[governance] IGC statement to IGF MAG

[Parminder]

As Jeremy says, and was said by a few more, lets not take the schedule as
given. It is an input doc from the secretariat; we will give another one
from IGC. Any institution has self-preserving, status-quoists and low risk
taking attributes..... civil society has its core business in challenging
that in the wider public interest. IGC need not act as a facilitating group
for whatever the secretariat decides. We have our position, let them decide
what to do about it.

If you read the secretariat doc, it says in its second sentence that it is
more about structure than content. Why should then we give them more than
they seek?

About main sessions versus plenary - they are the same. IGC discussions used
the term plenary, and IGF secretariat uses 'main sessions'. So, to make it
clear we are looking for having main sessions on the lines of the four
themes we suggest, and NOT to have sessions on the inanely broad subjects
like access, openness, security etc. I have not been to any serious
deliberative space where they hold sessions on such broad terms. We are
asking the IGF to take its role as a space of public policy deliberations
seriously, since in any case it has abdicated a more active role of itself
analyzing issues, making recommendations, facilitating dialogue between
extant institutions etc.

These are serious failures in respect to a mandate that has been given to it
by a summit, and these failures have serious repercussions on the interests
on many people. I see no need for IGC to velvet glove this issue. I am
willing to go along to help IGF as a global governance innovation on some
teething issues... I think we did so the last time over. But if IGF's
governance structures are intent on re-inventing IGF as suits some vested
interests, I am not going along with it. As Carlos put it in a recent
email....there has been a ' gross manipulation in the Athens phase which we
hope will not be repeated in Rio', and later that ' We need to make a strong
point of what we want from the IGF. Enough of hiding crucial issues from the
main debates.'

Parminder 



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IT for Change, Bangalore
Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:Jeremy at Malcolm.id.au]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 7:01 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Vittorio Bertola
> Subject: Re: [governance] IGC statement to IGF MAG
> 
> Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> >> In my understanding there is no difference. All 4 themes are being
> >> suggested
> >> for plenary/ main sessions.
> >
> > Perhaps there is a misunderstanding: it seemed to me that we would ask
> > "a main session" to be specifically devoted to each of the four issues -
> > that would make four new main sessions to be added to the already
> > scheduled ones, and there's no space for this to happen in the schedule.
> 
> But as I and others have been saying, forget about the schedule.  There
> are many ways in which room could be made.  For example, lose the speed
> dialogue sessions on access/openness/security/diversity, and use those
> sessions for what we propose instead.  Or indeed, vice versa; there is
> no reason why the thematic emphasis needs to be the same every year.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
> Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
> host -t NAPTR 1.0.8.0.3.1.2.9.8.1.6.e164.org|awk -F! '{print $3}'
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