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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Dear Tarakiyee,<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div>Thanks for sharing your reflection, though I see a few ideas that are not fitting history and reality</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"ill-formed..." Well democracy as a concept is not ill-formed at all. Its implementation varies a lot from one place, one people, one climate. But as a clear concept of governance, in particular when it comes to public policy making, it is most clear-formed.</div><div><br></div><div>"The Internet is not flat, power and control is concentrated..." Hopefully we all agree on this.</div><div><br></div><div>"Multiple stakeholders exists; it's not some wishful invention, and it's the interactions of these multistakeholders that has governed the Internet so far..." </div><div>> To be honest, Internet wasn't born of multistaholderism. The computer scientists were certainly competing in an open fashion (sharing their ideas even though they might disagree on what would be the best solution to move forward). Some very few of them would put intellectual rights on their discovery, coding, ideas, some could not, some would not. Then technicians joined in, playing their speedy rough consensus to twist their impatience of to get things working. Multistakeholderistic approach is an ill-formed narrative that has appeared by the very late nineties, probably along the replacement of the academic driving (governing) forces by the ill-formed ICANN. Since then, this boutique has abusively been a screen smoke that, on behalf of the US department of commerce, and other USG bodies, including the White House has pretty well managed to make sure that nothing was able to change. Very little has changed since the mid-nineties as related to Internet, and the US concept of a new global domination by digital means. More concentration has emerged into the hands of a Web giant such as Google (born the same year as ICANN). Of course Google is not directly an Internet thing (more of a web) but thanks to its cash machinery, it has accelerated this US re-colonization of the world, killing the media (who cares?), buying its own commercial peace, twisting national laws, ignoring them, avoiding to pay tax everywhere it can, but more importantly gaining power within the Internet scheme of governance (how many Google employees are part of the IETF, IAB, ISOC, ICANN boards and their many many workshops, committees, commissions?). The asymmetry, and its unfairness, dates from the mid-nineties. Civil society since then, have achieved relatively little, if we take the US where is located most of the Internet power. Even lately Obama expressed a view, that after all, that was most consistent with the fact that the US had given birth to this wonder, so why not to admit it, and play according to the US rulers?) We are greatly far away from a global transnational democratic system. No need to remind you, or anyone, about the dark side of that power, its mass surveillance program, its diverse monopoles (CISCO for routers, Google for search, ICANN for creating TLDs, Verisign...)</div><div><br></div><div>> The interactions of these multistakeholders are most difficult to see or embrace as a sane activity. The difficulty to express a different opinion, view, idea is undeniable; if you do not agree with the "rough consensus, status-quo, decentralized, captured (single and open) Internet" then you are a pariah.</div><div><br></div><div>> If as you believe, multistakeholderism has made the Internet governance as it is today, a non democratic system as we know it, how can we trust it to make it democratic the next day? Why if it is supposed to lead us toward more democratic governance, did the US government and some CS groupies constantly refuse the word "democratic" to appear in a non binding statement at UNESCO? Should we then admit that in San Paulo, the Net Mundial final statement which contained the word "democratic" was nothing less than a mistake? Why a mistake, if you believe multistakeholderism is supposed to lead us in that direction, but with fierce opposition to it? Why the Netmundial summit transformed itself in a corporations-led initiative? Was this odd switch taking the right direction, toward a more democratic governance?</div><div><br></div><div>> If you are able to sleep over your disappointment to see that this simple word is not part of CS fundamental demands/requests/fights, then what's your expectation in terms of transforming the current asymmetry? Let it be and sleep well? The Jeanettes, Anriettes, Malcolms, are welcoming the small victories they seem to see over the last ten years? Can someone point us the list of these victories, and how it has affected the life of people with and without access to Internet? "We prefer a text than no text are they telling us." But what's the use of accumulating losses and defeats in such a brilliant and constant manner? Where are these many statements lead us in concrete terms? When they should side with JNC position, they side with US diplomats, opposing any single concrete advancement to rebalance the asymmetry.</div><div><br></div><div>We are about one year away from the NetMundial final statement: can someone tell us what has changed since Rousseff speech at the UN, since Chehade visited her to soften her views and kill her demand for a fair Internet governance? Nnenna is still having nice dreams, endorsed by sweet +1, as other CS are sleeping well. </div><div><br></div><div>Who gives a dam about democratic principals in the digital space? I do, and I am happy to share this concern with other JNC participants, and tomorrow with civil society participating in the Internet Social Forum. I also believe that from APC to other CS groupings, it could be positive to look for common grounds, instead of trying to constantly distort JNC's point of view and ideas because it would be too disruptive, or simply challenging the status quo. JNC has no problem to work with others - JNC itself is a very large setting containing different views and reflections from all over the world - but this should be made in an honest fashion.</div><div><br></div><div>Honesty and trust within CS. Let's get ride of the money corrupting it. Let's get back to true CS work.</div><div><br></div><div>JC</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<br><div><div>Le 7 mars 2015 à 23:07, Tarakiyee a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear all,<br><br>"ill-formed, shape shifting from context to context and lacks any<br>consistent definition either in theory or in practice," is exactly how<br>some people from my country would describe their experience with<br>democracy. We live in a complex world, perhaps even as complex as the<br>Internet we are discussing how best it be governed.<br><br>Intersecting systems of oppression such as colonialism, patriarchy,<br>classism and supremecy, mean that any particapatory decision making<br>model would favour some over others. Likewise, the internet is not<br>flat, power and control is concentrated in some places more than the<br>others, such as corporates, governmental agencies, quasi-govermental<br>entities and multi-lateral agencies.<br><br>Multiple stakeholders exist, it's not some wishful invention, and it's<br>the interactions of these multistakholders that has governed the<br>internet so far. If it wasn't for the hard work of civil society,<br>there would have been little or no transperancy, no marginalised<br>voices, and possibly a lot of elitism. If this is the supposed goal of<br>the so called "MS proponents" as outlined in the thread above, then<br>the status quo was already much better than whatever "they" would hope<br>to achieve.<br><br>Needless to say, I don't believe such a conspiracy exists. I, as many<br>others, would like to see the interactions of these multistakeholders<br>become more transperant, inclusive and democratic, and in that<br>context, I don't see multistakeholder participation as existing for<br>multistakeholderism's sake, but rather as a means to achieve<br>inclusive, transperent, and democratic internet governance.<br><br>Am I disappointed to see the word "democratic" not included in the<br>outcome document? I am, but I won't lose any sleep over it. There is<br>so much more to take out of the outcome document in order to develop<br>an equal, just and democratic internet. It certainly won't be easy to<br>do so, but on the other hand, commitment to democracy in IG also won't<br>hinge on one document or two.