FW: [WSIS-CT] Next steps for Content and Themes

["Frank Joergensen, Rikke" <rfj@humanrights.dk>]

Hi all

How many of you will be at Prepcom3 and be willing to work on specific inputs for the Decl. and Act. Plan (see suggestions below) ?

Best
Rikke

-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Burch - ALAI [mailto:sburch@alainet.org]
Sent: 25. august 2003 02:43
To: ct@wsis-cs.org
Subject: [WSIS-CT] Next steps for Content and Themes


Friends,

We have received some new input for the CT priorities document, 
and now need to organize next steps, as time is getting short 
before the Prepcom, especially if we wish to produce a new 
consensus document.

The latest draft of the Declaration following the intersessional 
discussions, is now up on the WSIS website; the Action Plan is 
also supposed to be posted by now (has anyone seen it?)  On the 
basis of these document, each caucus and thematic working group 
should be looking to see what is and isn't included in relation to 
your priorities.

We propose three parallel steps to prepare content for the 
Prepcom.  Please revise and answer the questions at the end.

1) Caucuses have 3 weeks to draw up statements in reaction to 
the latest drafts.  These might be adapted according to 
circumstances during the course of the Prepcom, but there seems 
to be a general feeling that at least the basic ideas should be 
agreed on in each caucus before the Prepcom starts.

2) Based on our present priorities document and the feedback 
received, a drafting group needs to start work now on a new 
consensus statement for Prepcom 3.  Our suggestion is that this 
statement should be adapted to the present content of the official 
draft documents, so as to focus only on certain strong priorities.  It 
should therefore be possible to keep this document shorter than 
the previous version.

3) Many have proposed that we need our own civil society 
declaration and action plan.  One that is not just a reaction to what 
the governments do and don't say, but that covers all the things we 
feel should be in the documents, in our own terminology.  This 
would obviously be a longer document.

Our suggestion is that, based on all the input received, including 
our statements from previous prepcoms etc., a drafting group 
works first on drawing up a CS declaration.  A first draft should 
ideally be ready for comment and feed-back during Prepcom 3, and 
then we could continue to work on it before December.  In Geneva 
we can evaluate whether we will also be able to draw up a CS 
action plan by December.  Work on this document might start now 
or could wait until we have the Prepcom 3 statement drafted 
(depending on who is willing to work on what).

QUESTIONS:

a) Do you agree with this proposal?  Have you any comments?

b) Which of these three steps are you willing to work on?  Are you 
able to join a drafting group for either (2 - Prepcom statement) 
and/or (3 - CS Declaration) during the next 3 weeks?

Thanks,

Sally Burch and Bill McIver

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Agencia Latinoamericana de Información - ALAI
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