[Chapter-delegates] The Future of the Internet Governance Forum

[borka at e5.ijs.si]

ISOC Slovenia support the letter.

Regards,

Borka



On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Jon McNerney wrote:

>
> 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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