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<p>Dear All,</p>
<p>the forming of this Leadership Panel is neither in accordance
with the mandate from the World Summit on the Information Society,
not is it as per the wishes of what has been called as the ' IGF
community'. Almost all civil society and even ISOC (and thus the
technical community) was opposed to such a structure as has been
formed. The letter linked in below email from Sheetal also makes
it clear, which is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/open-letter-interpretation-paragraph-93a-un-secretary-generals-roadmap-digital-cooperation">signed
by APC, ISOC, Access, Global digital Partners, and others</a>.
Just Net Coalition has already made i<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://justnetcoalition.org/big-tech-governing-big-tech.pdf">ts
position on the whole process clear</a>, and stand full against
the formation of this Leadership Panel. It has no logic, and place
in the Internet Governance ecosystem, and is completely an
imposition from the Secretary General's office, which has of
recent been busy forming new governance bodies with considerable
dominance of corporations in many sectors. This has been opposed
by much of global civil society, also in an inter-sectoral manner.
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<p>Just Net Coalition therefore refuses to participate in the
process of any kind of civil society nomination process for this
Panel, much less give any nomination of its own for it. <br>
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<p>We also appeal to all civil society groups, and ISOC and the
technical community boycott the nomination process as an
expression of their opposition to the formation of the Leadership
Panel. There is no point in opposing any such structure, and
moment such a structure is made despite civil society and
technical community's opposition, immediately line up to make
nominations for it. <br>
</p>
<p>Our Coalition also understands the need for engaging sometimes
even with imperfect governance systems, but in this case at least
we can boycott the first cycle of nominations to make our point.
Else our opposition to be will ne meaningless, and civil society
loses its bite entirely. This indeed has happened already in the
Internet Governance space, in the name of 'engagement'. </p>
<p>Indeed, I call upon all the involved groups, and the CSCG group
as well, to get together to write a letter to UN SG opposing the
formation of the Leadership Panel, and laying out our problems
with it. If we do no such thing, our opposition and views in the
future can hardly be expected to be taken seriously. <br>
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<p>Look forward to comments from other groups/ all.</p>
<p>parminder<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/11/21 3:21 pm, Sheetal Kumar via
Governance wrote:<br>
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<div>As you may have seen, the IGF Secretariat has launched
the nomination process at the request of the Executive
Office of the United Nations Secretary-General for the
<a
href="https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/internet-governance-forum-leadership-panel-call-for-nominations"
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<b><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">inaugural Leadership
Panel of the 2022 and 2023 Internet Governance Forum
(IGF) cycles</span></b></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Following several rounds of open
consultations, the Leadership Panel is a response to the
Secretary-General’s
<a href="https://undocs.org/A/74/821" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Roadmap for Digital
Cooperation</span></a>, which calls for
strengthening of the IGF through, among other aspects,
<i>’’creating a strategic and empowered
multi-stakeholder high-level body, building on the
experience of the existing multi-stakeholder advisory
group, which would address urgent issues, coordinate
follow-up action on Forum discussions and relay
proposed policy approaches and recommendations from
the Forum to the appropriate normative and
decision-making forums</i>.’’ <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CSCG, and for this process, this
includes APC and IGC, will run a nomination process to
identify nominees for the two categories:<br>
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<ul>
<li>Two [2] at-large members (distinguished or prominent
persons who do not fall under above stakeholder groups)
and </li>
<li>Two [2] CEO-level (or deputy-level) representatives
from each of the other three stakeholder groups (civil
society)<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please note, this does not mean we
endorse the process or the mechanism itself. We will send
a letter with the nominations that clearly reiterates our
previous publicly stated positions (such as this <font
size="2"><a
href="https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/open-letter-interpretation-paragraph-93a-un-secretary-generals-roadmap-digital-cooperation"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Open letter on
the interpretation of paragraph 93(a) of the UNSG's
Roadmap on Digital Cooperation</a> and this on the <a
href="https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/why-inclusive-transparent-and-accessible-global-digital-governance-more-crucial-ever"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">future of the
IGF </a></font><a
href="https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/why-inclusive-transparent-and-accessible-global-digital-governance-more-crucial-ever"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">on the Leadership
Panel/Higher-level MAG</a>), including the importance of
maintaining the MAG's current role and not supplanting it,
the importance of diversity and inclusion, transparency
etc and make clear that our submission of nominees should
not be read as endorsement. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We intend that our nominations reflect
the above criteria. Please note that to receive a CSCG
nomination for the IGF leadership panel you'll need to
send us (me and Valeria and Bruna cc'd) the information
required on the <a
href="https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/leadership-panel-nomination-2022"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
<span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">online form</span></a>.
We request this is done by <span
style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><u><b>COB November 22 </b></u></span>so
that we are able to submit by the deadline of <span
style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u><b>November 29. <br>
</b></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u><b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">We look forward to receiving
your nomination/s.</span><u><b><br>
</b></u></span></p>
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