<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mr. Gurstein,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am very glad that we are on the same
page on really important things.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am a bit confused with the last two
paras of your message: you seem to be talking about the Global Alliance
for ICT and Development. However, the meeting that our original message
referred to will be on a quite different subject, namely on the implementation
of Action Line 11 of the Geneva Plan of Action of WSIS. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In our message we say that the objective
of this first meeting will be to discuss how coordination among diverse
stakeholders should be done and what it should cover. The context of this
discussion is the outcomes of WSIS, and there is a link to relevant document
in the message. If there is anything else that this notice should address,
please let me know and we shall work on it.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Regarding, on the other hand, the GLobal
Alliance the inaugural meeting is planned for 19-20 June in Kuala Lumpur.
As soon as the tentative programme for this meeting is done, it will be
shared with potential participants and finalized on the basis of their
comments. At the moment, we do not have the programme yet.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Please let us know if we could bring
more clarity.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Best regards.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Sergei Kambalov, Chief<br>
ECOSOC and Interorganizational Cooperation Branch<br>
Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination/DESA<br>
United Nations, New York<br>
Tel: (212) 963-4751<br>
Fax: (212) 963-7454<br>
Email: kambalov@un.org</font>
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<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">18/04/2006 12:57 PM</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">Dear Mr. Kambalov,</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">Thanks for replying to my note...</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">And I agree with you that we should
not give in to skepticism, suspicion or mistrust...</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">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. </font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">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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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">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.</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">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.</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">Yours sincerely,</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">Michael Gurstein</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<b><br>
From:</b> sergei kambalov [mailto:kambalov@un.org] <b><br>
Sent:</b> April 18, 2006 4:32 PM<b><br>
To:</b> Gurstein, Michael<b><br>
Cc:</b> plenary@wsis-cs.org; startup@unicttaskforce.org<b><br>
Subject:</b> Fw: startup post from gurstein@adm.njit.edu requires approval<br>
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Dear Mr. Gurstein,</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
BTW, I did not see Renate's message to which you refer in your message.</font><font size=3>
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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 size=2 face="Arial">his
consultation is "simply another means to perpetuate existing closed
door exclusionary processes</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif">".
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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.
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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><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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><font size=3>
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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><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
Best regards, <br>
Sergei.</font><font size=3> <br>
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Sergei Kambalov, Chief<br>
ECOSOC and Interorganizational Cooperation Branch<br>
Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination/DESA<br>
United Nations, New York<br>
Tel: (212) 963-4751<br>
Fax: (212) 963-7454<br>
Email: kambalov@un.org</font><font size=3> </font><font size=1 color=#800080 face="sans-serif"><br>
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Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list<br>
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Further to Renate's note of yesterday please see the below... </font><font size=3><br>
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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><font size=3> <br>
</font><font size=2 face="Arial"><br>
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><font size=3>
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MG</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><br>
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-----Original Message-----<b><br>
From:</b> startup-bounces@unicttaskforce.org [mailto:startup-bounces@unicttaskforce.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>sergei kambalov<b><br>
Sent:</b> April 18, 2006 12:23 AM<b><br>
To:</b> shoji.nishimoto@undp.org; Amir Dossal; Aida Opoku-Mensah; Joao
Carlos FERRAZ; Mansour Farah; aw.khan@unesco.org; arthur.levin@itu.int;
Georg Kell; richard.manning@oecd.org; walter.fust@deza.admin.ch; astrid.dufborg@sida.se;
guy.sebban@iccwbo.org; amiller@itaa.org; rbloem@ngocongo.org; bruck@research.at;
rrogers@giic.org; mfleeton@dgfoundation.org; grossda@state.gov; doris.bertrand@bmaa.gv.at;
mission.tunisia@ties.itu.ch; mission.pakistan@ties.itu.ch; mb@hq.unu.edu;
Marcel BOISARD; wendy.mann@fao.org; bridge@unicttaskforce.org; advisors@unicttaskforce.org;
startup@unicttaskforce.org<b><br>
Cc:</b> Guido Bertucci; max-henri.cadet@itu.int; Makane Faye; Omar Bizri;
Nikhil Chandavarkar; charles.geiger@itu.int; Haiyan Qian; Harry.De-Backer@cec.eu.int;
Guennady Fedorov; michael.roeskau@cecd.org; Hans Hansell; masood.hatiif@gmail.com;
Gerolf.Weigel@deza.admin.ch; john.dryden@oecd.org; raul.zambrano@undp.org;
Patrizio Civili; david.benfield@fao.org; Denis Gilhooly; rinalia@gkps.org.my;
radhika.lal@undp.org; Gherardo Casini; ayesha.hassan@iccwbo.org; smelhem@worldbank.org;
Martin HILBERT; konstantinova@icnm.net<b><br>
Subject:</b> [startup] Consultations on Action Line 11 of WSIS</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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Dear colleagues,</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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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 size=2 face="sans-serif"><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>
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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:
http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/md/03/wsis/doc/S03-WSIS-DOC-0005!!MSW-E.doc).</font><font size=3>
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We look forward to a productive discussion.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
Best regards,</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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S. Khan, Director, Office for Ecosoc Support and Coordination</font><font size=3>
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Department of Economic and Social Affairs</font><font size=3>, United Nations
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