IMPORTANT - Fwd: Information regarding your contribution to the working documents (declaration and action plan) of WSIS

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

I recieved this message from ITU about the HRIS contribution (among  
others). Please read it carefully, and provide to the list :
- The status of your organization (accredited to WSIS and/or  
consultative sttaus with ECOSOC)
- Whether or your organization formally endorse the caucus contribution.

PLEASE DO THIS BEFORE TOMORROW FRIDAY EVENING (I'll be off-line from  
Saturday until the deadline).
Respective organizations of the two coordinators of the caucus can  
formally endorse it, but the highest number of caucus members formally  
endorsing would be the better.
Meryem

Début du message réexpédié :

> De: charles.geiger@itu.int
> Date: Jeu 5 juin 2003  16:58:00 Europe/Paris
> À: africa.rights@apc.org, izumi@an.org, wsis-n-jp@gate.glocom.ac.jp,  
> g.berger@ru.ac.za, rui@misanet.info, mh@waac.org.uk,  
> mciver@albany.edu, rosario_gl@yahoo.co.uk, sivel@datafull.com,  
> marzouki@ras.eu.org, "diallo_iam@yahoo.com":, muguet@mdpi.org,  
> secretariat-wsisgendercaucus@wougnet.org, valerieb@apc.org,  
> seema.pannaikadavil@itu.int
> Cc: Pierre.Gagne@itu.int, Elaine.Baron@itu.int, Patricia.Janin@itu.int
> Objet: Information regarding your contribution to the working  
> documents  (declaration and action plan) of WSIS
>
>
> Sir, Madam
>
>
> We have received from your "caucus", "coordination committee",  
> "conference",
> "group" etc. a contribution to the working documents (declaration and  
> action
> plan) of WSIS. We would like to inform you about the following:
>
> According to the Rules of Procedure for PrepComs (see:
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/pc1/official/rules_procedure_pc.doc) ,  
> only
> entities with a standing invitation by the UN General Assembly (like
> Palestine, or the ICRC), International Organisations including  
> UN-Agencies
> and organs, ITU sector members as well as accredited NGOs, civil  
> society and
> business sector entities can participate in WSIS as observers, and you  
> need
> observer status in order be be able to make oral or written
> contributions/inputs (see:
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/pc1/official/ 
> arrangements_participation.doc).
>
> The Executive Secretariat of WSIS has received a number of  
> contributions to
> the working documents (declaration and action plan) from non-accredited
> entities or from groups of entities, called "caucuses" or "committees",
> "conferences", groups" etc. which as such do not have observer status.  
> Given
> the general interest of these contributions, the Executive Director  
> decided
> that such contributions should also be put on the WSIS website, under
> "miscellaneous contributions". Your contribution figures in this list  
> of
> "miscellaneous contributions" on the WSIS website.
>
> According to the document on the intersessional period and to the  
> decisions
> of the Bureau, the Executive Secretariat is to produce a reference  
> document
> with the comments of the observers. This reference document will deal  
> with
> comments and contributions from International Organizations including  
> UN
> Agencies, ITU sector members, accredited NGOs, civil society and  
> business
> sector entities, but not from organizations and entities without  
> observer
> status. Therefore, at the actual stage, we are not in a position to
> integrate your contribution into the reference document.
>
> If you have submitted your contribution as a document of a "caucus" or  
> a
> "coordination committee", "Conference" or "group" etc., please inform  
> us
> immediately which WSIS-accredited organization(s) or entity/entities or
> which organization or entity with in consultative status with ECOSOC  
> and
> participating in WSIS is/are backing the contribution. We need the  
> name of
> at least one WSIS-accredited organization/entity (or an organisations  
> in
> consultative status with ECOSOC) who backs the contribution. If you  
> provide
> us with such name(s), we will publish the contribution under  
> "accredited
> NGOs and civil society entities" under the name(s) of the  
> organization(s)
> backing the contribution ("organization/entity XY on behalf of  
> ......")and
> the proposals/comments can be integrated into the reference document.
>
> We would need a response at the latest by Tuesday 10 June (sorry for  
> the
> short deadline) in order to be able to consider the proposals and  
> comments
> into the reference document. You can send the information to the  
> undersigned
> and/or to wsis.ap@itu.int
>
> Yours truly
>
> Charles Geiger
> Senior Policy Adviser
> Executive Secretariat
> World Summit on the Information Society
> c/o ITU, Place des Nations
> CH-1211 Geneva 20
> Switzerland
> phone  ++ 41 22 730 63 75
> fax       ++41 22 730 63 93
> e-mail:  charles.geiger@ties.itu.int
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