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Dear all<br>
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I strongly encourage people who are involved in any kind of WSIS
implementation to respond sharing information about their work. The
information gathered through this process will make it into the reports
on WSIS follow up which are tabled at the CSTD meeting, which then
reports on progress to ECOSOC. This time around they are doing a WSIS +
5 review.<br>
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UNCTAD/CSTD actually tries hard to get civil society input into these
reports, but they can only put into the reports what they get. The
diversity of work being done on ICT and "people-centred development"
and "inclusive information society" objectives is not adequatly
reflected. There is often a lot about what governments and
intergovernmental agencies are doing, and some flagship private sector
and public private efforts, but very little about the range of civil
society and local, smaller, business initiatives.<br>
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This time around they are also asking what we think has not been done..
and what should be prioritised going forward. It might therefore be
good to also do a collective IGC response, Jeremy... in addition to
responses from individuals or organisations on this list.<br>
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Cheers<br>
<br>
Anriette<br>
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On 28/10/10 04:47, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:D67FEBD1-5F47-4602-9803-7D13D3528AC5@ciroap.org"
type="cite">The CSTD (Commission on Science and Technology for
Development) has just released a consultation questionnaire on WSIS
(World Summit on the Information Society) outcomes, excluding the IGF
(Internet Governance Forum) which will be the subject of a separate
consultation. It is available in online form here: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.unctad.info/en/CSTD_WSIS5">http://www.unctad.info/en/CSTD_WSIS5</a>.
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<div>Whilst we could write a collective response, the questionnaire
is directed to individuals, so it would be good to have as many
individual IGC members respond to this questionnaire as possible. The
deadline is 14 December 2010. If there is a feeling that we should
also respond collectively, please respond to this thread to that effect.<br>
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anriette esterhuysen <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anriette@apc.org">anriette@apc.org</a>
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