philippe
>
>Philippe Dam
>CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat
>11, Avenue de la Paix
>CH-1202 Geneva
>Tel: +41 22 301 1000
>Fax: +41 22 301 2000
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>facilitates the participation of NGOs in United 
>Nations debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, 
>CONGO's major objective is to ensure the 
>presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's 
>governments and United Nations agencies on 
>issues of global concern.  For more information 
>see our website at <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/>www.ngocongo.org
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>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: [GAID Steering] 
>Renewal of Membership intheGAID Strategy Counciland Steering Committee
>Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:43:21 +0100
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>Dear all,
>
>This is the note of the GAID Secretariat 
>regarding the renewal of membership of the GAID 
>Strategy Council and Steering Committee.
>I also re-attached the recent e-mail I 
>circulated in this regard a couple of days ago.
>
>As discussed, the deadline for nominations is 30 
>November 2007. As previously announced, we have 
>not yet any idea of who, among the outgoing 
>Strategy Council (see 
><http://www.un-gaid.org/en/council/members>membership 
>here) and Steering Committee members (see 
><http://www.un-gaid.org/en/steering/members>membership 
>here), will be maintained and which ones will go out.
>
>I?ll come back to you early next week with some 
>proposals regarding a CS self nomination process 
>(please send any comment on that matter).
>
>The timeline as confirmed by the GAID Secretariat note is as follows:
>
>
>GAID Steering Committee
>GAID Strategy Council
>Deadline for expression of renewal by outgoing members
>
>15 August 2007
>
>30 November 2007
>Deadline for new nominations for membership
>
>30 November 2007
>
>30 November 2007
>Announcement of the Appointment of new members
>
>End of December 2007
>
>End of December 2007
>Office taking of the new members
>
>1 April 2008
>
>1 April 2008
>Date of the GAID structure with its renewed membership
>May 2008
>Kuala Lumpur
>May 2008
>Kuala Lumpur
>
>Best regards,
>
>Philippe Dam
>
>
>
>
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>[mailto:steering-bounces at un-gaid.org] De la part de Sarbuland Khan
>Envoy? : lundi, 29. octobre 2007 15:38
>? : steering at un-gaid.org
>Objet : [GAID Steering] Renewal of Membership in 
>the GAID Strategy Counciland Steering Committee
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>To ensure continuity and renewal of membership 
>in the GAID Strategy Council and Steering 
>Committee, the GAID Secretariat initiated a 
>nomination process last 31 July 2007 for 
>membership in both bodies. It is envisioned that 
>approximately one-third of the membership in the 
>Strategy Council and Steering Committee should rotate.
>
>According to the Terms of Reference adopted at 
>the 27 September 2006 meeting of the Steering 
>Committee (see attached), the term of the 
>members of the GAID Steering Committee was due 
>to end in September 2007, and the term of 
>members of the GAID Strategy Council will 
>conclude before the next meeting of the Strategy 
>Council on May 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 
>during the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT)).
>
>However, as agreed by the Steering Committee in 
>its meeting last 19 September 2007 in New York, 
>more time is needed for the consultation process 
>for nominations, particularly to membership in 
>the Steering Committee. It has been agreed that 
>the term of the present membership in the 
>Steering Committee be continued through March 
>2008 and to extend the Steering Committee 
>consultation process to align with the timeframe 
>for the process of rotation in the Strategy Council.
>
>The terms of the next GAID Steering Committee 
>and Strategy Council would, therefore, run as follows:
>
>Steering Committee (one year term)
>1 April 2008 - 31 March 2009
>
>Strategy Council (two year term)
>1 April 2008    31 March 2010
>
>
>RENEWAL OF MEMBERSHIP OF EXISTING MEMBERS
>
>The Secretariat kindly requests current members, 
>who have not yet done so, to indicate whether 
>they would be available and interested to be 
>considered as a candidate for renewal.
>
>We would be grateful to receive this information 
>(addressed to dejesus3 at un-gaid.org) no later 
>than 30 November 2007, both for Steering 
>Committee members and Strategy Council members.
>
>
>NOMINATIONS OF NEW CANDIDATES
>
>The Secretariat invites nominations for new 
>candidatures for the Steering Committee for 
>approximately 4 seats, and the Strategy Council 
>for approximately 20 seats (1/3 of the 
>membership of each stakeholder group) by 30 
>November 2007. (Please see 
>http://www.un-gaid.org/en/about/howgaidworks for the list of current members.)
>
>As is established practice, nominations for 
>Member States are being solicited through the 
>United Nations regional groups. Civil society 
>and trade organizations are being invited to 
>identify nominations from among their 
>constituencies. There is no limit to the number 
>of nominations that may be submitted. Qualified 
>organizations may also independently express 
>interest in membership. Nominations should be 
>submitted to the Secretariat by the appropriate 
>deadline noted above through the email address nominate at un-gaid.org.
>
>
>APPOINTMENT
>
>The list of recommended candidates will be 
>developed, following consultations with the 
>Strategy Council and the Steering Committee, and 
>approved on behalf of the Secretary-General by 
>the Under-Secretary-General of the Department of 
>Economic and Social Affairs. The appointment of 
>new members is anticipated to be announced by the end of December 2007.
>
>With my best personal regards,
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Sarbuland Khan
>
>
>
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>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Up date on renewal of 
>GAIDstructures(StrategyCouncil and Steering Committee)
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>Dear all,
>
>As indicated in my previous e-mails, the renewal 
>of the membership of GAID structures was 
>postponed, to allow for greater consultation 
>among stakeholders? groups. The deadline for 
>nominations is 30 November 2007. We therefore 
>have until that date to come out with a CS 
>self-organised recommendation on the membership 
>of both the Steering Committee and the Strategy 
>Council. Is there anyone among you willing to 
>moderate any of these self-nomination processes?
>
>Our problem so far is that we have not yet any 
>idea of who, among the outgoing StratC and 
>Steering Committee members, will be maintained 
>and which ones will go out. The GAID Secretariat 
>had asked all outgoing members to express their interest to continue.
>
>As regards the Steering Committee, I understood 
>that both Titi and Renate informed the GAID 
>Secretariat of their interest to continue one 
>more year. But there is no more information so 
>far on who would stay on Board. There were also 
>some discussions on whether the Steering 
>Committee membership should be increased to 12 
>members (currently 10), but there is not yet any 
>definite information on this (hopefully this would be one more for CS).
>
>As for the Strategy Council, it is understood 
>that approximately one-third of the membership 
>should rotate. But I have very little 
>information of who expressed the willingness to 
>continue. Out of 10 CS members so far, this 
>would mean that 3 or 4 new members should be 
>identified. But the deadline for expression of 
>renewal by outgoing members is also 30 November, 
>meaning that we would not be able to know before 30 Nov. who would go out

>
>We would anyway need to have 2 parallel 
>processes to go with by 30 November, in 
>identifying one individual for the Steering 
>Committee membership. Any process such as this 
>one would approximately need one month to be 
>finalised, so that we need to start both no 
>later that end October (next week!).
>
>A note by the GAID secretariat might be 
>circulated soon, but I preferred to forward you what we knew so far!
>
>Let me remind that the deadlines for the 
>nominations and appointment processes are as follows:
>
>
>GAID Steering Committee
>GAID Strategy Council
>Deadline for expression of renewal by outgoing members
>
>15 August 2007
>
>30 November 2007
>Deadline for new nominations for membership
>
>30 November 2007
>
>30 November 2007
>Announcement of the Appointment of new members
>
>End of December 2007
>
>End of December 2007
>Office taking of the new members
>
>1 April 2008
>
>1 April 2008
>Date of the GAID structure with its renewed membership
>May 2008
>Kuala Lumpur
>May 2008
>Kuala Lumpur
>
>All the best,
>
>Philippe
>
>
>Philippe Dam
>11, Avenue de la Paix
>CH-1202 Geneva
>Tel: +41 22 301 1000
>Fax: +41 22 301 2000
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From: askatil at rediffmail.com (Amar Singh Katil)
Date: 20 Nov 2007 18:47:55 -0000
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Deadline to volunteer in Nom Com is today
	midnight - more volunteers neede
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MR AMAR SINGH SIDHU                     GGS INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION
SECRETARY GENERAL                       COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY INDIA
MEMBER OF UNICT,UNESCO,UNWTO,WTO,FAO    9827 ST NO 6 JOSHI NAGAR
UN HABITAT,NGODPI,WSIS,ISOC ITU,IAS     LUDHIANA PUNJAB INDIA
COMMONWEALTH BUSINESS COUNCIL  AND
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
    

NO 193/ASS/P                            DAT5ED 20 NOV 2007

TO ALL ADDRESSEE

SUBJECT; SUBMISSION OF NOMINATION FOR NON COM AND volunteers to serve in the NomCom and of self nominations for the CS membership into the GAID Strategy Council description of the whole  FOR THIS  the following names is enclosed herewith

Name    Capt manjeet Singh Dhindsa
 
>>CS Affiliation(s):GGS ICT UN NGO INDIA
>>Country: INDIA
>>Gender:   MALE
>>Age:66 Years 19.12.1942
>>Biographical Statement:He retired from  Army as Capt and from Punjab Govt as PCS Deputy Director Sainik Welfare Officer and Administrator Heart Institute Patial. Now he is working with GGS NGO UN INDIA wef Jan 2000 as Principal Secretary.

>>Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:
very good exempalory work for the nations.

thanks

with best wishes


amar singh sidhu
secretary general
  ?


