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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Many thanks, Francis, for your commitment in
the respect of the WSIS Tunis Agenda recommendations, especially those
concerning IG and Development.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As far as these issues are concerned, there already
are relevant comments, analysises and proposals made available by some regional
and sub-regional IGFs. This is particularly the case for Africa, who
convened sub-regional fora such as the East African Internet
Governance Forum (EAIGF), which issued very relevant findings and useful
contributions upon IG and developing policies and DCs' participation in the
global IGF process. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is to say that these
valuable contributions from these fora should be taken in account
as priority inputs when shaping the future of IGF. But also, that
these fora should be strongly supported end encouraged by the global IGF
bodies. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Internet governance cannot be dealt
with without really including the representatives of the relevant
stakeholders of DCs far better than in the past, particularly the CS
organizations. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All the best</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jean-Louis Fullsack</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<A title=muguet@mdpi.net href="mailto:muguet@mdpi.net">Dr. Francis MUGUET</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=governance@lists.cpsr.org
href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=gov@wsis-gov.org
href="mailto:gov@wsis-gov.org">WSIS Civil Soc. WG on Information Networks
Governance</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:06
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Gov 636] Proposal IGF mechanism
through DC</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hello<BR><BR>I have received a few requests to have the
proposal I made this morning<BR>to be posted in writting.<BR><BR>This is the
written basis of my oral speech, a few words might have been skipped<BR>during
my talk and conversely.
<BR><BR>Best<BR><BR>Francis<BR><BR>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in"><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">Francis Muguet </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">IGF
Open Consultations</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">24
February 2009</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">Geneva
</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in" align=center><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">IGF PROCEDURE PROPOSAL</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in"><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">I am
the IGF focal point of the Linguistic Diversity Dynamic Coalition, and chair,
co-chair, webmaster of various WSIS working groups that are still active to
various extent.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in"><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">I am
speaking in my personal capacity.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in"><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">I am
going to be brutally honest in my assessment and then propose a pragmatic
solution. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in"><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">While
being supported by the majority of its participants, the IGF process is
nevertheless in a difficult position, because its usefulness is criticized
from two parties. From one side, there are stakeholders, that are more in
favor of an intergovernmental process because they feel that there is a lack
of output, in particular in terms of recommendations. On the other side, there
are stakeholders who perceive the IGF as annoyance that could be avoided, and
would be glad to revert to the old ways before the WSIS. Both sides, could,
from outside the IGF process, at the CSTD level, the ECOSOC level, impose an
external review. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in"><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">According to the Tunis Agenda :<BR><FONT
color=#000080><I><B><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,255) 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">76.</SPAN></B></I></FONT><FONT
color=#000080><I><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,255) 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">
</SPAN></I></FONT><FONT color=#000080><I><B><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,255) 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">We
ask the UN Secretary-General</SPAN></B></I></FONT><FONT color=#000080><I><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,255) 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">
to examine the desirability of the continuation of the Forum, in
</SPAN></I></FONT><FONT color=#000080><I><U><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,255) 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">formal
consultation with Forum participants</SPAN></U></I></FONT><FONT
color=#000080><I><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,255) 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">,
within five years of its creation, and to make recommendations to the UN
Membership in this regard</SPAN></I></FONT><FONT color=#000000><I><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,255) 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">.</SPAN></I></FONT><BR></FONT><BR><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">I agree with Markus Kummer that normally
all review processes are performed by people that are not stakeholders
directly involved in the activity under review. Even a 'internal review" means
usually review by people in the same organization, with no outsiders, but not
by the very people involved in the activity.<BR>Whatever the type of review,
it is unavoidable that the extent to which each point of the mandate is going
to be precisely assessed. It is clear also the review report is going to be
the basis of the recommendations of the UN Secretary General is going to send,
along with the review report, to the UN general assembly who is going to have
the final say. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in"><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">Let
us examine briefly the Tunis agenda and assess the progress that have been
made.<BR>Concerning IGF organization :<BR><I><BR></I><FONT
color=#000080><I>78. The UN Secretary-General should extend invitations to all
stakeholders and relevant parti</I></FONT><I><BR> 2.
