From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr Thu Jan 4 14:58:58 2007 From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Louis FULLSACK) Date: Thu Jan 4 14:59:05 2007 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Tr: News from the EDD in Brussels Message-ID: <18965254.215391167919138806.JavaMail.www@wwinf1617> Mes meilleurs voeux pour une ann?e de succ?s dans la coop?ration UE-ACP et dans vos projets, et de paix tout particuli?rement en Afrique Message renvoy? suite ? non-r?ponse JLF Cher Harlem D?sir Je vous transf?re ci-apr?s le message que j'ai adress? au Caucus Europe de la SC accr?dit?e au SMSI, concernant les Journ?es europ?ennes du d?veloppement. Comme vous pourrez le lire, l'organisation de ces journ?es a montr? des d?faillances graves pour la soci?t? civile ? la fois quant au choix du th?me et sur les lacunes du processus pr?paratoire qui en a pratiquement exclu la soci?t? civile. De ce fait elle a compromis une partie des chances de r?ussite d'une ?tape a priori int?ressante que constituaient ces journ?es dans le processus complexe du d?veloppement impliquant l'UE et les PeD, en premier lieu desquels les pays africains. Je vous saurais donc gr? de bien vouloir initier une question orale ? la Commission avec d?bat lors de la session de d?cembre du Parlement europ?en, portant notamment sur les carences constat?es dans l'organisation des ces Journ?es et rappel?es ci-dessus, et demandant ? la Commission l'enseignement qu'elle compte en tirer pour le processus pr?paratoire des JDD de l'an prochain que le gouvernement portugais se propose d'accueillir. La soci?t? civile europ?enne, engag?e dans le processus de suivi du SMSI et partie prenante dans sa contribution pour atteindre les objectifs du mill?naire pour le d?veloppementy (OMD), demande ? ?tre associ?e dans la phase pr?paratoire des prochaines JDD, y compris pour le choix de leur th?me majeur et celui des sujets soumis ? leurs tables rondes. Par avance je vous remercie pour l'int?r?t que vous portez ? ma demande et la suite que vous voudrez bien lui donner, y compris en me tenant inform? des r?sultats atteints ou des probl?mes rencontr?s. Avec mes tr?s cordiales salutations Jean-Louis Fullsack PS : Ce message est envoy? ? des parlementaires les groupes engag?s dans le d?veloppement des pays "du Sud" : Catherine Trautmann, V?ronique De Keyser, Glenys Kinnock, Miguel Angel Martinez Martinez, Luisa Morgantini > Message du 25/11/06 19:21 > De : "Jean-Louis FULLSACK" > A : wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org > Copie ? : > Objet : News from the EDD in Brussels > > Dear Europeans Last week, the European Commision hold the first ever European Development Days (EDD) aimed at promoting public awareness of european countries towards EU?s development policy and its contribution to achieve the MDGs. Centerpiece of this five-days event was gouvernance (!). This event gathered some 2000 people and a even a number of officials and former as well as current African heads of state and gouvernment. Some Civil society organisations were also present there. CSDPTT didn?t attend these EDD for mainly two reasons : - CS was not invited to participate in the preparatory process of this important ?first event?, and - In its view, Gouvenance isn't the most urgent issue in the current highly critical and dramatic situation of most of the DCs, particularly those in Africa. This latter argument also was raised by CS organsiations present in Brussels. CS representatives also regretted the absence of members of the European Parliament. Unfortunately, the EP was having its main november session in Strasbourg during the same period ! This was a big mistake ?one more- of the EDD organisers. CONCORD (Note : this is the fisrt time I heard from this ?European confederation of development NGOs?) regretted that CS wasn?t sufficiently involved in the preparatory work. In other words, for a lot of good reasons, the EDD were rather disappointing for the DCs participants as well as for the handful of CS organisations that attended them. However, let?s hope that this was also a lesson from which the EC has learnt, and will react accordingly when it will be preparing the next EDD, Portugal has already proposed to organise next year. Especially the European CS must be more effectively involved in the preparation process of this from now on regular annual meeting. Only under these conditions will it meet the challenges that the DCs are facing and will it be able to help them achieve the MDGs, alltogether the European countries and the Developing countries, first of all African ones because, as Commissioner Michels said, ?Africa is a continent that remains trapped in poverty and distress, but it is also the continent full of hope and potential?. We, the European CS organisations committed in the objectives of the WSIS Action Plan and Agenda, must follow very thoroughly both the CONCORD activity and the preparation process for the the next year EDD, having in mind full harmony and consistency with our own Declarations of Geneva and Tunis. By the way, the December main session of the the EP will encompass some development issues that will be discussed. As far as I'm concerned I?ll try to get more information about the ?EU-Africa Infrastructure Initiative? that was launched during late summer, without any consulting meeting including European CS. Once more ! Friendliest greeetings Jean-Louis Fullsack CSDPTT-France, Focal Person of European CS involved in WSIS to the EP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/attachments/20070104/deab0c87/attachment.html From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr Thu Jan 4 15:02:31 2007 From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Louis FULLSACK) Date: Thu Jan 4 15:02:37 2007 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Tr: News from the EDD in Brussels Message-ID: <26602845.215991167919351315.JavaMail.www@wwinf1617> Mes meilleurs voeux pour une ann?e de succ?s dans vos projets personnels et dans la coop?ration UE-ACP, et de Paix en particulier en Afrique Courriel renvoy? pour cause de non-r?ponse JLF Madame la Pr?sidente de la Commission du D?veloppement Je vous transf?re ci-apr?s le message que j'ai adress? au Caucus Europe de la SC accr?dit?e au SMSI, concernant les Journ?es europ?ennes du d?veloppement. Comme vous pourrez le lire, l'organisation de ces journ?es a montr? des d?faillances graves pour la soci?t? civile ? la fois quant au choix du th?me et sur les lacunes du processus pr?paratoire qui en a pratiquement exclu la soci?t? civile. De ce fait elle a compromis une partie des chances de r?ussite d'une ?tape a priori int?ressante que constituaient ces journ?es dans le processus complexe du d?veloppement impliquant l'UE et les PeD, en premier lieu desquels les pays africains. Je vous saurais donc gr? de bien vouloir initier une question orale ? la Commission avec d?bat lors de la session de d?cembre du Parlement europ?en, portant notamment sur les carences constat?es dans l'organisation des ces Journ?es et rappel?es ci-dessus, et demandant ? la Commission l'enseignement qu'elle compte en tirer pour le processus pr?paratoire des JDD de l'an prochain que le gouvernement portugais se propose d'accueillir. La soci?t? civile europ?enne, engag?e dans le processus de suivi du SMSI et partie prenante dans sa contribution pour atteindre les objectifs du mill?naire pour le d?veloppementy (OMD), demande ? ?tre associ?e dans la phase pr?paratoire des prochaines JDD, y compris pour le choix de leur th?me majeur et celui des sujets soumis ? leurs