[governance] Re: enhanced cooperation

[Lee McKnight]

Hi,

Following up on McTim's email, the CTU's Sec Gen Bernadette Lewis and
staff as well as ARIN have participated past few years in Caribbean
Internet Governance Forums in association also with the pre-existing
Caribbean Internet Forum, which does seem to have made a qualitative
change in how the various organizations at state, regional, and
international level interact.   Both bring government officials,
regulators, ISPs & telcos, academics, civil society activists and last
couple years also ICANN folks together. Seems to be having an impact
that I would agree qualifies at regional level as enhanced cooperation,
producing output for example also then endorsed also at
inter-ministerial regional level, developing a regional Internet
governance framework based on principles of openness etc.  

Last year the CIF was institutionalized as a Jamaican non-profit, of
which I'm pleased to be a member, in my SU/IGP capacity.  CIF VI in
Trinidad, in November, all welcome I'm sure!  Prof. Kim Mallalieu of UWI
is the lead organizer. Ok, that's the infomercial.
Lee

Prof. Lee W. McKnight
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
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>>> dogwallah at gmail.com 04/21/08 5:36 AM >>>
and yet another link I have just seen:

http://www.arin.net/meetings/minutes/ARIN_XXI/mem_transcript.html#anchor_5

scroll to last bit at bottom, for EC lovefest between CTU and ARIN:

MS. LEWIS: Bernadette Lewis from the Caribbean Telecommunications
Union. I just wanted to place on record my appreciation for the
process ARIN uses. The transparency, the ability to participate
freely, I think is priceless, and I think it is one of the real pluses
of this organization. And I'd like to say that we are looking forward
from the Caribbean Telecommunications Union to working more closely
with ARIN, to getting involved in the processes, and I think there are
tremendous examples for us to take back and use in the Caribbean. And
I welcome the opportunity to work with the members of the Advisory
Committee and the people who have come forward to make suggestions to
us in terms of policy, getting involved in the policy process. We
really appreciate that, and we look forward to taking a more active
role in the ARIN process. Thank you.

MR. CURRAN: Thank you for your kind words. I can say on behalf of the
Board and the membership, we look forward to working even more closely
with the folks at the CTU. Microphones remain open. Last call.
Microphones are closed. Thank you very much. (Applause)



On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:30 AM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
wrote:
>  >
>  > Now, first of all I see no specific way in which all the
institutions you
>  > say are already doing EC as contributing " to creating an
environment that
>  > facilitates this development of public policy principles" (para 70,
TA). If
>  > you think they are, can you tell me how?


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim
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