[governance] IGF workshops

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Milton L Mueller [28/04/08 17:35 -0400]:
>> 1. The Transboundary Internet: Jurisdiction, Control and Sovereignty
>
>I support this as a caucus proposal. I would urge the group involved to
>be sure to add a speaker who is explicitly "anti-sovereign" or
>"globalist" in outlook to provide balance on the panel. I am sure there
>will be no shortage of people taking the other view.

This would be a good place to have someone in law enforcement and who has a
balanced perspective. Not the IP law and takedown community crowd.

Explicitly anti sovereign tends to produce a whole lot of extreme silliness  
though, so I am not sure what benefit that will have besides the supposed 
entertainment value (like that fellow who suddenly turned your athens panel
into a "lets bash the bush administration for iraq" speech)

>> 3. A Rights Agenda for Internet Governance
>
>"work"shop. My main concern would be that the organizers of this panel
>NOT pretend that there is a unified conception of rights underlying our
>approach to the Internet, and especially that we do not pretend that
>there is a unified civil society position. I would ask this organizing

There's no such unified position, and even if there was, I dont think this
caucus can claim to speak for all of civil society. 

I, for one, would try to change the direction of this to make it an
"empowerment based" agenda, instead of one where there's simply a strident
clamoring for "rights", with little or no conception of the actual
realities of governance.

Diplo capacity building courses, for example, to sensitize civil society
groups to these issues. Or ARIN / other RIR public policy and EC
initiatives.

>> 4. The role and mandate of the IGF
>> 
>Strongly support the idea; the level of realization here seems less
>developed, no list of sponsors or invited speakers. However, the

I would suggest that the panelists here think outside the box, and beyond
the IGF (which, in itself, is - or can well be - a set of people, in a set
of panels, at an exotic location)

How do links and cooperation between orgs forged within the IGF translate
to real world cooperation, and real world participation in each others
processes?

	suresh
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