[governance] Comments on Rio - Suggestions for Delhi - main

[linda misek-falkoff]

Dear Don and greetings All:

>From this portal, I look forward to reading your paper and other materials,
and would be very much interested in some partnering.  I cite specifically,
in brief from your present post:

"The goal of the project is to help bridge this gap by encouraging members
of the two
communities to work together in areas where their interests are shared or
complementary, and where each community could benefit from the others'
experience, expertise, and policy leverage."

I hope you may find *Respectful Interfaces* compatible and fostering.

Very best wishes, LDMF.
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On 2/18/08, Don MacLean <donjmac at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Dear Adam,
>
> A belated reply to this message to thank you for calling the list's
> attention to the paper I co-authored with Tony Vetter and Heather Creech
> of
> IISD as a contribution to the February 26 preparatory meeting. In response
> to some of the reaction that followed, we thought it would be useful to
> provide some background information about the paper, as well as to
> highlight
> its main points for those who may not have had a chance to read it.
>
> Our paper proposing sustainable development as a theme for New Delhi is
> part
> of a project IISD began in 2002 to examine the linkages between the
> information society, Internet governance, and sustainable development.
> This
> project included both independent research and active participation in the
> Geneva and Tunis phases of WSIS, as well as the first two IGFs. So far, it
> has resulted in fifteen papers, reports and other publications, some of
> which are referenced in the paper and all of which are available for
> download at
> http://www.iisd.org/publications/publication_list.aspx?themeid=18&page=1 .
> One of these publications, "Internet Governance and Sustainable
> Development:
> Towards a Common Agenda" was launched at the Rio IGF.
>
> The project grew out of IISD's observation that, even though there are
> increasingly close linkages between ICTs, the Internet and sustainable
> development in both developed and developing countries, the IG and SD
> policy
> communities operate in largely separate governance universes. The goal of
> the project is to help bridge this gap by encouraging members of the two
> communities to work together in areas where their interests are shared or
> complementary, and where each community could benefit from the others'
> experience, expertise, and policy leverage.
>
> We think the IGF provides an excellent opportunity to encourage stronger
> cooperation between the IG and SD communities for a number of reasons.
>
> *       Since development is a cross-cutting theme of the IGF, the Forum
> would benefit from greater participation by sustainable development
> experts
> - directly through the contributions they could make to discussions, and
> indirectly through the influence IGF participation could exert on SD
> policies, programs and activities.
>
> *       Since both communities have experience with multi-stakeholder
> governance models, and since both are committed to enhancing
> multi-stakeholder governance principles and processes in their respective
> areas, there may be lessons they can learn from each other's experience.
>
> *       As demonstrated in our paper, cooperation and collaboration
> between
> the IG and SD communities could help fulfil many of the elements of the
> IGF
> mandate.
>
> *       As discussed in the conclusion to "Internet Governance and
> Sustainable Development: Towards a Common Agenda", there are significant,
> emerging linkages between the technical, economic, social, and
> environmental
> dimensions of many of the issues discussed and debated in the IGF and
> other
> Internet governance forums on the one hand, and the technical, economic,
> social, and environmental dimensions of many of the issues discussed and
> debated in sustainable development forums on the other hand.
>
> While we think all these points are important reasons why sustainable
> development should be a theme of the New Delhi IGF, and why the
> relationship
> between Internet governance and sustainable development should be the
> subject of a plenary session, the latter point is perhaps the most
> important.
>
> IISD is convinced that a stable, secure Internet, which is accessible to
> all
> and which provides free, affordable access to information and knowledge,
> is
> prerequisite to achieving many of the major goals of the sustainable
> development community - goals such as poverty reduction through economic
> development that is environmentally and socially sustainable in the long
> term; mitigation of climate change; protection of natural resources; and
> new
> approaches to governance that engage government, the private sector, civil
> society, and the scientific and technical community in developing
> solutions
> to sustainability challenges.
>
> As a result of our involvement in the first two IGFs, we believe that the
> Forum can potentially play an important role in influencing the
> development
> of policies, programs and governance processes on issues related to
> Internet
> governance, at both the national and international levels, in ways that
> are
> conducive to sustainable development. However, to do this effectively, we
> think the third IGF needs to adopt a more focused approach to the
> development theme, and that it also needs to undertake a more rigorous and
