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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks Ginger, very good
stuff, and captures very well the nuances of the kind of IG processes
that the IGC supports and want taken ahead.</font> parminder<br>
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On Wednesday 15 September 2010 12:00 PM, 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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</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>
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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>
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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>
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<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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<b>The latest from Diplo...</b> <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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 should be discussed.</div>
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