[governance] IGF Review Question 6 start

[Ginger Paque]

Vanda, could you please draft a final text to add to the response to 
Question 6, stating your point?

Vanda Scartezini wrote:
> Dear all 
> As I had the opportunity to state in public forums, my proposal is to define
> (where there is not) and enhance (where already exist as in Latin America)
> regional forums, given them the IGF name and support, in order to get
> specific issues of regional interest raised and with several suggestion,
> have more chance to see those issues implemented by local governments/
> communities.
>  I believe IGF has achieved one huge goal which is put over the table the
> importance of internet for all stakeholders, but  it needs to help the
> implementation of several suggestion raised during these years, and since
> implementation occurs at local level is more than relevant to encourage IGF
> regional meetings with the signature and the strength of the IGF
> Best to all, 
> Vanda Scartezini
> POLO Consultores Associados
> &  IT Trend
> Alameda Santos 1470 cjs 1407/8
> 01418-903 Sao Paulo,SP.
> Fone + 55 11 3266.6253
> Mob + 5511 8181.1464
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ginger Paque [mailto:gpaque at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:43 AM
> To: Jeanette Hofmann; William Drake; 'governance at lists.cpsr.org'; 'Ginger
> Paque'
> Subject: [governance] IGF Review Question 6 start
>
> Working on Jeanette and Bill's suggestions, and noting that we can 
> submit answers to some questions without necessarily including all of 
> them, I ask that anyone who is interested open a thread and start 
> discussion on that question.
>
> "6. If the continuation of the Forum is recommended, what improvements 
> would you suggest in terms of its working methods, functioning and 
> processes?"
>
> Since the value and effectiveness of the IGF are obvious, with 
> near-unanimous response that it should continue, we believe that the 
> review  should focus on addressing the issue of more inclusive 
> participation.   More importantly, the energy not needed in a review of 
> the current process could be spent in the search for ways to foster more 
> active inclusion of rarely heard and developing country voices through, 
> but not limited to, remote participation.
>
> And here we include for example, Indigenous peoples worldwide, people 
> with disabilities, rural people and particularly those who are the 
> poorest of the poor and often landless or migrants, those concerned with 
> promoting peer to peer and open access governance structures built on an 
> electronic platform, those looking to alternative modes of Internet 
> governance as ways of responding to specific localized opportunities and 
> limitations, and those working as practitioners and activists in 
> implementing the Internet as a primary resource in support of broad 
> based economic and social development.
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>      governance at lists.cpsr.org
> To be removed from the list, send any message to:
>      governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org
>
> For all list information and functions, see:
>      http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
>
>
>   
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, send any message to:
     governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org

For all list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance