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

[Chun Eung Hwi]

Dear all,

So far as I know, it is definitely ITU workshop.
Refer to http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04/index.html

There, you can find out the following phrase.

"The workshop's goal is to initiate a process to prepare ITU's position
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vis-a-vis the UN Secretary-General's Working Group on Internet Governance
to be established as a result of the World Summit on the Information
Society Declaration of Principles and Action Plan agreed on 12 December
2004."

And regarding attendee,

"Attendance is by invitation only to ITU Member States and Sector=20
Members."



On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Fullsack Jean-Louis wrote:

> Bonjour =E0 tous
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> Another problem with this meeting is its ambivalence :
> - is it an "ITU internal meeeting" , or
> - is it a "WSIS informal meeting".
> This ambivalence is based on the dual role of Utsumi : he is both the ITU=
 SG
> and the Head of WSIS organisation/structure.
> Iin the first case the meeting is submitted to ITU rules, whereas in the
> second it is compulsorily open to all WSIS "stakeholders", whatever its
> nature may be (informal, restricted, specialized, ...).
> It would be helpful to listen to the opinion of the CS Secretariat ... if
> there is still one !
> But it should also be the role of C&T group "co-chairs" Sally and Bill to
> lead the way at least until it is clarified which type of meeting Utsumi =
is
> preparing, unless a "chair of the CS Plenary" could be agreed upon by the
> largest possible CS organisations involved in the WSIS process.
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> Best regards
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
> CSDPTT
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb at bertola.eu.org>
> To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Internet governance :role=
s
> of plenary and governance lists
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> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:11:36 +0900, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
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> >With respect, I think you are being naive, and civil society is
> >likely being disadvantaged.
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> I agree with your considerations, but I also think we have to agree on a
> realistic plan.
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> 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 participa=
te
> 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 peop=
le
> will be participating thanks to an invitation as individual expert, rathe=
r
> than, for example, as accredited person from some governmental delegation=
,
> as happened during the summit. Also, you can't force people who were invi=
ted
> as individuals to go there and say something different from their individ=
ual
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> thought.
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> 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 u=
s
> are exposed loudly and repeated again and again, and that it is made clea=
r
> that those positions have the support of the civil society individuals an=
d
> organizations which participate in WSIS. This is the only way not to
> disperse our strength.
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> 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 ci=
vil
> 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, sho=
uld
> ensure better and more open ways for participation by civil society, and
> that, more generally, ITU should offer a viable way for NGOs to participa=
te
> 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.
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> So what we should propose to all those who were invited as "individual ci=
vil
> society experts" is to go there, say what they want to say, and then add =
the
> above message.
> --
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