Dear All,<br>Thank you Phillippe for this post-WSIS update, very timely indeed. I am about to go to Kigali and the ITU and GAID organised Connect Africa Summit end of this month. Will there be any organised civil society involvement/attendance? It is supposed to be an informal process with the GAID aim to provide "a platform for an open, inclusive, multi-stakeholder cross-sectoral policy dialogue", still the format of the conference seems to be something else, ie following a traditional, exclusive high level panel debate format where most of the issues are already discussed and decided. Anyone who knows more about this or CS role in this process?
<br>Best regards, Johan<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam</b> <<a href="mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org">wsis@ngocongo.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Some weeks ago, it was asked on the Plenary list to
bring some clarifications on the structures and articulations between the
various post-WSIS institutional processes. Find below and attached some
elements of answers and clarification:</span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-GB">Power-point
presentation</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> on the WSIS implementation and
follow up process: this document is used by Mr. Charles Geiger (Special
Advisor to the UN CSTD and Former WSIS Executive Director) to present the post
WSIS architecture within the UN system (see attached);</span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">An updated version of the
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">post WSIS chart</span></b>, together with an
explanatory one-pager, prepared by CONGO (see attached; also available on line
on the CONGO website: <a href="http://www.ngocongo.org/files/chart_on_post_wsis.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.ngocongo.org/files/chart_on_post_wsis.pdf</a>).</span>
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</span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I also suggest the
reading of the chapter on <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">"WSIS in
Review",</span></b> from the Global Information Society Watch 2007 Report,
which provides relevant clarification on the matter (<a href="http://www.globaliswatch.org/download" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.globaliswatch.org/download</a>).</span>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I hope this can help! Feel free to indicate other
resources on this issue.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">All the best,</span></font></p>
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