[governance] IGF Review Process Consensus Statement]

[McTim]

How's this:

The UN WSIS Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) has been
actively engaged with the UN Internet Governance Forum, the outcome of
the UN WSIS global negotiation, from its beginning and congratulates
the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on its successful
implementation of the principle of mutlistakeholderism from 2006 until
the present.

The IGC believes that the IGF has raised awareness of both narrow and
broad Internet Governance issues among stakeholders involved in the
IGF process by providing workshops and dialogues based on the
mutltistakeholder principle. However, the IGC is concerned about the
lack of participation by the developing world in the IGF and
the counter-proposal to creating an exclusively intergovernmental
forum driven by decisions instead of discussion.

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.


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One sentence removed in one para and 2 words gone from another

-- 
Cheers,

McTim



On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Bill,
>
> I personally think that we as CS would benefit from governments joining us
> as equals in real discussions and debates. This is not happening, nor is it
> likely to happen. But we can still work towards that.
>
> If that is not considered a workable proposal, what might be? Can you
> propose an alternate wording, or do you think it should be deleted
> completely?
>
> Is there a way to deal more concretely with inclusion of unheard voices? Can
> we offer a realistic alternative?
>
> Please (everyone) suggest alternate possibilities.
>
> Thanks! gp
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