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Thanks to Wolfgang for this substantial report of history.<br>
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And thanks to Parminder for drawing the correct conclusion: Nobody
else will do it, speak up and remind those who forget the history in
this case, if Civil Society does not speak up, reminding the
(present representatives of governments) that their predecessors
achieved great things which they seem to forget.<br>
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How is this going to be organized? The major elements are in
Wolfgang's write-up; it has to be mad short, focused on what what at
the UN General Assembly setting the WSIS process on the way as
multi-stakeholder, and the Tunis commitments also BY THE GOVERNMENTS
PRESENT to the multi-stakeholder approach. And add some achievements
since (which?).<br>
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Norbert<br>
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On 5/5/2011 1:14 PM, parminder wrote:
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<font face="sans-serif">Wolfgang,<br>
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Thanks for this very informative historical brief. There are
many points here that I will like to engage with, but let me
just respond to two connected ones.<br>
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On Wednesday 04 May 2011 08:16 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi everybody
SNIP
Later Al Gore presented this to a G 7 summit in Brussels in 1995, where also a so-called "Global Business Round Table" took place in parallel (which led later to the establishmend of the Global Business Dialogue on eCommerce/GBDe). After the Brussels meeting the G 7 (later the G 8) continued to work on this issue which finally produced the G 8 Okinawa Declaration from 2000 when the G 8 established to Digital Opportunity Task Froce (DotForce).
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The G 8 DotForce Initiative was countered by an ECOSOC ministerial meeting in 2001 (a lot of UN member states felt excluded from the G7/8 process in Okinawa) and the UN established the UN ICT Task Force (UNICTTF).</pre>
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That is an interesting parallel. Now that G 8 seems to be in a
'global agreement (read, among powerful countries, who are the
self appointed trustees for the whole world) on key Internet
issues' sorts of mood, what next. Internet governance is even
more political, globally, than was ICTD (the latter being more
national kind of thing). So do we expect a UN backlash. It is
already on through the politics around the 'enhanced cooperation'
process. What is our, global civil society's, specifically, IGC's,
position on this?<br>
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Between a G8 led process of the kind underway, and a WSIS mandated
'enhanced cooperation' process, where do we put our weight?
(enough burying our collective heads in the sand on the global IG
policy issue. That will only bring further harm to our cause. At
least now we must learn our lessons that abdication would do on
this issue.)<br>
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(SNIP)<br>
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We should not forget that the WSIS/WGIG Internet Governance definition, which gives all stakeholder a role and calls for shared policy and rules development and decision making, was adopted by the heads of states of 190+ UN member states in Tunis in November 2005. Governments of the world commited themselves to the multistakeholder approach in Internet Governance. The French government, host of the G 8, obviously ignores this. Somebody should tell this to the president of this republic.
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Why not us, the IGC. Who else will? But can we just write to them
to make the process more multistakeholder, and not write that a
closed process among the most powerful countries is not acceptable
to the global civil society, representing marginalised interests,
and all countires should be brought to the table to discus the
issues that the G8 Internet meeting is proposing to do, and in
this regard using the WSIS mandated 'enhanced cooperation' track
is the right way to go.<br>
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Should IGC make such statement to the G8 meeting organisers?<br>
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Parminder <br>
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Wolfgang
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Since 3 April 2011, The Mirror with reports and comments from Cambodia - originally since 1997 based on daily translations from the Khmer language press, is now only an archive of the past: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cambodiamirror.org">http://www.cambodiamirror.org</a>
But I started a new personal blog:
...thinking it over... after 21 years in Cambodia
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.thinking21.org/">http://www.thinking21.org/</a>
continuing to share reports and comments from Cambodia.
Norbert Klein
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nhklein@gmx.net">nhklein@gmx.net</a>
Phnom Penh / Cambodia
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