[governance]

[Mazzone, Giacomo]

Dear Izumi,
having being there since Geneva 2003, I could only that confirm as witness what you say. So I want to associate myself to this big thank to all friends that have done their best to bring us where we are today. You forgot to mention the work done by Anriette in the drafting group and by all the Brazilian friends… But what it is more important is that these years have forged relationships and trust, so that the border is not anymore between civil society and the other stakeholders, but between those that are ready to change and support the change and those that don’t want. Chengetai, Janis, Markus, Hartmut, Raul, Lee, Thomas, Andrea and many others ….
This is the biggest achievement of these 10 years…
I wish all of you a nice end of week end.
Giacomo

From: izumiaizu at gmail.com [mailto:izumiaizu at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Izumi AIZU
Sent: dimanche 27 avril 2014 13:44
To: governance; <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
Subject: [governance]

A little reflection

Like some of you, I was thinking how far we came from INET/IFWP/ICANN/WSIS/WGIG/IGF days to NETMundial when Adam and Jeanette were reading the final outcome statement and receiving strong standing ovations.

Adam and Jeanette were the 2nd or 3rd generation of the Co-coordinators of the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus, at the days of WSIS Tunis phase if I am not mistaken. YJ Park and Wolfgang Kleinwacther were the first ones at the first WSIS process.

At the initial WSIS process. not only them, but most Civil Society members were not given much role other than making statements within limited and controlled frameworks. Yes we had the bureau, made negotiations with government reps, but not in the MSH modality of say "working together". By and large, we were the "outsiders" trying to lobby "them".

Compared with that, civil society members in the EMC and HLMC were "insiders" and often "lobbied" by not only other CS members but also by other stakeholders.
They were taking the lead in the drafting sessions. IF they, or all of us, CS members were not there, there would be no NETMundial and its outcome.
It is not their (CS members at EMC and HLMC) efforts per se, but, but our collective energy, blood sweat and tears, tough and sharp arguments among CS circle, engagement, passion, patience, all of these that resulted in building-up of the credibility we today got at NETMundial.
In that regard, I would say, congratulations to Adam and Jeanette, but also to Nnenna, Marilia, Carlos, Stephanie, Luis, Subi and all others who worked hard in NETMundial process including those who did not get the explicit role, but nevertheless played important roles here and there.

I felt we are maturing and making good progress. Of course, we still have a lot to achieve.

Now, going forward!

izumi

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                     >> Izumi Aizu <<
Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo
Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
Japan
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