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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/12/13 11:46, Salanieta
Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:18BFEF69-E6F5-45F2-8FD0-A83A8F4A8B27@gmail.com"
type="cite">This is not a new initiative but simply one which I
have been pushing for since Bali which is wider inclusion of civil
society organisations rather than just:
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Commuications (APC)<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New
Roman', serif;">Best Bits<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New
Roman', serif;">Civil Society Internet Governance
Caucus<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New
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<div>Currently, the steering committee comprises of these 5
organisations but i would like to see more come to the table
as we need to be inclusive and not exclusive and clique based.</div>
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<div>This would simply mean ensuring that there is harmonized
and seamless communication and joint synergistic efforts
within civil society because it would be a farce to suggest
increasing accountability and transparency from other
constituencies and when within our own we are isolated.</div>
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Then that seems to be a bit orthogonal to what we've been discussing
on the joint steering committee itself which is developing standards
that would make sense for <i>networks of organisations</i> rather
than individual organisations to join the committee. Whereas your
latest call is for individual organisations to put themselves
forward to do so. Hence why Ian may have been taken a bit by
surprise.<br>
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It is not impossible to conceive that this is the right approach,
because that is how CSISAC came together in pretty short order, from
the organisations that signed the Seoul Declaration. But different
from the approach taken so far, and probably needs more discussion
first. There's no harm in that discussion taking place here, but to
manage expectations, it might have been premature to call for
individual organisations to join?<br>
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Just my thoughts... <br>
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