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<p><span style="font-size:19.5pt;color:#3366cc">Global Commission on Internet Governance issues a statement of support in advance of ITU meeting</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Seoul, South Korea – October 15, 2014</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> – The Global Commission on Internet Governance has concluded its
meeting, hosted by the Maekyung Media Group, in Seoul, South Korea.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chaired by former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, the Commission makes the following statement in advance of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) plenipotentiary meeting to be
held October 20 – November 7, 2014 in Bussan, South Korea:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Effective Internet governance lies in inclusive models in which the ITU has an important input to make to the multi-stakeholder governance of the Internet;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Global Commission on Internet Governance strongly supports the ITU's unique role in promoting and improving access to telecommunication technologies and services across the globe, as well as
performing critical technical functions such as standards setting and spectrum management;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Commission hopes the meeting will allow a focus on shared global concerns relevant to that role;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Commission looks forward to hearing the outcome of the ITU’s consideration of the need to move towards greater transparency and openness to the wider Internet community;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Commission would welcome an opportunity to meet with the ITU leadership to discuss these issues.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“A most productive meeting on a most important global issue," says Carl Bildt, Chair of the Global Commission on Internet Governance."I am pleased that the ITU Plenipotentiary meeting will be
held in Bussan, South Korea, and want to communicate the above thoughts to them.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Global Commission is a two-year initiative launched in January 2014 by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Chatham House, and will produce a comprehensive stand
on the future of multi-stakeholder Internet governance.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The next meeting of the Global Commission on Internet Governance will be held in Ottawa, Canada, from November 24 to 25, 2014. Over the course of the Commission, a series of research papers
will be issued and publicly posted on its open website <a href="http://www.ourinternet.org/" target="_blank">
www.ourinternet.org</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Members of the Global Commission on Internet Governance in attendance in Seoul included:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Carl Bildt<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gordon Smith<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pablo Bello<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pascal Cagni<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Moez Chakchouk<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dae-Whan Chang<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Michael Chertoff<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Anriette Esterhuysen<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dorothy Gordon<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dame Wendy Hall<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fen Osler Hampson<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Patricia Lewis<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sir David Omand<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nii Quaynor<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Latha Reddy<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tobby Simon<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paul Twomey<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pindar Wong<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more information on the Global Commission on Internet Governance, including its twenty-nine commissioners and thirty-five research advisers, please visit:
<a href="http://www.ourinternet.org/" target="_blank">www.ourinternet.org</a>. Follow the Commission on Twitter @OurInternetGCIG.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MEDIA CONTACT:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
Kevin Dias, Communications Specialist, CIGI <br>
Tel: <a href="tel:519.885.2444%2C%20ext.%207238" value="+15198852444" target="_blank">519.885.2444, ext. 7238</a>, Email: <a href="mailto:kdias@cigionline.org" target="_blank">kdias@cigionline.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is an independent, non-partisan think tank on
international governance. Led by experienced practitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI supports research, forms networks, advances policy debate and generates ideas for multilateral governance improvements. Conducting an active agenda of research, events
and publications, CIGI’s interdisciplinary work includes collaboration with policy, business and academic communities around the world. CIGI was founded in 2001 by Jim Balsillie, then co-CEO of Research In Motion (BlackBerry), and collaborates with and gratefully
acknowledges support from a number of strategic partners, in particular the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario. For more information, please visit
<a href="http://www.cigionline.org/" target="_blank">www.cigionline.org</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs,</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is based in London. Chatham House’s mission
is to be a world-leading source of independent analysis, informed debate and influential ideas on how to build a prosperous and secure world for all. The institute: engages governments, the private sector, civil society and its members in open debates and
confidential discussions about significant developments in international affairs; produces independent and rigorous analysis of critical global, regional and country-specific challenges and opportunities; and offers new ideas to decision-makers and -shapers
on how these could best be tackled from the near- to the long-term. For more information, please visit
<a href="http://www.chathamhouse.org/" target="_blank">www.chathamhouse.org</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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