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Jeanette, Stephanie<br>
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Great initiative. Would be wonderful if we could turn this around,
get signatures and announce during the open mic/closing session.<br>
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Can we try and get comments by end of Wednesday, sign-ons by end of
day Thurs?<br>
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Letter may be a little long and overly full of UN text references -
but that may be a matter of tweaking.<br>
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Best.<br>
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Matthew<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/1/2014 5:46 PM, Jeanette Hofmann
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:540486BE.8020007@wzb.eu" type="cite">Hi all,
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Stephanie Perrin and I have drafted a statement that asks the UN
Secretary to consider renewing the mandate of the IGF on a
permanent basis.
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About 90% of the text are quotes from UN documents referring to
the IGF and from the NetMundial Statement.
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Our draft is intended to reflect the views of all stakeholders and
perhaps get a broad endorsement at the end of the IGF.
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Right now, it is just a draft. Changes are welcome.
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We have set up a pad for editing:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://etherpad.mozilla.org/LQO468JD1K">https://etherpad.mozilla.org/LQO468JD1K</a>
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For convenience we also paste the text into this email below.
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The goal is to complete the editing before the end of the IGF.
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Stephanie and Jeanette
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Request for consideration to the UN Secretary General on
permanence of the IGF
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In 2005, the UN Member states asked the UN Secretary-General in
the Tunis Agenda, to convene a meeting of the new forum for
multi-stakeholder policy dialogue—called the Internet Governance
Forum (IGF). (Footnote: paragraph 72, Tunis Agenda)
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The mandate of the Forum was to discuss public policy issues
relating to key elements of Internet governance, such as those
enumerated in
<br>
the Tunis Agenda, in order to foster the sustainability,
robustness, security, stability and development of the Internet in
developed and developing countries. The Forum was not to replace
existing arrangements, mechanisms, institutions or organizations.
It was intended to constitute a neutral, non-duplicative and
non-binding process, and have no involvement in day-to-day or
technical operations of the Internet.
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The Tunis Agenda also asked the UN Secretary-General to examine
the desirability of the continuation of the Forum, in formal
consultation with Forum participants, within five years of its
creation, and to make recommendations to the UN Membership in this
regard. At its sixty-fifth session, the General Assembly decided
to extend the mandate of the IGF, underlining the need to improve
the IGF “with a view to linking it to the broader dialogue on
global Internet governance”.
<br>
In his note on the continuation of the Internet Governance Forum,
the UN Secretary General confirmed that the IGF was unique and
valuable. It is a place where Governments, civil society, the
private sector and international organizations discuss important
questions of economic and social development. They share their
insights and achievements and build a common understanding of the
Internet’s great potential.
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The Secretary-General recommended that
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(a) That the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum be extended
for a further five years;
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(b) That the desirability of continuation be considered again by
Member
<br>
States within the context of a 10-year review of implementation of
the outcome of the World Summit on the Information Society in
2015;
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<br>
Footnote: (General Assembly, Sixty-fifth session, Item 17 of the
preliminary list*, Information and communications technologies
for development, Economic and Social Council, Substantive session
of 2010 New York, 28 June-23 July 2010, Agenda item 13 (b)**)
<br>
The NetMundial Meeting, convened by the Government of Brazil,
stated in the NetMundial Multistakeholder Statement on April 24th,
2014, that there is a need for a strengthened Internet Governance
Forum (IGF). Important recommendations to that end had already
been made by the UN CSTD working group on IGF improvements. The
NetMundial Statement also stated that “a strengthened IGF could
better serve as a platform for discussing both long standing and
emerging issues with a view to contributing to the identification
of possible ways to address them.”
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Given the significance of the Internet Governance Forum for the
continuing development of Internet governance, we request the UN
Secretary General to establish the IGF as a permanent
multistakeholder forum. We also request that the UN Secretary
General work with the IGF and its stakeholders to strengthen its
structure and processes.
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