[governance] Themes for the coming IGFs

[jlfullsack]

Dear Jeannette and all

Of course, Internet critical resources should be on the agenda but, what's 
more, access and service providing in DCs should stay very hign on it.

As far as I could read through all your messages from Hyderabad, the 
Internet for Developing countries was once more completely lost aside.
May I recall our CS Declarations both in Geneva and in Tunis, for a "People 
centered Info Society" and for ICT's "unique role in socio-economic 
development and in promoting the fulfilment of intarnationnaly agreed 
development goals, including those contained in the Muillenium Declaration".
There were also statements in these Declarations on the Public Good nature 
of  some critical Internet resources.
Can somebody from the CS present in Hyderabad let us know what progress in 
these most critical issues have been achieved there ? Thanks in advance.

All the best
Jean-Louis Fullsack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette at wzb.eu>
To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 11:36 AM
Subject: [governance] Themes for the coming IGFs


>
> Hi,
>
> we had quite a good discussion at the caucus meeting in Hyderabad about 
> possible topics for the next IGF. Parminder proposed a 'rights based 
> approach to IG' as an over-arching theme for the next IGF.
>
> I think should continue this discussion on this list since it would be 
> good if we could come up with proposals for topics at the next public 
> consultation in Geneva in February 2009.
>
> I am not sure though if we should focus on the over-arching theme for the 
> next IGF. In case you don't remember, the overall theme for this year's 
> IGF was "Internet for all". My impression is that these over-arching 
> themes don't matter that much, not only because they tend to be shallow 
> but more so because the underlying topics are too diverse to reflect in 
> any meaningful way the overall topic.
>
> We should focus on the themes for the main session instead. For those who 
> didn't follow closely, this year's themes were:
>
>        * Reaching the next billion;
>
>        * Promoting cyber-security and trust;
>
>        * Managing critical Internet resources;
>
>        * Taking stock and the way forward;
>
>        * Emerging issues - the Internet of tomorrow
>
> I heard several people saying that access related topics (reaching the 
> next billion) need a break as there is nothing new to discuss next year. 
> Do others agree? What are other topics we want to see discussed? In my 
> view, critical Internet resources should stay on the agenda.
>
> best, jeanette
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