[governance] Prepcom week 2 (Re: Chair's paper available)

[Adam Peake (ajp@glocom.ac.jp)]

We should start discussing our response to the chair's paper.

<http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1962|0>http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1962|0>

Comments would be good on what's there (I sent a couple of very basic
ideas last week, copied below) and what's not there, i.e. oversight
and forum.  Given the style of the chairs paper the sections on these
two issue won't be much more than half page each. Anyone want to draft
something?

Adam



>
>A general comment is that the draft is only three and half pages.  It
>is missing sections describing follow-up issues (forum and
>oversight), but even with those sections the total may only be about
>5 pages.  This is helpful as it tells us that comments on specific
>issues will be very short.  Looking at sentences not paragraphs.
>
>The paragraphs that stands out as contentious reads:
>
>    We strive to establish a transition to a new cooperation model
>that helps up [us] implement the "Geneva principles" regarding the
>role of the governments and all stakeholders. Institutional
>arrangements for Internet governance should be founded on a more
>solid democratic, transparent and multilateral basis, with stronger
>emphasis on the public policy interests of all governments, and with
>clarification of the relationships among different actors.
>
>Also, I don't like how CS is defined:
>
>Civil society has also played an important role on Internet matters,
>especially at community level, and should continue to play such a
>role.
>
>Avri has suggested  replacement:
>
>Civil society has played an important role on Internet matters.
>This role has ranged from capacity building at the community level to
>the contribution of much of the technological innovation and to the
>creation of much of the content that makes the Internet what it is
>today.  Civil Society should continue to play such a role.
>
>Adam
>
>

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