AW: [governance] New CSTD consultation on WSIS follow-up

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

I fully support Anriettes message.
 
Here is another point: One of the big achievements in WSIS I in Geneva (December 2003) was the "Civil Society Declaration" handed out to the President of the Summit at the last Plenary meeting on 12 December 2003 
http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/civil-society-declaration.pdf
 
It would make sense if a small working group of the CS network could go through the document and compare it with the progress and failures since 2003. To have our own document noticed by the governments was a big point in 2003. We should not forget our own achievements and measure ourselves against the criteria we did set up in 2003 when we move forward to 2015. 
 
Wolfgang  

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Von: Anriette Esterhuysen [mailto:anriette at apc.org]
Gesendet: Do 28.10.2010 12:18
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Betreff: Re: [governance] New CSTD consultation on WSIS follow-up


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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