[governance] : e-G8 forum

Mon May 30 13:54:18 EDT 2011

Thanks for sharing the article, Amali. I agree- organized input is really
important so we can build this civil society for internet right movement.
I'm really looking forward to doing more outreach and getting various new
groups involved. I'm so glad the e-G8 statement was such a success!

Mera
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On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Amali De Silva <amalidesilva at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Civil society plees for representation have been heard NYT article - needs
> an organized input for future meetings - to echo others on this list ..
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/technology/30tech.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology
>
> Amali De Silva - Mitchell ( personal note )
> Vancouver Canada
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> --- On *Wed, 5/25/11, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>* wrote:
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> From: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [governance] : e-G8 forum
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Jeremy Malcolm" <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> Received: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 2:22 AM
>
>
> Not sure that I would argue about abandoning e-G8 – I think its quite
> useful if imbalanced, and is opening up some lines of communication with
> some excellent interventions and some good attendees.
>
> I’d rather discuss how we could make IGF as relevant by attracting the same
> calibre of attendees. IGF government attendees are usually way down the
> picking line; the business reps are not quite CEOs of large players such as
> Paypal, Google and Facebook – and similarly our civil society reps are not
> quite Jimmy Wales, John Perry Barlow etc.
>
> In other words, IGF has failed to attract high profile opinion leaders. If
> it continues as a second rate forum it will probably just fade away and
> no-one will notice. Which would be a pity – IGF is far more balanced,
> strives to achieve global and balanced inputs, and could be a really
> relevant and useful vehicle.
>
> From our point of view, I am interested in how we can strengthen our inputs
> by involving and communicating with some of the higher profile civil society
> people who are not so involved with us at present.
>
> Ian Peter
>
>
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> *From: *Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> *Organization: *Consumers International
> *Reply-To: *<governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org
> >
> *Date: *Wed, 25 May 2011 14:32:00 +0800
> *To: *<governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Roland Perry <
> roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [governance] :   e-G8 forum
>
>    On 25/05/11 14:16, Roland Perry wrote:
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> In message <B97535D24829433AB1D5ECAC3B6AA468 at userPC>, at 06:53:13 on Wed,
> 25 May 2011, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> <
> mailto:gurstein at gmail.com<http://ca.mc1123.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gurstein@gmail.com>>
>  writes
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> Who is the host for next year's meeting?
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>
>
>  According to Wikipedia:
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>  "Each calendar year, the responsibility of hosting the G8 rotates through
> the member states in the following order: France, United States, United
> Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada."
>
>
>
>  We could go further than we have, and argue that there should be no e-G8
> next year, even if it were opened to broader participation, since it is
> duplicative and it distracts attention from other fora in which civil
> society's resources are already thinly enough spread.
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