[lac-discuss-en] [At-Large] Fwd: [EURO-Discuss] WG: - news - [ISOC] The Future of the Internet Governance Forum

[Andrés Piazza]

I will encourage LACRALO Members to do the same.

2010/12/13 Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>

> Dear all,
>
> you might wish to join the petition call relayed by Wolf on EURALO's
> discuss list.
> Kind regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> -------- Message original --------
> Sujet:  [EURO-Discuss] WG: - news - [ISOC] The Future of the Internet
> Governance Forum
> Date :  Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:19:25 +0100
> De :    Wolf Ludwig <wolf.ludwig at comunica-ch.net>
> Répondre à :    Discussion for At-Large Europe
> <euro-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> Pour :  Discussion for At-Large Europe
> <euro-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> Copie à :       Vladimir Radunovic <vladar at diplomacy.edu>
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I guess that many of you have not realised the devastating decision of the
> last extraordinary meeting of the United Nation's Commission on Science and
> Technology for Development (CSTD) on 6 December to create a Working Group
> on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)  with a membership
> made up *only of governments*!
>
> As you can see below, ISOC has joined the International Chamber of
> Commerce - Business Action to Support the Information Society, the
> Internet Governance Caucus, and many other Internet, business, and
> civil society organizations in sending a letter to the CSTD, asking them
> to retract their previous decision and to establish an appropriately
> constituted Working Group that ensures the full and active participation
> of governments, the private sector and civil society from both developing
> and developed countries, involving relevant intergovernmental and
> international organizations and forums.
>
> Therefore, I would like to urge all EURALO members to sign the ISOC
> letter on the future of the IGF - see
> http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=2710
>
> Thanks and kind regards,
> Wolf
>
>
> Vladimir Radunovic wrote Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:35:
> >Dear friends,
> >
> >news coming from the UN on the future format of IGF are disturbing for
> many.
> >
> >
> >Below is the email from ISOC, including their initiative to collect
> support
> >for the letter to UN CSTD.
> >
> >Please read below, and join if you wish to.
> >
> >Best!
> >
> >       Vlada
> >
> >
> >isoc-members-announce-bounces at elists.isoc.org sent: 10. decembar 2010
> 12:25
> >> Dear Colleagues,
> >>
> >> In an extraordinary meeting on 6 December the United Nation's
> >> Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) decided to
> >> create a Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance
> >> Forum (IGF) (http://www.intgovforum.org/) with a membership made up
> >> only of governments.
> >>
> >> We believe this decision sets back the model of multistakeholder
> >> cooperation under which the IGF was established, and contradicts the
> >> instructions given to the CSTD for the establishment of the Working
> >> Group
> >>
> >> The Internet Society has joined the International Chamber of Commerce
> >> - Business Action to Support the Information Society, the Internet
> >> Governance Caucus, and many other Internet, business, and civil
> >> society organizations in sending a letter to the CSTD, asking them to
> >> retract their previous decision and to establish an appropriately
> >> constituted Working Group that ensures the full and active
> >> participation of governments, the private sector and civil society
> >> from both developing and developed countries, involving relevant
> >> intergovernmental and international organizations and forums.
> >>
> >> Like the Internet, a multistakeholder approach has been at the core of
> >> the Internet Governance Forum's formation and success. We hope that
> >> Internet Society Chapters and Members, as well as other organizations,
> >> will join us in signing the letter.
> >>
> >> You may read the full letter, and see the growing list of signatories,
> >> and indicated your own support here:
> >>
> >> http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=2710
> >>
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> Jon McNerney
> >> Chief Operating Officer
> >> Internet Society
> >> www.isoc.org
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> Then choose Interests & Subscriptions from the My Account menu.
> >
> >
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