[governance] IGF agenda - rights and openness issues

[Parminder]

Hi All

 

Two issues regarding IGF agenda.

 

One, we had planned a letter to the IGF secretariat/ MAG expressing concern that rights and openness issues were disappearing from IGF’s agenda, inter alia pointing to the fact that these terms do not appear in the main agenda list which is (to quote the latest draft of the program doc at http://www.intgovforum.org/hyderabad_prog/ProgrammePaper.05.06.2008.pdf )

 

“The MAG proposed the following agenda:   Reaching the Next Billion  Promoting Cyber-Security and Trust  Managing Critical Internet Resources  Taking Stock and the Way Forward  Emerging Issues”

 

We also wish to specifically propose that the main workshop now titled “Fostering security, privacy and openness” be just ‘fostering privacy and openness” especially since there is already another planned main workshop titled “Are we losing the battle against cyber-crime” which is expected to cover all the security issue quite well. 

 

Adam had developed this proposal and to quote him last email on the subject 

 

“For the first, I suggest we write to the secretariat saying something along the lines of...  we are concerned that the theme "openness" 

is in danger of being lost in the session currently titled "Promoting Cyber-Security and Trust". Based the February consultation, summary document, and synthesis paper for the May meeting we expected a stronger emphasis on rights would be maintained in this session. We suggest the second part of the session, currently "Fostering security, privacy and openness" focus more on "fostering privacy and openness" than on security, which will be the prime subject of the first part of the session.  Of course security will be an important element of the second workshop, just as concerns for privacy, openness and preservation of fundamental rights will be an important element of the first workshop.  What we are suggesting is a balance between these issues across the two workshops, and therefore into the debate the follows in the afternoon.”

 

 

There has been no opposition to this proposal and I take it that we agree to write a letter on these lines to the Secretariat/ MAG. Can someone please volunteer to draft the letter and share with us? 

 

I continue to be bothered that we are not able to agree to write to also write that ‘ensuring/ achieving universal access’ be the main theme one instead of ‘reaching the next billion’ even after all the discussion which happened on this topic on this list. But for the present this subject is being separated from that discussed above. 

 

I will take up the second of the two issues I planned to discus in the following email. 

 

Parminder 

 

 

 

 

 

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