Dear all, <div><br></div><div>Please see Emma's email below regarding the open letter to the ITU on civil society participation in the WTPF. Thank you for all the edits and feedback to the draft letter that Joana Varon sent around a few weeks ago and we hope that your organization is able to sign on. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards, </div><div>Deborah </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Emma Llanso</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ellanso@cdt.org">ellanso@cdt.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:50 PM<br>Subject: [WCIT12] SIGN ON: WTPF participation letter from civil society organizations<br>To: "<a href="mailto:wcit12@cdt.org">wcit12@cdt.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:wcit12@cdt.org">wcit12@cdt.org</a>><br>
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Dear all,<br>
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Thank you for your comments and input on the letter re: civil
society participation in the WTPF that we circulated a few weeks
ago. We've incorporated the feedback and updated the requests in
the letter following the Informal Experts Group meeting last week.
The final text is available here: <font color="#0000ee" face="arial, sans-serif"><u><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_M7hxSUFoeTuFM9yNbRH0Jb94ujVR9P23884R27id_Y/pub">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_M7hxSUFoeTuFM9yNbRH0Jb94ujVR9P23884R27id_Y/pub</a></u></font></div>
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In short, the letter asks the Secretary General to follow up on
commitments he made during the WCIT to enable greater civil society
participation in the WTPF. It asks that the Secretariat create a
Public Views and Opinions page for the WTPF documents, and that
comments from the public submitted through this page be entered into
the formal record of the meeting. It also asks for civil society
members to be accorded full participation in this meeting,
independent of national delegations (since there is no treaty
negotiation at the center of this conference), or at the very least
for the ITU to clarify the limitations of the "observer" status that
is currently available to members of the public.<br>
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If your organization would like to sign on to this letter, please
send an <b>email to <a href="mailto:WTPFsignon@gmail.com" target="_blank">WTPFsignon@gmail.com</a></b>. <b>Deadline </b>for
joining the initial list of signers is <b>Wednesday, 20 February</b>,
<b>at 2300 UTC/1800 EST</b>; the list will continue to be updated
after that deadline, but we would like to send the letter with the
initial list of signers to the ITU on Thursday, 21 February.<br>
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Best regards, and happy weekend!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Emma<br>
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<div>-- <br>
Emma J. Llansó<br>
Policy Counsel<br>
Center for Democracy & Technology<br>
1634 I Street NW, Suite 1100<br>
Washington, DC 20006<br>
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