[governance] Suggestions for Delhi - themes

Tue Feb 19 21:19:09 EST 2008

We need to finalize some themes for main sessions for Delhi.

The following open text was suggested (see email below), in reply to which
Guru (email enclosed) and  Thomas Lowenhaupt (email enclosed) have suggested
themes. We have had no discussion on them, and suggesting the right themes
is I think the most important issue. IGF comes only once in a year, and we
must suggest themes now if we are ever going to because I suspect these
things will be crystallized early this time.

Thomas, may I suggest that you make the theme a little broader, which
increases its chance of acceptance as a main session theme. We expect a
number of workshops connected to the main session and the main theme should
be able to support a sufficiently wide range of topics (but yes, with a good
overall focus as well).

So instead of 

"Towards the Creation of Internet Resources that Facilitate Sustainable
Global Cities"

May be we can say

'Internet Governance for Sustainable communities' or something like that..
the issue of IR's is covered in IG, but allows other aspects of IG also to
be taken up, and communities is  a broader term which will include more than
just urban units...

Please also write a concise one para which describes the theme - a
relatively broad sweep within a focused subject, and some public policy
connections perhaps. Thanks.

Bill, will you like to contribute text on 'WSIS principles'... and / or dev
agenda.

Parminder 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net]
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:14 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: RE: [governance] Suggestions for Delhi - themes
> Importance: High
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> I am enclosing the set of themes that the caucus recommended for Rio. Of
> them the CIRs theme was accepted.
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> Proposed statement of substantive themes
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> (Starts)
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> As suggested in our earlier statement, CS IGC is of the opinion that the
> four general themes of access, openness, diversity and security (with CIRs
> added in Rio) have served a useful purpose in organizing the IGF meetings
> in
> its early formative stages, by which we mean its first two meetings in
> Athens and Rio. We should now move on more purposefully to the serious
> business of providing directions, ideas and possibilities to global public
> policy making in the Internet arena, which is the primary mandate of the
> IGF.
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> We are of the opinion that the above general themes of access, openness,
> diversity and security should remain cross-cutting themes for overall
> organizing of the substantive aspects of the IGF. However, the plenaries
> should address specific public policy issues that are considered most
> important in the current global context. A series of thematic workshops
> should also be organized around these plenaries, whose output should feed
> into them. Adequate preparatory work should go into preparing the
> plenaries
> and the connected workshops using dedicated working groups. These WGs
> should
> also synthesize some outcome documents for each plenary subject.
> 
> For Delhi, we suggest the following substantive themes.
> 
> 1. Enhanced Cooperation - what was meant by the Tunis Agenda, and what is
> the status of it
> 
> Tunis Agenda speaks about the need for enhanced cooperation for global
> Internet policy making. There are different views about what exactly is
> meant by this term, and what processes will/ can constitute enhanced
> cooperation. IGF is the right forum to deliberate on the meaning and
> possibilities of this term, through wide participation of all stakeholders
> in the multi-stakeholder spirit of the WSIS.  It is quite possible that
> such
> an open discussion pushes the process of EC forward, which at present
> seems
> to be caught in a kind of a limbo, or at least some degree of confusion.
> 
> (3-4 more themes can be added here)
> 
> (ends)
> 
> Bill has suggested a theme - 'assessing implementation of the WSIS
> principles' in IG institutions. He may suggest a final title, and some
> text
> 
> We can pick up the Development Agenda in IG theme as well from the list
> (especially since there is support form Swiss gov, and APC's submission)
> 
> One of us may want to re-write a short description for this theme.
> 
> We can also again ask for plenary on 'The Role and Mandate of the IGF'
> though they may say this is best discussed at open consultations, but we
> may
> need a wider constituency that comes to the annual meetings to discuss it.
> 
> If we have to ask for CIR plenary, we will need to develop a more specific
> topic, since we are proposing plenary discussions on clearer and more
> specific issues.
> 
> We need some rather quick input at this stage. We have exactly a week to
> get
> through the whole process.
> 
> Also, while we are proposing substantive themes, I will like to quote the
> Swiss gov's contribution.
> 
> " We also think that, generally speaking, the discussions in the IGF
> should
> not try to avoid critical issues, but they should be informal, open and
> free
> and should allow for divergence of views. The atmosphere of the
> discussions
> should be respectful but not too "nice" and "cosy"."
> 
> And at another place " We would not like the IGF to turn into a meeting of
> a
> group of friends that discuss among themselves ..."
> 
> I am bit worried about the reputation of the CS here :), when governments
> are speaking more like normally CS speaks, and CS may be found being too
> cautious etc...
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