[governance] Re: Draft IGC statement on Wikileaks

[parminder]

Hi Jeremy

I and my organization will support the statement. We need to use the 
Wikileak affair to jolt ourselves out of complacency, and the vain 
techno-fascinated hope that the myriad global internet issues will 
resolve by themselves, which is what has landed us in the jungle law 
mess (apologies to the feelings of Ian about nature, jungles and human 
beings :)) where power is exercised in illegal means used in wikileaks 
affair, and not, to the extent it is required to be used, in a sound 
politically legitimate manner.

The statement is well written. Jeremy, can you post the text as it 
stands on the list. Some of these online means may be more efficient, 
and we shd use them by and by, but I understand that some people here 
still, by habit, would like to see the texts of proposed statements in 
this elist. And also an open discussion, suggestions for changes etc is 
very useful (the process of public reasoning) as against private changes 
to the texts in an online space. (We need to use a mix of two, but that 
for later).

While I will like the full statement to be used, it is also possible 
that David uses a smaller version. Something like (i am sure the 
following could be improved a lot)

    "The recent WikiLeaks affairs have starkly brought out how global
    Internet cannot, and should not, be governed through illegitimate
    use of political and commercial power. There are two clear problems
    with this approach of using backroom governance tactics. One, they
    is always likely to be abused, as in our view, they got hugely
    abused in the Wikileaks case. Second, in possible cases where it may
    legitimately be required to employ some urgent global governance
    responses to real problems or threats (or perhaps even
    opportunities), which cannot completely be assumed away, backroom
    levels of power based on raw political and commerical might, as
    employed by some governments and their corporate cronies in the
    present case, are not available to less powerful political players
    or countries. This situation bespeaks a democratic deficit and a
    need for globally democratic principles and institutional frameworks
    in the area of Internet governance, which is the urgent challenge
    that the proposed process of enhanced cooperation should address
    itself to. "

parminder







Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 11/12/2010, at 5:13 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
>> Those who haven't commented on the Wikileaks statement yet but plan 
>> to, please visit http://igf-online.net/digress.it/ latest today or 
>> tomorrow.  David Allen is copying some materials to take to the 
>> Enhanced Cooperation consultation and will need this ready by Monday 
>> morning.
>
> Check back again now and you'll see revision marks for the changes 
> I've made in response to the comments so far.  Of course, some of the 
> comments are mutually contradictory so I haven't been able to 
> incorporate all of them.  Final comments can be made within the next 
> 24 hours.  Because we won't however have time for a formal consensus 
> call on this before David needs it, I feel that we cannot call it a 
> consensus statement, so I propose just putting my own name to it as 
> IGC co-coordinator.
>
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