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Jeremy, all<br>
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Many thanks for this and organizing the meeting. <br>
<br>
Unless I've missed it in the mail trail, I would like to suggest an
additional output of the Bestbits meeting and that would be a
statement to the IGF, MAG, UNDESA, etc., that could be released on
the second day of Bestbits about the imperative of addressing
funding consistency and transparency and other issues related to the
future of the IGF. <br>
<br>
I agree that the the ITU and WSIS+10 should be a combined session.
Certainly CDT has been fully engaged on ITU matters over the past 12
months+ but it is now time to step back and assess where we
collectively are vis-a-vis the entirety of the governance/WSIS
space. We have been thwarted on some fronts and had successes on
others but it is time perhaps to think more strategically about how
we promote multistakeholderism/governance without using up our
limited resources through attrition. There is a trajectory through
WTDC/WSIS HLM and Plenipot, and we should consider where and how we
can engage most effectively and efficiently.<br>
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Matthew<br>
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Thanks for the good suggestions, including a couple that have come
off-list.<br>
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To respond to a couple of those, it was suggested that we could
have parallel sessions. This was how we originally had last
year's draft programme too, but it turned out not to be manageable
because some people strongly wanted to contribute to both
streams. So I feel that although it's an easy solution, it's
perhaps not the best one.<br>
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The other question is whether ITU be featured or whether it be
part of a broader treatment of the WSIS+10 review process, and
that surveillance should become more of a headline topic. As the
latest mail from Joana indicates, there are still issues for us to
address at the ITU so I don't think that removing it from the
agenda is necessary, nor that this has been suggested.<br>
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So I think that the comments can be taken on board by moving
surveillance into the prime time slot (morning of the second day),
and broadening the topic of the ITU session to include the WSIS+10
review process and civil society's participation in that. For
example, the supposed Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform (MPP)
for WSIS+10 has been anything but, so far.<br>
<br>
Can we proceed along those lines? The other question is, are
there any outputs that we want to produce from these two
sessions? From the first day's session we have some pretty clear
deliverables to work on (even though there is much work yet to do
towards them), but what about the surveillance and ITU/WSIS+10
sessions?<br>
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