[governance] Study on ICT self- and co-regulation

Sat Sep 6 19:47:49 EDT 2008

Ecase and all,

  Good political language used in your response here.  But hardly
clarifies my concern and other remarks to the extent of what and
how individuals would be effected or otherwise required to
comply.  Ergo, more general language would be preferrable,
and yet again I still fully assert that self regulation or co-regulation
doesn't work, and never has for any significant period of time.

  Although I prefer self regulation of an individual basis, I dispise
it on a collective basis or organizational basis unless of course
I personally agree with whatever regulation that may apply!  >:)

  Governments as you know from your own countries history,
as with mine, rarely always adhere to their own regulations, and
in some instances some certain exepmtions to such regulation is
granted or otherwise "Understood".  Same is even more true for
NGO's or other advocacy oriented groups.

ecsae at mail.csv.warwick.ac.uk wrote:

> Two comments, if I may: the purpose of the study was to help the EC to take self- and co-reg into account in future ex ante evaluation, impact assessment and policy formation, not to comprehensively survey or evaluate the status quo, so ITU and other specific stakeholders - even important ones - are not all there. The intent was rather to use the cases to indicate the range of initiatives and the classes of things the EC should consider.
>
> Second, we strongly support wide partcipation and the need for standing and voice to encourage useful engagement, but recognise both the tension between wide participation and the efficacy of the organisation (relevance, coherence and levels of compliance) and the potential of such platforms to encourage strategic or collusive behaviour, to further hidden agendas or to use self-reg to create "Potemkin regulators" in order to pre-empt real action - intentionally or otherwise.
>
> J.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com>
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> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:40:25
> To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
> Subject: Re: [governance] Study on ICT self- and co-regulation
>
> Hakikur and all,
>
>   Institutions are often times out of touch with users.  Self regulation
> or Co-regutlation if in order to be reflective, effective, and useful
> must have at it's base, the approval of individual users.  Therefore
> individual users, must have a direct input and determination of the
> process for developing such regimes or whatever regulation policies
> are to be set, or otherwise imposed.  The will of the governed must
> prevail.
>
> Hakikur Rahman wrote:
>
> > Dear Adam,
> >
> > Thank you for sharing an important document with the list. As a
> > researcher in this field, I find it valuable. However, regarding
> > infrastructure and standards setting I do not see much of ITU's role
> > in the case study. Perhaps, I may have missed it, or the case studies
> > included only the mentioned institutions.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Hakik
> >
> > At 07:47 PM 9/5/2008, Adam Peake wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >The European Commission recently published a study assessing the
> > >efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of ICT self- and
> > >co-regulation initiatives. The study was led by RAND Europe (Chris
> > >Marsden <http://chrismarsden.blogspot.com/>)
> > >
> > >The study is available from European Commission
> > ><http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/information_society/evaluation/studies/s2006_05/index_en.htm>
> > >
> > >
> > >The study consists of two main parts: a mapping exercise that
> > >examines existing regulatory and co- and self-regulatory
> > >institutions and identifies "candidate" case studies for closer
> > >analysis. And a second phase report providing the results of 21
> > >short case studies. Case studies were presented in four groupings:
> > >
> > >Internet Infrastructure and Standards (ICANN, Nominet, IETF, W3C, ICRA)
> > >
> > >Internet Self- and Co-Regulation (IWF, INHOPE, EuroISPA, KJM, FSM)
> > >
> > >Content and Filtering/Rating (ICSTIS, IMCB, NICAM, PEGI, ATVOD)
> > >
> > >Emerging Self Regulation Areas (SecondLife, Creative Commons, Social
> > >Network: Bebo, Trustmarks, London Action Plan, IGF)
> > >
> > >Total of all phases about 1300 pages.
> > >
> > >A clear conclusion of the report is that robust self-and
> > >co-regulatory organisations only develop where their design and
> > >dynamics take a multi-stakeholder approach as their basic principle.
> > >
> > >Parts already seem dated and it wasn't written too long ago (3rd qtr 2007).
> > >
> > >Adam
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"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
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div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
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