---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:57:33 +0900 (KST) From: Chun Eung Hwi <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Subject: [WSIS-CT] 2nd Unofficial personal report of Government meeting For the negotiation of conflicting views on some contentious issues, governments decided to make six working group depending on those issues such as Right to communicate, Internet Security, Internet Governance, Enabling environment, Cultural identity, Media and Freedom of expression. This afternoon, I attended to one working group of Internet Governance. Then, there I heard that in the morning session, some countries raised questions on the attendance of civil society and private sector. So, they decided their policy to allow only five minutes for civil society and private sector to speak out their concerns and to make them leave from meeting place when governments begin to negotiate. Only two minutes was allowed to those groups. One person of Private sector spoke out the importance of private sector initiative and the cooperation between private sector and governments in internet governance. And nobody made a comment from civil society group. However, EU representative, Norway, Israel and the U.S expressed their uncomfortableness to that policy. But the chair said that he has no right to reverse that policy. So, I should have left out from the meeting place. That's it. At the meeting place, I met Mr. Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi, the chair of GAC(Government Advisory Committee) of ICANN and Paul Twomey, President/CEO of ICANN and Theresa Swinehart, Counsel of ICANN. But Paul and Theresa should also have left out. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Chun Eung Hwi General Secretary, PeaceNet | phone: (+82) 2-2166-2205 Seoul Yangchun P.O.Box 81 | pcs: (+82) 019-259-2667 Seoul, 158-600, Korea | eMail: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ct mailing list [log in to unmask] http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ct Civil Society Plenary: http://www.wsis-cs.org/ Content & Themes Documents: http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/pub/bscw.cgi/0/42953798