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Our presentation is online at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/bHQLMP">http://bit.ly/bHQLMP</a> Ginger's
presentation at Opening Ceremony<br>
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Here is the text:<br>
</font><font color="#000000"><font><font size="4">Opening
Session September 14, 2010</font></font></font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">Ginger
(Virginia) Paque, Co-coordinator, Civil Society Internet
Governance
Caucus</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">Good
afternoon, excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and
gentlemen.
I would like to think that I am speaking for the Civil
society
Internet Governance Caucus or IGC, for Civil society, and in
fact,
for everyone here today. How can that be?</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">Many
of us wear several hats indicating our profession or
affiliation...
Today, I am speaking as co-coordinator of the Civil society
IG
caucus, but I am also Internet Governance Capacity Building
Programme
online course coordinator for DiploFoundation... two civil
society
hats...</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">Some
of us represent government, business, academia and civil
society in
different or overlapping areas of our lives, or at different
times of
the day... but in the end, we take off our hats and we are
members of
society, individuals, Internet users. We are parents,
worried about
our children's safety online. We are Internet users
concerned about
the security of our financial data. We are citizens seeking
to
protect our basic rights to access, freedom of expression,
and
information. </font></font></font>
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<pre class="western"><font color="#000000"><font><font size="4">Multistakeholderism – recognised in the Tunis Agenda 2005 - was the biggest conceptual achievement in WSIS. It was accepted as a guiding principle for Internet Governance and the IGF in contrast to the intergovernmental stakeholder approach previously applied. </font></font></font>
<font color="#000000"><font><font size="4">
This success demands that the IGF continue with its core structure basically unchanged, while emphasizing the further application of enhanced cooperation.</font></font></font></pre>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font color="#000000"><font><font size="4">The
Civil Society in each of us worries about our human rights,
about
child porn, and about being scammed. We worry about finding
information in our native languages. We worry that the
richness and
diversity of our traditions will be replaced by a new SMS
text
language. The Civil society Internet Governance Caucus asks
that we
continue to work on these issues together, by appropriately
applying
the principles of the basic Human Rights instruments, such
as the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and supporting the
principle
of indivisibility of rights highlighted in the WSIS
declaration of
principles. </font></font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">This
Enhanced Cooperation is not just a process that will address
the
issue of Critical Internet Resources. It also allows the IGF
to set a
precedent to address all global IG issues. It includes the
imperative
of developing policies in addition to the IGF process; a
process
which is oriented towards taking wide inputs, deliberating
on
options, and feeding into the policy developing processes.
These two
actions are complementary though clearly distinct and both
must be
achieved. </font></font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">In
this regard we salute the ECOSOC report E/2009/92 adopted
last month
that makes these two points. We also note happily that the
once-stalled process of Enhanced Cooperation is now being
prioritized, as was mandated by the WSIS, through the
planned open
consultations later this year.<br>
</font></font></font><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">We
acknowledge the achievements of the </font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:
normal;">Commission
on Science and Technology for Development</span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font><font size="4"><b>
</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">
working group on IGF reform and express our desire and
commitment to
work closely with it, as well as the Association for
Progressive
Communications and other Civil Society initiatives.</font></font></font><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">We
continue to support the regional IGF meetings, with closer
focus
that will address problems at every level, spreading the
impact of
the IGF around the world in physical meetings and including
the
themes discussed regionally.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">We
support the unique model of dynamically engaged hubs and
remote
participation as innovative developments of the IGF. Local
meetings
and remote participation have increased inclusion to the
point where
this IGF has individual remote participants engaged online
around the
world and with an unprecedented 33 local hubs registered.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#000000"><font><font
size="4">We
reiterate the importance of capacity development to improve
inclusion, to allow us each to build the resources and
knowledge to
reach our goals.<br>
<br>
Finally, we invite all of you to join Civil
Society in addressing specific IG issues such as Net
Neutrality vis a
vis wireless Internet. We invite progressive Civil Society
and other
players to make themselves clearly heard working towards a
user-centric… a people-centric Internet. We must continue
the IGF
model of providing a new set of means and processes for
openness and
participation that will become the default global standard.<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<br>
Ginger (Virginia) Paque<br>
IGCBP Online Coordinator<br>
DiploFoundation<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig">www.diplomacy.edu/ig</a><br>
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