[governance] Comments on draft Programme Paper

[Adam Peake]

I also sent a comment:



Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the programme paper.

There is broad agreement that national and regional IGF initiatives 
have been a great success, providing opportunities to share 
knowledge, experience and expertise. They have great potential to 
realize many of the capacity building and development goals of the 
IGF, as well as bringing developing countries' interests and needs to 
global IGF discussions.

In addition to the reporting session proposed for the morning of the 
first day of the 2009 IGF, I recommend one of the round table 
discussions is used to give representatives of national and regional 
IGFs the opportunity to discuss their activities and outcomes.

The round table format is well suited for sharing and discussing best 
practices, challenges and solutions, various needs and even any 
recommendations. The agenda for this round table should be developed 
by the organizers and participants of national and regional IGF 
initiatives in light of their respective activities and outcomes 
during the year.

Thank you,

Adam Peake
Tokyo





>Just a reminder that comments on the Progam Paper need to be 
>submitted by April 13. We will not have time for an IGC response, 
>but members may like to comment individually.
>
>Details are at <http://www.intgovforum.org/>www.intgovforum.org Here 
>are some comments I submitted as an individual FYI.
>
>
>
>1. I am surprised that Internet Rights and Principles is not a 
>session theme, given the strong support it gained from all 
>stakeholder groups during the Open Consultations. I am also 
>surprised at the objection apparently raised during MAG, given that 
>these matters are specifically contained in the Tunis Agenda (paras 
>70 and 42)
>
>My suggestion is that a good theme for the meeting would be 
>"Internet for All - Rights and Principles". This language meets both 
>major proposals which have been put forward.
>
>2. I am surprised to see Emerging Issues dropped. While agreeing 
>that the sessions at Rio and Hyderabad on this subject were less 
>than optimal, I think this is largely because we have not clearly 
>defined what his session should achieve and how we should go about 
>making the session effective.
>
>Emerging Issues should not be about issues emerging during the 
>conference. It should be taking a longer term view of the issues 
>that will arise in Internet Governance. An IGF that doesn't look 
>past the immediate issues on its agenda is one that has little 
>choice but to be a reactive body discussing only the status quo, in 
>a media environment where change is rapid. Today's Internet is 
>nothing like the Internet of 20 years ago - and the Internet 20 
>years hence will again be vastly different. If IGF is not able to 
>look at longer term issues and take them into account it will 
>largely weaken its capacity to be effective.
>
>
>Ian Peter
>
>
>
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