[Lac] [Fwd: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Itsumi - internet gov mtg on 26-27 Feb in Geneva]

[Beatriz Busaniche]

hola
no se cuántos están en la lista de plenaria, para quienes están allí, 
disculpen la duplicación.
pero creo que es importante que revisemos este tema con prioridad.
alguien de america latina está en el caucus de internet governance como 
para que nos cuente un poco más de lo que se está discutiendo allí?
Gracias! 
Saludos
Bea



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] message from Itsumi - internet gov mtg 
on 26-27 Feb in Geneva
Date: 	Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:18:19 -0500
From: 	YJ Park <yjpark at myepark.com>
Reply-To: 	plenary at wsis-cs.org
To: 	<plenary at wsis-cs.org>
CC: 	Governance <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
References: 	<D33919E7-4AA0-11D8-BE1C-000A95EA981E at bluewin.ch>



Thank you, Rik, for passing this info to the plenary.
 
WSIS Internet Governance Caucus has discussed ITU's Internet Governance 
workshop since Jan. 8th and I personally feel enormous challenges in 
building coalitions within WSIS civil society and collecting WSIS civil 
society's positions about Internet governance down this road until 2005 
Nov WSIS.
 
When Internet Governance caucus was set up back in 2003 February during 
PrepCom II by Wolfgang and myself, it was one of twenty or so WSIS civil 
society caucuses or working groups. It started with three or four people 
back then and has evolved to a bigger group composed of around 50 in the 
maling list but it is still a small part of WSIS civil society.
 
The upcoming ITU Internet Governance workshop's participation is 
known to be restricted "only" to ITU's member states and sector 
members. It excludes many WSIS civil society members and WSIS Internet 
governance caucus was notified only two or three people from the caucus 
can attend the meeting. At this moment, it is 'not" still clear whether 
civil society members can attend the workshop without "invitation".
 
WSIS civil society together with Internet Governance caucus has to make 
a request that ITU's Internet Governance Workshop should be open to 
civil society members. It will be a very bad precedent in the Internet 
Governance history. We have to remember that the controversial US agency 
model, ICANN, allows civil society groups to participate in 
policy-making process with voting rights.
 
It is time for WSIS Plenary to discuss what WSIS civil society should do 
in terms of "Internet Governance" in association with "Internet 
Governance Caucus" within civil society.
YJ  
 

    Dear Colleagues,

    The Secretary General of the WSIS and the ITU, Yoshio Utsumi, has
    posted a general message to the WSIS website. He announces in this
    message a meeting on internet governance taking place from 26 - 27
    February in Geneva, which will provide a "forum for exchanging views
    on definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on
    Internet governance."

    Below is the entire message.

    Rik Panganiban
    WFM

    ..................................

    *
    Message from Mr. Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary General of ITU and
    Secretary General of the World Summit on the Information Society

    *As we look back to the Geneva phase of the World Summit on the
    Information Society attended by 11,000 participants including 44
    Heads of state or government and vice-presidents, we can be proud of
    our collective accomplishments. The Geneva phase clearly placed the
    issue of ICTs on the agenda of world leaders and produced consensus
    on the importance of shaping the Information Society in a
    constructive manner beneficial to all citizens. Leaders also agreed
    on the importance of ICTs in addressing many of the major social,
    political and economical problems and the important role that ICTs
    can play as an essential tool in reaching many of the goals
    expressed in the Millennium Declaration. The Action Plan sets forth
    a firm commitment to meet concrete targets to "connect the world'
    and bring the benefits of ICTs to all nations.

    In addition, many multi-stakeholder partnership initiatives were
    announced during the Summit. Cisco and ITU signed a Memorandum of
    Understanding to open 20 more Internet Training Centres in
    developing countries. Microsoft, working with UNDP, will create a
    billion dollar program to bring ICT skills to underserved
    communities. The UN ICT Task Force with Ireland, Sweden, Canada and
    Switzerland announced the global e-school project to connect schools
    and communities in the developing world. And at the very close of
    the Summit, the cities of Geneva and Lyon and the Government of
    Senegal announced contributions totaling about 1 million euros to
    fund ICT projects in developing countries, representing the first
    payments towards the Digital Solidarity Fund.

    I would like to thank the many participants in the process. In
    particular, I thank the host country of the Geneva phase,
    Switzerland, for their substantial efforts and contributions. As
    well, I am grateful to Mr. Adama Samassekou, the PrepCom President
    of the Geneva phase, for his energy and commitment to this process.
    A special thanks also goes to those who made financial or
    organizational contributions to the Summit.

    Together, we are now faced with the challenge of transforming the
    vision and plans endorsed in the Geneva phase into concrete action.
    The Geneva Summit called for a preparatory meeting to be held in the
    first half of 2004 to establish the structure of the Tunis phase. As
    preparation for that meeting has been entrusted to the Bureau for
    the Tunis phase, the establishment of the Bureau for the Tunis phase
    is one of the most urgent matters requiring attention. The two ex
    officio members of the Bureau, Tunisia and Switzerland, are expected
    to play a key role in this process. I sincerely hope that the new
    Bureau members will meet informally at the beginning of February to
    commence their task.

    The Geneva phase also identified two major issues to be resolved
    under the auspices of UN Secretary General, namely Internet
    governance and financing mechanisms. To contribute to the discussion
    on Internet governance, ITU will organize a workshop on 26 - 27
    February in Geneva, which provides a forum for exchanging views on
    definitions, viewpoints, visions and analytical studies on Internet
    governance .

    I look forward to working with the many stakeholders involved in
    this exciting and important undertaking. In particular, I am pleased
    to begin working closely with Tunisia, the host country of the
    second phase as we prepare for November 2005. 

    Mr. Yoshio Utsumi
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    Rik Panganiban email: rikp at bluewin.ch
    Special Adviser Mobile: +41 76 473 3274
    World Federalist Movement www.wfm.org
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