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

[Izumi AIZU]

All,

Izumi Aizu
This is close to what I read just 10 min ago:

[Chair intervened in the middle of my talk, go to EC, but I responded back that
that is about EC]

IGC Statement for CSTED Meeting on Enhanced Cooperation

Thank you Chair person for finally giving the floor. I say “Finally”.
My name is Izumi Aizu living in Tokyo and also in global cyberspace at
the same time like many of you.
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 is remaining engaged in
Internet Governance related activities such as IGF, CSTD WG on IGF
improvements and this meeting.

We are encouraged to see the evidence of constructive dialogue around
EC here. However, we are also very disappointed today to see that
priority was given to governments and all non-governmental
stakeholders, civil society one of them, were put on hold, or in the
second class until this late afternoon. This is neither on equal
footing or respecting the roles. We will not accept this working
modality if that is the next step on EC since it is not really MSH at
all.

We are proud that the Civil Society on 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. We share the similar challenges to governments and other
stakeholders.

But now our “bottom-line” is,
- keep the principles endorsed by the Tunis Agenda, especially, to
hold to the principles – that means -

Many CS members support the principle of OPEN, Multi-stakeholder
global governance and the need for IG forums where all stakeholders
are equally, and effectively represented not only in its
participation, but also to the decision making or consensus building

Some WG proposals we heard today seems to have broad support among CS,
yet there are different opinions in its functions, anchorage, and
operational modality. I think devils are in the details.

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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