[WSIS CS-Plenary] statement from internet governance caucus

[Rik Panganiban]

YJ Park (email: <yjpark2012 at yahoo.co.kr>) sends out the following 
statement from the Internet Governance Caucus, which was delivered 
today in plenary:

Internet Governance Caucus
YJ Park, co-coordinator
July 18, 2003


Dear Madame chair, Dear delegates,

I would like to speak on behalf of the civil society Internet 
Governance caucus as a co-coordinator of this group.

The civil society Internet Governance caucus welcomes the governments’ 
efforts to set up Internet Governance Working Group at WSIS 
intersessional meeting. We hope that both the governments’ Internet 
Governance Working Group and the civil society’s Internet Governance 
caucus can guide each other to provide a vision of global coordination 
mechanisms in the cyberspace in the WSIS process.

It has been noted the governments and the civil societies in the 
developing countries have not effectively participated in the global 
coordination meetings despite urgent need to coordinate global Internet 
resources and the global Internet policies. E believe that both the 
governments’ Internet Governance Working Group and the civil society’s 
Internet Governance caucus can raise awareness internationally to 
facilitate developing countries’ participation.

Civil society also welcomes interventions from the private sector 
during the WSIS intersessional meeting, however, we must remember that 
the coordination of Internet resources must include all stakeholders. 
Therefore, we regret, the participation of individual Internet users, 
the at-large, has been diminished by the recent reform process of ICANN.

On the other hand, there is very pressing need to proceed with 
implementation and deployment of multilingual top level domains because 
multilingual top level domain names could be the start for enabling 
local communications and access to Internet content in the native 
languages and would reflect the linguistic diversity which has been 
given priority in the draft declaration. We encourage the WSIS to 
support activities in that area.

In line with this, we reiterate our expectation that the control of the 
root-server system could be handed over sooner or later to the global 
Internet community.

Finally, we look forward to working together with the governments in 
constructive way with a sustainable mechanism in the form of an open 
and transparent bottom-up policy decision making process.

Thank you for your attentions.



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Rik Panganiban
Reports Coordinator

Civil Society News Centre for the WSIS
web: 	http://www.prepcom.net/wsis
email: 	rik.panganiban at ngocongo.org
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