On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 Hakikur Rahman wrote :
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>_______________________________________
>
>Please add my name in the NomCom.
>
>Best regards,
>Hakik
>
>Dr. Md. Hakikur Rahman
>Chairman
>SchoolNet Foundation Bangladesh
>web: www.schoolnetbd.org, www.hakik.org
>email: email at hakik.org, hakikur.rahman at gmail.com
>
>At 09:28 PM 11/20/2007, CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam wrote:
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>>
>>Thanks Lisa,
>>
>>Yes there is on line a list of volunteers to serve in the NomCom and of self nominations for the CS membership into the GAID Strategy Council we received so far. The description of the whole process as previously circulated on this list is available on: <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462>http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462. As you know, the GAID Secretariat announced that 3 to 4 CS seats in the Strategy Council will be renewed (corresponding to approximately one third of the 10 CS members of the Strategy Council, composed of a total of 40 members).
>>
>>- <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463>Volunteers to serve in the NomCom: We only have 13 volunteers so far and as you know we would need 25 to make the selection completely random. The deadline for volunteering is TODAY at 0.00. The random selection process will indeed take place tomorrow. If we don?t reach this number of 25, we would have to consider cancelling the whole self nomination process and would not be in a position to submit a recommendation for the new CS members of the Strategy Council to the GAID Secretariat.
>>
>>- <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10464>Nominated candidates for the GAID Strategy Council: I only received so far 4 nominations. We also need much more to make this process meaningful. Deadline for nominations of candidates is 25 November. Nominations could be self-candidatures of nominations by others. To nominate through this process, send to <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org>wsis at ngocongo.org the following information:
>>Name:
>>CS Affiliation(s):
>>Country:
>>Gender:
>>Age:
>>Biographical Statement:
>>Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:
>>
>>
>>
>>In parallel to that, one CS seat of the GAID steering committee is also going to be open to rotation. The Steering Committee is composed of 10 members, including 2 from civil society. As also previously announced, I am also trying to mobilize the CS outgoing members of the Strategy Council and the HL Advisors to make a recommendation to the GAID Secretariat on the CS seat of the GAID Steering Committee to be renewed. I would come back to you later about that.
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Philippe
>>
>>
>>----------
>>De : plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] De la part de McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr.
>>Envoy? : vendredi, 16. novembre 2007 21:27
>>? : Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
>>Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS self-nomination process for GAID Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates
>>
>>Philippe, I volunteer to be a member of the noncom. Please will you share the list of those who?ve already volunteered as well as the names of those put forward for nomination to the strategy council?
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Lisa McLaughlin
>>
>>
>>
>>Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
>>Mass Communication & Women?s Studies
>>Williams Hall
>>Miami University, Ohio  45056
>>USA
>>tele: +1 513 5293547
>>fax: +1 513 5291835
>>
>>
>>On 11/16/07 11:09 AM, "CONGO - IS" <wsis at ngocongo.org> wrote:
>>[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>>
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>>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination processfor GAID Strategic Council membership
>>Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:06:15 +0100
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>>Dear all,
>>
>>This is to suggest that we go into CS self-nomination through a NomCom process for the membership of the GAID Strategy Council (reminder: see GAID Secretariat note attached). As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure might be open for rotation. Nomination are open until 30 November 2007, so that a CS self-nomination process should be finalized by that time (some flexibility might allow us to finish it in the early days of December).
>>
>>Please start volunteering to the NomCom according to the proposed guidelines below. I?ll inform you about the webpage in which the names will be published. Depending on when the seeds for the randomization process in selecting NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more information about that very shortly), the various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, but the process could remain unchanged.
>>
>>Selection of a CS Nomination Committee
>>The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS representatives, acting in their personal capacity and randomly selected among those who would volunteer. For the selection of 5 names to be random, we should try to have 5 times as many volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.
>>
>>Volunteers for serving in the Nomination Committee should announce themselves no later than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS affiliation at <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org>wsis at ngocongo.org). The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published online.
>>
>>The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21 November 2007.
>>
>>?          Members of the Nominations Committee will preferably have to demonstrate a long-standing engagement in the Information Society-related processes within the UN, in particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of civil society self-organised working processes.
>>?          Volunteering for the pool does NOT disqualify anyone from selection for the Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com (that is, if you are randomly selected) does.
>>?          The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get a representative selection in the Nom Com.
>>?          There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the Nomination Committee.
>>
>>The Nomination Committee would start working on line fairly intensively on 21 November 2007 until 30 November 2005. Its work will be facilitated by a non voting facilitator (if nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).
>>
>>If the number of volunteers to serve in the NomCom does not reach 25 persons by 19 November, we would have to consider that there is no interest among this group to go into a self-nomination process for the Steering Committee CS membership. We would leave it completely to the GAID Secretariat to identify such membership.
>>
>>Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council
>>Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council is open to all representatives from civil society, including CS entities accredited to WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and all other CS actors interested in ICT for Development and involved in the UN development agenda towards achieving the MDGs.
>>
>>Nominations (including self-nominations) and all relevant information must be sent to the NomCom facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 22:00 p.m. GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:
>>
>>Name:
>>CS Affiliation(s):
>>Country:
>>Gender:
>>Age:
>>Biographical Statement:
>>Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:
>>
>>The members of the NomCom will determine in due time their guidelines and criteria.
>>They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded to the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.
>>Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened to rotation, it is expected that the NomCom recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, to allow for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.
>>
>>
>>As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this CS self-nomination process and to make it successful.
>>Looking forward to reading you in this regard.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Philippe
>>
>>Philippe Dam
>>CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat
>>11, Avenue de la Paix
>>CH-1202 Geneva
>>Tel: +41 22 301 1000
>>Fax: +41 22 301 2000
>>E-mail: <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org>wsis at ngocongo.org
>>Website: <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org>www.ngocongo.org
>>
>>The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our website at <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/>www.ngocongo.org
>>
>>
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>>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: [GAID Steering] Renewal of Membership intheGAID Strategy Counciland Steering Committee
>>Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:43:21 +0100
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>>Dear all,
>>
>>This is the note of the GAID Secretariat regarding the renewal of membership of the GAID Strategy Council and Steering Committee.
>>I also re-attached the recent e-mail I circulated in this regard a couple of days ago.
>>
>>As discussed, the deadline for nominations is 30 November 2007. As previously announced, we have not yet any idea of who, among the outgoing Strategy Council (see <http://www.un-gaid.org/en/council/members>membership here) and Steering Committee members (see <http://www.un-gaid.org/en/steering/members>membership here), will be maintained and which ones will go out.
>>
>>I?ll come back to you early next week with some proposals regarding a CS self nomination process (please send any comment on that matter).
>>
>>The timeline as confirmed by the GAID Secretariat note is as follows:
>>
>>
>>GAID Steering Committee
>>GAID Strategy Council
>>Deadline for expression of renewal by outgoing members
>>
>>15 August 2007
>>
>>30 November 2007
>>Deadline for new nominations for membership
>>
>>30 November 2007
>>
>>30 November 2007
>>Announcement of the Appointment of new members
>>
>>End of December 2007
>>
>>End of December 2007
>>Office taking of the new members
>>
>>1 April 2008
>>
>>1 April 2008
>>Date of the GAID structure with its renewed membership
>>May 2008
>>Kuala Lumpur
>>May 2008
>>Kuala Lumpur
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Philippe Dam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----------
>>De : steering-bounces at un-gaid.org [mailto:steering-bounces at un-gaid.org] De la part de Sarbuland Khan
>>Envoy? : lundi, 29. octobre 2007 15:38
>>? : steering at un-gaid.org
>>Objet : [GAID Steering] Renewal of Membership in the GAID Strategy Counciland Steering Committee
>>
>>Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>To ensure continuity and renewal of membership in the GAID Strategy Council and Steering Committee, the GAID Secretariat initiated a nomination process last 31 July 2007 for membership in both bodies. It is envisioned that approximately one-third of the membership in the Strategy Council and Steering Committee should rotate.
>>
>>According to the Terms of Reference adopted at the 27 September 2006 meeting of the Steering Committee (see attached), the term of the members of the GAID Steering Committee was due to end in September 2007, and the term of members of the GAID Strategy Council will conclude before the next meeting of the Strategy Council on May 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT)).
>>
>>However, as agreed by the Steering Committee in its meeting last 19 September 2007 in New York, more time is needed for the consultation process for nominations, particularly to membership in the Steering Committee. It has been agreed that the term of the present membership in the Steering Committee be continued through March 2008 and to extend the Steering Committee consultation process to align with the timeframe for the process of rotation in the Strategy Council.
>>
>>The terms of the next GAID Steering Committee and Strategy Council would, therefore, run as follows:
>>
>>Steering Committee (one year term)
>>1 April 2008 - 31 March 2009
>>
>>Strategy Council (two year term)
>>1 April 2008    31 March 2010
>>
>>
>>RENEWAL OF MEMBERSHIP OF EXISTING MEMBERS
>>
>>The Secretariat kindly requests current members, who have not yet done so, to indicate whether they would be available and interested to be considered as a candidate for renewal.
>>
>>We would be grateful to receive this information (addressed to dejesus3 at un-gaid.org) no later than 30 November 2007, both for Steering Committee members and Strategy Council members.
>>
>>
>>NOMINATIONS OF NEW CANDIDATES
>>
>>The Secretariat invites nominations for new candidatures for the Steering Committee for approximately 4 seats, and the Strategy Council for approximately 20 seats (1/3 of the membership of each stakeholder group) by 30 November 2007. (Please see http://www.un-gaid.org/en/about/howgaidworks for the list of current members.)
>>
>>As is established practice, nominations for Member States are being solicited through the United Nations regional groups. Civil society and trade organizations are being invited to identify nominations from among their constituencies. There is no limit to the number of nominations that may be submitted. Qualified organizations may also independently express interest in membership. Nominations should be submitted to the Secretariat by the appropriate deadline noted above through the email address nominate at un-gaid.org.
>>
>>
>>APPOINTMENT
>>
>>The list of recommended candidates will be developed, following consultations with the Strategy Council and the Steering Committee, and approved on behalf of the Secretary-General by the Under-Secretary-General of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The appointment of new members is anticipated to be announced by the end of December 2007.
>>
>>With my best personal regards,
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Sarbuland Khan
>>
>>
>>
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>>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Up date on renewal of GAIDstructures(StrategyCouncil and Steering Committee)
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>>Dear all,
>>
>>As indicated in my previous e-mails, the renewal of the membership of GAID structures was postponed, to allow for greater consultation among stakeholders? groups. The deadline for nominations is 30 November 2007. We therefore have until that date to come out with a CS self-organised recommendation on the membership of both the Steering Committee and the Strategy Council. Is there anyone among you willing to moderate any of these self-nomination processes?
>>
>>Our problem so far is that we have not yet any idea of who, among the outgoing StratC and Steering Committee members, will be maintained and which ones will go out. The GAID Secretariat had asked all outgoing members to express their interest to continue.
>>
>>As regards the Steering Committee, I understood that both Titi and Renate informed the GAID Secretariat of their interest to continue one more year. But there is no more information so far on who would stay on Board. There were also some discussions on whether the Steering Committee membership should be increased to 12 members (currently 10), but there is not yet any definite information on this (hopefully this would be one more for CS).
>>
>>As for the Strategy Council, it is understood that approximately one-third of the membership should rotate. But I have very little information of who expressed the willingness to continue. Out of 10 CS members so far, this would mean that 3 or 4 new members should be identified. But the deadline for expression of renewal by outgoing members is also 30 November, meaning that we would not be able to know before 30 Nov. who would go out

>>
>>We would anyway need to have 2 parallel processes to go with by 30 November, in identifying one individual for the Steering Committee membership. Any process such as this one would approximately need one month to be finalised, so that we need to start both no later that end October (next week!).
>>
>>A note by the GAID secretariat might be circulated soon, but I preferred to forward you what we knew so far!
>>
>>Let me remind that the deadlines for the nominations and appointment processes are as follows:
>>
>>
>>GAID Steering Committee
>>GAID Strategy Council
>>Deadline for expression of renewal by outgoing members
>>
>>15 August 2007
>>
>>30 November 2007
>>Deadline for new nominations for membership
>>
>>30 November 2007
>>
>>30 November 2007
>>Announcement of the Appointment of new members
>>
>>End of December 2007
>>
>>End of December 2007
>>Office taking of the new members
>>
>>1 April 2008
>>
>>1 April 2008
>>Date of the GAID structure with its renewed membership
>>May 2008
>>Kuala Lumpur
>>May 2008
>>Kuala Lumpur
>>
>>All the best,
>>
>>Philippe
>>
>>
>>Philippe Dam
>>11, Avenue de la Paix
>>CH-1202 Geneva
>>Tel: +41 22 301 1000
>>Fax: +41 22 301 2000
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From: habib.gares at wanadoo.fr (Habib EL GARES)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:04:06 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination
 process	for GAID Strategic Council membership
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Bonjour ,


Je suis volontaire pour d?poser ma candidature:
Je suis:


El Gar?s Abdelmajid- Habib.

J'ai 58 ans

je suis professeur  et j'ai deux nationalit?s: Fran?aise et Tunisienne.

Je veux bien participer au d?veloppement des TIC dans les pays du sud car je suis install? en France et je travaille ? Grenoble et ? Lyon mais je suis dans diff?rentes organisations des pays du sud.

je vous envoie mon  mon CV .
? bient?t
Habib
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From Anita at ITforChange.net  Wed Nov 21 07:27:31 2007
From: Anita at ITforChange.net (Anita)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:57:31 +0530
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [governance] Deadline to volunteer in Nom Com
	is today midnight - more volunteers needed.
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Would like to volunteer

 

anita gurumurthy

IT for Change

www.ITforChange.net

Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities

Tel:98455 46406

 

 

 

 

  _____  

From: CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:58 PM
To: 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'; governance at lists.cpsr.org;
gov at wsis-gov.org
Cc: 'CONGO - Philippe Dam'
Subject: [governance] Deadline to volunteer in Nom Com is today midnight -
more volunteers needed.
Importance: High

 

Thanks Lisa, 

 

Yes there is on line a list of volunteers to serve in the NomCom and of self
nominations for the CS membership into the GAID Strategy Council we received
so far. The description of the whole process as previously circulated on
this list is available on: http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462> &id=10462. As you
know, the GAID Secretariat announced that 3 to 4 CS seats in the Strategy
Council will be renewed (corresponding to approximately one third of the 10
CS members of the Strategy Council, composed of a total of 40 members).

 

-        Volunteers to <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463>
serve in the NomCom: We only have 13 volunteers so far and as you know we
would need 25 to make the selection completely random. The deadline for
volunteering is TODAY at 0.00. The random selection process will indeed take
place tomorrow. If we don?t reach this number of 25, we would have to
consider cancelling the whole self nomination process and would not be in a
position to submit a recommendation for the new CS members of the Strategy
Council to the GAID Secretariat.

 

-        Nominated <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10464>
candidates for the GAID Strategy Council: I only received so far 4
nominations. We also need much more to make this process meaningful.
Deadline for nominations of candidates is 25 November. Nominations could be
self-candidatures of nominations by others. To nominate through this
process, send to wsis at ngocongo.org the following information:

Name:
CS Affiliation(s):
Country:
Gender:
Age:
Biographical Statement:
Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:

 

 

 

In parallel to that, one CS seat of the GAID steering committee is also
going to be open to rotation. The Steering Committee is composed of 10
members, including 2 from civil society. As also previously announced, I am
also trying to mobilize the CS outgoing members of the Strategy Council and
the HL Advisors to make a recommendation to the GAID Secretariat on the CS
seat of the GAID Steering Committee to be renewed. I would come back to you
later about that.

