[governance] FW: [IRP] Please provide your input on the impact of the IGF

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 15/09/2009, at 11:32 AM, Michael Gurstein wrote:

> Rather the significance of the IGF should be seen in terms of how it  
> has directly and indirectly contributed to the creation of a basis  
> for concensus, a language for discussion, a (suitable) cadre of  
> informed people to carry on the discussion (it is here where I have  
> my issues with the current IGF but I won't go into those further at  
> this point), the provision of a venue for the undertaking of the  
> discussions and so on and so on.  None of this is particularly  
> "national" (in fact little of it is likely to be national which is  
> the point I think of transnational agencies) and little of it is  
> likely to be visible as concrete "impacts" (or even outputs--which  
> is what is currently being discussed in the form of possible IGF  
> "recommendations" etc.).

I mostly agree.  In my view the questions were too focussed on the  
extent to which the IGF successfully facilitates discussion and  
produces understanding on discrete policy issues such as freedom of  
expression, access to knowledge, etc, and omits to consider higher- 
level meta-discussion of Internet governance arrangements.

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