[governance] Closing session civil society statement

Thu Sep 29 02:26:07 EDT 2011

Thanks for your note Jeremy,

In relation to the closing statement, I agree that strong message is needed
that the IGF be the forum in which the various IG principles are discussed.
Our specific request is that the closing statement proffer that, in order to
focus on these various principles proposals in more transparent and
multi-stakeholder ways, the next IGF have as its main theme human rights and
internet governance.

Joy

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Subject: Re: [governance] Closing session civil society statement

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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