 

Best, 

 

Philippe

 

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De : plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] De la
part de McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr.
Envoy? : vendredi, 16. novembre 2007 21:27
? : Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS self-nomination process for
GAID Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates

 

Philippe, I volunteer to be a member of the noncom. Please will you share
the list of those who?ve already volunteered as well as the names of those
put forward for nomination to the strategy council?

Best,

Lisa McLaughlin



Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Mass Communication & Women?s Studies
Williams Hall
Miami University, Ohio  45056
USA
tele: +1 513 5293547
fax: +1 513 5291835


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From ginger at paque.net  Wed Nov 21 10:17:03 2007
From: ginger at paque.net (Ginger Paque)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:17:03 -0400
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Deadline to volunteer in Nom Com is
	todaymidnight - more volunteers needed.
References: <200711201527.lAKFRLTP008150@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
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Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS self-nomination process for GAID Strategy Council -  need more volunteers and more candidatesIf more names are still needed for the Non Com, please add me. Thanks, Ginger
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  Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:28 AM
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  Thanks Lisa, 

   

  Yes there is on line a list of volunteers to serve in the NomCom and of self nominations for the CS membership into the GAID Strategy Council we received so far. The description of the whole process as previously circulated on this list is available on: http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462. As you know, the GAID Secretariat announced that 3 to 4 CS seats in the Strategy Council will be renewed (corresponding to approximately one third of the 10 CS members of the Strategy Council, composed of a total of 40 members).

   

  -          Volunteers to serve in the NomCom: We only have 13 volunteers so far and as you know we would need 25 to make the selection completely random. The deadline for volunteering is TODAY at 0.00. The random selection process will indeed take place tomorrow. If we don't reach this number of 25, we would have to consider cancelling the whole self nomination process and would not be in a position to submit a recommendation for the new CS members of the Strategy Council to the GAID Secretariat.

   

  -          Nominated candidates for the GAID Strategy Council: I only received so far 4 nominations. We also need much more to make this process meaningful. Deadline for nominations of candidates is 25 November. Nominations could be self-candidatures of nominations by others. To nominate through this process, send to wsis at ngocongo.org the following information:

  Name:
  CS Affiliation(s):
  Country:
  Gender:
  Age:
  Biographical Statement:
  Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:

   

   

   

  In parallel to that, one CS seat of the GAID steering committee is also going to be open to rotation. The Steering Committee is composed of 10 members, including 2 from civil society. As also previously announced, I am also trying to mobilize the CS outgoing members of the Strategy Council and the HL Advisors to make a recommendation to the GAID Secretariat on the CS seat of the GAID Steering Committee to be renewed. I would come back to you later about that.

   

  Best, 

   

  Philippe

   


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  Envoy? : vendredi, 16. novembre 2007 21:27
  ? : Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
  Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS self-nomination process for GAID Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates

   

  Philippe, I volunteer to be a member of the noncom. Please will you share the list of those who've already volunteered as well as the names of those put forward for nomination to the strategy council?

  Best,

  Lisa McLaughlin



  Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
  Mass Communication & Women's Studies
  Williams Hall
  Miami University, Ohio  45056
  USA
  tele: +1 513 5293547
  fax: +1 513 5291835


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From cafec3m at yahoo.fr  Wed Nov 21 12:38:16 2007
From: cafec3m at yahoo.fr (CAFEC)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:38:16 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] On line information on the CS self-nomination
	process for GAID Strategy Council
In-Reply-To: <ecb172de0711080842h4cc049acm5bb0eb9bdc9922a9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <200711071812.lA7ICmOF026702@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>
	<ecb172de0711080842h4cc049acm5bb0eb9bdc9922a9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ecb172de0711210438r2862bfa9x385d06f0a6471a77@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

have you receive my candidature?

Baudouin


2007/11/8, CAFEC <cafec3m at yahoo.fr>:
>
>
>
> *Name:  SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN
> CS Affiliation(s):CENTRE AFRICAIN D'ECHANGE CULTUREL
> Country:DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
> *Gender:M
> *Age:55
> Biographical Statement:involved in the SMSI since Bamako 2002 and I take
> part in various meetings organised by some international
> organisations(Uneca, Government of Tunis, Government of Egypt and elected on
> November 05 during the second phase in Tunis, Sub regional Coordinator of
> ACSIS for Central Africa. In national level, I stand up a national network
> of NGO to promote ICT and a national plate forme for Internet Governance
> under UNDP support. *
>
> *
> I am ready to contribute and remain at your disposal for any development
> program *
>
>
>
> 2007/11/7, CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org>:
> >
> > [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire
> > list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific
> > people]
> >
> > Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation
> > of this message!
> > _______________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> >   Dear all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Note that we created an information page on the CS Self Nomination
> > process for the GAID Strategy Council Membership:
> >
> > http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462
> >
> >
> >
> > The list of names of the volunteers, ordered by date of receipt of
> > message indicating interest, is published *HERE<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463>
> > *.
> >
> > We have *6 volunteers so far* (all men! Not gender balanced at all?), we
> > would need 25 to make the selection process really random.
> >
> >
> >
> > Let me remind you the calendar of this process:
> >
> >
> >
> > *20 November 2006: deadline for volunteering to the Nomination Committee
> > *
> >
> > 21 November 2006: random selection of the Nom Com members
> >
> >
> >
> > 25 November 2006: deadline for candidatures to the CS NomCom for
> > membership to the GA Strategy Council
> >
> > 25-30 November 2006: on-line work on the nomination committee
> >
> > 30 November 2006: submission on the CS Nom Com recommendation the GAID
> > Secretariat
> >
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> >
> > Ph
> >
> > *Philippe Dam**
> > CONGO - Information Society &
> > Human Rights Coordinator
> > 11, Avenue de la Paix
> > CH-1202 Geneva
> > Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> > Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> > E-mail: **philippe.dam at ngocongo.org * <wphilippe.dam at ngocongo.org>*
> > Website: www.ngocongo.org *
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Plenary at wsis-cs.org
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> >
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> >
>
>
> --
> SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN
> COORDONNATEUR NATIONAL REPRONTIC
> COORDONNATEUR SOUS REGIONAL ACSIS/AFRIQUE CENTRALE
> MEMBRE FACILITATEUR GAID AFRIQUE
> TEL:00243998983491
> EMAIL:b.schombe at gmail.com




-- 
SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN
COORDONNATEUR NATIONAL REPRONTIC
COORDONNATEUR SOUS REGIONAL ACSIS/AFRIQUE CENTRALE
MEMBRE FACILITATEUR GAID AFRIQUE
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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Wed Nov 21 15:37:07 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO - Philippe Dam)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:37:07 -0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting on other post WSIS issues - minutes
In-Reply-To: <200711141331.lAEDVQdq014729@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <200711211537.lALFb4n2016236@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

Find attached and below the minutes of the CS meeting addressing other post
WSIS processes (discussing CSTD, multi-stakeholder implementation at the
international level, GAID and other issues), taking place on 15 November,
13.00 to 14.00. Among the two main outcomes of this meeting:

 

-          Compilation of a CS written submission to the CTSD Panel (28-30
November 2007), notably addressing expectations of CS entities towards the
up coming 11th session of the Commission.

-          Drafting of a CS joint letter to be addressed to international
organisations having a moderation / facilitation role in the WSIS
multi-stakeholder implementation at the international level, stressing
suggestions and expectations of civil society actors involved in this
process.

 

More information on these two initiatives will be circulated on this list
soon.

 

Best, 

 

Philippe

 

===

 

Civil society meeting on on-going post WSIS Processes

15 November 2007, Rio



Civil society organisations present in Rio met on the occasion of the second
meeting of the IGF to address and exchange information on other on going
post-WSIS processes, beyond Internet Governance issues.

 

1.	Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD)

 

-          CSTD Intersession Panel (Kuala Lumpur, 28-30 November 2007)

 

After some updates on the preparations of the CSTD intersession panel,
participants made a number of comments regarding the organisation of this
event, including the need to make possible remote inputs to the Panel and
the extension of the time devoted to the WSIS follow-up and implementation
process. The Panel should also help better preparing the next main session
of the CSTD and the discussions should also continue after the Kuala Lumpur
meeting. There was also a call for greater interactions with civil society
actors in preparing this intersession event. 

 

It was agreed that a joint written submission to the CSTD Panel would be
drafted by NGOs interested in this process, notably addressing expectations
of CS entities towards the up coming 11th session of the Commission. 

 

Some comments were made regarding the way the IGF outcomes would be
presented to the CSTD. 

 

-          11th session of the CSTD (Geneva, May 2008)

 

An update was presented regarding the state of preparation of the 11th
session of the CSTD: three working days might be devoted to the follow-up to
WSIS, including an informal joint panel with GAID and a panel with the
Regional Commissions. It is also expected that another interactive dialogue
would take place with the leading facilitating agencies. The exact content
of these three days would be discussed during the CSTD Bureau meeting in
Kuala Lumpur.

 

It was noted that the CSTD requested the UN Secretary-General to include
information on the process of enhanced cooperation in his annual report.
This means that the CSTD could request some action on enhanced cooperation,
if there is a consensus on that point. 

 

2.	Multi-stakeholder implementation at the international process

 

A participant provided updates on the progresses made in the Action Line
processes in which she has been involved. 

 

Based the recent experience of civil society entities having participated in
the multi-stakeholder implementation process at the international level,
there was an agreement that the action line facilitation process was not
satisfactory. The WSIS implementation is not a priority for many
organisations which committed to do so. Some critical analysis should be
done by those CS organisations interested to continue to engage.

 

Participants agreed that a CS letter should be addressed to organisations
having a facilitating / moderating role in the implementation of WSIS Action
Lines, stressing that if there is no valuable flow of information from the
implementation process, the follow-up would also be disconnected. 

 

3.	Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID)

 

An update report was given regarding the attempt of a CS self recommendation
process, in the framework of the membership rotation of the Strategy Council
and Steering Committee. One participant mentioned that the deliberations of
the NomCom should be made public, for the sake of increasing the
transparency of the process. 

 

A brief update was also given on the outcomes of the GAID Steering Committee
meeting which took place in September 2007.

 

4.	GK-3 Conference (Kuala Lumpur, 11-13 December 2007) 

 

Some precisions were given on the last minute funding made available for
civil society participants in the upcoming GK-3 conference. 

 

5.	Other business

 

-          Flow of information from the IGF proceedings to UN Organisations:
a discussion emerged in the middle of the meeting to see how discussions
taking place in the IGF could come back in the work of relevant
international organisations involved. A participant mentioned that a liaison
committee of any format could facilitate bringing back IGF discussions in
various international organisations. It was also mentioned that this
proposition could be mentioned as an emerging issue during the IGF main
session. 

 

-          Update on the status of the ICTRC: there is no news since the
last up date circulated to the Plenary list regarding the status of the
ICTRC, an Iranian NGOs whose offices have been closed down in Tehran. The
Executive Director of this CS entity, Sohrab Razzaghi, has not yet been
released by the Iranian authorities. 

 

 

  _____  

De : plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] De la
part de CONGO - Philippe Dam
Envoy? : mercredi 14 novembre 2007 11:32
? : plenary at wsis-cs.org; governance at lists.cpsr.org; gov at wsis-gov.org
Cc : 'Philippe Dam'
Objet : [WSIS CS-Plenary] CS meeting on other post WSIS issues - Thursday15
November, 13:00-14:00

 

Dear all, 

 

After discussing with a number among you, it appeared that there is an
interest to discuss about other post WSIS issues and processes, beyond IGF.
The IGF Secretariat kindly attributed us a room during lunchtime tomorrow.
The meeting will basically take place between the sessions on Taking stock
and the way forward and Emerging Issues.

 

Date:    Thursday 15 November

Time:   13:00-14:00 

Venue: Room Queluz VI (Queluz VI is on the lower level of the hotel, one
floor down the IGF Internet Point and Village Square).

 

Proposed agenda:

 

a.	CSTD (intersession Panel, 28-30 November / 11th session, May 2008)
b.	Multi-stakeholder implementation at the international level
c.	GAID
d.	GK-3 Conference
e.	Other business

 


..

 

Feel free to make additional proposals or suggestions through this list.

 

All the best, 

 

Philippe

 

Philippe Dam
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> 

 

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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Wed Nov 21 19:00:08 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:00:08 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: List of volunteers for NomCom
Message-ID: <200711211859.lALIxIdt013023@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

 

Dear all, 

 

This is to announce that the list of volunteers for the NomCom is now
finalized and blocked. 

