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<DIV>Dear Vittorio and WIlliam and all:</DIV>
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<DIV>As just one small voice (listerve member) here, may I resonate with your
post by commenting on its immediate and universal importance in many
aspects.</DIV>
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<DIV>Even though different instances rely on different facts - still there seem
some pertinent and even compelling comparisons here. The recent UNGA (UN
General Assembly and NGO joint hearing at the U.N. New York Headquarters
NY faced such issues; and voices calling for far more meaningul participation
also arose at the well over 2500 NGO individual-participant 58th DPI/NGO
Conference just recently in the same venue. It is indeed voices which must
be heard across all borders and the messages they intone.</DIV>
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<DIV>Feeling sure many here will want to offer support, I do the same. My
Internet and pre-Internet design, programming, and user-view too online
experiences are over 40 years; it is great that among all the voices here,
frontally including the very exciting and adep-at-sharing present ICT
generation, one meets from time to time the pioneers of prior periods as well.
Everyone in ICT is a pioneer at a particular slice in e-time. What counts a lot
is continuing...</DIV>
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<DIV>Call on us all.</DIV>
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<DIV>And sending very best wishes, : ) LDMF.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D..<BR>For
Identification here: *Respectful Interfaces* Programme /
Communications<BR>Coordination Committee for the United Nations. ACM
ABA. International<BR>Disability Caucus for the Disability Convention
(toward Treaty) - Founder, Persons with Pain
International.<BR>------------<BR></FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>----- Original Message -----
<DIV>From: "Vittorio Bertola" <<A
href="mailto:vb@bertola.eu.org">vb@bertola.eu.org</A>></DIV>
<DIV>To: <<A
href="mailto:plenary@wsis-cs.org">plenary@wsis-cs.org</A>></DIV>
<DIV>Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 2:20 PM</DIV>
<DIV>Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] [governance] Post mortem and next steps on
IG</DIV></DIV>
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_______________________________________<BR>> <BR>> William Drake ha
scritto:<BR>> <BR>> >1. As everyone probably knows by now, there will
be an Intersessional<BR>> >"open-ended" negotiation group to negotiate the
chapters on Implementation<BR>> >(Chapter 1), Financial Mechanisms
(Chapter 2) and Follow-up (Chapter 4),<BR>> >and to finalize the political
part of the document. "Open ended" in this<BR>> >context means all
governments can participate. If I heard correctly,<BR>> >civil
society and the private sector are out in the cold, although<BR>>
>Karklins said there'd be regular reporting out. Woop de doo.
WSIS<BR>> >multistakeholderism revealed.<BR>> > <BR>>
><BR>> I think we have to push very hard on this, and at the same time
give to <BR>> the friendly governmental people (including Karklins, I think)
some room <BR>> to make some practical advancements.<BR>> <BR>> For
example: why don't we formally put together a "civil society <BR>>
delegation", composed by a few people (3-5) entrusted by this Plenary, <BR>>
and send a letter to Karklins saying that we would like such delegation <BR>>
to be formally included in the open ended negotiations? After all, the <BR>>
EU openly supported our participation in the plenary, and I think that, <BR>>
while asking to move these consultations to the resumed session of the <BR>>
PrepCom or to any excessively open environment would not fly, the <BR>>
request to have one more seat for civil society (and one for private <BR>>
sector of course), to be added to the 150+ seats of the governments, <BR>>
could be more reasonable and more supportable by Western governments. <BR>>
And we can do this together with the private sector.</DIV>
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