Fwd: [WSIS-CT] CS Speaker nominations - A personal short analysis and proposal

[Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>]

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> De: Sean O Siochru <sean@nexus.ie>
> Date: Lun 10 nov 2003  17:02:56 Europe/Paris
> À: Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>, plenary@wsis-cs.org, 
> ct@wsis-cs.org
> Cc: hr-wsis@iris.sgdg.org, CRISINFO <crisinfo@comunica.org>
> Objet: Rép : [WSIS-CT] CS Speaker nominations - A personal short 
> analysis and proposal
>
> Hi
>
> I want to address just one point that Meryem raises, regarding whether 
> CS should participate at all in nominating the speakers to the 
> Multi-Stalehoder sessions.
>
> I think she is absolutely right that we must not allow this process to 
> be seen as endorsing the Multi-stakeholder RTs.  My own opinion is 
> that these have added virtually nothing in terms of effective 
> modalities for civil society participation, neither by influencing the 
> official process (Declaration /Action plan) nor by leading to an 
> informal coming together, or narrowing of differences, of views of the 
> stakeholders.  There are several reasons for this, and here is not the 
> place to go into them.  But I am sure there are many others on this 
> list who will agree (and indeed who disagree) with me.
>
> Yet we have a lot of names on the table, many of  whom either do not 
> see a problem with the legitimation issue, or simply want an 
> opportunity to make their point in every possible venue.  It will also 
> be difficult to stop this process so close to the end.
>
> So I suggest that following:
>
> a)  The Selection Committee, in their response to Utsumi, makes it 
> clear that many in civil society do not believe that the 
> multi-stakeholder Round Tables, as organised for the WSIS, contributed 
> in any significant way.
>
> b) Given this, the Selection Committee has gathered nominations from 
> civil society, but will not select between them, and instead will 
> forward the entire list of nominees to Utsumi for consideration.
>
> In a way this makes the work of the Selection Committee redundant, in 
> which case the response could come directly from the Civil Society 
> Bureau, which officially is the body that is to respond to Utsumi.
>
> This has the advantage of simplifying an impossible task for the 
> Committee, making the presence of widespread rejection clear, while 
> respecting the views of those who wish to put their names forward.
>
> Incidentally, I think we should in our response at least refer to the 
> problematic nature of this whole process - though I know the response 
> would be to come up with something better.
>
> Sean
>
> Sean
>
> At 14:52 09/11/2003 +0100, Meryem Marzouki wrote:
>
>> - Should the participating CS organizations nominate speakers for the 
>> round-tables ?
>> My own answer is no, definitely no.
>> What is the purpose of these round-tables ? Are we in an amicable 
>> discussion process with friends or colleagues ? No, we are in a UN 
>> Summit process. Are we here for legitimation ? No, we are here to 
>> meet other CS organizations, establish networks, follow the Summit 
>> process and try to impact some (very little as we know, not 
>> surprisingly) output of the Summit.
>> I am not that naive. I know that many CS organizations have and will 
>> nominate speakers for round-tables. I know that the secretariat and 
>> ITU will choose their speakers. They will have a cup of tea with some 
>> heads of states. So what ? Let's let them do that, this wont change 
>> anything. But please, let's let them do that AS INDIVIDUAL 
>> ORGANIZATIONS, without any implicit or explicit approval of "the 
>> world civil society", since this is the way CS organizations 
>> participating to the WSIS will be called, specially by the media. 
>> Let's ensure that they are not proposed by caucuses, and specially 
>> not by "CS self-organizing bodies".
>>
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