<div>Dear Don and greetings All:</div>
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<div>From this portal, I look forward to reading your paper and other materials, and would be very much interested in some partnering. I cite specifically, in brief from your present post:</div>
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<div>"The goal of the project is to help bridge this gap by encouraging members of the two<br>communities to work together in areas where their interests are shared or<br>complementary, and where each community could benefit from the others'<br>
experience, expertise, and policy leverage."</div>
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<div>I hope you may find *Respectful Interfaces* compatible and fostering.</div>
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<div>Very best wishes, LDMF.</div>
<div>Individual e-post.</div>
<div>RESPITES, and etc..</div>
<div>For I.D.: *Programme of The Communications Coordination Committee for the U.N.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/18/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Don MacLean</b> <<a href="mailto:donjmac@sympatico.ca">donjmac@sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dear Adam,<br><br>A belated reply to this message to thank you for calling the list's<br>attention to the paper I co-authored with Tony Vetter and Heather Creech of<br>
IISD as a contribution to the February 26 preparatory meeting. In response<br>to some of the reaction that followed, we thought it would be useful to<br>provide some background information about the paper, as well as to highlight<br>
its main points for those who may not have had a chance to read it.<br><br>Our paper proposing sustainable development as a theme for New Delhi is part<br>of a project IISD began in 2002 to examine the linkages between the<br>
information society, Internet governance, and sustainable development. This<br>project included both independent research and active participation in the<br>Geneva and Tunis phases of WSIS, as well as the first two IGFs. So far, it<br>
has resulted in fifteen papers, reports and other publications, some of<br>which are referenced in the paper and all of which are available for<br>download at<br><a href="http://www.iisd.org/publications/publication_list.aspx?themeid=18&page=1">http://www.iisd.org/publications/publication_list.aspx?themeid=18&page=1</a> .<br>
One of these publications, "Internet Governance and Sustainable Development:<br>Towards a Common Agenda" was launched at the Rio IGF.<br><br>The project grew out of IISD's observation that, even though there are<br>
increasingly close linkages between ICTs, the Internet and sustainable<br>development in both developed and developing countries, the IG and SD policy<br>communities operate in largely separate governance universes. The goal of<br>
the project is to help bridge this gap by encouraging members of the two<br>communities to work together in areas where their interests are shared or<br>complementary, and where each community could benefit from the others'<br>
experience, expertise, and policy leverage.<br><br>We think the IGF provides an excellent opportunity to encourage stronger<br>cooperation between the IG and SD communities for a number of reasons.<br><br>* Since development is a cross-cutting theme of the IGF, the Forum<br>
would benefit from greater participation by sustainable development experts<br>- directly through the contributions they could make to discussions, and<br>indirectly through the influence IGF participation could exert on SD<br>
policies, programs and activities.<br><br>* Since both communities have experience with multi-stakeholder<br>governance models, and since both are committed to enhancing<br>multi-stakeholder governance principles and processes in their respective<br>
areas, there may be lessons they can learn from each other's experience.<br><br>* As demonstrated in our paper, cooperation and collaboration between<br>the IG and SD communities could help fulfil many of the elements of the IGF<br>
mandate.<br><br>* As discussed in the conclusion to "Internet Governance and<br>Sustainable Development: Towards a Common Agenda", there are significant,<br>emerging linkages between the technical, economic, social, and environmental<br>
dimensions of many of the issues discussed and debated in the IGF and other<br>Internet governance forums on the one hand, and the technical, economic,<br>social, and environmental dimensions of many of the issues discussed and<br>
debated in sustainable development forums on the other hand.<br><br>While we think all these points are important reasons why sustainable<br>development should be a theme of the New Delhi IGF, and why the relationship<br>
between Internet governance and sustainable development should be the<br>subject of a plenary session, the latter point is perhaps the most<br>important.<br><br>IISD is convinced that a stable, secure Internet, which is accessible to all<br>
and which provides free, affordable access to information and knowledge, is<br>prerequisite to achieving many of the major goals of the sustainable<br>development community - goals such as poverty reduction through economic<br>
development that is environmentally and socially sustainable in the long<br>term; mitigation of climate change; protection of natural resources; and new<br>approaches to governance that engage government, the private sector, civil<br>
society, and the scientific and technical community in developing solutions<br>to sustainability challenges.<br><br>As a result of our involvement in the first two IGFs, we believe that the<br>Forum can potentially play an important role in influencing the development<br>
of policies, programs and governance processes on issues related to Internet<br>governance, at both the national and international levels, in ways that are<br>conducive to sustainable development. However, to do this effectively, we<br>