<br><br>That is of course not meant to minimize the importance of these<br>discussions and concerns, I only mean to point to the other equally<br>important battles being fought. A strong, principled, and nuanced<br>approach in engagement with a variety of actors is the strongest tool<br>we have. A constantly adverserial position can be disadvantagous and<br>draining, especially if it makes us lose sight of gains we achieve.<br><br>Tarakiyee<br><br>Views here are my own.<br><br><br>On 07/03/15 21:08, Michael Gurstein wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Wolfgang,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The issues that you mention of interest to CS are of course<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">important and should be addressed by CS in all cases, but there is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">also the overall necessity to ensure that the broad framework of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">decision making and the normative structures which underlie this<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are supportive of the general good (including of course, civil<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">society).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The problem is that in the MS model there is no one to protect the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">public interest... as was quite evident in this UNESCO instance<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">where the entire process seems to have been captured by MSists from<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the very beginning (surely a framing in terms of democratic values<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and social justice is a minimum expectation).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">As I think is quite evident in this particular instance as with<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">others where a MS approach is allowed to frame the discussion, it<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is not clear at all that the general good is being or will be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">pursued.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">M<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-----Original Message----- From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de] Sent: March<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">7, 2015 9:37 AM To: <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; Michael<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Gurstein; Benedek, Wolfgang; <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; best<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Bits Subject: AW: [governance] [bestbits] Remarks at UNESCO Closing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ceremony of "Connecting the Dots Conference"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This discussion is bizarr.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Civil Society should concentrate on concrete issues as access, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">infrastructure, data protection, freedom of expression, education,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">capacity building, cultural diversity etc. In my eyes CS can<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">achieve more when they communicate and collaborate with other<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">stakeholders. Insofar a "multistakeholder approach" where CS is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">involved as an equal partner in its respective role, gives civil<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">society more opportunities and options than a "one stakeholder<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">approach" where CS is excluded from final policy and decision<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">making and its role is reduced to implement on the "community <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">level" what other stakeholders have decided.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Wolfgang<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">BTW, for people who like "wordsmithing" and "playing with<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">paragraphs" I recommend to read para. 35 of the Tunis Agenda in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">light of para. 34. Para. 34 speaks about "shared decision making<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">procedures". Para. 35a says that states "have rights and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">responsibilities for international Internet-related public policy<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">issues". The paragraph 35a does not say that states have "exclusive<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">rights". With other words,if you read 35 in the light of 34, states<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(and their governments) have to "share decision making" on<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"Internet related public policy issues" with other stakeholders.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This is not easy to achive. But this is the challenge where we have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to move forward by being creative. The NetMundial conference<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">offered an interesting model. More forward looking Innovation is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">needed.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I think what you mean below is not "a consensus on the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">understanding and role of democracy in the context of the internet"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">but rather a consensus on how to effectively operationalize<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">democracy in the context of the Internet something with which I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(and the JNC) completely agree and which we have been advocating<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">for a long time.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Further, I think that even in the absence of a fully formed<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">consensus on the definition of "democracy" there seems, at least<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">based on my quotes from Mr. Mandela and the US State Department,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sufficient comfort in a working definition of democracy that Mr.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mandela would commit his life to the endeavour and the US-State<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Department would make it a fundamental pillar of US foreign policy.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Based on this, presumably "we" could have sufficient comfort to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"force" it into international documents.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The same, I should add cannot in any sense be said for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">multistakeholderism, a concept which even its strongest advocates<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">acknowledge is ill-formed, shape shifting from context to context<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and lacks any consistent definition either in theory or in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">practice.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">M<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-----Original Message----- From: Benedek, Wolfgang<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="mailto:wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at">wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at</a>) <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[mailto:wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at] Sent: March 7, 2015 6:02 AM <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; Michael Gurstein Subject: Re:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[governance] [bestbits] Remarks at UNESCO Closing Ceremony of <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"Connecting the Dots Conference"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">First to make my position clear I'm myself an advocate of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">democratic governance and a holistic approach to human rights<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">although not as an alternative to multistakeholderism, the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">potential of which in my view still needs to be developed.