The November 2008 CIVIC consultation is all about defining a 2-3 year strategic plan for CIVIC. So here are some links to documents that can serve as background for this planning exercise.   

For an overview of CIVIC history:

View the Timeline of CIVIC since October 2002

How did all this start? CIVIC was created after the ICT Caribbean roundtable held in Barbados in 2002.

• See: ICA Roundtable Brings Together Partners for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Development in the Caribbean (2002)  

Who are the CIVIC members? To know, you can check

• CIVIC Membership Statistics (Sept 2008) (produced in Sept 2008 in the frame of CarISneT 2 project)
• Or visit the independent CIVIC Survey conducted in November 2006

What do members say/think about their CIVIC community future?

Several previous exercises were conducted to help us find out, as:

• An independent survey was prepared in the framework of the CarISneT 1 support project (2006-2007), see the Report on the CIVIC Survey conducted in November 2006 by Enrique Piraces (2007) and all the annexes as; Appendix A to the Survey Report, Appendix B to the Survey Report, Appendix C to the Survey Report - the data on a spreadsheet
• 2 members’ working groups worked in 2006/7:(also facilitated by CarISneT 1 project) and proposed strategic directions for CIVIC, see:
  • Outputs of the Enhancing CIVIC Diversity Working Group (2006)
  • Report of "What will be CIVIC” Working Group including the proposed new charter and the list of indicators to monitor CIVIC progress (2007)
• The quite recent results of the 2008 CIVIC survey, (August) especially prepared or this event for this upcoming CIVIC 2.0 Event

  For the future CIVIC 2.0 Web platform participative definition process you can view:

• The Outputs of Working Group on new CIVIC Platform (2006)
• The Interim report of the CIVIC 2.0 Platform working group (2008)

  The Nov. 2008 CIVIC consultation is organized and facilitated by the CarISnet consortium, via a CIVIC mandate

• Check Mandate from CIVIC for the CarISneT 2 Project (2007)
• And the full project CARISNET 2proposal that was approved for support by IDRC

There is another piece that can serve as input in this consultation process: before the CarISneT group decided to propose a consultation process (that is, the current carisnet2 facilitated CIVIC consultation process) we were thinking of proposing a mandate to directly implement a 2/3 year project. So we developed this Log Frame for a 2 year project proposal and set perspectives for CIVIC Phase 2 . Please consider those as our thoughts from a year and half ago on the future CIVIC, nothing formal, nor necessarily our current idea of what has to come out of this consultation…  

Need to know more about CarISneT ? Check:

•  More Documents, reports and other outputs from the CARISNET 1 project
• CARISNET 2 Documents