think the third IGF needs to adopt a more focused approach to the<br>development theme, and that it also needs to undertake a more rigorous and<br>systematic analysis of the linkages between Internet governance and<br>sustainable development.<br>
<br>This is why we have proposed sustainable development as a theme of the New<br>Delhi IGF, and why we have suggested that one of its plenary sessions be<br>devoted to exploring the linkages between Internet governance and<br>
sustainable development. If this proposal is accepted, we hope it will<br>provide a foundation for engaging members of the sustainable development<br>community in the work of the IGF, and result in benefits to both communities<br>
in terms of learning, collaborative action, policy effectiveness, and<br>governance innovation.<br><br>We hope this additional information is helpful, welcome comments on our<br>paper, and look forward to next week's discussions.<br>
<br>Best regards,<br>Don MacLean<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Adam Peake [mailto:<a href="mailto:ajp@glocom.ac.jp">ajp@glocom.ac.jp</a>]<br>Sent: February 13, 2008 11:23 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [governance] Comments on Rio - Suggestions for Delhi - main<br><br>>Hi,<br>><br>>Too much mail so briefly, I hope we can suggest<br>><br>>> We propose that 'An assessment of the current global policy<br>
institutional<br>>> framework and mechanism for the Internet, in terms of existing and<br>emerging<br>><br>>As an overarching focus of the meeting (and the forum), rather than just<br>one<br>>session. Do away with the four generic main session topics from Athens and<br>
>replace with new ones, one of which could be development, another could be<br>>assessing implementation of the WSIS principles (how are transparency and<br>>inclusion done across native administrative and intergovernmental<br>
>institutions, best practices etc---a linked workshop could go deeper into<br>>this). If someone could explain IG and the environment (as opposed to<br>>Internet/ICT and the environment) and we can agree there's something there,<br>
>maybe that'd interest people and please Fujitsu etc.<br><br><br>Arghhh... what's the point of trying to report<br>what the guy who leads the IGF secretariat is<br>saying and what's going to come up in the MAG?<br>
<br>The first paragraph of the IISD paper I mentioned<br>would also be part of the push for<br>ICT/environment/sustainable development in the<br>IGF:<br><br>1. In response to the request for comments<br>and views on the November 2007 Rio de Janeiro<br>
meeting, and suggestions regarding the format and<br>content of the December 2008 New Delhi meeting,<br>this paper proposes that Sustainable Development<br>be considered as a theme for the New Delhi<br>meeting, and that one of its plenary sessions be<br>
devoted to "exploring the linkages between<br>Internet governance and sustainable development"<br>etc etc<br><br>available at<br><<a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/rio_reports/Sustainable_Development%20-%20Theme_">http://www.intgovforum.org/rio_reports/Sustainable_Development%20-%20Theme_</a><br>
Proposal_for_IGF_New%20Delhi%20-%20IISD_FINAL.doc><br>Enjoy.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Adam<br><br><br><br>>BD<br>><br>>On 2/13/08 12:57 PM, "Parminder" <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>>> Some views have been expressed on this list that repeating the same main<br>>> themes - that are just too general - will not contribute to any<br>meaningful<br>>> impact of IGF, and will not enable it to move towards fulfilling its<br>
>> mandate. (APCs statement also is against recycling the same main themes<br>in<br>>> the plenary.) This was also accepted by the IGC when we proposed 4 new<br>>> themes during the May 2007 consultations.<br>
>><br>>> I am suggesting one such main themes. Responses to this suggestion, and<br>>> other possible themes are welcome.<br>>><br>>><br>>> 'Main issues for discussion at IGF New Delhi'<br>
>><br>>> We are of the opinion that we should move towards taking up of more<br>specific<br>>> issues of global Internet related public policy for discussion in the<br>>> plenaries and the associated workshops, from different speakers just<br>
making<br>>> what are often disconnected statements on diffuse and general issues<br>that<br>>> are the subjects of the plenaries at present. A set of issues should be<br>>> chosen for the New Delhi with this spirit.<br>
>><br>>> We propose that 'An assessment of the current global policy<br>institutional<br>>> framework and mechanism for the Internet, in terms of existing and<br>emerging<br>>> policy related challenges' (crisper title welcome) be one of the main<br>
>> session themes.<br>>><br>>> IGF was borne is an context which recognized significant gaps in the<br>global<br>>> Internet public policy framework, and one its public policy tasks has<br>to be<br>
>> a continued multi-stakeholder examination of this framework, and come<br>out<br>>> with suggestions for evolutionary/ corrective possibilities, if any. No<br>body<br>>> is making such an assessment at present at a time when new challenges in<br>
the<br>>> area of global Internet public policy keep emerging. IGF is an important<br>>> responsibility of doing this as per its mandate.<br>>><br>>> We will like specific workshops (of type A) devoted to examining the<br>
issue<br>>> of ensuring transparency, accountability and multi-stakeholder-ism in<br>all<br>>> for a involved in Internet governance and another one devoted to<br>developing<br>>> a code for public participation in all such fora (Swiss and APC<br>
>> contributions mention these)<br>>><br>>> Both these workshops can feed into the main session on 'assessment of<br>the<br>> > current global policy institutional framework' proposed above<br>
>><br>>> (ends)<br>>><br>>> Parminder<br>><br>><br>>____________________________________________________________<br>>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br>> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>
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