Dear Wolfgang, Anriette, Deborah, Jeremy and all, <br><br>Sorry for the late reply after the sympathy some have expressed on drafting a letter highlighting the promises of Dr Touré at the WCIT SC meeting. I was approaching the Brazilian government for support on our demand for space and participation of civil society organizations on ITU processes. <div>
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>Though showing solidarity with the cause, <font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Brazilian government (or our telecom regulatory agency responsible for representing the country at ITU) has signaled that WTPF is not the proper sphere to submit extensive contribution regarding CS participation, the plenipotentiary would be so. So, as far as I know, Brazil will submit a contribution to WTPF only generally speaking about openness and transparency, but not presenting a particular proposal for change in the mechanisms for civil society participation. </font></span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In that sense, they have also addressed the existence of Informal Experts Group for WTPF, highlighting that: </span></span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:16px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-color:yellow"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:16px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">"At its session in 2012, the Council agreed that all relevant stakeholders should participate in the work of the IEG so as to contribute their unique perspective to the preparatory process, based on the roles and responsibilities that the stakeholders may have under Paragraph 35 of the Tunis Agenda (2005). Consequently, participation in the work of the IEG will be open to stakeholders in accordance with Council decision, taking into account Decision 562 and the need to maintain a balanced group of experts, and also room and seating capacity for IEG meetings at ITU headquarters in Geneva. Relevant stakeholders are invited to express their interest in participating in the work of the IEG by completing a </span><b style="line-height:16px"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(4,76,147)"><a href="http://www.itu.int/en/wtpf-13/Documents/request%20form.docx" target="_blank">request form.</a>"</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></div>
<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.itu.int/en/wtpf-13/Pages/ieg.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.itu.int/en/wtpf-13/Pages/ieg.aspx</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.itu.int/en/wtpf-13/Documents/request%20form.docx" target="_blank">http://www.itu.int/en/wtpf-13/Documents/request%20form.docx</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Well, this is surely not satisfactory, so, with <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">that in mind, I wonder if we should go for that joined CS letter focusing on WTPF and stressing previous commitments from the Secretary General, do we still have time? Or, for the ones how are more aware of UN bodies internal procedures, do we have to wait the loooong time for the plenipot? What could we grasp right now?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><table style="width:100.0%;background:white;border-collapse:collapse" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards, </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Joana</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br>Joana Varon Ferraz<br>Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS-FGV)<br><a href="http://direitorio.fgv.br/cts/" target="_blank">http://direitorio.fgv.br/cts/</a><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/goog_946507056" target="_blank"><br>
</a><a href="http://www.freenetfilm.org" target="_blank">www.freenetfilm.org</a><br>@joana_varon</p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org" target="_blank">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 19/01/13 05:49, Norbert Bollow
wrote:<br>
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<pre>Jeremy Malcolm <a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org" target="_blank"><jeremy@ciroap.org></a> wrote:
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<pre>Actually I put together a system that is meant to achieve that:
<a href="http://a2knetwork.org/meetings/" target="_blank">http://a2knetwork.org/meetings/</a>
Anyone who registers can list a meeting there and say whether they are
attending, and can post a short report there. It supports multiple
reports, too, in the case that more than one delegation is attending.
The main purpose is to identify where there are gaps - important
meetings that nobody is covering. But it only works if enough people
use it, so please do.
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<pre>So this is intended for all of civil society, rather than just the
Consumer Movement, to use?
If yes, then I would suggest that that should be made clearer on the
website.</pre>
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It was originally mainly for CI's consumer group members, but it is
clear that it won't be useful unless it is open to others. In the
longer term I need to look at spinning it off to a more broadly
based network, and making it much nicer like the
infojustice-calendar one. I already put in place a simple Internet
governance calendar system for the IGC
(<a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/calendar" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/calendar</a>), but it hasn't been much used and
could also be wrapped into the above. I am trying to get funding to
support the Best Bits network, mainly as a travel fund for events,
but some Web development work such as this will also be included.<div><br>
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