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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Folks,<BR>
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I’m starting a new thread here, following from the many comments that have been brought up here following particularly from e-G8 that we need to organise to be able to represent civil society in more than one forum in future as regards internet governance issues.<BR>
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Wheras previously our main emphasis in Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) has been on IGF, we now need adapt to the fact the IGF is no longer the only forum – or perhaps even the main one – where internet governance issues (in a wider understanding of the term, not a narrow ICANN/NRO one) are being discussed.<BR>
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In future there will be e-G8, eG20, IGF, and perhaps other UN affiliated or more subject specific forums where there is a need for civil society perspectives on internet governance to be presented and co-ordinated.<BR>
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To me IGC, because of its wide representation and openness to differing perspectives, is the obvious body to take on this wider and much larger task. However, it is not capable at present of stretching that far for a number of reasons.<BR>
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So I do think we need to put some effort into changing our organisation to give it the capability to represent civil society on internet governance matters in multiple forums and through multiple voices.<BR>
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I do not believe that we could undertake this necessary task without at least a part time employee and some minimal travel for funding. In order to receive such funding, we may also need to have a more formal structure or at least an affiliation with a more formally constructed body able to provide the administrative functions on our behalf.<BR>
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I believe we will need to commence to act soon in this direction if we are to fulfil our mandate in the broader internet governance arena. So I am opening up this topic to get a general feeling as to how we might proceed and whether people have specific suggestions. We may need some sort of task force to work on this.<BR>
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Just opening this up for general discussion. To me the priorities are<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>a realisation that the game is changing and we have to change too<BR>
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That’s my initial thoughts. <BR>
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Ian Peter<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Amali De Silva <<a href="amalidesilva@yahoo.com">amalidesilva@yahoo.com</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Sun, 29 May 2011 19:04:44 -0700 (PDT)<BR>
<B>To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>, Ian Peter <<a href="ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>>, Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [governance] : e-G8 forum<BR>
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Civil society plees for representation have been heard NYT article - needs an organized input for future meetings - to echo others on this list ..<BR>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/technology/30tech.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/technology/30tech.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology</a><BR>
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Amali De Silva - Mitchell ( personal note )<BR>
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--- On <B>Wed, 5/25/11, Ian Peter <I><<a href="ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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From: Ian Peter <<a href="ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>><BR>
Subject: Re: [governance] : e-G8 forum<BR>
To: <a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>, "Jeremy Malcolm" <<a href="jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>><BR>
Received: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 2:22 AM<BR>
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Not sure that I would argue about abandoning e-G8 – I think its quite useful if imbalanced, and is opening up some lines of communication with some excellent interventions and some good attendees.<BR>
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I’d rather discuss how we could make IGF as relevant by attracting the same calibre of attendees. IGF government attendees are usually way down the picking line; the business reps are not quite CEOs of large players such as Paypal, Google and Facebook – and similarly our civil society reps are not quite Jimmy Wales, John Perry Barlow etc.<BR>
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In other words, IGF has failed to attract high profile opinion leaders. If it continues as a second rate forum it will probably just fade away and no-one will notice. Which would be a pity – IGF is far more balanced, strives to achieve global and balanced inputs, and could be a really relevant and useful vehicle. <BR>
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>From our point of view, I am interested in how we can strengthen our inputs by involving and communicating with some of the higher profile civil society people who are not so involved with us at present. <BR>
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Ian Peter<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>><BR>
<B>Organization: </B>Consumers International<BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>, Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wed, 25 May 2011 14:32:00 +0800<BR>
<B>To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>, Roland Perry <<a href="roland@internetpolicyagency.com">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [governance] : e-G8 forum<BR>
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On 25/05/11 14:16, Roland Perry wrote: <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>In message <B97535D24829433AB1D5ECAC3B6AA468@userPC>, at 06:53:13 on Wed, 25 May 2011, Michael Gurstein <<a href="gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">mailto:gurstein@gmail.com</a> <<a href="http://ca.mc1123.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gurstein@gmail.com">http://ca.mc1123.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gurstein@gmail.com</a>> > writes <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Who is the host for next year's meeting? <BR>
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According to Wikipedia: <BR>
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"Each calendar year, the responsibility of hosting the G8 rotates through the member states in the following order: France, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada." <BR>
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We could go further than we have, and argue that there should be no e-G8 next year, even if it were opened to broader participation, since it is duplicative and it distracts attention from other fora in which civil society's resources are already thinly enough spread.<BR>
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