[governance] Need your input to CSTD Questionnaire on WSIS follow-up

[Izumi AIZU]

Dear list,
Here follows is the CSTD Questionnaire on WSIS follow-up.
The deadline for the submission of answers is Dec 14, one week
from now.

We have not found any volunteer so far to prepare the draft text.
If someone can do that, that will be very much appreciated.
But, even we do not have one specific person yet, please send your
inputs answers as reply to this thread to start. Please be specific
to the numbered questions.

We also appreciate if any of your organization, say APC, IT for Change
or any others could share the draft text with us here.

That will work as a good reference.

Thanks,

izumi

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From the CSTD website:

http://www.unctad.info/en/CSTD_WSIS5/OS_Letter/

CSTD five-year review of progress concerning WSIS outcomes: request
for contributions

The questions are here:

1. What do you consider to be the most important achievements of the
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) since 2005?

2a. In what areas do you think most progress has been made in
implementing WSIS outcomes at an international and regional level
during the five years from 2005 to 2010?

2b. What action should be taken to build on this success during the
next five years?

3a. In what areas do you think least progress has been made in
implementing WSIS outcomes at an international and regional level
during these five years?

3b. What action should be taken to address these challenges during the
next five years?

4. Please make any specific comments that you wish to make on WSIS
implementation and follow-up activity as a result of your experience,
either concerning the outcomes of WSIS in general or in specific areas
of WSIS implementation and follow-up.
You may find it useful to refer to the list of chapter headings in the
Geneva Plan of Action and the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society
in responding to this question.

5a. In what WSIS implementation and follow-up activities at an
international or regional level has your organisation been involved?
(Follow-up processes which were agreed at WSIS are described in the
chapter of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society which is
headed “Implementation and Follow-up” (paragraphs 83-122).

5b. Which of these processes do you think have been most successful
during the past five years and why?

5c. What action should be taken to build on this success during the
next five years?

6a. Which WSIS implementation and follow-up processes do you think
have been less successful during the past five years and why?

6b. What action should be taken to address these challenges during the
next five years?

7. In your view, what important new issues or themes concerning the
Information Society have emerged or become important since the Summit
ended in 2005, which deserve more attention in the next five years?

8. What do you think should be the priority themes and areas of work
for the implementation of WSIS outcomes during the next five years, up
to the comprehensive review of WSIS in 2015?

9. How, if at all, do you think that WSIS follow-up processes need to
change to take account of changing circumstances and priorities?

10. Please make any further comments below that you think would be
useful to the review.

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e-mail sent-out from CSTD Secretariat:

Dear colleagues,

The UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) is
conducting a five year review of progress made in the implementation
of, and follow-up to, the outcome of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS).

The purpose of the review is to identify progress made, obstacles and
constraints encountered, as well as actions and initiatives to
overcome them.   The review will also consider how changes in the ICT
landscape may call for increased/reduced attention to certain areas.

To gather inputs for the review, the Chair of the CSTD has initiated
an open consultation with all stakeholders, including UN and other
intergovernmental agencies, governments, ICT sector associations and
agencies, private sector and civil society actors. The principal
issues in this consultation are set out in a questionnaire, which can
be found online at http://www.unctad.info/en/CSTD_WSIS5 .  This
questionnaire invites views and contributions concerning:

the experience of WSIS implementation since 2005, at an international
and regional level;
changes which have taken place in the ICT landscape since WSIS; and
priorities  for WSIS implementation and Information Society
development over the next five years.

It also includes space for other comments that contributors may wish to make.

The questionnaire could be filled out directly online at the URL
indicated above.  Responses could also be emailed to Mr. Mongi Hamdi
(wsis5 at unctad.org)

The Chair has invited responses to this questionnaire to be submitted
by 14 December 2010.

Thank you.
CSTD Secretariat

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