[governance] Re: Draft IGC statement on Wikileaks

[Ian Peter]

Must say I am hugely more attracted to Parminders wording than the longer
text under discussion from Jeremy.





From: parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:15:55 +0530
To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] Re: Draft IGC statement on Wikileaks

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:
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> On 11/12/2010, at 5:13 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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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