[governance] [bestbits] Rousseff & Chehade: Brazil will host world event on Internet governance in 2014

[parminder]

I agree with John's assessment that Montevideo statement may indeed be 
aiming at a larger IG ecology than just concerns ICANN plus' remit.

Also of interest is Andrew's observations from the Delhi meeting, where 
there was this talk of getting orphan IG issues - which could be like  
net neutrality, intellectual property on internet etc - under a 
multistakeholder kind of arrangement - ICANN based, or otherwise.

One always suspected that the multi stakeholder (MS) decision making in 
technical spaces was to be used and expanded to substantive Internet 
related public policy areas to then be expanded to all non Internet 
public policy and governance areas as well... (A recent attempt to 
develop a World Health Forum within the WHO was defeated largely by 
progressive global civil society actors in the health area.)

And this way, what to my perhaps very opinionated self appears to be, a 
corporate dominated governance model is taking over tradtional 
democratic system of public policy  making. Others may have different 
views though.

But the good thing is, now that we are clearly faced with the 
proposition - we all can/ should now  clearly express our views if we 
would like all kinds of substantive public policy issues to be decided 
by multistakeholder bodies a la ICANN etc, or we are better off with 
democracy as we know it.....

parminder


But the good thing is, the real issue is now in the open.


On Thursday 17 October 2013 07:52 PM, John Curran wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2013, at 8:19 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi, this will not be true at all. The main topic of the meeting will
>> probably be something like the forms and ways to achieve
>> pluriparticipative international Internet governance, including, as the
>> Presidenta said, "an international framework of civil rights for the
>> Internet".
>>
>> The "phone list" of the Internet is just a relatively small part of this
>> huge challenge. If the Icann people think otherwise, they will be in for
>> a surprise very soon. :)
> I have no knowledge of what the agenda for the Rio meeting will be, but
> note that these are two distinct items in the Montevideo Statement -
>
> (1)  - They identified the need for ongoing effort to address Internet Governance challenges, and agreed to catalyze community-wide efforts towards the evolution of global multistakeholder Internet cooperation.
>
>      This would appear to be similar to "forms and ways to achieve
>      pluriparticipative international Internet governance"
>   
> (2) They called for accelerating the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal footing.
>
>      This would appear to be similar to moving "ICANN away from
>      unilateral oversight", as noted by Brenden.
>
> I imagine that both topics will enjoy significant discussion at
> the meeting.
>
> /John
>
> Disclaimer:  My views alone.  Absence of an agenda does not equate
>               to lack of an agenda...
>