tables rondes. Par avance je vous remercie pour l'int?r?t que vous portez ? ma demande et la suite que vous voudrez bien lui donner, y compris en me tenant inform? des r?sultats atteints ou des probl?mes rencontr?s. Avec mes respectueuses salutations Jean-Louis Fullsack PS : Ce message est envoy? ? des parlementaires les groupes engag?s dans le d?veloppement des pays "du Sud" : Catherine Trautmann, V?ronique De Keyser, Harlem D?sir, Glenys Kinnock, Miguel Angel Martinez Martinez > Message du 25/11/06 19:21 > De : "Jean-Louis FULLSACK" > A : wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org > Copie ? : > Objet : News from the EDD in Brussels > > Dear Europeans Last week, the European Commision hold the first ever European Development Days (EDD) aimed at promoting public awareness of european countries towards EU?s development policy and its contribution to achieve the MDGs. Centerpiece of this five-days event was gouvernance (!). This event gathered some 2000 people and a even a number of officials and former as well as current African heads of state and gouvernment. Some Civil society organisations were also present there. CSDPTT didn?t attend these EDD for mainly two reasons : - CS was not invited to participate in the preparatory process of this important ?first event?, and - In its view, Gouvenance isn't the most urgent issue in the current highly critical and dramatic situation of most of the DCs, particularly those in Africa. This latter argument also was raised by CS organsiations present in Brussels. CS representatives also regretted the absence of members of the European Parliament. Unfortunately, the EP was having its main november session in Strasbourg during the same period ! This was a big mistake ?one more- of the EDD organisers. CONCORD (Note : this is the fisrt time I heard from this ?European confederation of development NGOs?) regretted that CS wasn?t sufficiently involved in the preparatory work. In other words, for a lot of good reasons, the EDD were rather disappointing for the DCs participants as well as for the handful of CS organisations that attended them. However, let?s hope that this was also a lesson from which the EC has learnt, and will react accordingly when it will be preparing the next EDD, Portugal has already proposed to organise next year. Especially the European CS must be more effectively involved in the preparation process of this from now on regular annual meeting. Only under these conditions will it meet the challenges that the DCs are facing and will it be able to help them achieve the MDGs, alltogether the European countries and the Developing countries, first of all African ones because, as Commissioner Michels said, ?Africa is a continent that remains trapped in poverty and distress, but it is also the continent full of hope and potential?. We, the European CS organisations committed in the objectives of the WSIS Action Plan and Agenda, must follow very thoroughly both the CONCORD activity and the preparation process for the the next year EDD, having in mind full harmony and consistency with our own Declarations of Geneva and Tunis. By the way, the December main session of the the EP will encompass some development issues that will be discussed. As far as I'm concerned I?ll try to get more information about the ?EU-Africa Infrastructure Initiative? that was launched during late summer, without any consulting meeting including European CS. Once more ! Friendliest greeetings Jean-Louis Fullsack CSDPTT-France, Focal Person of European CS involved in WSIS to the EP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/attachments/20070104/e2fafb59/attachment.html From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr Thu Jan 4 15:05:30 2007 From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Louis FULLSACK) Date: Thu Jan 4 15:05:37 2007 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Tr: News from the EDD in Brussels Message-ID: <30059389.216521167919530863.JavaMail.www@wwinf1617> Meilleurs voeux pour la nouvelle ann?e, succ?s pour vos projets et pour la coop?ration UE-ACP, paix dans le Monde et tout particuli?rement en Afrique Courriel renvoy? pour non-r?ponse JLF Madame la D?put?e Monsieur le D?put? Je vous transf?re ci-apr?s le message que j'ai adress? au Caucus Europe de la SC accr?dit?e au SMSI, concernant les Journ?es europ?ennes du d?veloppement. Comme vous pourrez le lire, l'organisation de ces journ?es a montr? des d?faillances graves pour la soci?t? civile ? la fois quant au choix du th?me et sur les lacunes du processus pr?paratoire qui en a pratiquement exclu la soci?t? civile. De ce fait elle a compromis une partie des chances de r?ussite d'une ?tape a priori int?ressante que constituaient ces journ?es dans le processus complexe du d?veloppement impliquant l'UE et les PeD, en premier lieu desquels les pays africains. Je vous saurais donc gr? de bien vouloir initier une question orale ? la Commission avec d?bat lors de la session de d?cembre du Parlement europ?en, portant notamment sur les carences constat?es dans l'organisation des ces Journ?es et rappel?es ci-dessus, et demandant ? la Commission l'enseignement qu'elle compte en tirer pour le processus pr?paratoire des JDD de l'an prochain que le gouvernement portugais se propose d'accueillir. La soci?t? civile europ?enne, engag?e dans le processus de suivi du SMSI et partie prenante dans sa contribution pour atteindre les objectifs du mill?naire pour le d?veloppementy (OMD), demande ? ?tre associ?e dans la phase pr?paratoire des prochaines JDD, y compris pour le choix de leur th?me majeur et celui des sujets soumis ? leurs tables rondes. Par avance je vous remercie pour l'int?r?t que vous portez ? ma demande et la suite que vous voudrez bien lui donner, y compris en me tenant inform? des r?sultats atteints ou des probl?mes rencontr?s. Avec mes respectueuses salutations Jean-Louis Fullsack PS : Ce message est envoy? ? des parlementaires les groupes engag?s dans le d?veloppement des pays "du Sud" : Catherine Trautmann, V?ronique De Keyser, Harlem D?sir, Glenys Kinnock, Miguel Angel Martinez Martinez, Luisa Morgantini > Message du 25/11/06 19:21 > De : "Jean-Louis FULLSACK" > A : wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org > Copie ? : > Objet : News from the EDD in Brussels > > Dear Europeans Last week, the European Commision hold the first ever European Development Days (EDD) aimed at promoting public awareness of european countries towards EU?s development policy and its contribution to achieve the MDGs. Centerpiece of this five-days event was gouvernance (!). This event gathered some 2000 people and a even a number of officials and former as well as current African heads of state and gouvernment. Some Civil society organisations were also present there. CSDPTT didn?t attend these EDD for mainly two reasons : - CS was not invited to participate in the preparatory process of this important ?first event?, and - In its view, Gouvenance isn???t the most urgent issue in the current highly critical and dramatic situation of most of the DCs, particularly those in Africa. This latter argument also was raised by CS organsiations present in Brussels. CS representatives also regretted the absence of members of the European Parliament. Unfortunately, the EP was having its main november session in Strasbourg during the same period ! This was a big mistake ?one more- of the EDD organisers. CONCORD (Note : this is the fisrt time I heard from this ?European confederation of development NGOs?) regretted that CS wasn?t sufficiently involved in the preparatory