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... was a very good speech ...</font>!<br>
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On 15/09/10 03:30, Ginger Paque wrote:
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Our presentation is online at: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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> </p>
<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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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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Ginger (Virginia) Paque<br>
IGCBP Online Coordinator<br>
DiploFoundation<br>
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href="http://DISCUSS.diplomacy.edu">http://DISCUSS.diplomacy.edu</a>
is a space for discussing ideas and concepts from Diplo’s
teaching and research activities. Our activities focus on three
main areas: Internet governance, diplomacy, and global
governance. In September, we DISCUSS: a) network neutrality:
hype and reality, b) the IGF experience: what can policy makers
learn from the IGF, and c) the history of the Internet. Let us
know if you have suggestions about ideas and concepts that
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