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Second I have myself proposed in writing to the Secretariat to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">include certain language on global citizenship education, a concept<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">supported by the UN Secretary General and developed very actively<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in the educational sector of UNECO while only mentioned once in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">UNESCO study to resolve ethical issues in cyberspace. Finally, the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">concept was only mentioned without any elaboration. And I'm aware<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that several other proposals made by others were not taken up at<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">all.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Regarding the baggage issue, I'm not an insider to these<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">discussions, I have no problem with appeals to democratic values,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">but I'm aware that the concept of democracy has also been misused a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">lot in history, take the examples of the former German Democratic<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Republic(GDR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) or the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. It would be good to work for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a consensus on the understanding and role of democracy in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">context of the internet among civil society and academia first<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">before forcing it into international documents.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Wolfgang Benedek<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Am 07.03.15 14:01 schrieb "Michael Gurstein" unter < <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">mailto:gurstein@gmail.com</a>> <a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>>:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">And to be very clear, in the case of "democracy" it wasn't<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">simply a<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">matter of the concept "not making it into the final document"<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">but<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">rather that those involved made the clear political choice to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">promote<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">"multistakeholderism" and suppress "democracy".<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">M<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">-----Original Message-----<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">From: <<a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">[ <<a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Norbert<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Klein<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Sent: March 7, 2015 3:45 AM<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">To: <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>> <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [governance] [bestbits] Remarks at UNESCO Closing<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ceremony<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">of "Connecting the Dots Conference"<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On 03/07/2015 02:30 PM, Benedek, Wolfgang<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">( <<a href="mailto:wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at">mailto:wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at</a>><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at">wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at</a>)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">As a participant and speaker in the UNESCO conference<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Connecting the<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">dots: Options for future action in Paris I think it is<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">important to<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">put the record straight: the main purpose of the conference was<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">give feedback to the UNESCO draft Internet study and advise on<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">future priorities in this field. This was done in several<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">plenary and<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">16 breakout sessions in a MSH-approach quite successfully.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The fact that two concepts important to some did not make it<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">into the<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">outcome document should not be overestimated as this is all<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">work in<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">progress. Also other concepts dear to others were not or only<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">partly<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">included. I also do not remember that these concepts were<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">elaborated<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">on during the sessions or panels in any significant way in<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">order to<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">deepen their understanding.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Wolfgang Benedek<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Dear Mr. Benedek,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">thanks for this, for this type of, clarification - using only<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">formalities like "Also other concepts dear to others were not or<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">only<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">partly included."<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I cannot easily imagine what kind of "other concept" of a<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">similar<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">importance and weight could be lined up with "democracy." I<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">would<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">appreciate it if you, as a participant in this UNESCO conference,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">could<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">share some of these "other concepts" which were also not, or<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">only<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">partially, included.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Thanks in advance,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Norbert Klein<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Cambodia<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">____________________________________________________________ You<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">received this message as a subscriber on the list: <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a> To be removed from the list, visit: <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">For all other list information and functions, see: <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a> To edit your profile and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to find the IGC's charter, see: <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br><br>For all other list information and functions, see:<br> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a><br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br><br>Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>