<html><body><font face="Tahoma" size="2">The recommendations are from "a diverse global group of civil society organisations" and stress the importance of a multistakeholder approach. NCSG, of course, has multistakeholder approaches as a core value, and while its organizations are both registered (as NGO's etc.) in their respective countries and not-registered that is not an issue here. I have some reservations with bits and pieces of the recommendations but overall they are right down the middle of the NCSG road and I recommend that NCSG endorse them.<br><br>Sam L. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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"It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured<br>
in an unjust state" -Confucius<br>
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Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar)<br>
Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3<br>
email: <a target="_blank" href="mailto:Lanfran@Yorku.ca">Lanfran@Yorku.ca</a> Skype: slanfranco<br>
blog: <a target="_blank" href="http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com">http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com</a><br>
Phone: 613 476-0429 cell: 416-816-2852</font><br><blockquote style="border-left: solid 2px #000000; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px">---- Original Message ----<br><b>From</b>: Avri Doria <avri@ELLA.COM><br><b>To</b>: NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br><b>Sent</b>: Wed, Oct 22, 2014, 6:08 AM<br><b>Subject</b>: Re: [bestbits] Time-sensitive: 24 hour sign on period for ITU Plenipot joint recommendations<br><br>What does registration mean? That some government blesses our<br>
existence. We only need that if we want a checking account.<br>
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Within the CS Coordination Group, NCSG is one of the broadest coalition<br>
of organizations and individuals there are in civil society. Whose<br>
blessing do we need?<br>
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avri<br>
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