[governance] What a mess!

Mon Apr 3 08:15:25 EDT 2006

Sorry to add to the confusion, but, we had made this small outreach effort
to call for endorsements of CS organizations that may or may not have been
involved in WSIS. And compared to the outreach effort the response has been
huge. Especially also in the context of the limited time and the fact that
many organizations generally were enthusiastic about saving the Internet for
our common purposes but a bit unsure of some of the technical terms involved
in the debate. 

Response to the call was still coming in when today morning I decided to cut
it off - and send the proposal to the IGF, because I was getting a bit
nervous about the timelines, and wanted to send it early in the day for IGF
office. 

Since most of these supporting organizations are outside IGC, I thought it
necessary to send the proposal directly to the IGF as well, with the names
of supporting organizations. Now, I am not sure which category does this
proposal stand as - though it originated very much from IGC and always
desired to a part of IGC submissions. 

I will be very happy to have this proposal sent through the IGC bunch (if
one is going), while keeping the names of supporting organizations on the
proposal. 

On the different note, I am enclosing the proposal as sent to IGF, and also
listing the names of the supporting organizations below here. I also take
the opportunity to thank all the organizations that extended their support. 

Parminder 

List of organizations that supported the IGF theme proposal - Defining and
fostering the 'public-ness' of the Internet - issues of public interest,
public domain, public infrastructure and public good in the context of the
Internet

Proposed by IT for Change, India, with support of the following civil
society organizations. 

1.	World Radio and Television Council 
2.	Comunica-ch, the platform of Swiss civil society for the Information
Society 
3.	HIVOS, Netherlands  
4.	African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)
5.	Foundation for Media Alternatives, Philippines
6.	Public Affairs Foundation, Bangalore 
7.	Alternate Law Forum, Bangalore
8.	femLINKPACIFIC: Media Initiatives for Women, Fiji Islands 
9.	International Gender and Trade Network - Asia
10.	IP Justice 
11.	United Nations Association of Uganda
12.	Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
13.	Third World Institute (ITeM), Uruguay
14.	Association for Progressive Communications 
15.	Isis International-Manila
16.	Madhyam, Bangalore
17.	The Centre for Women's Research, Sri Lanka
18.	Action Aid International-India
19.	Panos Institute West Africa
20.	Danish United Nations Association
21.	Voices, Bangalore 
22.	Mahila Samakhaya, Karnataka, India
23.	Mazdoor Kissan Shakti Sangathan, India 
24.	Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, India
25.	Abhiyan, India 

________________________________________________

Parminder Jeet Singh

IT for Change

Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 

91-80-26654134

www.ITforChange.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org
[mailto:governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Meryem Marzouki
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:06 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: [governance] What a mess!

Sorry to bother you again but I've now found that proposals sent by  

Robert are now included (for those which weren't already sent by  

their proponents, as submissions from their authors (or, in the case  

of Mawaki and Ken, by the African CS).

The 8 proposals sent by Robert are presented on IGF website as  

described below.

Questions and comments:

1/ this means that the governance caucus appears NOWHERE, and has NOT  

A SINGLE proposal

2/ How it comes that Mawaki's two proposals have been sent (before  

Robert sends them) by the African CS proposal, Mawaki being not  

named? Mawaki has never told us this, which could have been a helpful  

information: his proposals were to be sent by another WSIS CS  

constituency, and not by the governance caucus

3/ Same applies for Ken's proposal (sent later on, and presented as  

the second submission by the African CS constituency, Ken being not  

named.

Here is what one can found on the IGF website, regarding the 8  

proposals sent by Robert:

> <Equity for critical Internet resources.doc> (Mawaki's proposal)

==> "The African Civil Society For The Information Society (ACSIS),  

29 March 2006"

> <affordable Internet access.doc> (Mawaki's proposal)

==>"The African Civil Society For The Information Society (ACSIS), 29  

March 2006"

> <e-voting.doc> (Ginger's proposal)

==> "United Nations Association of Venezuela, 29 March 2006"

> <user centric digital identity.doc> (Garth's proposal)

==> "Telecommunities Canada 31 March 2006"

>> <The WSIS Principles on Internet Governance.doc> (Bill's proposal)

==> "Project on the Information Revolution and Global Governance  

Graduate Institute for International Studies Geneva, and Computer  

Professionals for Social Responsibility, 31 March 2006"

>> <Publicness.doc> (Parminder's proposal)

> ==> "IT for Change, 31 March 2006"

>> <Open Educational Ressources.doc>

> ==> already directly sent by the WSIS Education, Academia and  

> Research Taskforce, kept as is

>> <Promoting capacity building strategies-fr.doc> (Ken's proposal)

==> "The African Civil Society For The Information Society (ACSIS),  

30 March 2006"

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