<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B>World Summit on the Information Society </B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B>Prepcom III</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B>Sub-committee B</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B>29 September 2005</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B>1500-1800 hours</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B> </B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B>Notes by Rik Panganiban</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B> </B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Sub-committee B continues negotiation on new political chapeau, based on WSIS-II/PC-3/DT/12. [Not available online yet.]<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Paras 1A-1B<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Cuba and Norway still leading negotiations<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 5A<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Sub-committee B begins w Para 5A<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Ghana<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Proposes to lead negotiations on combining 5A-G<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">US<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">On 5A-5G: Should have a short political chapeau.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Freedom of expression and media issues already dealt with in Geneva doc, which was hard fought text.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We propose elimination because they re-open contentious issues.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Ghana<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Delete 5A-G<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Cuba<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">We will lead negotiations on 5A-G<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 8A<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">US submits text<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">El Salvador adds “fully respecting human rights”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Honduras inserts “development”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Taken in brackets<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 9<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">US<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">We prefer Alt9<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">NZ<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">We will coordinate work on this para.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 9A “open source”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">US <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Add “in ways that combine the advantages of all models” to “principally”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Brazil<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">We support including this in brackets. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 9B<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Australia<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Move to operational part<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">UK<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Delete<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Belarus<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">This text comes from a conference we had.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let’s talk about this bilaterally.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">US<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">We have suggestions on this.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 10A<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 11B “equitable multilateral trading system”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">US<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Has new text<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 11C<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Brazil will coordinate new text<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">US has alternative language<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">New US text: ”We recognize that the use of local languages in ICTs promotes inclusion of all people in the information society, enhances cultural diversity, and contributes to development.”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 11E “financial resources”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">US, Australia, NZ and UK<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">This is a resource issue.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Should be in<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>operational part not here.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">El Salvador, Honduras, Algeria, Cuba, Egypt<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">We need some references to mobilizing resources in the chapeau<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Iran<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Propose texts from millennium outcome document<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Canada proposes new text.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 11F “public and private investment”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Australia<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">This para summarizes our debates on private sector and public sector investment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We should go back to Geneva language.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 11J “child helplines”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">US, UK<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Too detailed for political chapeau.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Move to operational part in part 7.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Chair<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">We really need to have some text on protecting children. Perhaps can the NGO that proposed this please bring this text back to us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will move this operational part.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">UK and Canada will be happy to work on this to make it in line with Geneva language.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 11K<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Japan<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">“We reaffirm our desire to build ICT networks and develop applications, in partnership with the private sector and civil society, based on open or interoperable standards that are affordable and accessible to all, available anywhere and anytime, to anyone and on any device, leading to a [ubuquitous networked society.]”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>para 11L</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Ghana<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">This para is important to us.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">UK<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Reformulates: “We note the potential of ICTs and encourage their use in identifiying conflict situations through early-warning systems, preventing them, and promoting their peaceful resolution, mitigating their consequences, protecting civilians, facilitating peacekeeping missions, and post-conflict reconstruction towards free, open, inclusive and just societies.”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Some opposition, so in negotiation still.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><H1><SPAN style="">Para 12A<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Chair<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">At 6:10pm we will come back here and start general discussion on paper related to mechanisms.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have tried to incorporate different inputs that were made.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Then we continue on Chapters 1 and 4 tonight, without interpretation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will finish our work today.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><BR><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>