[governance] WSIS Forum 2011

[Tijani BEN JEMAA]

I fully agree with you Wolfgang

 

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Tijani BEN JEMAA

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World Federation of Engineering Organizations

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-----Message d'origine-----
De : "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
[mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de] 
Envoyé : lundi 6 septembre 2010 16:33
À : wsis-info at itu.int
Cc : governance at lists.cpsr.org
Objet : [governance] WSIS Forum 2011

 

Dear friends

 

I disagree with the argument that a move from Geneva to to New York of the
WSIS Forum 2011 would improve outreach and bring WSIS implementation
forward. In contrary I am afraid that a move to NewYork will weaken in
particular the involvement of civil society and the academic community as
important stakeholders in the WSIS process. A large number of civil society
organisations, including represenations of organisations from developing
countries, are based in Geneva or not far from Geneva. Moving the event to
New York would create additional costs and logistic problems for them which
would result in lower participation of civil society organisations. This
would certainly undermine the multistakeholder nature of the WSIS
implementaiton process. 

 

Another risk moving the WSIS Forum 2011 to New York would be that the
important WSIS issues would be discussed in the shadow of more important
political and security issues which dominate the day to day UN acitvities in
New York. The WSIS Forum would be just "another conference" and would have
difficulties to get the needed public attention. 

 

Finally I want to flag that in same week the European Union has its annual
Future of the Internet Week meetings under the Hungarian Presidency in
Budapest. 

 

 

Regards

 

Wolfgang Kleinwächter 

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