[governance] A Response re. Just Net Coalition and Internet Social Forum

[Ralf Bendrath]

Am 30.01.2015 um 12:04 schrieb "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang":

> good that you remember the Geneva CS declaration from 2003. 

FWIW, it's here -also the CS statement on the 2005 WSIS II:
<http://www.worldsummit2003.de/en/nav/14.htm>

> As you
> know, the WSIS 10 conference in December 2015 will be a purely
> intergovernmental meeting with a final intergovernmental document.
> They want to have a multistakeholder discussion phase before the
> intergovernmental negotiations phase. With other words, there is no
> way for CS to participate in the drafting of the final document from
> a CS perspective.

Which is a shame for those who've been around in 2002-2005, but shows
how the governments are claiming more control, as predicted by
Goldsmith/Wu back then..

> It would be great if somebody could start also a drafting process for
> a CS Statement for WSIS 10+ in New York. Such an Independent document
> should take the Geneva Declarationm from 2003 as a starting point and
> check what has been achieved and what not and what remains to be
> done. 

And what new issues have appeared in the last 10 years...

> One could formulate some new objectives and pout this into an
> Independent document called "A Civil Society WSIS 2025 Agenda".

Would be nice, yes.

Best, Ralf

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