[bestbits] ITU PP meeting with SG tomorrow

[Deborah Brown]

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Hi Lea, Joana,

Thanks very much for offering to carry points to the meeting.

On your second point:

 setting up an online mechanism for submitting information documents
to the Conference.

At WCIT the way that contributions on the public views platform were
submitted as an information document was through as an annex to an
information note from the SG.
http://files.wcitleaks.org/public/S12-WCIT12-INF-0005!!MSW-E.pdf

Since we already have a public views platform
(http://www.itu.int/en/plenipotentiary/2014/Pages/public-views.aspx)
it seems like a reasonable ask for the SG to transmit contributions as
info docs to member states. There may be other ways to do this, but
this request certainly seems relevant for a meeting with the SG.
Unfortunately in the case of WCIT this was only done *after* the
conference, so it would be good to be clear that we would like
contributions submitted by the SG as they come in.

Best of luck!
Deborah



On 10/23/14 10:58 AM, Lea Kaspar wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Greetings from Busan.
> 
> As some of you may know, a first of three meetings between civil
> society and the outgoing ITU Secretary General Toure is scheduled
> for tomorrow morning here in Busan.
> 
> Some of us here will try to attend this meeting. As we are on
> national delegations, we are limited in what we can say, especially
> since the meeting is being webcast. However, we plan to follow up
> on the asks addressed in the letter on ITU PP openness and
> transparency which many of you here endorsed. In particular, we
> plan to follow up on the asks of facilitating registration of
> on-site observers, holding regular meetings with CS, and setting up
> an online mechanism for submitting information documents to the
> Conference.
> 
> If there are any additional questions related to ITU openness and 
> transparency you would like us to raise - let us know - we will do
> our best to raise them at this meeting. Due to delegation rules we
> most likely won't be in a position to raise any issues related to
> substantive discussions taking place at the PP.
> 
> Apologies for the short notice. This meeting was confirmed at the
> last minute - the ITU sent the official invites to national
> delegations who then extended them to their civil society reps (or
> in some cases - didn't). The good news is that two additional
> meetings with civil society are planned for weeks 2 and 3, so we
> will hopefully be able to be more coordinated going into those
> meetings.
> 
> To watch the webcast of the meeting, here is the link:
> http://bit.ly/1yibChR
> 
> Warm wishes, Lea & Joana
> 
> 
> *Lea Kaspar*
> 
> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL
> 
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> 
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> 
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