[governance] Draft Civil Society Brief [Background/Overview and Proposal]

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 25/10/2013, at 7:59 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> Following meetings of global civil society which was chaired by Best Bits, there have been some slight changes to the text and I will ask Jeremy to please share it here.

Yes here is the final proposed text.  There was a question whether to launch it today, but that is probably moot since the Best Bits website is down?

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals from around the world, recognize that we are in a critical moment for the Internet Governance regime, in which the increasing use of surveillance mechanisms pose a challenge the whole community to tackle. Proactive action is required to restore trust and to ensure human rights are respected and uphold. We remain committed to the development of an open Internet and its use for advancing human rights, express our hope and expectation that the Internet governance summit in Brazil in 2014 incorporate a multistakeholder model of agenda setting, participation and decision making from its inception.

This requires:
The event should discuss what Internet governance architecture is required to support an inclusive, people-centric, development-oriented   information society. We believe that this requires at the very minimum that such a structure is democratic, in that it should be inclusive of all countries and all stakeholders, and that it protects and promotes human rights.
The full participation of civil society stakeholders in planning and in the meeting should be guaranteed and resourced.
A strengthened Internet Governance Forum could play a role in the future Internet governance arrangements to be discussed at the event,  and it should be linked with the CSTD WGEC process as appropriate.
The event should extend beyond good will speeches or presentations of  good intentions and seek to produce actionable outputs. Modalities should be developed to allow all stakeholders, including remote participants, to participate on an equal footing from the preparatory process to final outputs.
We  stress that opening doors for more stakeholders to attend meetings is  not sufficient. Multistakeholderism has been used with a variety of  meanings, sometimes only referring to a very limited kind of openness  and consultation.  If the goal is to achieve an open, inclusive and  participatory debate, it is crucial that civil society is centrally involved at every step of the decision-making process.


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Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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