[bestbits] Update: Letter to co-facilitators of WSIS+10 negotiations

Tue Feb 11 08:05:47 EST 2014

The Community Informatics community has formed a WSIS +10 working group and
would be interested in participating in all WSIS +10 associated initiatives.

Im not sure that the Working Group/CI community will sign on to the letter
but individual members of course may do so.

M

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To: Deborah Brown
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Subject: Re: [bestbits] Update: Letter to co-facilitators of WSIS+10
negotiations

Hi Deborah, 

Dear all, 

Thanks to all who have endorsed this letter already.

A quick update here- I've been in touch with some missions in NY and I have
a meeting confirmed with one of the co-facilitators for Friday,  so I'll
plan on delivering the letter in person. For those who are still considering
signing on, can you please do so by Thursday, 13 February (end of day EST),
so that I can print it ahead of the meeting?

Here's the link again: http://bestbits.net/wsis10-modalities/

We have disseminated it among our members as well.   

Also, for those interested in working on the WSIS review further, I'm
wondering if we might form a fluid working group, like the various
workstreams that have been set up for the Brazil meeting. It would be good
to dive into the substance of what we would want the overall WSIS review to
achieve. I will follow up with a separate email this week with some initial
thoughts.

Good idea. We might also want to consider a joint activity for the WSIS+10
High Level meeting in December this year. 

Valeria

All the best, 

Deborah 

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Deborah Brown <deborah at accessnow.org> wrote:

Dear all, 

The letter to the co-facilitators of negotiations on the overall WSIS+10
review is now posted for sign on: http://bestbits.net/wsis10-modalities/

Thanks to all who sent feedback. I tried to incorporate all edits as much as
possible. 

Please add your endorsement by Monday, 10 February. 

Kind regards, 
Deborah 

Letter to co-facilitators calling for civil society input into negotiations
on WSIS+10 modalities

February 4, 2014

H.E. Mr. Mohamed Khaled Khiari

Permanent Mission of Tunisia to the United Nations

31 Beekman Place

New York, N.Y. 10022

H.E. Mr. Jarmo Viinanen

Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations

866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 222

New York, N.Y. 10017

Your Excellencies,

We, the undersigned, are writing as members of civil society deeply engaged
in Internet governance and ICT for development issues. Many of us have been
engaged in this field since the inception of World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS). 

At the outset, we would like to congratulate you on your appointment as
co-facilitators of the General Assemblys open intergovernmental
consultations to finalize the modalities for the overall review of the
implementation of the outcomes of WSIS.

We feel strongly that all stages of the overall WSIS review process should
be open to all interested stakeholders. As members of global civil society,
we have been contributing to the WSIS review process that is currently
underway and would welcome the opportunity to input into the informal
consultations you are facilitating and serve as resources in these
processes.

The modalities for the overall review must embody the spirit of WSIS and
take into account the progress and growing recognition of the importance of
multi-stakeholder approaches to internet governance that has been made since
2005, as exemplified by the Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform for the
WSIS High Level Event and the UNESCO WSIS+10 Review Event, but also the
Internet Governance Forum, the Working Group on Internet Governance, the
Working Group on IGF improvements, and the Working Group on Enhanced
Cooperation. 

We envision an overall WSIS review that renews and revives commitment to the
Geneva principles vision of a people-centred, inclusive,
development-oriented and non-discriminatory Information Society, is rooted
in the international human rights framework, and builds on the achievements
and addresses the challenges experienced in the 10 years since WSIS.

Additionally, we would welcome efforts to find synergies and synchronicities
between the overall WSIS review and the post-2015 development agenda, and in
this context we would encourage the development of more concrete, measurable
targets relating to ICTs and development. 

To conclude, we, the undersigned, consider it critical that the modalities
of the overall WSIS review take into account the viewpoints of all
stakeholders and establish concrete mechanisms for civil society to channel
its contributions, including through remote participation. Therefore, we, as
members of global civil society, would like to request an opportunity to
input into the informal consultations that you are facilitating and as well
as to engage more formally in the preparatory process to the overall review.

-- 

Deborah Brown

Senior Policy Analyst

Access | accessnow.org <http://accessnow.org/> 

rightscon.org <http://rightscon.org/> 

@deblebrown

PGP 0x5EB4727D

-- 

Deborah Brown

Senior Policy Analyst

Access | accessnow.org <http://accessnow.org/> 

rightscon.org <http://rightscon.org/> 

@deblebrown

PGP 0x5EB4727D

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