work. In other words, for a lot of good reasons, the EDD were rather disappointing for the DCs participants as well as for the handful of CS organisations that attended them. However, let?s hope that this was also a lesson from which the EC has learnt, and will react accordingly when it will be preparing the next EDD, Portugal has already proposed to organise next year. Especially the European CS must be more effectively involved in the preparation process of this from now on regular annual meeting. Only under these conditions will it meet the challenges that the DCs are facing and will it be able to help them achieve the MDGs, alltogether the European countries and the Developing countries, first of all African ones because, as Commissioner Michels said, ?Africa is a continent that remains trapped in poverty and distress, but it is also the continent full of hope and potential?. We, the European CS organisations committed in the objectives of the WSIS Action Plan and Agenda, must follow very thoroughly both the CONCORD activity and the preparation process for the the next year EDD, having in mind full harmony and consistency with our own Declarations of Geneva and Tunis. By the way, the December main session of the the EP will encompass some development issues that will be discussed. As far as I???m concerned I?ll try to get more information about the ?EU-Africa Infrastructure Initiative? that was launched during late summer, without any consulting meeting including European CS. Once more ! Friendliest greeetings Jean-Louis Fullsack CSDPTT-France, ?Focal Person of European CS involved in WSIS? to the EP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/attachments/20070104/1bd56fb2/attachment.htm From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr Thu Jan 4 15:08:02 2007 From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Louis FULLSACK) Date: Thu Jan 4 15:08:08 2007 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Tr: News from the EDD in Brussels Message-ID: <26135534.216971167919682691.JavaMail.www@wwinf1617> Mes meilleurs voeux pour 2007 : succ?s dans vos projets et dans la coop?ration UE-ACP, Paix dans le Monde et tout particuli?rement en Afrique Courriel renvoy? pour non-r?ponse JLF Madame la D?put?e Monsieur le D?put? Je vous transf?re ci-apr?s le message que j'ai adress? au Caucus Europe de la SC accr?dit?e au SMSI, concernant les Journ?es europ?ennes du d?veloppement. Comme vous pourrez le lire, l'organisation de ces journ?es a montr? des d?faillances graves pour la soci?t? civile ? la fois quant au choix du th?me et sur les lacunes du processus pr?paratoire qui en a pratiquement exclu la soci?t? civile. De ce fait elle a compromis une partie des chances de r?ussite d'une ?tape a priori int?ressante que constituaient ces journ?es dans le processus complexe du d?veloppement impliquant l'UE et les PeD, en premier lieu desquels les pays africains. Je vous saurais donc gr? de bien vouloir initier une question orale ? la Commission avec d?bat lors de la session de d?cembre du Parlement europ?en, portant notamment sur les carences constat?es dans l'organisation des ces Journ?es et rappel?es ci-dessus, et demandant ? la Commission l'enseignement qu'elle compte en tirer pour le processus pr?paratoire des JDD de l'an prochain que le gouvernement portugais se propose d'accueillir. La soci?t? civile europ?enne, engag?e dans le processus de suivi du SMSI et partie prenante dans sa contribution pour atteindre les objectifs du mill?naire pour le d?veloppementy (OMD), demande ? ?tre associ?e dans la phase pr?paratoire des prochaines JDD, y compris pour le choix de leur th?me majeur et celui des sujets soumis ? leurs tables rondes. Par avance je vous remercie pour l'int?r?t que vous portez ? ma demande et la suite que vous voudrez bien lui donner, y compris en me tenant inform? des r?sultats atteints ou des probl?mes rencontr?s. Avec mes respectueuses salutations Jean-Louis Fullsack PS : Ce message est envoy? ? des parlementaires les groupes engag?s dans le d?veloppement des pays "du Sud" : Catherine Trautmann, V?ronique De Keyser, Harlem D?sir, Glenys Kinnock, Miguel Angel Martinez Martinez, Luisa Morgantini > Message du 25/11/06 19:21 > De : "Jean-Louis FULLSACK" > A : wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org > Copie ? : > Objet : News from the EDD in Brussels > > Dear Europeans Last week, the European Commision hold the first ever European Development Days (EDD) aimed at promoting public awareness of european countries towards EU?s development policy and its contribution to achieve the MDGs. Centerpiece of this five-days event was gouvernance (!). This event gathered some 2000 people and a even a number of officials and former as well as current African heads of state and gouvernment. Some Civil society organisations were also present there. CSDPTT didn?t attend these EDD for mainly two reasons : - CS was not invited to participate in the preparatory process of this important ?first event?, and - In its view, Gouvenance isn't the most urgent issue in the current highly critical and dramatic situation of most of the DCs, particularly those in Africa. This latter argument also was raised by CS organsiations present in Brussels. CS representatives also regretted the absence of members of the European Parliament. Unfortunately, the EP was having its main november session in Strasbourg during the same period ! This was a big mistake ?one more- of the EDD organisers. CONCORD (Note : this is the fisrt time I heard from this ?European confederation of development NGOs?) regretted that CS wasn?t sufficiently involved in the preparatory work. In other words, for a lot of good reasons, the EDD were rather disappointing for the DCs participants as well as for the handful of CS organisations that attended them. However, let?s hope that this was also a lesson from which the EC has learnt, and will react accordingly when it will be preparing the next EDD, Portugal has already proposed to organise next year. Especially the European CS must be more effectively involved in the preparation process of this from now on regular annual meeting. Only under these conditions will it meet the challenges that the DCs are facing and will it be able to help them achieve the MDGs, alltogether the European countries and the Developing countries, first of all African ones because, as Commissioner Michels said, ?Africa is a continent that remains trapped in poverty and distress, but it is also the continent full of hope and potential?. We, the European CS organisations committed in the objectives of the WSIS Action Plan and Agenda, must follow very thoroughly both the CONCORD activity and the preparation process for the the next year EDD, having in mind full harmony and consistency with our own Declarations of Geneva and Tunis. By the way, the December main session of the the EP will encompass some development issues that will be discussed. As far as I'm concerned I?ll try to get more information about the ?EU-Africa Infrastructure Initiative? that was launched during late summer, without any consulting meeting including European CS. Once more ! Friendliest greeetings Jean-Louis Fullsack CSDPTT-France, Focal Person of European CS involved in WSIS to the EP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/attachments/20070104/269dca8b/attachment.html From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr Thu Jan 4 15:11:11 2007 From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Louis FULLSACK) Date: Thu Jan 4 15:11:16 2007 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Tr: