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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Contribution on the possible revised draft circulated by the chair of Group of the Friends of the Chair on the Operational Part<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">By: Nnenna Nwakanma, Development Researcher and Advisor, Institute of International Relations, Université de l’Atlantique, Cote d’Ivoire<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Member: Internet Governance Caucus, Finance working group, Working group on working methods, Gender caucus, Africa Regional family working group on implementation and follow-up.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The retained text is one of many and it happens to be the most contradictory to existing aspirations so far.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the one text that expresses an entirely opposite sense of direction from all the contributions received after PC 2. (<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Document WSIS-II/PC-3/DT-6(Rev.2)-E)</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">This text sweeps multi-stakeholderism (which has been at the very foundation of the WSIS) to the side by suggesting the implantation of all action lines in UN bodies<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">This very suggestion makes it difficult to implement at regional levels.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the Africa Region, will ITU remain ITU or will it be substituted by ATU? (The Africa Telecommunications <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place>).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Such questions are difficult to answer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This difficulty accentuates as we go lower and will ultimately make it impossible to implement Actions Lines at national levels (at least for African countries)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The “<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">process of follow up</B>” is a very bad idea.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It demolishes the whole of the WSIS process.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Processes are followed by an Action Plan and implementation, not another process!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">There is a great danger that completely assigning the implementation of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Geneva</st1:place></st1:City> and Tunis Action Plans to any UN body “<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">according to its mandate and competencies”</B> will result in leaving the issue of Internet Governance “still” under the control of one country, a situation which has been so far practically accepted as requiring urgent change<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">In its suggestion that<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>…<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> coordination of implementation activities</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">among the UN agencies should be defined by the UN Secretary General on the basis of existing practices within the UN system… </B>this text seems to say that the whole of the WSIS process itself (with such heavy expenditure on resources) was a waste.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There should not have been any summit at all.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">To conclude, we are proposing below, a text which retains the belief, the aspirations and the desires so far expressed for paragraph 10.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US>In order to assure the sustainability of the WSIS process after the completion of its Tunis phase, we agree to a multi-stakeholder<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>mechanism for effective and transparent implementation for the Geneva and Tunis Plans of Action, based upon co-operation among governments and all stakeholders, with the overarching goal of helping countries and societies to achieve the development goals of the Millennium Declaration. To that end, for each Action Line in the <st1:City w:st="on">Geneva</st1:City> and <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tunis</st1:place></st1:State> Plans of Action (as identified in the Annex), a multi-stakeholder team <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>will work together to promote implementation. We request the UN Secretary-General to nominate, from among existing UN
bodies or specialised agencies, those that will coordinate the work of each team, based on respect for their mandates and leveraging on their expertise, and within their existing and mobilized resources. </SPAN></I></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US>For each Action Line a multi-stakeholder implementation team should be established through an open and inclusive process, building upon the innovative mechanisms experimented during the WSIS, <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">with a particular attention to achieving gender balance and equitable regional representation. </SPAN></SPAN></I></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></SPAN></SPAN></I><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">We also recommend the establishment of multi-stakeholder partnerships at the regional and national levels with support from the UN Regional Commissions to ensure implementation of the Geneva and Tunis decisions and organize Regional and national follow up evaluations at regular intervals, most preferably, <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>every two years.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></FONT></FONT></P></DIV><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com