<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,<br></div><div><br>Sandra Braman, in her excellent book "Change of State" (2009), makes a distinction, which I think can be helpful here. <br><br>She distinguishes between “<i>government </i>(formal institutions of the law); <i>governance </i>(decision-making with constitutive effect whether it takes place within the public or private sectors, and formally or informally); and <i>governmentality </i>(cultural predispositions and practices that produce and reproduce the conditions that make particular forms of governance and government possible)” (p.3).<br>
<br></div>Best,<br>Dmitry<br><div><br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Norbert Bollow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank">nb@bollow.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">McTim <<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Kerry Brown <<a href="mailto:kerry@kdbsystems.com">kerry@kdbsystems.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> > <a href="http://blog.cira.ca/2013/12/the-panel-on-the-future-of-global-internet-cooperation/" target="_blank">http://blog.cira.ca/2013/12/the-panel-on-the-future-of-global-internet-cooperation/</a><br>
> ><br>
> > "In the political world, the term ‘governance’ is loaded, and<br>
> > carries with it ideas of power and authority, certainly not the<br>
> > same meaning that we in the Internet world have given it. Are the<br>
> > terms coordination and administration more helpful moving forward?"<br>
><br>
> I have always felt so.<br>
><br>
> > The above statement really struck a chord with me. It gets at the<br>
> > heart of the current tension between governments, commercial, and<br>
> > civil society interests. If we changed to speaking about<br>
> > coordination and administration rather than governance it may may<br>
> > facilitate more productive conversations from all the concerned<br>
> > parties.<br>
><br>
> The I*'s used those words (the 4 C's) Collaboration, Communication,<br>
> Cooperation and Coordination around admin of tech resources during<br>
> WSIS. It didn't seem to catch on as a meme outside of the folk who<br>
> were actually doing the 4 C's.<br>
><br>
> Doesn't mean we can't try again.<br>
<br>
</div>What about those aspects and public interest concerns which are part of<br>
Internet Governance in the sense of the WGIG/Tunis Agenda working<br>
definition, but which don't fit into “coordination and administration”<br>
or into “Collaboration, Communication, Cooperation and Coordination<br>
around admin of tech resources”?<br>
<br>
Greetings,<br>
Norbert<br>
<br>
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