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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>+1…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And by getting on the speeding IG train some other things follow along…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There is a need for some very serious (theoretical/academic) work on multistakeholderism and democracy--multistakeholderism, which everyone seems to be espousing these days necessarily redefines traditional democracy in some quite significant and unanticipated ways and these need to be sorted out theoretically if they are going to make any sense in practice. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There is also some very serious practical work that needs to be done by CS as a "stakeholder" -- figuring out how it can usefully function as a stakeholder in the variety of roles and venues where it is now being expected (even in some sense required) to participate. And how CS can do this in the absence of any reasonable funding model is a major major challenge--where is PER in all this BTW. There are the rules of operation--including issues of functional inclusion/exclusion (dealing with trolls and defining conflicts of interest for example), challenges to broaden the socio-economic base not only of the participants but perhaps more important around the issues from those that are of interest primarily in the "North" to include those that have much more resonance to the broad base of CS in the "South"--digital inclusion, broadband for all, equity of Interent (economic) outcomes--that sort of thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And we need some sort of structuring and roadmaps for moving forward to take up these responsibilities--frameworks for achieving normative concensus, opportunities for face to face gatherings along with transparent means for remote participation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Curran<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 15, 2012 3:34 PM<br><b>To:</b> parminder<br><b>Cc:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] WCIT melt down<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Dec 15, 2012, at 9:08 AM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";background:white'>It seems that 2013 is going to an important year for global IG.... The battle lines are more clearly drawn. I hope civil society contributes in a positive way, in what can in a way be constructed as a 'significant opportunity' having opened up for appropriate agenda framing and insitutional development that is in the best global public interest.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>One of the most important things the CS can provide is a clear, consistent <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>vision of what participatory multistakeholder Internet governance should look <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>like, including a well-defined role for governments which is consistent with <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>their public policy role and obligations. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I imagine this vision is not primarily based on a "1 government, 1 vote" model,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>but similarly it probably cannot be "all governments sit at the same table as <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>everyone else in all circumstances, and by the way, one government has a <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>unique role due to historical circumstances."<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>FYI,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>/John<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Disclaimer: My views alone. No governments were harmed in the preparation<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>of this email. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>