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<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2>Thanks for this Claudia and for the openness to discussion which is
manifested in your response. I won't go on at length here as there are
more immediate issues for this list to deal with, but two items to contribute at
this point and for further discussion at<SPAN class=562170107-07112005> your
session on Monitoring the Follow-Up to WSIS in
Tunis:</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=562170107-07112005> 1. funding--without
sustained funding broad-based (community/grassroots/indigenous/practitioner
organization) participation in such efforts is very unlikely (and quite
unreasonable to expect). These organizations operate on the barest of budgets
for the most part and most often on budgets that are tied into specific projects
out of which they must extract funding for institutional overhead/salaries etc.
Whatever their interest in something like a monitoring process they will be
unable/unwilling and even actively discouraged (by Boards, other funders etc.)
from participation. This has been the case with the WSIS process and there is no
reason to expect that it will not continue in any post-WSIS follow-up.
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN
class=562170107-07112005></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=562170107-07112005>The notion of "<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
color=#000000>voluntary financial and in-kind
contributions" </FONT></SPAN>as for example is the wording for the Global
Alliance, is either deliberately or unconsciously discriminatory against
the grassroots who have no resources for such "voluntary or in-kind
contributions" which appear to be a condition of participation. (Such
resources are of course (and usually invisibly) available for example,
for academics through universities, for government officials or as tax write
offs for large corporations who have overhead resources in abundance).
Unfortunately, there is little visible evidence that those speaking on behalf of
CS at this point have any deep recognition or willingness to intervene
around this central issue.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN
class=562170107-07112005></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=562170107-07112005>(It might also be mentioned here, that the
process of "inclusion" which is most frequently practiced i.e. where individuals
are selected by donor agencies as "representative" of the grassroots, rather
than working through emergent organizations/networks representative of the
grassroots is deeply undermining of the kind of collaborative efforts which are
the basis of ICT4D initiatives at the grassroots... Thus one of the elements of
such funding needs to be funding for emergent organizations (networks of
networks) rather than "cherry-picking" of individuals as "representative"
leaders for participation in efforts such as WSIS or post-WSIS
follow-up. This must be combined with a recognition that decisions as
to who could or should represent these groupings/networks must be the
responsibility of the networks rather than of the
funders.) </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN
class=562170107-07112005></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=562170107-07112005> .2. agenda
setting--the issues which have pre-occupied CS at least in this round have been
not those that have much immediate interest among grassroots
organizations. To engage grassroots organizations and energies (at least
as I'm in touch with these) in a follow-up monitoring process, the
identification of issues for monitoring must be done in a broad and
collaborative way and including a recognition that many of the processes
currently in place (as for example that around "Indicators/evaluation") are from
the grassroots/community and community informatics researchers' perspective
deeply flawed. Equally, it will need to be understood that among the issues
being monitored (and the processes of monitoring) will need to be those which
can assist in sustaining and advancing local efforts concerning ICT4D (including
ensuring greater influence from the grassroots on broader ICT4D policies and
initiatives) as well as feeding into these broader policies and
initiatives.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN
class=562170107-07112005></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=562170107-07112005></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=562170107-07112005>(Let me add that the above is a personal synthesis
of recent and on-going consultations I have undertaken with the
Telecentres of the Americas Partnership, the Global Telecentre Alliance,
Community Informatics Research Network and several aboriginal organizations in
Canada and internationally (and to whom I am copying this note) as
background to interventions concerning the development of the Global Alliance
...</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN
class=562170107-07112005></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN
class=562170107-07112005>Best,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN
class=562170107-07112005></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=562170107-07112005>Mike
Gurstein</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=092005706-07112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN
class=562170107-07112005> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Claudia Padovani<BR><B>Sent:</B> November 7, 2005 11:16 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> R: [WSIS CS-Plenary] monitoring MSP
post_wsis initiative<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#3366ff size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #3366ff">Ciao Mike, finally I am
focusing on the initiative we would like to discuss in Tunis. So first of all
let me reply t some of your concerns (as you may have seen from my writings I
am among those who have tried to conduct some evaluation of MSP at
wsis):<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I do have a few questions however and one
suggestion. </SPAN>The single<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">suggestion is that prior to more actively pursuing
this initiative that<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">you with colleagues conduct an open self-assessment of
the Civil Society<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">role and activities within the WSIS process.
While in a numbe<SPAN class=562170107-07112005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">respects the CS process for WSIS has been a successful
one, in other<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">areas I think there are issues that need to be
addressed particularly if<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">one is concerned with being inclusive, equitable,
development oriented<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">and transparent.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#3366ff size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #3366ff">Maybe a much broader
investigation would be useful; but there are already reflections on this.
