[bestbits] FOR ACTION: survey on programming suggestions for 2017 IGF civil society pre-meeting
parminder
parminder at itforchange.net
Sun Sep 10 10:07:16 EDT 2017
On Sunday 10 September 2017 11:44 AM, Dave Burstein wrote:
> Folks
>
> It seems to me a useful session would be "What the Global South would
> want the Global North to understand.
Agree, Dave, that would a good entry point to developing a southern
discourse....
>
> What would be the right content, beyond the obvious lack of
> representation?
We can develop that if there is initial agreement to have the meeting
around this subject, at least have one session on it.... parminder
>
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:24 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net
> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>
>
> On Sunday 10 September 2017 08:08 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Just answered this and suggested a totally different theme, geared
>> more towards Global South participation.
>
> Thanks Renata for this important theme.
>
> But let me undertake a sunday morning indulgence. Southern
> participation is important, but equally if not more is a southern
> narrative on Internet/ digital governance. Does it exist today?
> Just saying, connect us as well, help us because we are way behind
> on the digital path that "you" are taking,, does it constitute a
> southern discourse? Or does the south have a view on "well, is the
> path itself not the best one?". Does merely getting connected to
> an arrangement which is exploitative at its core a worthwhile
> agenda?Especially for civil society. Questions like this.... But
> the unfortunate fact is; southern participation in global
> Internet/ digital governance spaces have contributed more to
> hailing and legitimising a Northern model of Internet/ digital
> governance rather than seeking one which serves its own interests,
> and arises from what have in other sectors been considered as
> "southern perspectives".
>
> Partly, it also has to do with how the IG/ digital sector is
> framed so solidly by North, including controlling its funding
> streams, which unlike in other areas like trade, access to
> knowledge, climate justice, etc does not promote a distinctively
> southern perspective/ alternative, but largely contributes to
> legitimising a interests-based Northern discourse. What is the
> role, responsibility and accountability of the incumbent civil
> society in this. That IMHO is the key "southern question" for
> civil society to address. Why has it failed to connect and make
> common cause with southern and social justice based groups in
> other global civil society sectors? Why have we still to interact
> on elists where simple questions on practices of biggest digital
> corporates get shot down and contested by status quo-ists, as we
> witnessed in the recent case of google's questionable funding
> practices.
>
> These cracks vis a vis relationship of IG civil society and the
> global Southern and social justice oriented civil society (which
> is rightly the bulk of the global civil society) are beginning to
> show up as the digital enters into areas like global trade, where
> trade justice activists look at IG civil society dumbly pushing
> proclamations of unhindered "free flow of data" and such with
> astonishment ...
>
> Renata, i am not picking on the subject that you have proposed,
> which is very important, but providing what in my view is a very
> important context to it....
>
> parminder
>
>> It is important to note that, in a long time, this is an IGF where the
>> Global South will not be represented as it was before and Civil
>> Society can have a role in discussing this and enabling
>> representation.
>>
>> So I hope more people answer and have this in mind too
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Renata
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> <mailto:jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Previously I sent around a save-the-date notice (with the wrong date
>>> initially!) for our annual pre-IGF civil society meeting. Just to
>>> reconfirm, it will be on Saturday 16 December 2017.
>>>
>>> The organizing committee is now soliciting suggestions for the meeting
>>> agenda and volunteers, using this survey:
>>>
>>> http://bestbits.net/limesurvey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=628143&lang=en
>>> <http://bestbits.net/limesurvey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=628143&lang=en>
>>>
>>> You are invited to complete that survey between now and 18 September.
>>>
>>> As you will see, there is a suggestion that the overall meeting theme be
>>> "Private regulation of the Internet", because this is broad enough to
>>> include many different topics including private speech regulation, trade,
>>> the Internet of Things, and Internet standards and human rights. When
>>> suggesting session topics, please try to relate them to this overall theme.
>>> But the survey also allows you to suggest a different main theme if you
>>> disagree with the one that we have suggested.
>>>
>>> Thanks, and we look forward to receiving your responses.
>>>
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>>> Electronic Frontier Foundation
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