[governance] WSIS Bureau

[Meryem Marzouki]

Le 18 nov. 07 à 23:28, Veni Markovski a écrit :

>  If you also remember, the Civil Society (CS) had also been a  
> strange phenomenon around the WSIS.

And this was nothing compared to the IGF:))

> The Internet Governance caucus was created, if I am not mistaken,  
> by Y J Park;
[...]
> The Caucus was created for a number of reasons, but we should not  
> forget that among them it was giving access to the CS Bureau to the  
> WSIS.
> And the word "Bureau" was giving some extra power; at least in the  
> view of some.

True. Actually, the Human Rights caucus was the only caucus, I think,  
having constantly refused to take a seat at this bureau, despite the  
numerous invitations and even pressures. This, in consistence with  
the caucus's view on this bureau, how and why it was proposed, its  
composition and role and actual decisions and actions, its lack of  
transparency and accountability, etc.

> You may have been there at that time - I just don't remember. But I  
> remember well the establishment of another of the groups - the  
> European Caucus, which ended up as European - North American one;  
> Hans Klein (then with CPSR) was one of the active people there.  
> Robert Guerra was the other one; at some point the only one.

I don't understand what you mean here, and in relation with "bureau"  
giving some extra power?
Because I do remember that someone named Veni Markovski organized a  
meeting at PrepCom 2 to create a "European caucus", claiming that the  
current one had no practical existence (this was true, BTW: http:// 
mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/2003-October/000020.html). At  
the end of this meeting of Feb. 20 (attended by 10-15 persons only,  
among them only 2 or 3 were already part of the process since Prep  
Com 1), two persons were nominated to be the European and North- 
American caucus representatives: yourself for Europe and Hans Klein  
for North-America, but Hans was only nominated for a short period, to  
be replaced afterwards by Robert Guerra, since Robert was attenting  
the PrepCom as part of a governmental delegation (Canada), and  
couldn't be at the same time a CS group representative.
I don't exactly remember, but it seems that you stayed in the CS  
Bureau until WSIS I in December 2003, maybe for the same reason as  
Robert: you were part of Bulgaria delegation afterwards?

For those interested, the CS Bureau list archive is at: http:// 
mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/pipermail/bureau/
and the EU-NA caucus list archives at: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/ 
pipermail/wsis-euc/

In any case, as far as I remember from the very beginning, things  
were really confused, with no connexion between the EU-NA caucus  
(which was indeed active) and its so-called representatives at the CS  
Bureau.. Although Robert did his best, alone.

Meryem____________________________________________________________
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