[governance] New CSTD consultation on WSIS follow-up

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Dear all

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.

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.

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.

Cheers

Anriette


On 28/10/10 04:47, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 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: 
> http://www.unctad.info/en/CSTD_WSIS5.
>
> 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.
>
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