[bestbits] Last day of WTPF - drafting concluding statement

[Jeremy Malcolm]

A group of us are here in Geneva for the WTPF, including Valeria from APC, Anja from Internet Democracy Project, Emma and Matthew from CDT, Joana from FGV, Deborah from Access, Lea and Gene from Global Partners, Wolfgang, Avri, Bill Drake and I apologise if I have forgotten any others. As you may have read elsewhere, the draft opinions for the WTPF were adopted with almost no changes, and a late proposed opinion by Brazil on operationalising the role of governments in Internet governance, was discussed but in the end not agreed, and may go to the CWG-Internet for further action. 

Today we will have the opportunity to deliver a closing statement at the plenary.  Because of the need for this to respond to the event as it developed, this has been written on the fly over lunchtime today (with Matthew taking the lead), so I hope you will understand the limitations that we are operating under here.  But if you are online now and would like a link to view and edit the document, please email myself or Matthew <mshears at cdt.org> and we will send you the link to a Google Doc.  I won't paste the text here simply because it is still changing as we speak, and it would become inaccurate within just a few minutes.

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