[governance] Comments on Rio - Suggestions for Delhi - main
Don MacLean
donjmac at sympatico.ca
Mon Feb 18 12:57:29 EST 2008
Hi Parminder,
My apologies if the delay in following up on Adam's message of February 12
regarding the IISD proposal has caused confusion at a time when you're
finalizing the IGC statement to MAG.
What I wrote was not a proposal to include the theme proposed by IISD in the
ICG statement. It was simply intended to provide background information on
the proposal, to highlight some of its key points for those who may not have
had a chance to read it, and to invite comments from IGC members either by
email or at the preparatory meeting in Geneva on February 26.
As you will see from the IISD web site (http://www.iisd.org) the Institute
is itself a multi-stakeholder venture, and hopes that civil society,
government and the business community participants in IGF will all take an
interest in its proposal.
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net]
Sent: February 18, 2008 12:16 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; 'Don MacLean'; 'Adam Peake';
toml at communisphere.com
Subject: RE: [governance] Comments on Rio - Suggestions for
Delhi - main
Don, I am not sure if this is a proposal to include the
suggested theme in IGC's statement to MAG... If so, is it possible for you
to work with Thomas Lowenhaupt who has proposed the theme "Towards the
Creation of Internet Resources that Facilitate Sustainable Global Cities"
(see his email earlier today) to bring up a common title and description of
what could be a main session theme.
I am not sure if this will be possible, but since the two
topics have some relationship it will be useful if we can propose a
consensus theme on ICTs and environment issue.
I must mention that we will like a statement of relatively
clear issues that have bearing on a global level in the Internet policy
area. However, the title and description should still be sufficiently broad
to be able to pull in multiple strands of the overarching issue, since we
are here proposing main session themes which are expected to have a number
of workshops associated with them.
Others may comment on this, as well the two other proposed
themes. Parminder
_____________________________________________
From: Don MacLean [mailto:donjmac at sympatico.ca]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 9:52 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; 'Adam Peake'
Cc: 'Heather Creech'; 'Tony Vetter'; 'Maja Andjelkovic'
Subject: RE: [governance] Comments on Rio - Suggestions for
Delhi - main
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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