> systematic analysis of the linkages between Internet governance and
> sustainable development.
>
> This is why we have proposed sustainable development as a theme of the New
> Delhi IGF, and why we have suggested that one of its plenary sessions be
> devoted to exploring the linkages between Internet governance and
> sustainable development. If this proposal is accepted, we hope it will
> provide a foundation for engaging members of the sustainable development
> community in the work of the IGF, and result in benefits to both
> communities
> in terms of learning, collaborative action, policy effectiveness, and
> governance innovation.
>
> We hope this additional information is helpful, welcome comments on our
> paper, and look forward to next week's discussions.
>
> Best regards,
> Don MacLean
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Peake [mailto:ajp at glocom.ac.jp]
> Sent: February 13, 2008 11:23 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Comments on Rio - Suggestions for Delhi - main
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Too much mail so briefly, I hope we can suggest
> >
> >>  We propose that 'An assessment of the current global policy
> institutional
> >>  framework and mechanism for the Internet, in terms of existing and
> emerging
> >
> >As an overarching focus of the meeting (and the forum), rather than just
> one
> >session.  Do away with the four generic main session topics from Athens
> and
> >replace with new ones, one of which could be development, another could
> be
> >assessing implementation of the WSIS principles (how are transparency and
> >inclusion done across native administrative and intergovernmental
> >institutions, best practices etc---a linked workshop could go deeper into
> >this).  If someone could explain IG and the environment (as opposed to
> >Internet/ICT and the environment) and we can agree there's something
> there,
> >maybe that'd interest people and please Fujitsu etc.
>
>
> Arghhh... what's the point of trying to report
> what the guy who leads the IGF secretariat is
> saying and what's going to come up in the MAG?
>
> The first paragraph of the IISD paper I mentioned
> would also be part of the push for
> ICT/environment/sustainable development in the
> IGF:
>
> 1.      In response to the request for comments
> and views on the November 2007 Rio de Janeiro
> meeting, and suggestions regarding the format and
> content of the December 2008 New Delhi meeting,
> this paper proposes that Sustainable Development
> be considered as a theme for the New Delhi
> meeting, and that one of its plenary sessions be
> devoted to "exploring the linkages between
> Internet governance and sustainable development"
> etc etc
>
> available at
> <
> http://www.intgovforum.org/rio_reports/Sustainable_Development%20-%20Theme_
> Proposal_for_IGF_New%20Delhi%20-%20IISD_FINAL.doc>
> Enjoy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> >BD
> >
> >On 2/13/08 12:57 PM, "Parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> >
> >>  Some views have been expressed on this list that repeating the same
> main
> >>  themes - that are just too general - will not contribute to any
> meaningful
> >>  impact of IGF, and will not enable it to move towards fulfilling its
> >>  mandate. (APCs statement also is against recycling the same main
> themes
> in
> >>  the plenary.) This was also accepted by the IGC when we proposed 4 new
> >>  themes during the May 2007 consultations.
> >>
> >>  I am suggesting one such main themes. Responses to this suggestion,
> and
> >>  other possible themes are welcome.
> >>
> >>
> >>  'Main issues for discussion at IGF New Delhi'
> >>
> >>  We are of the opinion that we should move towards taking up of more
> specific
> >>  issues of global Internet related public policy for discussion in the
> >>  plenaries and the associated workshops, from different speakers just
> making
> >>  what are often disconnected statements on diffuse and general issues
> that
> >>  are the subjects of the plenaries at present. A set of issues should
> be
> >>  chosen for the New Delhi with this spirit.
> >>
> >>  We propose that 'An assessment of the current global policy
> institutional
> >>  framework and mechanism for the Internet, in terms of existing and
> emerging
> >>  policy related challenges'  (crisper title welcome) be one of the main
> >>  session themes.
> >>
> >>  IGF was borne is an context which recognized significant gaps in the
> global
> >>  Internet public policy  framework, and one its public policy tasks has
> to be
> >>  a continued multi-stakeholder examination of this framework, and come
> out
> >>  with suggestions for evolutionary/ corrective possibilities, if any.
> No
> body
> >>  is making such an assessment at present at a time when new challenges
> in
> the
> >>  area of global Internet public policy keep emerging. IGF is an
> important
> >>  responsibility of doing this as per its mandate.
> >>
> >>  We will like specific workshops (of type A) devoted to examining the
> issue
> >>  of ensuring transparency, accountability and multi-stakeholder-ism in
> all
> >>  for a involved in Internet governance and another one devoted to
> developing
> >>  a code for public participation in all such fora (Swiss and APC
> >>  contributions mention these)
> >>
> >>  Both these workshops can feed into the main session on 'assessment of
> the
> >  > current global policy institutional framework' proposed above
> >>
> >>  (ends)
> >>
> >>  Parminder
> >
> >
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