<P>You are fully right Vittorio, and it's time for our "facilitators" to be aware of our determination. Otherwise, we the CS deny any speaker to speak in our name and on our behalf and we make our opinion public </P>
<P>We are fed up with fiddled public declarations (the "Common CS plenary and private sector declaration" during PepCom-2 is the best example of them) and press conferences, as well as with misused speaking slots in plenaries.</P>
<P>Jean-Louis Fullsack</P>
<P>CSDPTT <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #ff0000 2px solid">> Message du 11/10/05 19:14<BR>> De : "Vittorio Bertola" <VB@BERTOLA.EU.ORG><BR>> A : plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR>> Copie à : <BR>> Objet : Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] speakers list transmitted to the ITU<BR>> <BR>> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list. Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]<BR>> <BR>> Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of this message!<BR>> _______________________________________<BR>> <BR>> Rik Panganiban ha scritto:<BR>> > I would love it if every speaker put a draft on a wiki, and anyone <BR>> > could go in and edit their speech for them, and we could all sign off <BR>> > on every speech as coming from "global civil society." But I know <BR>> > ourselves and our processes enough to think that this is unrealistic.<BR>> > <BR>> > We're just not a monolithic entity that can force our will on anyone. <BR>> > All we can do is recommend, encourage, cajole and convince.<BR>> <BR>> Well, we could (should?) have asked some commitments to our speakers <BR>> before appointing them, but in any case it is the ITU, not us, that <BR>> formally chooses them, right?<BR>> <BR>> In any case, we could for example ask all speakers to release a draft of <BR>> their intervention by, say, one week before the Summit, to the Plenary <BR>> list, so that the drafts can be commented and they can then incorporate <BR>> reasonable suggestions. I think this is a reasonable request, in view of <BR>> the role that we are giving them.<BR>> -- <BR>> vb. [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----<BR>> http://bertola.eu.org/ <- Prima o poi...<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Plenary mailing list<BR>> Plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR>> http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary<BR>> <BR>> </BLOCKQUOTE>