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Meryem and all,
As Meryem pointed out, I am very interested
in e-voting and how it can either support or undermine all of our other
rights.
Can anyone give me specific suggestions on
where to go with this, how to pursue it and include it in the action lines, and
how to be sure it gets incorporated in any input we present? This is
particularly important because the issue was not addressed in the WSIS
documents.
I am willing to work on wording, or
presentations, whatever it may be, but I don't have the experience to direct my
attention, particularly since it seems that this issue is viewed as very
specific, so has to be incorporated properly into the protocols. I personally
don't see it as such a "specific" issue because of its overarching implications
for all rights, so I need help working it into a format that will really get it
on the agenda.
Help, suggestions, observations, comments?
Please?
Thanks. Saludos, Ginger
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 6:47
AM
Subject: [hr-wsis] HR caucus and
post-wsis actions lines
Hi again,
Besides the IGF, which is a very important
process, we should also
step into the implementation and follow-up
of WSIS actions lines.
These actions lines, together with the
relevant UN agency to take the
lead on their implementation, are
identified in the annex of the
"Tunis Agenda for the Information
Society", available in different
languages at: http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?
lang=en&id=2267|0 (go to the Annex at the end of the
document).
ITU has started first discussions on action line C2
(infrastructure),
for example, during a meeting it held recently in
Doha (Qatar),
taking the opportunity of one of its conferences
(World
Telecommunication Development Conference - WTDC). As a matter
of
fact, Anriette Esterhuysen has sent a letter to ITU Secretary
General
on behalf of APC, that she reproduced on the plenary list.
APC was
mainly raising the issue of CS participation to such
meetings held in
different parts of the world, where almost only
some governements and
ITU private sector members can attend.
I
don't know if there are other consultations that have started.
My point
here is to suggest that, according to the competence and
specificities of members of our caucus, we share the work among us
and we try to have caucus members in charge of closely following
some
issues/actions lines, and reporting to the caucus so that we
can
develop positions and hopefully participate to a large range
of
actions lines follow-up.
Typically, Ginger (from UNA
Venezuela) has many times expressed her
concerns with the e-voting
issue. I know that another caucus member,
CPSR (represented here by
Bill), is also working on e-voting. This
would be a good start to
follow action line C7 (ICT applications),
and specially
e-government. We can certainly identify other members
who would be
ready to follow other actions lines.
At the global level, you may have
noticed that there is no "human
rights" action line (we have rather
an "Ethical dimensions of the
Information Society", C10... when you
don't want to talk about
rights, call them "ethics"!!!), and among
the more than 15 UN
commissions or agencies respectively in charge
of their
implementation and follow-up, one is strangely (?) missing:
the
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Righst
(OHCHR)!
I really think this deserves an intervention from us, with
e.g. a
letter to the UN Secretary General and to the High
Commissioner for
Human Rights, deploring this situation and asking
for HR explicitly
appearing and highlighted.
Waiting for your
comments,
Meryem
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