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>Subject: Launch of the Civil Society Internet Forum (CSIF)
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>I am happy to announce the launch of the Civil Society Internet Forum!
>
>Members of civil society organizations from around the globe met in
>Yokohama Japan in July 2000 to launch a new framework for the creation of a
>global Internet community.
>
>Concerning the coming At Large Elections of the ICANN Board, the Civil
>Society Internet Forum will provide a global framework for promoting
>democratic participation in elections. It will provide both global and
>regional forums for information sharing and debate.
>
>The guiding values of the Civil Society Internet Forum include democratic
>participation in decision-making and a fair balance between rights of
>privacy, speech, consumers, and property in Internet governance.=20
>
>Please visit our web site: http://www.CivilSocietyInternetForum.org
>
>The full announcement and initial signatories list are below.
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> Announcement=20
> of the Launch of the
> Civil Society Internet Forum (CSIF)
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>=20
>http://www.CivilSocietyInternetForum.org
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>Mission
>
>Members of civil society organizations from around the globe met in
>Yokohama Japan in July 2000 to launch a new framework for the creation of a
>global Internet community.
>
>Participants in the meeting agreed to two basic goals of the Civil Society
>Internet Forum in principle: 1) to make the Internet as a ground and
>instrument for the global civil society beyond national boundaries and 2)
>to work for the democratization of the Internet and Internet governance.
>
>Concerning the coming At Large Elections of the ICANN Board, the Civil
>Society Internet Forum will provide a global framework for promoting
>democratic participation in elections. It will provide both global and
>regional forums for information sharing and debate.
>
>Values
>
>The guiding values of the Civil Society Internet Forum are those relevant
>to the Internet community all over the world. Those values include
>democratic participation in decision-making, open processes, the right to
>communicate, and a fair balance between rights of privacy, speech,
>consumers, and property in Internet governance.=20
>
>Actions
>
>Supporters of the Civil Society Internet Forum performed numerous
>activities at the Yokohama meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors,
>including:=20
>
>* presented a petition with over one hundred signatures to the ICANN Board
>calling for the staff and board to work with the Civil Society Internet
>Forum (CSIF) to facilitate broad participation in ICANN processes and to
>include CSIF sessions in its future meeting programmes (see web page).
>* approved in principle the "Civil Society Statement on ICANN Elections," a
>four-page document listing principles and issues in the At Large elections
>(see web page.)
>* organized a series of meeting to educate and organize civil society
>organizations and individuals.
>
>CSIF Supporters
>
>STEERING COMMITTEE (organizational affiliation for information purposes=
> only)=20
>-Myung Koo Kang (Korean Internet Forum) (Interim Chair)=20
>-Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (ICANN Studienkreis, Germany)=20
>-Kimberly Heitman (Electronic Frontiers Australia)=20
>-Hans Klein (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, USA)=20
>-Karen Higgs (Association for Progressive Communications, Uruguay)
>-Pierre Ouedraogo (Institut francophone des nouvelles technologies de
>l'information et de la formation/INTIF, Burkina Faso)=20
>(A more permanent committee will be elected at the next CSIF meeting at the
>Los Angeles ICANN meeting.)
>
>Additional signatories (organizational affiliation for information purposes
>only):=20
>
>AFRICA=20
>
> Pierre Dandjinou (United Nations Development Program, Benin)=20
> Dorothy Okello (Women of Uganda Net (WOUGNET), Uganda)=20
> Moussa Fall (Enda Tiers Monde, Senegal)=20
>
>ASIA AND PACIFIC=20
>
> Toshimaru Ogura (JCA-Net, Japan)=20
> Tony Hill (Internet Society Australia)=20
> Nobuo Sakiyama (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility,=
> Japan)=20
> Hae-joang Cho=20
> Chat Garcia Ramilo (APC WNSP, Manila, Philippines)=20
>
>EUROPE=20
>
> Chris Bailey (Association for Progressive Communications, UK)=20
> Veni Markovski (Internet Society Bulgaria)=20
> Karen Banks (GreenNet, UK)=20
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>LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN=20
>
> Roberto Roggiero, INTERCOM - Ecuanex, Ecuador=20
> Dafne Sabanes Plou (APC WNSP Latin America/Argentina)=20
> Felipe Alfonso Rinc=F3n Ospina, Colombia=20
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>NORTH AMERICA=20
>
> Garret Sern (Educause)=20
> Barbara Simons (former President, Association of Computing Machinery,
>USA)=20
> Marc Rotenberg, (Electronic Privacy Information Center, USA)=20
> Barry Steinhardt (American Civil Liberties Union, USA)=20
> Chris Chiu (American Civil Liberties Union, USA)=20
> Maureen James (Association for Progressive Communications, Canada)=20
>
>A full list of signatories to the Yokohama Petition for "Civil Society
>Participation in ICANN" is available at the web site:=20
> http://www.CivilSocietyInternetForum.org
>
>
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