<DIV id=RTEContent> <DIV id=RTEContent><BR><BR><B><I>Daniel Pimienta <pimienta@funredes.org></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">[Please<BR> ENGLISH (WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS A<STRONG><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff8080"> NOT REVISED</FONT></STRONG> AUTOMATIC<BR>Dear Daniel<BR><BR>Best in any time would be to be always excellent and without<BR>>reproach. We of it are particularly conscious.<BR>>In this context, the remarks criticize which reach us are at the same<BR>>time very useful and convenient. They enable us to be better located<BR>>compared to waitings that such an initiative raises in all the sectors<BR>>of the public opinion.<BR>We made for our part the promise of a total transparency and we<BR>>obviously took measurements to ensure these objectives.<BR><BR><STRONG>The Funds was set up officially on March 14, 2005 with the support of<BR>>a small number of
actors.</STRONG> We are thus in phase of constitution. We<BR>>were given one year to arrive to our goals. Taking into account the<BR>>ambitious objectives of the Funds and world range of this initiative<BR>>and because of means as a personnel very limited our task is<BR>>particularly difficult. The starting delayed of the international<BR>>Agency of Numerical solidarity in Lyon (which is not in fact is not<BR>>yet operational) and which must intervene in the procedure of<BR>>acceptance of the projects still complicates our program.<BR>We think however of being in measurement to arrive to our objectives<BR>before the fixed expiry.<BR>The Council will be in place with the whole beginning of the next year<BR>>(its official component could be committed only after the adoption of<BR>>the conclusions of Tunis). The research of a geographical, political<BR>>and economic balance is obviously not simple to realize. For many<BR>>actors, engagement in the
structures of the Funds depend on the<BR>>assurances which they can have in the solidity of this step. These<BR>>difficulties also result from the innovating step, even revolutionary<BR>>which we recommended with a participation of the private sector, the<BR>>authorities and civil company in the decisional authorities of the<BR>>FSN.<BR><BR>>As for the development of the projects, our step is limited to date to<BR>>the installation of pilot projects. These projects enable us to test<BR>>the types of partnership which we can engage on the ground with the<BR>>associative mediums that it is within the framework or apart from<BR>projects of decentralized co-operation.<BR><BR>The procedures for the management of the requests for support are in<BR>>the process of finalization and will be presented on the Web site from<BR>>here the end January 2006.<BR><BR>>Lastly, on the financial mechanisms, the introduction of a new<BR>>mechanism of financing of
the co-operation for the reduction of the<BR>>numerical fracture: the taking away of a percent on the transactions<BR>>touching with the services and the numerical products requires an<BR>>immense work of information which we carry out on all fronts (with<BR>>unfortunately little support in particular of the civil company). This<BR>>mechanism - which is not the only one which should make it possible<BR>>the Funds to develop and perennialize its action - fact the object of<BR>>discussion on a world level and requires in muchStates of the legislative<BR>>adjustments which are currently in hand. The Conference on the financing<BR>>of the numerical solidarity which will be held in Lyon in October 2006<BR>>should enable us to lead to concrete results on this point as on that<BR>>of the exemption of the tax contributions to the Funds which we also <BR>recommend.<BR><BR>I hope that this message answers your various remarks.<BR>With my friendly
greetings.<BR>Alain Clerc<BR>Geneva, November 25, 2005<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV><p>
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