<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Important tweak needed<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Renate Bloem \(Gmail\)" <<a href="mailto:renate.bloem@gmail.com">renate.bloem@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">February 16, 2010 6:42:57 PM GMT+01:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"'William Drake'" <<a href="mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch">william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"'Jeremy Malcolm'" <<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>>, '"Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"' <<a href="mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de">wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>RE: [governance] Draft statement to UNSG on bypassing CSTD</b><br></span></div><br><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">You can forward this to
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William Drake [mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> mardi, 16. février 2010
15:18<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Renate Bloem (Gmail)<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> 'Jeremy Malcolm';
'"Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"'<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [governance] Draft
statement to UNSG on bypassing CSTD</span></font><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">THanks for this corrective Renate. Would have been good to send
to the list, but either way let's take it on board as the doc is tweaked.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">On Feb 16, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Renate Bloem (Gmail) wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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-webkit-line-break: after-white-space"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy">Dear Malcolm,<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy">This is a very good statement.
However, what I said before and put here in red is not correct. NGOs in
consultative status (there are more than 3500) can address ECOSOC; sit in the
meetings and lobby governments, circulate language etc. I sat in numerous
ECOSOC meetings, even spoke at the High-level section. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy">The problem is, of
course, that many of WSIS CSOs do not have consultative status <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy">So try to express the
red part a little differently: e.g. that their influence is limited or that
much of their expertise is not taken into consideration by ECOSOC …or ….. I
leave this up to you.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy">I mentioned before that
the Cardoso report (in which I was through consultations heavily engaged)
failed to be adopted a.o. because governments used the argument that the Panel
of Eminent Persons did not even accurately know the consultative arrangements.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy">This should not be said
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Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> mardi, 16. février 2010
11:13<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <st1:personname u2:st="on"><a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a></st1:personname><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [governance] Draft
statement to UNSG on bypassing CSTD</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">As agreed, please find below a draft letter to the UNSG (United Nations
Secretary-General) expressing our strong concern about the usurpation of the
role of the civil society-friendly CSTD (Commission on Science and Technology
for Development) in reviewing the conclusions of the UNSG on the continuation
of the IGF. This is based closely on Wolfgang's post to the list that
followed on from mine and Yrjö's. This is just a first draft, and I
might have missed some recent discussions as I'm composing this in the air
between the US and Europe.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">As a strong supporter of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and its
unique multi-stakeholder process, the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus
writes to express a concern about what we see as a potential weakening of that
process, in the revelation at the last IGF open consultation meeting on 10
February that your recommendations on the continuation of the IGF will not be
reviewed by the CSTD (Commission on Science and Technology for
Development). In raising this concern, we are joining our voice to those
of several governments who spoke to similar effect at that open
consultation meeting.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">This recognition of the principle of "multistakeholderism" in
the Tunis Agenda 2005 was the biggest conceptual achievement in WSIS and was in
particular accepted as a guiding principle for Internet Governance in contrast
to a "one stakeholder (intergovernmental) approach". The acceptance
of civil society as an "equal parter" (in their specific role) was a
big step for civil society. This was paved by the constructive and substantial
work the civil society representatives did during WSIS I and II, documented in
particular in the WSIS Civil Society Declaration, adopted in Geneva in December
2003 and handed over officially to the Heads of States (who accepted it) in the
Closing Ceremony of WSIS I, and in the contribution to the results of the UN
Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). The launch of the IGF as a
"multistakeholder discussion platform" was the result of this. <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Responsibility for system-wide follow-up and review of the WSIS outcomes,
including the IGF, was granted to ECOSOC through its CSTD, and this role was to
be managed using a multi-stakeholder approach (Tunis Agenda, para 105).
The "opening" of the CSTD was a very complicated procedure
which was first (in 2006) established as a preliminary exception, but was later
taken for granted (though never formalized). It allows for all
WSIS-accredited NGOs, and private sector representatives, to participate as
active observers. In fact, the ECOSOC decisions that opened CSTD up
to other stakeholders speak about "participating in the work" of it,
rather than just observing. <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt">With this structure in place, the CSTD drafted
the annual ECOSOC resolutions on the WSIS follow-up
for 2007-2009, including assessments on the performance of the IGF.
There is no reason for a sudden departure from this process on the
question of the continuation of the IGF.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">In contrast, ECOSOC itself is not a multi-stakeholder institution.
Whilst ECOSOC has accredited NGOs, all they can do is to send
written statements which are published before the meeting. They have no right
to negotiate, no right to speak, and no right to access the meeting room to
brief (or lobby) delegates. Moreover, the private sector has no
representation within ECOSOC at all.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">In other words, to move the debate to ECOSOC means to silence an open
and transparent debate among governmental and non-governmental stakeholders. It
would mark a return to the pre-WSIS time when civil society (and the private
sector) were removed from the room after the ceremonial speeches of the opening
sessions ended and the real debate started in June 2002. It took three years
and ten PrepComs to change this.<br>
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We request you to take steps to redress this anomaly, by transmitting your
recommendations on the continuation of the IGF to the CSTD for consideration at
its May meeting, where they will be open for review by non-governmental
stakeholders, as befits the review of a unique multi-stakeholder institution.
We would also like to take this opportunity to reiterate our support for
the continuation of the IGF as a multi-stakeholder forum for the discussion of
Internet-related public policy issues, located in Geneva, with an
independent budget and a Secretariat under contract with the United
Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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