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The article confirms my view that in proposing this opinion draft,
Brazil meant only the ICANN plus system of technical governance
of the Internet (also called management of critical Internet
resources) in which the way to 'operationalise' the role
governments was sought to be explored. On the other hand, the
excitement among civil society around this 'opinion' comes from
taking it to mean the entire gamut of Internet governance. Before
any progress can be made on this 'issue' it is important to match
'definitions'. <br>
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I suspect that civil society is 'mistakenly' getting excited about
this opinion; this is about improving government influence on
ICANN system. It is not about the entire global Internet
governance.<br>
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I think the 'opinion' proposal came from the telecom/ anatel side
of Brazilian government which is overly influenced/ taken by a
definition of 'Internet governance' promoted by the ITU - whereby
it is considered to cover only what 'ICANN plus' system does .
(Remember, the famous ITU's assertions that WCIT is not about
Internet governance, or that the ITU has no interest to get into
internet governance). We all know that this is contrary to
definition of Internet governance articulated by WGIG, which is
the way IG is understood in the mainstream.<br>
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Note, the unfortunate wrong usage of the term Internet governance
as only meaning the ICANN system in the article below: </font><br>
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Does this leave anyone in any doubt whatsoever that Brazil meant
just the ICANN system by its phrase 'Multistakeholder framework of
Internet governance', and *not* the entire realm of global
Internet governance. This is about GAC and governments'
unhappiness with the present set up....<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 05 June 2013 08:13 PM,
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.692307em"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://itu4u.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/wtpf-13-blog.jpg"
style="color:rgb(221,84,36);text-decoration:none"><img
moz-do-not-send="true" class="" alt="wtpf-13-blog"
src="mailbox:///home/param/.thunderbird/g5alewyg.param/Mail/mail.itforchange.net/Drafts?number=8696047&w=300&h=146"
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vertical-align: middle; float: left; margin: 5px 15px
5px 0px; display: inline; max-width: 100%; height: auto;
padding: 1px;" height="146" width="300"></a>The <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://itu4u.wordpress.com/en/wtpf-13"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(221,84,36);text-decoration:none">World
Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum (WTPF-2013)</a> provided
a unique opportunity to put Internet-related public policy
issues firmly on the international agenda, particularly the
very present issue of the participation of governments as
relevant stakeholders in Internet Governance.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.692307em">Brazil is a country that
fully embraces the multistakeholder approach to Internet
Governance. Our National Internet Steering Committee is a
vibrant organization, as indeed highlighted in the
Secretary-General’s Report to the WTPF, which includes a
reference to Brazil’s ten “Principles for the Governance and
Use of the Internet”. Nonetheless, at the international
level, our view is that we still need to achieve full
engagement of governments in the decision making process on
Internet Governance. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.692307em">The fact is that
governments so far have only had a limited advisory role in
international Internet Governance, and no actual involvement
in the decision making process. Recent events have indicated
that even long standing advice provided by governments on
certain issues has had little impact on the actual decisions
relating to matters of their direct interest. Regretfully,
attempts to deal with this fact have suffered from the low
level of participation of the majority of governments in
existing international Internet Governance fora. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.692307em">In this regard Brazil
presented at the WTPF an opinion that points to the fact
that we must together address two key issues:
operationalizing the role of government in the
multistakeholder framework for Internet Governance, and the
need for capacity building on these issues in developing
countries, particularly in the least developed countries,
with the support of the ITU. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.692307em">Brazil´s draft opinion
entitled “<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.itu.int/md/S13-WTPF13IEG3-C-0002/en"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(221,84,36);text-decoration:none">Operationalizing
the role of government in the multistakeholder framework
for Internet Governance</a>” stems from one previously
discussed at the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.itu.int/en/wtpf-13/Pages/ieg.aspx"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(221,84,36);text-decoration:none">Informal
Experts Group (IEG)</a>, which had resulted from the joint
work of the drafting group led by Brazil, with the
participation of a diverse group of experts from several
countries.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.692307em">During the course of the
WTPF, Brazil conducted further extensive consultations with
all interested parties, including Member States, sector
members and civil society entities present at the event. As
a result of a genuine effort to reflect the inputs received,
a revised version of the draft opinion was presented, which
we expected could have been endorsed.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.692307em">The draft opinion
received widespread support, including statements from
Member States in all ITU regions, as seen during the plenary
sessions. Despite this fact, in the end the opinion did not
achieve consensus at the WTPF. Nonetheless, we did receive
very positive feedback as to the importance of the issues
that were raised, and a willingness to engage in further
discussions, having Brazil as the focal point.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.692307em">The <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.itu.int/md/S13-WTPF13-C-0016/en"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(221,84,36);text-decoration:none">final
report by the Chairman</a> of the WTPF indicates, as a way
forward, that these discussions could take place at the ITU
Council Working Group on Internet-related public policy
issues. Subsequently the output of deliberations would be
forwarded to the ITU Council for further consideration.
Hopefully this would lead to the inclusion of the issues in
the preparatory process for the upcoming <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Conferences/WTDC/WTDC14/Pages/default.aspx"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(221,84,36);text-decoration:none">World
Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-14)</a> and
the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.itu.int/en/plenipotentiary"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(221,84,36);text-decoration:none">Plenipotentiary
Conference of 2014 (PP-14)</a>.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.692307em">Brazil also welcomes the
broadening of the discussion on these issues to forums such
as the GAC, the CSTD, ECOSOC and the IGF. Interestingly, as
the WTPF drew to a close with a clear message from the ITU
membership and a way forward proposed by the leadership of
the Union, there were indications that in the near future
these very same issues will also be on the agendas of those
other forums. Ensuring a meaningful role for governments and
engaging them in the decision making process is in the
interest of all those who aspire to a truly multistakeholder
international Internet Governance.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.692307em"><em
style="font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><br>
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href="http://itu4u.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/cavalcanti.jpg"
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auto; padding: 1px;"></a>By Daniel B. Cavalcanti</em></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.692307em"><em
style="font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Daniel
B. Cavalcanti is an Engineer and career professional with
the Brazilian Government, currently a senior Policy
Advisor at the National Telecommunications Agency –
Anatel. Over the last decade his work has focused on
broadband policy and Internet related issues.</em></p>
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