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At 04:05 27/09/2013, parminder wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font face="Verdana">Thanks
Norbert<br><br>
I did not oppose the call, but now that it is over, I must restate the
reason that I have this particular issue with the statement, which I
partly co-initiated.</font></blockquote><br>
Dear all,<br><br>
Thanks Parminder and Norbet to have initiated this cool head
review.<br><br>
<a name="_GoBack"></a>Yesterday's experience indeed shows that there is a
need for everyone to reconsider his/her own priorities, between theory
and practice. It is our time that is discovering and trying to organize
an entirely new world with its extended dimensional, political, economic,
technical, societal, and ethical perspectives. This necessarily
results in bungling, as long as things have not been first clarified and
risks and gradations of interferences have not been identified.<br>
<br>
I came back to this CS debate a few weeks ago in order to identify which
practical help that some online "civil society" "circles
of influence" could actually bring to my long-term relational spaces
facilitation oriented endeavor. <br><br>
The problem that we are currently facing has not changed for years: <br>
- there are the thinkers, the doers and the talkers, the fighters and the
builders <br>
- the lack of the French word "mouvance" to identify us. The
notion is included in "circle of", which is the only existing
English conceptual terms, that also exist in French. A
"mouvance" could be better referred to as dynamic coalitions at
the individual level, or may be "dynamic circles of neighboring
thoughts". There is also no consensual doctrine yet about our common
efficiency.<br><br>
To me, tactically, the only useful part in the text was "which
comprises representatives from Government, Scientific and Technology
Community, private sector and Civil Society on an equal footing".
This was information, i.e. something new. This was a speech weapon that I
could use to make an impact in my spheres, in Europe, in France, in my
village, and in our talk-war. What was "consensually" agreed
upon was nothing new, no information. The only information was a list of
people/organizations whose group was unable, at the present phase of its
development, to produce more than limiting itself to this
no-action.<br><br>
However, this is only a tactical opinion of mine. <br><br>
Operationally, I suppose the text has a reduced but positive effect on
Dilma Rousseff's pride and efficiency capacity. She truly delivered at
the UN. This has stirred interest. But she failed in making it accepted
that she has multistakeholder support nationally and that her and her
country’s multistakeholderism is based on equal footing.<br><br>
Strategically, no one has discussed this text because there is no civil
society strategy. That is because there is no doctrine. That is because,
there is no common elaboration on realityThat is in turn because there is
no inclusive description of the digisphere's facts, which is most
probably due to the multidimensional increase that we face (temporal,
virtual, and potential realities). These are areas that we must
plow.<br><br>
Theoretically, you acted. The true practical question was should our
"circles of influence" risk to be trapped in dangerous
"disinfluence" by some collateral effects of the terms being
used. Strategically important, operationally minor, tactically an
error.<br><br>
All I know is that this doctrinal incertitude <br>
(1) had previously prevented a strategy to be engaged and <br>
(2) has conflicted with current operations and possible tactical
successes. <br><br>
As far as I am concerned, I feel more at ease with:<br>
- the "observation, description, elaboration, preparation, decision,
planning, and action" virtuous circle <br>
- and an action centered multistakeholderism that can be deepened on
mutual trust and on prepared occasions<br><br>
We are certainly dedicated, but not effilient (efficient/resilient)
enough. To keep with the neologisms that name the new problems/situations
we meet, all of this leads to the need to better understand
"enaction", a fundamental omnipresent concept introduced by the
Argentinean Francisco Varela, which he explains this way: one uses to
compare people’s brain to computers, actually computers are to be
compared to people’s or life’s enaction. I generalize and describe
enaction as the internality of any action. <br><br>
This makes cybernetics (in our relations, networking, technologies,
thoughts) to be an action/enaction/reaction sequence (cf. Leibnitz).
Controlling enaction (politically or architecturally) is controlling the
whole process. <br><br>
In the case of the statUS-quo, the internet enaction is constrained to
the IANA and the RFC-Editor. In the Internet+ (mainly today the
multilingual and semantic internet, further on the active content and
then the semiotic internet), enaction is located at the fringe (the
intelligence of the user interface, as per the architectural principle of
the internet [RFC 1958]): this is the location that people are to control
and that OpenStand tries to circumvent in consistently controlling the
internet, the community (ISOC), the web and machine processes (W3C,
IEEE). This way they only leave people the possibility to comment on
their choices, and not to appeal against them anymore. Nobody can either
know if these choices are by the Internet industry or by the Governments.
<br><br>
Yesterday was therefore a good case to remember. Thanks to all of
those who participated in this quick and fruitful example of
multistakeholderism at its largest extent and who, on an equal
footing, more generaly share in this struggle for civil life with
determination and dedication.<br><br>
jfc<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font face="Verdana">I think
that when a drafter introduces a language like 'should extend to broader
sphere' , on being asked to clarify. those who are for that language must
clarify what is meant. This did not happen.<br><br>
I was stuck by some people actually opposing Marco Civil process, just
because it is a parliamentary democratic process. They withdrew this
opposition when the phrase on 'CGI's remit should be extended to broader
spheres' was reintroduced. That for me formed the background of the
'should extend to broader spheres' phrase. <br><br>
It is like this. If someone wants me to sign on a statement for
strenghtening the judiciary in India, I will sign it. But if it pointedly
says, judiciary's role and remit should extend 'to broader spheres' no
serious political, democratic, civil society group in India will sign it.
