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<body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Hola muy estimada lista de colegas,<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">please let me express full endorsement of Parminder's candidacy, not just because of his creative and excellent performance in the context of our list ... it is also because of his brilliant intellectuality together with the strong engagement defending basic human rights as he has demonstrated in so many discussions and publications. His socio-cultural background in Asia/India will allow him best to fight for basically democratic ways to share and represent the interests of so dynamic, complex, multifacetic and pluricultural civil societies - that means to really make use of the unique potential of Intenet for social, economic, cultural and human development. On this point I explicitly express my full solidarity with the "Substantive proposals ... how to further implement<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">enhancend cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda"!!!<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Keep on doing such good work! (or hasta la victoria siempre?) ... <br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">federico nier-fischer<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">free lance journalist and former lecturer at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna, Austria <br></div>
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<div>Am Mo, 14. Mär 2016, um 17:01, schrieb parminder:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:Arial;">Hi All<br></div>
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The linked doc carries most of the details required by the 4
question format, but I thought one question may not be fully or at
least directly addressed. And it may also be one of the most
important ones. I have therefore updated the doc by adding the
following paragraph. Please let me know if any clarification or
further information is needed. I believe that the stand/ proposals
made by civil society participants should be public and they should
also commit to respond to clarification and other questions, and be
ready to undertake a debate, about which I hear some positive views
on this list. This is my primary purpose for posting this, and I
very much comend the CCWG for putting forward this important
question. <br></div>
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(begins)<br></div>
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<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size:14pt" class="size"><u><b>Substantive
proposals or a vision on “how to further implement enhanced
cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda”</b></u></span><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="size">A
lot of the text above tends to describe the vision I have in
this
regard. I will briefly summarise it here. When institutional
form –
whether extant or proposed new – becomes controversial, as
the
appropriate mechanism for addressing the much needed global
Internet
policies has become, we may need to start from the start.
Function, in such a case</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="size">, should</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"," serif"" class="font"><span style="font-size:14pt" class="size">precede form, as is held to be the
normal organisational wisdom. We have by now a good idea of
the function.
The first version of the Working Group on Enhanced
Cooperation, and
the follow-up CSTD secretariat report, did a good job of
mapping
global Internet related policy space. This may need to be
worked upon
a little more, especially in terms of bunching issues along
institutional requirements, which is the work that the new
group
should begin with. Further, we have existing institutions
like OECD's
Committee on Digital Economy Policy, and Council of Europe's
Steering
Committee on Media and Information Society (and probably
other
supra-national agencies doing such work which I have not
tracked),
whose excellent work provides a very good and ever-growing
list of
international Internet-related public policy issues. Once,
we are
over this hump, and there is an agreement that there indeed
exist
very important global Internet-related public policy issues,
it
should not be difficult to look for and find the appropriate
form. Like for
all important functions of our social lives, the form that
is agreed
upon may not be perfect, but as long at it is appreciated
that key
policy issues do need a global level addressing, it should
not be too
difficult to move towards the most appropriate one, within
the possible
institutional forms. In this regard, the UN's long history
of
innovative new institutional forms (after all, the IGF came
out if
it) and the high degree of multistakeholder
participativeness that
otherwise characterises the Internet governance space
together
provide an excellent background to make progress. I am sure
that this
group will achieve what it has set out to achieve. If we
even now
fail to find the appropriate institutional mechanism to
adequately
address the myriad, urgent and important global
Internet-related
policy issues, the coming generations would not be kind to
us in
remembering our political role at this key formative time of
the new
social paradigm of an Internet-mediated society. </span></span><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><br></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><br></p><div style="font-family:Arial;">(ends)<br></div>
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<div>On Monday 14 March 2016 11:18 AM, anita
wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:56E650B1.8080400@itforchange.net"><div style="font-family:Arial;">Friends,<br></div>
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IT for Change will like to propose the candidacy of Parminder to
be a civil society participant of the re-enacted Working Group on
Enhanced Cooperation.<br></div>
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Parminder has been very active in enhanced cooperation debates
since the very beginning. He has also played an important role in
keeping the concept alive, developing various proposals around it.
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Parminder was the first to demand that a CSTD Working Group on
Enhanced Cooperation be set up. And it is through his
contributions that the subject of Enhanced Cooperation was
discussed for the first time at the 2008 IGF. <br></div>
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We have put together a note on his suitability for this role,
which can be accessed here <a href="http://itforchange.net/Parminder_bio_WGEC-2.pdf">http://itforchange.net/Parminder_bio_WGEC-2.pdf</a><br></div>
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Please let me know if you need any further information or
clarification.<br></div>
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Regards<br></div>
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anita<br></div>
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