News from the EDD in Brussels Message-ID: <32806630.217391167919871024.JavaMail.www@wwinf1617> Mes meilleurs voeux pour 2007 : succ?s dans vos travaux parlementaires, r?ussite dans la coop?ration UE-ACP, paix dans le monde et tout particuli?rement en Afrique Courriel renvoy? pour non-r?ponse JLF Madame la D?put?e Monsieur le D?put? Je vous transf?re ci-apr?s le message que j'ai adress? au Caucus Europe de la SC accr?dit?e au SMSI, concernant les Journ?es europ?ennes du d?veloppement. Comme vous pourrez le lire, l'organisation de ces journ?es a montr? des d?faillances graves pour la soci?t? civile ? la fois quant au choix du th?me et sur les lacunes du processus pr?paratoire qui en a pratiquement exclu la soci?t? civile. De ce fait elle a compromis une partie des chances de r?ussite d'une ?tape a priori int?ressante que constituaient ces journ?es dans le processus complexe du d?veloppement impliquant l'UE et les PeD, en premier lieu desquels les pays africains. Je vous saurais donc gr? de bien vouloir initier une question orale ? la Commission avec d?bat lors de la session de d?cembre du Parlement europ?en, portant notamment sur les carences constat?es dans l'organisation des ces Journ?es et rappel?es ci-dessus, et demandant ? la Commission l'enseignement qu'elle compte en tirer pour le processus pr?paratoire des JDD de l'an prochain que le gouvernement portugais se propose d'accueillir. La soci?t? civile europ?enne, engag?e dans le processus de suivi du SMSI et partie prenante dans sa contribution pour atteindre les objectifs du mill?naire pour le d?veloppementy (OMD), demande ? ?tre associ?e dans la phase pr?paratoire des prochaines JDD, y compris pour le choix de leur th?me majeur et celui des sujets soumis ? leurs tables rondes. Par avance je vous remercie pour l'int?r?t que vous portez ? ma demande et la suite que vous voudrez bien lui donner, y compris en me tenant inform? des r?sultats atteints ou des probl?mes rencontr?s. Avec mes respectueuses salutations Jean-Louis Fullsack PS : Ce message est envoy? ? des parlementaires les groupes engag?s dans le d?veloppement des pays "du Sud" : Catherine Trautmann, V?ronique De Keyser, Harlem D?sir, Glenys Kinnock, Miguel Angel Martinez Martinez, Luisa Morgantini > Message du 25/11/06 19:21 > De : "Jean-Louis FULLSACK" > A : wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org > Copie ? : > Objet : News from the EDD in Brussels > > Dear Europeans Last week, the European Commision hold the first ever European Development Days (EDD) aimed at promoting public awareness of european countries towards EU?s development policy and its contribution to achieve the MDGs. Centerpiece of this five-days event was gouvernance (!). This event gathered some 2000 people and a even a number of officials and former as well as current African heads of state and gouvernment. Some Civil society organisations were also present there. CSDPTT didn?t attend these EDD for mainly two reasons : - CS was not invited to participate in the preparatory process of this important ?first event?, and - In its view, Gouvenance isn't the most urgent issue in the current highly critical and dramatic situation of most of the DCs, particularly those in Africa. This latter argument also was raised by CS organsiations present in Brussels. CS representatives also regretted the absence of members of the European Parliament. Unfortunately, the EP was having its main november session in Strasbourg during the same period ! This was a big mistake ?one more- of the EDD organisers. CONCORD (Note : this is the fisrt time I heard from this ?European confederation of development NGOs?) regretted that CS wasn?t sufficiently involved in the preparatory work. In other words, for a lot of good reasons, the EDD were rather disappointing for the DCs participants as well as for the handful of CS organisations that attended them. However, let?s hope that this was also a lesson from which the EC has learnt, and will react accordingly when it will be preparing the next EDD, Portugal has already proposed to organise next year. Especially the European CS must be more effectively involved in the preparation process of this from now on regular annual meeting. Only under these conditions will it meet the challenges that the DCs are facing and will it be able to help them achieve the MDGs, alltogether the European countries and the Developing countries, first of all African ones because, as Commissioner Michels said, ?Africa is a continent that remains trapped in poverty and distress, but it is also the continent full of hope and potential?. We, the European CS organisations committed in the objectives of the WSIS Action Plan and Agenda, must follow very thoroughly both the CONCORD activity and the preparation process for the the next year EDD, having in mind full harmony and consistency with our own Declarations of Geneva and Tunis. By the way, the December main session of the the EP will encompass some development issues that will be discussed. As far as I'm concerned I?ll try to get more information about the ?EU-Africa Infrastructure Initiative? that was launched during late summer, without any consulting meeting including European CS. Once more ! Friendliest greeetings Jean-Louis Fullsack CSDPTT-France, Focal Person of European CS involved in WSIS to the EP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/attachments/20070104/42050e07/attachment.htm From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr Thu Jan 4 14:53:14 2007 From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Louis FULLSACK) Date: Thu Jan 4 15:15:22 2007 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Tr: News from the EDD in Brussels Message-ID: <6897425.214431167918794861.JavaMail.www@wwinf1617> Meine besten W?nsche f?r ein gl?ckliches und erfolgreiches Neues Jahr ! JLF Lieber Herr Gahler Wir haben uns in Strasbourg am 7. September bei einer Kundgebung anl?sslich der Ankunft der "MDGs Rally" getroffen, und uns ?ber verschiedene Probleme in Afrika unterhalten. Dabei haben Sie mich zum vorgesehenen Treffen der Parit?ren EU-ACP Versammlung im n?chsten Juni eingeladen, die von der deutschen Pr?sidenz im n?chsten Juni organisiert wird, in einem Ort im Rheinland soweit ich mich erinnern kann. Ich sende Ihnen mein e-mail das ich Ihren Kollegen die in diesem Bereich aktif sind gesendet habe. Es ist leider in franz?sich aber das ist ja f?r Sie kein Problem. Es w?rde mich freuen wenn Sie sich zur "M?ndlichen Frage an die Kommission" beteiligen w?rden oder sogar die Frage stellen. Auch k?nnten wir uns bei der n?chsten EP-Sitzung in Strasbourg treffen, falls sie etwa Zeit haben. Bis dahin Alles Gute und viel Erfolg in diesem so wichtigen und dramatischen Problem der Entwicklung im "S?den", speziell in Afrika.Ihr Jean-Louis Fullsack Pr?sident de CSDPTT (www.csdptt.org) tel +33 388 28 55 56 (von Strasbourg aus : 03 88 28 55 56) - e-mail jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr Madame la D?put?e Monsieur le D?put? Je vous transf?re ci-apr?s le message que j'ai adress? au Caucus Europe de la SC accr??dit?e au SMSI, concernant les Journ?es europ?ennes du d?veloppement. Comme vous pourrez le lire, l'organisation de ces journ?es a montr? des d?faillances graves pour la soci?t? civile ? la fois quant au choix du th?me et sur les lacunes du processus pr?paratoire qui en a pratiquement exclu la soci?t? civile. De ce fait elle a compromis une partie des chances de r?ussite d'une ?tape a priori int?ressante que constituaient ces journ?es dans le processus complexe du d?veloppement impliquant l'UE