<p>well put, Deirdre!</p>
<p>Divina </p>
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<blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: #ff0000 2px solid;">> Message du 04/06/16 18:04<br />> De : "Deirdre Williams" <williams.deirdre@gmail.com><br />> A : "Internet Governance" <governance@lists.igcaucus.org>, "bestbits@lists.bestbits.net" <bestbits@lists.bestbits.net>, "JNC Forum" <forum@justnetcoalition.org>, "Robin Gross" <robin@ipjustice.org>, "Chat Garcia Ramilo" <chat@apcwomen.org><br />> Copie à : <br />> Objet : [governance] Right to Information<br />> <br />>
<div dir="ltr">Dear Friends,
<div>Please excuse the deliberate cross-posting.</div>
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<div>The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) is just finishing a selection, working to very tight deadlines, of representatives of civil society as a whole to attend a Retreat to be held in New York next month on the future of the Internet Governance Forum.</div>
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<div>When the Retreat was first proposed there was considerable debate about the involvement of civil society, and about whether CSCG should make the selection. Finally it was agreed that CSCG should go ahead. After that there was silence.</div>
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<div>Currently there is no public knowledge of whether anyone at all in fact presented themselves to CSCG for selection, nor, if anyone did, do we have any idea of who they might be.</div>
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<div>But those about to be represented, civil society as a whole, have a right to know the answers to these questions, and to know them BEFORE any selection is completed.</div>
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<div>This is a reminder to all of us, particularly in the context of the review of the CSCG, of the need to remember to "think communally" if we really want to change a hierarchical system, to be constantly aware of the obligation of information as a right, not as a favour, to all participants. </div>
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<div><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'PT Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Lack of engagement is a ubiquitous problem of governance. The "stakeholders" abdicate from participation in part at least because the "more equal" stakeholders turn to each other rather than to them. In this there could be one answer to Item 2 of </span>the call for comment on the Retreat draft agenda which reads:</div>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-family: 'PT Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 30px;">2) What measures can be taken to engage those stakeholders who are currently unengaged, with a view to expand and diversify physical and virtual participation?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-family: 'PT Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 30px;">Best wishes</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-family: 'PT Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 30px;">Deirdre</p>
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<div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979</div>
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