Discussion on the Philosophy of the CBD The first discussion in the Cyber Dialogue focused on the philosophy of the CBD. This was led by Dr. Mushakoji and Mr. Hiroo Komamiya. According to Mr. Komamiya, the philosophy on sustainability was missing in the preamble of the CBD. Dr. Mushakoji and Mr. Komamiya drafted the document to advocate to the State Parties to adopt a statement as a preamble to its post 2010 Objectives Document. The document was posted at the “Aichi-Nagoya International E-Conference on the Post 2010 Biodiversity Target (ANIEC 2010),” which was organized by the CBD Secretariat and aimed to enrich the discussions in COP10. After the posting, the document was opened to the general public who were willing to participate in the dialogue, or in sharing their experiences in order to substantiate the different points raised in this dialogue. Apart from RCE Chubu, the civil society of biodiversity in Japan united as the host country’s citizenry. A networking NGO called “Japan Civil Network of Convention of Biological Diversity” (JCN-CAB) was established on 25 January, 2009. RCE Chubu, as one of the non-governmental networks in host city of the COP10, joined JCN-CBD. Collaboration with JCN-CBD The second phase of the Cyber Dialogue project started in January 2010 when Chubu RCE-ESD Promoting Network (CREPN), an individual membership network and one of RCE Chubu’s main partner organizations, co-organized an event with JCN-CBD. The collaboration on Cyber Dialogue was a key topic at the event. In April 2010, i-dialog, a Japanese version of the social networking service for the Cyber Dialogue was created using the system of the Open SNP. This is a Japanese social networking service used mainly for local community development. Dr. Hiroshi Wazaki, the founder of Open SNP, conducted research on community development and social networking service, and promoted the system to local governments and community development organizations. He also attempted to create a domestic network of local community development organizations to share the experiences of creating social ties in their communities. 102 THE ASIA REGIONAL FORUM ON BIODIVERSITY Figure 2. The i-dialog Website (Open SNP). The advantage of using Open SNP was that the system enabled users to make public selected discussions of communities. One of the disadvantages faced by most social networking services at that time was that the discussions were shown mainly to the users who signed and logged in to the system. Unlike these social networking services, Open SPN allows the owner of a social networking service to make some of the discussion groups, called Community, open to the public without asking the people to sign up and log into the system. The JCN-CBD had thematic working groups such as the Working Group on Wetland Biodiversity, Bioregion Working Group, Gender and Minority Working Group, and many other groups. Each of these groups used the Cyber Dialogue site for different purposes. Some groups used it for public discussion, while some sub-groups used it as a message board for their members. One important outcome of the partnership with JCN-CBD was the publication of a position paper for presentation at the COP10. This encouraged participation from groups who used the site as a discussion space for drafting the position paper. The problem, however, was that the social networking service was not functioning as the organizers had expected. One of the challenges identified in the use of Cyber Dialogue was the difficulty in logging in for some people. This
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