[governance] What IGF is for? ONI Asia event rattled by UN

[Hempal Shrestha]

Dear Shahzad and friends in ONI,

It indeed is an act of great concern on the commitment of the freedom of
expression. We stand united against this incident. Further, this should not
create an opportunity for others to hurt the good work that is happening at
IGF. So, +1 for the idea of registering the concern about the incident with
concerned stakeholders/authority.

In Solidarity.

Hempal Shrestha


On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Shahzad Ahmad <shahzad at bytesforall.net>wrote:

>  Dear Colleagues,
>
> Did discuss this with quite a few friends here and most of them agree for a
> joint action. How and what I don't know but probably civil
> society representatives speaking on the plenary can mention this appalling
> event and register the concern. Just a suggestion and then I will really
> suggest MAG members to take this up with IGF.
>
> But I would really urged on the caucus members attending IGF to take this
> up strongly otherwise, such things will keep happening more and more in
> future too.
>
> best wishes
> Shahzad
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>  *From:* Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com>
> *To:* governance at lists.cpsr.org ; Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> *Cc:* McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 15, 2009 7:58 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [governance] What IGF is for? ONI Asia event rattled by UN
>
> I do not think a boycott is the answer. It removes the people who most
> object to the action... I think an effort should be made to bring this up as
> an issue. Can the IGC coordinate on this?
>
> Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
> On 15/11/2009, at 4:02 PM, McTim wrote:
>
> Shahzad,
>
> Truly outrageous, your group should really complain to Markus and get
> your books back immediately, with an apology.
>
> I think this shows how misguided it is to have gov'ts play an
> increasingly large role in IG.
>
>
> +1
>
> Am I overreacting, or should those who do not have workshop commitments
> organise a boycott of the IGF tomorrow, and let the Secretariat know why?
>
> In any case, I hope as many people will tweet and blog about this appalling
> action.
>
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