[governance] [WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: IG Public policy issues - approx 7 days left to deadline.. [March 31/06]

Sat Mar 25 08:11:07 EST 2006

Wolfgang,

I welcome this move, but I don't seem to see how it's going to
effectively feed into the IGF deliberations. Indeed, since IGF is a
multistakeholder forum (probably with government majority), I guess
they are not just going to accept the outcome of the parallel
workshops if gov and businesses are not there, much less will they
accept to work on any issue simply because it is deemed appropriate
by the new academic network - even highly regarded, which I'm sure it
will be. I guess a lot of advocacy work, to say the least, will still
need to be done with the IGF secretariat and beyond, so that the IGF
be not attempted to start from scratch to set up the agenda every
time/year but be willing to take advantage of, or build on, those
parallel efforts.

Other than that, I support the idea that we don't restrain ourselves
to that arbitrary number of three themes per meeting/year.

Mawaki

--- Wolfgang Kleinwächter
<wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I fully support both Adam and Ian and I am also in favour of a
> broader approach. We should push in particular for "Parallel
> Workshops" in the four day meeting so that we can have broad
> variety of subjects discussed during the forum. However we should
> be realistic and see that governments will  have a majority in the
> MAG. It remains to be seen what can be achieved directly within the
> MAG. 
>  
> On way to circumvent partly the possible restrictions could be to
> organize an independent pre-conference. As you know Peng Hwa and I
> are organizing a joint ICA-IAMCR Academic Internet Governance
> Symposium in June 2006 in Rathen/Dresden in Germany. One objective
> of this symposium  as I said already during the open IGF
> consultations in February in Geneva is to launch a network of
> academic institutions dealing with "Internet Governance". Such an
> "enhanced academic communication" will certainly feed the IGF
> process. On my way to Wellington I stopped over in Singapore
> yesterday and had a very constructive meeting with Peng Hwa and
> Randy. Among others we will propose in Dresden that the main
> deliverable of the new academic IG network will an annual academic
> IGF Pre-Conference. Such a move would us enable to select and
> discuss issues independent from the official process. 
>  
> Best regards
>  
> wolfgang
>  
>  
>  
>   
>  
>  
> From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org on behalf of Ian Peter
> Sent: Thu 23/03/2006 8:40 p.m.
> To: 'Governance'
> Cc: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [governance] IG Public policy issues
> - approx 7 days left to deadline.. [March 31/06]
> 
> 
> 
> Going back further on this -
> 
> I think the first comment may have been Adam Peake's which
> suggested that
> the three themes concept is a limitation which should not be
> imposed and
> appears to differ from the WGIG mandate. I think first thing we
> need to do
> is state that more themes than three should be discussed if the
> event is to
> be effective.
> 
> Also attached a response I sent to IGF - it mentions about 20
> policy themes
> I think .I think they are all valid. I haven't got time to develop
> them into
> the CS format, but I would suggest that if CS proceeds without such
> themes
> as multilingualism, spam, cybercrime, network neutrality, root zone
> authorisation, none of which are on the list so far, it isn't
> addressing the
> subject holistically. I agree with everything put forward so far by
> the CS
> mechanism, wish I had included them in my response, but it's not
> everything
> that should be discussed by a long way.
> 
> 
> Ian Peter
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org
> > [mailto:governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Robert
> Guerra
> > Sent: Friday, 24 March 2006 3:53 AM
> > To: Governance
> > Cc: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> > Subject: Re: [governance] IG Public policy issues - approx 7
> > days left to deadline.. [March 31/06]
> >
> > Following-up on my earlier email, I have gone through the
> > messages posted on the Governance list for the last 2 months
> > (Feb & March) to identify which themes (if any) have been
> > developed for the upcoming deadline.
> >
> > There seem to be 6 proposals developed so far. They are below
> > and at the following URL:
> >
> > <http://www.writely.com/Doc.aspx?id=bbfcskzpsx44x>
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > --
> >
> > Proposed Themes:
> >
> > * User centric digital identity   (Garth Graham, March 10 & 21,
> 06)
> > * Right to development (Parminder, March 7,06)
> > * Enhanced Cooperation  (Milton Mueller, March  16, 06)
> > * Asserting the public-ness of the Internet as a guiding
> > principle for IG  (Parminder, March  18, 06)
> > * Internet content filtering and free expression   (Milton
> Mueller &
> > RSF, March 21, 06)
> > * Affordable Internet access  (Mawaki Chango, March 21, 06)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
> > Managing Director, Privaterra
> > Tel +1 416 893 0377 Fax +1 416 893 0374
> >
> >
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