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

[Parminder]

> While each country has the right to make national policy as
> it likes,
> there is high value in getting to international agreement on
> best
> practices, so that most countries will naturally adapt to a
> globally
> agreed standard.

And such international agreements on best practices, and globally agreed
standards, have worked in the pre-information society era - agreements on
various kinds of rights, environment, labor practices, health issues,
development priorities and means... the list is endless. These can only be
more relevant in the 'information society' where the whole world is one
shared space more than ever before...

Parminder 
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Parminder Jeet Singh
IT for Change, Bangalore
Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb at bertola.eu.org]
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 5:48 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Norbert Bollow
> Subject: Re: [governance] national vs international (was Re:
> Program for IGC at IGF)
> 
> Norbert Bollow ha scritto:
> >>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.
> 
> I agree. For example, in Italy there is a relatively strong
> movement -
> led by the original MP3 scientist, Prof. Chiariglione - to
> get the
> government to develop a "national DRM system" and force it
> into use by
> law. Just imagine if each country of the world developed its
> own
> regulation of DRMs, or even its own technical implementation,
> incompatible with the others...
> 
> While each country has the right to make national policy as
> it likes,
> there is high value in getting to international agreement on
> best
> practices, so that most countries will naturally adapt to a
> globally
> agreed standard. It is the same principle by which the
> technical
> standards of the Internet - RFCs - get into use: none of them
> is
> formally binding, but just imagine if they weren't there.
> --
> vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a]
> bertola.eu.org]<-----
> http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...
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