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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Thanks Anriette, there are
very useful insights in your report below, and they present some
significant dilemmas. How to best ensure and
represent public interest at global arenas remains a huge challenge
and is a long haul. What we in civil society, in my humble opinion,
can best do is to build
and strengthen civil society networks and capacities at the global
level. It consists both in anchoring strongly a vision of 'another
world is possible' and, perhaps even more importantly, invest in
processes of openness, collaboration and a very high degree of p2p and
bottom-up accountability in the civil society arena. That is our
legitimacy, and that alone can give us the needed strength to influence
these
processes better. Parminder </font><br>
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Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Thanks Adam... Friday was definitely *not* a good day at the CSTD in
Geneva. I don't have the copy of the final resolution yet, but it is not
particularly positive about the IGF, makes no reference to national and
regional IGFs, and proposed text with regard to consideration being
given to reporting on WSIS follow up from non-governmental stakeholders
was not included.
It has fairly good text on the general 'state' of the information
society, but that is about as far as it goes.
Negotiations were difficult and depressing, shaped by the narrow
interest of particular governments and far removed, in my opinion, from
the CSTD mandate which is oversight of WSIS implementation with
consideration of inputs of all stakeholders and the WSIS principles in
genera.
Many of the government representatives tried extremely hard to change
this, to be positive and proactive and open. I respect their hard work.
Without their efforts the final resolution would be even worse.
Anyone who has doubts that the IGF is an important and useful space, or
that feels frustrated by it not 'making decisions' or 'leading to
action' should have been here.
The consensus based decision-making process of intergovernmental forums
such as this one sometimes does more than just reduce outcomes to the
lowest common denominator - it punishes proactivity and discourages
collaboration and openness.
Anriette - in my personal capacity NOT speaking on behalf of APC :)
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 15:42 +0900, Adam Peake wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Interesting things happening in the US:
President Obama's speech "Securing Our Nation's Cyber
Infrastructure",
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-on-Securing-Our-Nations-Cyber-Infrastructure/"><http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-on-Securing-Our-Nations-Cyber-Infrastructure/></a>
includes the paragraph:
"Let me also be clear about what we will not do. Our pursuit of
cybersecurity will not -- I repeat, will not include -- monitoring
private sector networks or Internet traffic. We will preserve and
protect the personal privacy and civil liberties that we cherish as
Americans. Indeed, I remain firmly committed to net neutrality so we
can keep the Internet as it should be -- open and free."
Administration supporting network neutrality, security *and* civil
liberty and privacy.
Next:
ICANN oversight hearing in the Congress, Thursday June 4. "Event:
'Oversight Of The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers
(ICANN)' "
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=54&extmode=view&extid=47"><http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=54&extmode=view&extid=47></a>
Anyone know the speakers etc?
And interesting, seems Andrew McLaughlin will join the Obama
administration as Deputy Chief Technology Officer, reporting to
Aneesh Chopra
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/googles-top-policy-exec-to-join-obama-administration/"><http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/googles-top-policy-exec-to-join-obama-administration/></a>.
You can see Andrew talking about technology and government in this
video from the Obama transition
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InI5n3NTvR4"><http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InI5n3NTvR4></a>.
Think Friday was a good day.
Adam
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