[governance] RE: [Coalition] Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council(CSISAC) Charter

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello

I can't find the original mail from Marc.  Can a link to the document
created by EPIC be posted here for comments please?

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
India
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Marc and Milton,
>
> Can such proposals and documents also be shared with us who
> participated and intervened during the OECD Ministerial with the Civil
> Society Group and signed the CS Seoul Declaration?
>
> I feel that maybe due to my own lack of direct contact with the group,
> I may have been left out. As we also represent a number of groups that
> have been keenly following the process of inclusion of CS in the OECD
> process, I would like us to be included into the mailing list on which
> such discussions are taking place.
>
> Regarding skype calls and participation, in a country like mine
> Pakistan, where we have an economic, energy and stability crisis, with
> only 8-10 hours of electricity to carry out communication and respond
> to these activities, there should be a mailing list for
> e-conferencing.
>
> I hope my request would be considered.
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>> Hi, Marc
>> I just caught up with this message, and I think I speak for several CS
>> groups in saying that this is just not the way we ought to be going
>> about constructing a joint, unified civil society presence in OECD.
>>
>> The document was not developed on the public Wiki that you (EPIC)
>> yourself created; it ignores the output of a collective meeting of the
>> involved CS groups in Geneva; it unilaterally declares your own
>> organization the "Secretariat" without any process for gaining the
>> consent of other civil society organizations. And releasing a proposal
>> one day before you discuss it on a call is bizarre and minimizes the
>> opportunity for actual participation and acceptance.
>>
>> So I won't be on that call and don't think anyone else outside EPIC will
>> be, either.
>>
>> Let me know when ya'll decide that this is about civil society and more
>> than just EPIC.
>>
>> --MM
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: coalition-bounces at mailman.epic.org [mailto:coalition-
>>> bounces at mailman.epic.org] On Behalf Of Marc Rotenberg
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:08 AM
>>> To: coalition at mailman.thepublicvoice.org
>>> Subject: [Coalition] Civil Society Information Society Advisory
>>> Council(CSISAC) Charter
>>>
>>> Friends,
>>>
>>> Drawing on the comments that were submitted to the Public Voice list,
>>> the various meetings that took place in Seoul in June, and the
>>> subsequent meetings with the OECD in Geneva and Washington, we have
>> put
>>> together a proposal for the OECD Secretariat for the "Civil Society
>>> Information Society Advisory Council (CSISAC).
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>
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> --------------------------
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