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Sala,<br>
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Our organization in very interested in participating in designing
the road ahead:<br>
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<li>Name of the Organisation or Network (and when organisation or
network was first formed) - Connecting.nyc Inc., a NYS nonprofit
formed in 2006.</li>
<li>Details of Constituency represented (Please also identify
whether this is a country based/regional or international) We
represent individual Internet users in New York <u>City</u>.<br>
</li>
<li>Name of Coordinator of Organisation/Network - Thomas
Lowenhaupt<br>
</li>
<li>Contact Details (including website) - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Tom@connectingnyc.org">Tom@connectingnyc.org</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://connectingnyc.org">http://connectingnyc.org</a><br>
</li>
<li>Name of one Nominee to the Coalition who will speak on
administrative matters where it comes to the wider coalition -
Thomas Lowenhaupt<br>
</li>
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Note: Our organization's focus centers around improving
communication and decision making in the urban environment of New
York City. In that light, I suggest you consider rephrasing question
#2 "Details of Constituency represented." We are neither country,
regional or international. It is our belief that urban needs have
been underrepresented in designing Internet resources. While our
focus is New York City, I suspect there are other urban entities
that would join this emerging collaborative effort if an invitation
was extended. With 37 cities having applied for TLDs, extending an
invitation to those city administrations (not the back end
providers) would add another (complexity and ) layer to the
evolution of Internet governance. (My view is that cities (here in
the U.S.) are closer to civil society than government and should be
considered part of the bottom-up process.)<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Thomas Lowenhaupt<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/2/2013 12:38 PM, Salanieta T.
Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear All,
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<div>At the moment, there is a loose network of some civil
society organisations namely:</div>
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<li>Association for Progressive Commuications (APC)</li>
<li>Best Bits</li>
<li>Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus</li>
<li>Diplo Foundation</li>
<li>ICANN's Non Commercial Stakeholder Group</li>
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<div>[In alphabetical order]<br>
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<div>I would really like to see more civil society
organisations work together to collaborate on designing the
way forward and strategies. If you feel that you would like
your civil society organisation to be part of a wider
collaborative effort, please respond to this email by
submitting the name of your organisation. Please feel free
to send this onwards to your respective cosmos.</div>
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<div><br>
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<div>The names put forward can be used to forge a Coalition of a
wider civil society based network. If you would like to be
part of a wider Coalition, please respond to this email with
following information:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
<ol>
<li>Name of the Organisation or Network (and when
organisation or network was first formed)</li>
<li>Details of Constituency represented (Please also
identify whether this is a country based/regional or
international)</li>
<li>Name of Coordinator of Organisation/Network</li>
<li>Contact Details (including website)</li>
<li>Name of one Nominee to the Coalition who will speak on
administrative matters where it comes to the wider
coalition</li>
</ol>
<div>Should you be interested in the wider Coalition and
engaging collaboratively, kindly respond ASAP. There will be
communiques sent to a mailing list that will be created that
will inform you of events that are happening to enable you
to stream the information to your networks and allow for
authentic bottom up, grassroots engagement in the diverse
regions of the world. This will help enable authentic global
civil society engagement and make it truly inclusive. </div>
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<div>Kind Regards,</div>
<div>Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro</div>
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