<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><html><div id='yahoo__compose_area' style="background-color:white; display:block; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Regular,Helvetica; font-size:15px;"><div>Hi there,</div><div><br></div><div>Here are my thoughts on this trend.</div><div><br></div><div>Civil Society is a stakeholder and it has its power as others to influence processes. In my life, i learnt to not refuse to be part of a process just because i don't share 'some' principles from one of the organisers although it is something that is important and can have a global impact in my own life and the life of those i most care about. Instead, i take the opportunity to go and try to help them change their behaviors. If nothing changes, then i know what to do.</div><div><br></div><div>Flavio (CGI) said in the mail Mawaki shared: </div><div>''...So let's try to transform NMI, which is still also a vague idea, into something that is
concrete and useful for the advancement of IG and that fully respects the principles enshrined in the NETmundial declaration.''</div><div><br></div><div>Let's be part of the NMI but let's also define clear points: 'what we will never endorse' and 'what we need to work on as a CS agenda and give it to our 5 representatives'. We do have principles, right?</div><div><br></div><div>We are at a big step of the history and not being part of this can be something future generations will never understand and will never forgive. We all know that they will go with or without us. Instead, if we go and things turn against our principles, then our 'publicized' leave will have more sense than a simple boycott before giving it a try. This is a big responsibility and an important decision for the future of CS as a whole.</div><div><br></div><div>These are personal views!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>A</div>------------------<br>Arsene
Tungali,<br>Executive Director, Rudi International<br><a href="http://www.rudiinternational.org" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">www.rudiinternational.org</a><br><br>Founder, Mabingwa Forum<br><a href="http://www.mabingwa-forum.com" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">www.mabingwa-forum.com</a><br>Phone:<a href="tel:+243993810967" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">+243993810967</a><br><br>ICANN Fellow | ISOC Member | Child Online Protection Advocate | Youth Leader | Internet Governance.<br>Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)<br><br>Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</div><div id='yahoo__original_message' class='yQTDBase'><br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:1px #ccc solid; padding-left:1ex; ">At 21 nov. 2014 07:39:52, Suresh Ramasubramanian<'<a
href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">suresh@hserus.net</a>'> wrote:<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div style="color:black;"><br/><div style="color:black;"><br/><p style="margin:0 0 1em 0;color:black;">I can't agree more. The other<br/>thing is you will definitely find other civil society organizations at the<br/>table, whatever the local consensus we achieve here is. <br><br/></p><br/></div><br/><div style="color:black;"><br/><p style="color:black;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:10pt 0;">On<br/>November 21, 2014 10:55:08 AM <a href="mailto:shailam@yahoo.com" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">shailam@yahoo.com</a> wrote:</p><br/><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 0.75ex;border-left:1px solid #808080;padding-left:0.75ex;"><div>Hi </div><div>If<br/>we wish
to have our voice heard we need to be at the table. If we are not<br/>there how can we voice opinions ,influence and shape policy decisions.<br/>Regardless of the numerous pros and cons to joining NM, the prevailing<br/>factor is to be a participating presence. </div><div>Shaila Rao Mistry<br/> <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Nov 19, 2014, at 1:35<br/>AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">suresh@hserus.net</a>><br/>wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div style="color:black;"><br/><div style="color:black;"><br/><p style="margin:0 0 1em 0;color:black;">Even within civil society,<br/>include only those sections of civil society that still use jargon like<br/>neoliberal</p><br/><p style="margin:0 0 1em 0;color:black;">I suppose it is a mercy that<br/>'evil capitalist running dogs' is out of fashion these days.
<br><br/></p><br/></div><br/><div style="color:black;"><br/><p style="color:black;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:10pt 0;">On<br/>November 19, 2014 2:52:03 PM Sivasubramanian M <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>><br/>wrote:</p><br/><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 0.75ex;border-left:1px solid #808080;padding-left:0.75ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Dear<br/>Guru,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;"><div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;">(You<br/>(Guru) said: </div>WEF is a primarily group of big businesses. We have<br/>seen the increasing danger to the ideals of the WSIS Declaration of<br/>Principles from the activities of transnational corporations. Apart from<br/>using/monetising our data for their commercial gains in<br/>authorised/unauthorised/</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;">illegitimate/illegal ways,<br/>their unregulated work also is structuring our participation in the<br/>information society in many unhealthy ways. Through Snowden we also<br/>understand how many of them are in cahoots with the 5 eyes (USG+) on<br/>extraordinary programme of global<br/>surveillance</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">If such as strong generalization of
big<br/>business is to be accepted as fair and valid, then all those who subscribe<br/>to such a generalization may have to go back to the WSIS declarations and<br/>summarily exclude Business as a Stakeholder group, and then declare that<br/>Internet Governance ought to be a process with two stakeholder groups -<br/>Government + Civil Society. No, no, on second thoughts I see your<br/>reference to Snowden and USG+, so the Civil Society could exclude<br/>Government from Internet Governance, and declare that Internet Governance<br/>must be reinvented as a single stakeholder group process, with Civil<br/>Society as the only stakeholder group. </font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"
style="display:inline;">Seriously, i</div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline;">f WSIS had committed to build a<br/>"</div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);">people-centred, inclusive and<br/>development-oriented Information Society<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;">", what happens to<br/>inclusiveness and development with such a position on Big Business?<br/></div></span><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">And, why this hatred for big business? Most<br/>progress in this world has happened because of enterprise, much more<br/>because of business than because of Government. Granted, some of the<br/>information technology big businesses have worked with Governments