We received so far 23 volunteers, which are listed in the order received
below and at http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10463> &id=10463. 

The random selection process would take place later tonight, as described in
the second part of this e-mail. I think we can still go with 23 volunteers


 

Anyway, we still need more nominations
 

 

Best, 

 

Ph

 

 


1. Wolfgang Kleinw?chter (University of Aarhus)


2. Parminder Jeet Singh (IT for Change)


3. Adam Peake (GLOCOM)


4. Fran?ois Ullman (Ing?nieurs du Monde)


5. Tijani Ben Jemaa (World Federation of Ingeneering Organisations)


6. Shahid Uddin Akbar (ICT Consultant, KATALYST/SwissContact, Bangladesh)


7. Vittorio Bertola 


8. Micheal Gurstein (Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development
and Training)


9. Delphine Nana (ACSIS)


10. Linda McLaughlin (Mass Communication & Women's Studies, Miami
University)


11. Gurumurthy Kasinathan (IT for Change)


12. Ezendu Ariwa (London Metropolitan University)


13. Richard Vincent (Indiana State University)


14. John Mathiason (Syracuse University)


15. Nnenna Nwakanma (ICT Consultant)


16. Hakikur Rahman (SchoolNet Foundation Bangladesh)


17. Ian Peter (Ian Peter and Associates)


18. Louis Pouzin (Eurolinc)


19. Anita Gurumurthy (IT for Change)


20. Ginger Paque (UNA Venezuale, Diplo Foundation)


21. Rudi Vansnick (Internet Society Belgium)


22. Edgard Mandrault (ACSIS)


23. Sylvie Niombo (AZUR Developpement)



 

 

 

 

? Names of volunteers are sorted numerically in the order they were received
at  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org. Before the volunteering
period is over, if errors are noted or if a volunteer removes his or
herself, the list will be fixed so that there are no empty lines.
However, the sorted list of volunteers and their sorting number will be
finalized and frozen on 20 November 2007, 24:00.

? The random selection process will be established on the randomizing
RFC3797 program.
The random seeds will be based on the following lottery drawings (main draws
only, not the bonus numbers) taking place on 21 November 2007:

        - Ireland 
        - England
        - US

? The random process will produce an ordered list of numbers. The names of
volunteers randomly selected for the CS Nom Com will be determined according
to the number which is attributed to them. The 5 first valid volunteers
corresponding to the first numbers of the list will serve for the CS Nom
Com.

Ex: If the ordered list of numbers is e.g. 15, 3, 23, 21, 5, 6, 4; volunteer
#15 will be the first selected. If volunteer #3 has removed his or herself
or is not available, the second volunteer to be selected will be volunteer
#23... etc until we have 5 acting Nom Com members. 

 

Philippe Dam
CONGO - Information Society &
Human Rights Coordinator
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wphilippe.dam at ngocongo.org> philippe.dam at ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> 

 

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From mclauglm at muohio.edu  Wed Nov 21 19:02:39 2007
From: mclauglm at muohio.edu (McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr.)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:02:39 -0500
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: List of volunteers for NomCom
In-Reply-To: <200711211859.lALIxIdt013023@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <C369EB00.5218%mclauglm@muohio.edu>

Philippe, my name should be listed as 'Lisa' McLaughlin, not 'Linda' McLaughlin as appears on the noncom volunteer list.

Thanks,

Lisa


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From habib.gares at wanadoo.fr  Thu Nov 22 11:23:55 2007
From: habib.gares at wanadoo.fr (Habib EL GARES)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:23:55 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: List of volunteers for NomCom
Message-ID: <9621464.219921195730635533.JavaMail.www@wwinf1a11>


Bonjour ,
 Je me suis inscrit d?s les premiers jours et mon nom ne figure pas sur la liste.
El Gar?s
Abdelmajid- Habib
Merci




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From Bruno.Salgues at int-edu.eu  Thu Nov 22 11:30:13 2007
From: Bruno.Salgues at int-edu.eu (salgues)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:30:13 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] URGENT  TR: List of volunteers for NomCom
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References: <9621464.219921195730635533.JavaMail.www@wwinf1a11>
Message-ID: <20071122123013.46aog52bk0sgw4k4@imp2.int-evry.fr>

Je pesne quie la liste est fausse ou qu'il y a une selection cach?e

je me suis inscrit des les premiers jorus et je ne suis pas dedans ....

Philippe, peux tu nous le confirmer, pour plus de trans^parence

merci

bruno

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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Thu Nov 22 12:24:43 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:24:43 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] URGENT  TR: List of volunteers for NomCom
In-Reply-To: <20071122123013.46aog52bk0sgw4k4@imp2.int-evry.fr>
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Je confirme n'avoir pas re?u d'e-mail de votre part ? ce sujet.

Par souci de transparence, une liste des volonatires pour le nomcom a ?t?
post?e le 7 novembre dernier
(http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463), le lien circul? ? de
nombreuses reprises sur cette liste, et cette liste a ?t? r?guli?rement mise
? jour.

Ph

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Je pesne quie la liste est fausse ou qu'il y a une selection cach?e

je me suis inscrit des les premiers jorus et je ne suis pas dedans ....

Philippe, peux tu nous le confirmer, pour plus de trans^parence

merci

bruno

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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Thu Nov 22 12:27:33 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:27:33 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: List of volunteers for NomCom
In-Reply-To: <9621464.219921195730635533.JavaMail.www@wwinf1a11>
Message-ID: <200711221226.lAMCQf7w011549@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>

Monsieur El Gares, 

 

Votre nom figure sur la liste des candidats (nomination personnelle) pour
devenir membre du Conseil Strat?gique de GAID :
http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10464> &id=10464

 

La liste diffus?e hier est celle des volontaires pour le Comit? de
Recommandation, qui ?mettra une proposition parmi la liste des candidats.

J?esp?re vous avoir ?clair?.

Merci et bien ? vous, 

 

Philippe

 

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De : plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] De la
part de Habib EL GARES
Envoy? : jeudi, 22. novembre 2007 12:24
? : Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: List of volunteers for NomCom

 


Bonjour ,
 Je me suis inscrit d?s les premiers jours et mon nom ne figure pas sur la
liste.
El Gar?s
Abdelmajid- Habib
Merci




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From nyangkweagien at gmail.com  Thu Nov 22 13:40:48 2007
From: nyangkweagien at gmail.com (Nyangkwe Agien Aaron)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:40:48 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] URGENT TR: List of volunteers for NomCom
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References: <20071122123013.46aog52bk0sgw4k4@imp2.int-evry.fr>
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Voila qui est bien fait Philippe, pour la transparence si cherch?e.
Le concontraire aurait laiss?e transparaitre  une id?e selon laquelle
le Caucus sur la gouvernance Internet est un circle close.
Merci

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> post?e le 7 novembre dernier
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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Thu Nov 22 16:04:28 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:04:28 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Randomly selected Nomination Committee
In-Reply-To: <200711201527.lAKFRLTP008150@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <200711221603.lAMG3a7g020674@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

Please below the result of the random selection process for the 5 CS Nom Com
members. The programme will be run again tomorrow morning in order to
confirm this result.

 

 

See below for the details, which was described on-line at
http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10462&start1=5>
&id=10462&start1=5

 

The first 5 are:

 

12.       Ezendu Ariwa (London Metropolitan University)

4.         Fran?ois Ullman (Ing?nieurs du Monde)

18.       Louis Pouzin (Eurolinc)

20.       Ginger Paque (UNA Venezuale, Diplo Foundation)

9.         Delphine Nana (ACSIS)

 

If some of the five randomly selected members are not available or do not
get back to me, the following volunteers will be contacted (with numbers in
the following order: 16, 10, 22, 13 and 15). 

 

The road map is simple: I?ll contact the 5 nom com members who will now
confirm their involvement by 24 hours, and they would start by establishing
working methods and guidelines / criteria, and then start discussion on
their recommendation to the GAID Secretariat when the list of nominated
candidates is over (i.e. 25 November 2007). I?ll act as not voting
facilitator among the 5 Nom Com members.

 

 

Ph

 

PS: The initial arrangement was that one can be both among the volunteers
and among the nominations. If randomly selected, he/she is highly encourage
to opt for the NomCom rather than for the nomination

 

---------------------------

 

Pre-announced Seeds drawn on Wednesday 21 Nov 2007 after final list was
published.

 

 <http://www.lotto.ie> http://www.lotto.ie/ 15 17 22 25 38 39

 

 <http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/home/home.do>
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/home/home.do 06 08 24 25 32 47

 

 <http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_numbers.asp>
http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_numbers.asp 03 11 13 20 40

 

 

 

Run of the program

 

[rather:~/tools/rfc3797-process] avri% ./random-order

Type size of pool:

warning: this program uses gets(), which is unsafe.

(or 'exit' to exit) 23

Type number of items to be selected:

(or 'exit' to exit) 10

Approximately 20.2 bits of entropy needed.

 

Type #1 randomness or 'end' followed by new line.

Up to 16 integers or the word 'float' followed by up

to 16 x.y format reals.

15 17 22 25 38 39

15 17 22 25 38 39 

Type #2 randomness or 'end' followed by new line.

Up to 16 integers or the word 'float' followed by up

to 16 x.y format reals.

06 8 24 25 32 47

6 8 24 25 32 47 

Type #3 randomness or 'end' followed by new line.

Up to 16 integers or the word 'float' followed by up

to 16 x.y format reals.

03 11 13 20 40

3 11 13 20 40 

Type #4 randomness or 'end' followed by new line.

Up to 16 integers or the word 'float' followed by up

to 16 x.y format reals.

end

Key is:

15.17.22.25.38.39./6.8.24.25.32.47./3.11.13.20.40./

index hex value of MD5 div selected

1 6FE0CE0AE3262ABCFCC2F6D93E04B7C0 23 -> 12 <-

2 85903E33C8B4085F3A0A175256F8C6FB 22 -> 4 <-

3 F66F372759A47A1AB1CF57FD18AACAC2 21 -> 18 <-

4 0BF7B41B26268ECB9555D376854E3DF0 20 -> 20 <-

5 D6522F4A4E126F750900DDD8252E1A42 19 -> 9 <-

6 CACED59569100E982E7B2561F13713E0 18 -> 16 <-

7 B8D6012E55EDB4859A195111434DF6D7 17 -> 10 <-

8 2BB554AD464ABC898847E43349AE258E 16 -> 22 <-

9 B35D2430B335BE52113C82478E8AD872 15 -> 13 <-

10 177AADD7EE1D56532C0489B1243628CF 14 -> 15 <-

 

 

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De : plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] De la
part de CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam
Envoy? : mardi, 20. novembre 2007 16:28
? : 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'; governance at lists.cpsr.org;
gov at wsis-gov.org
Cc : 'CONGO - Philippe Dam'
Objet : [WSIS CS-Plenary] Deadline to volunteer in Nom Com is todaymidnight
- more volunteers needed.
Importance : Haute

 

Thanks Lisa, 

 

Yes there is on line a list of volunteers to serve in the NomCom and of self
nominations for the CS membership into the GAID Strategy Council we received
so far. The description of the whole process as previously circulated on
this list is available on: http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10462> &id=10462. As you
know, the GAID Secretariat announced that 3 to 4 CS seats in the Strategy
Council will be renewed (corresponding to approximately one third of the 10
CS members of the Strategy Council, composed of a total of 40 members).

 

-          Volunteers to serve
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463>  in the NomCom: We
only have 13 volunteers so far and as you know we would need 25 to make the
selection completely random. The deadline for volunteering is TODAY at 0.00.
The random selection process will indeed take place tomorrow. If we don?t
reach this number of 25, we would have to consider cancelling the whole self
nomination process and would not be in a position to submit a recommendation
for the new CS members of the Strategy Council to the GAID Secretariat.

 

-          Nominated <http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10464>
candidates for the GAID Strategy Council: I only received so far 4
nominations. We also need much more to make this process meaningful.
Deadline for nominations of candidates is 25 November. Nominations could be
self-candidatures of nominations by others. To nominate through this
process, send to wsis at ngocongo.org the following information:

Name:
CS Affiliation(s):
Country:
Gender:
Age:
Biographical Statement:
Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:

 

 

 

In parallel to that, one CS seat of the GAID steering committee is also
going to be open to rotation. The Steering Committee is composed of 10
members, including 2 from civil society. As also previously announced, I am
also trying to mobilize the CS outgoing members of the Strategy Council and
the HL Advisors to make a recommendation to the GAID Secretariat on the CS
seat of the GAID Steering Committee to be renewed. I would come back to you
later about that.

