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<div>Thanks for posting this to the mailing list.</div>
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<div>Do you know what it represents.</div>
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<div>I am trying to understand what has happened to the impetus from the WSIS UN activities at the UN and it seems spread out at this point and hard to follow.</div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">Does this say that The Commission on Science and Technology will be surveying what the outcome of WSIS summits were and what activity is going now in connection with the UN, especially with respect to development related activities?
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<div><font face="Verdana">If this seems an appropriate interpretation, is there any indication when or how this is to happen?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">I welcome anyone who can help interpret what is going on or who would be able to be helpful in understanding further what is being intended.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">I would like to write an article for OhmyNews International at some point about the outcome of the WSIS conference in Tunis (and earlier Geneva) as I covered Tunis for OhmyNews. But it is hard to understand where to begin and how to understand what is signficiant that is happening and what is the frustration with the fact that the WSIS seemed to have been an important development, but the continuation seemed less organized and clear.
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<div><font face="Verdana">Thanks</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">Ronda</font></div>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For your information, find attached the ECOSOC resolution on integrated and coordinated implementation of UN conferences and summits (E/2007/L.32), adopted on 27 July. Its paragraph 4 refers to the role of the CSTD in the WSIS follow up. Paragraph 4 reads as follows:
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"4. Acknowledges the efforts of the Commission on Science and Technology</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">for Development, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 57/270 B and</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">point in the system-wide follow-up, in particular the review and assessment of</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">progress made in implementing the outcomes of the World Summit on the</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Information Society, while at the same time maintaining its original mandate on</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">science and technology for development, also taking into account the provisions of</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">paragraph 60 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome, and also acknowledges the</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">efforts of the Commission to use the multi-stakeholder approach effectively while</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In addition, note that the CSTD draft resolution on the "Flow of Information for the Follow-Up of WSIS" and its draft decision on the "Multi-year work programme" were also adopted without a vote on 27 February.
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