</I><FONT color=#000080><I>establish an
effective and cost-efficient bureau to support the IGF</I></FONT><I>,
<BR></I> <B>not fulfilled, </B>no bureau has been
established,<BR><BR>Concerning the IGF mandate</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in" align=justify><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><I><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,255) 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"><B>7</B><FONT
color=#000080><B>2. We ask the UN Secretary-General</B></FONT><FONT
color=#000080>, in an open and inclusive process, to convene, by the second
quarter of 2006, a meeting of the new forum for multi-stakeholder policy
dialogue—called the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The mandate of the Forum
is to:</FONT></SPAN></I></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><BR>
<I>5. </I><FONT color=#800000><I> Advise all
stakeholders in proposing ways and means to accelerate the availability and
affordability of the Internet in the developing
world.</I></FONT><I><BR> </I><B>Not
fulfilled</B>. There is no advisory document in the name of IGF, or from
the IGF, on this topic<BR><BR>
<I>7. </I><FONT color=#000080><I>
</I></FONT><FONT color=#800000><I>Identify emerging issues, bring them to the
attention of the relevant bodies and the general public, and, where
appropriate, make
recommendations.</I></FONT><I><BR>
</I><B>The point is not fulfilled</B> at all.<BR> <BR>
<I>9. </I><FONT color=#800000><I>Promote and
assess, on an ongoing basis, the embodiment of WSIS principles in Internet
governance processes.</I></FONT><I><BR>
</I><B>Not fulfilled. </B>There is no assessment document in the name of
IGF on this topic <I><BR> </I>.<BR> <I>12. </I><FONT
color=#008080><I>Publish its
proceedings</I></FONT><I><BR> </I>
OK, fulfilled partially, Are transcripts proceedings ?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">It might be supplemented by a
scientific proceeding ( it is suggested a </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">special issue of </FONT><A
href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet"><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><I>Future Internet</I></FONT></A><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"> (ISSN 1999-5903), </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">a new open access journal where
contributions are formatted in terms of papers.).<BR><BR> Personally I
see that the un-fulfillment of articles 5, 7 and 9 of the mandate is linked to
the lack of establishment of a bureau. Since there is no
bureau, no rules of procedures can be determined so that documents ,
statements, recommendations can be produced in the name of the IGF. It
appeared to me, for a long time, as a stalemate without solution.
.<BR><BR> At the end of the Hyderabad meeting, I envisioned a way that
could offer a pragmatic<BR>compromise with the help of the Dynamic Coalitions,
a completely unexpected concept<BR>that arose during the IGF .and I am
developing further this idea now <BR><BR>Considering key article 7
:<BR></FONT><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><I>Identify emerging
issues, bring them to the attention of the relevant bodies and the general
public,<BR><BR></I></FONT><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">It could be
considered that the creation of Dynamic Coalition on some issues
pertains<BR>to the task of identifying emerging issues. ( emerging : that
emerge from the debate to differentiate from emergent
issues, meaning new, novel topics ) . </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><U>By facilitating the creation of Dynamic
Coalitions recognized by the secretariat and listed on the IGF web site,
the IGF has fulfill its mandate to </U></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><I><U>Identify emerging
issues.</U></I></FONT><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">The dynamic
coalitions are effectively bringing the issues to </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><I>the attention of the relevant bodies and
the general public</I></FONT><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">.
So this works. <BR></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><I><BR> and, where appropriate, make
recommendations.</I></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><BR><BR>following this line of
reasoning, it is the dynamic coalitions that are making
recommendations.<BR>The set of the DC recommendations is regrouped in one
document entitled : <BR> </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><U>Recommendation </U></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><U><B>at</B></U></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><U> the IGF.</U></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"> <BR> The </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><B>at </B></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"> is put in bold instead of </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><B>of</B></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"> to make it clear that it is the
recommendations<BR> made by the IGF entities that have been recognized by
the IGF as dealing with emerging issues. The Recommendation </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><B>at</B></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"> the IGF does not have to be in agreement
with one another, depending on each DC approach. <BR><BR>In addition The
MAG could held sessions dedicated to the agreement of DCs, and those
sessions be called Bureau session, since in some sense, there are
dealing with procedural issues that may lead to recommendation </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><B>at</B></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"> the IGF.<BR><BR></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><I>5. Advise
all stakeholders in proposing ways and means to accelerate the availability
and affordability of the Internet in the developing world.</I></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><BR>may be fulfilled by asking DC to
producing advisory documents for this topic.<BR> Similarly,
the set of advices of each DC could be regrouped in a
document<BR> called :<BR> </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><U>Advices </U></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><U><B>at </B></U></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><U>the IGF concerning ways and means
to accelerate the availability and affordability of the Internet in the
developing world.</U></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><BR><BR>and also<BR> </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><I>9.
Promote and assess, on an ongoing basis, the embodiment of WSIS principles in
Internet governance processes.</I></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><BR>may be fulfilled by asking DC to
producing promotion and assessment documents for this topic.
Similarly, the set of documents of each DC be regrouped
in one general document called :<BR> </FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><U>Assessement </U></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><U><B>at </B></U></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><U>the IGF concerning the embodiment
of WSIS principles in Internet governance processes..</U></FONT><FONT
face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><BR><BR>and in this way the IGF could be
considered as having fulfilled its entire mandate.<BR><BR>The IGF
process has not lived up to the expectations of many, but also to the
fears of many...<BR>Its role is crucial, and the IGF must be continued.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">Now considering the consultations
process since the DC are playing a formal role in the IGF, the <FONT
color=#000080><I><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,255) 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"></SPAN></I></FONT><FONT
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style="BACKGROUND: rgb(255,255,255) 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">formal
consultation with Forum participants</SPAN></U></I></FONT> could be conducted,
possibly partially, through the dynamic coalitions.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">In this way, we have a legal and
political coherence both for the implementation of the mandate and the
consultation.</FONT></P>
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