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<div>Dear Colleagues:</div>
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<div>Discussions related to WSIS over the last few weeks with several
people, on several lists has lead me to issue the following
statement:</div>
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<div>Discussion on this list, and in other CS spaces - about CS
structures is long overdue and much needed. It's been called for
repeatedly, and I for one am keen for that to happen. If my
"interventions" have the effect of generating movement -
hey, then wonderful. I'd rather not use "<i>problematic
language</i>" at times, but it seems that being kind and gentile
yields no action - and being a bit "<i>disruptive"</i> seems
to be the only way to gets people's attention..</div>
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<div>Civil Society mentions repeatedly the need for openness and
transparency - so we should try to practice what we preach as much as
we can in our own structures around WSIS.</div>
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<div>I care enough to spend some of my own personal time, energy and
money to try to help. I'm not in it for myself, but to help out in as
an altruistic way as possible. That's always been my aim. You can
think what you want about me, but what I always try to be is -
open, honest, collaborative and altruistic.</div>
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<div>I feel offended and hurt when others see it in another light,
worse yet - when they try to discredit me (as has happened in other
venues) and take my good and honest intentions to be some ploy by
outside actors to control CS in someway. All i can say is this - i've
learned the hard way that dealing with CS is something that's
difficult and a challenge. But, such is life - I'm interested to be in
this space, and will try to do my best. May my actions
over the long term speak for themselves.</div>
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<div>regards</div>
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<div>Robert</div>
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Robert Guerra <rguerra@privaterra.org><br>
Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org></div>
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