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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'>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"'> nashton@consensus.pro [mailto:nashton@consensus.pro] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 23, 2013 9:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org; CAFEC<br><b>Cc:</b> michael gurstein<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] WSIS+10 Zero Draft<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>WSIS follow-up has been a top-down exercise, driven by the ITU wanting to be in charge of it. UN agencies shouldn’t be driving policy decisions - what we need is a bottom-up based process, where each country’s stakeholders decide how to implement WSIS in their way, and then compare notes under the CSTD processes, reviewing as we go along with the UN agencies just providing their input on their particular responsibilities.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My hope is that a more bottom-up-based paradigm is what comes from the review.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>All the best from Kathmandu, Nick<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 19 Nov 2013, at 14:42, CAFEC <<a href="mailto:cafec3m@yahoo.fr">cafec3m@yahoo.fr</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Thank you very much for this vital information. Besides, I'm not so surprised. To me and this is only my opinion, most systems of the United Nations has failed their responsibility in implementing the WSIS implementation by broad national and sub regional levels. More especially in most African countries, as is the case in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in many countries of Central Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>It would be therefore that studies should be organized in this way to understand the real causes of this failure.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>COORDINATION NATIONALE CAFEC<br>COORDINATION NATIONALE REPRONTIC</span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><br>courriel:cafec3m@<a href="http://yahoo.fr/repronticrdc3m@yahoo.fr/b.schombe@gmail.com">yahoo.fr/repronticrdc3m@yahoo.fr/b.schombe@gmail.com</a><br>téléphone: +243 998983491/+243813684512<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Le Jeudi 14 novembre 2013 21h39, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div id=yiv1740287022><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My own particular involvement with Internet Governance issues began with<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>the<b><i> </i></b>intertwining of the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>community informatics approach and<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>the various discussions associated with<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS-Geneva and Tunis)…</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As is its habit, the UN is now revisiting the Summit + 10 and is in the process of creating various types of documentation including importantly a review document on what has happened with respect to the original WSIS outcomes and where, as a global Summit, agreements should be entered into (at a meeting to be held in late 2014) to go on from here.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m attaching the current draft output document<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>(apologies for the highlighting…</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>One significant difference between now and the original summits is that while the significance of the Internet has increased dramatically in the interim in all shapes and forms, the specific interest in the creation of an overall policy framework for the global deployment of the Internet has,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>in key areas (including most of those of interest from a community informatics perspective—the digital divide, digital inclusion, community empowerment through ICT use and so on) for the most part disappeared and particularly virtually all financial support for<b><i> </i></b>independent/CSresearch and representation and even programming in these areas.(for an interesting blogpost looking at this in my own country Canada see<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/digital-divide-canada-poor_n_4269171.html?utm_hp_ref=canada" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/digital-divide-canada-poor_n_4269171.html?utm_hp_ref=canada</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What this means is that whereas the Civil Society intervention in the WSIS process was active and effective<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>(including<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>in support of a broad community informatics approach)<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>there is virtually no counterpart developments in relation to this revisiting. (You will recall a flurry of notes etc. that I posted here on this subject at the beginning of this year.) I haven’t yet had a chance to go through these documents<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>in detail but a quick review suggests that,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>as I tried to say in my comments at the WSIS +10 meeting in February, it is not enough simply to review what has gone on before and to project it into the future it is also necessary to recognize where there has been failure and where past successes have led to new and significant issues which in turn need to be addressed.<a href="http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/making-happytalk-in-paris-disneyland-and-the-wsis-10-review/" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/making-happytalk-in-paris-disneyland-and-the-wsis-10-review/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m not sure if anything much can be done on this at this stage but for those with an interest it is worth taking a look at these documents and for those with even more interest the overall process is described at<a href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/review/mpp/" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>http://www.itu.int/wsis/review/mpp/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br><br>For all other list information and functions, see:<br> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance" target="_blank">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a><br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br><br>Translate this email:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"DroidSans","serif"'>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br><br>For all other list information and functions, see:<br> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a><br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br><br>Translate this email:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>