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

[Deborah Brown]

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/

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.

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 Assembly's 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
> rightscon.org
>
> @deblebrown
> PGP 0x5EB4727D
>



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Deborah Brown
Senior Policy Analyst
Access | accessnow.org
rightscon.org

@deblebrown
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