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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I invite all IGC members to the workshop
on ‘Exploring a Framework Convention on the Internet” on the 31<sup>st</sup>
between 1330 and 1500 hours at the IGF. We are interested in hearing all views
on the issue – which suggests one institutional way out for the current global
‘public policy dilemma’ for the Internet. However, Internet is a
novel phenomenon, and any institutional framework for its governance will need
to be a new hybrid form. More details of the workshop are enclosed. We mean
to keep it a highly interactive session, so not being on the panel should not
be a major limitation to participating :) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Parminder <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>UN Internet Governance Forum, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Athens</st1:City></st1:place>, 30<sup>th</sup>
October to 2<sup>nd</sup> November, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Workshop on
‘Exploring a Framework Convention on the Internet’ <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>1330 to 1500 Hrs,
31<sup>st</sup> October<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Organized by: I<span class=normal21>T for Change,
Bangalore; Hivos, Netherlands; Panos institute, West Africa; Third World
Institute, Uruguay; and Foundation for Media Alternatives, Philippines</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Panelists: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;border:none;padding:0in'><b><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-weight:
bold'>Pankaj Agrawala</span></font></b>, Government of India, MAG member; <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;border:none;padding:0in'><b><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-weight:
bold'>William Currie</span></font></b>, Association for Progressive
Communications; <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;border:none;padding:0in'><b><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-weight:
bold'>William Drake</span></font></b>, Director, Project on the Information Revolution
and Global Governance/PSIO, Graduate Institute for International Studies <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Geneva</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region></st1:place>;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;border:none;padding:0in'><b><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-weight:
bold'>John Mathiason</span></font></b>, Internet Governance Project, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Syracuse University</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">New
York</st1:State></st1:place>; <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;border:none;padding:0in'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'>One
representative from the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Brazilian government</span></b>
(yet to be confirmed) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The workshop will explore the context, usefulness and
possibility of a ‘Framework Convention on the Internet’, by
examining the following questions, which will be posed to the panelists and
other participants:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1>
<li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The WSIS identified the
need for, and mandated, the initiation of some international processes for
developing public policy on Internet related issues (see paragraphs 60,
61, 69, 70 and 71 of the Tunis Agenda), but since the WSIS, not much has been
done in this area. What do we think of the importance of the Internet as a
key global socio-economic infrastructure of the future, and the nature of
public policy regimes in this regard? The possible ‘policy
regime’ options are:<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ol>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1>
<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=a>
<li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>A distributed and
largely ‘privatized’ governance regime as at present, which,
on critical emergent policy matters, may interface with national policy
regimes in an ad-hoc, fire-fighting, manner.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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</ol>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1>
<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=2 type=a>
<li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Evolving global public
policies regarding the Internet ‘internally’ in respective
global regimes like the WIPO and the WTO, and specific international treaties
like those in the area of cooperation on crime, in as much as these
domains are impacted by the Internet (or vice versa).<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ol>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1>
<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=3 type=a>
<li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Laying out broad
global public policy principles for the Internet, through a new international
process, which gives due regard to the new realities of a truly global
infrastructure and the systems built over it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ol>
</ol>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=2 type=1>
<li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>With frequent
references to ‘balkanization’ of the Internet in the public
discourse today (whether in terms of ‘network neutrality’ like
economic issues, cultural issues like multilingualism, or issues like political
restrictions on free flow of information), how important is it to save the
‘global public nature of the Internet’ by defining a broad
global public policy regime for it? How would you comment on the
hypothesis that – <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>‘One
global public Internet can survive only under one (broad) global public
policy regime’</span></b>? <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ol>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=3 type=1>
<li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>What are your views on initiating
a framework convention kind of a process, which incorporates due
innovations, especially with regard to a greater multistakeholder
involvement, for evolving global public policy principles for the Internet?
What is the appropriateness or otherwise of such an institutional form;
what are its chances in the present and the future context; what are the
main bottlenecks, and what are the positive signs? <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ol>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Background Papers:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=1><span
style='font-size:8.0pt'>A Development Agenda for Internet Governance –
Call for a Framework Convention on the Internet’ at <a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/Substantive_1st_IGF/A%20Development%20Agenda%20for%20IG%20-%20ITfC.pdf">http://www.intgovforum.org/Substantive_1st_IGF/A%20Development%20Agenda%20for%20IG%20-%20ITfC.pdf</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=1><span
style='font-size:8.0pt'>‘A Framework Convention: An Institutional Option
for Internet Governance’ at <a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/Substantive_1st_IGF/igp-fc.pdf">http://www.intgovforum.org/Substantive_1st_IGF/igp-fc.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=3 type=1>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.0pt'>Association for Progressive Communication’s
recommendations to WSIS on IG at <a
href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/pc3/contributions/co103.pdf">http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/pc3/contributions/co103.pdf</a>
</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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