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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04-Feb-15 10:27, parminder wrote:<br>
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<div class=""> So some of us try to work in the relevant
multistakeholder spaces and make them better by inter alia
attenuating the levels of ‘capture’ by powerful interests. We
win some and more often we lose some, just like in
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As discussed above, we need to work across a range of different
combinations of MS and gov based decision making structures, and
not speak of one against the other.... <br>
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As someone who is as deeply immersed in the multistakeholder world
as possible and who also participates in my government's delegations
as a civil society adviser (just attended the ITU IPP CWG meeting in
Geneva), I agree.<br>
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In National debates where sovereignty is difficult to dispute, this
participation is essential and is recognized by participation by
many of the most committed members of civil society and the
technical community.<br>
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In International debates where states have a special set of roles
and responsibilities that do not, however, extend to soveriegnity
over the Internet we need more civil society representation in our
various government delegations. I was disappointed at the recent
ITU CWG meetings at how few of the delegations included civil
society or interent technical community participants. This is one
venue where the accepted form of participation is state delegations
only. In these cases I believe we need to be there as part of our
national delegations to the extent possible and allowed. While I
would prefer that the ITU Council and other IGO only organizations
open their doors to direct participation by our civil society
associations, in the meantime, we need to advise from inside state
delegations as best we can.<br>
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avri<br>
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