[governance] workshop invite - exploring a framework convention on the Internet

[Amr Aljowailiy]

Thank you Parminder.

I haven't received a feedback yet. 

Is the invitation to cosponsor/participate for Egypt still holding?

 

Best regards,

Amr

 

Personal Communication From:
Amr Aljowaily
First Secretary,
Permanent Mission of Egypt to the UN, WTO and Other International
Organizations in Geneva.
49 Avenue Blanc (2eme Etage), 1202 Geneva

Tel: (0)22-731 6530/9
Fax:(0)22-738 4415
amr.aljowaily at ties.itu.int <BLOCKED::mailto:amr.aljowaily at ties.itu.int> 

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From: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:27 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: [governance] workshop invite - exploring a framework convention on
the Internet

 

 

I invite all IGC members to the workshop on 'Exploring a Framework
Convention on the Internet" on the 31st between 1330 and 1500 hours at the
IGF. We are interested in hearing all views on the issue - which suggests
one institutional way out for the current global 'public policy dilemma' for
the Internet. However, Internet is a novel phenomenon, and any institutional
framework for its governance will need to be a new hybrid form.  More
details of the workshop are enclosed. We mean to keep it a highly
interactive session, so not being on the panel should not be a major
limitation to participating :) 

 

Parminder 

 

 

 

UN Internet Governance Forum, Athens, 30th October to 2nd November, 2006

 

Workshop on 'Exploring a Framework Convention on the Internet' 

 

1330 to 1500 Hrs, 31st October

 

Organized by: IT for Change, Bangalore; Hivos, Netherlands; Panos institute,
West Africa; Third World Institute, Uruguay; and Foundation for Media
Alternatives, Philippines

 

Panelists: 

 

Pankaj Agrawala, Government of India, MAG member; 

William Currie, Association for Progressive Communications; 

William Drake, Director, Project on the Information Revolution and Global
Governance/PSIO, Graduate Institute for International Studies Geneva,
Switzerland;

John Mathiason, Internet Governance Project, Syracuse University, New York; 

One representative from the Brazilian government (yet to be confirmed) 

 

 

The workshop will explore the context, usefulness and possibility of a
'Framework Convention on the Internet', by examining the following
questions, which will be posed to the panelists and other participants:

 

1.	The WSIS identified the need for, and mandated, the initiation of
some international processes for developing public policy on Internet
related issues (see paragraphs 60, 61, 69, 70 and 71 of the Tunis Agenda),
but since the WSIS, not much has been done in this area. What do we think of
the importance of the Internet as a key global socio-economic infrastructure
of the future, and the nature of public policy regimes in this regard?  The
possible 'policy regime' options are:

 

a.	A distributed and largely 'privatized' governance regime as at
present, which, on critical emergent policy matters, may interface with
national policy regimes in an ad-hoc, fire-fighting, manner.

 

b.	Evolving global public policies regarding the Internet 'internally'
in respective global regimes like the WIPO and the WTO, and specific
international treaties like those in the area of cooperation on crime, in as
much as these domains are impacted by the Internet (or vice versa).

 

c.	Laying out broad global public policy principles for the Internet,
through a new international process, which gives due regard to the new
realities of a truly global infrastructure and the systems built over it. 

 

 

2.	With frequent references to 'balkanization' of the Internet in the
public discourse today (whether in terms of 'network neutrality' like
economic issues, cultural issues like multilingualism, or issues like
political restrictions on free flow of information), how important is it to
save the 'global public nature of the Internet' by defining a broad global
public policy regime for it? How would you comment on the hypothesis that -
'One global public Internet can survive only under one (broad) global public
policy regime'? 

 

3.	What are your views on initiating a framework convention kind of a
process, which incorporates due innovations, especially with regard to a
greater multistakeholder involvement, for evolving global public policy
principles for the Internet? What is the appropriateness or otherwise of
such an institutional form; what are its chances in the present and the
future context; what are the main bottlenecks, and what are the positive
signs?  

 

Background Papers:

 

1.       A Development Agenda for Internet Governance - Call for a Framework
Convention on the Internet' at
http://www.intgovforum.org/Substantive_1st_IGF/A%20Development%20Agenda%20fo
r%20IG%20-%20ITfC.pdf 

 

2.       'A Framework Convention: An Institutional Option for Internet
Governance' at http://www.intgovforum.org/Substantive_1st_IGF/igp-fc.pdf

 

3.	Association for Progressive Communication's recommendations to WSIS
on IG at http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/pc3/contributions/co103.pdf 

 

 

 

 

 

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Parminder Jeet Singh

IT for Change, Bangalore

Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 

Tel: (+91-80) 2665 4134, 2653 6890

Fax: (+91-80) 4146 1055

 <http://www.itforchange.net/> www.ITforChange.net 

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