[governance] IGC questionnaire Q1 for review

[Ginger Paque]

Jeremy, with these changes is it acceptable to you?

1. To what extent has the IGF addressed the mandate set out for it in 
the Tunis Agenda?

 Paragraph 72 of the Tunis Agenda, (a), asks the IGF to: Discuss public 
policy issues related to key elements of Internet governance in order to 
foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and 
development of the Internet. 

There can be no doubt that this discussion is beginning to take place. 
So much so that the forum has been described as “all talk”—precisely 
what it was designed to be. The participation, the increasing quantity 
and quality of workshops, even the controversies that arise, are proof 
that this discussion is taking place. The continued interest in 
workshops is indication that this process is still dynamically growing 
and needs to continue so that discussions may cover all aspects of the 
debate and include all actors, particularly areas such as rights, 
inclusion and others, which have not been adequately addressed.

However, there is more work to be done on addressing certain of the 
other paragraphs of the IGF's mandate that call for it to go beyond 
discussion into action - for example, in effectively interfacing with 
other international Internet governance institutions (para 72(b) and 
(c)), in assessing their compliance with the WSIS process criteria (para 
72(i)), and in formulating recommendations to them in appropriate cases 
(para 72(g)).

The Tunis agenda also calls for "development of multi-stakeholder 
processes at the national, regional… level" similar to the IGF. It is 
heartening to note that some such national and regional processes are 
already taking shape. IGF should further encourage such processes and 
seek to establish formal relationships with these initiatives. Since the 
fear of governmental domination is considerably higher at national 
levels, IGF should use global civil society groups and processes to 
guide appropriate multistakeholderisation of emerging national IGF 
spaces. IGC again offers its assistance to the IGF in this regard.



Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 12/07/2009, at 9:06 PM, Ginger Paque wrote:
>
>> 1. To what extent has the IGF addressed the mandate set out for it in 
>> the Tunis Agenda?
>>
>> Paragraph 72 of the Tunis Agenda, (a), asks the IGF to: Discuss 
>> public policy issues related to key elements of Internet governance 
>> in order to foster the sustainability, robustness, security, 
>> stability and development of the Internet.
>>
>> There can be no doubt that this discussion has taken place. So much 
>> so that the forum has been described as “all talk”—precisely what it 
>> was designed to be.
>
> I strongly disagree and couldn't support the statement with this in 
> it.  I know we don't want to be too negative, but this is simply not 
> so.  Can you read paragraphs (c), (g), (i) and (k) of the mandate in 
> particular and seriously argue that they have been fulfilled by our 
> "all talk" IGF?
>
>> The participation, the increasing quantity and quality of workshops, 
>> even the controversies that arise, are proof that this discussion is 
>> taking place. The continued interest in workshops is indication that 
>> this process is still dynamically growing and needs to continue.
>
> We should add something like "There is more work to be done on 
> addressing certain of the other paragraphs of the IGF's mandate that 
> call for it to go beyond discussion into action - for example, in 
> effectively interfacing with other international Internet governance 
> institutions (para 72(b) and (c)), in assessing their compliance with 
> the WSIS process criteria (para 72(i)), and in formulating 
> recommendations to them in appropriate cases (para 72(g))."
>
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