Wolfgang Kleinwachter (Aarhus University and WSIS) and Bart Cammaerts (LSE)
have done research and written about these aspects. Furthermore I organized a
meeting in Venice, a year ago, with one session devoted to an assessment of
participation in WSIS (with voices from all sectors involved). I believe we
should build on those reflections but go beyond. This is why we have planned
to have the first part of our meeting in Tunis addressing some of these
concerns, from different voices. Then the initiative will be introduced and
then we shall have suggestions, reactions, comments ecc (I am preparing a
leaflet to be circulated in a couple of days)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=black size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The most significant issue has been, I believe, the
severely limited<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">participation in the various WSIS Civil Society
processes which largely<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">were physical processes of interaction and
participation supplemented<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">between these events by on-line participation
primarily among those<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">already active in the physical processes. The
absence of clear<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">procedures for agenda setting, decision
making,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"representation"/inclusive participation, and language
issues were all<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">to my mind somewhat problematic and need to be
subjected to some self<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">and public examination in the context of extending a
CS role into the<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">new and most important areas of monitoring that you
are suggesting. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#3366ff size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #3366ff">You are touching upon the
central issues we are faced with. On one side a clear understanding of
stakeholders as interlocutors and their roles in MSP. On the other the need to
support MSP processes with an inclusive use of tools (ICTs but not only) which
should be developed precisely to address the constrains you indicate. In this
sense we had submitted to the EU early this year a proposal for a support
action (with friends from wsis, including Henrich Boell as a coordinator, plus
others). The proposal has not been approved but we have done work and writing
for that, and these are all resources we would like to bring into the
initiative. The positive thing is that there is an interesting group of people
already involved in this conversation, some from academia, others from NGos
and grassroots, others from local authorities’
associations.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=black size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Overall, the limitation on participation in the
WSIS/CS processes to<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">those who were able to find the resources (whether
personal or<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">institutional) to physically attend seems to me to be
a very major<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">limitation on these efforts and is something which
must be addressed in<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">advance of any further activities such as you are
suggesting. There is I<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">believe, the need to move beyond the current group of
those engaged in<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">WSIS CS activities and to extend rather more broadly
into the ICT<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">user/practitioner and community technology/community
informatics<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">research communities. Perhaps by building in
bottom up processes for<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">monitoring from the very beginning some of these
limitations may be<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">avoided.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#3366ff size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #3366ff">The very idea of the
initiative is precisely to move beyond the elites who take part in global
processes, and make these processes closer and relevant to the people, through
a very concrete and accessible proposal (you can certainly help a lot in
addressing this challenge)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=black size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">However, this would necessarily require a significant
broadening and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">dare I say "growth" in what has emerged as the
perspectives and issues<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">being addressed by CS in the context of WSIS Tunis
(being driven of<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">course, in large part by the external WSIS negotiating
agenda) as well<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">as some adaptation in the current CS processes,
procedures and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">practices.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#3366ff size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #3366ff">I also agree on this. As
you can see from the draft proposal, among the aims of the initiative I have
mentioned the potential of connecting people and groups, supporting a
trans-national mobilization which is of course grounded and based in local
spaces (and not just participating in global events), but through this kind of
joint effort can develop more common visions, and
actions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=black size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#3366ff size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #3366ff">So the challenge is a big
one, and I strongly appreciate your willingness to share these concernes with
us in Tunis. The idea is to get a sense of what people think, and possibly
identify a small group of committed people who may start from gathering
informally in Tunis after the summit and develop a plan and calendar for
further actions: work on the framework (substance), look for support
(resources), articulate the proposal in a concrete manner (outreach,
involvement, use of platforms for collaborative exchange
ecc)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=black size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">I hope this is a good
starting point for our own conversation. Best
wishes<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=black size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">Claudia
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=black size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original
Message-----<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org
[mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org] On<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Behalf Of Claudia
Padovani<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sent: October 26, 2005 7:19
AM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To: plenary@wsis-cs.org<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] monitoring MSP post_wsis
initiative<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Following Francis note on UNESCO,this note is to draw
your attention to<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">an initiative which we think could be of interest in
preparing for<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Tunis, acknowledging all the controversies and
shortcomings of this<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">final phase.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The idea, just in infant stage at the moment, is to
set up monitoring<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">initiative on multi-stakeholder dimension of whatever
will come out of<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Tunis at national (and international) level after
wsis, as a way to keep<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">people connected while putting pressure on governments
and bringing<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">input to whatever mechanism will be set
up.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We believe there is some potential to keep the energy
of the civil<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">society constitutency that developed around WSIS while
one of the risks<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">we are facing now is not to have any sustainability
after Tunis for the<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">broad mobilization worldwide. We believe a sound
proposal from different<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CS groups, with a loose trans-national structure but
some connection (to<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">be<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">discussed) to the institutional setting, can show that
we have some<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">knowledge, competence and will to seriously foster MSP
at various<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">levels, as a way to promote more participatory
practices in<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">communication governance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We aim at developing principles, criteria, indicators
and a monitoring<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">mechanisms to "look after" the post-Tunis phase,
building on former<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">experiences and existing frameworks to be adapted to
the specific policy<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">areas emerging from WSIS
Implementation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">As Tunis is coming closer, we would very much
appreciate your feedback<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">on: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the idea itself; the proposed initiative; the why,
what, who and how; <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">and eventually your own interest in supporting this
exercise (through<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">knowledge exchange as well as in promoting the
initiative further and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">cooperate directly). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We are planning to use the coming weeks refine the
proposal, start<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">reviewing existing frameworks, contact those peoples
who have done work<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">on this and come to Tunis with something that can be
discussed, refined<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">and promoted broadly.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Please go to the WSIS MSP site to see the draft of the
initiative -<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">http://www.wsis-msp.org/msmi_wsis/ (also in attach).
Comments and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">suggestions are most
welcome.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">With best regards <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Claudia Padovani<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">And <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Tatiana Ershova<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Plenary mailing list<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Plenary@wsis-cs.org<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>