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

[Grigori Saghyan]

Dear All,
my impression is that they do not know what to do. During OSCE  
(Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ) Cyber  
-security  related conference in
  Yerevan 8-9 December 2010  Russian representative suggest to create a 
group of specialists for INFORMATION RESISTANCE.
These group will define what we can read or watch in the Internet.  Also 
I was informed that there are persons,  (may be it is Wikileaks command) 
who are
  "propagandizes of Internet terrorism".  But most interesting was that 
according to OSCE other representative
"access to information is not an absolute right", and in some cases it 
is possible and necessary  to limit this access.
In this situation ISOC have to  help governments, because government is 
a group of  government officials with very narrow views.
For this it is necessary to make real suggestions - how to provide free 
access to the information  and at the same time prevent crime in cyberspace.
How to help and what kind of strategy and appropriate tactics   it is 
possible to suggest  - this is a question. Any kind of suggestion from NGO
can be modified by government officials, necessary to be very careful.
Grigori Saghyan
ISOC.AM





and some other such strange definitions.

On 10.12.2010 16:22, 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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