<div>Some quick thoughts:</div><ul><li>Agree with notions that organisations should host information about national, regional and global IGFs on their websites to encourage awareness;</li><li>Encourage vertical and horizontal integration of issues from national and regional IGFs to feed into the global IGF;</li>
<li>Congratulate the IGF Secretariat on the increase in remote participation in Nairobi (compared to Vilnius from 1 remote hub to 8 hubs from the Pacific in Nairobi);</li><li>The UN needs to coordinate with its points of presence in various regions to get behind the regional IGF and support the initiatives;
The IGF Secretariat should send letters to push this throughout the UN or something;</li><li>Agree that the voice of emerging economies needs to be heard and encourage diversity;</li></ul><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Izumi AIZU <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iza@anr.org">iza@anr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is my draft, I plan to read this not representing IGC, but still .<br>
In 10 min or so... any immediate comment welcome,<br>
<br>
izumi<br>
<br>
<br>
A comment from civil society participants<br>
at the IGF Open Consultation<br>
<br>
14 Febtruaru2012<br>
<br>
I am one of the two co-coordinators of the Civil Society Internet<br>
Governance Caucus, or CS IGC, and also a civil society member of the<br>
CSTD Working Group on IGF improvements.<br>
<br>
This is not to represent the whole IGC formaly, but still I would like<br>
to make the following remarks for the record as a member of the civil<br>
society, long particiapted in WSIS I, WGIG WSIS II, all IGFs and CSTD<br>
meetings for IGF.<br>
<br>
First, we are encouraged to see many of our friends in our room and<br>
also those who could not physically present here but participating<br>
remotely who all have strong interest to continue our work, for<br>
organizing the second round of the IGF.<br>
<br>
As you all know, Civil Society is a very important component of the<br>
multi-stakeholder framework and operation of IGF. This means that we<br>
like to work with you, government, private sector, techincal and<br>
academic community, among others, all stakeholders together. First and<br>
foremost, we would like to keep this spriti high, and also like to see<br>
enhanced multi-stakeholder participation for the IGF 2.0<br>
<br>
We are also very much in favor of enhancing the participation from the<br>
developing parts of the world in IGF, its consultation meetings like<br>
today, MAG, and other important areas.<br>
<br>
In this regard, we are very concerend that the current economic<br>
situation is putting some shades into the financial parts of the IGF<br>
organization.<br>
We feel very strongly that funding support is very much needed to make<br>
IGF further success. We, Civil Society, are one of the least<br>
resourceful stakeholders and therefore we always seek for funding<br>
support, especially for the MAG and CSTD works, and also for the main<br>
IGF meetings.<br>
Unfortunately, with the lack of funding support, many civils society<br>
colleagues including MAG members could not make it this time.<br>
Likewise, we have learned that our CSTD Working Group members will not<br>
be able to physically attend the meeting next week again due to lack<br>
of funding.<br>
<br>
Civil society and other groups with limited resources, such as<br>
associations or networks of small businesses, need support to<br>
participate in Internet Governance processes. Such support has been<br>
inconsistent – not just in the case of the working group, but also in<br>
the case of other important fora such as MAG meetings. This<br>
consistently hampers full multistakeholder participation and restricts<br>
the overall evolution - and results - of these processes. If the rules<br>
and mechanisms of participation in IG processes privileges groups that<br>
already have power and resources this 'imbalance' will be reflected in<br>
the outcomes of these processes.<br>
<br>
We know we are not alone, however. People from the least developing<br>
countries, small island nations, innovative but small SMEs, some<br>
academics and even governments are often suffering from lack of<br>
propser funding, and therefore, we don’t see many of these people in<br>
this room or other IGF related meetings.<br>
We acknolwdge the various kind donors who had provided great financial<br>
and in-kind support for the civil society participation, as well as<br>
developing country pariticipation, and hope to work together with you<br>
again.<br>
<br>
Deepening democracy and multistakeholder participation in governance<br>
requires the inclusion of groups and people who have a stake in the<br>
issues under discussion but who are frequently excluded or<br>
marginalized. It is not enough to grant the right to participate to<br>
these stakeholders; provisions must be made to ensure that they can<br>
exercise this right in full.<br>
<br>
Ensuring multistakeholder participation in the context of the WSIS<br>
principles and the Tunis Agenda is not just about adhering to<br>
commitments which many governments agreed to. The ultimate goal is to<br>
generate better and more sustainable policy outcomes that reflect the<br>
diversity of voices, ideas, concerns and needs of all relevant<br>
stakeholders.<br>
<br>
We will work on this issue among us, to find mutual solustion, and we<br>
also ask you to work together with us on this matter.<br>
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