I would like to sign as an individual. Thanks. Ginger<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">Ginger (Virginia) Paque<br><br><div><a href="mailto:VirginiaP@diplomacy.edu" target="_blank">VirginiaP@diplomacy.edu</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 November 2012 05:58, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Verdana">IT for Change would like to sign it.<br>
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<div>On Sunday 04 November 2012 05:01 PM,
Pranesh Prakash wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear
all,
<br>
The participants in Baku decided to incorporate small revisions
without re-opening the entire text. Here's the final version:
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/wcit_statement" target="_blank">http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/wcit_statement</a>
<br>
<br>
Currently, we have 10 organizations that are signatories to it:
<br>
<br>
Access (Brett Solomon)
<br>
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (AHM. Bazlur
Rahman)
<br>
Centre for Internet and Society (Pranesh Prakash)
<br>
Center for Democracy & Technology
<br>
Consumers International
<br>
Electronic Frontier Finland (Tapani Tarvainen)
<br>
Global Partners & Associates (Andrew Puddephatt)
<br>
InternetNZ
<br>
ONG Derechos Digitales (Claudio Ruiz)
<br>
OpenMedia (Steve Anderson)
<br>
<br>
As far as I can see, we have until the 7th before we close
signatories and endorsements. (These two words are being used to
distinguish between those who participated in framing it and those
who agree with it.)
<br>
<br>
Given that anyone can edit the document, if you are adding your
organization's name, I would request you to write your name in
parentheses. We can decide later that we wish to remove names
from all organizations.
<br>
<br>
Regards,
<br>
Pranesh
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Pranesh Prakash wrote [2012-11-04 12:20]:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Dear all,
<br>
Here is the statement of civil society members and groups
participating
<br>
in a pre-IGF meeting at Baku in 2012 as drafted after the
morning
<br>
session on Sunday, November 4, 2012.
<br>
<br>
Please indicate your and your group's support of this statement
on this
<br>
mailing list or directly at the end of this Etherpad document:
<br>
<a href="http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/wcit_statement" target="_blank"><http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/wcit_statement></a>.
<br>
<br>
Given our deliberation on these both yesterday and today — and
the fact
<br>
that we would not wish to open this particular statement up to
extensive
<br>
revision again — I would request people to raise comments on
this
<br>
mailing list only if you believe the drafters have committed an
<br>
egregious mistake in capturing the agreement present in the
room. Please
<br>
do not leave comments on the Etherpad document.
<br>
<br>
Regards,
<br>
Pranesh
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Statement of civil society members and groups participating in a
pre-IGF
<br>
meeting at Baku in 2012.
<br>
<br>
The process of the revision of the International
Telecommunications
<br>
Regulations (ITRs) have not been sufficiently inclusive and
transparent,
<br>
despite some recent efforts to facilitate some public
participation.
<br>
Fundamental to the framing of public policy must be the pursuit
of the
<br>
public interest and fundamental human rights, and we urge member
states
<br>
to uphold and protect these values.
<br>
<br>
We as civil society organizations wish to engage with the World
<br>
Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) process in
this
<br>
spirit. Member-states, in most cases, have not held open,
broad-based,
<br>
public consultations in the lead up to the WCIT, nor have they
indicated
<br>
such process for the WCIT itself.
<br>
<br>
In order to address this deficiency, and as a minimum, we would
urge:
<br>
* All member states and regional groups to make their proposals
<br>
available to the public in sufficient time to allow for
meaningful
<br>
public participation;
<br>
* All delegates to support proposals to open sessions of the
WCIT
<br>
meeting to the public;
<br>
* The ITU Secretariat to increase transparency of the WCIT
including
<br>
live webcast with the video, audio, and text transcripts, as far
as
<br>
possible, to enable participation by all, including persons with
<br>
disabilities;
<br>
* The ITU Secretariat, member-states, and regional groups to
make as
<br>
much documentation publicly available as possible on the ITU's
website,
<br>
so that civil society can provide substantive input on proposals
as they
<br>
are made available;
<br>
* Member-states to encourage and facilitate civil society
participation
<br>
their national delegations;
<br>
* The ITU to create spaces during the WCIT for civil society to
express
<br>
their views, as was done during the WSIS process.
<br>
<br>
Given the uncertainty about the nature of final proposals that
will be
<br>
presented, we urge delegates that the following criteria be
applied to
<br>
any proposed revisions of the ITRs.
<br>
<br>
* That any proposed revisions are confined to the traditional
core
<br>
mandate of the ITU and scope of the ITRs, where international
regulation
<br>
is required around technical issue limited to basic
telecommunications
<br>
networks and interoperability standards.
<br>
* There should be no revisions to the ITRs that involve
regulation of
<br>
the Internet Protocol and above.
<br>
* There should be no revisions that could have a negative impact
on
<br>
affordable access to the Internet or the public's rights to
privacy and
<br>
freedom of expression.
<br>
<br>
More positively we call upon the ITU to promote principles of
net
<br>
neutrality, open standards, affordable access and universal
service, and
<br>
effective competition.
<br>
<br>
Signed by:
<br>
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