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JPRS issued a statement on Global Digital Compact 3rd Revision jointly with world technical community coalition (22 August 2024)
On 22 August 2024, JPRS, along with global technical community members (TCCM [*1]), issued a statement on the Global Digital Compact Third Revision (GDC Rev.3) [*2] during the Third Stakeholder Session of the UN-led Global Digital Compact development process.
The statement addressed their claim to confirm the meaningful contribution of their past inputs ([*3][*4][*5]) to the improvement of GDC text, the transparency and openness of the process, and the further schedule.
- A Technical Community Coalition for Multistakeholderism (TCCM) has been formed
https://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/2024/240607.html - Global Digital Compact: rev. 3
https://www.un.org/techenvoy/sites/www.un.org.techenvoy/files/general/GDC_Rev_3_silence_procedure.pdf - JPRS issued a statement on Global Digital Compact First Revision jointly with world technical community coalition
https://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/2024/240524.html - JPRS issued 2nd statement on Global Digital Compact First Revision jointly with world technical community coalition
https://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/2024/240625.html - JPRS issued a statement about concerns on Global Digital Compact process and its possible outcomes jointly with world technical community coalition
https://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/2024/240808.html
Joint Statement
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A Technical Community Coalition for Multistakeholderism Good morning Chair, co-facilitators, all We are members of the Internet's technical community: the companies, organizations, groups and actors whose day-to-day job is to operate the critical infrastructure and services at the heart of the Internet. Members of our coalition - a 'Technical Community Coalition for Multistakeholderism' - recently issued a joint statement expressing concerns around the Global Digital Compact process. This statement expressed our desire to better understand how views put forward through multistakeholder consultations - such as this one - meaningfully contribute to the further textual revisions to the GDC, as well as concerns related to the transparency and openness of the process. We call on the Co-Facilitators of this process to address these points, and in particular to publish the further schedule, to aid meaningful input and global participation from all stakeholders into this process. We believe that good process is critical to ensuring the final version of the Compact has the buy-in of all stakeholders. We have seen widespread support for multistakeholder Internet governance across all stakeholder consultations, and strong advocacy from many Member States. Despite this, there is potential that such support will not be reflected in the agreed-upon Compact. We would once again like to reiterate that multistakeholder Internet governance should involve all stakeholder groups - governments, civil society, academia, the private sector and the technical community - in policy decisions about how the operational aspects of the Internet are managed, on equal footing. The technological success of the Internet is a direct result of this multistakeholder approach, and this approach enables a level of diversity, accountability and transparency that cannot be replicated in intergovernmental environments alone. We would also like to join many other stakeholders in cautioning against new multilateral initiatives proposed by the GDC that would duplicate existing work, and to once again call for the bolstering of existing multistakeholder initiatives including those created through the WSIS outcomes, in particular the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). We continue to believe that the IGF should remain the primary multi-stakeholder dialogue about the Internet and play a key role in the implementation and follow-up on the GDC. It is only through regular and meaningful involvement of all stakeholder groups in the Compact's development that we can successfully achieve its stated goal of "shared principles for an open, free and secure digital future for all". Signatories as of 22 August (in alphabetical order)
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