et les PeD, en premier lieu desquels les pays africains. Je vous saurais donc gr? de bien vouloir initier une question orale ? la Commission avec d?bat lors de la session de d?cembre du Parlement europ?en, portant notamment sur les carences constat?es dans l'organisation des ces Journ?es et rappel?es ci-dessus, et demandant ? la Commission l'enseignement qu'elle compte en tirer pour le processus pr?paratoire des JDD de l'an prochain que le gouvernement portugais se propose d'accueillir. La soci?t? civile europ?enne, engag?e dans le processus de suivi du SMSI et partie prenante dans sa contribution pour atteindre les objectifs du mill?naire pour le d?veloppementy (OMD), demande ? ?tre associ?e dans la phase pr?paratoire des prochaines JDD, y compris pour le choix de leur th?me majeur et celui des sujets soumis ? leurs tables rondes. Par avance je vous remercie pour l'int?r?t que vous portez ? ma demande et la suite que vous voudrez bien lui donner, y compris en me tenant inform? des r?sultats atteints ou des probl?mes rencontr?s. Avec mes respectueuses salutations Jean-Louis Fullsack PS : Ce message est envoy? ? des parlementaires les groupes engag?s dans le d?veloppement des pays "du Sud" : Catherine Trautmann, V?ronique De Keyser, Harlem D?sir, Glenys Kinnock, Miguel Angel Martinez Martinez, Luisa Morgantini > Message du 25/11/06 19:21 > De : "Jean-Louis FULLSACK" > A : wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org > Copie ? : > Objet : News from the EDD in Brussels > > Dear Europeans Last week, the European Commision hold the first ever European Development Days (EDD) aimed at promoting public awareness of european countries towards EU?s development policy and its contribution to achieve the MDGs. Centerpiece of this five-days event was gouvernance (!). This event gathered some 2000 people and a even a number of officials and former as well as current African heads of state and gouvernment. Some Civil society organisations were also present there. CSDPTT didn?t attend these EDD for mainly two reasons : - CS was not invited to participate in the preparatory process of this important ?first event?, and - In its view, Gouvenance isn't the most urgent issue in the current highly critical and dramatic situation of most of the DCs, particularly those in Africa. This latter argument also was raised by CS organsiations present in Brussels. CS representatives also regretted the absence of members of the European Parliament. Unfortunately, the EP was having its main november session in Strasbourg during the same period ! This was a big mistake ?one more- of the EDD organisers. CONCORD (Note : this is the fisrt time I heard from this ?European confederation of development NGOs?) regretted that CS wasn?t sufficiently involved in the preparatory work. In other words, for a lot of good reasons, the EDD were rather disappointing for the DCs participants as well as for the handful of CS organisations that attended them. However, let?s hope that this was also a lesson from which the EC has learnt, and will react accordingly when it will be preparing the next EDD, Portugal has already proposed to organise next year. Especially the European CS must be more effectively involved in the preparation process of this from now on regular annual meeting. Only under these conditions will it meet the challenges that the DCs are facing and will it be able to help them achieve the MDGs, alltogether the European countries and the Developing countries, first of all African ones because, as Commissioner Michels said, ?Africa is a continent that remains trapped in poverty and distress, but it is also the continent full of hope and potential". We, the European CS organisations committed in the objectives of the WSIS Action Plan and Agenda, must follow very thoroughly both the CONCORD activity and the preparation process for the the next year EDD, having in mind full harmony and consistency with our own Declarations of Geneva and Tunis. By the way, the December main session of the the EP will encompass some development issues that will be discussed. As far as I'm concerned I?ll try to get more information about the ?EU-Africa Infrastructure Initiative? that was launched during late summer, without any consulting meeting including European CS. Once more ! Friendliest greeetings Jean-Louis Fullsack CSDPTT-France, Focal Person of European CS involved in WSIS to the EP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/attachments/20070104/807b4e42/attachment.html From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr Thu Jan 4 15:18:55 2007 From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Louis FULLSACK) Date: Thu Jan 4 15:38:10 2007 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Tr: News from the EDD in Brussels Message-ID: <5673703.398931167920335325.JavaMail.www@wwinf1511> Je vous adresse mes voeux les plus sinc?res pour 2007 : r?ussite dans vos travaux parklementaires, succ?s pour la coop?ration UE-ACP, Paix dans le monde et tout particuli?rement en Afrique Courriel renvoy? suite ? non-r?pone JLF Bonsoir Madame Trautmann Je vous transf?re ci-apr?s le message que j'ai adress? au Caucus Europe de la SC accr?dit?e au SMSI, concernant les Journ?es europ?ennes du d?veloppement. Comme vous pourrez le lire, l'organisation de ces journ?es a montr? des d?faillances graves pour la soci?t? civile ? la fois quant au choix du th?me et sur les lacunes du processus pr?paratoire qui en a pratiquement exclu la soci?t? civile. De ce fait elle a compromis une partie des chances de r?ussite d'une ?tape a priori int?ressante que constituaient ces journ?es dans le processus complexe du d?veloppement impliquant l'UE et les PeD, en premier lieu desquels les pays africains. Je vous saurais donc gr? de bien vouloir initier une question orale ? la Commission avec d?bat lors de la session de d?cembre du Parlement europ?en, portant notamment sur les carences constat?es dans l'organisation des ces Journ?es et rappel?es ci-dessus, et demandant ? la Commission l'enseignement qu'elle compte en tirer pour le processus pr?paratoire des JDD de l'an prochain que le gouvernement portugais se propose d'accueillir. La soci?t? civile europ?enne, engag?e dans le processus de suivi du SMSI et partie prenante dans sa contribution pour atteindre les objectifs du mill?naire pour le d?veloppementy (OMD), demande ? ?tre associ?e dans la phase pr?paratoire des prochaines JDD, y compris pour le choix de leur th?me majeur et celui des sujets soumis ? leurs tables rondes. Par avance je vous remercie pour l'int?r?t que vous portez ? ma demande et la suite que vous voudrez bien lui donner, y compris en me tenant inform? des r?sultats atteints ou des probl?mes rencontr?s. Avec mes respectueuses salutations Jean-Louis Fullsack PS : Ce message sera envoy? ? des parlementaires des divers groupes engag?s dans le d?veloppement des pays "du Sud" > Message du 25/11/06 19:21 > De : "Jean-Louis FULLSACK" > A : wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org > Copie ? : > Objet : News from the EDD in Brussels > > Dear Europeans Last week, the European Commision hold the first ever European Development Days (EDD) aimed at promoting public awareness of european countries towards EU?s development policy and its contribution to achieve the MDGs. Centerpiece of this five-days event was gouvernance (!). This event gathered some 2000 people and a even a number of officials and former as well as current African heads of state and gouvernment. Some Civil society organisations were also present there. CSDPTT didn?t attend these EDD for mainly