[governance] Workshop proposals for Vilnius
Natasha Primo
natasha at apc.org
Thu Apr 15 00:37:49 EDT 2010
I really like and support this suggestion of a session focussed on IP
and copyright. Parminder, count me in to help...
On 05 Apr 2010, at 3:09 PM, Parminder wrote:
> I suggest that we get into deeper IP and Internet debates, which
> represent some of the most hotly contested issues today, and in
> which area a lot of policy work is going on (ACTA for instance)
>
> Can we hold a workshop on ' Transnational enforcement of a new
> information order – Issues of rights and democracy'. (tentative title)
>
> Basically we will discuss issues that have come up around ACTA (for
> instance see the latest posting on IP watch at http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/?p=10061
> ) as the main focus. However some other issues may also come up -
> like Google - China stand-off, Google's appeal to US gov to consider
> global information flows as a trade issue and use trade related
> enforcements in this area, Google and others cutting off or limiting
> their services to countries on US's trade sanctions list (trade
> embargo issues and IG is mentioned in the Vilnius program
> document), non availability of major online payment systems in
> countries like Pakistan etc .....
>
> The attempt here is to move beyond the focus on governance of the
> basic technical/ logical infrastructure (ICANN etc) also to the
> governance of the emerging global information infrastructure. (At a
> still different level, though connected, is the governance of the
> social interactions/ networking infrastructure, but that is not
> something this workshop will get into)
>
> The above is just illustrative of the proposed scope of the
> workshop. Will try and put up a short write up for it separately.
> Parminder
>
>
>
> Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>>
>> On 24/03/2010, at 8:57 PM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Jeremy: Kindly propose an improved language to the workshop proposal
>>> so that IGC can collaboratively develop it into a very fruitful
>>> discourse.
>>>
>> Sorry for letting this slide for a while; I've been away. Anyway,
>> there is very little I would change in Fouad's workshop proposal,
>> but here are the two workshop proposals that are currently on the
>> table for discussion, the second one now fleshed out a bit. Please
>> provide any comments on these so that we can submit them both for
>> the MAG's consideration by the 15th.
>>
>> WORKSHOP 1
>> ==========
>>
>> Title: Revolutionary Internet Governance Ideas that can help change
>> the Developing World
>>
>> Objective:
>> A workshop that provides stakeholders the opportunity to share
>> positive ideas for stimulating socio-economic change in the
>> developing world utilizing the Internet. This will be a venue for
>> both developed and developing world participants. An example may be
>> the ideas presented by Tim Berners-Lee at TED for Opening Data to
>> the world that helped in providing concrete relief information on
>> the ground during the Haiti earthquake crisis. Another idea may be
>> Google's mapping of the Sudan crisis.
>>
>> With the participation of all stakeholders, including youth, the
>> workshop will record the many positive ideas that evolve from this
>> venue, measure the changes that they have enabled over time, and at
>> the next IGF meeting identify which ideas had the greatest impact
>> over the past 12 months since presented.
>>
>> Format:
>> A round table open to all participants of the workshop. The format
>> will be 5 minutes given to each of the participants to share an
>> existing or revolutionary idea. The Internet governance dimensions
>> of each idea will also be explored. All the ideas will be recorded
>> and categorized under various topics for measurement of impact over
>> the following year.
>>
>> Organisers:
>> Internet Governance Caucus
>> [ISOC?]
>> [OECD?]
>>
>> Contact: Fouad Bajwa, Jeremy Malcolm
>>
>>
>> WORKSHOP 2
>> ==========
>> Title: Successes and failures of Internet governance, 1995 - 2010,
>> and looking forward to WSIS 2015
>>
>> Objective:
>> This workshop will compare the changing institutional and
>> procedural approaches that have been applied to the problems of
>> Internet governance over the last 15 years, and facilitate the
>> sharing of various perspectives about the effectiveness and
>> legitimacy of each approach. In each case reference will be made
>> to the WSIS process criteria which recommend the full involvement
>> of governments, the private sector, civil society, and
>> international organizations in Internet governance arrangements.
>>
>> In parallel, the workshop will also look back to the period of
>> 2003-2005 when the first meetings of the World Summit on the
>> Information Society (WSIS) was held, and forward to a future
>> meeting in 2015. Questions to be asked include, would the same
>> decisions about Internet governance that were made in 2005 have
>> been made today, are the WSIS process criteria due for revision,
>> and how will the role of private actors differ between the two
>> summits?
>>
>> Format:
>> The workshop will take a interactive panel format, beginning with
>> brief presentations from experts from each of the stakeholder
>> groups (including academia), followed by a moderated between
>> panelists and the floor.
>>
>> Organisers:
>> Internet Governance Caucus
>> [Others - IT for Change, APC, CI?]
>> [Government of France?]
>> [Cisco?]
>>
>> Contact: Jeremy Malcolm, ...
>>
>>
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Natasha Primo
National ICT Policy Advocacy Initiative
Association for Progressive Communications
Johannesburg, South Africa
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