[governance] Please give feedback to Position Paper

[Max Senges]

Hello

 

During the last weeks I have been drafting a “Position Paper on the Future
Governance of the Internet” for the Committee for the Democratization of the
United Nations ( www.kdun.de <http://www.kdun.de/>  ). I would greatly
appreciate if you could find the time to give some feedback. 

 

I am not an expert, so please excuse my outsider (”common sense”) approach.


What is the original input of the paper


There are two ideas put forward in the paper which I believe might be
worthwhile to consider:

 

Internet Constitution

To establish cyberspace as the global democratic space capable of changing
the way humans interact, communicate and deal with each other, the paper
suggests to start working on an Internet Constitution. This Constitution
would serve to define the fundamental norms, values, rights and duties each
user (netizen) has to agree and comply to when participating in cyberspace.
Like this, the ethics and good behavior in this virtual environment could be
discussed and agreed upon. This Constitution – when setup to be ratified by
each individual netizen - could furthermore represent the acknowledgement of
cyberspace as a new global territory for human activity and development. 

 

Community Based Governance

To construct the internet with most intelligence at the ends of the network
(to connect “intelligent” clients over a “dumb” network of cables) has
proven to be a good and remarkably flexible and resistant architecture.
Inspired by this setup it is suggested to allow and encourage self defined
user communities to develop and implement their respective governance and
regulatory framework (e.g. for web auctions, or collaborative content and
mail filters) while limiting the power of central internet governance
institutions to coordination, mediation and facilitation between the
interests of stakeholders. (Please read the paper as I have tried to explain
the approach there in more detail.)

 


Wiki  


I have setup a wiki on which you can review and edit the text. 

The wiki can be found under www.un-collaboratory.net
<http://www.un-collaboratory.net/> . 

In case you do not have the time to use the wiki, I attached the draft paper
as word rtf. 

 

Looking forward to your input

Max 

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Max Senges

UOC PhD student
Carrer Hospital 973o 2a   
8001 Barcelona, España

Tel:  +34 627193395 
@: MaxSenges at gmail.com 

 
<http://www.uoc.edu/web/cat/launiversitat/estudis/phd/doctorat_presenta.htm>
Link to Programme Presentation

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