two reasons : - CS was not invited to participate in the preparatory process of this important ?first event?, and - In its view, Gouvenance isn't the most urgent issue in the current highly critical and dramatic situation of most of the DCs, particularly those in Africa. This latter argument also was raised by CS organsiations present in Brussels. CS representatives also regretted the absence of members of the European Parliament. Unfortunately, the EP was having its main november session in Strasbourg during the same period ! This was a big mistake ?one more- of the EDD organisers. CONCORD (Note : this is the fisrt time I heard from this ?European confederation of development NGOs?) regretted that CS wasn?t sufficiently involved in the preparatory work. In other words, for a lot of good reasons, the EDD were rather disappointing for the DCs participants as well as for the handful of CS organisations that attended them. However, let?s hope that this was also a lesson from which the EC has learnt, and will react accordingly when it will be preparing the next EDD, Portugal has already proposed to organise next year. Especially the European CS must be more effectively involved in the preparation process of this from now on regular annual meeting. Only under these conditions will it meet the challenges that the DCs are facing and will it be able to help them achieve the MDGs, alltogether the European countries and the Developing countries, first of all African ones because, as Commissioner Michels said, ?Africa is a continent that remains trapped in poverty and distress, but it is also the continent full of hope and potential?. We, the European CS organisations committed in the objectives of the WSIS Action Plan and Agenda, must follow very thoroughly both the CONCORD activity and the preparation process for the the next year EDD, having in mind full harmony and consistency with our own Declarations of Geneva and Tunis. By the way, the December main session of the the EP will encompass some development issues that will be discussed. As far as I'm concerned I?ll try to get more information about the ?EU-Africa Infrastructure Initiative? that was launched during late summer, without any consulting meeting including European CS. Once more ! Friendliest greeetings Jean-Louis Fullsack CSDPTT-France, Focal Person of European CS involved in WSIS to the EP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/attachments/20070104/3e67a266/attachment.htm From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr Sun Jan 7 13:55:27 2007 From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (Jean-Louis FULLSACK) Date: Sun Jan 7 14:15:20 2007 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Tr: News from the EDD in Brussels Message-ID: <30960173.41191168174527377.JavaMail.www@wwinf1617> Cher Michel Rocard Je vous transf?re ci-apr?s un message que j'avais adress? ? des eurod?put?s dont je connais l'engagement pour le d?velopement, en reconnaissant de vous avoir oubli? dans cette liste, ce dont je vous prie de bien vouloir m'excuser. Je profite de l'occasion pour vous pr?senter mes voeux tr?s sinc?res de succ?s dans vos projets en 2007, tout en vous souhaitant de garder la forme pour affronter les grands d?bats du PE que je suis attentivement depuis la tribune ... Cela me ferait aussi grand plaisir de vous rencontrer pour ?changer quelques propos dans le cadre de nos engagements respectifs. Dois-je ajouter enfin, que je n'ai re?u ? ce jour aucune r?ponse des destinataires de mon courriel ; le serveur du parlement serait-il en panne ? Avec mes tr?s sinc?res salutations Jean-Louis Fullsack Pr?sident de CSDPTT (www.csdptt.org) Personne focale de la soci?t? civile europ?enne accr?dit?e au SMSI aupr?s du PE Cher Harlem D?sir Je vous transf?re ci-apr?s le message que j'ai adress? au Caucus Europe de la SC accr?dit?e au SMSI, concernant les Journ?es europ?ennes du d?veloppement. Comme vous pourrez le lire, l'organisation de ces journ?es a montr? des d?faillances graves pour la soci?t? civile ? la fois quant au choix du th?me et sur les lacunes du processus pr?paratoire qui en a pratiquement exclu la soci?t? civile. De ce fait elle a compromis une partie des chances de r?ussite d'une ?tape a priori int?ressante que constituaient ces journ?es dans le processus complexe du d?veloppement impliquant l'UE et les PeD, en premier lieu desquels les pays africains. Je vous saurais donc gr? de bien vouloir initier une question orale ? la Commission avec d?bat lors de la session de d?cembre du Parlement europ?en, portant notamment sur les carences constat?es dans l'organisation des ces Journ?es et rappel?es ci-dessus, et demandant ? la Commission l'enseignement qu'elle compte en tirer pour le processus pr?paratoire des JDD de l'an prochain que le gouvernement portugais se propose d'accueillir. La soci?t? civile europ?enne, engag?e dans le processus de suivi du SMSI et partie prenante dans sa contribution pour atteindre les objectifs du mill?naire pour le d?veloppementy (OMD), demande ? ?tre associ?e dans la phase pr?paratoire des prochaines JDD, y compris pour le choix de leur th?me majeur et celui des sujets soumis ? leurs tables rondes. Par avance je vous remercie pour l'int?r?t que vous portez ? ma demande et la suite que vous voudrez bien lui donner, y compris en me tenant inform? des r?sultats atteints ou des probl?mes rencontr?s. Avec mes tr?s cordiales salutations Jean-Louis Fullsack PS : Ce message est envoy? ? des parlementaires les groupes engag?s dans le d?veloppement des pays "du Sud" : Catherine Trautmann, V?ronique De Keyser, Glenys Kinnock, Miguel Angel Martinez Martinez, Luisa Morgantini > Message du 25/11/06 19:21 > De : "Jean-Louis FULLSACK" > A : wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org > Copie ? : > Objet : News from the EDD in Brussels > > Dear Europeans Last week, the European Commision hold the first ever European Development Days (EDD) aimed at promoting public awareness of european countries towards EU?s development policy and its contribution to achieve the MDGs. Centerpiece of this five-days event was gouvernance (!). This event gathered some 2000 people and a even a number of officials and former as well as current African heads of state and gouvernment. Some Civil society organisations were also present there. CSDPTT didn?t attend these EDD for mainly two reasons : - CS was not invited to participate in the preparatory process of this important ?first event?, and - In its view, Gouvenance isn't the most urgent issue in the current highly critical and dramatic situation of most of the DCs, particularly those in Africa. This latter argument also was raised by CS organsiations present in Brussels. CS representatives also regretted the absence of members of the European Parliament. Unfortunately, the EP was having its main november session in Strasbourg during the same period ! This was a big mistake ?one more- of the EDD organisers. CONCORD (Note : this is the fisrt time I heard from this ?European confederation of development NGOs?) regretted that CS wasn?t sufficiently involved in the preparatory work. In other words, for a lot of good reasons, the EDD were rather disappointing for the DCs participants as well as for the handful of CS organisations that attended them. However, let?s hope that this was also a lesson from which the EC has learnt, and will react accordingly when it will be preparing the next EDD, Portugal has already proposed to organise next year. Especially the European CS must be more effectively involved in the preparation process of this from now