Hi <br><br>You can register for the remote participation at the link <a href="http://wsisforum2011.pathable.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://wsisforum2011.pathable.com/index.html</a>. <br><br>Thanks,<br>Jacob<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">This is excellent. Will there be remote participation?<br>
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:51 AM, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
> While I gather the level of meatspace participation by IGF types will be<br>
> rather low next week in Geneva, all those who are making the trip would be<br>
> most welcome to attend a workshop I've organized in the WSIS Forum. There<br>
> will be remote participation available as well through the forum<br>
> site <a href="http://wsisforum2011.pathable.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://wsisforum2011.pathable.com/index.html</a> (it seems you have<br>
> register for this), a twitter feed, and so on.<br>
> The workshop will be held in the Governing Body Room (seems appropriate)<br>
> of The International Labor Organization from 9:00-10:30 Tuesday 17 May 2011.<br>
> The idea is to contribute to the inchoate debate on what kinds of<br>
> institutional structures would be most appropriate in tackling key global<br>
> governance issues going forward. For example, rather than just saying on<br>
> political/normative grounds that we prefer multistakeholderism or<br>
> intergovernmentalism, it would be useful to draw on the relevant analytical<br>
> literatures and practical experiences to arrive at some principled bases for<br>
> selecting institutional arrangements that are optimized to particular<br>
> functional problems. This would seem to be of particular relevance at a<br>
> time when parties are proposing new or revised global governance<br>
> arrangements on various fronts, e.g. enhanced cooperation, the IANA<br>
> contract, the COE initiative on crossborder Internet harm, the governance of<br>
> the Internet of Things, the debate on revising the International Telecom<br>
> Regulations to cover the Internet, the development agenda discussion,<br>
> current intellectual property and digital trade initiatives, even the DC on<br>
> Rights and Principles initiative for that matter. What models are best<br>
> suited to which of these issue-sets?<br>
><br>
> Description follows:<br>
> Institutional Choice in Global Communications Governance<br>
><br>
> The contemporary global communications order is characterized by a<br>
> significant increase in the number and variety of governance<br>
> arrangements. Traditional multilateralism has been supplemented by<br>
> plurilateral, regional, and bilateral intergovernmentalism; and by<br>
> unilateralism, co-regulation, industry self-governance,<br>
> multistakeholder governance, and the coordinated convergence of independent<br>
> practices. These ordering mechanisms vary greatly in terms of the<br>
> collective action problems they address and the institutional attributes<br>
> they possess.<br>
><br>
> How do we conduct a principled evaluation of alternative models’ relative<br>
> merits and potential “fit” with current and emerging governance<br>
> challenges? What are their respective strengths and weaknesses in terms of<br>
> cross-cutting objectives like equity, efficiency,<br>
> transparency, accountability, inclusiveness, development-friendliness,<br>
> and public interest orientation? Are there any generalizable lessons that<br>
> they could learn from one another? How well do today’s mechanisms cohere<br>
> into an strong and effective global governance architecture? This<br>
> workshop will seek to advance the holistic assessment of these and related<br>
> questions and to assess them in relation to key cases of contemporary ICT<br>
> global governance.<br>
><br>
> Speakers<br>
><br>
> Dr. William J. Drake [organizer & moderator]<br>
> International Fellow, Media Change & Innovation Division<br>
> Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research<br>
> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
><br>
> Ms. Anriette Esterhuysen<br>
> Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications<br>
> South Africa<br>
><br>
> Mr. Alvaro Galvani<br>
> Head, Division of Information Society, Ministry of External Relations<br>
> Government of Brazil<br>
><br>
> Mr. Markus Kummer<br>
> Vice President of Public Policy, The Internet Society<br>
> Switzerland<br>
><br>
> Prof. Michael Latzer<br>
> Chair, Media Change & Innovation Division<br>
> Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research<br>
> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
><br>
> Ms. Nermine El Saadany<br>
> Director of International Relations Division, Ministry of Communications and<br>
> Information Technology<br>
> Government of Egypt<br>
><br>
> Mr. Thomas Schneider<br>
> Deputy Head of International Relations Service, Federal Office of<br>
> Communications<br>
> Government of Switzerland<br>
><br>
> We are hoping for a lively interactive discussion with no serial talking<br>
> head presentations of pre-prepared speeches and ample time for interventions<br>
> from the floor and remote. So if this is of interest, please do join us.<br>
> I might add that this workshop is linked to a similarly constructed one I've<br>
> proposed for Nairobi, although that one would have a somewhat different<br>
> panel-line up and focus a bit more narrowly on global<br>
> IG. <a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2011View&wspid=178" target="_blank">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2011View&wspid=178</a> It<br>
> should be interesting and instructive to address roughly the same issues in<br>
> the two different venues with two different audiences…<br>
> Best,<br>
> Bill<br>
><br>
> --Please note new email address--<br>
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