[bestbits] Draft joint statement on European Parliament IGF resolution

[parminder]

It is rather unfortunate, and perhaps ominous, that "democratically 
accountable mutlistakeholder model of IG' is dismissed in favour of just 
'mutlistakeholder model of IG'.

Does it mean that it is considered unnecessary for 'multistakeholder 
model(s) of IG' to be democratically accountable?

This is a very important question that must be addressed.

It is in this background that the Just Net Coalition has been making a 
distinction between an explicitly democratic multistakeholder (MS) 
models and those MS models that do not just avoid mentioning the term 
'democratic' but often actively avoid it - as this particular amendment 
exercise seems to suggest. (A distinction that some people here have 
considered superfluous, and perhaps self serving!)

When I said 'ominous' above, I meant how the post democratic sentiment 
that took root at the 'global' 'IG' space has begun to spread downwards 
to spaces where the democratic tradition is otherwise rather well 
entrenched (and will also spread to non IG areas as well, such are the 
powerful forces backing the post democratic ideologies). One is so 
disappointed that this kind of thing should happen at a forum like the 
EU. But perhaps a good indicator and a warning, if we can use it as one, 
that we may be playing with fire in the unthinking promoting of some 
very problematic governance models in the global IG space, unmindful of 
their impact on democratic traditions.

parminder


On Thursday 12 February 2015 11:53 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> The final resolution did not contain the amendment:
>
> www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=P8-RC-2015-0099&language=EN
>
> The relevant passage: " Stresses that it is firmly committed to the 
> multistakeholder model of internet governance; calls upon the Member 
> States, the Commission and all relevant stakeholders to further 
> strengthen the sustainability of this model by making actors and 
> processes at national, regional and international levels more 
> inclusive, transparent and accountable;"
>
> On 10/02/2015 12:49 pm, Carolina Rossini wrote:
>> +1 on Erik suggestion
>> Jeremy, is this still possible?
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:54 PM, JOSEFSSON Erik 
>> <erik.josefsson at europarl.europa.eu 
>> <mailto:erik.josefsson at europarl.europa.eu>> wrote:
>>
>>     Please consider explicitly supporting the following amendment too:
>>
>>     AM 2 (to point 6):
>>
>>     "Stresses that it is firmly committed to a *democratically
>>     accountable multistakeholder model* of Internet governance; calls
>>     upon the Member States, the European Commission and all relevant
>>     stakeholders to further strengthen the sustainability of the
>>     multi-stakeholder model by making actors and processes at
>>     national, regional and international levels more inclusive,
>>     transparent and accountable;"
>>
>>     It should have been tabled less than an hour ago!
>>
>>     //Erik
>>
>
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