<div dir="auto">Dear Arsene,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes. The proposal as submitted is as below, to be edited and amended where necessary. ( The confirmed initial list also includes Jeremy, as stated in the proposal, a more elaborate list to be drawn up):</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The proposal data submitted is as follows:</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> ==*1. Proposer (Contact Person)*==</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Gender: Male</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Family Name: Muthusamy</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Given Name: Sivasubramanian</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Nationality: India</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:6.Internet@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">6.Internet@gmail.com</a><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Stakeholder Group: Civil Society</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Regional Group: Asia-Pacific Group</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Organization: Internet Society India Chennai</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Country where Organization is based: India</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> ==*2. Theme*==</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Theme:</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Digital</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Inclusion</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">3. Issues:</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">distributed</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> and decentralized multi-stakeholder approach</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">*4. Workshop Session Title*: Is the Civil Society doing enough as a</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Stakeholder group?</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">*5. Policy Question(s)*: Is the Civil Society doing enough to bring about a</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">balance in Internet Governance Policy positions?</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">*6. Relevance to Theme*: Though proposed under "Digital Inclusion", it is a</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">workshop on stakeholder 'balance', proposed across the three themes, and of</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">relevance to the overall design of the multi-stakeholder model of Internet</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Governance.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">*7. Relevance to Internet Governance*:</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">When broadly classified, Civil Society is one of the three stakeholders in</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Internet Governance. Since WSIS 2005, Civil Society has played a constructive</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">role to bring about a balance in Internet Governance debates. However, a</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">certain degree of imbalance persists as the other stakeholder groups tend to</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">steer policy a little more than proportionately towards their own respective</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">positions. Governments around the world draft legislative directives some of</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">which the Civil Society find undesirable. In some instances, Civil Society</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">positions remarkably differed from that of Government, the proposed Acts such</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">as SOPA or PIPA or Directives were withdrawn, only to be reintroduced and</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">confirmed by some other title or form. Business responds to Civil Society</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">positions, for instance, on Privacy issues, but many of the concerns of Civil</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Society are not adequately addressed. It could be stated that the other</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">stakeholder groups prevail more than proportionately over Civil Society, in</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">matters related to Internet Governance. This prompts the question, "Is the</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Civil Society participating enough? Is the Civil Society doing enough?"</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">If not enough, what needs to be done? In Internet Governance, the formal</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">title as "Civil Society" is shared by a somewhat loose collaboration between</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Internet Governance participants who took up the Civil Society role since</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">WSIS 2005, other early CS participants in the IGF, organizations that pursue</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">issues in public interest including Privacy organizations, Freedom</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">foundations etc, and also organizations such as some of the Internet Society</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Chapters, some of the ICANN AtLarge Structures, some of the participants from</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">ICANN Non Commercial Stakeholder Group etc, who partake in Civil Society</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">positions in their own way, though not always entirely identifying themselves</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">as Civil Society.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">If the Civil society is not doing enough, is it because it requires greater</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">interaction among those who pursue Civil Society positions in the IGF? How</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">would Civil Society strengthen itself? Would it also look for Civil Society</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">participation from beyond the IGF arena to bring in newer Civil Society</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">participants to the IGF?</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">These are some, and not all, questions that follow the questions in the</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">title.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> ==*8. Workshop Session Format*==</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Session Format: Round Table - Circle - 90 Min</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> ==*9. Diversity*==</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> First Time in IGF: No</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Times Before: 6</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> ==Previous Report==</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Name: Organized the meetings of the Dynamic Coalition on</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Core-Internet Values, and also independently organized 6 or</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> more</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> workshops.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Report Link:</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4398/555" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4398/555</a><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">b. Are you and/or your</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> co-organizers coming from a *developing country [1]* or</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> under-represented region?</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Developing Countries: Yes</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> ==Diversity Options==</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Gender Diversity: Yes</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Geography Diversity: Yes</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Stakeholder Group Diversity: Yes</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Policy Perspective Diversity: Yes</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Accessibility Diversity: No</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Youth Diversity: Yes</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Local Diversity: Yes</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Diversity Information: The workshop is proposed with a list</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> of</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> three initial panelists, but further work to be done to</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> invite</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> participation from lead-IGF Civil Society participant</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> organizations including Internet Governance Caucus, Best</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Bits,</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Association for Progressive Communication, and also invite</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> other</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> organizations that pursue Civil Society positions at the IGF</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> and</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> in related forums, and to invite participation from Business</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> and</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Government, all of the above with a certain degree of</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> geographical balance and gender balance.