>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:19:57 +0100
>From: Ralf Bendrath <[email protected]>
>To: Daniel Pimienta <[email protected]>
>CC: Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE <[email protected]>,
> Anriette Esterhuysen <[email protected]>, Jane JOHNSEN <[email protected]>,
> Karen BANKS <[email protected]>, Renate BLOEM <[email protected]>,
> Rik Panganiban <[email protected]>, Viola Krebs <[email protected]>,
> Izumi AIZU <[email protected]>, [email protected],
> [email protected],
> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected], [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Fostering National Information Society Fora
>
>Hi all,
>
>>>In December 2004, the WSIS Action Plan explicitly called for "the
>>>initiation at the national level of a structured dialogue involving all
>>>relevant stakeholders" (paragraph C1 b).
>
>Bertrand, you forgot to mention the headline of chapter C1, which is
>"The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs
>for development"
>
>So - we discussed this idea in the German WSIS CS coordination on
>Friday, but were sceptical, mainly for three reasons:
>
>1. There has been a multistakeholder forum before on information society
>issues in Germany, initiated by the ministry of economics and labour. It
>ran for a few years, never really kicked off into a larger development and
>did not have too much impact. It was stopped in April 2002. See:
><http://www.forum-informationsgesellschaft.de>. We are not really sure
>what another attempt in this direction could do better.
>
>2. We have the general feeling that there is not really a need for an
>overarching infosoc forum or process on the national level, but rather a
>need for close cooperation (and heavy lobbying) on specific fields
>like privacy, intellectual property and so on.
>
>3. The same seems to be true for the national WSIS developments.
>Since the first WSIS is over, our CS meetings have become smaller, many
>active people have dropped out or shifted their activities to other fora
>like WIPO or the EU. So we would see the strategic need to re-build a
>stable CS base before we join any multistakeholder process on the national
>level. I personally see the same developments in the government, by the way.
>
>This is only true for Germany, don't get me wrong. We did not think the
>idea in general is not useful.
>
>Best, Ralf
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