[governance] Proposed text for a sign-on or IGC statement

[Hakikur Rahman]

You may please add me, too.

Kind regards,
Hakik

Dr. Hakikur Rahman
Chairman
SchoolNet Foundation, Bangladesh, and
Post Doctoral Fellow
University of Minho, Portugal.


At 04:59 AM 3/26/2009, Divina MEIGS wrote:
>Sign me up too, Milton.
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>Divina
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>Divina Frau-Meigs
>Professor,  media sociology,  Université Sorbonne nouvelle
>Director, master pro "ingénierie de la formation 
>à distance et de l'éducation aux médias"
>Board member, ECREA  (European Communication 
>Research and Education Association)
>Past vice-president, IAMCR (International 
>Association for Media and Communication Research)
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>Le 25/03/09 23:23, « Ginger Paque » <gpaque at gmail.com> a écrit :
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>I agree with Ian. Thanks.
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>Ginger
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>Ms. Virginia (Ginger) Paque
>DiploFoundation
>Coordinator IGCBP 09
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>www.diplomacy.edu/ig <http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig>
>VirginiaP at diplomacy.edu
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>De: Ian Peter [<mailto:ian.peter at ianpeter.com]>mailto:ian.peter at ianpeter.com]
>Enviado el: Miércoles, 25 de Marzo de 2009 03:10 p.m.
>Para: governance at lists.cpsr.org; 'Milton L Mueller'
>Asunto: RE: [governance] Proposed text for a 
>sign-on or IGC statement re: ICANN NCSG
>
>Hi Milton, thanks for getting this underway.
>
>I’ll leave detailed comment to others, but 
>unless there is strong disagreement I can’t see 
>why this can’t be a statement from the Caucus as 
>a whole, rather than just members who sign on. 
>That would change some of the wording at the top 
>to simply “The Internet Governance Caucus wishes 
>to express our support” (with perhaps a phrase on who the Caucus is)
>
>
>Anyway sign me up!
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>
>Ian Peter
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>Australia
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>Tel (+614) 1966 7772 or (+612) 6687 0773
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>From: Milton L Mueller [<mailto:mueller at syr.edu]>mailto:mueller at syr.edu]
>Sent: 26 March 2009 03:14
>To: 'governance at lists.cpsr.org'
>Subject: [governance] Proposed text for a 
>sign-on or IGC statement re: ICANN NCSG
>
>
>The organizations and individuals listed below 
>are members of and participants in the civil 
>society Internet Governance Caucus. We wish to 
>express our support for version 6.0 of the 
>Noncommercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) charter 
>developed by the Noncommercial Users 
>Constituency. While there may still be room for 
>minor improvements, we believe that the basic 
>principles on which the charter is founded 
>provide the fairest and most effective basis for 
>civil society representation in ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization.
>
>We specifically support the proposal because:
>  * It was developed transparently and with many 
> opportunities for input by relevant ICANN participants;
>  * It makes it easy to form constituencies or 
> affinity groups, but avoids fragmentation of 
> noncommercial stakeholders into independent 
> constituencies with separate mailing lists, 
> administrative structures and representatives;
>  * It permits individual membership in the NCSG 
> and does not require individuals to fit 
> themselves into arbitrarily-defined categories 
> that may not correspond to their interests and needs;
>  * It fosters representation of minority 
> viewpoints in consensus-based Working Groups, 
> but does not rigidly assign votes to small 
> factions, instead offering them a chance to build consensus
>
>We also note that the alternative charter 
>proposal seems designed to give a specific 
>faction guaranteed Council seats and does not 
>foster global, geographically diverse representation.
>
>We appreciate ICANN’s effort to make its GNSO 
>more representative and urge you to ratify and accept the NCSG charter.
>
>Signed,
>
>--
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>--
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>
>Etc.
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