<div dir="ltr">Yeay to Parminder! :)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 March 2016 at 18:32, Thomas Lowenhaupt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toml@communisphere.com" target="_blank">toml@communisphere.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I'm uncertain if I prefer the jfc morfin or federico nier-fischer
endorsements. So let me +1 both of those in adding my endorsement of
Parminder.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Tom Lowenhaupt<span class=""><br>
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I second this nomination. Not always in agreement with Parminder,
but he
is active, knowledgeable and determined. <br>
jfc morfin<br>
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</span><span class=""><div>On 3/14/2016 1:26 PM, federico
nier-fischer wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial">Hola muy estimada lista de
colegas,<br>
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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>
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envisioned in the Tunis Agenda"!!!<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial">Keep on doing such good work! (or
hasta la victoria siempre?) ... <br>
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lecturer at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna, Austria <br>
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<div>Am Mo, 14. Mär 2016, um 17:01, schrieb parminder:<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial">Hi All<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial"> 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>
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<div style="font-family:Arial"> (begins)<br>
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<p style="line-height:120%;margin-bottom:0.25cm" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u><b>Substantive
proposals or a vision on “how to further implement
enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda”</b></u></span><br>
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<p style="line-height:120%;margin-bottom:0.25cm"><span><span style="font-size:14pt">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><span style="font-size:14pt">, should</span></span><span><span style="font-size:14pt">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>
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<div style="font-family:Arial">(ends)<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial"> parminder <br>
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<div>On Monday 14 March 2016 11:18 AM, anita wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial">Friends,<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial"> 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>
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<div style="font-family:Arial"> 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. <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial"> 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>
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<div style="font-family:Arial"> 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" target="_blank">http://itforchange.net/Parminder_bio_WGEC-2.pdf</a><br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial"> Please let me know if you
need any further information or clarification.<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial"> Regards<br>
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