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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Sigh, I thought the point that the issue of concern was not "access" but the opportunity and means for <a href="http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1107/1027">"effective/meaningful" use</a> had been made in WSIS. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>"Access" is relatively easy, just a matter of will and money. Ensuring that folks are able to "use" the Internet in ways that are useful and meaningful to them, given their individual and collective priorities is a rather more difficult and time consuming task, so it tends to be ignored when big governments or big corps or big NGO's are tossing money at the problem.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>M<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"<br>Sent: March 4, 2015 11:52 AM<br>To: governance@lists.igcaucus.org; Hartmut Richard Glaser; governance@lists.igcaucus.org; Nnenna Nwakanma; bestbits@lists.bestbits.net; Edetaen Ojo<br>Subject: AW: [governance] Text of speech - losing remarks at UNESCO Connecting the Dots Conference</span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks Nnenna for another great speech. Access will be also one of the highest priorities for the NetMundial Initiative.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Wolfgang<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Von: <a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</span></a> im Auftrag von Hartmut Richard Glaser<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Gesendet: Mi 04.03.2015 20:44<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>An: <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>governance@lists.igcaucus.org</span></a>; Nnenna Nwakanma; <<a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</span></a>>; Edetaen Ojo<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Betreff: Re: [governance] Text of speech - losing remarks at UNESCO Connecting the Dots Conference<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Excelent Nnenna ..., congratulations ...!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Hartmut Glaser/CGI.br<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>====================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>On 04/03/15 13:56, Nnenna Nwakanma wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Connecting the Dots: Options for Future Action<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> UNESCO headquarters, Paris, France.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Closing Remarks by Nnenna Nwakanma<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Africa Regional Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> The World Wide Web Foundation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> March 4, 2015<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Deputy Director General<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Friends and colleagues<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Onsite and online<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> My name is Nnenna.Icome from the Internet. And I have been asked to <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> say a few words to us, as a member of the civil society, before we <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> leave. I coordinate the activities of the World Wide Web Foundation in <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> my continent, Africa. The Web Foundation isthat organization that <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> believes that the Internet is for everyone.Therefore we work on <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> affordable access to all, we work on opening up data for participation <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> and we supportthe global Web We Want Coalition.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> I have three things to say.The first is on the UNESCO study itself.The <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> second is on one of the issues raised.The third ison where we go from <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> here.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> From the Civil Society end, we recognize that UNESCO's consultation <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> towards the study was open, online, multistakeholder and tried to be <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> as inclusive as could be. This for me, lends trust. Trust in the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> organization, trust in its capacity to bring key actors to the table.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> The R-O-A-M principles of the study (Rights based, Open, Accessible, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Multistakeholder participation) are not just important for the study, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> but they also are key in implementing its recommendations.Soit is only <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> natural that we engage as civil society, during, now and going forward.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Do we endorse the outcomedocument? I do.But the Civil Society is too <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> large a constituency for just one person to say yes on behalf of all <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> others.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> On the issues, I will settle for one. Just one. Access.Just today, the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Alliance for Affordable Internet launched the Affordability report.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Affordability Report shows that Over 2 billion people living in <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> poverty cannot access the Internet affordably and that a fixed <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> broadband connection costs on average 40% of monthly income across 51 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> developing countries.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> And we are working towards access for everyone.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> To UNESCO,I must say, that the Global Internet is of global importance <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> and we mustseek at all times, to manage it for global interest, global <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> benefit and global utility. So,many thanks for putting Internet <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Governance and the IGF in the heart of the process.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> -- In working foraccess to knowledge and information,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> -- in workingfor freedom of expression<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> -- in working for privacy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> -- in working for ethics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> We are notjust connecting dots. We are connecting people. We are <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> connecting cultures, we are extending science by connecting knowledge <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> to knowledge, men and women, we are connecting continents.We are <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> righting the wrongs of the past, consolidating the present and <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> building a viable future.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> We have a heritage.A global heritage. The Internet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> The Internet represents a masterpiece of human creative genius<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> It isthe most important tool of interchange of human values<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> And an exceptional testimony to our common civilization<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> These are the basis on which UNESCOselects sites as heritage. And <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> here, we have more than a heritage. The Internet is our global <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> heritage<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Ladies and gentlemen, friends here and online.Tomorrow is my birthday. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> And my sister told me to make a wish.I asked if I should keep my eyes <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> open or closed and she said "any way".So I will close an eye and keep <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> one open, for security purposes.And here is my wish..<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> /_That the open Internet, the open web, will be established as global <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> public good and a basic right of all men and women, all humans and <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> that everyone can access it can use it freely._/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> ____________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>governance@lists.igcaucus.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> To be removed from the list, visit:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> For all other list information and functions, see:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.igcaucus.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://translate.google.com/translate_t</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>