[governance] Nitin Desai's two groups

[Guru]

Dear Ian

The second group is not only some governments ... the 'open letter to 
IGF' that ITfC and other organizations have written identifies 
'democratic deficit' as a key IGF concern for CS as well. This letter 
has been endorsed by CS institutions and individuals across the world, 
more so from the geopolitical south.

Unless we discuss/address (if not resolve) these issues that make IGF 
ineffective, we run the risk of playing into the hands of those who want 
to declare the IGF a failure

As CS (including IGC) we have a strong interest and belief in IGF and 
should put our efforts at bridging the gap between the two groups ... 
which is to address the democratic deficit at IGF

regards,
Guru

Ian Peter wrote:
>  I too though Desai's quote was excellent - but I do interpret it a bit
> differently, in that governments as I see it sit in the second group who
> want more say and/or more power. That's an interesting dynamic. 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org]
>> Sent: 03 December 2008 22:42
>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
>> Subject: [governance] Nitin Desai's two groups
>>
>> I just touched on this at igfwatch.org, but I felt it was worth
>> highlighting here too in view of the debate at last night's IGC
>> meeting about whether we should on the one hand push the IGF to
>> achieve more, or on the other hand stay quiet to avoid giving
>> ammunition to the IGF's enemies.
>>
>> As you will guess it is my view that we would be doing civil society a
>> disservice to stay quiet for fear of damaging what we have in the IGF
>> as it already exists.  But what is more interesting than what I think
>> is that Nitin Desai said during the opening ceremony.  In his view the
>> contention over the appropriate role of the IGF is very much a live
>> issue.  He stated:
>>
>>     
>>> essentially, this is a dialogue between two groups of people ... and
>>> we must face up to that reality. On the one hand, we have a group of
>>> people who feel that the present modalities of management of the
>>> Internet are working, will work, even in the future, who are afraid
>>> that any major change in the way in which these arrangements are set
>>> up would compromise the Internet in some form. And on the other
>>> hand, we have a lot of people who are dependent on the Internet for
>>> their activities, for the economic, social, political, whatever, who
>>> feel that they have to have a say in the public policy issues which
>>> affect how the Net runs in this manner. These are essentially the
>>> two groups who are in dialogue here.
>>>       
>> So if we were to leave this campaign half-finished and concede it to
>> the group who are satisfied with the status quo of Internet
>> governance, in some sense that would be the end of the dialogue that
>> Nitin Desai describes, leaving it as a self-satisfied monologue of
>> powerful governments and private sector actors.  In that case, what
>> purpose does the IGC see itself as serving?
>>
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