<div>Dear Director Kambalov and Dr. Gurstein:</div>
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<div><em>A bit of a 'sidebar' but in response to your inclusive and insightful posts here:</em></div>
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<div>As one of those very many who are keenly interested in keeping the many stakeholders interconnected, as here, It is a splendid matter to be on these listserves and share the enlightenments of your posts. The *Respectful Interfaces* Programme of the Communications Coordination Committee for the
U.N. (NY Headquarters based) is at your service in all multistakeholder matters and pleased to attend the near-in Conferences.</div>
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<div>This seems a good time also to say to Dr. Gurstein (and please forgive the belatedness if I have not written on this before): that your chairing of the ICT based Caring Communities Forum recently was very well received. Most of us did not have time to meet and greet;
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<div>and as Director Kambalov's estimable events are also so rewarding, this is an opportunity to say thank you from participants, and I shall separately address some materials on *The International Forum for Respectful Interfaces* (IFFRI).
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<div>Sincere regards,</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gurstein, Michael</b> <<a href="mailto:gurstein@adm.njit.edu">gurstein@adm.njit.edu</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Dear Mr. Kambalov,</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Thanks for replying to my note...</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">And I agree with you that we should not give in to skepticism, suspicion or mistrust...</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">I think we all agree that the use of ICTs can and should contribute to the achievement of the MDG's and I think further we are all in agreement that unless those working with ICTs on the ground to support local social and economic development are included in these processes very little can usefully be achieved.
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">The challenge remains how to do that, including I should say, in the issue areas that you have identified as being the subject of the upcoming Geneva meeting. </font>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Certainly we all recognize financial and other resource limitations on the part of the UN (just as the UN should recognize financial and resource limitations on the part of its presumed interlocutors). One way of ensuring that skepticism and mistrust doesn't enter into responses to initiatives from and through the Global Alliance would be for example, to publish in advance the agenda for meetings such as this one, indicate the linkage between the discussions in such meetings and the broader structural/operational decisions and decision processes of the GA, and making available opportunities for broader participation/responses to those agenda items as for example through the use of email lists such as this one.
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">I should say that I very much appreciate your candid and pointed response to my note and I look forward to the opportunity of continuing this dialogue concerning operational and structural matters concerning the GA with you and others within the Global Alliance in the future.
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Yours sincerely,</font></span></div>
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kambalov@un.org</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> April 18, 2006 4:32 PM<br><b>To:</b> Gurstein, Michael<br><b>Cc:</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:plenary@wsis-cs.org" target="_blank">plenary@wsis-cs.org
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gurstein@adm.njit.edu</a> requires approval<br><br></font></div><br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Dear Mr. Gurstein,</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">First of all, thank you for noticing my silly mistake in re-typing the text of the Tunis Agenda: of course it should be "public/private partnerships". Thank you!
</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Second, the message of late yesterday sent to, among others, Renate was supposed to be followed today by requests to her and others to tell us who else from the civil society should be invited. So, thank you, once more, for helping us disseminate this news and the invitation. Please spread the word!
</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">BTW, I did not see Renate's message to which you refer in your message.</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Now, on a more important subject. I am expressing my own PERSONAL opinion here, but I take a strong exception to your statement that t
</font><font face="Arial" size="2">his consultation is "simply another means to perpetuate existing closed door exclusionary processes</font><font face="sans-serif" size="2">". </font><br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">
We strongly believe that we must use ANY opportunity to build bridges and ensure engagement of all who care about spreading the wonders of information revolution. We in the ICT Task Force have been trying very hard to do this, by all means at our disposal, and any honest observer has to acknowledge that we were at least partially successful in promoting inclusiveness.
</font><br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">We all know that many actors, primarily those from the civil society, do not have the means to participate physically in all events. This is why our consultations on the Global Alliance took almost TWO years, with multiple physical meetings in conjunction with all relevant events, PLUS virtual discussions.
</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">What would you like us to do in this particular case - pay for everybody who want/should be present in Geneva? You know full well that we in the UN do not have the money. Does it mean that we should not use the opportunity presented by the Information Week in Geneva to gather as many participants as we possibly can in one room?
