[governance] Program for IGC at IGF

[McTim]

On 10/20/06, Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy at malcolm.id.au> wrote:

>
> Not having a go, Tim - I appreciate the feedback - but I know that you
> speak for a lot of others, and so I have to ask, do those other bodies
> you refer to make decisions about:

I speak for myself, tho others may share my views.


>
> * Freedom of expression on the Internet
> * Responding uniformly to cybercrime
> * Data protection and privacy rights online
> * Equity in interconnection costs
> * Consumer protection such as anti-phishing
> * etc, etc, etc

not directly, but neither will the IGF.

>
> Do you not care about these issues (fair enough), or do you think other
> bodies are dealing with them adequately, or do you think they are
> ungovernable?

Those issues will be dealt with in national laws and regulations.  Not
that that is a *good thing*, but that is the way it is.

>
> Because speaking for myself, I do care about them, I don't think any
> other body is dealing with them in a transnational and inclusive way,
> and I think that the IGF is our first, best chance to do so.
>
> But I am worried that the opportunity will be squandered and the IGF
> become just another intergovernmental body in which the non-state
> stakeholders serve no purpose but to feed input into independent
> governmental policy-making processes.

I'm not sure it will even do that!

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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