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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Bill<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Pl add IT for Change’s endorsement
to it. Thanks. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I still find it astonishing that ITU can
get away with not incorporating open access principle which is clearly stated
in POA, and more clearly so for the kind of work ITU does – technical IS
related info…. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am in the middle of something urgent,
and not able to draft a separate ‘open access’ statement’ –
so well, some other time. Though I also see that there could be some lack of complete
consensus on this issue in the CS – it is certainly is a complex issue……<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>For me making such representations is important
not only from a content point of view – which is of course more important
– but as much from process point of view. We need to take opportunity at
these times when the WSIS-CS mandate, structure and future is uncertain to
asset ourselves as the ‘WSIS CS’ or something. We have gathered
some political strength in our collective form, however rudimentary. It needs
to be preserved – and it can only be preserved by pushing ‘content’
or substantive actions like this one……<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>That was the reason I had used the rather artificial
sounding opening for the statement I drafted – ‘We, the CS that
associated with the WSIS’. See if some acceptable version of such
assertion can be used…… It will be politically significant…..
though we need to figure out how much active the WSIS CS is at present…. More
on that later….<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks for the effort…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Parminder <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=gray face="Arial Narrow"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";color:gray'>Parminder Jeet
Singh</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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governance-bounces@lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance-bounces@lists.cpsr.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>William Drake<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 30, 2006
3:05 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Governance<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [governance] statement
for ITU website</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Since there was no consensus on making a
joint caucus or other CS statement on the website for the ITU's Wednesday
reform meeting, I decided I might as well type up something short to submit on
a personal basis. If anyone would like to sign on you're more than
welcome; either way, I will submit this by close of business today, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Geneva</st1:place></st1:City> time. I
don't know that we'd have time to do any text tweaking, but if that might
make this more attractive to potential signatories, let's communicate. I
see that Parminder made a nice submission on the cost of ITU documentation and
its nonconformity with the access to knowledge and information principle
enunciated in the WSIS Plan of Action. The below text is on a different point
and is complementary.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>The WSIS Principles state that Internet
governance should be multilateral, transparent and democratic, with the full
involvement of governments, the private sector, civil society and international
organizations. The ITU clearly does not meet the last criteria. For
the overwhelming majority of civil society organizations, the barriers to
becoming a sector member or even an associate are simply too high. In
parallel, there are no options for participating on a more flexible, ad hoc
basis in special workshops and seminars, or in the assemblies and
conferences. In consequence, and unlike other UN agencies, true NGOs (as
opposed to hybrid business/user/technical organizations) are almost entirely
absent and alienated from the ITU. That this is not in the
ITU’s own interest was amply demonstrated by the WSIS process, in which
civil society strongly opposed the ITU playing an expanded, leading role in
Internet governance. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>With WSIS follow-up and implementation
efforts forthcoming, now would be a particularly appropriate time to make
opening up to civil society a central element of ITU reform. Doing so
would not in any way disrupt the work of the <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place>,
and the administrative cost would be negligible (we can print our own
documents, etc). The ITU would not face a stampede of hundreds of
organizations seeking to participate in ongoing study group work on frequency
propagation, signaling requirements and protocols, and other technical
matters. A much more likely scenario would be that a manageable number of
NGOs would seek to participate in some of the above-mentioned workshops,
seminars, assemblies and conferences. Civil society experts contributed
significantly to the success of the February 2004 ITU workshop on Internet
governance, and there is every reason to believe that same constructive
engagement would ensue in other forums. Allowing civil society
participation in events like the March 2006 meeting on NGN policies would be a
good first step, and would not require changes to the Constitution and
Convention. WSIS and/or ECOSOC accreditation would seem sufficient for
this purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>It is unfortunate that the ITU’s
February 1 reform meeting is closed to civil society participation. Our
exclusion from this and similar events has been debated extensively on civil
society Internet listservs in the course of the WSIS process and
afterwards. There was little enthusiasm for the website’s cheery
invitation to “be part of it” by submitting statements in this
“open forum” for a meeting from which we are barred. If
however the ITU were to initiate a genuine, open and inclusive dialogue on the
matter, the response would be rather different. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Bill</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>*******************************************************<br>
William J. Drake </span></font><a href="mailto:drake@hei.unige.ch"><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>drake@hei.unige.ch</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Director, Project on the Information</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'> Revolution and Global Governance</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'> Graduate Institute for International
Studies</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Geneva</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region></st1:place> </span></font><br>
<font face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>President,
Computer Professionals for <br>
Social Responsibility</span></font><br>
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style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>http://www.cpsr.org/board/drake</span></font></a><font
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