[governance] Petition on G8

[parminder]

On Friday 20 May 2011 06:40 PM, Constance Bommelaer wrote:
> Thanks, Divina.
>
> In future G8 and G20 forums, it would be nice to hold a side event or simply
> participate to a session at the Avignon Forum (side-event to the G20) where
> all stakeholders would be invited to participate: civil society, business
> and the Internet technical community.
The point remains who will fund such a side event? Will civil society 
participants be able to attend? Our best bet is publicly funded events/ 
forums with clearly laid out funding support provisions. There is no 
multistakeholderism or participatory democracy without such proactive 
measures in place. Parminder
> On another note, ISOC, ISOC France, the W3C, the NRO and ICANN are preparing
> a common press release for the upcoming eG8 (24-25 May), emphasizing the
> WSIS heritage and the importance of a multi-stakeholder approach.
>
> Best regards,
> Constance Bommelaer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: governance at lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf
> Of Divina MEIGS
> Sent: vendredi 20 mai 2011 14:59
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Cc: bommelaer at isoc.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Petition on G8
>
> Dear all
> A quick follow-up on our open letter to president Sarkozy:
>      -it was sent to and acknowledged by the person close to the president in
> charge of organizing the event
>      -it was sent to and acknowldedged by the person at the Foreign affairs
> ministry that follows internet governance issues
>      -it was sent to Agence France Presse
>      -it has receveid support by Ligue des droits de l'homme
>      -Le Monde didn't publish it in its "debate" columns though it did
> consider it  and it is going to report on the e-G8
>      -it will be debated in two news-programmes on France Culture: "Un jour
> sur la toile" (next weekend) and "enjeux internationaux" (30 may)
>
> Please note the proposed action of the French "Quadrature du net" at this
> address:
>
> http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eg8-forum-a-smokescreen-for-governmental-cont
> rol-of-the-net
>
> There is this idea, rapidly discussed with Constance Bommelaer from ISOC, to
> do a civil society/technical community event prior to G20 in Cannes ...
>
> Please let us exchange, if you have other contacts or other news of
> activities
>
> Best
> divina
>
> Le 20/05/11 05:58, « Jeremy Malcolm »<jeremy at ciroap.org>  a écrit :
>
>> On 19/05/2011, at 10:37 PM, Ian Peter wrote:
>>
>>> People may be interested to add their names to this petition
>>>
>>> https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/g8-protect-the-net
>> Their letter is a fork of ours (and references us).
>
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