World Summit on the Information Society
Prepcom III
Sub-Committee B
23 September 2005
1500-1730 hours
Report on Sub-Committee B by Lenka Simerska
Zambia - about bilateral and multilateral assistance
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15 minutes discussion
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Cuba proposed additional para to propose new 14B or 15
para 10B DT2 rev3
USA
page 16 DT2 rev3 new 10A
is not consistent with spirit of WSIS, unnecessary politisation of the process
and should be deleted
Cuba
para 9
DT2 rev3
proposal during prepcom2
EU25 plus Romania and Bulgaria
- not open debates that already happened in prepcom2
- new 9A too much detail, its not relevant
Russia
didn't forsee that 9 will be discussed, its confusing
for 7,8,9,10 they have proposals
in 7 delete proposal of human rights group, in 10 delete "full" participation
of CS on page 21
will give in writing
anex issue
Chair
the discussion was ment to be on 10, 11
we don't discuss specific paragraphs, we want input
yesterday russia proposed an adhoc group - will discuss what this group should
do and propose at the end of today
do we need ad hoc group?
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AD HOC GROUP
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Russia
to see views to avoid a number of squere brackets
regional organisations, UN agencies, stakeholders should be in the group
EU
does not see a need of adhoc group for para 14, GFC already had meetings
Chair
not everyody was in that group of GFC and these should have a chance to input
Nicaragua
support russia in setting up adhoc group, its a very important paragraph
Canada
intergov. organisations and stakeholders cannot negotiate
xyz
GFC did not negotiate, didn't have a mandate, now there should be negotiations
Holy See
support creation of working group, indicate clearly the distingtion between
this group and GFC; GFC was open to stakeholders, how this one will be different
Chair
prepcom can establish working groups, there are clear procedures for prepcom,
this is not a problem
Algeria
its premature to speak about working group, in the morning many were against
because of small numbers of delegations
Russia will now propose what exactly this group will be like
Today will finish chapter 4
Tomorrow will be working on political chapeau
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DT6/rev2
Chapter 4
para 26
page 30
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instead of parliaments to have legislative bodies, role of parliaments to be
discussed, more general language will be found
proposals Samoa and Dominican Rep. will be negotiatiated
South Africa
on the UN Regional Comissions - do not specify, leave as it is in original
Canada
delete the paragraph, its repetition
(Chair: repetition is okey, africa has oral tradition, haha)
Australia
the point does not need repetition and we should not just focus on regional,
delete paragraph
UK
stress multistakeholder participation
Proposal from youth caucus - deleted (youth is being visionary, haha)
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para 27 and para 28
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will be negotiated
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para 29
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UK/EU
rephrase paragraph
multistakeholder is essential, policy decissions lie with government
Australia supports EU but wants more ...
should be retained
Egypt - EU proposal changes the sentence, not support
Iran - wording from EU not accepted
EU - still wants to keep the proposal
It will be kept in square brackets and negotiated
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para 30
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Honduras - improvement of text, concept of development is explicit, reflect
opinion of developing countries, ICT indicators, MDGs
proposed wording:
"mutually" agreed
taking into account "different aspects of the development dimension"
circumstances "and priorities"
"... statistical ... eg Digital Opportunity Index"
Iran
change realistic for effective
Canada agree with Iran
end of record
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