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YES + thematic working group
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<div><b>From: </b> Hartmut Glaser <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:glaser@nic.br"><glaser@nic.br></a>
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<div><b>Date: </b>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:18:11 -0200</div>
<div><b>To: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org"><governance@lists.cpsr.org></a>; Jeremy
Malcolm<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org"><jeremy@ciroap.org></a></div>
<div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [governance] < 24 hours remaining to
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On 30/01/2010 07:32, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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type="cite">If you have not voted on the IGC statement for the next
open consultation meeting, please vote now. At present the statement
might not pass the consensus call - not because there has been a lot of
opposition to it, but because the total number of responses is still
relatively low.
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<div>Please also remember that we have another thread in which to
discuss the agenda for the Vilnius meeting: so far there has been no
response to Parminder's suggestion of a theme on "Network
Neutrality/Open Internet". </div>
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<div>Here once again is the statement on which we have a consensus
call. Everyone who has voted YES so far has been contacted off-list to
clarify their attitude towards thematic working groups - none have yet
changed their vote.</div>
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<div>Please vote:</div>
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<div><b>YES + thematic working groups </b>to accept the statement
as
shown here</div>
<div><b>YES</b> to accept the statement without the [underlined
passage]</div>
<div><b>NO</b> to reject the statement</div>
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<div><b>Submission of the IGC in taking stock of the Sharm el
Sheikh
meeting of the IGF</b></div>
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<div>The Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) strongly supports the
continuation of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as a
multi-stakeholder forum for the discussion of Internet-related public
policy issues. When, as we expect, the forum's mandate is extended for
a further term, there are a number of adjustments that we believe
should be taken into account, continuing the IGF's pattern of
incremental improvement since its inauguration in 2006.</div>
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<div>None of these suggestions would fundamentally alter the IGF as
an institution; for example, we are content that it remain formally
convened by the UN Secretary General, with an independent budget and a
Secretariat under contract with the United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). We do not see any benefit to the
IGF in moving underneath a different UN body such as the ITU.</div>
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<div>One question on which the IGC is in clear agreement is
that the
composition of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) itself should
be more evenly divided between the stakeholder groups. Many also
believe that the stakeholders should have a more direct role in the
selection of MAG members, and that MAG discussions should continue to
be made more transparent.</div>
<div><br>
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<div>One particular aspect of the IGF's operations in which the
participation of stakeholders could be improved is in setting the
substantive agenda of IGF meetings. We understand that the MAG might
not be rotated this year (though in our view the uncertainty about the
IGF's future need not preclude that). If a rotation does not take
place, care must be taken that this does not result in the
programme for the Vilnius meeting being prematurely set in stone. <span
class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: line-through;">[[The IGC
is ready to make innovative contributions to enhance the present
"Secretariat-MAG-Open Consultation" mechanism for the preparation of
IGF meetings.]]</span></div>
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<div>The IGF should also consider how to improve its orientation
towards the development of tangible outputs, even if these would amount
to "messages" rather than to recommendations, declarations or
statements (though many of our members would also support outputs of
these stronger kinds). Whatever form its outputs take, efforts should
be taken to ensure that they are transmitted to relevant external
institutions through appropriate mechanisms.</div>
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<div>Similarly, attention must be given to the effectiveness of the
IGF's intersessional work program, which is currently limited to open
consultations, MAG meetings, dynamic coalition meetings, and loosely
connected national and regional meetings. In particular, there should
be a better mechanism than at present for these other groups and
meetings to present their outputs to the IGF as a whole. This would
require the IGF to set more stringent standards for such groups and
meetings, including open membership, democratic processes, and perhaps
multi-stakeholder composition.</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="text-decoration: underline;">[The MAG should also organize
thematic working groups to develop background material, IGF discussion
synthesis etc on major themes selected to be taken up by the IGF.]</span></div>
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<div>We thank you for the opportunity to present you with these
thoughts, which reflect a "rough consensus" of our several
hundred members from civil society. We look forward to continuing to
constructively engage with and participate in the IGF over the course
of its renewed term.</div>
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<div><b>About the IGC</b></div>
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<div>The IGC is an association of individuals in civil
society, with
a wide spread of geographic and gender representation, who are actively
engaged in internet governance and the IGF. Formed during the lead up
to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), our mission is
to promote global public interest objectives in Internet governance
policy making. It now comprises more than 400 individual subscribers to
its mailing list, who have subscribed to its Charter. More about our
coalition can be found at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.igcaucus.org">http://www.igcaucus.org</a>. <br>
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