<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=windows-1252"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<font face="Trebuchet MS"><br>
Bertrand,<br>
Thanks for the work in preparing this. Given the time available I
would only suggest that the phrase 'efficient and flexible' be rather '<b>effective
and flexible</b>'. Many organizations are efficiently 'ineffective'!<br>
<br>
It also occurs to me that the request for governments to establish
mechanisms are the 'national' level does not take account of the EU or
other regional groupings.<br>
<br>
Best <br>
<br>
Jim<br>
<br>
</font><span class="EmailStyle15"><font color="black" face="Arial"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"
lang="EN-GB">********************************************************<br>
<br>
</span></font></span>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS">Dr Jim McDonnell, MCIPR</font></small></address>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS">Director of Advocacy and
Public
Relations</font></small></address>
<address><font face="Trebuchet MS"><small>SIGNIS (World Catholic
Association
for Communication)</small><br>
<br>
</font></address>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS">134 Worple Road</font></small></address>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS">London SW19 4JF, U.K.</font></small></address>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS">Tel: +44 (0) 208 946 3631</font></small></address>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS">GSM:+44 (0) 7860 920 710</font></small></address>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS"><a
href="mailto:%20jimmcdonnell@blueyonder.co.uk">jimmcdonnell@blueyonder.co.uk</a><br>
<br>
</font></small></address>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS">SIGNIS General Secretariat:</font></small></address>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS">Rue Du Saphir 15</font></small></address>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS">1030 Brussels - BELGIUM</font></small></address>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS">Tel:+32 (0)2 734 97 08</font></small></address>
<address><small><font face="Trebuchet MS">Fax: +32 (0)2 734 70 18</font></small></address>
<br>
<br>
Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid954259bd050919192329f0b094@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<div>Dear all,</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Following a first meeting of the Group on Sub-Committee B (aka
Working Group on Implementation and Follow-up) monday evening, please
find below the draft intervention for Tuesday afternoon session. This
will be the first session of the committee and no agreement has so far
been reached by governments on which text the discussion will start
upon.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>In this context, the choice has been made to focus the
ipreliminary ntervention on a few basic principles and components,
building on previous CS statements from the last two years. This will
form the basis for more concrete formulations in the coming days, once
we know the text that will form the basis for negociation. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Comments are welcome. but the final version will have to be
finalized by lunchtime tuesday and the presentation should not last
longer than three to four minutes (Nnenna will pronounce it). So please
rather edit than add. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Thanks for taking the time to read this. The draft is sent to
the Plenary for today, but successive interventions will be circulated
on the newly opened followup mailing list (please subscribe at : <a
href="http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/followup">
http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/followup</a></div>
<div> </div>
<div>Best</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Bertrand</div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong>Draft TEXT </strong>(word version attached)</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><font
face="">Statement on behalf of Civil society Working group on WSIS
Implementation and Follow-up
</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><font face=""><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"
lang="EN-GB">Sub-Committee B – WSIS PrepCom3 – </span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">
Sept 20, 2005</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></b></font></p>
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">In November, the </span><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Summit</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> itself will be
over. </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Geneva</span><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"> produced valuable Principles and a comprehensive Agenda
for Action. </span>
<span style="" lang="EN-GB">Tunis</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">
must now produce a follow-up framework for getting things done. This
framework must be both efficient and flexible. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face=""> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face="">It is not efficient to merely encourage
actors to keep doing what they have always done. The present GFC draft
is much too weak. We all need stronger commitments from governments and
more structured mechanisms. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face=""> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face="">Flexibility is the second criteria : nobody
wants a heavy architecture, cast in concrete for eternity, but rather
an enabling framework. The proposals discussed at PreCom2 could
generate a rigid, hierarchical and top-down
<span style=""> </span>mechanism that could stifle initiatives and
establish control under the guise of coordination. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face=""> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face="">In this first meting of Sub Committee B, <i>and
before a decision is made on which document or model discussions will
be based upon,
</i> we want to outline some key components that any framework must
contain to be efficient and flexible.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face=""> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face="">The following key benchmarks will guide our
drafting amendments in the coming days :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face=""><span style=""> </span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
1)<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Any
framework must reaffirm the <b>key principles</b> of the Geneva
Declaration and Plan of Action, including :
</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
a.<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Sustainable
development</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
b.<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The
respect of human rights and particularly freedom of expression</span></span></font>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
c.<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Women's
empowerment and gender equality</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
d.<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Non-discrimination</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
2)<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Any
framework should be based on <b>a multi-stakeholder approach</b>, and
we strongly oppose the deletion of the terms "full and effective" to
qualify CS participation in the most recent GFC draft; </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
3)<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Any
framework should address the <b>national, regional and international
levels</b> but also articulate them; </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
4)<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Regular
Review Meetings</span></b></span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> must
allow all actors to review progress in an open and multi-stakeholder
format. This means more frequent and lighter meetings than usual +5 and
+10 Summits. It also means more than the insertion of a few paragraphs
in an annual report by the Secretary General to Ecosoc or the UN GA
<span style=""> </span>Frequency and convenors of such Thematic,
Regional and Global review meetings should be discussed;</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
5)<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Any
framework should enable the progressive grouping of issues in larger <b>Thematic
Clusters
</b>, taking into account the Geneva Action Lines but without making
them intangible;</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><b><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
6)<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Any
framework should encourage the formation of <b>Thematic
Multi-stakeholder Initiatives
</b>, ideally with a minimum of<b> </b>common criteria for their
formation and <span style=""> </span>functioning;</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
7)<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">All <b>international
organizations</b>, according to their mandate or geographical
competence, should be instructed to integrate in their own activities
the outcomes of the WSIS and to actively support and facilitate the
Thematic Multi-stakeholder Initiatives that emerge;
</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
8)<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Governments
should individually "pledge" to establish, at the national level, "<b>
multi-stakeholder implementation frameworks</b>" to define
e-strategies, facilitate concrete initiatives and provide open policy
fora for debate;</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
9)<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">A <b>Global
Policy Debate</b> is needed. Paragraph 35 of the GFC document should
not only be maintained but made even more precise. The possible
articulation with the forum function envisaged in Internet Governance
should be clarified. </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font face=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">
10)<span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Finally<b>,</b>
<b>Resolution 57/270 B</b> in no way prevents the WSIS to establish a
specific and more efficient follow-up mechanism, as the 2003 report to
the General Assembly on Resolution 57/270 has clearly established.
<b> </b></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face=""> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face="">We will come back in more detail on each of
these points in the coming days. We sincerely thank the Chair for
establishing this flexible and efficient mechanism for interaction in
this Sub-Committee. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><font face=""> </font></span></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>