[governance] national vs international (was Re: Program for IGC at IGF)

[Norbert Bollow]

McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> > * 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.

If the IGF will not address these issues in an effective manner,
nor launch appropropriate multistakeholder processes of some
kind which address these issues, the IGF will have failed to
fulfil its mandate.

> 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.

What is needed at the international level is accountable and
transparent multistakeholder processes for international
coordination of the various national efforts regarding these
issues.

The internet is by its very nature international.  Any attempts
to create national "internet governance" without international
coordination will either fail or deny the residents of those
countries full participation in what the internet really is.

Greetings,
Norbert.


-- 
Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                       http://Norbert.ch
President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG        http://SIUG.ch
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