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"The Civil Society in Each of Us"

Ginger Paque http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig/Community/display.asp?Topic=GingerPague speaks at the IGF Opening Ceremony. She represents the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus http://www.igcaucus.org/ but stresses the overlapping roles people play and multiple hats they wear. Ginger remains a powerful voice for Civil Society, Capacity Building, Women, LAC and Users Everywhere.

Key points she raised include:

The different roles people may find themselves in - Government, Business etc but the recognition that each of us also has a personal relationship to the internet, for instance as parents worried about Online Safety or people fearful about losing their Privacy Online.
Importance of Multi-Stakeholderism proposed by the Tunis Agenda 2005.
The success of this multi-stakeholderism and how this success demands that the IGF continue with its core structure unchanged
Promotion of inclusion spreading the impact of IGF around the world in physical meetings and through remote participation with 33 local hubs registered around the world.
The Civil Society Thrust for a User-Centric - People Centric Internet.
The importance to continue the IGF Model Openess and Participation that will be the default Global Standard.
Civil Society IG Issues including: applying the principles of the basic human rights highlighted in WSIS Declaration of Principles http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html to IG; supporting the imperative of developing policies; and need to bring a voice to growing issues affecting us all such as Net Neutrality.
Most importantly- Civil Society is not a distinct group but there is Civil Society in each of us.

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