[bestbits] substantive proposals for Brazil summit - IG governance

[Daniel Pimienta]

>Careful here.  The Tunis Agenda sets out a separate process on ICTs 
>for development, but this should not be confused with the parts of 
>the Tunis Agenda on Internet governance arrangements.  In the 
>WSIS+10 process the Internet governance aspects have been explicitly 
>separated out and I think this was a good idea.

This is a difficult question indeed.

My perception from the field is that ICT4D has been fading out after 
Tunis and today has almost disappeared from the international agenda 
(mainly in terms of budget, as discourses always keep rolling). 
Governance has become the new priority and buzzword of international 
cooperation.

In this context I am not sure this separation is a good idea and 
anyway some issues are transversal and I seriously doubt that 
governance is a matter independant from gender, of course; from 
cultural and language diversity (which I see is slowly penetrating 
the agenda); but ...also from development.

The question is to know if the best answers to governance issues are 
the same in the industrial world and the developing world; I do not 
think they are always and global governance issues need to be focused 
with considerations embracing development.


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