 

Best, 

 

Philippe

 

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De : plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] De la
part de McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr.
Envoyi : vendredi, 16. novembre 2007 21:27
@ : Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space
Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Update on the CS self-nomination process for
GAID Strategy Council - need more volunteers and more candidates

 

Philippe, I volunteer to be a member of the noncom. Please will you share
the list of those who?ve already volunteered as well as the names of those
put forward for nomination to the strategy council?

Best,

Lisa McLaughlin



Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Mass Communication & Women?s Studies
Williams Hall
Miami University, Ohio  45056
USA
tele: +1 513 5293547
fax: +1 513 5291835


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From sophie at amarc.org  Fri Nov 23 00:35:20 2007
From: sophie at amarc.org (Sophie Toupin)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:35:20 -0500
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [Amarc-info] Listen to AMARC-WIN's programmes on
 the 16 days Campaign Against Gender Violence!
Message-ID: <47462048.1050508@amarc.org>

Le fran?ais suit
English follows

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Sintonice los programas de la Campa?a de 16 dias contra la Violencia de 
G?nero de la Red Internacional de Mujeres de AMARC!
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Del 25 de Noviembre al 10 de Diciembre, la Red Internacional de las 
Mujeres de la Asociaci?n Mundial de Radios Comunitarias (AMARC RIF) 
pondr? en relieve los 16 d?as de activismo contra la violencia de g?nero 
con una segunda campa?a mundial en el Internet. Este a?o, el tema de la 
podcasting ser? ?Terminando la violencia contra las mujeres; exigiendo 
la implementaci?n de los acuerdos internacionales, atacando los 
obst?culos?. La campa?a sera difundida en www.amarc.org/16days

Productores del Asia Pac?fico, del Medio oriente, de ?frica, de Europa, 
de Norte Am?rica y de Am?rica latina y el Caribe dedicar?n los 16 d?as 
de la campa?a a realizar los esfuerzos de las mujeres y de los hombres 
que trabajan para poner fin a la violencia de g?nero. Los programas 
incluir?n documentales, entrevistas, debates, poes?a, m?sica y mucho m?s?

Esta radiodifusi?n multiling?e moviliza radios comunitarias en torno a 
un tema mundial incit?ndoles a usar las nuevas tecnolog?as de 
comunicaci?n como el Internet para ampliar sus voces.

Se invita las emisoras comunitarias a bajar los expedientes en audio del 
sitio Internet de los 16 d?as de AMARC RIF y difundirlos en sus radios 
comunitarias durante los 16 d?as de la campa?a que comienza el 25 de 
Noviembre y termina el 10 de Diciembre.

Comparta sus programas radiales, contribuya a la campa?a de 16 d?as 
porque AMARC RIF est? esperando sus programas pregrabados que se 
concentran ?Terminar la violencia contra las mujeres; exigiendo la 
implementaci?n de los acuerdos internacionales, atacando los obst?culos?.

Visite el sitio Internet de la Red Internacional de Mujeres de AMARC 
para escuchar el podcast en: www.amarc.org/16days

AMARC es una organizaci?n internacional no gubernamental que est? a 
servicio del movimiento de la radio comunitaria y ligando m?s de 3000 
radio comunitarias en m?s de 110 pa?ses. AMARC busca apoyar defender y 
promover los intereses de las radios comunitarias a trav?s de la 
solidaridad y la cooperaci?n internacional.

La Red Internacional de las Mujeres es una gran asamblea de mujeres 
comunicadoras que trabajan para asegurar el derecho a la comunicaci?n de 
las mujeres gracias al movimiento de las radios comunitarias.


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Listen to AMARC-WIN's programmes on the 16 days Campaign Against Gender 
Violence!
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 From November 25 to December 10th, the Women's International Network of 
the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN) will 
highlight the 16 days of activism against gender violence with a second 
Annual Internet campaign. This year, the theme of campaign is: 
*Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles:
End Violence against Women*. Check out AMARC WIN podcast at 
www.amarc.org/16days.


Community radio producers from Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, 
Europe, North America and Latin America and the Caribbean will dedicate 
these 16 days to highlight the effort of women and men working to put an 
end to gender violence. The programs featured will include 
documentaries, interviews, debates, poetry, music and much more.

This multilingual podcast campaign mobilizes community radios around a 
global issue and encourages them to use new communication technologies 
such as the Internet to extend the reach of their voices.

Radio stations around the globe are invited to download the audio files 
from the AMARC-WIN 16 days website and broadcast them in their radio 
stations during the 16 days campaign which starts on November 25th and 
end on December 10th.

Visit AMARC WIN website to listen to the podcast at: www.amarc.org/16days

AMARC is an international non-governmental organization serving the 
community radio movement, and linking more than 3,000 community radios 
in over 110 countries. AMARC aims to support, defend and promote the 
interests of community broadcasters through solidarity and international 
cooperation.

The AMARC Women's International Network is a large assembly of women 
communicators working to ensure women's right to communicate through and 
within the community radio movement.


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?coutez les programmes de la campagne des 16 jours d'activisme contre la 
violence faite aux femmes de l'AMARC RIF!
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Du 25 novembre au 10 d?cembre, le r?seau international des femmes de 
l'Association mondiale des radiodiffuseurs communautaire (AMARC-RIF) 
soulignera les 16 jours d?activisme contre la violence faite aux femmes 
avec une baladodiffusion disponible sur l?Internet et ce, pour une 
deuxi?me ann?e cons?cutive. Cette ann?e le th?me de la campagne est : 
Demander la mise en ?uvre, D?fier les obstacles : Finissons-en avec la 
violence faite aux femmes. Les audio produit sur le theme de la campagne 
sont disponible ? l?adresse suivante : www.amarc.org/16jours

Les producteurs de radio communautaire d'Asie-Pacifique, du 
Moyen-Orient, d'Afrique, d'Europe, d'Am?rique du Nord et d'Am?rique 
latine et des Cara?bes consacreront ces 16 jours pour accentuer l'effort 
des femmes et des hommes qui travaillent pour mettre fin ? la violence 
faite aux femmes. Les programmes incluront des documentaires, des 
entrevues, des discussions, de la po?sie, de la musique et beaucoup plus.

Cette campagne radiophonique multilingue mobilise des radios 
communautaires de partout ? travers le monde autour d'un th?me pr?cis et 
les encourage ? employer les nouvelles technologies de communication 
telles que l'Internet pour prolongerl'extension de leurs voix.

Les stations de radio communautaire de partout sont invit?es ? 
t?l?charger les programmes audio vers?s sur le site Web de l'AMARC 
consacr? au 16 jours d?activisme et de les diffuser pendant toute la 
campagne.

Visitez le site de l'AMARC-RIF pour ?couter la baladodifussion ? 
www.amarc.org/16jours

AMARC est une organisation non-gouvernemental internationale servant le 
mouvement de la radio communautaire, et liant plus de 3.000 radios 
communautaires dans plus de 110 pays. AMARC vise ? soutenir, d?fendre et 
favoriser les int?r?ts des radiodiffuseurs communautaires par la 
solidarit? et la coop?ration internationale.

Le r?seau international des femmes de l'AMARC (AMARC-RIF) est une grande 
assembl?e de communicatrices travaillant de concert pour assurer le 
droit de la communication aux femmes ? travers et ? l'int?rieur du 
mouvement de la radio communautaire.
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From Charles.Geiger at unctad.org  Fri Nov 23 14:45:34 2007
From: Charles.Geiger at unctad.org (Charles Geiger)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:45:34 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Charles Geiger is out of the office.
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I will be out of the office starting  23.11.2007 and will not return until
03.12.2007.

I will respond to your message when I return.
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From: ceo at bnnrc.net (BNNRC)
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:38:55 +0600
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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Sun Nov 25 17:51:57 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam)
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:51:57 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Deadline for CS nominations to the GAID Strategy
	Council - initial deadline this evening
In-Reply-To: <200711221603.lAMG3a7g020674@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <200711251751.lAPHp3HS026359@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

While I am still waiting for the confirmation of one of the 5 individuals
randomly selected to serve in the Nomination Committee (see here
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10463> ), note that the
deadline for self nominations to be considered by the NomCom was 25 November
at midnight (this evening). Some flexibility will be maintained until
tomorrow. We have so far 12 nominations: the list and the biographical
information of the nominated has been posted on-line:
http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10464> &id=10464 

 

Please check whether I did not forget anybody and continue to send you
nominations / self-nominations.

 

Best regards, 

 

Ph

 

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From Sylvia.Caras at gmail.com  Sun Nov 25 23:59:22 2007
From: Sylvia.Caras at gmail.com (Sylvia Caras)
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:59:22 -0800
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UNESCO International Conference and Exhibition on
 Knowledge Parks
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20071125155847.03479c08@peoplewho.org>

On behalf of Mr Abdul Waheed Khan, Assistant Director-General for 
Communication and Information at UNESCO, it is my pleasure to inform 
you that we are organizing an "International Conference and 
Exhibition on Knowledge Parks" that will take place in Doha, Qatar on 
March 29-31, 2008.

The conference is jointly organized with the "Qatar Foundation" in 
close cooperation with "Bibliotheca Alexandrina", "Global Knowledge 
Partnership"  and "Oman's Knowledge Oasis". The conference is aimed 
at bringing together:
    * Policy makers
    * Experts in the fields of knowledge management and 
innovation\technology parks
    * Representatives of the private sector and donor organizations 
including development banks

to share views and experiences and to map such experiences for the 
benefit of developing countries.

One of UNESCO's main initiatives, as a follow-up to the WSIS process, 
is to operationalize its concept of knowledge societies.  The conference will:
    * Raise awareness on how the ICT-based knowledge park experience 
could help in accelerating development;
    * Review best practices in establishing and managing "ICT-based 
knowledge parks" in developed countries, with a special interest in 
leveraging their potential for developing countries;
    * Generate partnerships between governments, civil society and 
the private sector for establishing a strategy to leverage modern 
ICTs and the knowledge park experience.

The event will serve as a platform to forge concrete partnerships for 
the establishment of knowledge parks/incubators around the world.

The 
"<http://www.unesco-ci.org/newsletter/lt/t_go.php?i=1049&e=MTIzNDk2&l=-http--portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID--E-24168--A-URL_DO--E-DO_TOPIC--A-URL_SECTION--E-201.html>concept 
paper" and a 
"<http://www.unesco-ci.org/newsletter/lt/t_go.php?i=1049&e=MTIzNDk2&l=-http--portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID--E-25517--A-URL_DO--E-DO_TOPIC--A-URL_SECTION--E-201.html>brochure" 
elaborate the background, objectives and focus areas of the event 
besides answering some key questions about this event.

It is important to note that registration for this conference is free 
of charge and that UNESCO, in collaboration with Qatar's Foundation, 
will offer preferential lodging rates to all participants.

Please visit the Conference website at:

<http://www.unesco-ci.org/newsletter/lt/t_go.php?i=1049&e=MTIzNDk2&l=-http--www.unesco.org/en/knowledgeparkconference/>http://www.unesco.org/en/knowledgeparkconference/ 


to learn more about this event and to register for participation. The 
website will be updated regularly and will very shortly give access 
to the conference agenda, exhibitors and other related information.

For further information, please contact Mr Tarek Shawki, UNESCO, 
Communication and Information Sector ( tel +33.1.45.68.42.82; 
<mailto:t.shawki at unesco.org>t.shawki at unesco.org ).

Miriam Nisbet
Director
Information Society Division
Communication and Information Sector
UNESCO

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From ceo at bnnrc.net  Mon Nov 26 05:19:53 2007
From: ceo at bnnrc.net (BNNRC)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:19:53 +0600
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] =?iso-8859-1?q?COAST_Trust_and_Equity_and_Justi?=
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From: ceo at bnnrc.net (BNNRC)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:24:45 +0600
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Cyclone Sidr: UN Rapid Initial Assessment Report
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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Mon Nov 26 20:47:55 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO - Philippe Dam)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:47:55 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Science, Technology,
	Innovation and ICTs for Development: UNCTAD XII pre-event (6
	december, Geneva)
Message-ID: <200711262047.lAQKlfFR026178@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

Note as well this up coming UNCTAD meeting addressing the overall theme:
"Science, Technology, Innovation and ICTs for Development". This event is
organised in preparation to the 12th UNCTAD quadrennial ministerial
Conference, taking place in Accra, Ghana in April 2008. 

See more information at
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942
<http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=14561&i
nfo=not> &lang=1&m=14561&info=not.

