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<DIV><SPAN class=597034617-30102005><FONT
face="Book Antiqua">Hello,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua"><SPAN class=597034617-30102005>Progress continues
toward the launching of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development.
</SPAN><SPAN class=597034617-30102005><A name=OLE_LINK1>Following discussions at
the ninth meeting of the UNICT Task Force on 1 October 2005 in Geneva, </A>the
UN is assembling a start-up group to finalize the specific features of the
proposal that remain open, such as its organizational arrangements,
participation and funding. The start-up group will meet at the Tunis
summit, and has been asked to encourage multistakeholder input on the concept
during the period prior. In particular, the group has been asked to
solicit views on the following questions, taking into account the
discussion in the paper on the principles and elements of the Global Alliance <A
href="http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/documents.pl?id=1562">http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/documents.pl?id=1562</A>:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>What kind of organizational elements would be optimal for ensuring
effectiveness, sustainability and impact of the Global Alliance?</FONT></P>
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</SPAN>What should be the criteria for participation that would ensure openness
and inclusion, but at the same time be based on relevance to and coherence of
purpose?</FONT></P>
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</SPAN>How to build an adequate and sustainable resource foundation on the basis
of voluntary financial and in-kind contributions?</FONT></P>
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class=597034617-30102005><FONT face="Book Antiqua">Since this list is
necessarily busy with other pre-summit matters, it might be difficult to have a
focused discussion on these or related aspects here. In that event,
anyone interested in this process could comment in the forum on the
UNICT Task Force website at <A
href="http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/comments.pl?ot=document;oi=1443">http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/comments.pl?ot=document;oi=1443</A>.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Book Antiqua">*******************************************************<BR>William
J. Drake </FONT><A href="mailto:wdrake@ictsd.ch"><FONT
face="Book Antiqua">wdrake@ictsd.ch</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Book Antiqua">President, Computer Professionals for <BR>
Social Responsibility </FONT><A href="http://www.cpsr.org/"><FONT
face="Book Antiqua">www.cpsr.org</FONT></A><FONT
face="Book Antiqua"> </FONT><FONT face="Book Antiqua"><BR>
Geneva, Switzerland <BR></FONT><A
href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/IRGP-series"><FONT
face="Book Antiqua">http://mitpress.mit.edu/IRGP-series</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.cpsr.org/board/drake"><FONT
face="Book Antiqua">http://www.cpsr.org/board/drake</FONT></A><FONT
face="Book Antiqua"> </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Book Antiqua">Morality is the best of all devices for leading </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Book Antiqua">mankind
by the
nose.---Nietzsche<BR>*******************************************************</FONT></P>
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