(Forwarded by Rik Panganiban, volunteer of CONGO)
YJ Park (email: <yjpark2012@yahoo.co.kr>) sends out the following =
statement from the Internet Governance Caucus, which was delivered today =
in plenary:
Internet Governance Caucus
YJ Park, co-coordinator
July 18, 2003
Dear Madame chair, Dear delegates,
I would like to speak on behalf of the civil society Internet Governance =
caucus as a co-coordinator of this group.
The civil society Internet Governance caucus welcomes the governments=92 =
efforts to set up Internet Governance Working Group at WSIS =
intersessional meeting. We hope that both the governments=92 Internet =
Governance Working Group and the civil society=92s Internet Governance =
caucus can guide each other to provide a vision of global coordination =
mechanisms in the cyberspace in the WSIS process.
It has been noted the governments and the civil societies in the =
developing countries have not effectively participated in the global =
coordination meetings despite urgent need to coordinate global Internet =
resources and the global Internet policies. E believe that both the =
governments=92 Internet Governance Working Group and the civil =
society=92s Internet Governance caucus can raise awareness =
internationally to facilitate developing countries=92 participation.
Civil society also welcomes interventions from the private sector during =
the WSIS intersessional meeting, however, we must remember that the =
coordination of Internet resources must include all stakeholders. =
Therefore, we regret, the participation of individual Internet users, =
the at-large, has been diminished by the recent reform process of ICANN.
On the other hand, there is very pressing need to proceed with =
implementation and deployment of multilingual top level domains because =
multilingual top level domain names could be the start for enabling =
local communications and access to Internet content in the native =
languages and would reflect the linguistic diversity which has been =
given priority in the draft declaration. We encourage the WSIS to =
support activities in that area.
In line with this, we reiterate our expectation that the control of the =
root-server system could be handed over sooner or later to the global =
Internet community.
Finally, we look forward to working together with the governments in =
constructive way with a sustainable mechanism in the form of an open and =
transparent bottom-up policy decision making process.
Thank you for your attentions.
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Civil Society News Centre for the WSIS=20
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