[governance] IGF Improvement

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 08/12/2010, at 10:24 AM, Izumi AIZU wrote:

> I think we need to come up with good strategy and work plan to address
> this, and also "outreach" with like-minded people who are not yet on
> board for the preparation process of IGF2 and WSIS2015.

I am put in mind of the way that the OpenOffice.org community recently broke away from Oracle (formerly Sun), which had become unfriendly to the open source community, to form the Document Foundation, and renamed its product LibreOffice.  Quoting from its Web site:

> The Document Foundation will continue to be focused on developing, supporting, and promoting the same software, and it's very much business as usual. We are simply moving to a new and more appropriate organisational model...


If Internet governance processes in the UN system continue to become more intergovernmental, it may force members of the IGF, including civil society society, private sector and governments supportive of multi-stakeholder democratic principles, to break away and operate independently...

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