<div><span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres traductions">Vladimir</span> <span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres traductions">just</span> <span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres traductions">have two</span> <span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres traductions">issues that</span> <span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres traductions">are</span> <span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres traductions">relevant</span> <span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres traductions">and should</span> <span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres traductions">be</span> <span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres traductions">carefully</span> <span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres traductions">discussed in</span> <span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres traductions">the</span> <span class="hps" title="Cliquer ici pour voir d'autres 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<div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/11 Vladimir Radunovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vladar@diplomacy.edu">vladar@diplomacy.edu</a>></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Janna, Jeremy, Parminder, colleagues,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Let me reflect briefly on NN proposal. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Searching for common sets of norms is the right next step, I agree. Summarising the discussion of previous years, and especially of the latest workshop at the IGF in Vilnius, there are two major open issues related to such a common set of norms:</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>1)<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Format of the "document",</span></font></b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> if any: </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 54pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">business is inclined to support "ex post" (case-by-case) rather than "ex ante" regulation, justifying it with competition and need for space for innovations in business models; </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 54pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">users are inclined to ask for a more formal "safeguards" from the big telco business, not trusting the market only (esp. after the economic crises); </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 54pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">regulators (some of them - like Norway) work towards "collaborative regulation" with finding the win-win approach for all sides and formulising it in the "guidelines"/"recommendations" format, yet leaving the option of the "stick" to move it to "hard law" if needed</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span>2)<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font></b><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">"Exceptions" from these norms</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 54pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">business presents the challenges in broadband delivery and qos - especially with wireless internet - in light of "next billion users" and new high-bandwidth services that are still to come; they argue that, while NN for "Internet as we know it" is fine, space should be given to "new services" (and they/we don't know yet what these will be) to develop without limitations - therefore allowing the "exceptions"</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 54pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">users are eager to hear more on what these services will really be and if there is really a need for exceptions - especially in developing countries where it is expected the next billion users will start using "the new services" immediately as well</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 54pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">regulators are cautious - on one hand they need to assure consumers protection and innovations at ends, while on the other hand they need to create the environment to business for further investments and possible innovations in business models as well</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Based on these two components, the discussion on possible effects of NN set of norms on business and users - especially on developing countries - can be analysed.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Diplo supports this workshop and will be happy to co-sponsor it and assist with preparations. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Since we will likely again bring number of successful participants of our capacity building programmes from developing countries - from governments, regulators, civil society... - to the IGF, we may get them involved directly as well.</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></font></p><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Jeremy,</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Thanks for all of your work; as usual wonderful at all levels.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">If you need a co-sponsor to list for any of these if you think Imagining the</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Internet may be helpful to list, please do so. I will try to provide</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">assistance as is possible. I'm not completely certain that we are funded for</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the Nairobi journey, but I hope and expect that I or another faculty leader</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">from Imagining the Internet will be there with as many as three or four</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">students to do documentary coverage and provide support in any way we can</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">for all at IGF and the IGC.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I want to add that Diplo Foundation has been leading net neutrality</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">discussions at the past two IGFs. I do not know if Vladimir Radinovich and</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the others want to be involved or not, but I thought I would pass that along</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">to you. You or Ginger might want to contact them directly, so this can be</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">value-added work.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Janna</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">On 4/11/11 1:11 AM, "Jeremy Malcolm" <a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org" target="_blank"><jeremy@ciroap.org></a> wrote:</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> I'm not proposing to do an actual consensus call poll over the three IGC</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> workshops, since they are not in the nature of statements and there is</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> room for many viewpoints within all of them, but this is a summary of</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> the status of our three workshop proposals so far, to which any more</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> suggestions or serious objections are invited. We also need volunteers</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> to co-organise and to serve as remote moderators as noted below.</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> These are listed here in the order they were proposed. We will be</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> submitting the workshop proposals by this Friday.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> 1. Reflection on the Indian proposal towards an IGF 2.0</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> As a participant in the CSTD's Working Group on Improvements to</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> the IGF, the Government of India recently provided a set of</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> "Proposed Improvements to IGF Outcomes, in Keeping with the UN</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> General Assembly Mandate". Although there was no consensus</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> around this proposal, the ten suggested improvements reflect</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> proposals that some other countries and other stakeholder groups</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> have also previously aired. It is also one of the only</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> relatively comprehensive written proposals on IGF outcomes to</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> emerge from the Working Group, and therefore provides a</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> convenient starting point for further discussion.