Subject: [fem-women2000 465] Re: [apwomen2000] URGENT Petition / Civil Society Participation in ICANN
From: "Women's Resource Center of Tashkent" <atin@silk.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:46:33 -1000
Seq: 465

----- Original Message -----
From: lalamaziwa <lalamaziwa@jca.apc.org>
To: <fem-women2000@jca.apc.org>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 7:17 AM
Subject: [apwomen2000] URGENT Petition / Civil Society Participation in
ICANN


> forwarding.. please circulate widely... some background note follows ...
> thank you!!  file://lalamaziwa
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----------------------------------------
>  From: YASUDA Yukihiro <yukihiro@jca.apc.org>
>  Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 01:22:39 +0900 (JST)
>  Subject: URGENT Petition / Civil Society Participation in ICANN
> --
>
> Hi,
>
> Please read the message through and sign up!
>
> To sign up please send a message with your name to:
>  <owner-icann-yokohama@jca.apc.org>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> Subject: Petition
> >From: Hans Klein <hklein@pickles.iac.gatech.edu>
> To: chrisbailey@gn.apc.org, ogr@nsknet.or.jp, kangmk@snu.ac.kr
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:08:32 -0400 (EDT)
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1]
>
>
>                    PETITION
>      CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPATION IN ICANN
>
> (To be presented to the ICANN Board in Yokohama on July 16.)
>
> The Civil Society Forum is a group of non-governmental organizations
> (NGOs) promoting the participation of individuals and NGOs in the
> governance of the Internet.
>
> The Civil Society Forum held a very successful session at the Yokohama
> ICANN meeting, where over 70 participants from around the world approved
> in principle the Civil Society Statement on ICANN Elections.  That
> statement identifies principles and issues for the promotion of democracy
> in ICANN (see: http://www.cpsr.org/internetdemocracy/yoko_statement.html )
>
> We the undersigned
> 1. support the mission of the Civil Society Forum.
> 2. urge the staff and Board of ICANN to work with the Civil Society Forum
>    to facilitate broad participation in ICANN processes.
> 3. urge ICANN to include Civil Society Forum sessions in its future
>    meeting programs.
>
> To sign up please up send a message with your name to:
> owner-icann-yokohama@jca.apc.org
>
>
> Initial signatories include:
>
> 1. Myung-koo KANG, Korea Internet Forum (KIF)
> 2. Hans Klein, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
> (CPSR)/Internet Democracy Project
> 3. Chris Bailey, Internet Rights Campaign, Association for Progressive
> Communications (APC)
> 4. Tomoya INYAKU, JCA-NET, Japan
> 5. Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva, Women's Resoure Centre (WRC), Uzbekistan

> To sign up please up send a message with your name to:
> owner-icann-yokohama@jca.apc.org
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> some notes on the background to this petition
>
> Civil Society Forum was just formed during this ICANN meeting
> taking place in Yokohama, Japan.
>
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) which
> decides on the policy and regularoty system of the "domain name"
> assignments, plans to hold a global online election of board members
> - said to be the first online election at the global scale.
> At-Large membership system is a voluntary membership system intended
> to represent socially diverse interests around Internet Governance
> pertinent to "domain name" assignments. It is currently open to any
> domain name holders at no fee. However, lack of balance among the
> regions as well as gender has been pointed out by many.
> Members so far registered are predominatly from the north, commercial,
> and male. Please support the activities of the Civil Society Forum
> and sign up! Thanks!
>
> lalamaziwa, JCA-NET, Japan
>
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