[governance] Workshop proposals for Vilnius

[Parminder]

I suggest that we get into deeper IP and Internet debates, which 
represent some of the most hotly contested issues today, and in which 
area a lot of policy work is going on (ACTA for instance)

Can we hold a workshop on ' Transnational enforcement of a new 
information order -- Issues of rights and democracy'. (tentative title)

Basically we will discuss issues that have come up around ACTA (for 
instance see the latest posting on IP watch at 
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/?p=10061 ) as the main focus. However 
some other issues may also come up - like Google - China stand-off, 
Google's appeal to US gov to consider global information flows as a 
trade issue and use trade related enforcements in this area, Google and 
others cutting off or limiting their services to countries on US's trade 
sanctions list (trade embargo issues and IG is mentioned in the Vilnius 
program document), non availability of major online payment systems in 
countries like Pakistan etc .....

The attempt here is to move beyond the focus on governance of the basic 
technical/ logical infrastructure (ICANN etc) also to the governance of 
the emerging global information infrastructure. (At a still different 
level, though connected, is the governance of the social interactions/ 
networking infrastructure, but that is not something this workshop will 
get into)

The above is just illustrative of the proposed scope of the workshop. 
Will try and put up a short write up for it separately. Parminder



Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 24/03/2010, at 8:57 PM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
>
>   
>> Jeremy: Kindly propose an improved language to the workshop proposal
>> so that IGC can collaboratively develop it into a very fruitful
>> discourse.
>>     
>
> Sorry for letting this slide for a while; I've been away.  Anyway, there is very little I would change in Fouad's workshop proposal, but here are the two workshop proposals that are currently on the table for discussion, the second one now fleshed out a bit.  Please provide any comments on these so that we can submit them both for the MAG's consideration by the 15th.
>
> WORKSHOP 1
> ==========
>
> Title: Revolutionary Internet Governance Ideas that can help change the Developing World
>
> Objective:
> A workshop that provides stakeholders the opportunity to share positive ideas for stimulating socio-economic change in the developing world utilizing the Internet. This will be a venue for both developed and developing world participants. An example may be the ideas presented by Tim Berners-Lee at TED for Opening Data to the world that helped in providing concrete relief information on the ground during the Haiti earthquake crisis. Another idea may be Google's mapping of the Sudan crisis.
>
> With the participation of all stakeholders, including youth, the workshop will record the many positive ideas that evolve from this venue, measure the changes that they have enabled over time, and at the next IGF meeting identify which ideas had the greatest impact over the past 12 months since presented.
>
> Format:
> A round table open to all participants of the workshop. The format will be 5 minutes given to each of the participants to share an existing or revolutionary idea. The Internet governance dimensions of each idea will also be explored.  All the ideas will be recorded and categorized under various topics for measurement of impact over the following year.
>
> Organisers:
> Internet Governance Caucus
> [ISOC?]
> [OECD?]
>
> Contact: Fouad Bajwa, Jeremy Malcolm
>
>
> WORKSHOP 2
> ==========
> Title: Successes and failures of Internet governance, 1995 - 2010, and looking forward to WSIS 2015
>
> Objective:
> This workshop will compare the changing institutional and procedural approaches that have been applied to the problems of Internet governance over the last 15 years, and facilitate the sharing of various perspectives about the effectiveness and legitimacy of each approach.  In each case reference will be made to the WSIS process criteria which recommend the full involvement of governments, the private sector, civil society, and international organizations in Internet governance arrangements.
>
> In parallel, the workshop will also look back to the period of 2003-2005 when the first meetings of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held, and forward to a future meeting in 2015.  Questions to be asked include, would the same decisions about Internet governance that were made in 2005 have been made today, are the WSIS process criteria due for revision, and how will the role of private actors differ between the two summits?
>
> Format:
> The workshop will take a interactive panel format, beginning with brief presentations from experts from each of the stakeholder groups (including academia), followed by a moderated between panelists and the floor.
>
> Organisers:
> Internet Governance Caucus
> [Others - IT for Change, APC, CI?]
> [Government of France?]
> [Cisco?]
>
> Contact: Jeremy Malcolm, ...
>
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