<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span style="" title="">Hello everyone,<br></span><span style="" title="">This situation was predictable after Tunis since 2005. </span><span style="" title="">the
Geneva Plan of Action and the Tunis Agenda is the result of all actors:
governments, private sector, civil society, UN agencies, international
organizations, regional and sub regional ...<br></span><span style="" title="">The ITU draws on totalitarian countries to avert civil society. </span><span style="" title="">What a glimpse we are pushed to either ignore or to disregard the Geneva Declaration of 2003 and the Tunis Commitment 2005.<br>
</span><span style="" title="">We, civil society must react and move up a gear.<br></span><span style="" title="">Russia,
China and most African countries do not have a democratic culture and
the concept of "multistakeholderism" is grain of sand in the gears of
their system of corruption and poor governance.<br></span><span style="" title="">It is imperative to react and move up a gear.<br></span><span style="" title="">7 years of hard fighting, friends and colleagues are dead. </span><span title="">I believe we must honor their memory.<br>
</span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span><span style="" title=""><br clear="all"></span></span>SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN<br>*COORDONNATEUR DU CENTRE AFRICAIN D'ECHANGE CULTUREL (CAFEC)<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/10/9 William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch">william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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This is related to the message I just sent concerning the ITU/GAC proposal, but it merits a different thread. The list discussion has all been building off the Kevin Murphy piece Wolfgang circulated. Alas, the article being ICANN-oriented did not bother to take note of another part of the RCC proposal that should be of some concern here. The Russian text includes a section on The Future of the Internet Governance Forum that says, inter alia,<br>
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"The WSIS Forum 2010 was held in May 2010 in Geneva, and the venue for the next one, in 2011, is the United Nations headquarters in New York. The question of Internet governance is just one of the many questions raised by WSIS, and it would appear logical that IGF should in future be held as part of the WSIS Forum in order for there to be a common platform for all stakeholders seeking to implement WSIS outcomes. This will serve to broaden the audience, particularly within developing countries, and reduce costs for organizers and participants alike. Proposal: To consider IGF as a part of the WSIS Forum in the interests of combining efforts, facilitating participation, especially for developing-country representatives, reducing costs and avoiding duplication of effort."<br>
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So voila. This isn't exactly news either, I had ITU staffers tell me in Tunis when the IGF was endorsed that "we'll be running this thing in five years." There's always been a contingent of governments, generally the same ones supporting ITU uber ICANN, arguing that ITU should have the IGF; indeed, the Russians said this in Tunis, and insisted on the inclusion in the mandate of those provisions about ITU competence etc. And Toure et al have in the past held up the WTPF, the WSIS Forum, etc as evidence that the ITU does this sort of thing better. All of which harks back to our earlier debate on the WSIS Forum and whether it would be a swell idea to hold it in NYC where UN GA reps could see what a proper UN forum looks like, etc.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Bill<br>
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