[urgent/important] cross-stakeholders IGF renewal letter

Nicolas Adam nickolas.adam at GMAIL.COM
Fri Sep 12 07:56:54 EEST 2014


I am also not supporting the letter, but I am fine with NCSG expressing 
its support for it since so many of its members wants to support it.

Nicolas


On 09/09/2014 3:01 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>
> I do not support the letter but will refrain from raising any objection.
>
> Milton L Mueller
>
> Laura J and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
>
> Syracuse University School of Information Studies
>
> http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/
>
> *From:*NCSG-Discuss [mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] *On Behalf 
> Of *Maria Farrell
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 09, 2014 6:50 AM
> *To:* NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [NCSG-Discuss] [urgent/important] cross-stakeholders 
> IGF renewal letter
>
> We seem to have a very good level of support for this.
>
> As PC co-chair, here's my official request: are there any OBJECTIONS 
> to us signing this as the NCSG?
>
> Please let me know by replying to this email within the next 24 hours.
>
> All the best, Maria
>
> On 6 September 2014 01:31, Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza 
> <caffsouza at gmail.com <mailto:caffsouza at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> +1 for NCSG
>
> > Em 06/09/2014, às 03:13, Clarinettet <clarinettet at GMAIL.COM 
> <mailto:clarinettet at GMAIL.COM>> escreveu:
>
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On 6 Sep 2014, at 00:17, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at GMAIL.COM 
> <mailto:fouadbajwa at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:
> >>
> >> I believe this is right on the spot! +1 from my side!
> >>
> >> Best
> >>
> >> Fouad
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Rafik Dammak 
> <rafik.dammak at gmail.com <mailto:rafik.dammak at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>> 2 members of NCSG worked on letter to be signed by the different
> >>> stakeholders about the renewal of IGF. I think that is an effort 
> we can
> >>> support and a letter we can sign. the time-window to act is quite 
> short and
> >>> I would like to know if there is support for this letter and if we 
> can sign
> >>> it as NCSG.
> >>> I think several members from NCSG already expressed support in 
> other spaces
> >>> regarding this letter.
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>>
> >>> Rafik
> >>> ..................
> >>>
> >>> Dear colleagues and fellow stakeholders of the Internet Governance 
> Forum:
> >>>
> >>> At the 9th meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, various
> >>> stakeholders discussed their common desire to request an immediate
> >>> extension of the IGF mandate, in order to create stabiity for the
> >>> organization and predictability for those engaged in seeking 
> funding for
> >>> projects.  We have drafted a statement to send to the UN, to 
> request not
> >>> just an immediate renewal of the IGF mandate, but rather an open-ended
> >>> re-authorization of the IGF as a voluntary, multistakeholder 
> forum.  We
> >>> request that other participants in the IGF also support this 
> message on
> >>> or before November 1.
> >>>
> >>> We will be creating a neutral website for this project at
> >>> www.IGFcontinuity.org <http://www.IGFcontinuity.org> very shortly, 
> to accept sign-ons of organizations,
> >>> countries, and individuals.  In the meantime, the undersigned will
> >>> collect your signatures and description of your organization if 
> you are
> >>> able to endorse this letter by the time of the closing ceremony at IGF
> >>> 2014.  The deadline to be included in the letter presented via the 
> Chair
> >>> will be 11am UTC, Friday September 5.
> >>> Examples of how you will be listed appear below:
> >>> 1.  Jane Smith  Individual
> >>> 2.  Acme Industry Association Association representing 150
> >>> manuacturers of widgets
> >>> 3.  State of [x]  Country
> >>>
> >>> Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions.
> >>>
> >>> Jeanette Hofmann, Berlin Social Science Center, jeanette at wzb.eu 
> <mailto:jeanette at wzb.eu>
> >>> Stephanie Perrin, Non-commercial Stakeholders Group, ICANN,
> >>> stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca 
> <mailto:stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards.
> >> --------------------------
> >> Fouad Bajwa
> >> ICT4D and Internet Governance Advisor
> >> My Blog: Internet's Governance: 
> http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/ 
> <http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/>
> >> Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa
>

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