<DIV>Thank you Rik and Derrick ! Amali<BR><BR><B><I>"Derrick L. Cogburn" <dcogburn@umich.edu></I></B> wrote:
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<DIV><SPAN class=556042314-06122003><FONT face=Garamond color=#0000ff>This is a great idea. If we are able to able to hold the meeting, I would be happy to webcast it in order for remote participants to engage with the briefing as well as recording it for those that couldn't make it. Also, we have a meeting scheduled on Saturday from 10:00 - 12:00 in the ICT4D Platform, room 11 to talk about ways to use the iPC infrastructure to contribute to this discussion (<FONT color=#000000><A href="http://tinyurl.com/y04u">http://tinyurl.com/y04u</A></FONT>). I am happy to have that be a broader discussion along the lines that you raised.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=556042314-06122003><FONT face=Garamond color=#0000ff>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P align=left><FONT size=2><FONT face=gar><SPAN lang=en-us>Derrick L. Cogburn, Ph.D.</SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us>Assistant Professor of Information</SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us>and African Studies</SPAN> <BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=gar><SPAN lang=en-us>The University of Michigan<BR></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us>Website: <A href="http://www.si.umich.edu/~dcogburn">http://www.si.umich.edu/~dcogburn</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=gar size=2> <BR>Blog: </FONT><A href="http://cogburn.blogspot.com/"><FONT face=gar size=2>http://cogburn.blogspot.com/</FONT></A><BR></P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Rik Panganiban<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:42 AM<BR><B>To:</B> wsis-cs-plenary<BR><B>Subject:</B> [WSIS CS-Plenary] orientation meetings for NGOs new to the process?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Dear Friends,<BR><BR>Have arrangements been made to conduct some kind of orientation meetings next week for groups who are new to the WSIS process by the Bureau or other body? I have this nightmare about hundreds and hundreds of NGOs who have not participated in prior Prepcoms asking what is the Bureau, Content and Themes, the families and caucuses, etc, etc. And we may need to organize some meeting, perhaps on Saturday, to begin to discuss what are the future civil society structures groups want in place between now and Tunis 2005.<BR><BR>I am of course happy to parti
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and help facilitate any such orientation sessions that are organized.<BR><BR>On a similar note, the "official" WSIS side-events are listed on the wsis-online.net site, but I am sure that there will be other meetings organized by civil society groups that will be organized on an ad hoc basis. Will there be a calendar somewhere where groups can find out about these events? I'm hoping the civil society secretariat, APC, the Boll Foundation or someone else can host this calendar.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Rik Panganiban<BR>WFM<BR><TT><?fontfamily><?param Courier New>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<BR>Rik Panganiban email: rikp@bluewin.ch<BR>Special Adviser Mobile: +41 76 473 3274 <BR>World Federalist Movement www.wfm.org <BR>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><?/fontfamily></TT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR><DIV>
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