[bestbits] Programme for Best Bits annual meeting

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

For what it is worth:

ITU activities and the WSIS+10 review are actually separate things - and the WSIS+10 Review is a bigger thing by far than the ITU's activities, as WSIS is UN-system-wide and the ITU is just one agency.

Given that the WSIS+10 review and the MDG review both take place in 2015, there's an obvious opportunity.

parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
>Thanks to the steering committee for this great start....
>
>I havent much to say about day 1. Maybe a few things, but that later...
>
>Abut day 2
>
>I think we would do well if we try not to look very ITU centric ( and I
>
>can assure, we do)... Last year was different with the WCIT in the 
>offing, but this year I dont see why a session should focus on ITU.
>
>As to saying that Snowden or NSA revelations can become a sub item of 
>this ITU discussion, quite the opposite is what I think would be in
>order..
>
>Lets be honest, and do justice to the people of the world in whose name
>
>we assemble, work and expend monies.... Internet governance to the
>world 
>right now is completely focussed on the Snowden affair. Not only among 
>the laity, but even the politically well informed and articulate.
>
>It is bad enough that the IGF wont largely be about NSA revelations 
>(even to the extent that Kenya IGF was about the India's CIRP proposal)
>
>although I will be happy to be pleasantly surprised. But I cant see how
>
>a civil society meeting can afford to be not about it. This is my basic
>
>proposition..
>
>I think we need to have a session on something very roughly like the 
>'The global Internet after Snowden - What will balkanise the Internet 
>and what can keep it sufficiently global' - and if possible come out 
>with a statement about it.
>
>At the time of formation of BB, we had promised ourselves a positive 
>agenda , and flogging ITU over a day once again is not what I think 
>takes us towards that. (Disclaimer: I have long held that the ITU is
>not 
>the right place for most global IG work.)
>
>People are interested to know in which directions would post Snowden 
>global Internet go. And we should discuss this.
>
>Lets cut the chaff and go directly to what is/ are the issue(s) of 
>global governance of the Internet today. For instance - what are the 
>global ethics, norms, principles and legal frameworks for trans-border 
>flow of data, information and digital services? Who should develop ( 
>ensure their compliance) and how?
>
>And wh- at is the meaning of ownership of our digital lives, and how 
>statist and corporatist controls play with such rightful ownership.
>
>That is what people right now most want to know... Do we have anything 
>to say to them, and perhaps say on the behalf of them?
>
>parminder
>
>
>
>
>On Saturday 10 August 2013 09:06 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>> Since the good news that the 2013 IGF will be going ahead after all, 
>> it's time to revise and finalise the programme for our annual meeting
>
>> in Bali.  The interim steering group has been talking about this, and
>
>> here was their suggestion for topics (the descriptions are mine
>though):
>>
>> *Day 1*
>>
>> 1) Best Bits itself: goals, structure, processes, fundraising, 
>> interactions with other groups, etc. The interim steering group is 
>> working on a documents with our brainstorming about all this, which
>we 
>> will share soon.  The purpose of this session is to reach a consensus
>
>> that we are heading in the right direction (or not), and to provide a
>
>> mandate to carry out proposals that will help us grow and become 
>> stronger and more sustainable.
>>
>> 2) Global Internet governance principles and Enhanced Cooperation. 
>As 
>> you know, there are groups at the IGF MAG and the CSTD discussing 
>> these issues, but until now there has been no strong unified civil 
>> society position about the evolution of Internet governance 
>> arrangements, and this equivocation has played into the wrong hands. 
>>  We have been largely split between groups that are averse to any 
>> changes, and those with proposals for changes that are seen as 
>> radical.  The purpose of this session (as I see it, anyway) is to get
>
>> together behind a shared position that can become a solid base for 
>> advocacy.  We already have a working group arguing over these issues 
>> (in a good way), which will report back to this main list soon.
>>
>> *Day 2*
>>
>> 3) The ITU processes, up to the ITU Plenipotentiary in 2014 and the 
>> WSIS+10 review.  What is coming up?  What is our long term strategy? 
>>  Have we responded adequately to the ITU's most recent refusal to
>open 
>> up the Council Working Group on Internet Policy to stakeholders?  If 
>> we still don't see change at the Plenipotentiary, what then - do we 
>> disengage?
>>
>> 4) The NSA surveillance issue may become a sub-item of the ITU 
>> discussion, given that there are countries that may bring this debate
>
>> to the ITU. But it will also include an update on the Human Rights 
>> Council, stateside developments, how this has altered the Internet 
>> governance landscape in the long term, and general strategy going
>forward.
>>
>> There's also a lot of other work to be done between now and then, 
>> including work on the website (so that you can actually register for 
>> the meeting!) and on fundraising (to help pay for it).  I'll be 
>> posting more about that very soon.
>>
>> Meanwhile your comments are invited on the programme...
>>
>> -- 
>>
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