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">*10. Workshop Session Description*: The session would revolve around the</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Title Questions, "Is the Civil Society doing enough to bring about a balance</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">in Internet Governance Policy positions?" to bring up supplementary</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">questions, and in the process identify its strengths and weaknesses to</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">identify solutions towards strengthening itself for a balance.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">*11. Workshop Session Expected Outcomes*: The session is aimed to articulate</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">shared concerns and common pursuits and perhaps lead to well defined efforts</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">to strengthen the Civil Society for the good of all stakeholders who would</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">equally desire a certain degree of balance in Internet Governance.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> ==*12. Organizers Information*==</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Email addresses of organizers (comma separated):</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="mailto:6.Internet@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">6.Internet@gmail.com</a><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> ==*13. Speakers*==</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Email addresses of provisionally confirmed speakers (comma</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> separated):</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="mailto:6.Internet@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">6.Internet@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">,</span><a href="mailto:sebastien@bachollet.fr" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">sebastien@bachollet.fr</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">,</span><a href="mailto:judith@jhellerstein.com" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">judith@jhellerstein.com</a><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Speakers Availability:</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Have reached out to the Civil Society lists and user</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> organizations, some more work to be done to call for panelists</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> with a good understanding of the history of Civil Society in</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Internet Governance, the panelist list is be expanded with</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> attention to the various requirements of balance.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> ==*14. Moderators*==</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Online Moderator: </span><a href="mailto:sebastien@bachollet.fr" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">sebastien@bachollet.fr</a><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Onsite Moderator: </span><a href="mailto:6.Internet@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">6.Internet@gmail.com</a><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">*15. Rapporteur*: </span><a href="mailto:6.Internet@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">6.Internet@gmail.com</a><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> ==*16. Session Interaction and Participation*==</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Discussion Facilitation:</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Following opening remarks and perspectives from the lead</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> panelists, the discussion would be around the table, encouraging</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> diversity of view points and a free flowing debate with Q@A</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> around the table, both questions and responses by all</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> participants around the table.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Online Tools: Yes</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Online Participation: I will request one of the Internet Society</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Chapters to help manage remote participation using the IGF</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> platform.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Other Tools: Yes</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Social Tools: Skype, Zoom, Livestream.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 9:49 AM Arsène Tungali <<a href="mailto:arsenebaguma@gmail.com">arsenebaguma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi Siva,<div><br><div>Were you finally able to submit this proposal? I note this came in very last minute, i was on a flight so could not comment nor support it’s submission.</div><div><br></div><div>If it goes to the next stage, then we will have time to reshape it.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck,</div><div>Arsene<br><br><div id="m_-3962161598673113938AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 14 Apr 2019, at 22:22, sivasubramanian muthusamy (via governance Mailing List) <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.riseup.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">governance@lists.riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>With a few hours remaining for submission of the 2019 workshops, I intend to propose a workshop. Looking for support from IGC, Besbits and APC, some quick suggestions to improve the text, and more importantly, for suggestions of speakers who have a good understanding of the history of Civil Society in IG.</div><div><br></div><div>Kindly respond ASAP.</div><div><br></div><div>title </div><div>"Is the Civil Society doing enough?" </div><div>policy question </div><div>"Is the Civil Society doing enough to bring about a balance in Internet Governance Policy positions?"</div><div>relevance to the theme: </div><div>Though proposed under "Digital Inclusion", it is a workshop across the three themes, and of relevance to the overall design of the multi-stakeholder model of Internet Governance. </div><div>relevance to Internet Governance: </div><div>When broadly classified, Civil Society is one of the three stakeholders in Internet Governance. Since WSIS 2005, Civil Society has played a constructive role to bring about a balance in Internet Governance debates. However, a certain degree of imbalance persists as the other stakeholder groups tend to steer policy a little more than proportionately towards their own respective positions. Governments around the world draft legislative directives some of which the Civil Society find undesirable. In some instances, Civil Society positions remarkably differed from that of Government, the proposed Acts such as SOPA or PIPA or Directives were withdrawn, only to be reintroduced and confirmed by some other title or form. Business responds to Civil Society positions, for instance, on Privacy issues, but many of the concerns of Civil Society are not adequately addressed. It could be stated that the other stakeholder groups prevail more than proportionately over Civil Society, in matters related to Internet Governance. This prompts the question, "Is the Civil Society participating enough? Is the Civil Society doing enough?" </div><div><br></div><div>If not enough, what needs to be done? In Internet Governance, the formal title as "Civil Society" is shared by a somewhat loose collaboration between Internet Governance participants who took up the Civil Society role since WSIS 2005, other early CS participants in the IGF, organizations that pursue issues in public interest including Privacy organizations, Freedom foundations etc, and also organizations such as some Internet Society Chapters, ICANN AtLarge, ICANN Non Commercial Stakeholder Group etc, who partake in Civil Society positions in their own way. </div><div><br></div><div>If the Civil society is not doing enough, is it because it requires greater interaction among those who pursue Civil Society positions in the IGF? How would Civil Society strengthen itself? Would it also look for Civil Society participation from beyond the IGF arena to bring in newer Civil Society participants to the IGF?</div><div><br></div><div>These are some, and not all, questions that follow the questions in the title. </div><div><br></div><div>Workshop session description:</div><div>The session would revolve around the Title Questions, "Is the Civil Society doing enough to bring about a balance in Internet Governance Policy positions?" to bring up supplementary questions, and in the process identify its strengths and weaknesses to identify solutions towards strengthening itself for a balance. <br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-3962161598673113938gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Sivasubramanian M</a><div><a href="http://twitter.com/shivaindia" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">twitter.com/shivaindia</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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