<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:53 PM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Thursday 28 July 2011 04:26 PM, Renate Bloem (Gmail) wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy">Dear Philippe and Jean-Louis,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Let me first thank
Philippe
for his kind words and his report. Just to add: <u></u>South Africa<u></u>, on
behalf of <u></u>India<u></u>
and <u></u><u></u>Brazil<u></u><u></u>,
made a strong statement in calling for an
intergovernmental mechanism for
enhanced cooperation, separate from but in close
cooperation with the IGF.in<br>
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While there should be some significant institutional innovations to
a traditional inter-governmental platform for global IG (some such
innovations were suggested by my organisation in its submission to
the consultation on enhanced cooperation in Dec 2010), I find the
demand for a new platform for democratic global Internet policy
making very welcome especially in its being conceptualised to be in
close cooperation/ connection with the IGF. <br>
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It is especially so if the IGF can reform itself to be able to
channel multistakeholder inputs purposively into this new policy
making platform (and these three countires have indeed sought such
improvements in the IGF whereas developed countries, along with many
civil society actors from developing countries, have opposed them).<br>
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I completely fail to understand how those who enthusiastically
engage with OECD kind of inter-governmental poliy-making processes,
whose processes of multistakeholder input are patently much less
open and democratic than the above EC-IGF connection scheme, can be
against this kind of policy making system for the global stage. How
do they justify it? I know I have asked this question of simple
democratic equity and fairness several times but I am yet to get a
proper answer to it. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I seem to recall several answers, they just aren't something you are willing to accept/listen to for whatever reasons.</div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>