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On Monday 08 November 2010 08:59 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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<div>On 08/11/2010, at 9:49 PM, parminder wrote:</div>
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make it clearer, I prefer we give our
response to EC consultation under four different parts<br>
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<div>I'm not sure it is will be feasible to get such a radical
reworking of the existing text through to consensus by Friday, which is
when I'd been planning to put the text I'd been working on to a
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<font face="sans-serif">Jeremy<br>
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These two distinctions and separations that elucidate the enhanced
cooperation
concept was an important aspect of Tunis Agenda. We need to build on
them
rather than regress from them. The present draft statement, as I see
it, does in fact
regress on </font>these distinctions. I would not be part of such a
regressive statement. By not saying many things and by confusing other
things the statement says much. That is how it will be read, that would
be taken as the political position of the IGC. And I do not agree with
it, and strongly oppose it.<br>
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Cant see for instance how can we say, "The IGF in its present form is a
very important part of the enhanced cooperation process" (from the
draft) when we have already said in Vilnius that EC and IGF are
distinct processes, and this is also said in the ECOSOC resolution. I
proposed this issues may be perhaps be addressed by making a
distinction between broader 'conditions creating' process for EC(as
per TA) and the core process of EC. In fact we should say as we said in
Vilnius that EC and IGF are distinct but complementary processes. In my
understanding of the language I cant see how one thing can be a part
of another and also complementary to it.<br>
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Also I cannot see when giving our statement on EC we can skirt all core
substantive issues and basically just say - 'whatever you do civil
society should be there'. That is all I really see said in this
statement. How , for instance, in an EC statement, at a crucial moment
where very substantive inputs on what EC means and how to take it
forward, are being sought, can we not mention what the whole world
outside (largely) strongly feels, in my opinion, ' that the US
supervisory role on CIR management is completely unacceptable to the
world community' and that this role should immediately be ceded to a
global body with multistakeholder representation. If we are not able to
muster enough political will to say this thing, which thing in fact got
said many times even around the WSIS, I cant be a party to this
regeressive non-statement. <br>
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Also when the marginalized countries and groups are right now suffering
such deep and extensive exclusion from the way the digital phenomenon -
the globally applicable policies and the corporate driven digital
architecture design - is being shaped in the North by powerful
corporate and state actors, largely a collusion of them - how can we
not comment on such an exclusion, which 'the real issue' that the EC
process is supposed to or should address. We must mention what is
happening through ACTA kind of plurilateral process to the exclusion of
all others. Silence in an IGC statement on such all-important aspects,
which is the real stuff that bothers most progressives civil society
actors outside this charmed circle of IG specialists is not acceptable.
Such a statement will not do any credit to the IGC, and will further
increase the political distance that IGC kind of CS groups have from
mainstream progressive civil society. <br>
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So, well, I cannot support the present statement. I am strongly against
it being sent on IGC behalf.<br>
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(Sorry if some of my responses are not prompt enough, am traveling and
very time and connectivity constrained)<br>
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Parminder <br>
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<div>Partly this is because I am travelling from tomorrow.</div>
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<div>But if you think it is feasible and have time, then can you
please propose some text? I suggest that it would be made available in
parallel to the existing text, so that people can choose one of the
other if and when the consensus call is made.</div>
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<div>Meanwhile I will send around a fourth draft of the existing text
tomorrow, incorporating the latest comments, but a less ambitious
reworking than what you propose.</div>
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