<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Friends,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Once again, we are challenged with a crowded agenda for both the inter-governmental process and our own NGO activities for Prepcom III. For the many civil society participants who can not be in Geneva, it is important that we try and be as transparent and inclusive as possible by reporting in a timely manner on the various proceedings.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am happy to help coordinate reporting on the official meetings, as I have done in the past. Monitoring the official negotiations requires dedicated and attentive volunteers who carefully take notes at the meetings and then share them with the larger plenary. This is most easily managed if people volunteer to take certain meeting times and then are present at the next civil society plenary meeting the following morning to report, as well as sharing their notes with the virtual plenary email list as soon as possible. I can also post these reports to the CONGO website on a rolling basis.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Please reply to me directly to <A href="mailto:rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org">rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org</A> if you are willing to volunteer to help monitor the meetings. Please indicate when you will be in Geneva. We'll establish a schedule once I know how many volunteers monitors we have.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks for your assistance.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Rik Panganiban</DIV><DIV>CONGO</DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">===============================================</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">RIK PANGANIBAN <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Communications Coordinator</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">web: <A href="http://www.ngocongo.org">http://www.ngocongo.org</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">email: <A href="mailto:rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org">rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">* Information on the WSIS at <A href="http://www.ngocongo.org/wsis">http://www.ngocongo.org/wsis</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">* Information on Millennium+5 at <A href="http://www.ngocongo.org/mdg">http://www.ngocongo.org/mdg</A></FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>