on regular annual meeting. Only under these conditions will it meet the challenges that the DCs are facing and will it be able to help them achieve the MDGs, alltogether the European countries and the Developing countries, first of all African ones because, as Commissioner Michels said, ?Africa is a continent that remains trapped in poverty and distress, but it is also the continent full of hope and potential?. We, the European CS organisations committed in the objectives of the WSIS Action Plan and Agenda, must follow very thoroughly both the CONCORD activity and the preparation process for the the next year EDD, having in mind full harmony and consistency with our own Declarations of Geneva and Tunis. By the way, the December main session of the the EP will encompass some development issues that will be discussed. As far as I'm concerned I?ll try to get more information about the ?EU-Africa Infrastructure Initiative" that was launched during late summer, without any consulting meeting including European CS. Once more ! Friendliest greeetings Jean-Louis Fullsack CSDPTT-France, ?Focal Person of European CS involved in WSIS? to the EP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/attachments/20070107/f125c366/attachment.htm From kte at psl.org.pl Mon Jan 8 16:23:14 2007 From: kte at psl.org.pl (Leslaw Michnowski) Date: Mon Jan 8 16:51:35 2007 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Re: WSIS-EUC Digest, Vol 42, Issue 5 References: <20070108110005.15C2B54E0B3@gadolin.fsfeurope.org> Message-ID: <001401c73338$eaf1d190$0a01a8c0@elmamba> information is the key to (sustainability) transformation. (.) When (.) information flows are changed, any system will behave differently Meadows et. al., Limits to Growth, The 30 -Years Update. in the new world of infinite information resources, one country's creation of wealth based on information can be shared by all. The value of information increases, the more it is shared. Yoshio Utsumi (ITU) - WSIS Tunis 2005 This Summit (WSIS) must (.) push forward the outcome of the World Summit (New York 2005) (.) The hurdle here is more political than financial. Kofi Annan - WSIS Tunis 2005 Dear Europeans, Nowadays we are in quite new global situation: in the State of Change and Risk. We need to change shortsighted economic growth into sustained economic growth, and change pernicious globalization into fair globalization, that allow full and productive employment and decent work for all (2005 Summit Outcome). Particularly, rapid economic growth of world developing countries like China should be taken under ecohumanistic control. I support the view it is impossible without WSIS - follow up, including global system dynamics - DYNAMIC MONITORING.. To avoid global catastrophe we need also to support firmly authors of new EU SDS (Review of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (EU SDS) - ? Renewed Strategy, 10117/06 - http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/06/st10/st10117.en06.pdf ) As a first step in this direction I propose to convince policy makers that they need - for EU SDS realization - a new tool: DYNAMIC MONITORING. I propose to build in multi stage way, continuously under development, commonly accessible, worldwide (net and GRID) sustainable development information system for: - dynamic monitoring, - long range forecasting, and - measurable evaluation of policy, economy, work and other changes in the life conditions My proposals are available on web page: World - Grid Type, Continuously Under-development - System Dynamics http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2006/proceed/supp/184.ppt http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2006/proceed/papers/MICHN184.pdf . For policy corrections especially DYNAMIC MONITORING is essential. I am looking forward for your opinion. Best regards - Leslaw Michnowski www.psl.org.pl/kte http://www.psl.org.pl/kte/artlm.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 12:00 PM Subject: WSIS-EUC Digest, Vol 42, Issue 5 > Send WSIS-EUC mailing list submissions to > wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/wsis-euc > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wsis-euc-request@fsfeurope.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wsis-euc-owner@fsfeurope.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WSIS-EUC digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Tr: News from the EDD in Brussels (Jean-Louis FULLSACK) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 13:55:27 +0100 (CET) > From: Jean-Louis FULLSACK > Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Tr: News from the EDD in Brussels > To: mrocard@europarl.eu.int > Cc: wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org > Message-ID: <30960173.41191168174527377.JavaMail.www@wwinf1617> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Cher Michel Rocard > Je vous transf??re ci-apr??s un message que j'avais adress?? ? des > eurod??put??s dont je connais l'engagement pour le d??velopement, en > reconnaissant de vous avoir oubli?? dans cette liste, ce dont je vous prie > de bien vouloir m'excuser. > Je profite de l'occasion pour vous pr??senter mes voeux tr??s sinc??res > de succ??s dans vos projets en 2007, tout en vous souhaitant de garder la > forme pour affronter les grands d??bats du PE que je suis attentivement > depuis la tribune ... Cela me ferait aussi grand plaisir de vous > rencontrer pour ??changer quelques propos dans le cadre de nos engagements > respectifs. > Dois-je ajouter enfin, que je n'ai re??u ? ce jour aucune r??ponse des > destinataires de mon courriel ; le serveur du parlement serait-il en panne > ? > Avec mes tr??s sinc??res salutations > Jean-Louis Fullsack > Pr??sident de CSDPTT (www.csdptt.org) > Personne focale de la soci??t?? civile europ??enne accr??dit??e au SMSI > aupr??s du PE > > > Cher Harlem D??sir > Je vous transf??re ci-apr??s le message que j'ai adress?? au Caucus Europe > de la SC accr??dit??e au SMSI, concernant les Journ??es europ??ennes du > d??veloppement. > Comme vous pourrez le lire, l'organisation de ces journ??es a montr?? des > d??faillances graves pour la soci??t?? civile ? la fois quant au choix du > th??me et sur les lacunes du processus pr??paratoire qui en a pratiquement > exclu la soci??t?? civile. De ce fait elle a compromis une partie des > chances de r??ussite d'une ??tape a priori int??ressante que constituaient > ces journ??es dans le processus complexe du d??veloppement impliquant l'UE > et les PeD, en premier lieu desquels les pays africains. > Je vous saurais donc gr?? de bien vouloir initier une question orale ? la > Commission avec d??bat lors de la session de d??cembre du Parlement > europ??en, portant notamment sur les carences constat??es dans > l'organisation des ces Journ??es et rappel??es ci-dessus, et demandant ? > la Commission l'enseignement qu'elle compte en tirer pour le processus > pr??paratoire des JDD de l'an prochain que le gouvernement portugais se > propose d'accueillir. > La soci??t?? civile europ??enne, engag??e dans le processus de suivi du > SMSI et partie prenante dans sa contribution pour atteindre les objectifs > du mill??naire pour le d??veloppementy (OMD), demande ? ??tre associ??e > dans la phase pr??paratoire des prochaines JDD, y compris pour le choix de > leur th??me majeur et celui des sujets soumis ? leurs tables rondes. > Par avance je vous remercie pour l'int??r??t que vous portez ? ma demande > et la suite que vous voudrez bien lui donner, y compris en me tenant > inform?? des r??sultats atteints ou des probl??mes rencontr??s. > Avec