[governance] Proposed contribution for the Hyderabad

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Needless to say, I support this letter including amendments as well.
jeanette

William Drake wrote:
> I support the letter (thanks Adam) and Milton's amendment
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> On 8/12/08 9:55 PM, "Milton L Mueller" <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I support this letter, but believe pretty strongly that the sentence
>> about the review of IGF needs to be reworded thusly.
>>
>> Old language: 
>>> it is important that a review and evaluation of the IGF
>>> begins promptly.
>> Proposed change:
>>
>> It is important that a review involving formal consultation with IGF
>> participants begins promptly.
>>
>> Hope my motivation is clear: do you want a "review and evaluation" by
>> some hack consulting group or do you want a "formal consultation" with
>> the people who actually constitute (or should constitute) the Forum?
>>
>> Milton Mueller
>> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
>> XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
>> ------------------------------
>> Internet Governance Project:
>> http://internetgovernance.org
>>  
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Adam Peake [mailto:ajp at glocom.ac.jp]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:34 AM
>>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
>>> Subject: [governance] Proposed contribution for the Hyderabad
>>> programme paper.
>>>
>>> Proposed contribution for the Hyderabad programme paper.
>>>
>>> Just say yes or no.
>>>
>>> Anything controversial will just mean the letter's not going to get
>>> sent and again the caucus will have missed the opportunity to
>>> influence the process.  Bound to be spelling mistakes, typos and
>>> messed-up grammar (friendly amendments welcome.)
>>>
>>> All the ideas in response to Parminder's email so I hope they have
>>> our coordinator's support.  He can decide on rough consensus or not.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Contribution on the Hyderabad Programme Paper
>>>
>>> (1)  The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus fully supports the
>>> letter sent by the Internet Bill of Rights Coalition "Rights as core
>>> theme of the IGF".  The issue of rights and the Internet must remain
>>> a central theme of the IGF process.
>>>
>>> (2) About the taking stock and way forward session: we suggest that
>>> this session be organized in the same "bottom-up" manner as the other
>>> main session workshops and debates.  In light of para 76 of the Tunis
>>> Agenda,
>>>
>>>     "76. We ask the UN Secretary-General to examine the desirability
>>> of the continuation of the Forum, in formal consultation with Forum
>>> participants, within five years of its creation, and to make
>>> recommendations to the UN Membership in this regard."
>>>
>>>
>>> The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus is organizing a workshop
>>> "The role and mandate of the IGF"
>>> <http://www.intgovforum.org/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=71> and
>>> we would be pleased if this workshop could help support discussion
>>> during the taking stock session.  We would be pleased to work with
>>> the MAG and all other stakeholders in discussions to begin the
>>> process of review and evaluation of the IGF and how to best to
>>> include this important topic in the taking stock and way forward
>>> session at the Hyderabad meeting.
>>>
>>> (3)  The process of merging individually proposed workshops and
>>> setting-up the working groups that are now developing the main
>>> session workshops has been very unclear.  How were some workshops
>>> accepted in these working groups and some not?  What efforts have
>>> been made to ensure that a balanced representation of views is
>>> present in each of the working groups organizing the main session
>>> workshops?
>>>
>>> The caucus believes this process has not worked well, we would like
>>> clarification of the process and to be assured that all stakeholders
>>> will have the equal opportunity to participate in the working groups
>>> developing the main session workshops (and therefore greatly
>>> influencing the main session debates.)
>>>
>>> (4) We would like to hear about logistical arrangements for the
>>> meetings, particularly the daily schedule (start, finish, breaks
>>> etc), information about hotels, particularly affordable hotels, food
>>> and refreshments, Internet cafes, and the IGF Village.
>>>
>>> (5) Will there be funds to support participants from developing
>>> countries and civil society?  Could we please have details of this.
>>> We note that the September consultations may be too late to manage a
>>> smooth process for allocating funds. Improving participating from
>>> developing countries has been identified as a critical issue by the
>>> IGFs to date, we are concerned that it is not being adequately
>>> addressed.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus.
>>>
>>>  
> 
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