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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 07 May 2015 05:30 PM,
Jefsey wrote:<br>
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At 11:46 07/05/2015, parminder wrote:<br>
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Seems interesting. But what I am interested in first in in
dissecting the
financing of the internet freedom activists. Does someone knows
something
trustable to read in that area?<br>
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When there is a meeting somewhere in the world, how civil
society members
happen to be there? Who does actually pull the string wallets
and wallet
strings? Who does foot the civil society bill?<br>
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Just to know how politically (un)correct should my association
be to
qualify? And where to apply?<br>
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<font face="Verdana">Yes, JFC, this is perhaps the single most
important issue - to try to understand and perhaps apply
corrective pressures on the current </font>IG related civil
society (CS) configuration... But unfortunately the involved CS is
unable to build any kind of consensus on this all important issue,
or to act on it... It is so surprising that a sector whose raison
d'etre is to seek accountability from all those who are powerful
itself refuses to to be held accountable. In fact, raising this
issue in these civil society groups has attracted most vile
responses, as for instance Norbert faced a year or two back.<br>
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My organisation has proposed to some key players to set up a online
register of some kind for CS players in the IG space, on the lines
of EU Transparency Register
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/homePage.do">http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/homePage.do</a> . But
our discussions went nowhere.<br>
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Once, again, I appeal to key CS groups involved here to join
efforts to develop such an online register. If it is needed for
corporate lobbyists, it is today needed much more for CS groups as
well. <i><b>My organisation is happy to take a lead to be the
initial point of contact for those interested to develop such an
initiative. Once there is an initial mass of groups/ individuals
they can together choose an appropriate governance structure for
the initiative. </b></i><br>
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So many IG documents to day speak of transparency among stakeholder
groups, but little is done in practice (including the CSTD working
group on IGF improvement, and the much celebrated Net Mundial
document). CS must of course take the lead, and the conscience
keeper of governance processes.<br>
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parminder <br>
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jfc<br>
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