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<div>Let us hope that the FSN will not be another Darfour. One cannot understand the dilly dallying in auditing the accounts of the structure. Was FSN a give away to wade off an undesirable? Reading tha analysis of the situation presented so far, makes me to believe so.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/16/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">NANA Delphine</b> <<a href="mailto:delynana2002@yahoo.fr">delynana2002@yahoo.fr</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><font style="FONT-FAMILY: comic sans ms" size="4"><font size="3">Chers Tous,<br><br>Je remercie le collègue Daniel Pimienta d'avoir porté le sujet à votre attention . Nous avons essayé d'échanger sur le sujet dans un cadre restreint, dans l'espoir de voir le processus avancé tel qu'il avait été décidé à la réunion de Bamako, réunion à laquelle nous avons participé tous les deux en tant que société civile d'Amérique Latine et africaine. <br>
Néanmoins, la Société Civile Africaine pour la Société de l'Information ( ACSIS), membre fondateur du FSN est très préoccupée . Nous avons signé, il ya quelque temps un MoU avec le FSN relatif au principe de 1% de solidarité numérique; dans certains pays d'afrique, ce principe a déjà été voté au Parlement, d'autres pays d'afrique sont en pleine négociation pour instaurer ce même principe . Il serait triste de voir le FSN qui a impulsé une telle dynamique mourir<br>
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<div> </div><br>--- En date de : <b>Mer 15.4.09, Lohento <i><<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:lohento@oridev.org" target="_blank">lohento@oridev.org</a>></i></b> a écrit :<br>
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Objet: [Africa_Net] [Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of disappearing: action required]<br>À: "africa_net" <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:africa_net@reseauafricanet.org" target="_blank">africa_net@reseauafricanet.org</a>><br>
Date: Mercredi 15 Avril 2009, 8h06<br><br><pre>Voir ci-dessous - Vers la disparition du fonds de solidarité numérique? <br>Apparemment l'audit qui devait être réalisé pour mai n'a pas encore<br>été <br>effectué et certains craignent qu'on n'aboutisse finalement à la mort<br>
de <br>cette institution qui, quel que soit ce qui peut en être dit, est le <br>résultat international le plus concret du SMSI pour les pays en <br>développement.<br><br>Ken L<br>-------- Message original --------<br>Sujet : [WSIS<br>
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CS-Plenary] Digital Solidarity Fund in risk of <br>disappearing: action required<br>Date : Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:41:03 -0400<br>De : Daniel Pimienta <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:pimienta@funredes.org" target="_blank">pimienta@funredes.org</a>><br>
Répondre à : Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:plenary@wsis-cs.org" target="_blank">plenary@wsis-cs.org</a>><br>Pour : <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:plenary@wsis-cs.org" target="_blank">plenary@wsis-cs.org</a>, <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:discuss@un-gaid.org" target="_blank">discuss@un-gaid.org</a><br>
<br>_______________________________________<br><br>Dear colleagues,<br><br>I shall report on the critical situation of the Digital Solidarity <br>Fund (DSF) in my quality of Latin America & Caribbbean civil society <br>
member of the Board. I wish to report in the WSIS civil society <br>plenary list as well as in G@ID discussion list, in the hope to <br>trigger some positive dynamics in both communities (and I am also <br>informing the DSF Board of that initiative).<br>
<br>The last couple of months have been of acute crisis after a change in <br>the DSF Presidency and coordinated complains from the new DSF <br>President and the<br><br>
President<br> of Senegal (speaking as "historical <br>father") on General Secretary management: basically they do not trust <br>the 1% principle could be effective and wish a centering and hosting <br>of the DSF on Africa, as an ICT4D project management organization.<br>
<br>On November 25th a stormy General Assembly was held in Lyon (France) <br>and was unable to reach consensus on further steps. An extraordinary <br>Assembly was then scheduled in Bamako, January 27th, 2009. More <br>confused than stormy this Assembly decided that a strategical and <br>
finance independant audit shall be organized and its results <br>presented to a last extraordinary Assembly to be scheduled prior to <br>May 27th. This last Assembly would finally decide on the proposition <br>of the President of Senegal to take over the management of the DSF <br>
(he was also given the responsibility to contract this audit and <br>manage the interim period).<br><br>The investment made<br>
so<br> far has<br> reached some 6 millions of euros (a <br>substantial part coming from developing countries) and one of the <br>argument for not letting go the situation was the responsibility to <br>protect that invested capital (which is no more in cash but hopefully <br>
some part has transformed into people and project experiences and <br>institutional moves). Furthermore, it appears that the cashflow would <br>allow to stand until the next Assembly but no more.<br><br>The situation as of today is that the audit has apparently not been <br>
launched and the risk is extremely high, due to the shortness of <br>cashflow, that the DSF will just fade out without any decision taken <br>and no audit results presented. This could be the worst scenario for <br>one of the most concrete products the WSIS process has tried to <br>
launch and a shameful situation for our ICT4D community in regard to <br>the lost investment...<br><br>In that context, I want to
call<br> upon<br> global civil<br> society to put <br>pressure on stakeholders in order to try to save whatever is possible <br>from the disaster. I am wondering, given the particular situation, if <br>the best approach would not be to try to convince a UN related structure to<br>
take over the DSF, conduct an audit which appears a mandatory <br>requirement (if only for accountability of public money invested!) <br>and assess the situation, trying to preserve, as far as possible, the <br>initial principles (multistakeholder global fund to overcome the <br>
digital divide based on innovative sources).<br><br>ITU, G@ID or UNDP (which has been out of that field for some years <br>now) are possible options. I am not sure that any of them is eager to <br>take over a project in such a difficult situation; what I am quite <br>
sure is that it is my duty as a civil society involved actor to <br>alert, inform and contribute to the search for a solution (I shall
<br>also<br> remember as<br> a possible<br> contribution that Agence de la <br>Francophonie had offered during the DSF Board debates to take <br>responsibility to contract an audit of the DSF... although it was <br>decided to do it another way).<br>
<br>Daniel Pimienta<br>Networks & Development Foundation<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://funredes.org/" target="_blank">http://funredes.org</a><br>Member of APC Network<br>As LA&C civil society member of the DSF Board<br>
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