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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/11/12 16:13, Norbert Bollow
wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I's say that it's plausible to expect people to talk about what they're
thinking and doing anyway (independently of the IGF), with specific
emphasis on the aspects which are most related to the IGF theme.
Now I have observed a near-total lack of engagement with the big-picture
global-public-interest objective that constituted the official IGF
theme.
I interpret that as an indication of widespread (among the entire
community of IGF participants) overall lack of strategic thinking on
achieving the big-picture objectives that are clearly in the global
public interest.
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Put another way, those who don't want the IGF (or the ITU, or some
new body to operationalise enhanced cooperation) to be developing
globally applicable public policy principles for the Internet,
should not thereby deny the <i>need</i> to develop such principles
in certain areas, and the fact that it is not only possible to do
so, but indeed it already happens (in ICANN, the Human Rights
Council, etc). I would love for the technical community, in
particular, to admit (as WGIG found 8 years ago) that there <i>are</i>
globally applicable public policy principles that need developing,
besides those that they themselves do or could develop already. It
is then only a short step to accepting that more appropriate
multi-stakeholder structures and processes are needed to support the
development of such policies in areas where institutional gaps
exist.<br>
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