<div dir="ltr">Congrats, Nnenna! This is very good news indeed.<div><br></div><div>Many good proposals have been made already. Following up on Anriette's comments on multistakeholderism and trust, I would in particularly like to support recommendations to not just mention the struggle of engaging with multiple stakeholders etc, but also the urgent need for checks and balances, including transparency and accountability, and appropriate action where these standards are violated. It might be worthwhile to add that if such efforts are not stepped up, support from multistakeholderism will erode quickly as trust in the system will simply have disappeared. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you for the opportunity to provide input and make proposals - much appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Anja </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 15 April 2014 19:51, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global Journal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jc.nothias@theglobaljournal.net" target="_blank">jc.nothias@theglobaljournal.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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</span></span></span></span></div><div>May I add to Mike excellent comments, one point? </div><div><br></div><div>Nnenna, I am not sure if you will be there <i>intuitu personae, persona grata </i>or representing some, part, or all of Civil society entities (?!), but just in case you represent some of our thoughts and opinions, I think it would be nice to mention that among civil society there are people who disagree with the <i>equal stakeholder - equal rights - equal footing</i> thinking and narrative. Stakeholder voices might all be equal, meaning equally audible, but that amusing "equal footing" expression doesn't mean that these respectable voices are legitimate or representative of anything, anyone, and properly checked and balanced. So equal voices with different rights, that might be interesting to explore. But equal footing meaning equal rights among stakeholders, that jungle is right the opposite of Democracy, where corporations are still not invited to make the law, and participate and seat in parliaments on an equal footing. The <i>market</i> seating in the Congress, I wish never to see that in my life. It sounds like some kind of very un-democratic thing. I do remember that some comments on these lists where made about civil servants (and their so called legendary inability to work without other people holding the pencil for them, which I tend to think as very untrue), and I know that governmental bashing is just the legitimate cousin of democratic bashing, but please voice equally and multistakeholderly that there are a diversity of views. We know that NetMundial will not be able to provide dialogue, but more some sort of convergence (+1...) out of magic wonder, still it would to see some principles are respected when it comes to express the diversity of views.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sorry for the ironic tone in that last sentence.</div><div><br></div><div>JC</div>
<br><div><div>Le 15 avr. 2014 à 15:02, michael gurstein a écrit :ung</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Optima;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div><div class="h5"><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Congrats Nnenna,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Since you are asking for suggestions for points to cover I would suggest the following:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>1.<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A formal commitment/re-commitment to the Internet for the Common Good/in the Public Interest… I only see minor and off-handed references to this in the NetMundial statement but there needs to be a full-on commitment/re-commitment to this. This is especially the case given the risks of fragmentation/privatization of interests a “stakeholder” approach to Internet governance presents.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>2.<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Framing/reframing “multistakeholderism” as a useful element in policy consultation and development, with suitable measures being in place to ensure the probity and accountability of these processes, within the context of democratic decision making. I like the phrase “</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">multistakeholder dialogue in a democratic framework”.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>3.<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Linking Internet Governance with social (and economic) justice. The Internet is becoming a dominant means for economic activity and wealth distribution/redistribution. Internet Governance, which in the NetMundial document is extended to include the “Right to Development” needs also to address social justice issues which are rapidly becoming the dominant issues of our time.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>4.<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Finding the means to allow the widest range of voices into the Internet Governance dialogue. What this means is going beyond simple “capacity building” which ultimately can only enable the few, into designing processes and mechanisms which allow for the many to have a useful understanding of the broader issues and mechanisms to give voice and have those voices heard.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Good luck with it.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mike<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span><a href="mailto:bestbits-request@lists.bestbits.net" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">bestbits-request@lists.bestbits.net</a><span> </span>[mailto:<a href="mailto:bestbits-request@lists.bestbits.net" target="_blank">bestbits-request@lists.bestbits.net</a>]<span> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span> </span></b>Nnenna Nwakanma<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Monday, April 14, 2014 11:36 PM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span>Governance;<span> </span><a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>so<br>
<b>Subject:</b><span> </span>[bestbits] Nnenna to Keynote at Netmundial - Civil Society major issues<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
<u></u> <u></u></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Dear all,<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">I got a message this morning from NetMundial Chair, Virgilo, inviting me to speak at the Opening Ceremony of Netmundial (meaning I have to pack one of those African dresses) for some 8 minutes.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">I have replied to say "I will be speaking from the Civil Society perspective, which is my Stakeholder Group".<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">There is a Web Foundation media team that will help me put my ideas into place, but I cannot not request input from here, so that no major issues will be overlooked.<br>
<br><u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">I travel Thursday evening thru Friday, so the earliest I can share a draft/keypoints will be Monday.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Hope we can pull this off well.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
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