 

My understanding is that while closely related to WSIS issue, this meeting
is not part of UNCTAD follow up to WSIS. Therefore, only NGOs in
consultative status with UNCTAD might be able to participate... We were
however informed that other relevant CS representatives could ask for an ad
hoc "invitation" to the division organising the event, so that they could be
put in the list of participants as invited persons. 

 

CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?

 

Best regards, 

 

Ph

Philippe Dam
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> 

 

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From ocaproce_internationale at hotmail.com  Tue Nov 27 13:58:25 2007
From: ocaproce_internationale at hotmail.com (ocaproce internationale)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:58:25 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Science, Technology,
 Innovation and ICTs for Development: UNCTAD XII pre-event
In-Reply-To: <200711262047.lAQKlfFR026178@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
References: <200711262047.lAQKlfFR026178@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <BAY109-W23DF62671E1FBBDFFA438889760@phx.gbl>


Bonjour Philippe,

Je tiens ? t'informer que OCAPROCE International souhaiterait prendre part ? cette rencontre, et pourrait ? cet effet ?tre repr?sent?e par deux d?l?gu?s ci-apr?s:
   -Micheline Makou Djouma et Claude CITON.
En esp?re que CONGO va nous accr?diter?

Re?ois mes meilleures salutations!

Micheline
From: wsis at ngocongo.org
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org; governance at lists.cpsr.org; gov at wsis-gov.org
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:47:55 +0100
CC: philippe.dam at ngocongo.org; rbloem at ngocongo.org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Science, Technology,	Innovation and ICTs for Development: UNCTAD XII pre-event (6	december, Geneva)























Dear all, 

 

Note as well this up coming UNCTAD meeting addressing
the overall theme: ?Science, Technology, Innovation and ICTs for
Development?. This event is organised in preparation to the 12th
UNCTAD quadrennial ministerial Conference, taking place in Accra, Ghana
in April 2008. 

See more information at http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=14561&info=not.

 

My understanding is that while closely related to
WSIS issue, this meeting is not part of UNCTAD follow up to WSIS. Therefore,
only NGOs in consultative status with UNCTAD might be able to participate... We
were however informed that other relevant CS representatives could ask for an
ad hoc ?invitation? to the division organising the event, so that they
could be put in the list of participants as invited persons. 

 

CONGO
would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an invitation. Is
there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?

 

Best regards, 

 

Ph



Philippe
Dam

11,
Avenue de la Paix

CH-1202 Geneva

Tel: +41 22 301 1000

Fax: +41 22 301 2000

E-mail: wsis at ngocongo.org

Website: www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
is an international, membership association that facilitates the participation
of NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's
major objective is to ensure the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the
world's governments and United Nations agencies on issues of global
concern.  For more information see our website at www.ngocongo.org



 







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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Tue Nov 27 15:27:37 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO - Philippe Dam)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:27:37 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Science, Technology,
	Innovation and ICTs for Development: UNCTAD XII pre-event (6
	december, Geneva)
In-Reply-To: <200711262047.lAQKlfFR026178@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <200711271527.lARFRMfx018788@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

As a matter of clarification, note that the UNCTAD preparatory meeting I
mentioned here taking place on 6 December 2007 will be organised in Geneva.

Accra is only the venue of the UNCTAD XII Ministerial Conference in April
2008.

 

Best, 

 

Philippe

 

  _____  

De : plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] De la
part de CONGO - Philippe Dam
Envoy? : lundi 26 novembre 2007 21:48
? : plenary at wsis-cs.org; governance at lists.cpsr.org; gov at wsis-gov.org
Cc : 'CONGO - Philippe Dam'; 'Renate Bloem'
Objet : [WSIS CS-Plenary] Science, Technology,Innovation and ICTs for
Development: UNCTAD XII pre-event (6december, Geneva)

 

Dear all, 

 

Note as well this up coming UNCTAD meeting addressing the overall theme:
?Science, Technology, Innovation and ICTs for Development?. This event is
organised in preparation to the 12th UNCTAD quadrennial ministerial
Conference, taking place in Accra, Ghana in April 2008. 

See more information at
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942
<http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=14561&i
nfo=not> &lang=1&m=14561&info=not.

 

My understanding is that while closely related to WSIS issue, this meeting
is not part of UNCTAD follow up to WSIS. Therefore, only NGOs in
consultative status with UNCTAD might be able to participate... We were
however informed that other relevant CS representatives could ask for an ad
hoc ?invitation? to the division organising the event, so that they could be
put in the list of participants as invited persons. 

 

CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?

 

Best regards, 

 

Ph

Philippe Dam
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> 

 

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From ceo at bnnrc.net  Wed Nov 28 09:05:15 2007
From: ceo at bnnrc.net (BNNRC)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:05:15 +0600
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Global ICTs: The Silent Development Revolution
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From delynana2002 at yahoo.fr  Wed Nov 28 12:56:27 2007
From: delynana2002 at yahoo.fr (NANA Delphine)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:56:27 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] =?iso-8859-1?q?Communication_de_la_Soci=E9t=E9_?=
	=?iso-8859-1?q?Civile_=E0_Rio?=
In-Reply-To: <200711271527.lARFRMfx018788@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <552160.69698.qm@web26011.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Dear all,
   
  Trouvez ci-joint, l'intervention de la Soci?t? Civile ? Rio
   
  Delphine NANA
  ACSIS President


   
   

             
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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Wed Nov 28 16:44:38 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO - Philippe Dam)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:44:38 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Dr. Sohrab Razzaghi released
Message-ID: <200711281644.lASGiWCL022599@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

Dear colleagues, 

 

This is to inform you that Dr. Sohrab Razzaghi, Executive director of the
ICTRC, has been released last week by the Iranian authorities.

The ICTRC itself is however still closed. The CS letter in this regard is
therefore still valid.

More information on the attached document.

 

Ph

 

Philippe Dam
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

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From duhamic at rwanda1.com  Wed Nov 28 18:10:38 2007
From: duhamic at rwanda1.com (DUHAMIC)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:10:38 +0200
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary]
	=?iso-8859-1?q?Communication_de_la_Soci=E9t=E9_?=
	=?iso-8859-1?q?Civile_=E0_Rio?=
In-Reply-To: <552160.69698.qm@web26011.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
References: <200711271527.lARFRMfx018788@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>
	<552160.69698.qm@web26011.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <005601c831e9$faef31e0$0a00000a@SE>

Merci Nanna 

Innocent

DUHAMIC ADRI 

RWANDA  KIGALI

 

  _____  

From: plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] On
Behalf Of NANA Delphine
Sent: mercredi 28 novembre 2007 14:56
To: WSIS CS WG on Information Networks Governance; 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary
Group Space'; governance at lists.cpsr.org; africa_net at reseauafricanet.org;
ACSIS ACSIS; AISI
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Communication de la Soci?t? Civile ? Rio

 

Dear all,

 

Trouvez ci-joint, l'intervention de la Sociiti Civile ` Rio

 

Delphine NANA

ACSIS President

 

 

  

  _____  

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From philippe.dam at ngocongo.org  Mon Nov 26 20:34:08 2007
From: philippe.dam at ngocongo.org (Philippe Dam)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:34:08 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] CSTD intersession Panel (28-30/11,
	KL): circulation of IS-related Concept note
Message-ID: <200711262033.lAQKXtFw003454@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

This is to draw your attention to the recent publication on line of the CSTD
Secretariat background note on "Development-oriented policies for
socio-economic inclusive information society, including access,
infrastructure and an enabling environment". See attached. This paper will
be the basis for the discussion on this issue during the Panel, taking place
on Thursday 29 November.

 

Note that the CSTD Secretariat is ready to receive CS written contributions
to be posted on line.

 

Other information can be found on line at:
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=2068
<http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=2068&lang=1&m=13906&y
ear=2007&month=11> &lang=1&m=13906&year=2007&month=11.

 

Best regards, 

 

Philippe

Philippe Dam
Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
Program Officer - WSIS and Human Rights
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> 

 

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From wsis at ngocongo.org  Mon Nov 26 20:39:04 2007
From: wsis at ngocongo.org (CONGO - Philippe Dam)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:39:04 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: CSTD intersession Panel (28-30/11,
	KL): circulation of IS-related Concept note
Message-ID: <200711262039.lAQKcxNq022938@smtp1.infomaniak.ch>

Dear all, 

 

This is to draw your attention to the recent publication on line of the CSTD
Secretariat background note on "Development-oriented policies for
socio-economic inclusive information society, including access,
infrastructure and an enabling environment". See attached. This paper will
be the basis for the discussion on this issue during the Panel, taking place
on Thursday 29 November.

 

Note that the CSTD Secretariat is ready to receive CS written contributions
to be posted on line.

 

Other information can be found on line at:
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=2068
<http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=2068&lang=1&m=13906&y
ear=2007&month=11> &lang=1&m=13906&year=2007&month=11.

 

Best regards, 

 

Philippe

Philippe Dam
Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
Program Officer - WSIS and Human Rights
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
Website:  <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

 

The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership association
that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and
decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the
presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
website at www.ngocongo.org <blocked::http://www.ngocongo.org/> 

 

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From edgard.mandrault at gmail.com  Tue Nov 27 06:33:53 2007
From: edgard.mandrault at gmail.com (Edgard Mandrault)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:33:53 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [Gov 346] Science, Technology,
	Innovation and ICTs for Development: UNCTAD XII pre-event (6
	december, Geneva)
In-Reply-To: <200711262047.lAQKlfFR026178@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
References: <200711262047.lAQKlfFR026178@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <2e9d70520711262233u5fb92274wa7617c8deb530e90@mail.gmail.com>

Bonjour Philippe,

Je suis inter?ss? ? participer ? cette r?union d'Accra.
Je te remercie de bien vouloir m'inscrire comme participant de la soci?t?
civile. J'esp?re qu'au niveau de la soci?t? civile, nous pourrions
b?n?ficier du financement pour prendre part ? ce forum important.
Meilleures salutations.


2007/11/26, CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org>:
>
>  Dear all,
>
>
>
> Note as well this up coming UNCTAD meeting addressing the overall theme:
> "Science, Technology, Innovation and ICTs for Development". This event is
> organised in preparation to the 12th UNCTAD quadrennial ministerial
> Conference, taking place in Accra, Ghana in April 2008.
>
> See more information at
> http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=14561&info=not
> .
>
>
>
> My understanding is that while closely related to WSIS issue, this meeting
> is not part of UNCTAD follow up to WSIS. Therefore, only NGOs in
> consultative status with UNCTAD might be able to participate... We were
> however informed that other relevant CS representatives could ask for an ad
> hoc "invitation" to the division organising the event, so that they could be
> put in the list of participants as invited persons.
>
>
>
> CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
> invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
> *Philippe Dam
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail: **wsis at ngocongo.org* <wsis at ngocongo.org>*
> Website: **www.ngocongo.org** *
>
> * *
>
> *The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership
> association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations
> debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure
> the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
> Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
> website at www.ngocongo.org*
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gov mailing list
> Gov at wsis-gov.org
> http://mail.conferences.tv/mailman/listinfo/gov
>
>


-- 
Edgard Mandrault
BP 530 Port-Gentil (Gabon)
Tel Cel: +241 0796 2196 / 0624 7638
Fax: +241 55 15 28
mail: edgard.mandrault at gmail.com
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From cafec3m at yahoo.fr  Thu Nov 29 10:56:45 2007
From: cafec3m at yahoo.fr (CAFEC)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:56:45 +0100
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Science, Technology,
	Innovation and ICTs for Development: UNCTAD XII pre-event (6
	december, Geneva)
In-Reply-To: <200711262047.lAQKlfFR026178@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
References: <AcgwbZ6BCNL7/lJWShug5MJVw0HwTA==>
	<200711262047.lAQKlfFR026178@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <ecb172de0711290256r5323896bm3db3cafaaadaa3cc@mail.gmail.com>

Bonjour Philippe,

Un vrai plaisir de te lire souvent en ligne. Des info toujours int?ressantes
et ?difiantes.
Je suis partie prenante pour Accra.

