[governance] Today's Subcommittee A meeting

[Laina Raveendran Greene]

Thanks Jeanette for that detailed input on the proceedings of this morning
and for all that great work. 

I was wondering if you may also wish to explain to this group, the "new
working methods" as decided by the content and themes plenary. You did touch
upon this at the end of your mail, but perhaps reiterating it could ensure
everyone is on the same page. From what I understand, the idea is to mirror
the workings of the governmental discussions, i.e. now the Internet
Governance caucus has become sort of the Subcommittee A working group for
civil society inputs coordinated by you, and there is a new caucus for
Subcomittee B, which Betrand de La Chapelle is coordinating.

The idea from what I understood it, is an attempt to get a more organised
effort from civil society to make a better impact on this PrepCom 3 process.
Thanks Jeanette and Adam for clarifying how the various caucuses can
participate in IG caucus verbally and for distributing the IG Caucus inputs
to the WGIG process to be used as a basis for further discussion. I also
believe the consistent time slot 2.30pm to 4.30pm in a consistent room, Room
E3056/58, combined with this mailing list will keep the process transparent,
efficient and effective for many of us new comers.

Perhaps you or Adam may wish to further clarify to others, since many may
not have been in the room either last night or tonight or are even here in
Geneva for that matter.

Best Regards,
Laina Raveendran Greene
Values and Ethics Caucus member

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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:31 AM
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Subject: [governance] Today's Subcommittee A meeting

Hi,

as I just learned from Rik, I am supposed to give an overview on the meeting
of Subcommittee A. While I took some notes, they are not half as systematic
as those Rik provided on yesterday's plenary meeting. 
Frankly, I would be more sorry about this if anything of great relevance had
happened in this meeting.
Today's meeting was devoted to general comments on the WGIG report. The
governments spoke for a bit more than two hours. None of the statements was
surprising. Most governments reiterated what they have said all along. The
perhaps nicest statement came from Norway. While the delegate was talking I
considered asking him to join the civil society Internet Governance caucus
:-)

Here are my notes from the Norway statement:

Norway: overarching principle, allow the Internet to grow, need to ensure
stability, appreciate groups consensus; welcome that IG definition is not
only about root zone but also security, crime, capacity building, human
rights.
There is no global forum for dialogue, need for new model, merits ne forms
of institutional coordination. Need for forum with full involvement,
governments, private sector, civil society; should be linked to UN, allows
for meaningful participation of all, incl. 
development areas.
Forum should be designed lightweight, efficient, IG should build on existing
strctures, but with stronger recogniztion of public policy issues; welcome
working group to recognize freedom of expression as one of the most
important public policy issues!

China commented almost exclusively, and in a very emotional way, on
yesterday's plenary discussion on the accredition of the chinese human
rights group.
The US statement followed the Chinese statement. It didn't respond to the
Chinese intervention. It was fairly general and didn't contribute anyting
concrete.

Civil society used its 15 min. time slot today for 5 interventions. Adam has
already posted them. We will have another 15 minutes, which we can divide
between Thursday and Friday. We have no speaking time left for tomorrow.

 From what we picked up today, the whole week will be devoted to statements
on several parts of the WGIG report. The actual drafting will not start
before the weekend. Amb. Khan asked all stakeholders to deliver in the
coming days written text ("language") for the final Tunis document. In other
words, the time for comments is more or less over. We have to draft input
now for the final documents.

The Internet Governance caucus thus asks all other working groups and
caucuses to deliver text that shall be included in our contribution to the
Tunisia documents. The basis for our contributions should be the civil
society position paper on the WGIG report.
This position paper can be found here:

http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/pc3/contributions/co55.doc

To conclude, what we have to do in the following days is to choose speakers
and topics for the second speaking slot, and to draft text for our
contribution for the final documents.

Hopefully, I didn't forget too much and I don't sound too confused, jeanette
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