on<br/>surveillance designs, and even there, we do not know how of much of such<br/>cooperation came out of a desire for profit and how much of it was forced<br/>by arm-twisting or by milder pressures in so many subtle and imaginative<br/>ways. </font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Irrespective<br/>of how WEF's role has been articulated at the moment, it is a very<br/>positive development to bring in the WEF<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;">. </div></font></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;"></div><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);">WEF<br/>participation suddenly expands business
participation to a world of<br/>business outside the IT sector, so WEF's attention to IG issues might<br/>by itself act as a balancing influence within the corporate world, because<br/>many of these Big Businesses are Internet "users"<br/>themselves. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;">Some<br/>of these Big Businesses are possibly charitable in unknown ways. What is<br/>needed here is strong support at the moment, and w</div></span><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);">e could<br/></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;">eventually<br/></div><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);">work towards a<br/>greater balance across stakeholder groups. </span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,
sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);display:inline;"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy">Sivasubramanian M</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div><br/><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Guru <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Guru@itforchange.net" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">Guru@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <div><br/> Dear Mawaki<br><br/> <br><br/> I would like to cite from two sources:<br><br/> <br><br/> A. WSIS Declaration of Principles - <br/> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html">http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html</a> <br/>(the very<br/> first two clauses)<br><br/> <br><br/> 1. We, the representatives of the peoples of the world*, *assembled<br/> in Geneva from 10-12 December 2003 for the first phase of the World<br/> Summit on the Information Society,* declare our common desire and<br/> commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and<br/> development-oriented Information Society, where everyone can create,<br/> access, utilize and share information and knowledge, enabling<br/> individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential<br/> in promoting their sustainable development and improving their<br/> quality of life, premised on the purposes and principles of the<br/> Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding the<br/> Universal Declaration of Human Rights.<br><br/>
2. Our challenge* is to harness the potential of information and<br/> communication technology to promote the development goals of the<br/> Millennium Declaration, namely the eradication of extreme poverty<br/> and hunger; achievement of universal primary education; promotion of<br/> gender equality and empowerment of women; reduction of child<br/> mortality; improvement of maternal health; to combat HIV/AIDS,<br/> malaria and other diseases; ensuring environmental sustainability;<br/> and development of global partnerships for development for the<br/> attainment of a more peaceful, just and prosperous world. We also<br/> reiterate our commitment to the achievement of sustainable<br/> development and agreed development goals, as contained in the<br/> Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Implementation and the<br/> Monterrey Consensus, and other outcomes of relevant United Nations<br/> Summits.<br><br/> <br><br/>
I now will cite from the WEF site -<br/> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.weforum.org/our-members">http://www.weforum.org/our-members</a><br><br/> <br><br/> Begin<br><br/> Our Members<br><br/> The World Economic Forum is a membership organization. Our Members<br/> comprise 1,000 of the world’s top corporations, global enterprises<br/> usually with more than US$ 5 billion in turnover. These enterprises<br/> rank among the top companies within their industry and play a<br/> leading role in shaping the future of their industry and region.<br/> Some of our Member companies join the Forum’s Strategic and Industry<br/> Partnership communities, which are designed to deepen their<br/> engagement with the Forum’s events, project and initiatives. The<br/> Forum’s Members are at the heart of all our activities.<br><br/> End<br><br/> <br><br/> It is clear that WEF is a primarily group
of big businesses. We have<br/> seen the increasing danger to the ideals of the WSIS Declaration of<br/> Principles from the activities of transnational corporations. Apart<br/> from using/monetising our data for their commercial gains in<br/> authorised/unauthorised/illegitimate/illegal ways, their unregulated<br/> work also is structuring our participation in the information<br/> society in many unhealthy ways. Through Snowden we also understand<br/> how many of them are in cahoots with the 5 eyes (USG+) on<br/> extraordinary programme of global surveillance, which helps them in<br/> their goals of political-economic domination / colonisation <br><br/> <br><br/> Participating in forums anchored in such a space will only<br/> legitimise their power. I am clear that IGC should not participate<br/> in the NMI.<br><br/> <br><br/> thanks and regards<br><br/> Guru<br><br/> <br><br/> Gurumurthy
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class="h5"><br><br/> <br><br/> On Tuesday 18 November 2014 05:02 PM, Mawaki Chango wrote:<br><br/> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">> Dear All,<br><br/> > <br><br/> > You must have heard a good deal about this by now, so I won't<br/> repeat<br><br/> > the background details. In the middle of the night last<br/> night, before<br><br/> > hitting the bed after a long and drawn out day playing<br/> catch-up with<br><br/> > deadlines, I saw that Ian (chair of CSCG) forwarded the NMI<br><br/> > Transitional Committee's reply the CSCG enquiry. Basically,<br/> they are<br><br/> > willing to let the CSCG vet CS candidates to be part of the<br/> NMI<br><br/> > Coordination Council.<br><br/> > <br><br/> > Now the question before us is to get a feel of the membership<br/> of CSCG<br><br/> > member entities as to whether to get involved in the NMI<br/> process
or<br><br/> > not. I believe this is the last step in the consultations<br/> we've been<br><br/> > having (with NMI initiators, among ourselves at the CSCG and<br/> with the<br><br/> > membership of our respective organizations.) After this we<br/> should be<br><br/> > able to give a definite answer, formulate a definite position<br/> about<br><br/> > our participation in the NMI process.<br><br/> > <br><br/> > So what do you think? Please get right to the point and be<br/> brief.<br><br/> > State your preference for IGC Involvement or No involvement<br/> and, if<br><br/> > you care to provide us with such, I would be grateful to you<br/> if you<br><br/> > could keep your supporting argument in one short paragraph<br/> (as we<br><br/> > just want to take the "temperature of the room" if you see<br/> what I<br><br/> > mean.)<br><br/> > <br><br/>
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