Baudouin


2007/11/26, CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org>:
>
> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> this message!
> _______________________________________
>
>
>
>  Dear all,
>
>
>
> Note as well this up coming UNCTAD meeting addressing the overall theme:
> "Science, Technology, Innovation and ICTs for Development". This event is
> organised in preparation to the 12th UNCTAD quadrennial ministerial
> Conference, taking place in Accra, Ghana in April 2008.
>
> See more information at
> http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=14561&info=not
> .
>
>
>
> My understanding is that while closely related to WSIS issue, this meeting
> is not part of UNCTAD follow up to WSIS. Therefore, only NGOs in
> consultative status with UNCTAD might be able to participate... We were
> however informed that other relevant CS representatives could ask for an ad
> hoc "invitation" to the division organising the event, so that they could be
> put in the list of participants as invited persons.
>
>
>
> CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
> invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Ph
>
> *Philippe Dam
> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> CH-1202 Geneva
> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> E-mail: **wsis at ngocongo.org* <wsis at ngocongo.org>*
> Website: **www.ngocongo.org** *
>
> * *
>
> *The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership
> association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations
> debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure
> the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
> Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
> website at www.ngocongo.org*
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>
>


-- 
SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN
COORDONNATEUR NATIONAL REPRONTIC
COORDONNATEUR SOUS REGIONAL ACSIS/AFRIQUE CENTRALE
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From e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk  Thu Nov 29 14:23:07 2007
From: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk (Ezendu Ariwa)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:23:07 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Request for Invitation to [Gov 346] Science,
 Technology,
 Innovation and ICTs for Development: UNCTAD XII pre-event (6      december,
 Geneva)
In-Reply-To: <2e9d70520711262233u5fb92274wa7617c8deb530e90@mail.gmail.com>
References: <200711262047.lAQKlfFR026178@smtp2.infomaniak.ch>
	<2e9d70520711262233u5fb92274wa7617c8deb530e90@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1406.140.97.233.243.1196346187.squirrel@webmail2.londonmet.ac.uk>

Dear Sir/Madam

Thanks


I am will to take part in the meeting, Kindly send me an invitation



Ezendu










> CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
> invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?

> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific
> people]
>
> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> this message!
> _______________________________________
>
> Bonjour Philippe,
>
> Je suis inter?ss? ? participer ? cette r?union d'Accra.
> Je te remercie de bien vouloir m'inscrire comme participant de la soci?t?
> civile. J'esp?re qu'au niveau de la soci?t? civile, nous pourrions
> b?n?ficier du financement pour prendre part ? ce forum important.
> Meilleures salutations.
>
>
> 2007/11/26, CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org>:
>>
>>  Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Note as well this up coming UNCTAD meeting addressing the overall theme:
>> "Science, Technology, Innovation and ICTs for Development". This event
>> is
>> organised in preparation to the 12th UNCTAD quadrennial ministerial
>> Conference, taking place in Accra, Ghana in April 2008.
>>
>> See more information at
>> http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=14561&info=not
>> .
>>
>>
>>
>> My understanding is that while closely related to WSIS issue, this
>> meeting
>> is not part of UNCTAD follow up to WSIS. Therefore, only NGOs in
>> consultative status with UNCTAD might be able to participate... We were
>> however informed that other relevant CS representatives could ask for an
>> ad
>> hoc "invitation" to the division organising the event, so that they
>> could be
>> put in the list of participants as invited persons.
>>
>>
>>
>> CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
>> invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Ph
>>
>> *Philippe Dam
>> 11, Avenue de la Paix
>> CH-1202 Geneva
>> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
>> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
>> E-mail: **wsis at ngocongo.org* <wsis at ngocongo.org>*
>> Website: **www.ngocongo.org** *
>>
>> * *
>>
>> *The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership
>> association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations
>> debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to
>> ensure
>> the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and
>> United
>> Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see
>> our
>> website at www.ngocongo.org*
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Gov mailing list
>> Gov at wsis-gov.org
>> http://mail.conferences.tv/mailman/listinfo/gov
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Edgard Mandrault
> BP 530 Port-Gentil (Gabon)
> Tel Cel: +241 0796 2196 / 0624 7638
> Fax: +241 55 15 28
> mail: edgard.mandrault at gmail.com
> _______________________________________________
> Plenary mailing list
> Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
>


Ezendu Ariwa
Senior Lecturer - Strategic Information Systems
London Metropolitan University
London Metropolitan Business School
277-281 Holloway Road
London N7 8HN
United Kingdom

Tel: 02071333945
Fax: 02071333899
Email: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk



Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo


From askatil at rediffmail.com  Thu Nov 29 17:44:14 2007
From: askatil at rediffmail.com (Amar Singh Katil)
Date: 29 Nov 2007 17:44:14 -0000
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Request for Invitation to [Gov 346] Science,
	Technology, Innovation and IC
Message-ID: <20071129174414.14608.qmail@webmail17.rediffmail.com>

respected sir,

We are to takr part in the meeting, kindly send us the invitation letter for obtain the visas:-

   (a)  Mr Amar Singh Sidhju Secretary General
   (b)  Capt Manjeet Singh Dhindsa principal Secretary
   (c)  Mr Prabhjeet Singh Joint Secretary

with best wishes

Mr Amar Singh Sidhu
Secretary general
GGS ICT UN NGO INDIA  ?


On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 Ezendu Ariwa wrote :
>[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
>Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!
>_______________________________________
>
>Dear Sir/Madam
>
>Thanks
>
>
>I am will to take part in the meeting, Kindly send me an invitation
>
>
>
>Ezendu
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
> > invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?
>
> > [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> > Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific
> > people]
> >
> > Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> > this message!
> > _______________________________________
> >
> > Bonjour Philippe,
> >
> > Je suis inter?ss? ? participer ? cette r?union d'Accra.
> > Je te remercie de bien vouloir m'inscrire comme participant de la soci?t?
> > civile. J'esp?re qu'au niveau de la soci?t? civile, nous pourrions
> > b?n?ficier du financement pour prendre part ? ce forum important.
> > Meilleures salutations.
> >
> >
> > 2007/11/26, CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org>:
> >>
> >>  Dear all,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Note as well this up coming UNCTAD meeting addressing the overall theme:
> >> "Science, Technology, Innovation and ICTs for Development". This event
> >> is
> >> organised in preparation to the 12th UNCTAD quadrennial ministerial
> >> Conference, taking place in Accra, Ghana in April 2008.
> >>
> >> See more information at
> >> http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=14561&info=not
> >> .
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> My understanding is that while closely related to WSIS issue, this
> >> meeting
> >> is not part of UNCTAD follow up to WSIS. Therefore, only NGOs in
> >> consultative status with UNCTAD might be able to participate... We were
> >> however informed that other relevant CS representatives could ask for an
> >> ad
> >> hoc "invitation" to the division organising the event, so that they
> >> could be
> >> put in the list of participants as invited persons.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
> >> invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Ph
> >>
> >> *Philippe Dam
> >> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> >> CH-1202 Geneva
> >> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> >> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> >> E-mail: **wsis at ngocongo.org* <wsis at ngocongo.org>*
> >> Website: **www.ngocongo.org** *
> >>
> >> * *
> >>
> >> *The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership
> >> association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations
> >> debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to
> >> ensure
> >> the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and
> >> United
> >> Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see
> >> our
> >> website at www.ngocongo.org*
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Gov mailing list
> >> Gov at wsis-gov.org
> >> http://mail.conferences.tv/mailman/listinfo/gov
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Edgard Mandrault
> > BP 530 Port-Gentil (Gabon)
> > Tel Cel: +241 0796 2196 / 0624 7638
> > Fax: +241 55 15 28
> > mail: edgard.mandrault at gmail.com
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plenary mailing list
> > Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> > http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> >
>
>
>Ezendu Ariwa
>Senior Lecturer - Strategic Information Systems
>London Metropolitan University
>London Metropolitan Business School
>277-281 Holloway Road
>London N7 8HN
>United Kingdom
>
>Tel: 02071333945
>Fax: 02071333899
>Email: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk
>
>
>
>Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo
>
>_______________________________________________
>Plenary mailing list
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From askatil at rediffmail.com  Thu Nov 29 17:44:28 2007
From: askatil at rediffmail.com (Amar Singh Katil)
Date: 29 Nov 2007 17:44:28 -0000
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Request for Invitation to [Gov 346] Science,
	Technology, Innovation and IC
Message-ID: <20071129174428.8478.qmail@webmail7.rediffmail.com>

respected sir,

We are to takr part in the meeting, kindly send us the invitation letter for obtain the visas:-

   (a)  Mr Amar Singh Sidhju Secretary General
   (b)  Capt Manjeet Singh Dhindsa principal Secretary
   (c)  Mr Prabhjeet Singh Joint Secretary

with best wishes

Mr Amar Singh Sidhu
Secretary general
GGS ICT UN NGO INDIA  ?


On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 Ezendu Ariwa wrote :
>[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
>Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!
>_______________________________________
>
>Dear Sir/Madam
>
>Thanks
>
>
>I am will to take part in the meeting, Kindly send me an invitation
>
>
>
>Ezendu
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
> > invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?
>
> > [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> > Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific
> > people]
> >
> > Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> > this message!
> > _______________________________________
> >
> > Bonjour Philippe,
> >
> > Je suis inter?ss? ? participer ? cette r?union d'Accra.
> > Je te remercie de bien vouloir m'inscrire comme participant de la soci?t?
> > civile. J'esp?re qu'au niveau de la soci?t? civile, nous pourrions
> > b?n?ficier du financement pour prendre part ? ce forum important.
> > Meilleures salutations.
> >
> >
> > 2007/11/26, CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org>:
> >>
> >>  Dear all,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Note as well this up coming UNCTAD meeting addressing the overall theme:
> >> "Science, Technology, Innovation and ICTs for Development". This event
> >> is
> >> organised in preparation to the 12th UNCTAD quadrennial ministerial
> >> Conference, taking place in Accra, Ghana in April 2008.
> >>
> >> See more information at
> >> http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=14561&info=not
> >> .
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> My understanding is that while closely related to WSIS issue, this
> >> meeting
> >> is not part of UNCTAD follow up to WSIS. Therefore, only NGOs in
> >> consultative status with UNCTAD might be able to participate... We were
> >> however informed that other relevant CS representatives could ask for an
> >> ad
> >> hoc "invitation" to the division organising the event, so that they
> >> could be
> >> put in the list of participants as invited persons.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
> >> invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Ph
> >>
> >> *Philippe Dam
> >> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> >> CH-1202 Geneva
> >> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> >> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> >> E-mail: **wsis at ngocongo.org* <wsis at ngocongo.org>*
> >> Website: **www.ngocongo.org** *
> >>
> >> * *
> >>
> >> *The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership
> >> association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations
> >> debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to
> >> ensure
> >> the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and
> >> United
> >> Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see
> >> our
> >> website at www.ngocongo.org*
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Gov mailing list
> >> Gov at wsis-gov.org
> >> http://mail.conferences.tv/mailman/listinfo/gov
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Edgard Mandrault
> > BP 530 Port-Gentil (Gabon)
> > Tel Cel: +241 0796 2196 / 0624 7638
> > Fax: +241 55 15 28
> > mail: edgard.mandrault at gmail.com
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plenary mailing list
> > Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> > http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> >
>
>
>Ezendu Ariwa
>Senior Lecturer - Strategic Information Systems
>London Metropolitan University
>London Metropolitan Business School
>277-281 Holloway Road
>London N7 8HN
>United Kingdom
>
>Tel: 02071333945
>Fax: 02071333899
>Email: e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk
>
>
>
>Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo
>
>_______________________________________________
>Plenary mailing list
>Plenary at wsis-cs.org
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From askatil at rediffmail.com  Thu Nov 29 17:47:42 2007
From: askatil at rediffmail.com (Amar Singh Katil)
Date: 29 Nov 2007 17:47:42 -0000
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Request for Invitation to [Gov 346] Science,
	Technology, Innovation and IC
Message-ID: <20071129174742.663.qmail@webmail73.rediffmail.com>

 ?
Respected Sir,

We are to take part in the meeting kindly send us invitation letters

     (a)  Mr Amar Singh Siodhu Secretaryu General
     (b)  Capt manjeet Singh Dhindsa Princiopal Secretary
     (d)  Mr Prabhjeet Singh Joint Secretary

with best regards

Mr amar singh sidhu
Secretary General
GGS ICT UN NGO INDIA Ludhiana Punjab India
askatil at rediffmasil.com



