[governance] Proposed contribution for the Hyderabad

[William Drake]

I support the letter (thanks Adam) and Milton's amendment

Bill


On 8/12/08 9:55 PM, "Milton L Mueller" <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> I support this letter, but believe pretty strongly that the sentence
> about the review of IGF needs to be reworded thusly.
> 
> Old language: 
>> it is important that a review and evaluation of the IGF
>> begins promptly.
> 
> Proposed change:
> 
> It is important that a review involving formal consultation with IGF
> participants begins promptly.
> 
> Hope my motivation is clear: do you want a "review and evaluation" by
> some hack consulting group or do you want a "formal consultation" with
> the people who actually constitute (or should constitute) the Forum?
> 
> Milton Mueller
> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
> ------------------------------
> Internet Governance Project:
> http://internetgovernance.org
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adam Peake [mailto:ajp at glocom.ac.jp]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:34 AM
>> 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."
>> 
>> 
>> 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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