[governance] <Draft> IGC Statement for CSTD Meeting on Enhanced Cooperation

[Deirdre Williams]

Looks good :-)
Deirdre

On 18 May 2012 09:44, Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> wrote:

> In 20 min or so, CSTD Meeting on Enhanced Cooperation will resume,
> and listening to the presentations by Anriette, Parminder and Marilia
> this morning
> and also withthe hallway conversation, I plan to make the follow statement.
>
> If you have compelling comments, please do not hesitate to send here.
> Please be "constructive" - if you don't like some words, offer alternative,
> for example.
> Until last moment, I will do my best to accommodate.
>
> Sorry for this last minute effort.
>
> izumi
>
> ----
>
> I am one of the two co-coordinators of the Civil Society Internet
> Governance Caucus which was established during the first phase of WSIS
> in 2003 as part of all CS families, and as remaining few mostly
> engaged in IGF activities.
>
> We are encouraged to see the constructive dialogue around EC here today.
> However, we are also quite disappointed today to see that during the
> General Discussion, priority was given to CSTD member states
> government and all other stakeholders, civil society one of them, were
> put on hold, or in the second class until late afternoon.
>
> We made the following consensus statement to the UN consultation on
> Enhanced Cooperation 15 November 2010:
> “The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus regards the process
> towards enhanced cooperation as a vital step towards addressing the
> "many cross-cutting international public policy issues that require
> attention and are not adequately addressed by the current mechanisms"
> (Tunis Agenda para 68).”
>
> We are proud that the Civil Society of the planet today is as diverse
> as the mankind. We have quite a few active members from the South, -
> three civil society speakers this morning, Anriette, Parminder and
> Marilia are all active member of our caucus, and they are all from the
> south. We have also many members from the north, North as well as from
> the East and the West as well as gender and other diversities.
>
> When it comes to specifics, our diversity is often reflected in our
> different views, as was shown from our three excellent speakers this
> morning.
>
> Well now, 18 months later, our “bottom-line” is,
> - keep the principles endorsed by the Tunis Agenda, especially, to
> hold to the principles of:
>
> Many CS members support the principle of democratic global governance
> and the need for IG forums where all stakeholders are equally, and
> effectively represented.
>
> We hope to see the further productive dialogue, one way or other in a
> truly open forum allowing all stakeholders to reach consensus on equal
> footing of this difficult challenge of Enhanced Cooperation.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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