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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/05/13 17:16, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>
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type="cite">On 09-May-2013, at 6:43, Jeremy Malcolm
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org"><jeremy@ciroap.org></a> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I'm only going to be able to make it
for the first week (Geneva is so<br>
expensive!), but would be glad to get together with some
other caucus folk<br>
while I'm there. Regarding a joint statement, the Best Bits
group is<br>
putting one together for the WTPF,<br>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; ">Sure,
but the more the merrier. ITU staff and members have often
cited the scarce responses in the few cases when they did do
public comments as evidence that there's no real demand/need
to open up to civil society etc. And a priori, one might
think the caucus would want to respond to an intergovernmental
statement on the conduct of multistakeholderism in Internet
governance…</span><br style="font-family: Palatino; font-size:
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; ">BTW
will the BB be signable by individuals and networks this time,
or just organizations with paid staff?</span><br
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Individuals too, but there was no such limitation last time either
(at least there wasn't meant to be, sorry if the wrong impression
came across). Expect a link and call for endorsements tomorrow.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">You're aware though, I presume, that
the reason why there is only one civil<br>
society submission is because the ITU is not receiving civil
society<br>
submissions? The only reason why the
Brown/Doria/Nwakanma/Shears statement<br>
is up there is because they are members of the Informal
Experts Group (IEG).<br>
I've written a statement for Consumers International (which
is at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://a2knetwork.org/sites/default/files/wtpf_position_statement.pdf">http://a2knetwork.org/sites/default/files/wtpf_position_statement.pdf</a>),
but<br>
the ITU has refused to receive it.<br>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; ">Yes,
and one would think this is precisely the sort of thing that
civil society could usefully make some noise about. There are
other avenues than official submissions. But if it's no
longer possible to things like make statements, organize
meetings, etc., ok...</span><span style="font-family:
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Yeah, the BB statement is actually focussed on this issue of
transparency and inclusion. The IEG and CI statements are more
about the substantive issues. In the absence of an official channel
for statements, I'm just going to be wandering around the ITU with a
sheaf of papers, looking for delegates to hand them to.<br>
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