It would be advisable that for once, this workshop should only give the developing world perspective. What I have felt on NN issues is lobbies fighting with each other while keeping out the developing world segment that will be truly affected by the Internet. <div>
<br></div><div>I want to add the capacity building element here. I don't see a single activity on the ground where a certain NN advocacy group has gone to regulators to educate them on NN related issues and how to/not to develop a stand on the issue. The fact remains that the larger portion of Internet and Web resources remain in the developed West and the developing east and south are usually outside the picture. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Not having the knowledge nor capacity leads regulators to regulate the Internet in such a way that is not beneficial for their citizenry and in the long run not at all beneficial for the governments themselves because they cap themselves from providing their social and economic setup the opportunity that a neutral network would actually offer. This is a whole different debate. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Within the NN debate I am yet to see corporations from the developing world step into the discussion or fight on issues pertaining to the topic at any global Internet discussion forum so the issue remains, do we want to bring in those that continue to blur the NN debate and give them the opportunity to continue to do so or should we now move the whole NN discussion towards the developing countries. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I appreciate the fact that such detailed documentation is being identified but it really does not reflect an opportunity but more of a blurring activity that should be avoided and a very subjective approach to addressing the NN realities keeping developing countries as the focus should be adopted.</div>
<div><br></div><div>_-- FoO<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Vladimir Radunovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vladar@diplomacy.edu">vladar@diplomacy.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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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">Janna, Jeremy, Parminder, colleagues,</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">Let me reflect briefly on NN proposal. </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">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 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><span>1)<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></font></span></span></font><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold">Format of the "document",</span></font></b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> if any: </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:54.0pt"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:54.0pt"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:54.0pt"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold"><span>2)<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font></b><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold">"Exceptions" from these norms</span></font></b></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:54.0pt"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:54.0pt"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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 size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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 size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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 size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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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<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Jeremy,</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></font></pre><pre>
<font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thanks for all of your work; as usual wonderful at all levels.</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">If you need a co-sponsor to list for any of these if you think Imagining the</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Internet may be helpful to list, please do so. I will try to provide</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">assistance as is possible. I'm not completely certain that we are funded for</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">the Nairobi journey, but I hope and expect that I or another faculty leader</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">from Imagining the Internet will be there with as many as three or four</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">students to do documentary coverage and provide support in any way we can</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">for all at IGF and the IGC.</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I want to add that Diplo Foundation has been leading net neutrality</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">discussions at the past two IGFs. I do not know if Vladimir Radinovich and</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">the others want to be involved or not, but I thought I would pass that along</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">to you. You or Ginger might want to contact them directly, so this can be</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">value-added work.</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Janna</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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 size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> I'm not proposing to do an actual consensus call poll over the three IGC</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> workshops, since they are not in the nature of statements and there is</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> room for many viewpoints within all of them, but this is a summary of</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> the status of our three workshop proposals so far, to which any more</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> suggestions or serious objections are invited. We also need volunteers</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> to co-organise and to serve as remote moderators as noted below.</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> These are listed here in the order they were proposed. We will be</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> submitting the workshop proposals by this Friday.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> 1. Reflection on the Indian proposal towards an IGF 2.0</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> As a participant in the CSTD's Working Group on Improvements to</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> the IGF, the Government of India recently provided a set of</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> "Proposed Improvements to IGF Outcomes, in Keeping with the UN</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> General Assembly Mandate". Although there was no consensus</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> around this proposal, the ten suggested improvements reflect</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> proposals that some other countries and other stakeholder groups</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> have also previously aired. It is also one of the only</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> relatively comprehensive written proposals on IGF outcomes to</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> emerge from the Working Group, and therefore provides a</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> convenient starting point for further discussion.</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> It was suggested in the proposal that the MAG identify key</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> questions for the IGF to deliberate upon, that a Working Group</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> for each issue develop background material on it, to be</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> considered by the IGF through workshops, a roundtable</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> discussion, and possible inter-sessional meetings, and that</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> discussion at the plenary level would result in an IGF report on</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> each issue that would be transmitted to the CSTD and other</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> relevant bodies for their action and feedback.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Since it was not possible for the CSTD Working Group to fully</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> discuss these suggestions, this workshop is intended to provide</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> a space to do so more fully. The workshop will provide an</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> opportunity for all stakeholders to consider the merits of the</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> proposals as well as their shortcomings, and consider whether</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> and how to take such proposals forward.</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Sponsors: IGC, others TBC (possibly ISOC Chennai)</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Organisers for IGC: Jeremy Malcolm and Marilia Maciel</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Remote moderator: TBC (volunteer needed!)</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Speakers: TBC</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> 2. Mapping Internet Governance</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> This workshop will explore where and how Internet Governance</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> decisions are currently taken. What are the relevant fora and</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> decision-making bodies? In what topic areas do they make</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> decisions and with what kinds of impacts? How can individuals</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> and stakeholder organizations make sure that their viewpoints</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> and concerns are appropriately taken into consideration?</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Besides having a discussion of these topics in Nairobi, the</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> workshop aims at initiating a multistakeholder process for</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> creating a document "Map of Internet Governance" which addresses</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> these questions, and for thereafter keeping this document</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> up-to-date.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Sponsors: IGC, others TBC</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Organisers for IGC: Nobert Bollow (another needed!)</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Remote moderator: TBC (volunteer needed!)</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Speakers: TBC</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> 3. A possible framework for global Net Neutrality</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Network Neutrality has been one of the hottest Internet public</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> policy issues in many countries, over the last year; US's</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Federal Communications Commission came out with NN guidelines</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> that built over an agreement between two principal corporate</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> players in the area, EU has bene conducting a pulbic hearing on</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> the issue, French telecom regulatory authority have come out</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> with a set of NN proposals and recommendations, Brazil a</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> drafting a new civil rights framework for the Internet of which</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> NN is an important issue. Earlier, in 2009, Norway came out with</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> a much acclaimed set of NN guidelines.</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> In the background, since Internet is essentially a global</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> network and finally there must be common global norms on whether</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> content can be prioritised across global digital highways</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> including across global interconnection points) on payments by</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> the content providers or not. Interesting, cross border network</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> neutrality is a subject being dealt with by an experts committee</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> on the Council of Europe. If we do not start talking about</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> global norms, taking into consideration the interests and</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> viewpoints of all involved, we will eventually be faced by a</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> default regime of global traffic flows which will be whatever</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> gets decided by the key economic powers. This is undemocratic</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> way of subjecting the global public to the political choices of</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> a few, most powerful. On the other hand, it is also true that</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> even in the more powerful nations, policy making in this area</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> may become hostage to the interests of multinational digital</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> corporations at the cost of the national public interest. It it</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> therefore of considerable value even for the more powerful</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> countries to seek global norms on NN.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> The proposed workshop will explore the emerging progressive</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> regimes in different countries and explore the possibility of</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> coming up with a common set of global norms on NN.</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Sponsors: IGC, IT for Change (I presume), others TBC</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Organisers for IGC: Parminder Jeet Singh</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Remote moderator: TBC (volunteer needed!)</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Speakers: TBC</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-- </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Janna Quitney Anderson</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Director of Imagining the Internet</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org" target="_blank">www.imaginingtheinternet.org</a></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Associate Professor of Communications</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Director of Internet Projects</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">School of Communications</span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Elon University</span></font></pre><pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="mailto:andersj@elon.edu" target="_blank">andersj@elon.edu</a></span></font></pre>
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