mes tr??s cordiales salutations > Jean-Louis Fullsack > PS : Ce message est envoy?? ? des parlementaires les groupes engag??s dans > le d??veloppement des pays "du Sud" : > Catherine Trautmann, V??ronique De Keyser, Glenys Kinnock, Miguel Angel > Martinez Martinez, Luisa Morgantini > >> Message du 25/11/06 19:21 >> De : "Jean-Louis FULLSACK" >> A : wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org >> Copie ? : >> Objet : News from the EDD in Brussels >> >> > Dear Europeans > > Last week, the European Commision hold the first ever European Development > Days (EDD) aimed at promoting public awareness of european countries > towards EU??Ts development policy and its contribution to achieve the > MDGs. Centerpiece of this five-days event was gouvernance (!). This event > gathered some 2000 people and a even a number of officials and former as > well as current African heads of state and gouvernment. Some Civil society > organisations were also present there. CSDPTT didn??Tt attend these EDD > for mainly two reasons : > - CS was not invited to participate in the preparatory process of > this important ??ofirst event???, and > - In its view, Gouvenance isn't the most urgent issue in the > current highly critical and dramatic situation of most of the DCs, > particularly those in Africa. > This latter argument also was raised by CS organsiations present in > Brussels. CS representatives also regretted the absence of members of the > European Parliament. Unfortunately, the EP was having its main november > session in Strasbourg during the same period ! This was a big mistake > ??"one more- of the EDD organisers. > CONCORD (Note : this is the fisrt time I heard from this ??oEuropean > confederation of development NGOs???) regretted that CS wasn??Tt > sufficiently involved in the preparatory work. > In other words, for a lot of good reasons, the EDD were rather > disappointing for the DCs participants as well as for the handful of CS > organisations that attended them. > However, let??Ts hope that this was also a lesson from which the EC has > learnt, and will react accordingly when it will be preparing the next EDD, > Portugal has already proposed to organise next year. Especially the > European CS must be more effectively involved in the preparation process > of this from now on regular annual meeting. Only under these conditions > will it meet the challenges that the DCs are facing and will it be able to > help them achieve the MDGs, alltogether the European countries and the > Developing countries, first of all African ones because, as Commissioner > Michels said, ??oAfrica is a continent that remains trapped in poverty and > distress, but it is also the continent full of hope and potential???. > > We, the European CS organisations committed in the objectives of the WSIS > Action Plan and Agenda, must follow very thoroughly both the CONCORD > activity and the preparation process for the the next year EDD, having in > mind full harmony and consistency with our own Declarations of Geneva and > Tunis. > > By the way, the December main session of the the EP will encompass some > development issues that will be discussed. As far as I'm concerned I??Tll > try to get more information about the ??oEU-Africa Infrastructure > Initiative" that was launched during late summer, without any consulting > meeting including European CS. Once more ! > > Friendliest greeetings > Jean-Louis Fullsack > CSDPTT-France, ??oFocal Person of European CS involved in WSIS??? to the > EP > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/attachments/20070107/f125c366/attachment.html > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > WSIS-EUC mailing list > WSIS-EUC@fsfeurope.org > https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/wsis-euc > > > End of WSIS-EUC Digest, Vol 42, Issue 5 > *************************************** From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr Tue Jan 23 22:54:45 2007 From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (jlfullsack) Date: Wed Jan 24 02:55:18 2007 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Europe and M$ Message-ID: <005501c73f39$1ba96300$0b01a8c0@PCbureau> Dear Europeans My best wishes for you in 2007 and let's hope our list will survive ! I just annex an interesting question from an MEP to the Commission. Isn't it in the core of the WSIS issues and CS demand ? Best regards Jean-Louis Fullsack -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- J'utilise la version gratuite de SPAMfighter pour utilisateurs priv?s. 1519 e-mails spam ont ?t? bloqu?s jusqu'? maintenant. Les utilisateurs payant n'ont pas ce message dans leurs e-mails. Essayez SPAMfighter gratuitement maintenant! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/attachments/20070123/027d34d2/attachment.html From leslaw.michnowski at neostrada.pl Mon Jan 8 16:11:45 2007 From: leslaw.michnowski at neostrada.pl (leslaw.michnowski at neostrada.pl) Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:11:45 -0000 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] EU SDS WSIS follow-up Message-ID: <000a01c73318$7fbbbc30$0a01a8c0@elmamba> information is the key to (sustainability) transformation. (?) When (?) information flows are changed, any system will behave differently Meadows et. al., Limits to Growth, The 30 -Years Update. in the new world of infinite information resources, one country's creation of wealth based on information can be shared by all. The value of information increases, the more it is shared. Yoshio Utsumi (ITU) - WSIS Tunis 2005 This Summit (WSIS) must (?) push forward the outcome of the World Summit (New York 2005) (?) The hurdle here is more political than financial. Kofi Annan - WSIS Tunis 2005 Dear Europeans, Nowadays we are in quite new global situation: in the State of Change and Risk. We need to change shortsighted economic growth into sustained economic growth, and change pernicious globalization into fair globalization, that allow full and productive employment and decent work for all (2005 Summit Outcome). Particularly, rapid economic growth of world developing countries like China should be taken under ecohumanistic control. I support the view it is impossible without WSIS ? follow up, including global system dynamics ? DYNAMIC MONITORING.. To avoid global catastrophe we need also to support firmly authors of new EU SDS (Review of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (EU SDS) - - Renewed Strategy, 10117/06 - http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/06/st10/st10117.en06.pdf ) As a first step in this direction I propose to convince policy makers that they need - for EU SDS realization - a new tool: DYNAMIC MONITORING. I propose to build in multi stage way, continuously under development, commonly accessible, worldwide (net and GRID) sustainable development information system for: - dynamic monitoring, - long range forecasting, and - measurable evaluation of policy, economy, work and other changes in the life conditions My proposals are available on web page: World - Grid Type, Continuously Under-development - System Dynamics http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2006/proceed/supp/184.ppt http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2006/proceed/papers/MICHN184.pdf . For policy corrections especially DYNAMIC MONITORING is essential. I am looking forward for your opinion. Best regards ? Leslaw Michnowski www.psl.org.pl/kte http://www.psl.org.pl/kte/artlm.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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