</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> It was suggested in the proposal that the MAG identify key</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> questions for the IGF to deliberate upon, that a Working Group</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> for each issue develop background material on it, to be</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> considered by the IGF through workshops, a roundtable</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> discussion, and possible inter-sessional meetings, and that</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> discussion at the plenary level would result in an IGF report on</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> each issue that would be transmitted to the CSTD and other</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> relevant bodies for their action and feedback.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Since it was not possible for the CSTD Working Group to fully</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> discuss these suggestions, this workshop is intended to provide</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> a space to do so more fully. The workshop will provide an</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> opportunity for all stakeholders to consider the merits of the</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> proposals as well as their shortcomings, and consider whether</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> and how to take such proposals forward.</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Sponsors: IGC, others TBC (possibly ISOC Chennai)</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Organisers for IGC: Jeremy Malcolm and Marilia Maciel</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Remote moderator: TBC (volunteer needed!)</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Speakers: TBC</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> 2. Mapping Internet Governance</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> This workshop will explore where and how Internet Governance</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> decisions are currently taken. What are the relevant fora and</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> decision-making bodies? In what topic areas do they make</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> decisions and with what kinds of impacts? How can individuals</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> and stakeholder organizations make sure that their viewpoints</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> and concerns are appropriately taken into consideration?</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Besides having a discussion of these topics in Nairobi, the</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> workshop aims at initiating a multistakeholder process for</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> creating a document "Map of Internet Governance" which addresses</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> these questions, and for thereafter keeping this document</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> up-to-date.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Sponsors: IGC, others TBC</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Organisers for IGC: Nobert Bollow (another needed!)</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Remote moderator: TBC (volunteer needed!)</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Speakers: TBC</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> 3. A possible framework for global Net Neutrality</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Network Neutrality has been one of the hottest Internet public</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> policy issues in many countries, over the last year; US's</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Federal Communications Commission came out with NN guidelines</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> that built over an agreement between two principal corporate</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> players in the area, EU has bene conducting a pulbic hearing on</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> the issue, French telecom regulatory authority have come out</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> with a set of NN proposals and recommendations, Brazil a</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> drafting a new civil rights framework for the Internet of which</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> NN is an important issue. Earlier, in 2009, Norway came out with</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> a much acclaimed set of NN guidelines.</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> In the background, since Internet is essentially a global</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> network and finally there must be common global norms on whether</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> content can be prioritised across global digital highways</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> including across global interconnection points) on payments by</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> the content providers or not. Interesting, cross border network</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> neutrality is a subject being dealt with by an experts committee</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> on the Council of Europe. If we do not start talking about</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> global norms, taking into consideration the interests and</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> viewpoints of all involved, we will eventually be faced by a</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> default regime of global traffic flows which will be whatever</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> gets decided by the key economic powers. This is undemocratic</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> way of subjecting the global public to the political choices of</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> a few, most powerful. On the other hand, it is also true that</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> even in the more powerful nations, policy making in this area</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> may become hostage to the interests of multinational digital</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> corporations at the cost of the national public interest. It it</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> therefore of considerable value even for the more powerful</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> countries to seek global norms on NN.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> The proposed workshop will explore the emerging progressive</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> regimes in different countries and explore the possibility of</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> coming up with a common set of global norms on NN.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Sponsors: IGC, IT for Change (I presume), others TBC</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Organisers for IGC: Parminder Jeet Singh</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Remote moderator: TBC (volunteer needed!)</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> Speakers: TBC</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-- </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Janna Quitney Anderson</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Director of Imagining the Internet</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org/" target="_blank">www.imaginingtheinternet.org</a></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Associate Professor of Communications</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Director of Internet Projects</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">School of Communications</span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Elon University</span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="mailto:andersj@elon.edu" target="_blank">andersj@elon.edu</a></span></font></pre>
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