Dear Friends
It quite likely, ( to be confirmed ) that there could be
UNGIS ( http://www.ungis.org )
open consultations rather soon, in mid-September
in relationship with the the CSTD recommendation.
32. Recommends that UNGIS organize focused open multistakeholder consultations on the implementation of part B of the Tunis Agenda " Financial Mechanisms for Meeting the Challenges of ICTs for Development";
It is therefore suggested that discussions should start ASAP about this recommendation,
and to elaborate suggestions
There are two aspects :
1) The mechanism itself
2) The assessment lines topics and facilitators
To refresh your memories
The idea of assssment lines was first proposed last year
WSIS-Finance contribution to CSTD ( 18 May 2007 )
and then it has been acknowledged with a positive mind
in the Intersession Report ( see §71 for WSIS-Finance input, see §72 for WSIS-SI input )
of the CSTD 2007-2008 Inter-sessional Panel ( 28–30 November 2007 )
The wording
20 Recommends that assessment mechanisms should be established for the first part of the Tunis Agenda entitled : Financial mechanisms for meeting the challenges of ICT for development, and should be explored the creation of Assessment lines such as
A1:
Official
Development Assistance ODA
A2:
Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
A3:
Innovative
Financial Mechanisms
A4:
Infrastructure
and International Interconnection costs
21 Invites UNCTAD in its capacity as CSTD secretariat to start consultations towards the designation of facilitators for the Tunis Assessment lines.
was
communicated by Dr. Francis Muguet on Tuesday 27 May 2008 to the CSTD
drafting group
and was rather faithfully included in the 28 May draft as :
Recommends
that a facilitation mechanism should be established for the
Financial Mechanisms for meeting the challenges of ICT for
development in the same consultations mentioned in par 24, to
consider official development assistance,
multistakeholder
partnerships, innovative financial mechanisms and infrastructure and
international interconnection costs, among others.
Then in subsequent negotiations it was modified to
leave to UNGIS the task to define details of the implementation
mechanism
It is reasonable to expect that the agenda of the UNGIS of the UNGIS open multistakeholder consultations
should be really focused on approving the Assessment Lines as a mechanism of the implementation
of Tunis Agenda part B, that would mirror the Actions lines of the Geneva Plan of Action.
From my feeling of the negotiations and the CSTD process for the last year, I guess there is some
consensus on the Assessment Lines mechanisms.
However, the detail of those Assessment Lines and who is going to lead the lines is the
real issue that must be clarified and solved, and about which the CSTD felt it was not
entitle to determine without further open consultations with all stakeholders,
none the least, the prospective facilitators.
A1:
Official Development Assistance ODA ( UNDP, World Bank, EU-EFD)
A2:
Multi-stakeholder Partnerships ( UNCTAD, ITU )
A3:
Innovative Financial Mechanisms ( UNCTAD, DSF )
A4: Infrastructure and International Interconnection costs ( ITU, UNCTAD, a representative body of African Union, e.g. ATU )
For example during CSTD negotiations the line : Infrastructure and International Interconnection costs
has been criticized as "unrelated" by one government.
Concerning alternative financing mechanisms assessment line,
and it is iimprtant to emphasize
, that there are Alternative Financing
mechanisms other than the Digital Solidarity Fund that
have been proposed during WSIS, and elsewhere.
For example, there is my proposal of the
FSFDS ( FREE SOFTWARE FUND for DIGITAL SOLIDARITIES )
http://www.fsfds.org
that I solemnly announced in my plenary speech in Tunis in 2005.
as well as others :
-
Universal Service (USA)
- Tobin Tax
Initiative (USA)
- Tobin Tax (UK)
Francis
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Résumé en Français.
Suite à l'adoption en mai dernier, après un an d'éffort, par la CSTD d'une résolution
32. Recommande que l'UNGIS organise des consultations multipartites ouvertes, centrées sur le sujet de
la mise en œuvre de la partie B de l'Agenda de Tunis "les mécanismes de financement pour relever les défis des TIC pour le développement";
il y aura probablemnt à la mi-septembre une consultation ouverte de l'UNGIS
(http://www.ungis.org).
Les points qui vont être sans doute examinés
1) le mecanisme : les lignes d'évaluation ( assessment ) qui ne devrait pas
soulever de difficultés
2) la definition des lignes et de leur facilitateurs, ce qui est devrait
soulever beaucoup plus de discussions.
A1:
Official Development Assistance ODA ( UNDP, World Bank, EU-EFD)
A2:
Multi-stakeholder Partnerships ( UNCTAD, ITU )
A3:
Innovative Financial Mechanisms ( UNCTAD, DSF )
A4: Infrastructure and International Interconnection costs ( ITU, UNCTAD, a representative body of African Union, e.g. ATU )
Des dicusssions doivent commencer dès à présent dans le groupe pourêtre prêt en Septembre.
Bien à vous tous
Francis
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