[governance] Closing session civil society statement

[parminder]

On Wednesday 28 September 2011 06:31 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 28/09/2011, at 2:50 PM, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:
>
>> Thanks for this clarification.
>>
>> This underlines the need for CS to come up with an own draft of 
>> Internet Governance Principles. But this has to be done in an open 
>> and transparent manner. I am really surprised that IBSA worked in 
>> such an intransparent way.
>
> Referring back to the minutes of the IGC meeting, Wolfgang had 
> suggested at that meeting that this should be a topic of our closing 
> session speech, and that we should call for the IGF to adopt as its 
> mission between now and the 2015 meeting to generate a truly 
> multi-stakeholder statement of Internet governance principles.  We 
> should now discuss that more.

Strongly agree....
>
> I propose that in general terms we should talk in the closing session 
> speech about how the various statements of principles that individual 
> stakeholders are putting forward are good, because it shows that 
> stakeholders are thinking about soft governance of the Internet rather 
> than hard law.  Some stakeholders are even bringing their statements 
> of principles back to the IGF to be discussed in workshops.  This is 
> also good, since the IGF is the perfect place for such discussion. 
>  But continuing this process, the next step will be for the IGF at 
> large to progress towards consensus on common principles, and we call 
> for the IGF to do this not merely in a stakeholder-organised workshop, 
> but as a plenary body, involving all participants, and taking 
> advantage of the improvements to its processes that we expect the CSTD 
> Working Group will propose.  Amongst these improvements, we hope, will 
> be a process to better involve remote participants, particularly from 
> the global South, in the development of the principles.  As civil 
> society's input into this process, we intend to prepare our own set of 
> principles in an open and transparent fashion before the date of the 
> next G20 meeting, and to formally launch them at the 2012 IGF. If such 
> a set of common principles can emerge from the IGF before 2015, this 
> accomplishment will imbue them with a status and legitimacy that none 
> of the individual statements of principles - G8, CoE, EU, etc - could 
> ever achieve.
>
> Please provide your comments on the above.
>
> Mallory Knodel wrote:
>
>> Also, it's possible that I'll be dropping in at the IGF - will you 
>> hold a press conference at some point? Also, what's the on-the-ground 
>> mobilization in Nice or Cannes for publicizing it?
>
> No plans for a press conference, but we can (see above) mention it in 
> our closing session speech at the IGF.
>
> I would have liked Izumi to deliver the closing address but he will be 
> leaving Nairobi too early, and has asked me to do so.  But if anyone 
> else wishes to deliver it, or has another name to put forward, please 
> let me know.
>
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>
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