They would like to know what exactly is meant here. For instance, we wont
have the judiciary second guessing core policy issues, appointing the
prime minister, unilaterally impeaching members of parliament and so
on..... Clarity and separation of roles of different institutions is
basic to democracy....<br><br>
But I see here a version of multistakeholderism, which has un-reined
belief in a mutistakeholder body doing anything and everything, and
correspondingly no belef at all in represenative structures. This is
outstandingly dangerous. Lets not for some small gains fiddle with our
democratic traditions and institutions. They are hard earned, by blood
and toil of many down the history. <br><br>
So, now that the statement is passed. I would still like to know, what is
that CGI'Br should be doing more in Brazil, in terms of the unclear
'broader sphere'.... It is likely that if I know what is it clearly, I
may agree. But, It cannot take up the public policy making competence of
the parliament. Let people make this point clear, and ITfC will still
sign the statement. On the other hand, if some actual incursion on
parliament's role iis indeed intended in the statement, then that must
also be stated clearly. We cannot be in these civil society deliberative
space keeping silent on such key issues.<br><br>
BTW, is it being asked that CGI takes up some regulatory role (for
instance, instead of Anatel which claims regulatory comeptence over the
Internet). We must know what is it we are referring to here.
Otherwise, sorry to say, the phrase to me just looks a convenient
'backdoor' for all kind of possible things, a term made infamous by the
recent NSA disclosures :). <br><br>
parminder <br><br>
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</font>On Friday 27 September 2013 07:11 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote:<br>
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<pre>[with IGC coordinator hat on]
The consensus call has passed.
IGC's endorsement is already reflected on
<a href="http://bestbits.net/brazil-66-unga/">
http://bestbits.net/brazil-66-unga/</a>
Greetings,
Norbert
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Letter from International Civil Society Organizations to President
Dilma Rousseff in support of her statement at the 68th Session of the
UNGA September 26, 2013 Statements
Your Excellency, We, the undersigned organizations and individuals
from around the world, committed to the development of the Internet
and its use for advancing social and economic justice, would like to
express our strong support for the statement delivered this week by
your Excellency at the 68th Session of the United Nations General
Assembly. We commend you for taking a leading role on these issues
and would like to:
1. Fully endorse the five principles enunciated on the occasion, in
clear accordance with the Brazilian Internet Steering
Committee’s
Principles for the Governance and Use of the Internet.
2. Stress the importance of the timely adoption of the Brazilian
Draft Bill of Internet Rights (Marco Civil da Internet) in a
way
that upholds these principles and endorses the innovative
and
democratic process in which it was conceived.
3. Commend the courage of Brazil in expressing disapproval and
demanding explanations from the USA about the procedures of
illegal
interception of information and data, framing it as a grave
violation of human rights and of civil liberties
4. Reinforce our support for an extension into broader spheres of
Internet Governance of the experiences from the
Brazilian
multistakeholder model of Internet governance, led by
CGI.br.
We express our deep appreciation for your serious commitment to social
justice and development, of which an open, stable, and reliable
Internet is a fundamental pillar.
== letter text ends
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At 04:53 27/09/2013, Norbert Bollow wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Parminder
<parminder@itforchange.net> wrote:<br><br>
> I think that when a drafter introduces a language like 'should
extend<br>
> to broader sphere' , on being asked to clarify. those who are
for<br>
> that language must clarify what is meant. This did not
happen.<br><br>
While I strongly agree with this call for accountability, what I
think<br>
is most important for IGC is that we need to become clear on what<br>
precisely is the scope of our “support for an extension into broader<br>
spheres of Internet Governance of the experiences from the Brazilian<br>
multistakeholder model of Internet governance, led by CGI.br”.<br><br>
I understand that this was an intentionally fuzzy wording, with the<br>
fuzziness having been driven by the need to have a letter text
finalized<br>
and endorsed within a rushed timeframe that was driven by the
current<br>
political opportunity in Brazil.<br><br>
But now that we are not under this time pressure anymore, it will be<br>
good to work out what the specific aspects or kinds of “extension
into<br>
broader spheres of Internet Governance of the experiences from the<br>
Brazilian multistakeholder model of Internet governance, led by
CGI.br”<br>
are precisely that we have consensus or rough consensus support
for.<br><br>
I personally certainly would not support any kind of “extension into<br>
broader spheres” that would make a multistakeholder process replace
a<br>
parliamentary democratic process.<br><br>
But it seems to me for example that some aspects of the CGI.br
approach<br>
to multistakeholderism would be worth looking at when reforming the<br>
ICANN model.<br><br>
Greetings,<br>
Norbert<br><br>
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