<P>Dear Philippe</P>
<P>Many thanks for your efforts to keep us informed about all these events held in the framework of WSIS and its follow-up.</P>
<P>Once more I deeply regret that a meeting organized in the framework of WSIS follow-up is only "half open" as is the UNCTAD meeting in Geneva next month. Indeed, it invites only those organizations with UNCTAD status (general or special) to participate in these meetings, whereas the Tunis Summit declared that the follow-up process will be inclusive and multistakeholder based. </P>
<P>Will CS organisations involved in WSIS follow-up be future "multicard organizations", each of the WSIS Action Line Coordinator/facilitator having its own rules for its relationship to CS, and hence demanding its own specific accreditation procedures (time + paper) be applied on them. <BR></P>
<P>At the moment being I intend to participate to these meetings but I'm still reluctant for asking for a UNCTAD status that will take too much time in my agenda.</P>
<P>BTW : could we get a french/spanish version of these official documents ? </P>
<P>Friendly yours</P>
<P>Jean-Louis Fullsack</P>
<P>CSDPTT - France <BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #ff0000 2px solid">> Message du 20/10/06 10:27<BR>> De : "CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam" <WSIS@NGOCONGO.ORG><BR>> A : plenary@wsis-cs.org, bureau@wsis-cs.org<BR>> Copie à : "'CONGO - Philippe Dam'" <PHILIPPE.DAM@NGOCONGO.ORG>, "'Renate Bloem'" <RBLOEM@NGOCONGO.ORG><BR>> Objet : [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: UNCTAD Expert Meeting "Using ICTs to achieve growth and development", Geneva 4-5 December<BR>> <BR>>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Just for clarification regarding the meeting announcement I circulated yesterday:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Expert Meeting on “Using ICTs to achieve growth and development” is not a WSIS Action Line Facilitation meeting, but is being held further to a decision taken by the UNCTAD Commission on <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:City></st1:place>, Business Facilitation and Development at its tenth session. The Meeting is organized jointly by UNCTAD, ILO and OECD, in the framework of UNCTAD’s contribution to the WSIS follow-up through its e-commerce work. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">More details in the documents available online on the UNCTAD website: <A href="http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=11908&year=2006&month=12">http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=1942&lang=1&m=11908&year=2006&month=12</A>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Best, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">De :</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org] <BR>> <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Envoyé :</SPAN></B> jeudi, 19. octobre 2006 17:57<BR>> <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">À :</SPAN></B> 'plenary@wsis-cs.org'; 'bureau@wsis-cs.org'<BR>> <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc :</SPAN></B> 'CONGO - Philippe Dam'; 'Renate Bloem'<BR>> <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Objet :</SPAN></B> TR: UNCTAD Expert Meeting "Using ICTs to achieve growth and development", Geneva 4-5 December</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please find below the notification of an expert meeting jointly organised by ILO, UNCTAD and OECD on WSIS implementation and follow-up. As you can see on line and on the information note, “non-governmental organizations in the general category and those in the special category wishing to participate as observers, are requested to inform the UNCTAD secretariat of the names of their representatives by 17 November <st1:metricconverter w:st="on" ProductID="2006”">2006”</st1:metricconverter>. The general and special categories referred to in this information note are the UNCTAD observer status (for more information, click <A href="http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=3474&lang=1">here</A>).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For NGOs which have no observer status with UNCTAD, I was explained by the UNCTAD Secretariat that interested participants are advised to send a participation request addressed to the Chair of the Expert Meeting at the e-mail address <A href="mailto:wsiseco@unctad.org">wsiseco@unctad.org</A>, before 17 November 2006, clearly indicating:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">De :</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> wsiseco@unctad.org [mailto:wsiseco@unctad.org] <BR>> <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Objet :</SPAN></B> UNCTAD Expert Meeting "Using ICTs to achieve growth and development", <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Geneva</st1:City></st1:place> 4-5 December</SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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