<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear list members,<div><br></div><div>In case it is of interest, CCIA's intervention is pasted below.</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div><br></div><div><b id="internal-source-marker_0.4137969946023077" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 21px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Intervention of CCIA at the Special Session of the Commission for Science and Technology for Development on Enhanced Cooperation on public policy issues pertaining to the Internet, 18th May 2012</span></div><span style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Mr. Chairman,</span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">CCIA thanks you for your leadership today, and the Secretariat for its excellent preparatory work on this important meeting. </span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">For those that are not familiar with us, the Computer & Communications Industry Association’s members represent a broad cross-section of the ICT sector’s most innovative companies. We would like to associate ourselves with the comments of ICC BASIS and provide a few additional comments.</span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Mr. Chairman, ‘enhanced cooperation’ means many different things to different stakeholders. Like so many other speakers today, we believe the most valuable kind of cooperation is that which has a positive, practical impact for real people. </span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Our members know that they thrive only where they offer real value to real people. This is why we approach the proposal for a new CSTD working group on enhanced cooperation by asking ourselves if this is likely to lead to practical benefits for real people, and if it will provide significant added-value in development terms, particularly important given the mandate of the CSTD. From what we have heard, it does not look like this working group would pass these tests. In contrast, the working group on the improvement of the IGF was clearly focussed on developing practical improvements that do add value, which is why we supported it and why we welcome its report. </span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Mr. Chairman, Multi Stakeholderism, with a capital M, is what works, and that means processes where all parties have an equal chance to be heard and to affect outcomes. It is absolutely fundamental, absolutely essential, to the development of the Internet as the marvellous tool for economic and social development that that it is and which it can become. Previous speakers, including the distinguished delegates of the United Kingdom and Canada, have outlined so many excellent examples of success made possible by this model that it is redundant to add more. </span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The United Nations system overall has steadily increased the access of and collaboration with the non-governmental/private sector world since its foundation - though the ITU’s political processes, including the WCIT preparatory process, have fallen far behind the rest of the UN system in this respect. The Economic and Social Council to which the CSTD reports has often led the way by repeatedly choosing to embed non-state actors in formal processes. The Report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations–Civil Society Relations from 2004 has many excellent conclusions such as: </span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><div style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">“The most powerful case for reaching out beyond its constituency of central Governments and enhancing dialogue and cooperation with civil society is that doing so will make the United Nations more effective.”</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></div><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said in 2009 that: </span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><div style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">"Our times demand a new definition of leadership - global leadership. They demand a new constellation of international cooperation - governments, civil society and the private sector, working together for a collective global good."</span></div><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">He’s right.</span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Thank you Mr. Chairman.</span></b></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">-- </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Regards,</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 12px; "> </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Nick Ashton-Hart</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Geneva Representative</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Computer & Communcations Industry Association (CCIA)</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; ">Tel: +41 (22) 362 02 38</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; ">Fax: : +41 (22) 594-85-44</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; ">Mobile: +41 79 595 5468</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; ">USA Tel: +1 (202) 640-5430</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">email: </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 237); "><a href="mailto:nashton@ccianet.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">nashton@ccianet.org</a></span></span></span><br><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">Skype:</span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 237); "> nashtonhart</span></span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; "><a href="http://www.ccianet.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.ccianet.org</a></span></div></div></span></span>
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