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

["Diana Mercorios" <diana@abantu.org>]

Dear Meryam,

ABANTU for Development is accredited to WSIS and also has ECOSOC status. 

Regards,
Diana Mercorios
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>
Reply-To: hr-wsis@iris.sgdg.org
Date:  Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:22:01 +0200

>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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