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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'>Thanks for the endorsement Bill, but you left out what I consider to be a crucial element which is that that support should not be done simply by attempting to incorporate/co-opt civil society within ICANN (as seems to be the current direction) but rather to provide a means for the independent support of an independent, broadly based and inclusive Civil Society—not an easy task to accomplish but not I think, impossible. <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'>A useful example with some (but not total) relevance is the support that OSI provided for CSISAC at the OECD, which among other things, allowed for the hiring of a (part-time) CS coordinator and some (limited) funds for selected/expert CS participation in various OECD substantive activities/events. BTW one of the reasons that this worked to the degree that it did was that the funding went (indirectly) to CSISAC and the co-ordinator reported to the Steering Committee rather than for example, the funding being given to one or another of the organizational members of CSISAC who then had the responsibility for (opportunity to) pick and choose re: how the funds were spent (which inevitably leads to suspicion and bad feeling).<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'>Of course, the OECD is quite a different space from the IG one but various groupings within CS including notably a lot of the current parties in the IG CS space have managed to cooperate and accomplish quite a great deal as a result, in large part, of the (quite modest) financial support provided by OSI.<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'>M,<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"'> William Drake [mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> Governance; michael gurstein<br><b>Cc:</b> Suresh Ramasubramanian<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] Networkworld: ICANN Sets Up A Coalition to address new Internet governance challenges<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:27 AM, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</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:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Many are uneasy with this but if ICANN wishes to occupy that role (and given their privileged financial position as gatekeeper/rent extractor they are in a position to present themselves for this) then they have an interest in/responsibility for supporting the weakest link in that multi-stakeholder Internet ecology i.e. Civil Society.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I can endorse the second lat of the sentence, and we have communicated this to Fadi and senior staff in some detail. They say they get it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bill<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>