[WSIS CS-Plenary] civil society legitimacy, accountability and transparency

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

Thanks Tracey for this interesting statement which I can seond without any reservation.
It could be a good contribution to our open debate on CS future in WSIS and after-WSIS process. 
Jean-Louis Fullsack




> Message du 07/03/05 06:34
> De : "Tracey Naughton" 
> A : plenary at wsis-cs.org
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> Objet : [WSIS CS-Plenary] civil society legitimacy, accountability and transparency
> 
> Internal governance: Responding to the challenge of civil society 
> legitimacy, accountability and transparency
> By Kumi Naidoo , CIVICUS Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer
> Improving internal governance is an important issue for all of civil 
> society, particularly at a moment when civil society is under threat 
> from certain quarters which argue that while governments derive their 
> mandate through elections to make and implement policies, civil society 
> organisations (CSOs) are ?self-appointed do-gooders? who have no 
> mandate to represent the voices of marginalised citizens. What this 
> critique ignores is the deepening democratic deficit in most countries 
> around the world, even where elections are held, and even in 
> long-standing democratic countries. Some features of this democratic 
> deficit include: (1) fewer citizens feeling motivated to vote in 
> elections; (2) the inaccessibility of political office, for example in 
> the United States, where it has become prohibitively expensive to run 
> for national political office, thus ruling out many good candidates; 
> (3) the continuing gender imbalance in parliamentary and government 
> institutions; (4) the skewed media environment in several countries 
> that do not allow equitable access to the media; (5) the lack of 
> internal democracy in political parties; and, (6) the high return rate 
> of incumbent candidates, suggesting that those that hold political 
> office are able to exploit their position to seek re-election. To read 
> more, see www.civicus.org/new/content/deskofthesecretarygeneral6.htm
> 
> 
> Tracey Naughton
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