[governance] RE: [Coalition] Draft Proposal

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello Michael Gurstein,

I happen to be one of those who participated at the OECD Ministerial
meeting.

I do not find much of information about the so called CSISAC to be known as
CSAC, except this at
http://icommons.org/blogs/the-public-voice-coalition-conference-call and it
would help if you or any one could post more information about what is
happening.

Though OECD is a regional organization, its initiatives and programs related
to the "Future of Internet" is bound to have an influence on how Internet
Governance takes shape due to its visibility and its position as body formed
by a coalition of the economically most powerful nations. So it becomes
important for the Civil Society to observe and react to the OECD initiatives
related to Internet Governance.

The issues you have raised related to representation by the disadvantaged
and marginalized communities. Actually the concerns are much broader. On
Internet Governance debates it is indicated that a multi-stakeholder
approach would prevail, but to implement this approach some thing very basic
needs to be done: Those present representing a certain stakeholder group
needs to a) truly belong to that stakeholder group b) truly represent the
interests of that stakeholder group and c) be present and participate in a
strength sufficient enough to represent the various interests within that
stakeholder group, sufficient enough to be an equal to the other stakeholder
groups.

CSISAC to be known as CSAC is intended to be an "Advisory Group" that is
bound to have a role in ensuring what organizations get acknowledged as
Civil Society and in determining the 'quality' or Civil Society
participation at the OECD deliberations and possibly in related forums.

It is necessary that responsible Civil Society bodies including the IGC
takes note of this OECD initiative and ensure fair and equitable
representation of the Civil Society for a participatory role.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
ISOC India Chennai.



On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:

> What I see in this proposal is a, dare I say, impertinent and even arrogant
> conflation/confusion of (the usual suspect) Civil Society organizations as
> listed in the proposal, with "Civil Society" as a whole, and further with
> "civil society" understood as not simply those with the means and skills to
> organize themselves for participation in august chambers such as those of
> the OECD but civil society as understood as being those at the grassroots
> impacted by Information Society developments.
>
> Looking through the list of usual suspect organizations and through the
> forwarded proposal I neither see organizations with any significant links
> into those at the grassroots who have the most to lose (and to gain) from
> ICTs nor do I see any interest or attention in linking the activities of the
> CSISAC into any of those self same folks or their concerns and initiatives.
>
> Where in this proposal are the voices of disadvantaged and marginalized
> communities, the disabled, the unemployed and homeless, indigenous peoples
> and how will their concerns be introduced as "advice" to the OECD?
>
> Michael Gurstein
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* coalition-bounces at mailman.thepublicvoice.org [mailto:
> coalition-bounces at mailman.thepublicvoice.org] *On Behalf Of *Mark Costa
> *Sent:* October-29-08 10:42 PM
> *To:* Public Voice
> *Subject:* [Coalition] Draft Proposal
>
> All,
>
> Attached is a draft proposal for the CSISAC charter that builds upon the
> proposal submitted by EPIC, while simultaneously addressing the main
> concerns expressed by Karen and others in the Geneva group. All of the
> changes are located in sections 3 & 4. I apologize for adding to the
> confusion, but work started on this document before the recent flurry of
> activity on the wiki.
>
> --
> Mark R. Costa
> Internet Governance Project
>
>
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