AW: [governance] WSIS 10+

Mon Aug 11 13:08:53 EDT 2014

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Gesendet: Mo 11.08.2014 19:04
An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Kleinwächter, Wolfgang; 'Jean-Louis FULLSACK'; 'SalanietaT.Tamanikaiwaimaro'
Cc: 'DanielKalchev'
Betreff: RE: [governance] WSIS 10+

Alongside or even in front of these discussions about the role of civil
society in these processes shouldn't there be an equivalent discussion about
what the content of the contribution from civil society might be i.e. what
positions civil society might be advocating.  

Once that content is articulated then the efforts to make that content heard
and effectual might be easier and have wider resonance in broader civil
society circles and even beyond.

M

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[mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of "Kleinwächter,
Wolfgang"
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 9:26 AM
To: Jean-Louis FULLSACK; governance at lists.igcaucus.org;
SalanietaT.Tamanikaiwaimaro
Cc: DanielKalchev
Subject: AW: [governance] WSIS 10+

Jean Louis is right, the Geneva CS Declaration is not an "official
document". However the Geneva summit "took note" of the document and the CS
declaration is still listed under the WSIS documents on the ITU Website.
http://www.itu.int/wsis/geneva/index.html . It is qualified there as " Civil
Society Declaration: handed out to the President of the Summit at the last
Plenary meeting on 12 December 2003". This was the compromise. Civil Society
did not walk out in Geneva but got for its own declaration an "official
recognition" in form of the agreed procedure of an "accepted handover of the
document to the president". Such an "handover" of a non-governmental
document was new within the procedures of an intergovernmental summit
meeting (as WSIS I) and seen - from the CS perspective - as a "door opener"
for next steps. 

Now it seems that WSIS 10+ is sailing backwards and we are where we have
been before PrepCom1 (2002). Obviously governments reject "to share decision
making", as agreed (and promised) in the Tunis Agenda with regard to
Internet Governance. Insofar we should make noise for a deeper CS
involvement into the negotiations for the final NY document.

One option for Civil Society in preparing for the WSIS 10+ Summit in
December 2015 could be to have its own (independent) WSIS Review. This could
lead to an own final document. Such a document could become part of the
"package" of the planned NY WSIS 10+ documents in December 2015.  As a
minimum we should call for the same procedure we had in Geneva. Otherwise
Civil Socity should make clear that it will not accept to be "used" to give
WSIS 10+ an image of "multistakeholder involvment" and reject "invitations"
to be consulted in the preparatory phase for the NY Meeting as long as this
"invitations" are not more than "window dressing" and do not have
substantial and measurable input into the final documents.  

Best wishes

wolfgang

Dear all

I refer to my mail I sent earlier on the list (August 4th) for replying to
Wolfgang who asserts that the CS Declaration at the Geneva WSIS Summit
(2003)  as an "official WSIS outcome document". Unfortunately this doesn't
reflect the reality as I justified it in my earlier mail. See its content
hereafter :

    Wolfgang wrote :

> 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.>

This enthousiastic view on the civil society's voice at WSIS doesn't reflect
the reality.

First, the "milestone" CS WSIS Declaration was in fact a document resulting
from a schism in the "WSIS multistakeholder community", precisely decided by
the CS Plenary during PrepCom 3b because the very voice of CS wasn't
sufficiently taken in account during the PrepCom process. Remember Adama
Samassekou's desperate but vain efforts to convince the CS Plenary to join
the official Geneva Declaration !

Second, the CS Declaration, despite the assertion of the WSIS Secretariate,
isn't considered as an official WSIS outcome document. The latter are the
WSIS Declaration of Principles and the Geneva Action Plan, as well as the
Tunis Commitment and the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society (see
http://www.itu.int/wsis/outcome/booklet/index-fr.html ). 

In a nutshell : If "CS got a voice", it's expression was at best considered
to be pseudo-official ! This is pure WSIS/ITU multistakeholderism !

 (End of mail wording)

Therefore we should base any further discussion about WSIS+10 on this
reality rather than on a "sweet dream" ...

Best regards

Jean-Louis Fullsack

> Message du 07/08/14 03:31
> De : "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" 
> A : "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" , "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" 
> Copie à : "Daniel Kalchev" 
> Objet : Re: [governance] WSIS 10+
> 
>

Hi Wolfgang,
> 
>
>From the Pacific, we can shoot the proposal down as we can secure at least
16 votes in the UNGA to support enhanced civil society input.
> 
> Sad that it has to come to this.
> 
>
Sala
>

> 
>
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:46 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"  wrote:
>
http://www.outlookindia.com/news/article/UN-Adopts-Resolution-on-Bridging-Di
gital-Divide/852511
> 
> 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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