[governance] WSIS 10+

Mon Aug 4 05:18:00 EDT 2014

Nota Bene: Wolfgang, I hope you noticed that I did not mention the troubling fact that the US surveillance of all Internet users browsing and emailing over the beautiful unified, un-fragmented Internet under one single root-zone management, and of all phone users, including president Rousseff, Chancellor Merkel, European diplomats, BRICS diplomats, all diplomats, politicians, citizens, that were hostage of the US surveillance paranoia and infernalia. We all pay for that.

So yes let's the CS write to USG and its digital champions. Let's start to balance our role.

That is something everyone has obviously in mind when considering the fact that governments are no longer to be seen out of the IG game. One good reason to have CS coming strong into the democratic multistakeholder model, JNC and others are advocating.

JC

Le 4 août 2014 à 10:46, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang a écrit :

> http://www.outlookindia.com/news/article/UN-Adopts-Resolution-on-Bridging-Digital-Divide/852511
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> Outlook India:
> The resolution decided that the overall review will be concluded in December 2015 by a two-day General Assembly high-level meeting to be preceded by an inter-governmental preparatory process that also takes into account inputs from all relevant stakeholders of WSIS.  The intergovernmental negotiation process would begin in June 2015 and lead to an inter-governmentally agreed outcome document for adoption at the UNGA meeting. The process retains the ownership of the preparatory meetings and the final outcome document with member states alone. Mukerji said the resolution ensures that leaders, "at the highest possible level" will meet at the high-level plenary meeting in December next year to adopt the outcome of the intergovernmental negotiations.
> 
> Wolfgang:
> One of the big achievements in the WSIS process was that civil society got a voice in the process. A Milestone was the CS WSIS Declaratzion from December 2003 which was handed over to the president of the first summit, WSIS 1. It became an official document. The Tunis Agenda confirmed and enhanced the role of civil society. As you can see from the text above, ten years later this process is back in the hands of "governments only". The final outcome document will be with member states only by taking into account inputs from all relevant stakeholders (which sounds like a joke with the experiences of a enhanced communicartion and cooperation over the last ten years, including the UNCSTD WGs. Should civil society write a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Kin Moon?
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