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Ian Peter wrote:
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="625262603-13042009"><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Thanks Parminder - one small
suggested change</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="625262603-13042009">>One
thing however is clear by now; the Internet is not just a technical
artifact, requiring technical governance with regard to keeping it
running smoothly, </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="625262603-13042009">> but
a key socio-political phenomenon requiring participative political
governance [by all people of the world, who are all implicated]</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="625262603-13042009">Can I
suggest replacing the bracketed words with " involving civil society,
private sector and governmental actors in multistakeholder governance
structures</span></div>
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color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">How does that sit?</font></span></div>
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Ian, <br>
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Frankly, I believe that the basic political purpose is to get equal
political representation of all people and all sections of people, of
the world. Multistakeholderism is *only a means*, to the extent it does
achieve the purpose, of ensuring that such participation is in fact
achieved. I have great issues in mentioning multistakeholderism
*instead of* participation of all people. Such a stance underlies a new
political ideology that is taking strong roots in the world, which in
my view is essentially anti-democratic. I have no problem with *also*
mentioning multistakeholderism along with political participation of
people of the world. <br>
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regards<br>
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Parminder <br>
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<hr tabindex="-1"> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b>
Parminder [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">mailto:parminder@itforchange.net</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 13 April 2009 13:07<br>
<b>To:</b> '<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Fwd: [governance] Workshop proposal -
Internationalisation of IG<br>
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This is an attempted draft for the proposed internationalisation
workshop. <br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Title</b><O:P></O:P></p>
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Democratic internationalization of Internet Governance - The way
forward from where we stand today <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Concise description (up to 200 words)<O:P></O:P></b></p>
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</b>As the Internet becomes a key factor of reorganizing our social
structures, and doing so at a global level as never before, democratic
global governance of the Internet is a pressing imperative. Its present
governance structures grew out of certain historical contexts, as well
as of some new socio-political realities around the Internet. In the
context of rapid changes that the Internet has wrought, the key and
emerging issues related to its governance, and the correspondingly
legitimate governance arrangements, could not have been anticipated by
anyone. One thing however is clear by now; the Internet is not just a
technical artifact, requiring technical governance with regard to
keeping it running smoothly, but a key socio-political phenomenon
requiring participative political governance by all people of the
world, who are all implicated.<span> </span>However, the direction we
move in from here depends on where we stand. It is important to analyze
the needs of evolution and internationalization of IG from these dual
standpoints. <O:P></O:P></p>
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The workshop will seek to discuss some real institutional possibilities
of what to do next, possibly presenting and analyzing alternative
models, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each.<span> </span><b><span>
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Relates to theme –<U1:P> </U1:P></b>IG, CIRs<O:P></O:P></p>
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<span class="cftext"><b>Who would you approach as co-organizers
? Or who do you think should organize it?</b></span><O:P></O:P></p>
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It is best that this workshop is organized by civil society actors. IG
Caucus will like to organize this workshop, along with some<span> </span>civil
society organizations form the North and South that have shown
interest. </p>
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