[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance :roles of plenary and governance lists

[Izumi Aizu]

Vittorio (and Wolfgang), I mostly agree with what you said.

I may add, as I will participate the coming ITU workshop:

I will make it clear that my participation is as and individual capacity 
only, not
"representing" any other groups, say Civil Society group or Internet Governance
caucus.

At the same time, I like to make it clear that I am "a member of" IG caucus and
the Civil Society group at WSIS and have mutual views and positions, especially
the importance of "multi-stakeholder" approach, that include the civil society as
an equal parpticipant with government and private sector gropus to the upcoming
WSIS II process and its Internet Governance Working Group activities.

I will try to write up my ideas on "Internet Governance" and present it
at the ITU workshop. I will try to share this, if possible in advance,
with other colleagues and if there are sufficient common parts,
I am more than willing to synchronize and synthesis or coordinate
into more coherent position.  I mean it will be "nice" if we could
come to produce one position paper and present it, but that maybe
not too easy, and even so we can present several different papers
in which we may find much common positions as well as remaining
differences.

Is this what we can mostly agree?  I hope so.

best,

izumi


At 19:36 04/01/25 +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
 >On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:11:36 +0900, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
 >
 >>With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
 >>likely being disadvantaged.
 >
 >I agree with your considerations, but I also think we have to agree on a
 >realistic plan.
 >
 >On one hand, you can't credibly go to an ITU internal meeting and try to
 >revert their internal working rules; if the only way we have to participate
 >in this event at this stage is to be invited as individuals, well, let's
 >take it. And by the way, I'm not even sure whether all civil society people
 >will be participating thanks to an invitation as individual expert, rather
 >than, for example, as accredited person from some governmental delegation,
 >as happened during the summit. Also, you can't force people who were invited
 >as individuals to go there and say something different from their individual
 >thought.
 >
 >But on the other hand, we do have to coordinate so that our message is
 >effective, that the positions on which there is general agreement among us
 >are exposed loudly and repeated again and again, and that it is made clear
 >that those positions have the support of the civil society individuals and
 >organizations which participate in WSIS. This is the only way not to
 >disperse our strength.
 >
 >I think that some of these agreeable positions might be easy to find: for
 >example, I think we should stress that the UN working group on Internet
 >Governance, as part of the WSIS process, should be equally composed by civil
 >society, private sector and government representatives; that Internet
 >Governance needs the full involvement of civil society organizations and
 >individual Internet users, as recognized by the Declaration of Principles;
 >that ITU itself, if willing to organize future events on this matter, should
 >ensure better and more open ways for participation by civil society, and
 >that, more generally, ITU should offer a viable way for NGOs to participate
 >in its activities; and that the Internet Governance caucus, as a subgroup of
 >the WSIS civil society plenary, is the right place to coordinate civil
 >society participation in the process.
 >
 >So what we should propose to all those who were invited as "individual civil
 >society experts" is to go there, say what they want to say, and then add the
 >above message.
 >--
 >vb.               [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<------