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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 13 November 2013 10:47 AM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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<div>Work of the 1net dialogue shall be divided in two
tracks:<br>
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- Brazilian summit (that part of the
coalition/dialogue, particularly business, remains
calling meeting). For that, the dialogue, following
our move in Bali, is also suggesting to have 3
representatives from each stakeholder (civil society,
business, technical community), to identify 3
representatives to participate in the preparations. <br>
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I don't in any way support the 1net dialogue appointing itself as
an interface between civil society and the Brazil summit.
Thankfully it seems that the point has been made on the list that
we have already appointed our own representatives to engage with
Brazil on the summit, thank-you-very-much. We should not allow
the misunderstanding to arise that 1net had any part in this
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Joana and others of the interim liaison committee (with Brazil gov
for the Brazil meeting),<br>
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While we are happy to do any kind of lateral dialogues with anyone
and everyone on Internet (and other) , please do let the 1net group
know that the overwhelming (happy to be corrected) view in the civil
society is that we will like to have a direct liaison with the hosts
of the Brazil meet (which is the Brazil gov).<br>
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Also, please do let Brazil gov know this fact in no uncertain terms.
And please do it urgently and share their response with us.... I
told the Brazil gov reps in Geneva that this is what we seek, but I
have this feeling that Brazil gov is really not very clear whether
civil society would directly deal with it, or through this so called
coalition, 1net. So we need to make this clear asap, and in the
clearest and strongest terms. The lack of clarity on this issue is
not serving our interests. <br>
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Thanks, parminder <br>
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<div> - Overall dialogue, were the first step will be
exchanges to establish a dialogue (or 1net) steering
committee to help prepare any materials for
discussion/coordinate with the broader community. On
my perception, reaching balance on this steering
committee will be vital to assess our level of
engagement in the dialogue. The issue of
representativeness of CS will knock again on our
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So this ties in with the previous proposal (see my mail from
yesterday) for us to quickly work with other civil society
networks to form a loose peak structure that would nominate civil
society representatives to other Internet governance processes.[0]<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">- <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">pointing
representatives</span> from each stakeholder group (business,
tech and civil soc) for the<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">
steering committee and for the conference working group. </span>Please,
note that governments are not part of the list of stakeholders
involved in the dialogue/1net. (ps. I'm just reporting, a
dialogue without governments is not my perfect view of a
coalition)<br>
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And the website misrepresents this. It says, implicitly speaking
for the members of the dialogue, "Together - as global users,
industry, civil society, governments, academics, and technical
organizations - we are deeply committed to strengthening the
distributed multi-stakeholder Internet governance framework to
serve our next generations."<br>
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There are occasions when civil society has been fairly united in
pulling out from a platform that doesn't serve our interests - for
example the OECD Communiqué on Internet policy making, and the EU
Licenses for Europe initiative. I am not disagreeing with those
who say "wait and see", but my current inclination remains that we
should leave 1net to the private sector and tech community, who
will certainly overwhelm our influence in any case.<br>
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[0] A further reason for this being stated by Michael Gurstein in
a different thread:<br>
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<pre wrap="">that to all intents and purposes CS in its current form in the IG is incapable of being an effective "stakeholder" and accepting the implications of that for the overall MS model. The implications of taking this latter position is that if an adherence to MSism is so important for various of the actors involved then some significant efforts/resources will need to be put into making CS a workable, effective and legitimate partner.</pre>
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