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On Monday 06 September 2010 12:31 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Thanks for posting this Parminder... also worth noting that the idea of
this working group came from civil society. Another instance where a
civil society proposal (made at the CSTD this year) helped governments
find a practical way forward.
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Thanks, Anriette, for pointing to this important fact.<br>
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In fact, the May 2009 session of CSTD witnessed some very important
advocacy successes of civil society, which I think may not have been
noticed and
discussed enough. All the three most important elements of the CSTD
resolution, now adopted by the ECOSOC, either came first from civil
society (CS), or at the very least CS was one of the early active
sponsors of these ideas.
Not only that, CS was involved in some hectic back room lobbying to
ensure that these important steps forward for global IG found their way
into the draft, and then that they got support from key gov reps on the
CSTD.<br>
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These important issues or steps forward are:<br>
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1) </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">An open
consultation on enhanced cooperation or EC </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">(to be held later this year)<br>
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2) </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">A CSTD working
group on IGF</font><br>
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3) A clear statement to the effect that EC and IGF are two *distinct*
if
complementary processes (which should put to rest efforts to present
activities at the IGF as covering the meaning and intent of EC,
something which has been attempted rather strongly in the last few
years)<br>
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But this makes it very important for us to be there and make our voices
heard, and to insist that civil society is well-represented on this
working group.
Anriette
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 11:28 +0530, parminder wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi All
Some of you may remember that CSTD had adopted a resolution for a CSTD
WG on IGF improvements, which has now been adopted by the ECOSOC.
Interestingly, there will be some activity regarding this at the
Vilnius IGF. The following is an excerpt from a message circulated on
the MAG list.
CSTD Vice-Chair and MAG Member Frederic Riehl will hold
lunchtime consultations on the CSTD Working Group on the IGF
on 16 September. I presume he will send out additional
information. The consultations will take place in the main
meeting hall, starting at 1330.
Good opportunity to make ourselves heard.
Parminder
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