<P>Dear Jeanette and Vitorio</P>
<P>Please read carefully the declaration of CSDPTT (in french) I sent to the list last night.</P>
<P>All the best</P>
<P>Jean-Louis Fullsack</P>
<P>CSDPTT <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #ff0000 2px solid">> Message du 02/05/05 10:46<BR>> De : "Jeanette Hofmann" <JEANETTE@WZ-BERLIN.DE><BR>> A : plenary@wsis-cs.org, "Vittorio Bertola" <VB@BERTOLA.EU.ORG><BR>> Copie à : <BR>> Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] May 2nd Consultation - bases covered<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Vittorio Bertola wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > Il giorno ven, 29-04-2005 alle 10:24 +0200, Jean-Louis FULLSACK ha<BR>> > scritto:<BR>> > <BR>> >>NB : Excerpt from the ITU invitation document : "The purpose of this<BR>> >>informal consultation is to assess the views of a represntative sample<BR>> >>of WSIS stakeholders on the implementation mechanisms (...) Pleasenote<BR>> >>that the meeting will be conducted in English only". <BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> > Perhaps someone among those CS people who will be present could be<BR>> > tasked with reading a short statement that remarks that civil society<BR>> > attendants, having been selected by the organizers, do not constitute a<BR>> > representative sample of civil society stakeholders at WSIS, and only<BR>> > speak for themselves and their own organizations, and that<BR>> > representatives of civil society should be self-selected by civil<BR>> > society itself?<BR>> <BR>> Hi, not sure such a statement makes sense to me. According to the ITU's <BR>> logic, they invite "experts", not CS reps. If a statement is to be read <BR>> at the meeting, it should ask the ITU to open its doors not only to <BR>> governments and business but to the people in general.<BR>> <BR>> jeanette<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Plenary mailing list<BR>> Plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR>> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary<BR>> <BR>> </BLOCKQUOTE>