[governance] Proposed contribution for the Hyderabad programme paper.

Tue Aug 12 06:53:52 EDT 2008

Ok, Adam, lets take a shot at it.

I think this draft is good to take forward. 

My suggestion. Since what really matters are the portions that go into the
synthesis paper, lets focus on such stuff as can figure most prominently in
such a paper.

As for website posting of our contribution, that remains open till the
consultations. We can have such a full letter online a bit later, if needed,
but for now lets choose very solid stuff on a few points and put in clear
strong text that will be difficult to avoid for the persons compiling the
document as too general and such.

For this purpose, first of all, I will remove the logistics point, which
says nothing. So lets focus on the other 4 points. I am making a few changes
in the text under these points. I can take suggestions from the members for
the next 24 hours. Immediately afterwards I will post the text for rough
consensus.

As Adam suggested please suggest only such stuff which is likely to be able
to be pulled into a document that can plausibly be put for seeking rough
consensus.  

(suggested text below - open for suggestions, but please see the caveat
above)

Contribution on the IGF Hyderabad Programme Paper

(1)  The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus fully supports the letter
sent by the Internet Bill of Rights Dynamic Coalition on "Rights as a core
theme of the IGF".  The issue of rights and the Internet must remain a
central theme of the IGF process.

(2) About the taking stock and way forward session: we suggest that this
session be organized in the same "bottom-up" manner as the other main
session workshops and debates.  In light of para 76 of the Tunis Agenda,

    "76. We ask the UN Secretary-General to examine the desirability of the
continuation of the Forum, in formal consultation with Forum participants,
within five years of its creation, and to make recommendations to the UN
Membership in this regard."

it is important that a review and evaluation of the IGF begins promptly, and
in  a duly open and participative manner.

The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus organized a workshop on "The
role and mandate of the IGF" at IGF, Rio, and is organizing another with the
same title at IGF, Hyderabad, 
<http://www.intgovforum.org/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=71> and we would
be pleased if this workshop, and the IGC, could help support the organizing
of and the discussion during the taking stock and way forward session, in
the same way as the preparation for the other main sessions is being done in
collaboration with some workshop organizers.  We would be pleased to work
with the MAG and all other stakeholders to use this session to begin the
process of review and evaluation of the IGF.

(3)  The process of merging individually proposed workshops and setting-up
the working groups that are to develop the main session workshops has been
very unclear.  How were some workshops accepted in these working groups and
some not?  What efforts have been made to ensure that a balanced
representation of views is present in each of the working groups organizing
the main session workshops?

The caucus believes this process needs to be improved and made more
transparent. We would like clarification of the process and to be assured
that all stakeholders, and holders of all viewpoints, will have an equal
opportunity to participate in the working groups developing the main session
workshops (and therefore greatly influencing the main session debates.)

(4) Improving participating from developing countries has been identified as
a critical issue by the IGFs to date. We are concerned that this issue is
not being adequately addressed. We will specifically like to know about the
funding support available for participation of civil society  from
developing countries. We note that the September consultations may be too
late to manage a smooth process for allocating funds, and request that
immediate action be taken in this regard, and the IGC informed about it.

Thank you,

Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Peake [mailto:ajp at glocom.ac.jp]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:04 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: [governance] Proposed contribution for the Hyderabad programme
> paper.
> 
> Proposed contribution for the Hyderabad programme paper.
> 
> Just say yes or no.
> 
> Anything controversial will just mean the letter's not going to get
> sent and again the caucus will have missed the opportunity to
> influence the process.  Bound to be spelling mistakes, typos and
> messed-up grammar (friendly amendments welcome.)
> 
> All the ideas in response to Parminder's email so I hope they have
> our coordinator's support.  He can decide on rough consensus or not.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
> Contribution on the Hyderabad Programme Paper
> 
> (1)  The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus fully supports the
> letter sent by the Internet Bill of Rights Coalition "Rights as core
> theme of the IGF".  The issue of rights and the Internet must remain
> a central theme of the IGF process.
> 
> (2) About the taking stock and way forward session: we suggest that
> this session be organized in the same "bottom-up" manner as the other
> main session workshops and debates.  In light of para 76 of the Tunis
> Agenda,
> 
>     "76. We ask the UN Secretary-General to examine the desirability
> of the continuation of the Forum, in formal consultation with Forum
> participants, within five years of its creation, and to make
> recommendations to the UN Membership in this regard."
> 
> it is important that a review and evaluation of the IGF begins promptly.
> 
> The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus is organizing a workshop
> "The role and mandate of the IGF"
> <http://www.intgovforum.org/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=71> and
> we would be pleased if this workshop could help support discussion
> during the taking stock session.  We would be pleased to work with
> the MAG and all other stakeholders in discussions to begin the
> process of review and evaluation of the IGF and how to best to
> include this important topic in the taking stock and way forward
> session at the Hyderabad meeting.
> 
> (3)  The process of merging individually proposed workshops and
> setting-up the working groups that are now developing the main
> session workshops has been very unclear.  How were some workshops
> accepted in these working groups and some not?  What efforts have
> been made to ensure that a balanced representation of views is
> present in each of the working groups organizing the main session
> workshops?
> 
> The caucus believes this process has not worked well, we would like
> clarification of the process and to be assured that all stakeholders
> will have the equal opportunity to participate in the working groups
> developing the main session workshops (and therefore greatly
> influencing the main session debates.)
> 
> (4) We would like to hear about logistical arrangements for the
> meetings, particularly the daily schedule (start, finish, breaks
> etc), information about hotels, particularly affordable hotels, food
> and refreshments, Internet cafes, and the IGF Village.
> 
> (5) Will there be funds to support participants from developing
> countries and civil society?  Could we please have details of this.
> We note that the September consultations may be too late to manage a
> smooth process for allocating funds. Improving participating from
> developing countries has been identified as a critical issue by the
> IGFs to date, we are concerned that it is not being adequately
> addressed.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus.
> 
> 
> 
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