H.E. Mr. Mohamed Khaled Khiari
Permanent Mission of Tunisia to the United Nations
31 Beekman Place
New York, N.Y. 10022
H.E. Mr. Jarmo Viinanen
Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations
866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 222
New York, N.Y. 10017
Your Excellencies,
We, the undersigned, are writing as members of civil society deeply engaged in Internet governance and ICT for development issues. Many of us have been engaged in this field since the inception of World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
At the outset, we would like to congratulate you on your appointment as co-facilitators of the General Assembly’s open intergovernmental consultations to finalize the modalities for the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of WSIS.
We feel strongly that all stages of the overall WSIS review process should be open to all interested stakeholders. As members of global civil society, we have been contributing to the WSIS review process that is currently underway and would welcome the opportunity to input into the informal consultations you are facilitating and serve as resources in these processes.
The modalities for the overall review must embody the spirit of WSIS and take into account the progress and growing recognition of the importance of multi-stakeholder approaches to internet governance that has been made since 2005, as exemplified by the Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform for the WSIS High Level Event and the UNESCO WSIS+10 Review Event, but also the Internet Governance Forum, the Working Group on Internet Governance, the Working Group on IGF improvements, and the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation.
We envision an overall WSIS review that renews and revives commitment to the Geneva principles’ vision of a “people-centred, inclusive, development-oriented and non-discriminatory Information Society”, is rooted in the international human rights framework, and builds on the achievements and addresses the challenges experienced in the 10 years since WSIS.
Additionally, we would welcome efforts to find synergies and synchronicities between the overall WSIS review and the post-2015 development agenda, and in this context we would encourage the development of more concrete, measurable targets relating to ICTs and development.
To conclude, we, the undersigned, consider it critical that the modalities of the overall WSIS review take into account the viewpoints of all stakeholders and establish concrete mechanisms for civil society to channel its contributions, including through remote participation. Therefore, we, as members of global civil society, would like to request an opportunity to input into the informal consultations that you are facilitating and as well as to engage more formally in the preparatory process to the overall review.
| 19 | Centre for Internet and Society | India | Apr 02, 2014 | |
| 18 | Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice | South Korea | Feb 13, 2014 | |
| 17 | Software Freedom law Centre, India | India | Feb 11, 2014 | |
| 16 | Bytes for All, Pakistan | Pakistan | Feb 10, 2014 | |
| 15 | ARTICLE 19 | Feb 10, 2014 | ||
| 14 | International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) | Global | Feb 10, 2014 | |
| 13 | Pasifika Nexus | Feb 07, 2014 | ||
| 12 | Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Global | Feb 06, 2014 | |
| 11 | Global Partners Digital | Feb 06, 2014 | ||
| 10 | Center for Democracy & Technology | United States | Feb 06, 2014 | |
| 9 | Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet | South Korea | Feb 05, 2014 | |
| 8 | Internet Democracy Project | India | Feb 05, 2014 | |
| 7 | University of Zurich / NonCommercial Users Constituency, ICANN | Switzerland | Feb 05, 2014 | |
| 6 | Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication | Bangladesh | Feb 05, 2014 | |
| 5 | Public Knowledge | USA | Feb 05, 2014 | |
| 4 | Consumers International | Feb 05, 2014 | ||
| 3 | Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV) | Brazil | Feb 05, 2014 | |
| 2 | Access | Feb 05, 2014 | ||
| 1 | World Wide Web Foundation | Feb 04, 2014 |
| 4 | Virginia (Ginger) Paque | USA | Feb 05, 2014 | |
| 3 | Fernando Márquez López | Mexico | Feb 05, 2014 | |
| 2 | Avri Doria | United States | Feb 04, 2014 | |
| 1 | Manuel Pereira | Portugal | Feb 04, 2014 |
