<div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>Just to add to Joana's email, I've pasted the text below for those who are having trouble accessing the Google doc or prefer not to use it. Please feel free to also send comments and edits on this thread.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>Looking forward to your feedback.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Best, </div><div style>Deborah </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-2445a304-0b17-74b9-f9aa-2ce477addef5"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Civil Society proposal to open participation in the Council Working Group on International Internet-Related Public Policy Issues </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[1. Review the WTPF, accepting that the 6 opinions were adopted]</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are satisfied with the outcome of the World Telecommunication Policy Forum, which resulted in the adoption of six opinions that might begin to address important goals to foster a democratic environment for promoting the usage of ICTs, namely: the promotion of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), the support for an enabling environment for greater growth and development of broadband connectivity, the support of IPv6 adoption in transition from IPv4, the support for capacity building for deployment of IPv6, the support for multistakeholderism in Internet Governance and the support for operationalzing processes for enhanced cooperation. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We commend the steps taken by the ITU to show more openness and inclusiveness in the WTPF process through the Informal Experts Group. We believe that the multistakeholder nature of the IEG meetings and the willingness of all stakeholders to work together, were instrumental in bringing about the credible texts that were forwarded to the WTPF. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nevertheless, more steps should be taken [if the goal is] to truly have an open, transparent, and multistakeholder debate, both in terms of openness and of establishing a clear and transparent processes for participation. </span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2. Remind of promises made by Touré at WCIT and WTPF] </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In that context, we welcome the commitment by ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré to propose that the Council Working Group on International Internet-Related Public Policy Issues (CWG-Internet) “be open to all stakeholders in the [same] format” as the IEG. We encourage him to carry out his commitment and for Member States to give ample consideration to this important step and advantages it would lend to the work of CWG-Internet. </span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[3. Recall the Sweden, US proposals]</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We note the contribution of the United States of America, which proposes modifications to Council Resolutions 1336 and 1344, to open CWG-Internet, enabling participation by all stakeholders, conducting meetings and deliberations in an open, transparent, and inclusive manner, and ensuring documents are freely accessible. [We also note the contributions of Sweden, which propose making all documentation available in relation to CWG-Internet and Plenipotentiary 2014.]</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We support these proposals for opening CWG-Internet [and all bodies that consider Internet-related public policy issues], to achieve open, transparent, and multistakeholder decision-making. [shall we mention Brazilian proposal?]</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[5. Maybe a summary of how the IEG and the opening of the participation has done so far. // 4. Indicate that there were deficiencies in participation]</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">But opening doors for more stakeholders to attend meetings is not sufficient. Multistakeholderism has been used in a variety of meanings, sometimes only referring to a very limited kind of openness. If the goal is to achieve an open and inclusive debate, some processes should be improved to maximize a meaningful civil society participation.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In that sense, we observe that the modalities of participation and contribution in the IEG and WTPF were not clear, and should be improved upon. </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Civil society was invited to join late in the process [in late January just before the final IEG meeting]. Therefore, contributions from members of the IEG with a civil society background were limited to the final IEG meeting. Additionally, because of the late notice, only a few members from civil society were able to join, and in fact only one person was able to attend in person. [Do we need to mention the challenge in securing funding that civil society faces?]</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Information docs from IEG members who were not members of the ITU were not considered for debate at the WTPF- they should have been. </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Members of civil society who did not join the IEG (for the above mentioned reasons) were not able to even submit information documents for the meeting. [Do we want to mention the Best Bits statement specifically here?]</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It was not clear that only IEG members would have participation rights at the WTPF, otherwise others may have joined. </span></p></li>
</ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Had these modalities been clearer we could have anticipated more participation from all stakeholders around the world.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[6. Make some recommendations (modalities of inviting participation, remote participation, etc.)]</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In order to improve the multistakeholder participation we recommend: </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Outlining clear procedures for inviting stakeholders for Council Working Groups that were previously closed. [Do we want to mention that we need some advance notice? How much?]</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Issuing clear procedures for all the stakeholders to submit official documents for consideration.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Establishing mechanisms for remote participation, allowing not only remote participants to follow the debate, but also to pose questions and statements</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">...what else?</span></p></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></span></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Joana Varon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joana@varonferraz.com" target="_blank">joana@varonferraz.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>Good morning. </div><div><br></div><div>As we have mentioned in the previous thread at best bits list on IGF and the Brazilian proposal on the role of States at WTPF, last Friday Deborah and I started a draft statement on a proposal to open participation in the Council Working Group on International Internet-Related Public Policy Issues. Please, find the link bellow:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/varonferraz.com/document/d/1voK2roE-W7aQ0lQl102cAJHThD4Da5-w8zRztniNTpI/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/a/varonferraz.com/document/d/1voK2roE-W7aQ0lQl102cAJHThD4Da5-w8zRztniNTpI/edit?usp=sharing</a><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>We have followed the structure proposed by Nnenna and have tried to address comments made in the tread. But this is just a first draft, please, feel free to add your comments, edits, ideas and so on. <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Everybody is more then welcome to edit the text and we</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> particularly need more inputs on the final part of it, about s</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">uggestions for recommendations on how to maximize meaningful civil society participation.</span></div>
<div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Also, adapting Deborah's first proposal of timeline, we believe we should comply with the following dates, so we can deliver it to the ITU by the beginning of ITU Council 2013:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>- Preliminary draft text open for edits: 2 May- 6 June </div><div>- Finalize text for sign on: 7 June</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Send text to the SG/ITU and publish it: </font><font face="arial, sans-serif">June 11 (beginning of ITU Council 2013)</font></div>
</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We hope it suits you all. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Have a lovely beginning of the week. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">All the best, </div>
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<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Joana<br>-- <br><br>Joana Varon Ferraz<br>Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS-FGV)<a href="http://direitorio.fgv.br/cts/" target="_blank"></a><br>@joana_varon<br>
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