[governance] my remarks prepared now

Tue Feb 14 04:52:49 EST 2012

Some quick thoughts:

   - Agree with notions that organisations should host information about
   national, regional and global IGFs on their websites to encourage awareness;
   - Encourage vertical and horizontal integration of issues from national
   and regional IGFs to feed into the global IGF;
   - Congratulate the IGF Secretariat on the increase in remote
   participation in Nairobi (compared to Vilnius from 1 remote hub to 8 hubs
   from the Pacific in Nairobi);
   - The UN needs to coordinate with its points of presence in various
   regions to get behind the regional IGF and support the initiatives;  The
   IGF Secretariat should send letters to push this throughout the UN or
   something;
   - Agree that the voice of emerging economies needs to be heard and
   encourage diversity;

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> wrote:

> This is my draft, I plan to read this not representing IGC, but still .
> In 10 min or so...  any immediate comment welcome,
>
> izumi
>
>
> A comment from civil society participants
> at the IGF Open Consultation
>
> 14 Febtruaru2012
>
> I am one of the two co-coordinators of the Civil Society Internet
> Governance Caucus, or CS IGC, and also a civil society member of the
> CSTD Working Group on IGF improvements.
>
> This is not to represent the whole IGC formaly, but still I would like
> to make the following remarks for the record as a member of the civil
> society, long particiapted in WSIS I, WGIG WSIS II, all IGFs and CSTD
> meetings for IGF.
>
> First, we are encouraged to see many of our friends in our room and
> also those who could not physically present here but participating
> remotely who all have strong interest to continue our work, for
> organizing the second round of the IGF.
>
> As you all know, Civil Society is a very important component of the
> multi-stakeholder framework and operation of IGF. This means that we
> like to work with you, government, private sector, techincal and
> academic community, among others, all stakeholders together. First and
> foremost, we would like to keep this spriti high, and also like to see
> enhanced multi-stakeholder participation for the IGF 2.0
>
> We are also very much in favor of enhancing the participation from the
> developing parts of the world in IGF, its consultation meetings like
> today, MAG, and other important areas.
>
> In this regard, we are very concerend that the current economic
> situation is putting some shades into the financial parts of the IGF
> organization.
> We feel very strongly that funding support is very much needed to make
> IGF further success. We, Civil Society, are one of the least
> resourceful stakeholders and therefore we always seek for funding
> support, especially for the MAG and CSTD works, and also for the main
> IGF meetings.
> Unfortunately, with the lack of funding support, many civils society
> colleagues including MAG members could not make it this time.
> Likewise, we have learned that our CSTD Working Group members will not
> be able to physically attend the meeting next week again due to lack
> of funding.
>
> Civil society and other groups with limited resources, such as
> associations or networks of small businesses, need support to
> participate in Internet Governance processes. Such support has been
> inconsistent – not just in the case of the working group, but also in
> the case of other important fora such as MAG meetings. This
> consistently hampers full multistakeholder participation and restricts
> the overall evolution - and results - of these processes. If the rules
> and mechanisms of participation in IG processes privileges groups that
> already have power and resources this 'imbalance' will be reflected in
> the outcomes of these processes.
>
> We know we are not alone, however. People from the least developing
> countries, small island nations, innovative but small SMEs, some
> academics and even governments are often suffering from lack of
> propser funding, and therefore, we don’t see many of these people in
> this room or other IGF related meetings.
> We acknolwdge the various kind donors who had provided great financial
> and in-kind support for the civil society participation, as well as
> developing country pariticipation, and hope to work together with you
> again.
>
> Deepening democracy and multistakeholder participation in governance
> requires the inclusion of groups and people who have a stake in the
> issues under discussion but who are frequently   excluded or
> marginalized. It is not enough to grant the right to participate to
> these stakeholders; provisions must be made to ensure that they can
> exercise this right in full.
>
> Ensuring multistakeholder participation in the context of the WSIS
> principles and the Tunis Agenda is not just about adhering to
> commitments which many governments agreed to.  The ultimate goal is to
> generate better and more sustainable policy outcomes that reflect the
> diversity of voices, ideas, concerns and needs of all relevant
> stakeholders.
>
> We will work on this issue among us, to find mutual solustion, and we
> also ask you to work together with us on this matter.
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