[bestbits] substantive proposals for Brazil summit - IG governance

[Andrew Puddephatt]

My own thoughts on substantive proposals are:

I suspect a lot of what we submit will be focused upon internet governance or broad statements of principles. Looking at the Rousseff speech do others think there is value in putting forward a proposal that any governance arrangements should guarantee those goals we think are not guaranteed adequately at the moment - in other words where the current governance system is failing.

Three examples might be:

1.       Net neutrality

2.       Protection for personal privacy

3.       Affordable access
We could say that whatever arrangements on governance are considered that we call on governments and other stakeholders to guarantee these three objectives both at the  international level and in national policies.

I would have thought we have a fighting chance of getting endorsement for this in a two day conference

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Subject: Re: [bestbits] substantive proposals for Brazil summit - IG governance

Agree. It would be important to incorporate this in our contributions. March 1st is the deadline.


On Monday, February 3, 2014, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org<mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org>> wrote:
On 3 Feb 2014, at 3:51 am, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ian.peter at ianpeter.com');>> wrote:


Multistakeholderism is, to at least some parties, a wonderful mask to aid industry dominance with no governmental involvement whatsoever.  And here the dominant industry players often find willing supporters in the technical community. I think civil society needs to be clear that, if it supports multistakeholderism, it is not giving support to no governmental involvement at all or to unregulated industry dominance. I think this is a real debate we have to have.

And I think we need to be honest about the fact that not all stakeholders have equal power in this - civil society arguments do not carry the weight of the large internet corporations, and to pretend that ms-ism somehow changes this imbalance is either naive or deliberately misleading.

I mention this here because, by the looks of Brazil and the way the agenda is shaping up, we are going to talk about principles for governance, and this word multistakeholderism is going to be front and centre. I think we need to unwrap it a little and state clearly that the real issues going on are between governmental and industry control, neither of which of itself is of itself a satisfactory model.

Brilliantly put Ian.  Agree that this will be a key differentiator between what civil society puts forward for the meeting and what (if anything) 1net may put forward.

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