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<font face="sans-serif">Jeremy<br>
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Can you put civil society before businesses in the phrase '</font>
wide range of business, civil society and technical interests'. That
is how UN documents write it. <br>
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Also in the very last sentence I would like the reference to
'internet users' to be removed. This policy model is also acceptable
to the present non-users. <br>
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I would prefer that we change the following sentence<br>
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"The strong support that many G8 countries, including your own, have
shown for full multistakeholder participation makes this current
decision to limit discussion to vested interests of governments'
industry partners is baffling and is unacceptable to many of the
users of the Internet."<br>
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to<br>
<br>
"The strong support that many G8 countries, including your own, have
shown for full multistakeholder participation in relation to the
UN's Internet Governance Forum makes this current decision to limit
discussion to vested interests of governments' industry partners
baffling, and in any case completely unacceptable to us."<br>
<br>
parminder <br>
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On Tuesday 10 May 2011 12:57 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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Here's another consolidated draft, with all the generally-agreed
changes suggested so far. As suggested, we'll also have a tweaked
version of this with a catchy headline as a press release, and for
translating into French.<br>
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Basic courtesy stuff.....<br>
<br>
We understand that the French Presidency of the G8 proposes to
hold a G8 Internet meeting, immediately prior to the G8 Summit in
........, with a view to prepare or influence the agenda for the
G8 Summit regarding key global Internet issues. We also understand
that many heads of states of G 8 countries are expected to attend
this meeting. The meeting is especially important since in the
past G 8 has set up the global agenda on many key issues,
especially in the information society arena.<br>
<br>
We are very concerned about the manner in which the G 8 Internet
meeting is being organised which is ignoring current best practice
in public policy making. It also jettisons the principle of
multistakeholder participation that has evolved globally,
especially in the area of Internet governance. It appears that the
G8 meeting is organized by large Industry with access given only
to industry and government actors. We have also understood that
there is a linkage between donations and invitations.<br>
<br>
Big businesses already have a disproportionately large influence
on public policy processes. For governments to sanction a
dedicated meeting with top G8 leaders and officials to plan the
global agenda for Internet related policies is inappropriate. What
is required is a discussion that includes civil society actors,
who will bring to the table the concerns of global public interest
derived from a diversity of people's, of many sections of society,
interests and<br>
concerns.<br>
<br>
It is also pertinent to state here that since the Internet is
essentially a global phenomenon, policies framed together by the
most powerful nations, quite likely, will become the default
global norm. This is most true for architectural and economic
issues, while the global impact on other areas will also be
substantial. It is therefore appropriate that G 8 countries engage
with the same, and other issues, of Internet policies at the more
democratic global forums where all countries are present at an
equal footing. In this connection, there is the World Summit on
the Information Society mandated set of processes for dealing with
pressing global Internet related issues. Multistakeholder
participation is an important part of these global IG related
processes. We see the proposed G 8 Interent meeting a significant
step backwards both for global democracy and for multistakeholder
participation.<br>
<br>
The issues we face with internet governance and internet
developments are global in nature, and adequate solutions to the
problems we face will need to involve all countries, as well as a
wide range of business, civil society and technical interests.<br>
<br>
We therefore request you, and other G 8 leaders, to make the
proposed G 8 Internet meeting genuinely multistakeholder,
following the model of the UN IGF. We are impressed with the solid
support provided by the G 8 countries for upholding a
multistakeholder model for the IGF. The strong support that many
G8 countries, including your own, have shown for full
multistakeholder participation makes this current decision to
limit discussion to vested interests of governments' industry
partners is baffling and is unacceptable to many of the users of
the Internet.<br>
<br>
closing and salutations..... <br>
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I'd like to go to a consensus call on this 48 hours from now if
possible.<br>
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