</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">This will be the first in a series of consultation on Action Line 11. In addition to this physical meeting, there will be a web-based forum.</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">
I think we all should focus on ways to promote inclusiveness and engagement. There is too much skepticism, suspicion and mistrust already, so let us try to move forward together, even if in small - but practical, realistic and sustainable - steps.
</font> <br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Best regards, </font><br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Sergei.</font> <br><br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Sergei Kambalov, Chief<br>ECOSOC and Interorganizational Cooperation Branch
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<td><font size="3">FW: [startup] Consultations on Action Line 11 of WSIS</font></td></td></tr></td></td></tr></td></td></tr></tbody></table><br><font face="Arial" size="2">Further to Renate's note of yesterday please see the below...
</font><br><font size="3"> </font> <br><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm wondering if it might be possible, on behalf of the Plenary to reply to this "<i>invitation</i>" that a stakeholder "<i>consultation</i>
" "<i>to discuss ways to enhance collaboration among diverse stakeholders in ensuring effective multi-stakeholder implementation, at the international level, of the outcomes of WSIS as regards international and regional cooperation
</i>" held for 3 hours in a meeting room in Geneva is not a "<i>consultation</i>" but simply another means to perpetuate existing closed door exclusionary processes since only those already available in Geneva or with the requisite budgets to attend in Geneva for such a meeting will have an opportunity to participate.
</font> <br><font size="3"> </font> <br><font face="Arial" size="2">Those without such resources who will, I assume, include most of those (including their representative organizations and "caucuses") with the most direct and immediate interest in "
<i>information exchange, creation of knowledge, sharing of best practices, and assistance in developing multi-stakeholder and policy/private (sic?) partnerships</i>" as the <b>sources</b> and <b>originators</b> and ultimately
<b>end users</b> of such knowledge will be excluded from participation.</font> <br><font size="3"> </font> <br><font face="Arial" size="2">MG</font> <br><font face="Arial" color="blue" size="2"> </font> <br><font face="Tahoma" size="2">
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richard.manning@oecd.org</a>; <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:walter.fust@deza.admin.ch" target="_blank">walter.fust@deza.admin.ch</a>; <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:astrid.dufborg@sida.se" target="_blank">
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konstantinova@icnm.net</a><b><br>Subject:</b> [startup] Consultations on Action Line 11 of WSIS<br></font><font face="sans-serif" size="2"><br>Dear colleagues,</font><font size="3"> </font><font face="sans-serif" size="2">
<br><br>We are pleased to invite you to attend a first consultation that DESA, in its capacity of "provisional focal point" for facilitation of Action Line 11 of the Geneva Plan of Action of the World Summit on the Information Society, will convene on 15 May 2005 in Salle XXV of the Palais de Nations, Geneva. The meeting will be open to all relevant stakeholders. The exact time of the meeting (most probably in the afternoon) will be communicated later.
</font><font size="3"> </font><font face="sans-serif" size="2"><br>This meeting, convened in line with paragraph 108 of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, will provide an opportunity to discuss ways to enhance collaboration among diverse stakeholders in ensuring effective multi-stakeholder implementation, at the international level, of the outcomes of WSIS as regards international and regional cooperation. The other facilitators for this Action Line are the Regional Commissions, UNDP, ITU and UNESCO.
</font><font size="3"> </font><font face="sans-serif" size="2"><br>As stated in paragraph 110 of the Tunis Agenda, "the cordination of multi-stakeholder implementation activities would help to avoid duplication of activities. This should ionclude.
<i>inter alia</i>, information exchange, creation of knowledge, sharing of best practices, and assistance in developing multi-stakeholder and policy/private partnerships". We hope that at the forthcoming meeting, interested stakeholders will present their proposals on optimal modalities for this work, bearing in mind the specific tasks under Action Line 11 (see paragraph 26 of the Geneva Plan of Action here:
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/md/03/wsis/doc/S03-WSIS-DOC-0005!!MSW-E.doc" target="_blank">http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/md/03/wsis/doc/S03-WSIS-DOC-0005!!MSW-E.doc
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<font face="sans-serif" size="2"><br><br>S. Khan, Director, Office for Ecosoc Support and Coordination</font><font size="3"> </font><font face="sans-serif" size="2"><br>Department of Economic and Social Affairs</font><font size="3">
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