On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 Amar Singh Katil wrote :
>[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
>Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!
>_______________________________________
>
>respected sir,
>
>We are to takr part in the meeting, kindly send us the invitation letter for obtain the visas:-
>
>    (a)  Mr Amar Singh Sidhju Secretary General
>    (b)  Capt Manjeet Singh Dhindsa principal Secretary
>    (c)  Mr Prabhjeet Singh Joint Secretary
>
>with best wishes
>
>Mr Amar Singh Sidhu
>Secretary general
>GGS ICT UN NGO INDIA
>
>
>On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 Ezendu Ariwa wrote :
> >[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
> >
> >Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!
> >_______________________________________
> >
> >Dear Sir/Madam
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >I am will to take part in the meeting, Kindly send me an invitation
> >
> >
> >
> >Ezendu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
> > > invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?
> >
> > > [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> > > Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific
> > > people]
> > >
> > > Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> > > this message!
> > > _______________________________________
> > >
> > > Bonjour Philippe,
> > >
> > > Je suis inter?ss? ? participer ? cette r?union d'Accra.
> > > Je te remercie de bien vouloir m'inscrire comme participant de la soci?t?
> > > civile. J'esp?re qu'au niveau de la soci?t? civile, nous pourrions
> > > b?n?ficier du financement pour prendre part ? ce forum important.
> > > Meilleures salutations.
> > >
> > >
> > > 2007/11/26, CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org>:
> > >>
> > >>  Dear all,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Note as well this up coming UNCTAD meeting addressing the overall theme:
> > >> "Science, Technology, Innovation and ICTs for Development". This event
> > >> is
> > >> organised in preparation to the 12th UNCTAD quadrennial ministerial
> > >> Conference, taking place in Accra, Ghana in April 2008.
> > >>
> > >> See more information at
> > >> http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=14561&info=not
> > >> .
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> My understanding is that while closely related to WSIS issue, this
> > >> meeting
> > >> is not part of UNCTAD follow up to WSIS. Therefore, only NGOs in
> > >> consultative status with UNCTAD might be able to participate... We were
> > >> however informed that other relevant CS representatives could ask for an
> > >> ad
> > >> hoc "invitation" to the division organising the event, so that they
> > >> could be
> > >> put in the list of participants as invited persons.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
> > >> invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Best regards,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Ph
> > >>
> > >> *Philippe Dam
> > >> 11, Avenue de la Paix
> > >> CH-1202 Geneva
> > >> Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> > >> Fax: +41 22 301 2000
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> > >> Website: **www.ngocongo.org** *
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From askatil at rediffmail.com  Thu Nov 29 17:53:15 2007
From: askatil at rediffmail.com (Amar Singh Katil)
Date: 29 Nov 2007 17:53:15 -0000
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Science, Technology,
	Innovation and ICTs for Development: UNCTAD XII pre-e
Message-ID: <20071129175315.17439.qmail@webmail6.rediffmail.com>

 ?Respected Sir,


We will attend the above named conference, kindly send the invitation  letters to us for obtain the visas

1.    pleaser also intimat to all that we are open the membership of our GGS ICT UN NGO INDIA. any one can get the membership write to me by E Mail noted below.


With best regards

Mr Amar Singh Sidhu
Secretary general
GGS ICT UN NGO INDIA
askatil at rediffmail.com


On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 CAFEC wrote :
>[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
>Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!
>_______________________________________
>
>Bonjour Philippe,
>
>Un vrai plaisir de te lire souvent en ligne. Des info toujours int?ressantes
>et ?difiantes.
>Je suis partie prenante pour Accra.
>
>Baudouin
>
>
>2007/11/26, CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org>:
> >
> > [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> > Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
> >
> > Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> > this message!
> > _______________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> >  Dear all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Note as well this up coming UNCTAD meeting addressing the overall theme:
> > "Science, Technology, Innovation and ICTs for Development". This event is
> > organised in preparation to the 12th UNCTAD quadrennial ministerial
> > Conference, taking place in Accra, Ghana in April 2008.
> >
> > See more information at
> > http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=14561&info=not
> > .
> >
> >
> >
> > My understanding is that while closely related to WSIS issue, this meeting
> > is not part of UNCTAD follow up to WSIS. Therefore, only NGOs in
> > consultative status with UNCTAD might be able to participate... We were
> > however informed that other relevant CS representatives could ask for an ad
> > hoc "invitation" to the division organising the event, so that they could be
> > put in the list of participants as invited persons.
> >
> >
> >
> > CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
> > invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?
> >
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Ph
> >
> > *Philippe Dam
> > 11, Avenue de la Paix
> > CH-1202 Geneva
> > Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> > Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> > E-mail: **wsis at ngocongo.org* <wsis at ngocongo.org>*
> > Website: **www.ngocongo.org** *
> >
> > * *
> >
> > *The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership
> > association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations
> > debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure
> > the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
> > Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
> > website at www.ngocongo.org*
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plenary mailing list
> > Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> > http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> >
> >
>
>
>--
>SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN
>COORDONNATEUR NATIONAL REPRONTIC
>COORDONNATEUR SOUS REGIONAL ACSIS/AFRIQUE CENTRALE
>MEMBRE FACILITATEUR GAID AFRIQUE
>TEL:00243998983491
>EMAIL:b.schombe at gmail.com
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From satakau at yahoo.ca  Fri Nov 30 15:31:18 2007
From: satakau at yahoo.ca (salesi takau)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:31:18 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Science, Technology,
	Innovation and ICTs for Development: UNCTAD XII pre-e
In-Reply-To: <20071129175315.17439.qmail@webmail6.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <629429.33261.qm@web55710.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Please stop sending me these messages, its of no use to me..
   
  Regards

Amar Singh Katil <askatil at rediffmail.com> wrote:
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Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!
_______________________________________

    Respected Sir,


We will attend the above named conference, kindly send the invitation  letters to us for obtain the visas

1.    pleaser also intimat to all that we are open the membership of our GGS ICT UN NGO INDIA. any one can get the membership write to me by E Mail noted below.


With best regards

Mr Amar Singh Sidhu
Secretary general
GGS ICT UN NGO INDIA
askatil at rediffmail.com


On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 CAFEC wrote :
>[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
>
>Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!
>_______________________________________
>
>Bonjour Philippe,
>
>Un vrai plaisir de te lire souvent en ligne. Des info toujours int?ressantes
>et ?difiantes.
>Je suis partie prenante pour Accra.
>
>Baudouin
>
>
>2007/11/26, CONGO - Philippe Dam <wsis at ngocongo.org>:
> >
> > [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.
> > Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]
> >
> > Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of
> > this message!
> > _______________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> >  Dear all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Note as well this up coming UNCTAD meeting addressing the overall theme:
> > "Science, Technology, Innovation and ICTs for Development". This event is
> > organised in preparation to the 12th UNCTAD quadrennial ministerial
> > Conference, taking place in Accra, Ghana in April 2008.
> >
> > See more information at
> > http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=14561&info=not
> > .
> >
> >
> >
> > My understanding is that while closely related to WSIS issue, this meeting
> > is not part of UNCTAD follow up to WSIS. Therefore, only NGOs in
> > consultative status with UNCTAD might be able to participate... We were
> > however informed that other relevant CS representatives could ask for an ad
> > hoc "invitation" to the division organising the event, so that they could be
> > put in the list of participants as invited persons.
> >
> >
> >
> > CONGO would be ready to compile a list of individuals requesting such an
> > invitation. Is there anybody willing to take part in this meeting?
> >
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Ph
> >
> > *Philippe Dam
> > 11, Avenue de la Paix
> > CH-1202 Geneva
> > Tel: +41 22 301 1000
> > Fax: +41 22 301 2000
> > E-mail: **wsis at ngocongo.org* <wsis at ngocongo.org>*
> > Website: **www.ngocongo.org** *
> >
> > * *
> >
> > *The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership
> > association that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations
> > debates and decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure
> > the presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United
> > Nations agencies on issues of global concern.  For more information see our
> > website at www.ngocongo.org*
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plenary mailing list
> > Plenary at wsis-cs.org
> > http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary
> >
> >
>
>
>--
>SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN
>COORDONNATEUR NATIONAL REPRONTIC
>COORDONNATEUR SOUS REGIONAL ACSIS/AFRIQUE CENTRALE
>MEMBRE FACILITATEUR GAID AFRIQUE
>TEL:00243998983491
>EMAIL:b.schombe at gmail.com
>_______________________________________________
>Plenary mailing list
>Plenary at wsis-cs.org
>http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary



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From ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es  Fri Nov 30 20:14:44 2007
From: ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es (Lady Murrugarra)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:14:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] YO PROMETO: MI COMPROMISO EN LA LUCHA CONTRA EL
	SIDA
Message-ID: <365972.97643.qm@web26909.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

YO PROMETO: MI COMPROMISO EN LA LUCHA CONTRA EL SIDA
   
  01 de diciembre
   
  Ante la propagaci?n del VIH y SIDA en nuestro pa?s, las instituciones 
p?blicas y privadas, la sociedad civil y la poblaci?n en general han 
articulado a trav?s de los a?os, una serie de estrategias que tienen como 
principal objetivo la disminuci?n de casos y la prevenci?n de esta terrible 
enfermedad.

  
Una fecha importante para aquellos que vienen trabajando a favor de estos 
objetivos es el 1 de diciembre, conocido desde 1988 como el D?a Mundial de 
la lucha contra el Sida. Esta efem?ride busca colocar en la agenda p?blica 
el tema del VIH y SIDA,  para informar y sensibilizar a las personas sobre 
los tratamientos, modos de prevenci?n e inducir actitudes favorables hacia 
aquellos que conviven con la enfermedad.

La Asociaci?n Civil Investigaciones M?dicas en Salud, en su af?n de 
colaborar en la prevenci?n del VIH y SIDA, implementara la actividad 
denominada "Yo Prometo. Mi compromiso en la lucha contra el SIDA", como un 
espacio para informar y sensibilizar a la poblaci?n en general, 
involucr?ndolos sobre la importancia de comprometerse individual y 
colectivamente en la lucha global contra esta enfermedad y al mismo tiempo 
desarrollando comportamientos saludables que nos permitan vivir en un mundo 
sin SIDA.

Es por ello que invitamos a las autoridades, medios de comunicacion y 
poblacion en general a participar de esta actividad y escribir su promesa 
para vivir en un mundo sin SIDA. Con el objetivo de incluir desde ahora los 
compromisos, se ha creado el correo electr?nico yoprometo at inmensa.org y la 
web www.inmensa.org/yoprometo , donde todas las personas podr?n hacer llegar 
su promesa, la cual ser? incluida en el ?nfora para el d?a central, 1? de 
diciembre en el Parque de la Exposicion (ex Gran Parque de Lima) a las 12 
mediodia.

De esta manera la participaci?n del p?blico servir? como muestra de nuestro 
compromiso de vivir en un mundo sin SIDA y con una mejor calidad de vida 
para las personas viviendo con VIH.


  http://www.i4donline.net/articles/current-article.asp?articleid=938&typ=Feat
   
  http://www.ehealthonline.org/articles/article-details.asp?articleid=1145&typ=Development
   
   
  Nos vemos en el Parque de la Exposicion!!!

       
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From ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es  Fri Nov 30 22:16:32 2007
From: ladymurrugarra at yahoo.es (Lady Murrugarra)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:16:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: BLOG : LIBRO - Perú y América Latina En La Era Digital ..
Message-ID: <714098.41528.qm@web26903.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

        Red de Iniciativas de Alfabetizaci?n Informacional para el Desarrollo             I Encuentro Iberoamericano de Bloggers 
  Posted: 29 Nov 2007 08:17 PM CST
    La Iniciativa 10Blog convoca al I Encuentro Iberoamericano de Bloggers . Esta actividad busca compartir entre personas de diferentes regiones experiencias entorno a la blog?sfera y su percepci?n de este fen?meno.
  El encuentro ser? el s?bado 15 de diciembre a las 11 horas GMT -5 (Ej. 1 pm Argentina, 11 am Per?, Espa?a 5 pm)  a trav?s de Skypecast (un servicio de Skype ).
  M?s informaci?n en 10Blog.org 

      Per? y Am?rica Latina En La Era Digital 
  Posted: 29 Nov 2007 05:57 PM CST
    El Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia anuncia la pr?xima presentaci?n del libro " Per? y Am?rica Latina en la Era Digital: Transformando la Sociedad" de los editores Chocobar, Gotuzzo, Gozzer, Jim?nez, Murrugarra y Zubko.
  La presentaci?n ser? el jueves 6 de Diciembre del 2007, 11:00 a.m. en el Auditorio Hernan Torres de la Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, sito en Av. Honorio Delgado 430, San Martin de Porres.
  V?a Infomediarios 



  Lady Murrugarra
Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
  Telemedicine & e-Le at rning

  Address: Honorio Delgado 430, Lima 31, Per?
Telf: (51-1) 4823903, 4823910, Fax: (51-1) 4823404
  Email: ladym at upch.edu.pe, murrugarralady at yahoo.com 
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