[governance] WSIS+10 and climate change sensitive regions

Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at hserus.net
Tue Feb 26 10:35:24 EST 2013 

The maldives too - though with a rather nasty struggle going on about their presidency I doubt they have the time or inclination to attend UN conferences

--srs (iPad)

On 26-Feb-2013, at 20:40, "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Norbert,
> 
> Comments are inline:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>> Dear all
>> 
>> Can you help me get in touch with participants in the WSIS+10
>> conference in Paris coming from regions which are particularly
>> sensitive to climate change (such as countries that will be
>> severely affected by rising sea levels, and countries that
>> will likely be affected by water insecurity, or by adverse
>> impacts on agricultural production and food security) ?
> 
> [ST]The Pacific is affected by rising sea levels particularly countries that are low lying atolls such as Tuvalu (owner of .tv) and Kiribati (.ki). There are other parts of the Pacific where rising sea levels are felt but these too are most pronounced and in one of the country, the President had several years ago initiated an evacuation plan.
> 
> As for people you can get in touch with from the Pacific who are there:
> 
> Abel Caine is with UNESCO and is based in Paris but is originally from Fiji
> Tevi from Samoa is CEO of an ISP in Samoa who is well versed with Pacific issues and can speak about the impact of climate change in the region;
> (I will look for their email addresses and email them to you offlist)
> 
> I would also look for someone from Bangladesh as I remember seeing the exhibition on the impact of climate change in their country last year in D.C
>> 
>> See below for an explanation of the reasons for this interest.
>> 
>> On 2/26/13, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>> > Personally I found the remarks of Rajendra Pachauri (the chair
>> > of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) very inspiring
>> > and energizing: He spoke on applying knowledge to address
>> > important global problems, among which he emphasized not only
>> > climate change but also poverty. Nothing about what he pointed
>> > out is really new or surprising to anyone who is minimally well
>> > informed, but I still found his intervention highly significant.
>> > Perhaps the reason which makes me assign significance to his
>> > words is not so much the content of what he said, but the fact
>> > that (at least from my perspective) he did not come across as
>> > someone speaking with the voice of a politician, but as someone
>> > with a mindset grounded in engineering. Also significant is the
>> > prominence that the WSIS+10 organizers assigned to his brief
>> > speech by putting it first in the "high level panel" before all
>> > the ministers.
>> >
>> > In summary, perhaps the main point of the day is that the
>> > concept of knowledge societies really needs to be about the
>> > sharing and application of knowledge in practical ways.
>> 
>> Another major reason why I found this inspiring is of course that
>> this resonates with plans that I've been pondering for quite some
>> time, to try launching a refocused version of the "Enhanced
>> Cooperation Task Force" (ECTF) that was discussed here a while
>> back [1]. I'm keeping the ECTF proposal alive with minor changes
>> more or less as-is in the hope that it may in some way be a useful
>> input to the CSTD Working-Group on Enhanced Cooperation. But now
>> that the UN system has started a probably slow process on deciding
>> an official meaning for the term “Enhanced Cooperation”, I really
>> don't want to delay application of the key ideas of that proposal
>> until it is clear whether the UN will eventually take action in
>> that direction or not.
>> 
>> I'm calling the branch of the proposal that I want to go forward
>> with without delay "Wisdom Task Force" (WisdomTF) [2], and I want
>> to focus it initially at least on addressing the problem of
>> developing effective policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions
>> globally, and getting governments to implement such effective
>> policies, together with whatever information society and development
>> issues that will turn out to be effectively inseparably linked with
>> this objective. In other words, the plan is to apply information
>> society techniques, inspired significantly by the Internet
>> Engineering Task Force (IETF), to a policy area which is not
>> primarily technical. Of course, if this plan works out, it will
>> end up impacting also other areas of governance, including Internet
>> governance in the narrower sense of "governance of what makes the
>> Internet work".
>> 
>> [1] http://enhanced-cooperation.org/RFA/1
>> [2] http://wisdomtaskforce.org/RFB/1
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
>> 
>> 
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