<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>We also appreciate if any of your organization, say APC, IT for Change<br>or any others could share the draft text with us here.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We (APC) are working on our statement and as soon as it's ready we will post to the list.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Chad</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>That will work as a good reference.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>izumi<br><br>-----------------------------<br>From the CSTD website:<br><br><a href="http://www.unctad.info/en/CSTD_WSIS5/OS_Letter/">http://www.unctad.info/en/CSTD_WSIS5/OS_Letter/</a><br><br>CSTD five-year review of progress concerning WSIS outcomes: request<br>for contributions<br><br>The questions are here:<br><br>1. What do you consider to be the most important achievements of the<br>World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) since 2005?<br><br>2a. In what areas do you think most progress has been made in<br>implementing WSIS outcomes at an international and regional level<br>during the five years from 2005 to 2010?<br><br>2b. What action should be taken to build on this success during the<br>next five years?<br><br>3a. In what areas do you think least progress has been made in<br>implementing WSIS outcomes at an international and regional level<br>during these five years?<br><br>3b. What action should be taken to address these challenges during the<br>next five years?<br><br>4. Please make any specific comments that you wish to make on WSIS<br>implementation and follow-up activity as a result of your experience,<br>either concerning the outcomes of WSIS in general or in specific areas<br>of WSIS implementation and follow-up.<br>You may find it useful to refer to the list of chapter headings in the<br>Geneva Plan of Action and the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society<br>in responding to this question.<br><br>5a. In what WSIS implementation and follow-up activities at an<br>international or regional level has your organisation been involved?<br>(Follow-up processes which were agreed at WSIS are described in the<br>chapter of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society which is<br>headed “Implementation and Follow-up” (paragraphs 83-122).<br><br>5b. Which of these processes do you think have been most successful<br>during the past five years and why?<br><br>5c. What action should be taken to build on this success during the<br>next five years?<br><br>6a. Which WSIS implementation and follow-up processes do you think<br>have been less successful during the past five years and why?<br><br>6b. What action should be taken to address these challenges during the<br>next five years?<br><br>7. In your view, what important new issues or themes concerning the<br>Information Society have emerged or become important since the Summit<br>ended in 2005, which deserve more attention in the next five years?<br><br>8. What do you think should be the priority themes and areas of work<br>for the implementation of WSIS outcomes during the next five years, up<br>to the comprehensive review of WSIS in 2015?<br><br>9. How, if at all, do you think that WSIS follow-up processes need to<br>change to take account of changing circumstances and priorities?<br><br>10. Please make any further comments below that you think would be<br>useful to the review.<br><br>----------------------<br><br>e-mail sent-out from CSTD Secretariat:<br><br>Dear colleagues,<br><br>The UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) is<br>conducting a five year review of progress made in the implementation<br>of, and follow-up to, the outcome of the World Summit on the<br>Information Society (WSIS).<br><br>The purpose of the review is to identify progress made, obstacles and<br>constraints encountered, as well as actions and initiatives to<br>overcome them. The review will also consider how changes in the ICT<br>landscape may call for increased/reduced attention to certain areas.<br><br>To gather inputs for the review, the Chair of the CSTD has initiated<br>an open consultation with all stakeholders, including UN and other<br>intergovernmental agencies, governments, ICT sector associations and<br>agencies, private sector and civil society actors. The principal<br>issues in this consultation are set out in a questionnaire, which can<br>be found online at http://www.unctad.info/en/CSTD_WSIS5 . This<br>questionnaire invites views and contributions concerning:<br><br>the experience of WSIS implementation since 2005, at an international<br>and regional level;<br>changes which have taken place in the ICT landscape since WSIS; and<br>priorities for WSIS implementation and Information Society<br>development over the next five years.<br><br>It also includes space for other comments that contributors may wish to make.<br><br>The questionnaire could be filled out directly online at the URL<br>indicated above. Responses could also be emailed to Mr. Mongi Hamdi<br>(wsis5@unctad.org)<br><br>The Chair has invited responses to this questionnaire to be submitted<br>by 14 December 2010.<br><br>Thank you.<br>CSTD Secretariat<br><br>--------------------<br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> governance@lists.cpsr.org<br>To be removed from the list, send any message to:<br> governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org<br><br>For all list information and functions, see:<br> http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance<br><br>Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t</div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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