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On Thursday 05 May 2011 01:58 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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<p>On Thu, 05 May 2011 14:43:18 +0700, Norbert Klein
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<p>There seems to be agreement that the IGC should respond (and I
concur with this). I would like to invite Wolfgang or Parminder
to volunteer to write a first draft. If they do not have time,
I should be able to put something together as a draft based on
their contributions to the list.</p>
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While I can try to put together some text, i am not sure what really
do we want to say. If it is *only* an appeal to make the G 8 meeting
more multistakeholder, as I have argued earlier, I am not
interested. For me, our communication should clearly make the point
that in any discussion on the kind of issues that the G8 meeting is
taking up, all countries must be included on an equal footing. And
this is best done in a UN forum rather than at such meeting of most
powerful nations. We can refer to the inherently global nature of
the Internet and how policy decisions taken by the most powerful
countries by default largely become applicable to the whole world.<br>
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We can then refer to the institutional forms that have been mandated
by the WSIS - enhanced cooperation and the IGF, and refer to
subsequent UN Gen Assembly resolutions that the two processes are
complementary. Thus any global public policy development should not
only involve all countries and all stakeholders, it should also
always and continually remain connected to the IGF as the agora
where public opinion on key IG issues is formed and shared.
Something to this effect. <br>
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Now, if these elements look ok, I can do some drafting. Thanks,
Parminder <br>
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